Ellie nodded. She had no idea there would be this much homework. And the sorting hat obviously had no idea how much of a procrastinator she could be. What was he?she? it... it thinking putting her in Ravenclaw? She shook her head at her own thoughts.

"Maybe we could work on it together?" she was just full of brilliant ideas today. "Make it more bearable?" Doubt it. Homework is never bearable, by the way.. Why were they getting homework anyway? They lived at school... It's still schoolwork... Just a lot of it. Major sigh.

Ellie smiled. Good. Homework together. Fun.

Then she pursed her lips together. "Never like homework much. Even the easy things we did at muggle school was awful." Silly science and spelling. Like she'd ever need that. She just needed a spell check or quick quotes quill and she'd be fine.

Mina laughed slightly. She wasn't all that fond of homework herself but, she kept at it anyway. "I don't really like it, but you know I keep doing it for the house. The house cup means A LOT to me," she admitted. Well that and being on the top earners board. Silly goals and promises she always made for herself.

Ellie smiled.

"I want to do it for points too. For the seventh years. I'd hate it if I didn't win the cup my last year because annoying first years decided to not do their homework. They want to go off with a bang. What's wrong with that?" It was very true. They deserved it. "Being on top feels good, too." she knows.

Mina smiled, she felt the same way and she wanted to help their house keep the house cup for the Head Girl. Cela was the best and she didn't want to be a reason why Ravenclaw didn't win the cup. "You know we have to win the cup, for Cela! I mean, she is like the most awesomest person I know and she so deserves to graduate with our house on top," she nodded. "We so did it last term and we are going to do it this term too!"

haha points are so obviously on my mind.
 

Ellie nodded. Then she was like, so let's get cracking then and she took out her books and other homeworky things. She said, "For Cela!" as she did so.

"So, what first? I suppose finish up Transfiguration?" seemed to make sense.

Mina nodded and smiled. "Yes, for Cela!" Pulling her journal back out, she flipped it to a blank page. "Yeah, transfigurations and then Ancient Runes?"

"Sounds good. I have a question about that, too, by the way. I was going to ask Cela, but I couldn't seem to find her. Maybe you can help, then." She said. Reading their assignment, "Gamp's laws... So those are life, food.." she closed her eyes trying to remember, "m-m-money...?" That didn't sound right.

Mina nodded and looked at Ellie. "Sure, just shoot. I'll see if I can help," she replied. She wasn't all that knowledgeable about things, but she was willing to give it a try. "Money and love. Both can not be created out of thin air."

"I was just wondering what a Rune actually is... See, I thought it was like a language. Or... well... I guess we said that during class.. That it could be used as communication.. But I don't understand what purpose a physical Rune serves, or what to carve onto it, or what it does..." Just so confused. She felt like the teacher didn't touch on that much....

"Oh, so money is one." yay for memory! "And magical items, too." Then she reread the assignment. "So... I could say aquamenti, right? That violates the law.. or seems to... but I don't know where the water actually comes from. Is it summoned from a source?" She hoped she wasn't asking too many questions. Or any that Mina couldn't answer.

Mina thought about it and nodded slightly. She wasn't really sure about some of it, but she did have a guess and it was worth trying to explain what she could. "Well, runes are a set of symbols. In their physical state, you can really use them to communicate. I mean Witch Runes were used for that reason. We studied them last term. And the carvings on runes varies. Some have the Elder Futhark alphabet and others have pictures on them. It really just depends on what kind of runes we are talking about." she tried to explain. "So you know for our homework, we need to make our own set of runes, right? Once we finish them we can use our runes to reading and stuff. Each rune stands for a different thing and has a meaning." She just hoped she was making sense to Ellie.

"Yes, food, money, love, life, and objects with magical properties." she smiled. "Well, you are just summoning the water and not creating it out of thin air. It comes from somewhere else and you aren't really creating it. It's hard to understand and all but you know magic isn't always easy to understand."

Ellie tried. She really did. "So what are we using for our homework?"

