He thought it was a stupid question, and it was. Typical. Miles watched as Vannie's face twisted into a slight giggle fit at his really thick questions. He tried to listen carefully as she talked about more See Dee stuff, he'd have to see this. "Oooooh. I ... sort of getting it now." He grinned. A machine which made it work, wasn't that always the case?

Miles laughed. "If you don't mind me doing so, I will when I'm next at your house. See dee throwing sounds fun." He mused, then we'll see who's good at muggle object throwing. It was weird, he couldn't picture it in his mind. A disc, which had music on it, and you put it in a machine to make it work, and you don't throw it. It was alien to him. "Is there any other Muggle things that I shouldn't throw that I should know about?" Miles raised an eyebrow at his Hufflepuff.

Upon hearing the words yet again, Miles looked down at the floor for a few seconds. It's not like he wanted to avoid saying to her that he loved her, it was just .. "Vannnie. Companny." He said quietly and a bit deeply, and nudged his head slightly towards Reese. They couldn't be all lovey-dovey towards each other when their friends were there. Miles leaned in closer to Vannie and smiled. "I love you too." He whispered and leaned back again.

Clifford nodded in agreement at Evangeline's words.. although it was kinda difficult concentrating on what it was she was saying. He was just so ... relieved! Yup, he was so relieved that everything was okay - he was so happy again - that it was hard concentrating on what it was Evangeline was going on about.

She was only happy if she saw him? SQUEEEEEEEEEE!!

"I don't think that's strictly true.." He disagreed teasingly, his grin mirroring hers as he squeezed her hand back. ".. a few bazillion books would probably do the job just as well.." She was a bookaholic after all. A trip to the Quidditch practise pitch cheered him up if he was down in the dumps.. he figured the library kinda had a similar effect on Evangeline.

Opposites really did attract it seemed.

"Already?" He asked in confusion, his gaze following Evangeline's. Uh oh. Slytherin had apparently already lost points. Not cool. Chewing his lower lip nervously, he looked back to his girlfriend. Was she going to like ... flip? "If you want me to go bang a few heads together.. just lemme know.."

"Thats reeallly good Miles" Vannie nodded with a smile, it had took her a while to understand but that was probably because her mother hadn't really understood them. "I used to go into muggle stores and buy them." She added, beaming a little bit. She couldn't go do the muggle stores anymore really. Her sister's liked to follow her and that wasn't too good. "Well errmm theres the television. Big box thing. Plays programs," She looked a little confused, that was on muggle thing she didn't really get. "Oooh and theres the karoake machine." She giggled, that was one of her favorites.

"Trust you Miles." She stuck her tongue out at him. "We can....I'm sure we've got some old ones," She smiled, she liked talking about muggle things. It was fun. She was quite glad that Miles wasn't like his dad. That wouldn't be that fun because he wouldn't like her. They probably wouldn't be together if he was like his dad. He'd probably make fun of her.
She looked at Reese as she listened to his words. Eeeep she had forgotten where they were! "Oppsie," She grinned as she listened to his words. Those were her favourite words of his. "I'll wait till we're in private and say it again," She added with a smirk.

"But of course it's true!" Evangeline said in disagreement, not really wanting Clifford to think that even if he was teasing. He did made her happy - and she needed him to be happy. Or a few bazillion books. Ah. "Okay. Fine. Books can make me happy, but really ... a few bazillion books isn't that easy to find. So I'll stick to you." She nodded firmly and attempted a smile.

It was hard now that all she could think about was those 10 points that were lost.

Her eyes flickered back to Clifford when he asked her if she wanted him to go bang a few heads together and, catching the sight of the points glass above his shoulder, she narrowed them. "I think that'd be good.. but we need to find out who lost them first" Oops. Eh. "I mean .. that wouldn't work. It'd get us to lose some more points."

With a sigh, she looked apologetically at him and bit her lower lip. "But maybe we should go back to the table." She didn't want to risk losing yet more points.

"I'm good,"Reese said.She looked at Miles then back at Vannie."Oh really?Well,I can help you out there since I knonw a few muggle inventions.I am half-blood,after all."She shrugged.

"Yes,we do have a whole term in fron of us,"Reese said."And we get to share a common room.How cool is that?"

She nodded."I know CDs...and a lot of other things.That's why I'm so good a muggle studies."She grinned.

