"I brought an owl and a raven, my owl is Vella and my raven is Sliver."

Niamh decided that she could trust her friends, after all a Slytherine wouldn't grass on a fellow Slytherine. "Well my mum gave me money to go get an owl but I got a bit sidetracked and...erm... I kinda ended up with a tarantula" She ended a bit sheepishly. "my mum gave me hell about it, bu I love him, He's called bob!" she said happily, after all, what better name for a huge, furry, fanged arachnid?

"What can I say? I like my sausages! I like them so much one of my horses at home is called Sausage!" Bella smiled

"You should get an owl though you will need one of those."

Helena shrugged as she chuckled again; it really wasn't a huge deal. Italy?? Wow, Lena did love Italy.... but she was trying to be normal so she didn't comment on her own love of the country. That's a big switch, she said lightly before answering her question. I'm in my sixth, but I'll be turning seventeen in a month. She shrugged again.

Helena's blue eyes were doing another scan of the table when they fell upon.... Blake! she called without realizing she had said it out loud for a moment and promptly blushing upon realization of this. Her smile was still wide and her eyes ever bluer, though as she waved at him from down the table.

Damon got up from the Ravenclaw table and walked over to the Slytherin table. "Hello" he said "if i might i would like to talk with one of your fellow classmates here quickly." Damon turned to K and "Hey K i wondered where you were I got way out ahead of you on the train."

"A tarantula? Really? Oh I love arachnids, most people are afraid of them but I just think they're gorgeous! Would you show me him later?" Bella almost squealed with excitement

"Wait. You named him, Bob?" Bella just burst out into laughter, so much tears were streaming down her face "Oh I can tell you and I are going to be great friends Niamh"

"A raven? That is so cool!" Niamh said appreciatively "and I know I should get an owl, but Bob was so pretty. Mum said she won't get me an owl to teach me a lesson, so I'm expectiong to get one off of her for Christmas" She finished happily.

Niamh shook her head in wonder "That is dedication, and also a cool name for a horse. Can you ride well then?" Niamh had only ridden a horse once, it was fun, but a bit scary.

"Why does everyone laugh when I tell them I named my tarrantula Bob?" Niamh asked indignatively "And yeah, of course you can see him! I hope we will be great friends, this year is going to be so much fun!"
Niamh couldn't stop smiling at her, between the sausage obsession and laughing Bella was becoming a really great friend.

"Thanks," said Kiri. She piled sausages onto her plate. "Oh, and have you heard," she leaned in for an encore, grinning wickedly, "of Care of Magical Creatures? We'll be out all day... in the cold... looking after beasts that'll take your hand off if you're not careful. That's what I call unhygienic." Of course, Kiri was not particularly fond of the subject herself, but the boy was going to find that out anyway, and she was in no rush to tell him.
She decided it was time to play nice again. Her smirk became a friendly smile. "Anyway, don't worry about it. We'll take care of you. I'm Kiri Starstalker."

Piercing a sausage with her fork, she smiled at Nancy as well for good measure. She'd just taken her first bite when... What was this? Was there a feeling of evil in the atmosphere? Had the air suddenly become cold? Did the sausage taste only half as good as before?
Yes, Professor Kazimeriz, hunched over his cane like an old tree, had joined them at the table. Kiri chewed and swallowed hurriedly, nearly falling off the bench in surprise when the professor addressed her - in what she could only describe a friendly tone of voice!

She blinked. "Oh, er... good evening, Professor," she said, smiling uncertainly and hoping very much that her mouth was empty and that no bits of sausage were clinging to her teeth. "Um, a-a cleansing charm?" she repeated, very much wrong-footed. "Of, er, of course, Professor." Kiri got up and pulled out her wand. "Don't move," she advised the boy and pointed the wand at the bench. "Tergeo!" She moved her arm up and down to clean the entire surface.
"There." She peered at the bench. "It doesn't look any different, I have to say, but you could eat your dinner off of it now. Not that I think you'd want to." She slid into her seat next to Nancy.
Feeling very bold, she turned to the old professor and asked, "Did, er, did you enjoy your holiday, Professor Kazimeriz?"

"You can use mine if you need to send out anything, that is, if you can ever find her. She's a 'free spirit' as my mum would say" Bella rolled her eyes and grinned.

