Nikki looked around the room while the pair talked and noticed a few people talking about Hogwarts coming back. "So Nico I'm guessing you and Cela have something to do with that" she said as she turned to face him again.

"Not me." Nicholai shrugged, not saying anything about his sister. "But for what its worth I hope that... whatever they did works."

Amelia frowned when Tancred took his time setting her down. Still, she was a big girl and it shouldn't have taken that long to put someone down. Once her feet finally touched the ground, she smiled up at him and gazed into his ocean blue eyes. "Thank you!" she told him, adjusting the silver cup so it was held in her arm and broken broom in the same hand. With her free hand, she quickly grabbed his and gazed around the shed.

"Shall we go find something to eat? I'm starved!" she said, realizing how hungry she suddenly was. As she looked around the shed for the food table, the captain noted the decorations with Hufflepuff colors on one wall. Second place; it was better than being last. Besides they played well and she couldn't have asked for a better team in her final year.

Hopefully no one would bother her too much. Except maybe the quidditch official; she would have liked to talk him before boarding the train for the last time...

Nikki nodded in agreement and shrugged back. "Yeah, me too" she said smiling, she really wanted to go to the Hogwarts her father had told her about and this plan of theirs might just be the answer.

Tancred simply ignored the frown when he had but Amelia down, letting her stand on her own two feet. She was just still confussed a bit. Who wouldn't be after taking what all she did during the match? "Not a problem," he said, wanting to tell her to take it easy. He knew better than that though. She was a big girl and he was sure that she would at least sit down for a while.

He gladly held onto her hand when she grabbed his. That helped a bit. At least it wouldn't be that easy for her to fall with him holding onto her. Easy Adara. Relax. She's fine. You know that. Stop overreacting. Now. he thought before he replied, "Let's get to it then. Can't have a captain being left hungry." He grinned and followed her to the food table. He was quite hungry as well, but he hadn't realized how hungry he was until now.

"Some year, huh?" he asked, not being able to accept the fact that he and Amelia were just days away from graduating and moving on into the real world. "Seems just like yesterday we were just running around Hogwarts...."

Amelia shrugged off the fact that Tancred still seemed to be overprotective. He was just looking out for her; that's what boyfriends did, right? She sighed, trying to remind herself of that minor detail. Sure she wanted to take care of herself, but opening up wouldn't hurt her either. Besides, there were other things on her mind now. Like food and the looming end of the year NEWTs and the possibility of an owl arriving about acceptance into a professional quidditch league. But food now was highest priority.

"Oh whatever Adara, I'm sure that the captain is the only one who is starved," she teased as she tugged on his hand to lead his way over to the food table. Despite that there were already players over there, including the young Ravenclaw beater that had given her the rude and taunting expression on the pitch, she didn't care. There was food and that's what mattered. Besides, she was busy with Kingston it seemed... which, ooh! He's opening up and talking to others? Shocking. Perhaps separated schools was good for him.

"It would seem that way if you hadn't taken off for a year," Mia reminded him of that depressing fact. She didn't want to graduate, but knew that the time had to come. Only thing she wished for was if that owl would arrive already. Not that she was sure it would, with the regulations on mail to Belle's...

James was certainly VERY happy. At least one thing this year had gone right....

" Just a bit. Weddings is pretty much as crowded as it gets. I think the max ive ever been stuffed in was probably 20 people." Any other time it was probably a party or something at which he didnt know half the people. Did parties count? If they did he had been to bigger ones then her cousin's wedding. he moved past the fridge as they were starting it again. "You can be physic without knowing because you dont really know it yet. Stuff happens, but your not sure why. You dont know how to control it. So you do it on accident or randomly until you know what your doing." he explained. He had done it before, but not being physic.

He gave her a look when she said color coordinated ipod to your outfit."what? They tried to teach you that? Thats rather weird." he then heard songs about potions. He grinned as he asked," you sing? Learn something all the time. I want to hear sometime." he told her as now he knew. No getting out of it now. he listened to her as she talked about the school. he looked around to see mia...being carried by tancred. he shot a look at her. he watched as tancred and mia-"ooh no.." he said out loud as it clicked. "that sucks.." he said as he was in his own land. poor tancred...mia was the girl he was talking about. gesh that was rough...mia forever. the thought sent a shiver down his spine as he was starting to feel for tancred."Hey did mia ever play as a beater?" he asked rhiannon randomly in a low whisper. if she did..she must of hit him a few times. that would explain it."oh yeah i wanted to congratulate ryan. want to come with?" he asked as he figured she would.

"Oh, hey Miles," Cale said with a smile as Miles and that Hufflepuff girl--who he now assumed was his girlfriend, since they were together ALL the time--approached them. "How are you?" he asked.