A bazillion books were hard to find, so she'd stick with him? "Well, I'm just glad to be of assistance, ma'am." Clifford gigglesnorted at Evangeline's words. Eeeeh. He really needed to stop with those gigglesnorts. It wasn't what big, strong men like him did!

The last Slytherin Prefect had been a complete psychotic maniac, and Clifford couldn't help but feel a little afraid that the points lost already were going to send Evangeline off the edge. Sure, losing ten points before they'd even left the feast sucked big time. But he could live with it. Prefects were meant to be diffrerent though, right? Yeah, they had this weird Prefect syndrome that made them go nuts of something bad happened.

He didn't want Evangeline to go like that!

"Okay.. so no banging heads together just yet ... and back to the table." Clifford nodded, keeping his gaze on her - making sure she wasn't about to go nuts. She seemed okay.

"Are you uhm -- gonna go sit with those dudes again?" He cleared his throat nervously as he led Evangeline back towards the table, still clinging tightly to her hand. Gah! He hoped she didn't.. but it wasn't like he could tell her what to do. ".. or erm - here?" He shrugged, stopping close to where Miles and Titch were sitting.

Eh. At least if she did go back to the dudes he'd have someone to talk to.

Hugo blinked twice. And once more. For luck. "Dude. Did you eat a bad bit of chicken? You look a bit..." Angry? Upset? Murderous? Meh, a bit of all of 'em. But he especialyl looked as though he would poke him into oblivion if he started on Midget again, so he kept quiet.

Hugo pulled his eyebrows together. "Yeah. Hugo." Jeez, did he have to repeat everythiiing? His expression relaxed at her coy remark, and he raised an eyebrow. "Sorry hun, I'm all Evolette's." He smirked, satisfied. He loved it when girls were practically whining to be with him; like this one. Gutted for her, but the truth was the truth. The sad thing was, she actually seemed nice. A bit of a wannabe Evee perhaps, but nice enough. Shame she was just another flirtee.

But then again Issy had started out as another flirtee. And she was SO much more than that.

Hugo laughed out loud; a cute chuckle bursting from his lips. Her eyes were pinned to his forehead, and he brushed the strand from his eyes so that she didn't spontaniously combust from the stress. Hehe. He linked his hand with hers, and gave it a squeeze. "It true, lovely." He added to Paige. "I've always been hers. But trust me, having me DOES have its cons." He flashed Evolette a dazzling smile, and winked. Yes, they did fight... A LOT.

"Yep, jump on the band wagon." Hugo snorted, smiling as Evolette actually dared to speak her pet name aloud. "But yes, Lettie Loo already claimed Hugie Bear."

Hugo felt thoroughly miserable as Midget Girl piped up again. He glanced at Miles briefly, and then sighed in defeat. What Miles wanted, Miles got. "Hello...er...Miles' girlfriend." He couldn't for the life of him remember her name! Gah! Valerie? No. Victorie? No, it was something more like...VANESSA! That was it. Vannie for short. "Vannie." He added, with a small, yet not particularly friendly smile.

Hugo's eyes moved along the table, crossed over Evolette and Paige, and landed on another Slytherin. "Chiao Nicholaiiii." He said brightly, returning the friendly nod. "Nice to meet you too." He shoved out a hand to shake; that was polite right? He was all up for making guy friends. Following the boy's gaze, he found himself looking at the Gryffindor prefect. Who was talking to Evolette.

"Everything alright?" He asked loudly, eyebrows raised.

Hugo was glowering at the Gryffindor prefect man, when someone tapped him on the shoulder. Honestly! Couldn't they leave him alone for five minutes? Hmph. He turned, opening his mouth to shoot an insult at the idiot who insisted on interrupting, when he stopped. Oh...kay. He stared at the (very foward) girl for at least thirty seconds, before he roared with laughter. "Hi Very Weird Younger Girl. I'm Hugo Jermaine Woods, and dontcha know it." He winked again, and blew her a kiss, before squirming around in his chair. "Fallen from th' heavens only to please." He did a mock bow, and then turned around again.

Woah. That had been...weird.

Well, that was abrupt. One moment they had potential, the next minute he had completely cut that off. That was the only flaw in good looking guys, it went straight to their head, probably even more then good looking girls. Like Hugo, for example, vanity and desperate girls fuelled his ego. And Paige, for one, was not going to add fuel to his fire.

"Oh well, your loss." She said simply, without the slightest care. If he really knew his stuff, he'd try again later, and if he didn't, then Paige certainly wasn't going to run off crying.


