Originally Posted by Flipper

Eva walked in and waited for the others to say something in protest. She smiled back confidently at the girl who had answered her. A second or a third year, she figured. She seemed to be used to that ride, so she was not a firstie, but she couldn't be older than 13.
"Thanks a lot. I'm Eva Longwood." she introdducced herself, interested on that group for something she had heard right before she had walked in.



She studied the four students, who were all much younger than herself. The Slytherin girl was probably the eldest of them and even like that she should be four years younger that Eva. I feel... grown up, the seventeen year old thought. Seventh years had the tendecy to think they owned the school and now Eva could finally understand why.
"You were talking about the werewolves, weren't you?" she asked, moving her eyes from one to another. her question was made in a friednly yet sad tone. It was a shame that Alessia Lupa's secret had come out in the wide like that and that the other Professor had been hurt trying to save a few students. And from what she had heard her less favorite Ravenclaw, the Prefect Rachel Rider, was amongst them...

Originally Posted by Vampire_BaD_GiRl

Eva looked much older than her, or her compartment mates for that matter.
She's probably a sixth or seventh year she thought I feel so small!
"Hey Eva" answered her Nataly, sitting back on the comy seat "I'm Nataly Silverlock, a Slytherin third year."
Then Eva asked about the werewolfs. Nataly looked around her.
To tell or not to tell her? It's a sensitive topic.
Finally she decided, and said "Yeah, we were talking about werewolfs."

Originally Posted by Walrus

"Hi Eva, I'm Jacoby Blunt. Ravenclaw"

He studied Eva."Eva..." He said Rather curiously "You were there right? When The Werewolf got loose"
She Sure looked like she's been at Hogwarts a while "...What do you feel about what happened."

Originally Posted by Lislchen

Nancy resumed to glance at the other girl out of the corner of her eyes, searching for some kind of recognizable feature on her which would help her rembember exactly where they had met before.Withut much success, however. As the girl - she still didn't know her name - turned her head slightly to move her gaze out of the window Nancy shifted slightly in her seat until she had reached a comfortable position which would help her think. Something about a courtyard...

Then all of a sudden she felt the girl's eyes resting on her again, and when she quickly jerked her head into her direction she found herself gazing right into the girl's eyes. The way her eyebrows were risen resulted in Nancy's forehead to crease into a slight frown. What was this about? Trying hard to search for answert to that question in the girl's eyes the 15 year old just stared intently into them as if somehow she could see letters and words forming sentences in them. Which, of course, she couldn't.

Maybe she should inquire this Aparecium parchment for an answer as now she did have one again after her last one had gotten destroyed by the flood in the Common Room. Yay! She thought sarcastically, as somehow she would have chosen not to read the last few entries from last term. Although, then she would never have found out about it. Talking of which, where was Steven?!

The way the girl spoke up again pulled her out of that train of thought again, making her once again stare at the girl curiously. Irial?! Oh right, that Gryffindor boy. The one Steven had talked about. Right. It was then that the memory washed through her quite vividly. The Courtyard....her talking to Irial...then this girl - the one now sharing her compartment - rudely interrupting their conversation. Okay, she couldn't remember if the girl had rudely interrupted them but some part of her told her she had. Period.

"Riiight..." Was all she could and wanted to say at the moment because luckily for her right at that moment a girl who looked about their age entered their compartment asking if she could sit with them. "Of course." Nancy muttered barely audible with a small smile for the girl while gesturing towards one of the empty seats. "No, I don't mind Pharao. In fact I do have a cat as well. I...uhm...left him at home, though, this term." She didn't go into detail on that one on purpose, as she did not want to go over the whole thing again. Next term she would buy something else at Diagon Alley.

Trying to get her mind off things - like the whole Irial/Courtyard/Rhea incident and above all the Steven/Anna thingy - Nancy forced a smile onto her lips which she directed at the new girl, Adelaide. "Nice to meet you. I'm Nancy. I'm a Fifth year too." She simply gave her a half-hearted wave, though, no outstretched hand as she certainly did not feel like it at the moment. Her attention was then caught by the girl mentioning probably being sorted into Slytherin. "That would be nice, Adelaide. I'm in Slytherin as well." Maybe they would see each other in the Common Room again. "Oh, where was your former school?" She inquired while leaning back once again in her seat, her blue eyes resting on Adelaide curiously.