That was when he looked up, and saw that Cora was with them. Something about her smile was all wrong--she was clearly uncomfortable. He frowned a bit and looked at his feet. She was leaving for good in just a few days, and if they couldn't make things NOT awkward between them soon, the chances of them becoming friends was going to be slim to none very shortly. "Hey Cora, how are you?" he asked, smiling at her.

Jezz laughed, trying to picture it. "Maybe you are just really old." She said jokingly. She thought about the term. "Not really, Dion and Wystan kill everything. But it is interesting when the Professors duel each other and one ends up blind for a while.."

Lima smiled weakly and just nodded. "Yes... You are right, Pretzel. I need to relax... And who knows, I might be on the team with you guys next Term." She winked, hoping that her training would go well.

"Oh. I'm sure that your the only one that's hungry," Tancred joked with a smirk. "But I'm sure you wouldn't chase after anyone for being just as hungry as you are." He winked and started piling food on his plate. Merlin yes! He was really hungry now. He looked around quickly and noticed that small beater talking with ... Kingston. That was a shocker.

"Hey. Don't remind me of that year," he said, back to piling more food on his plate. "It wasn't a very pleasent year for me at all, just to remind you." And he left it at that. Durmstrang wasn't one of his favourite topics to get started on. "But I'm here now."

He sighed. Merlin, how could he be graduating already? He could easily remember walking through the Great Hall as one of the tallest first years and getting sorted into Hufflepuff - which was one of the grandest things that had happened to him at Hogwarts. He had expected years ago that he would be a graduate student from Hogwarts, but the stupid Ministry changed all of that. "It's just a shame we haven't been in Hogwarts for more than a year ... well for you anyway." He shrugged his shoulders and sighed. The closest he had been to Hogwarts over the past two years were those gates.

Anna glanced around, noticing that she and Reese were standing amidst a small crowd of people. She didn't mind anyone hearing what they were talking about, of course. They had as much of a right to know as she did. She just didn't want to get anyone's hopes up in case the plan fell through. She grabbed Reese by her arm and gently pulled her away into a corner. "Listen," she whispered. "A few other students and I recently discovered that there is a treasure hidden with the library of Hogwarts. The treasure, of course, is the actual school, but Minister Cooper doesn't know that. We got together and sent him an owl telling him of the treasure and offering to help him find it if he'd reopen Hogwarts. We figure that with the type of person he is, he'll look for it forever until he finds it, which he never will. In the meantime, though, if the plan works, we'll get our school back! Don't say anything right now, though. We don't want to get anyone's hopes up in case the plan falls through."

She smiled at Reese and then turned to lead her back into the crowd of people.

Just as Anna returned with Reese, she noticed that more were gathered amongst the group of friends she'd been standing with. "Oh, hey Miles!" Anna greeted, giving him a confused face. A..nna? Is that what he said? She smiled a little, realizing that he must have been unsure about her name. "Yeah, it's Anna. You are Miles, right? And this is...Vannie?" she asked. "How's it going, Vannie?"

That was when Anna noticed Cora, Cale's ex-girlfriend had also joined the group. Uh oh. This could actually be a good thing or a bad thing, depending on how Cora reacted, of course. They hadn't seen much of one another since the whole Cale/Cora break-up. Anna wasn't sure how Cora would react at all. Anna didn't have anything against Cora, but then again, Anna didn't lose her boyfriend to Cora either.

"Oh, erm, hey, Cora," Anna mumbled, feeling her face turn a little red. "How are you?" Yeah, it was a lame greeting, but what was she supposed to do? Run up to her and exclaim, "Hey! Thanks for the boyfriend! It's going wonderfully!" Psh, yeah right. She'd just stick to a lame greeting instead and hope things got better from that point.

Reese followed Anna to the corner of the room and listened to what she said about the treasure."You guys are really sneaky.But what if the plan...never mind,"she said shaking her head."Hopefully we will get Hogwarts back.I truly miss it.And I promise I wont tell anybody."

Reese followed behind Anna back into the small gathering.She noticed Miles and Vannie and smiled."Hey guys,"she said.

Cora grinned widely at the expression on Miles' face. He was obviously impatient, so she laughed. "Don't worry it's not a big deal. Just a bunch of stuff. You know." Her eyes flitted towards Cale briefly, and then to Anna, and then back to Miles. There. If he didn't understand THAT, he'd never pass his O.W.Ls. Surely he'd get that she felt pretty awkward around Cale as it was, and even more so now that he was dating Anna.

"Mmmm. They're yummy." Cora cooed softly, nibbling the delicious cookie happily. HURRAY for cookies.