"I would think so," Paige added, noting the number of girls who were staring in his direction. Paige didn't know how Evolette managed it. When Paige had a guy, the guy only had eyes for her. But with guys like Hugo and Terry, their eyes seemed to flutter from potential to potential every single moment. It was hard to imagine that Evolette had actually managed to halt one of them in their tracks. Or it would have been, if Evolette wasn't like that herself.

Evangeline tried very hard to restrain the giggle that was threatening to escape when Clifford gigglesnorted in the most amusing way ever. Despite her best efforts, the evil giggle beat her and she found herself using her free hand to try and hide it. Ack. Prefect's didn't giggle, did they? It wasn't cool and it didn't mix with the all "I'll kick you if you lose points" image. Oh well.

She had a feeling that had she been in her previous mood when Slytherin lost the points, hell would have broken lose. Hey, surely the person that had lost them would be good for her to let out all her frustration on, right? Totally. But he was there, holding her hand, and that was why she hadn't gone ballistic ... and to try and find who had lost those precious points.

Really, whoever had lost them had to thank Clifford.

"Sounds like a good plan." She said with a grin on her lips, as Clifford led her back to the table. She couldn't help but to glare at each student though, looking for the guilty one. Bah. Noone seemed nervous enough. His question made her turn her attention back to him, however, and she blinked. Eh?

Oohh.

"Noo. I'll sit here." She nodded her head firmly, and sat herself on the bench infront of where Clifford had stopped. Surely he meant Nicholai and Seth by 'those dudes' right? "Unless you want me to go .. ?" She asked, a bit teasingly, a bit unsurely, smiling briefly at Miles and Vannie before turning to look questioningly at Clifford.

Miles was quite suprised that he hadn't taken him long to figure out the outline of a See dee. He would have thought he'd be there for hours asking questions to Vannie which would make her have to explain it all over again, and them Miles would forget a part of it. He would drive Vannie mad.

"You did?" Miles beamed. He'd only been to the Muggle shops in Lacock. A sweetshop, and antique shop, a florists, and a cafe. And all of them were bizzare according to him. Apart from the sweet shop, he and Sylvia spent most of their time there. Occasionally, Miles would be draaged by Sylvia into the flower shop, just so she could look at them. She wasn't as mad about plants as Mrs Corbette, but she did love Roses, it was one of her middle names after all. "Where abouts was this? I wanna go!" He laughed.

Miles listened to all of the Muggle inventions Vannie named. "A ... tea vee?" He tried to pronounce. "Programs?" It was going to be the See dee all over again. He went through the description again in his head. Big box thing. Plays programs. Miles' mind had gone wild with all the ideas he had of a tea vee. "Be more specific." He smiled, he knew he was getting on her nerves somehow. Then she mentioned Karoke Machines. "What .. are thooose?" Miles was very intrigued by this, they sounded great.

He laughed lightly. "What? Throwing things around is fun?" He tried his best to put on an angel face, it went pretty well. He didn't looks stupid or dopey ... kind of cute, actually. Miles grinned when Vannie had realised, bless, she was way cuter than him. Anyday. He raised his eyebrow when she went all romantic. She was everything rolled into one, that's why he loved her so much. "Oh really? I may have to say it again, numerous times." He smirked, but stopped for Reese.

Reese was halfblood? Miles found them really interesting, mainly because they knew about wizards, AND muggles. Jealouuuus. "I know!" He beamed, excited about the whole thing. "We'd see eacho ther a lot then, so you can't hide from me.." He smirked, knowing she'd never do such a thing.

"Aww wow. I wish I knew." He sighed, although he wasn't that bad at Muggle Studies. But Miles didn't know about how good Reese was at it, he got to know her last year when the schools were split.

Miles heard someone speak again, and he hadn't talked to them since his mini bad mood. He'd gotten over all of that earlier. But Hugo's voice had brought it back ever so slightly. "No." He wavered it away. "I'm fine." Except you ignored me once you saw 'Lettie loo'. He finished off in his head, it stung to even think it. Evolette had done it too.

"Hide from you?Haha,"Reese said."I'm actually never in the common room.I go in there somtimes,but usually never stay."She slightly shrugged."I usually walk down the corridors all day.The common rooms are way to crowded for me."

"You know,there's probably a million things you don't knonw about me,"She said with a smile."We really need to get to know each other this term."She nodded.

