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Lasca smiled as another familiar voice said hello. She didn't quite remember where she had seen her but she knew her just that same. "Hello Nia! Good Holiday?" It was wonderful to be back at Hogwarts and she was determined to make this her best year yet. Which meant more friends and getting lots of House points. I'll start right now.
Course she was trying to carry on a three different conversations but thats what made socializing fun. The Ravenclaw nodded her head as Nia gave her two cents about the topic she was discussing with Ali. She wasn't going to call it an argument because no one was mad or yelling, and she certainly wasn't going to call it a lecture. Nope. It was a pleasant conversation in which a few Ravenclaws were trying to get their newest House mate to accept that Ravenclaw was a totally respectable house.
Rrriiiiggghhhttt.
Nia nodded with a smile. "It was pretty good thanks. Could have done without my brothers for at least part of it, but can't really complain otherwise." She glanced over to the Slytherin table momentarily, but after deciding that it was too busy to see anything brought her gaze back to her friends. "Just had a relaxing time at home - read a few books in the garden and stuff like that. How was yours?" Nia asked in reply, completely unaware of what Lasca had been talking about to Mariel and the others.
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MsMorgan Mariel had diverted her eyes and vaguely watched Jenn and Kel talk amongst themselves. She looked up as Jenn spoke to her and grinned widely at the girl's enthusiasm. "Um, no... no Quidditch." She lowered her voice. "Sarah's parents are Muggles... so we did Muggle-ish things." Trying to remember what the names of their activities were, she said, "We played this game called bowling. You roll this ball, well it's like a Quaffle but really heavy, down on the ground and try to knock over these sticks... I think they're called pins. Oh, and we did something called rollerblading. That's shoes with wheels." Somewhat sheepishly, she added, "I fell. A lot."
Nia couldn't help overhearing Mariel talking about the muggle activities she'd tried. "Bowling's fun!" she said with a smile, and nodded as she called the 'sticks' pins. "Though I get arm ache if I play too many games in a row, and it wrecks my thumb nails." She chuckled. "And I'm with you on the rollerblading," she added, noting Mariel's look, "It's so hard to master. I had so many bruises when I learnt as a kid. And I'm still rather rubbish. Don't know how some kids can do big tricks off ramps on them."
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Still chuckling lightly, Mariel turned back around in her seat and leaned her chin on her hand as Nia spoke. "Mhmm," she nodded as her fellow fourth year asked about her hair. "Well, with the new potions lab that Professor Kazimeriz has set up, I plan on making a lot more of it during the term. You can come help if you want." Certainly Kazimeriz would be impressed with her dedication and ambition, and maybe give out some extra credit. Or maybe she could even sell the stuff and give Madame Primpernelle a run for her money. Her mind started to drift with delusions of grandeur when Nia's voice brought her back down to Earth. She tilted her head to assess the other girl's appearance. "Well..." she began slowly. "Short hair would be easier to take care of... but long hair is just so pretty, especially yours. I don't think I'd be brave enough to go for more than a trim." To be honest, Mariel was quite obsessed with her hair and couldn't imagine cutting it short. She hoped that Nia would come to her senses being blessed with such beatiful hair as well. "Of course, if you wanted to give the pixie look a try, there is hair regrowing potion... I think Madame Primpernelle's sells it. So if you decide you didn't like it after all, you could always take that, but I heard it tastes awful."
She nodded in understanding as Nia explained her lack of game attendance. "I guess that would be too hard to take him to games... Too bad you couldn't go on your own." That gave Mariel an idea. "Maybe next summer a bunch of us should get together and go to some games... We'll be nearly 16 then and that's almost of age. Surely our parents couldn't say no." She was certain that would be alright with her own father, surely her friends could go too. "Oh, I got the newest Silver Arrow. Marco says that's best for Seekers..." she trailed off, looking down slightly. "I bet they're good for Chasers too. They're really fast and light, he says."
Before she could say anything more on the subject, a few winged cookies flew down the table, one landing directly in front of her. Mariel looked around for the source of the flying cookies, eyes landing on a woman obviously competing with Professor Bunbury to see who could overdose on the most pink. Staring at her retreating figure for a moment, Mariel turned back around and mirrored Nia's movements, pushing the now-wingless cookie aside. After the poo incident at the table, her appetite had completely disappeared.