Originally Posted by Flipper

"Nice to meet you. It's nice to meet all of you." she said adressing to all the students in the compartment.
She was almost frowing at Nataly's lack of answer when it hit her. They saw her as someone older, and therefore different. Okay, so most seventh years could not get along with first years. But did it really matter?
She was momentarily confused and slightly speechless, when Nataly finally answered.
"So, I guess you heard about last term's... events... at school. Are people in the magical comunity commenting a lot about that? What do they say?" she asked, truly interested on the subject. That was the downside of living amongst muggle, even though it was only for the summer. Eva was pretty sure her mother knew everything about it and should be worried, but she at least had had the decency of not asking.
When she had her store in Diagon Allley or in Hogsmeade she'd sign every wizard and muggle newspaper to be always aeare of what was going on in her two worlds.

Originally Posted by Vampire_BaD_GiRl

"Hi" Nataly smiled at her "Of course you can. Iris, Aaron, Jacoby-do you mind?"

Originally Posted by Lezleighd

Satine wandered down the hall trying to squeeze through the crowds while looking for her friends from last year. She was extra excited to be back because they were no longer firsties. It was just one step closer to ruling the school.....well there were still a few years left...but still.

Suddenly she turned the corner to see two of her friends heading into a compartment. She walked a little faster with an extra hop in her step as she approached her two Slythie friends.

"Iris.....Aaron!" she said as she ran over to hug each one of them. "I'm so excited to see you two!" she said with her usual smile. Being around them always made her extra happy.

Originally Posted by Vampire_BaD_GiRl

"A Hufflepuff students glued on all the walls on the train posters against werewolves. I don't understand his attitude, what's so bad about them?" Nataly activelly said what she thought. It was really unfair for that boy to put all these cruel flyers. And he calls himself a Hufflepuff!

Originally Posted by Vampire_BaD_GiRl

"A Hufflepuff students glued on all the walls on the train posters against werewolves. I don't understand his attitude, what's so bad about them?" Nataly activelly said what she thought. It was really unfair for that boy to put all these cruel flyers. And he calls himself a Hufflepuff!

Originally Posted by Helios Sunrider

"What is so bad?" Helios said with a grin, dropping his bag to the floor with a loud thud. "Have you seen one? Up close? Vicious things." He didn't agree with the fliers, but there was no denying the danger of having werewolves in a school. Though he swore to keep the students secret, the young prince bristled at the thought of claiming a wolf pelt.

Originally Posted by Danae

Delana reached the back of the train and looked around... most everyone seemed excited to go back, and even though she knew no one, she was excited too; thrilled to finally start school, even if she was a few years late.

Finding an empty compartment she sat down. She didn't have anything much to do so she rummaged through the larger of the two black bags she was carrying. After a few minutes of searching she found her notebook. Just a plain, ordinary black notebook. Taking a pen from her pocket, she began to write, too lazy to dig for a quill in her backpack.

Originally Posted by Helios Sunrider

Despite his royal swagger, Helios was not a very social Hufflepuff, so it came as only little of a surprise that they were just now talking to one another. "I was fortunate enough to meet him during a full moon."

His fear hid behind a brave face as his cloudy blue eyes looked far away, taking him back to the encounter. "Wait..Her? There's more than one?"

Originally Posted by rubindo

"No, i don't really mind. It's cool meeting new people. But there might not be much room for.." And just then out of the corner of his eye, he saw:



"Hey!" he said jumping up and hugging Satine. Even though he saw her a few days ago, he was still excited to see her. "How are you? Your hair looks as awesome as usual." He then turned to his new friends. "This is Satine, you guys."

Originally Posted by Flipper

Hang in there...
"A Hufflepuff?!" That was shocking. "Who's he?" She asked all the sudden, seeing that the girl seemed to know that. Looking at the students Eva realized she could be scaring them, for not having a good reason to react at them. She looked down at her clothes, the usual jeans and the dark red t-shirt. None of them could guess her house.
"Sorry. It's because I'm a Hufflepuf myself and there's a small change I might know the person in question." she explained. Even though she said it, the chance of knowing the person who had glued the postcards was one in a million.
I'm glad they don't know about the murdered teacher, she thought as the memories of a certain afternoon at Diagon Aleey came to her.