Reese heard another voice and tuend her attention to a boy she didn't know was there.Um...maybe she should be quiet.He wasn't even talking to her,anyways.

Oh gosh. It was incredibly hard not to simply crack up right now. He didn't think Evangeline would take so kindly to it, but the way she was glaring, eyes narrowed at every poor soul she walked past was just HILARIOUS!

There was no way he'd be losing any points this term.. not if he could help it. He sure as heck didn't want Evangeline looking at him like that. It was UBER scary!

He sighed a breath of relief when she took the seat over here, rather than returning back to those dudes. He didn't like that Huffie Prefect Paton. And well, Nico had broken his most precious bowl ... he hadn't entirely forgiven the older boy for that. Hmpf.

"Of course I don't want you to go." He mumbled sheepishly, letting go of her hand and squeezing into the seat beside her. Ahhh.. maybe he'd be able to enjoy the feast again now. WOOT! "Besides, if you need someone big and strong to help keep the peace, I'll be right here." Yeaah, it wasn't jealousy.. he was being helpful. Right.. he just needed to keep telling himself that. Snort.

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"Ahh," Vannie nodded, it did help to be halfblood when discussing muggle things. "I'm half-blood too," She added with a smile. It looked like Reese and herself had a bit in common

Vannie had decided upon the first time that she had met Hugo that she didn't like him. Well obviously she thought he was good looking, who wouldn't but she just didn't like his attitude. Maybe if she got to know him better it might help but she didn't really think they'd ever get to know each other. She smiled at him sarcastically as he finally remembered her name. "How was the train journey?" She asked, knowing that she had to at least try and make conversation.

"Yup," Vannie nodded as she sat up properly again but stayed close to his size. "Its just down the road from me." She added with a smile. They'd have to go when he came to her house again. "I'll take you when you come to my house."
"Okaayy," She giggled, liking his conversation a lot. Miles would have to tell her about all of his pureblood things. Then they'd know everything about each others culture. "Television...Some muggles are like actors," She began, trying to make it clear. "Well they get filmed and then the programs come on the tv at certain times. It's wierd," She added, frowning slightly. She really didn't get it herself and really didn't think he would. "That wasn't very clear sorry," She spoke quietly as she looked down at the table. "You should ask my Mum she gets all those muggle things."
"oooh Karaoke machines," She smirked. "They have a microphone and you sing," She giggled, she loved singing. "It's soooo much fun." She smiled. "We've got one at home....you should have a go on it." She nodded, knowing that she really wanted to hear him sing again. It had been really cute at the party and she'd liked it. She was determined to hear him sing again.

"When you do it, it could be," She smirked as she looked at his angel face. It was more of a cute face. She giggled as he spoke. They were always really cute when they were together. "We can say it lots under our tree when we're looking at the clouds," She beamed, having not forgotten what he had told her. She loved that tree soo much.

Hugo sighed. She looked kinda put out. He shuffled a bit closer to her, and gave her a friendly one armed hug. Maybe he should be nice at the start of term. That way, he could become friends with people before they all realised what he was like, and hated him. "Sorry doll." He said quietly, peering at her with beautiful emerald eyes. "But I'm all Lettie's. I suppose she could share though." He grinned, and gave her a quick squeeze, before allowing his arm to drop back to his side.

There. It wasn't too hard!

Hugo hung his head. (ooc: FWOR at the alliteration xD) It seemed that EVERYONE was mad at him today. Sniff sniff. He didn't mind too much when people got annoyed with him, but if it was Miles, Terry or Evolette, it hurt. A lot. Those three munchkins were the pieces to his puzzle; the completed him. And without them, he was nothing. So yeah, it totally SUCKED when they were mad at him. Merrrr.

"Are you sure?" His voice was a mere whispered, and he pushed out his bottom lip.

Hugo lifted his head to look at the girl who was chattering away to Miles. "Hullo." He mumbled, not even bothering to flirt. He wasn't getting himself into anymore trouble today.

No sir.

Hugo sighed as Vannie smiled sarcastically. Another person to add to the 'I HATE HUGO' list. She was probably at the top. "Sorry." He muttered. "Forgot your name for a sec." He smiled a very small smile, and it faded quickly. "Train journey was okay." He shrugged indifferently. "You?" His mood had reached rock bottom.

