"The weather couldn't be better if we cast our own charm!!" The woman enthused to the Divination Professor. All so perfectly planned.

"Good morning, hello, hello, hi, good morning!" Healer Poppy dished out the greetings as the students began to arrive, the wide and welcoming smile of hers seeming to double with the filling of the seats and more importantly the appreciation of the bread she'd made.

By the time the young Slytherin asked if she'd made the banana bread, the woman was all grins. "I sure did, dear! Made them all myself! Been up for hours but it's worth it seeing how many of you are enjoying it!!" The entire lake probably smelled like bread, the scent wafting about and settling like a near thick but invisible fog of flavour and yummy baked goodness. Safe to say it was hard to escape the aroma but who would waaannnttt to???

As for those who wouldn't take some...

Poppy levitated the bread over to those who were empty handed. "There's no need to let it go to waste! Come, come, you must be starving!!" And she was here to feed the lot.

"And while you all settle down with some bread, I'd like to begin." She took her spot on one of the chairs, joining the circle."[/b] Last year couldn't have been easy on any of you. I imagine there's a lot you have questions about, things you wish you had answers for and things you wish you could forget. I want you all to feel heard in this open forum. I want each of you to start off with an "I feel" sentence. Here, let me start. I feel sad when I think about the last year. It was a tragedy all the way around and hurt a lot of people."[/b]