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Almost about to turn around and head back to her own table, or more accurately head there for the first time this term, Kendall had half-turned before she finally saw the person she'd been looking for. And he was even grinning, which was totally welcome after his weirdness during the carriage ride. It was normal, not him being all worried that she'd gotten massively injured just by falling off her seat and onto Mika's legs, and she turned back to head for the seat next to his, which surprisingly seemed to be open. Even if it hadn't been, she would have squeezed in. She didn't take up that much space, and nobody seemed to be concerned with her having been there in the first place. She had business to take care of. Important chocolate transactions, but first there was dealing with Patrick's comment. "If any of the other Slytherins want to talk to me," she replied with a grin, dropping the bag in her hand onto the table. She had no issues talking to people, but so far they all seemed occupied with greeting friends and such so she'd focus on her own friend. "You probably want this back," she added, shoving the bag over to him before she was tempted to take another bar from it. "And you still haven't given me my chocolate back after the station." There might have been all that distraction of trains breaking down, portkeys and the current rainstorm that the hall wasn't letting them forget, but he'd promised.
Now that she'd had her say, she started fidgeting with a lock of her hair, corkscrewing it around her finger and peering through the strands at the rest of the table. Only to realize, as everyone had turned toward the staff table, that the new headmistress with the pretty hair had started speaking. Introducing the board of governors who were up there, and then talking about making changes. They better not be icky changes. Or more rules, she thought, even as she watched the house elves who had walked past the table with the awesome pink plant get spoken to up at the staff table as well. House elves were awesome too, especially if they had a pink plant. And maybe that meant the new headmistress liked pink too, which was also awesome. Way more awesome than Professor Scabior having silenced those younger students and then threatened massive points loss, although at least the HoM professor hadn't ordered her and the other non-snakes back to their tables. As she then saw Mika decide to head over, and her idle playing with her hair was abandoned as her hazel eyes went from the blonde second year to Patrick. Time to distract him, especially since it didn't look like they'd been noticed. Time to get her chocolate before he had to hide again. "D'you think the headmistress is going to make evil changes, or d'you think the board of governors people are her to make evil changes?," she asked him. "D'you think Roro is why they're here?" She really hoped the baby dragon last term wasn't why so many things had already changed at Hogwarts.
Apparently his reaction to seeing her again had been taken much better than the one at the carriage had, though Patrick wasn't looking to just deal with that right now considering it only was going to make things much more difficult then they had to be. He knew that those thoughts were going to be addressed later since he didn't entirely enjoy the fact that there was confusing thoughts wandering around his head that he hadn't known how to explain immediately but he quickly shook all of this off as soon as it had come; there wouldn't have been conversations otherwise. Once Kendall had sat down beside him and set the bag of chocolate on the table, he eyed it suspiciously since he knew that he'd seen it before and when she spoke; it confirmed that it did in fact belong to him and that she decided to take it from his trunk. "I'm not sure they would, not everyone is as friendly as I am around here." he said before pausing slightly to think about what else to say, it seemed as though just being able to speak anymore without thinking about exactly what it was that he wanted to say wasn't possible and that had just made things much more frustrating. "How did you get this from my trunk? I had it put away so that the only one that could have found it is me." Raising an eyebrow at his friend, somehow she managed to sneak the chocolate that was meant to be used for an emergency situation but at least she had given it back since he had wanted a couple of the bars for later. "And I will right now, plus the owl is still coming." He handed her the boxes of chocolate that had been sitting on the bench on the other side of him since there wasn't a need to bring his entire messenger bag to the feast, instead he hid that away in his trunk so it was safe for now.
Before he had the chance to continue speaking, the notice of the headmistress speaking had caught his attention and he stayed quiet for the moment as the woman spoke; wait.. board of governors? What in Merlin's name were they doing here? Hogwarts certainly didn't need people disrupting what had gone on usually. At least he didn't seem to be worried about them, not as much as when Professor Scabior approached the table and gone onto make several students silent as well as take five points away from Gryffindor. It hadn't seemed like Slytherin had lost anything yet and he wanted to make sure things stayed that way, even if it meant abandoning some ideas for trouble which wasn't going to be fun. As soon as the speech had been over, he turned his attention back to his friend and it seemed like there was something up as the strange feeling had returned as it had on the train. That had to mean that Mika was around and he hadn't wanted to deal with another situation with the second year Ravenclaw. "One question at a time, okay.. I don't think that the Headmistress will make evil changes but I'm quite wary of the board of governors; their reasoning to be here still confuses me and I do believe they'll try to convince the new Headmistress to make changes that could possibly create frustration for not only the current staff of the school but all of us students." he replied, having to take a breath after he spoke since that was a lot to say at once and it oddly had been much more intelligent than he had intended it to sound. "It's a possibility. Having a baby dragon at Hogwarts can be considered rather dangerous to everyone." Honestly, he hadn't wanted that to be the case when it just meant that this term could have brought bad things.