She blocked the thoughts about that day and closed her eyes for a second making her best to focus on the conversation they were having.
"That is just mean. Perahps they don't remember History." she concluded. The Greatest Wizard of All Times, Harry Potter was a close friend of werewolf himself and nothing had ever happened to him.

Originally Posted by RonWeasley18

Brad sat down in a compartment,hoping to meet someone new.He started reading up on the history of Hogwarts.

Originally Posted by DogsPajamas

Song began to sink lower in her seat, her dark eyes observing the people before her, who obviously knew each other very well, otherwise they wouldn't be gabbering on like this. First there had been the Ravenclaw girl, one she'd met briefly in Diagon Alley when Quinto had taken a liking to her and disturbed her moping, which seemed to have disappeared, now replaced by a bubbly, slightly sarcastic, attitude. Her name was Jenn Blood, well, that's how she'd introduced herself, and she was a Ravenclaw in the same year as her.

Then there was the prefect, from the same house as herself, which she supposed was a plus point. And he seemed nice enough. Plus the fact that he shared the same last name as the famous Harry Potter which probably meant they were related somewhere down the line. She couldn't deny that she found that throroughly interesting. But before she could even say hello to these two students, another one walked in, this one from Gryffindor as well. She didn't know the name of this one; Song had stopped listening after a while and had taken to staring lazily out of the window as Quinto restrained himself from covering the two Gryffindors and Ravenclaw in a welcome full of sand-papery licks and ground-breaking purrs.

She smiled slightly as homework was mentioned. She couldn't wait for the homework too. Maybe this other female Gryffindor had more incommon with her than she thought. Or maybe she was just delirious. She heard travelling could do that to people.

Then, suddenly, as if a gunshot had been fired, Quinto leapt from his seat, scampering across the floor, his amber eyes full of a wish to play. Song should have remembered: he didn't like long journies. Embarassment crept into her already nervous stomach as the young, midnight black kitten pawed Chris' foot and then rubbed against Jenn's leg. She highly wished that she was anywhere but here right now, and felt the heat rising to her cheeks. "His name's Quinto," she said, surprising herself. "He's a little on the... excitable side," She smiled sheepishly, as her kitten continued to roll around on the floor. She couldn't help but think that maybe he was trying to impress the other cats, who were sat peacefully either side of Jenn.

Originally Posted by DanialRadFAN01

Chris kinda ingnored the question about why he and Lizzie broke up as did Lizzie he saw. He would maybe tell Jenn later. He then turned to Lizzie as she told about her summer.

"So you moved? Do you like your new place?" he then smiled when she started to talk about homework. "Well we can try to forma study group then!" he said happily. "Gryffindor for the House Cup!" and he stuck out his tongue playfully to Jenn.

As Chris had been talking to Lizzie and Jenn, he had almost forgotten the quiet girl who had been sitting in the compartment that he introduced himself to, until her cat jumped off her lap and rubbed against his leg. He smiled and reached down to pet it. "Oh hey there, buddy." he then heard that his name was Quinto. "I like that name." He then looked at the girl and asked, "What's you name? And are you new this year?" he wanted to make the girl comfortable. I mena it must have been a bit awkwad sitting in a compartment with people that are all good friends with each other and her no knowing any of them.

Originally Posted by Vampire_BaD_GiRl

"Hey Satine" greeted her Nataly "I'm Nataly Silverlock, a Slytherin third year."

"I don't know his name, but he looked older than me. Maybe you someone from Hufflepuff who hates werewolfs?" asked Nataly, determinded to find out who that cruel boy is.

Originally Posted by Helios Sunrider

"I was.." If she didn't believe his werewolf story, she would surely find what happend near the end of the term to be myth. "..taking care of some business."

Kaz was hurt? Again? Fragile old man, Helios should have been there to protect him. The professor was in his twilight, while the Greek was in his prime.

"The werewolf was contained..barely. I promised to keep his secret, but if he has anything to do with the attack on the professor.." He was a handsome boy, but his fury was uglier than a werewolfs monstrous visage.