"I love to ride, I don't enter into any competitions or anything, its just so relaxing when you get the hang of it. I've been riding since I was really young, I've always been taught though, that a person doesn't deserve to ride a horse if she does not take care of the horse. Sausage is gorgeous though, dark brown hair with a streak of gold down her nose" Once again Bella drifted off slightley when talking about her horse, waking up from her reverie she continued "Horses are such magical creatures, they can always sense whether you're sad, happy, afraid, excited!" She sighed happily "Have you ever ridden?"

He laughed a lot when she knocked over her drink. ''Be careful, be careful!'' Just before replying her, he sat down to the seat she indicated. ''Heart attack! No, i have no intention to kill you. I'm more into saving than killing, you know'' he smirked and looked around ''So how are thnigs going here in Slytherin? Woo it looks greenish!'' he brushed his hair some and added ''By the way, i did not like the way you looked at me try funny spectacles next time.''

Xander liked how she paused for a moment before she answered him. His eyes lingered again on her face, and then looked around the rest of the table. There HAD to be something interesting going on that he could comment on or make fun of. Siiigh. But he was with Slytherins, there was something that was bound to happen.

He slid a little closer to Sylvia, making sure it wasn't a huge difference, but just enough.

Raising an eyebrow and looking at Torin, he couldn't help but laugh. "Problems with Reese? Do I need to restrain her? Orrr...?"

"Oh c'mon Superman," he said, reaching behind Sylvia to hit him on the back of the head. "You haaaave to tell me. Girl drama?"

Hehehe. That would be amusing, really. He would have to help him out with it now.

"Thanks, it's always great to know that I can mooch off of people who have more common sense than me! but I dont think I'll need to send many letters anyway, apart from the ones to my mum going 'Don't worry mum, I'm still alive, I haven't managed to fall of the astronomy tower yet'" Niamh rolled her eyes "I think she expects me to, I mean, I'm not that hopeless" She ended indignantly


Niamh smiled at the whistfull expression on her friends face "I've only ridden once, but the horse was a bit arthritic so he didn't go very fast, he was so sweet though" Niamh wished that she could share her friends passion, it was very catching though.

"How about my girlfriend and best friend fighting over me," he said as he angrily stabbed at his potatoes with his fork. "I don't get it!" Why were they fighting over him? Brody he got but still.. Reese?

Evelyn raised an eyebrow, looking skeptical, hiding her smile. "Saving? You have a funny way of showing it." she joked, trying her hardest to hold in her laugh. Not being able to fight anymore, she hugged Josh excitedly. "Yea it is green. Which is good for me, green being my favorite color and all." she said looking around the table, and then smiled sheepishly at his last comment. "Sorry. But hey, you're the one who scared me." she said raising her hands slightly up in defense. "How's everything over there? At your table i mean."

Evan entered the castle with all that crowd, and he halted at the entrance, fascinated with it. So this was the magical castle, that was it? He looked at the Great Hall in astonishment, mouth opened a meter. How could the candles fly? And how come it was so big? Was it charmed, or it was that big? All these questions were asked in his mind in a second, right before his mind froze with his glance up to the ceiling. WAS IT OPEN-AIR? He sniffed, trying to smell something natural. But he smelled nothing from the nature outside. And it wasn't cold like outside. Then he got it, it was charmed either. He chuckled to his idiocy, they lived in magic. When someone yelled him to move on, he jumped a bit, looked around as he came back to earth. He smiled to himself and took some steps, stopping to examine every table to see a familiar face. He spotted Rayedem at Ravenclaw table, and then he saw Eva Hufflepuff, although he couldn't see through the crowd, he was sure Andrew and Joshua were somewhere at the Gryffindorks'. At last he spotted Andy Aaron, Iris, Fallon who immediately sped up his heartbeats, with some weird haired girl... He narrowed his eyes to see better, he hoped to spot Lyra too. But instead, he spotted... [/u]Joshua? What was he doing here? He gasped with a very frightening thought: was he sorted into Slytherin? No way! He couldn't be! He was a dork, he couldn't be soted into Slytherin! Oh no! He felt like fainting or throwing up, but he held himself and approached to the table with confident steps. He gave his back to Joshua as he sat somewhere far away from him, and pretended he didn't see him. He waved to Fallon and smiled, his blue eyes sparkling with excitement and joy. He smiled politely and shyly to Andy Aaron and Iris, waving a little. He sat somewhere close to them, but still they had a few people. If Fallon wanted to talk to him, she could call him.

He turned to the people around him, and to a random person he said "Hey, I'm Evan Cartwright." in a thick Scouse accent, and tucked his blond hair behind his ear impatiently. He smiled politely, and poured down some water, sipping at it. With all fear of Joshua being Slytherin, his throat was dry.