Vannie looked at Hugo again. He didn't look very happy and she knew that she didn't like it when people were unhappy. She knew that it didn't feel very nice and she felt a little guilty. Maybe she'd been more harsh than was necessary. "Its okay," She smiled a little and it wasn't sarcastic this time. She was going to try to be at least a little friendly now. "It was good," She nodded as she looked back at Miles briefly before looking at Hugo again. "I don't think we made a very good start at this," She added, speaking a little quieter now. Hopefully he wouldn't go and snap at her again.

Evangeline smiled contently when Clifford said he didn't want her to go and sat next to her, even if he had let go of her hand in order to do so. Oh well. At least they were talking to eachother and that was definitely a plus. At last, feast was being rather good.

Rather good. They still had lost 10 points. Grrr.

Finding her hunger again, she reached for a breadstick and listened to what Clifford was saying, a soft, cheerful smile playing across her delicate pink lips. "You know, violence really isn't the way to keep the peace.." She started, nibbling on the end of the breadstick. "But incase I do need someone strong and big .. I'll call you." Teehee. She doubted she would ... but if it made him happy.

Tai had heard that name before. He thought deep for a moment and then it hit him. "Nicholai...Nicholai...you're Nico! You know my old friend Maddox Darcy. Wow! Today has been a day of small worlds and coincidences. And it's nice to meet you!

Earlier on the train, Maddox had told Tai all about the incident with Nico. It was interesting, a little confusing, but interesting.

"Maybe." He shrugged, hoping she wouldn't. Miles loved her company, believe it or not. He frowned slightly at what she next said, what was the point of having a common room if you were never in it? Although he did see her point. Even though Miles had a lot of friends in Slytherin, he also had A LOT of friends in other houses, and he needed to see them. "Would you come in the common room more? For me?" He put on his sweet face again, it had worked when he did it to Vannie.

"Oh really?" Miles raised and eyebrow in amusement, Reese was being mysterious now. Mwahaha.

Miles beamed at Vannie. The alst time he was at her house, they just stayed there. They didn't go into the near muggle down that seemed so inviting, although wasn't every muggle town to Miles? Lacock was ... for the older generation. Nothing really much for him there. Although Sylvia loved the little village. "Is the town nice? Bigger than Lacock?" He had a funny feeling it was.

Explaining more about tea vees made it sound more realistic, more realistic than the weird See dee's. "They sound cooler." He nodded. Actor's, programme's at specific times. "kind of like a wireless, but ... not." Miles chuckled lightly, he had no idea did he? He liked how Vannie found it weird also, even though she was halfblood. It MUST be odd then, but he was really looking forward in seeing these things when he went to the Corbette residence.

Okay, so karoke machines did NOT sound fun. They actually sounded like machine's that were built for embarrasment and disaster. And unfortunatley, Vannie had one. Ohh Lord. "Me? Have a go?" He said very unsurely. Why did everyone want him to do embarrasing stuff? Like dance, and sing about them in the middle of Diagon Alley? "Maaaaybe." Miles said, tryig to let it slide, although he knew it wouldn't.

After all the nervousness, Miles face beamed again as Vannie began to talk about something that he indeed missed since his first proper year. "The tree!" He mused, maybe a little too loudly. "How I've missed the tree." Miles smiled warmly at Vannie and stroked her hair.

ooc: Bwahaha. Alliteration rules.

Miles frowned. He felt horrible now, maybe he had overreacted? Maybe he was just so selfish? It felt like it had turned, and he was being horrible towards Hugo, which was kind of ture. Siigh, why did he have to upset people? Sometimes, Miles felt like he had to please everyone, which of course, was not the case.

"Yeah, mate." He grinned, hoping that Hugo hadn't taken it to hear or anything, but by the looks of it .. he had. "Dude. If I was being a moody girl, it wouldn't have been your fault. EVER."

Miles felt a tingling sensation through his body as he girl friend and best friend actually talked civil to each other. He thought he'd never see the day, even though they'd only known each other for a few days.

"That is great," Lauren replied sarcastically.

"Not only do I have to worry about nerves, but I also have to worry about classes and homework... well I guess my nerves will calm down by then," Lauren thought in her head.

"Well I guess I'll get over it," Lauren said as she picked up her glass and took a sip.

Lauren looked back at Mandy, "So, did you do anything interesting this summer?"

Lauren all of sudden felt a little hungry. She grabbed a bun from the table and buttered it. She felt like her nervousness was getting better.

