Text Cut: Bazinga, Bloody Baron, and Cassirin
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Bazinga 
...... and then this happened.
Nat looked up as the younger girl almost yelled down the table. She gave her a nod and small smile. Goodness someone was excited to be back. "Ariadne I don't think the professors heard your Slytherin spirit. Yell louder next time." Grinning she hoped the girl knew she was joking, but if not it never hurt to show pride in their house, right?
"Did you have a good summer?"
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Bloody Baron Did anynoe hear that rattling? You're forgiven if not.
Because with a swoop the Baron
gliding on over through the hall passing other student tables with swiping of his sword before making it to the Slytherins.
"Weeeelcome. Weelcome to Slytherin! The best leading house of them all!" Oh yes. Don't mess up the truth young ones. "
I am the Bloody Baron for those who don't know." As he beckoned those around. Observing them all.
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And just where do you think you're going, young lady?" Did he need to beckon their head over? He was thinking so. She had better be making a quick trip to the ladies room.
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Cassirin And now they were whispering. Whispering was good, because not only did it make it feel like what you were saying was SPECIAL, but it also made everyone else feel left out. Which, when it came to secret telling, was entirely the point.
"Be excited on the outside instead of the inside or you'll explode and make a mess," Katy nodded in agreement. "Paris, hmm? Who did you go with? And for how long? And what did you do there? Was it just like touristy stuff? Like Eiffel Tower and whatever?" Paris was fun, although mostly they went there because Katy's mother preferred shopping there instead of Diagon Alley.
"We had a family vacation in the Maldives. My aunt and uncle and cousins, and they invited our family, and then there were... other people." Unwelcome people.
So the table was filling up pretty quickly, and Ariadne was sure she overheard some new girl
(Lyra) talking about wrecking havoc on the school. Wasn't that the Gryffindor's job? Heh. Ariadne thought most Slytherins were too ambitious to want to get in trouble and lose their precious house points, but she guessed there was always an exception. She turned her attention away from the new girl to turn toward...
...
Nat, smiling at her despite hearing Ariadne's overexcited voice above the crowd. The look down the table showed her even more and more newcomers. Merlin, they were pouring in left and right, which was good, because they always needed new people around. This school would get boring otherwise.
"Heh. Sorry, Nat. It's not school itself I'm excited about. I have a goal this year," she reported.
"I'm trying to get out more and be more sociable." She was a third year now, and it was TIME. She nodded at the girl's next question.
"Yeah, I did! I just hung out and had fun in the Alley then went to Paris with my parents. It was a good trip. How about yours?"
The sounds of rattling chains announced the
Bloody Baron before Ariadne even saw him.
"Hello, Baron," she said, surprised to hear the ghost speak, let alone welcoming people. Surprise, surprise.
Ariadne turned back to
Katy with another laugh.
"Right. I'll remember that for next time," she said. So...Paris.
"I went with my mom, dad, and little brother, mainly for something dealing with my mom's potions business. Apparently, there's some fantastic market there, so we just kind of built a family vacation around it." She nodded in reply to Katy's question.
"It was kind of touristy, I guess. We did visit the Eiffel Tower. It looks especially cool at night!" She raised her eyebrows as Katy told of her own vacation.
"The Maldives...that sounds like a really cool vacation." Ariadne had never been there. Ariadne had never HEARD of The Maldives. She didn't say that to Katy, though.
"Well...another year, another new set of professors," she said, glancing up at the staff table.
"What are your electives?"