"Oh don't worry, my mums like that too, I must admit, she has reason to be, I am very clumsy and somewhat uncoordinated, but come on, I doubt i'm going to fall out of a tower" Bella huffed

"Oh that's a shame, but you can totally come to mine in the holidays and you can ride, if you want to of course, but you can still visit me in the holidays even if you don't want to ride, meet sausage, my parents, my other pets..." Bella was babbling and she knew it, so she stopped talking with an apologetic look on her face "Sorry, when I get excited, I babble, I always have"

Niamh grinned widely "That would be great!!, I would love to meet sausage and your parents and your pets! That would be awesome!!" She said happily.
"And there are far worse things to do when your excited, for example you could do this:" Niamh stood up on the bench and started jumping up and down screaming 'Oh merlin oh merlin oh merlin' at the top of her voice. She then sat down again in a fit of laughter. Many people in the hall had turned to look at her but she was too busy laughing to notice.

Bella was at first shocked at the display, but soon after getting over that she too was doubled over laughing. Trying to catch her breath she managed to wheeze "Yeah, I'd definately rather babble that do that, although it did look quite fun"
Bursting into another fit of giggles, she noticed the teachers looking their way, pointing it out to Niamh, so gave one last chuckle and asked her "When do we get to go to the common room? I really want to see it!"

Bella nudged her and pointed at the teachers table, a lot of the teachers were glaring at her. With an amazing feet of self control Niamh managed to sober herself enough to answer her friend. "That was really fun, however I don't think I'll do it again! I dunno when we can go to the common room, I spose we'll have to wait for a prefect to go, cos apparently theres passwords and everything. I don't even know where the common room is!" Niamh said with a thoughtfull expression.

Josh hugged her back tightly. He was getting more and more happy as she did it since Josh, because of his nature, understood affection from physical contact ''There are many funny people'' he answered her question ''Now i believe that house thing really. I can see the difference. It's like people who have the best possiblity to get along are gathering together. But that's a general idea. I also saw there were ones that stared at me like i was an alien or something'' he laughed again ''But it definitely feels...'' he glanced around the Slytherin table again and it was the very that moment his eyes found him : Evan. Josh stared at him some 'Slytherin huh! I'm not surprised'and went on his words ''...different here in this greens''. He was planning to shout out at him but also was afraid of the way Rose'd react it. He did not want to be seen as the one who likes to argue or bully others, because he was not. However he was also wondering whether Evan was permanently hostile towards him. 'It will be only a greeting, nothing more' he thought 'That'll be enough to see his attitude'. Deciding on that he shouted out there with his smirk ''Hey Evan! Whatz up?''

Xander looked over in the general direction of the Hufflepuff table. He saw Brody and Reese having a go at it, or something that looked like it at least. He frowned, and thought about going over there.

"Do I need to investigate?"

Amber saw that a girl had sat a few spaces away from where she sat.
Noticing the girls glumness, she decided to at least know why she was so upset.
"Hello," Amber said quietly, wondering if the girl heard her or not, "My name is Amber Le'strang, I am a first year, who are you?"
Amber was trying her best to be polite, she hoped this wouldn't make the girl feel disrespected.

Kazimeriz glanced at the girl as she grimaced at him, raising an eyebrow at her strange expression. He tilted his head and gave her a disdainful nod. Odd girl. He turned his attention back to the first year.

"I am London born, Bresseires, though in 103...104 years one does manage to get around adequately, so I would say that I am 'from' many a place. By the way, your accent is slipping." he said, smirking at the small boy. "Best get tucked in; pudding will be coming soon and the headmaster's speech as well. Good evening." he said

"Very good, Miss Starstalker. Five points to your house for taking care of your housemate. In fact..." he paused, contemplating. "Miss Starstalker and Miss Hudonson, I hereby appoint you as Mr. Bresseieres' personal guides. You will watch over him and see that he is properly integrated into wizarding culture and life at Hogwarts." Kazimeriz spoke pleasantly, but it was clear that this was a command, not a request.

Kazimeriz sighed. At least he got the name properly, although the wheedling, whining tone left something to be desired. "Yes, Mr. Upstead. What is it?" he said, clearly annoyed.

"Yeah, I heard that there are passwords too, i've heard that it is completely green too" Bella replied "I THINK its in the dungeons, well thats what I've heard, but it seems rather odd for a common room to be in the dungeon don't you think?" she pondered