Eating another mouthful of mash, Nia nodded. "Sure, I'd love to," she replied with a smile. A bit of extra work would keep her on the good side of Kazimeriz, right? And she'd found last year she'd started to enjoy potions more - making a hair potion would be a good reason to practice. Tilting her head, Nia wondered if they could make anything else. "Would it be possible to, you know, experiment a bit too? Bet that'd go down well for a bit of extra credit." Her eyes twinkled. "Like make a hair potion that changes your hair colour - that'd be awesome for Quidditch matches!" Okay, someone had probably made a hair potion for exactly that reason, but was it available at Hogwarts? Hmm...
She looked doubtful as her friend appeared to study her appearance, before smiling gratefully. "You're right." Mariel had given a good argument, and that was enough to convince Nia for now. "Perhaps hair that short might be a bit grown up too. And I can do way more things with my hair with it long - I do love it French plaited back." She ran her fingers through it, as if assuring herself. "Eurgh - I think I'll stick with it natural then," Nia said with a laugh, grimacing with the thought of a horrid tasting potion. "Though maybe if I wanted to check I could try a specific disillusionment charm, to cover the bit I thought about having cut off. To get the idea of face shape if I want to have it done in the future."
"Yeah - especially since Dad usually gets box tickets. Would draw a little too much attention to ourselves I think!" Nia said as they talked about matches. And then Mariel came up with and awesome idea, and a snippet of information she had overheard her Mum say came into her head. "We could do matches followed by a sleepover..." she started, excited by the idea of going to matches with her friends and sure it would be fine with her parents, "Or, I'm sure I heard Mum say that the World Cup is coming to England next year." She looked sneaky. "She works at the Ministry in the Sports Department," she explained softly. "That'd be an awesome trip."
"A Silver Arrow?" Nia asked, her eyes lighting up. "Nice! Have you tried it out yet? Ah, you'll be awesome on it - uncatchable!" It was then Nia noticed that look. "You alright? You don't seem as, well, excited about it as I thought you'd be." She frowned, worried. "You are trying out this year, right?"
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Hawken Terrell "You didn't ask," he said with a smile. "I bet your cousin learned a bit form Rasputin then." He chuckled and took a sip out of his goblet before stabbing a forkful of beans and eating them.
"Mmm...my first chicken was Henry. This one," he squeaked it again. It was loud and pierced a silent moment that had depended upon the table. "Is my 8th chicken."
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Riverlynn "Touche" She returned his smile with equal zealous and then considered his question. "Actually he didn't survive long after she disappeared. Thank Merlin." Taking a bit of a sweet cake she of course sought to correct her obvious mistake. "So, what IS your name?"
Listening to him explain about his rubber chicken made the smile on her face grow ten fold. "If you don't mind my asking...what happened to the other eight?" Okay so it wasn't the smile at the top of her mind but Lasca was sure it wasn't the right time.
And then a large squeak made Nia jump. Trying to work out where it had come from, she eyed an slightly odd looking boy that seemed to have joined on the other side of Lasca. And she couldn't help but laugh as Lasca voiced the words she had been thinking. What indeed could happen to so many chickens? Rubber chickens at that.
"And why named Henry?" she found herself asking, remembering a bit of muggle history at the same time.
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"YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE! Before we call the feast to a close, we have a bit of special entertainment for you tonight. Third years Hufflepuff Willie Crocker and his co-hort, Slytherin Cameron Karsten, have behaved most reprehensibly tonight. They have disrupted the feast and impacted the first impression of this school for our many new students. We want you all to be aware that this sort of selfish behavior is intolerable at Hogwarts."
"In fact, so ashamed are these two boys of their foolish actions, that they will be performing an improvised song and dance routine to win your forgiveness. If you feel their performance is worthy of your forgiveness, you need merely applaud or cheer for them. If not, you may show your very vocal disapproval. Their future-- no, their very fate is in your hands."
And as she waited for the boys' answer, something else weird happened. The voice of Professor Kazimeriz was explaining punishment...in the form of dancing? Nia frowned, she really had been caught up in her own Ravenclaw world during the feast. Nonetheless, she decided to watch the, ahem, show.