Anddd. "Alright." head nod, "Yeah, I just thought you'd learn spells and use them. Not so much figure out how they work or why they work...." This was something her daddy left out when teaching her about Hogwarts. Humph.

Mina reached over and pulled out her Ancient Runes notebook. Flipping over to the page with the Elder Futhark alphabet, she showed it to Ellie. "There are 24 characters and in some sets a blank rune." she explained.

She laughed softly and shook her head. "Oh there is so much more about magic then just spells and using them. We are to know the theory behind them and all." she nodded. "Just think, if it was that simple to do magic and all, how boring things would get after a while."

Ellie looked at the book and shook her head. She'd worry about that later. It still made next to no sense to her. "We'll do that later." Yes. That sounded perfect.

She sat there thinking about it... "Maybe." she shrugged. Perhaps she didn't pay as much attention to her parents' magic uses. Come to think of it... They did only use it for boring reasons. Cooking, cleaning... Only her daddy used it to play tricks and such. Hehe. "Yeah, I bet there's loads of magic I havn't seen yet."

Mina smiled and shook her head slightly. It was all a bit overwhelming, she knew it. She had felt the same way when she was a firstie. "You know if you need help with the runes, I could help you with them, if you want." she offered.

"YOu know there is still a lot of sure about magic, I need to learn," she laughed. "But learning something new about it, still excites me. You would think that since there are rules involved, so people wouldn't keep doing magic, but its so wonderful and .....magical." she added with a nod. They were always learning more each day there at Hogwarts.

"That would be fantastic!" she said, relieved.

"Yeah! And you can still invent spells. I'm not sure how, but I do know that people have been making up new spells for centuries." Magic awed even her. And she was surprised about this because she had always thought she knew everything. Gosh, she was a brat.

Bradin guessed Justin had missed out the American part of himself. "He lived in America for like 7 years before he moved to England. His dad has been constantly moving him around. He lived with my family for like 4 years in California before his dad moved him to England, now he's back in America again. He's American. I'm guessing he never told you that part" he explained. He couldn't believe Justin failed to mention he was American.

"Yeah, he didn't mention that." Carter said. Oh well, the topic never really came up. "My family has travel a lot too. I never lived in more than one place for a few weeks, so I guess it's a bit different."

Bradin half-smiled. Awkward! "I guess he never really wanted to talk about it. He is pretty sensitive, but has a very funny way of showing it. He doesn't like other people to see when he's upset" he explained. Apparantly there was a lot Justin had failed to tell everyone about himself.

Carter smiled and nodded. "Yeah. I think everyone gets like that." he said. He knew there was something things that he didn't like talking about.

Bradin nodded. He knew he was one of those people. But he loved to make people feel special. And he made it his duty to make them feel wanted and loved. "I can't name one person I know that isn't like that" he replied. Then he thought about Violet. "Correction, I can name one. Violet Riddle is the most self-centered person on the entire planet" he said. Why in gods name had he just gone on about Violet?

Carter laughed. "You're lucky you weren't here the past two terms. This is actually Violet at her calmest." he said. "Has she already hit on you? I hear she goes through boys fairly quickly, and Slytherin only has so many."

Bradin laughed. Ha. If that was calm then he'd hate to have seen her when she was totally chilled out. "Yes she has made a pass at me. We met in the common room and her being her somehow managed to manipulate me, she kissed me then I told her nothing could happen and she flipped. We both said some very mean things" he explained. Nope. No one should get on the bad side of Bradin Marcus Westerly. Unless they wanted to see his cruel side. It only took someone like Violet to step over the mark and he was gone. Totally mental. But he knew she would be the only one to do that.

At least by this point in the schoolyear, Aiden wasn't getting lost. Not as much as before, that is. He made his way across the grounds, and he eventually ended up by the front gate of Hogwarts. For once it was open, with it being a Hogsmeade weekend and everything. He brought one hand up out of his coat pocket and grabbed one of the wrought iron poles in the gate as his eyes scanned the area down further.