Mandy laughed. "Yeah, don't worry. It really is great here." she said, taking her eyes off the girl and glancing around the familar hall. She listened to the sounds of other students shouting and laughing. Mandy smiled a little, thinking about how much fun someone could have here.

The question Lauren asked threw Mandy a bit. Did she mean interesting-or fun? Because plenty of interesting things happened to her this summer, but none of them had be pleasent. She decided Lauren didn't need to know that.

"Not really. Just hung around Diagon Alley and bought what I needed for school," she told Lauren. She watched as Lauren took some food and smiled. "How about you?"

Raising his eyebrows ever so slightly, a mischievous smile appeared on Seth’s face. So Cale was looking for a friendship between Evolette? The chances of that happening would come when basilisks could fly, and that was not going to happen any time soon. Hopefully. Anyway, if Cale was paying more attention to Evolette to win a friendship with her, how would Anna feel about that?

A little light bulb lit up in his mind. Anna. He hadn’t spoken with her since the train ride to Hogwarts, but that was sadly disturbed by Crazy Hair Newell. Why did that kid have to get in the way of everything? It was just stupid how he managed to get on everyone’s hate list. Was that his goal in life? Well, he was successful in getting onto this prefect’s hate list. That wasn’t going to change any time soon either.

“You know,” the fifth year prefect said, that good old mischievous smile still on his face, “since it is dear ol’ Anna’s birthday soon, what do you say at jumping over to the Gryffindor table to wish her a happy birthday? No harm in that, right?” He chuckled quietly and leaned a few inches closer, winked once, and added at a light whisper, “Plus we can go and burst Newell's bubble at wishing Kitten an early birthday. Knowing him, he forgot all about her special day. You only turn sixteen once, ya know....” He chuckled quietly and rose up from his seat, already on his way to the Gryffindor table with or without Nicholai. It was now or never!

CLANG!

CLANG!

CLANG!

CLANG!

The defeaning crash of graceless metal footfalls on stone could be heard echoing from far down the hall, drawing louder as they approached the Great Hall. There was a crash, as though someone had dropped an armful of pots from a terribly great height, just outside the doorway.

"Flobberworms!" a muffled voice cursed, and there was silence. Then, moments later, the clanging steps started again.

CLANG!

CLANG!

CLANG!

CLANG!

A suit of armor entered the Great Hall, skipping-- yes, skipping -- in great, lumbering bounds and nearly tripping over its own feet again several times before coming to a rest at the Slytherin House Table.

With a huge and clumsy effort, Will lifted his visor, nearly losing his balance again in the process. Beaming happily, he surveyed the great hall. Ah... Hogwarts. The Feast! I'm at home at last. he thought, searching the table for friendly faces. Merlin's toenails, the table is packed... he thought with a shrug. (Well, he would've shrugged, if not for the limitations of armor on one's ability to make such gestures. He considered shrugging, however, which was close enough for Will.)

He found an empty spot not too far from his friends and approached the seat, finding it very difficult to step over the bench but managing at last, though unfortunately he quite nearly kicked an unfortunate first year in the process. Whups. "Sorry." he muttered.

"How did the noble knights of yore ever get anything done?" he wondered aloud as he pulled off a glove and helped himself to some chicken legs. Until this day, he had never understood the great fortitude required to be a knight-- to say nothing of the exceptional ability to control one's bathroom needs once fully dressed in armor. But it was all worth it now... No more Cooper's; no more Cooper's school rules. Armor was 'in' again, and Billium Q. Jones was present and ready for school.

Helena looked up at the loud noises that seemed to echo from the Entrance Hall. A puzzled expression mingled with surprise crossed her face as a suit of armor (yes, a suit of armor) walked into the hall. The surprised look intensified as the suit of armor walked toward the Slytherin table where she sat.

Frowning slightly, Helena was a little shocked to see the suit of armor with a now human face sit down beside her (though, after she thought about it, it was one of the few empty seats left. It grabbed a handful of chicken legs, and Helena finally decided to say something.

Excuse me, Helena said both questioningly and politely, May I ask why you are covered in... Helena contemplated the word she wanted to use, not knowing nearly enough English to express everything she wanted to say. ... this... silver... thing... ? She attempted to smile politely.

Ellie walked into the Hall. She was a little nervous to be coming in after that great big suit of armor. She approached the Slytherin table cautiously, only to discover that she recognized no one. "Whatever" she thought, and sat down by herself, hoping another first year would come join her so she woud have someone to talk to.