Cora squeezed the redhead tightly. "Thanks Van." She winked, and then noticed the exchange between her and Miles. Ah. They were obviously wondering why she was being so careful around Miles. Well after the Cale/Anna incident, she didn't want to get awfully close to other people's boyfriends in case they got the wrong idea. This probably wasn't needed in this case so...

"Group huuug!" Cora laughed, throwing her arms around the pair of them and hugging them both.

Cora pulled away from the group hug she'd just inforced to see a slightly uncomfortable looking, but smiling Cale. "Oh hey Cale." She said brightly, refusing to let things get awkward so close to the end of term. "I'm great thanks. Better than I was in Honeydukes. I was feeling pretty awful that day." She laughed, her eyes sparkling just a bit. There. It wasn't that hard to be friends with him? Right? He'd only left her and then straight away gone of with another girl. It wasn't exactly a huge deal.

No suprises; next to Cale was Anna. Cora had only seen Cale's...girlfriend in Honeydukes very briefly, and that had been pretty awkward. But still. With only about a week left of term, she refused to let it get in the way. The two of them had been friends before, right? "Hey Anna!" She said brightly, giving the younger girl a quick hug. "I'm super great thanks. And you?" She beamed, desperate to show Anna AND Cale that she didn't have any hard feelings. Not anymore.

James noticed someone in the crowd...JEZZY! He practically RAN over to hug her but...he tripped. And fell. Tossed sky high over peoples knees, and landed with a thump on the Professors hip Jezz was talking to. So now he was on the ground. And not looking up. Because he was as red as a Weasely's hair.

Vannie smiled as she looked at Anna. "Yeah Its Vannie," She nodded, quite glad that now everybody knew each other names. It was just getting Miles to remember them now. "Its going good thanks and for yourself?"

Vannie smiled as she looked at Cora, there talk had definetly made them closer and she knew that next year was going to be different without the pink haired girl there.
She giggled as Cora pulled them into a hug. No, of course that didnt look slightly strange or anything. "Oh Cora," She beamed hugging her and Miles.

Miles smiled slightly at Vannie and looked away. They were BOTH overreacting. Obviously, Cora or Vannie had said something to the other, and now he REALLY wanted to find out. Bah.

How he hated that time went so slow.

And even if she was jealous of other girls hugging him, he knew that Vannie's hugs were the best, so she had nothing to worry about. Miles gripped her hand tightly as Cale and A...Cale's girlfriend had made there way to them anyway. He felt so sorry for Cora, he looked at Vannie wearily.

"Oooh." Miles said, feeling much better than he was before. Of course it was to do with .. them, over there. Nothing to do with him. FEW. He could now relax and actually enjoy his cookie. Hehe. Miles totally agreed with Cora. "They aree." He grinned and carried on scoffing. He would be having more fo these later.

"Gah!" As he felt like he was about to choke on his cookie, but didn't. Cora had grabbed him and Vannie into a group hug. This party just got better! First a cookie, then relaxation as he found out that Cora and vannie weren't talking about him, then another hug! Woot. With his free arm, Miles flung it around Cora. "YEY!"

"Hey Dude." Miles sighed, trying not to look at Cora, then back at Cale. Trust Miles to make everything awkward, but thank goodness he didn't this time. "I'm good you?"

Cora was still with them, which he knew that Cale would get uncomfortable. Miles got all paranoid at this point. I wonder if Cale thinks, you talk to me, you get my girlfriend and his ex. I hope he doesn't think that Cora is always with me. He thought, because at the moment, it seemed to be the case.

"Never mind about becomg last eh?" He smiled slightly, trying to make the stmospher at tad lighter.

Miles sighed a really and smiled warmly. "I'm really sorry, I just .. completely forgot. Sorry again." He said, sounding a bit thick. He felt a bit worse, since she remembered his name. Miles felt quite sorry for himself too, as well as Cora.

Short term memory loss moment. He was having a few of those.
"Yes it is." He smiled.

The group of people was getting bigger, and Miles knew ALL OF THEM! He loved how popular he was getting. Or was that bit .. vain?
"Hey Reese." He grinned, he had actually thought she was a bit tied up, obviously not. Which made it all awesome.

"How are you,Mr.Miles?"Reese said with a smile."Haven't seen you since Tia's party."

Amelia realized suddenly that she was going to either have to let go of Tancred's hand or the broom and trophy if she wanted food. Reluctantly, she released his hand and looked at him momentarily when he suggested she being the only one who was hungry. Doubtful liar, which she was about to call him out on when she noticed the mused look on his face. "The way you're piling that food on your plate, it makes it seem like they don't feed you at Cooper's at all!" she smirked back, picking a cookie up and taking a bite. Not that it would fill her up much, but it was something...