Originally Posted by Flipper

Eva waved at the new comer, another young girl and introdduced her selff, driving her attention away from Helios for a few minutes:
"Hi, Satine. Nice to meet you. I'm Eva Longwood." she greeted politely and as friendly as usual. Then, her eyes travelled from Nataly to Helios with a raised eyebrow:
"Really?" Despite that gesture, there was no way Mr. Sunrider had done it. Or that or he was a very good liar, because he sure did looked surprised by her words.



Eva watched his little outburst.
"Right. You go and hunt him? Please..." But there were some important facts in there. "If you know something you should report it." her face had turned completely srious as she spoke to him. "It might be nothing, but it could be important right. And now with what happened to Forrester..." before she could stop it, the words were out in the air already. She had had no intentions of bringing that subject up because of the younger students, but the circunstances had changed when another older student had walked in.

Originally Posted by DanialRadFAN01

Chris smiled brightly as Lizzie had enterned the compartment and he hugged her back. "It's good to see you Lizzie. I'm great, you? How was your summer?" he asked sitting back down to talk to his friends.

Chris smiled as Jenn asked about the merpeople war that he had been part of last term. "Well there were merpeople with spears everywhere attacking us and the Professors. And to make it worse they kept sicking their Grinylows on us! I was bit in the ankle pretty badly, but I healed up ok." he grinned. It hurt like crap though when it happened. "I also was the first person to stun and knock out the King Merperson when we rushed the room he was in!" he said a bit proud of himself.

Chris laughed as Jenn replied to his joke about the House Cup, "Ah well I guess, I will have to help Gryffindor win it the old fashion way, do tons of homework and help convince my fellow Gryffindors to do the same. Right Lizzie?" he said laughing. "And I am very excited for classes to start this term!" he said happily.

Originally Posted by LizzieEvans

Lizzie avoided the topic of the breakup as Jenn talked about it, by simply answering Jenn's other question instead. The wondering about her and Chris hadn't seemed to be for her, so she'd let Chris handle it if he wanted to. I'm good too, thanks. Been such a slow summer. She tried to remember something fun that had happened that she could tell her friends, but nothing came to her mind.

I've mostly been busy moving around she said with a halfhearted smile, answering both of them. So I haven't had much time for friends at all this summer. Everything seems so small compared to buying an entire new closet or painting a new room.. She sighed and turned to Chris as he spoke, listening before answering.

Ton's of homework, right.. she said and shook her head with a little smile. I'm actually, strangely, looking forward to homework. She seemed surprised by the words and shudded. Guess that means we have a chance at the cup this year...

Originally Posted by DogsPajamas

Song began to sink lower in her seat, her dark eyes observing the people before her, who obviously knew each other very well, otherwise they wouldn't be gabbering on like this. First there had been the Ravenclaw girl, one she'd met briefly in Diagon Alley when Quinto had taken a liking to her and disturbed her moping, which seemed to have disappeared, now replaced by a bubbly, slightly sarcastic, attitude. Her name was Jenn Blood, well, that's how she'd introduced herself, and she was a Ravenclaw in the same year as her.

Then there was the prefect, from the same house as herself, which she supposed was a plus point. And he seemed nice enough. Plus the fact that he shared the same last name as the famous Harry Potter which probably meant they were related somewhere down the line. She couldn't deny that she found that throroughly interesting. But before she could even say hello to these two students, another one walked in, this one from Gryffindor as well. She didn't know the name of this one; Song had stopped listening after a while and had taken to staring lazily out of the window as Quinto restrained himself from covering the two Gryffindors and Ravenclaw in a welcome full of sand-papery licks and ground-breaking purrs.

She smiled slightly as homework was mentioned. She couldn't wait for the homework too. Maybe this other female Gryffindor had more incommon with her than she thought. Or maybe she was just delirious. She heard travelling could do that to people.

Then, suddenly, as if a gunshot had been fired, Quinto leapt from his seat, scampering across the floor, his amber eyes full of a wish to play. Song should have remembered: he didn't like long journies. Embarassment crept into her already nervous stomach as the young, midnight black kitten pawed Chris' foot and then rubbed against Jenn's leg. She highly wished that she was anywhere but here right now, and felt the heat rising to her cheeks. "His name's Quinto," she said, surprising herself. "He's a little on the... excitable side," She smiled sheepishly, as her kitten continued to roll around on the floor. She couldn't help but think that maybe he was trying to impress the other cats, who were sat peacefully either side of Jenn.