The Hufflepuff captain eyed her beater wearily as he piled more food onto his plate. "Careful there... you don't want people to think you're taking after a certain large pig," she joked, thinking back to her encounter with Thornton in Puddyfoot's. "And you think my year without you was much better?" she warranted, glaring up into his blue eyes. "I missed you."

Noticing Tancred thinking for awhile, Mia took the opportunity to gaze around at the others. She gulped when she noticed Josh was looking at her and Tancred; what's his problem? Then it occurred to her that Josh was the Slytherin she hit! Oops! Sighing, she looked away from him and diverted her attention back to Tancred. "What?! Oh you mean been in Hogwarts more than a year together... suppose it's better that way though," she began, her lips curling upwards. "I mean, any longer and I doubt I would be able to stand looking at those perfect eyes of yours..."

Cale grinned. "That's good. Did you catch the match?" he asked, trying to make polite conversation. He didn't want to bring up Honeydukes again--they had already established that she had felt awful that day. Meh.

"Yeah, pretty good. Ready to get out of here for the summer," he replied with a little chuckle. "Geez, I hope we do better next year in Quidditch--we don't even get a last place banner!" he joked. "So, erm...how are finals going for you?" he asked.

Dan was pleased that Josh didnt seem to mind that Dan had more important things on his mind than Quidditch, even though Quidditch was the greatest sport ever. He wondered if Josh would ask about Katelyn, now was not the time or the place to go through the whole story, keen to press on incase Josh was about to ask about her he quickly spoke " Well, third place is better than nothing " he said with a small laugh.

He took a peice of cake and ate it for something to do, he glanced back at Josh when he spoke again " Ah you know, exams " for once Dan actually felt he had done well in end of year exams " Muggle Studies was easy " the corners of his mouth twitched, he kind of regretted saying this now, incase it backfired on him. And then something clicked in his head, Josh was a seventh year " it must be annoying for you .... your last year of school in Coopers and not at Hogwarts"

He smiled at the older gril that Josh had introduced him to " Hey " he said to her before taking some more food.

Vannie smiled as she looked at Miles. It must be a little strange for him as she and Cora were talking about something that he didnt know about. They should tell him later, so he wouldnt feel confused or anything.
Feeling Miles gribbing her hand tight she looked at Cora, hoping that she would be ok. She smiled at Miles, knowing that it would probably be okay.

Cora laughed as Vannie hugged her back. Heh heh, they probably looked totally stupid just having a random group hug in the middle of the broom shed, but she honestly didn't care. Her Vannie/Miles/Cora hugs were limited, as in no time at all, she'd be gone. Of course, she'd visit and see them in the holidays and whatever, but in school time...she'd have to somehow look for a job. Right after she returned to Paris for maybe a month or two to sort out things with her mum. And it would be nice to see Alexa.

Cora smiled as she noticed Miles follow her look to Cale, and then stared at her understandingly. Good. He'd got it. He probably knew about the whole break up situation...most people did. She laughed out loud at his exclamation as he was dragged into the hug, but it sounded happy soooo...everything was good. "Ohhh, I'm going to miss you two." She murmured affectionately, beaming from ear to ear. "But I'll write to you both. Promise."

Cora chuckled as Miles struggled to remember Anna's name, but he got there in the end. Gooood boy. She smiled as she noticed him squeeze Vannie's hand. Awww. Cute.

He felt better about the whole scenario now. No one was talking about him, no need to feel paranoid. And Vannie seemed in a happy mood too. Miles smiled back at his girls friend and looked at the rest of the group. Everyone else seemed to be slightly at ease too, which made Miles relaxed eve more.

Which he didn't no was possible. He had happy friend's (Sort of), a happy girlfriend, and cookies. What moe could he want?

Miles laughed whilst hugging Vannie and Cora.
"I'm going to miss you two Cora. Freakin' LOADS." He beamed as he tightened his grip around the two. She better visit him, or he woul drag her to his house. Mwaha.

Miles still felt a little silly for forgetting Anna's name. He would write it on a piece of imaginary paper in his mind and make sure it wouldn't go to the back. It was now printed in his head, with loads of other people's names.

Miles grinned. "I'm doing good Miss Reese." He said. "I know. Maybe meeting each other at parties is our thing." Miles winked, but in a friendly way.

Miles nodded in agreement. How he waished Hogwarts was back, and he would be uberly angry if it was still Cooper and Belle's when he came back next term. "I hope we do better in Quidditch too. I know, third isn't that bad, but I'm sure evey house wants to be first."

"Good." Miles said. "I thought the one I would be most rubbish at was Muggle Studies, but it was actually pretty easy. You?"