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"Thanks, Evan." Elle laughed. "I'm Elizabeth Woods. People call me Elle." She smiled with pride. "I'm so ecstatic! Slytherin!"

Tay noticed Elle and smiled at her- "You got Slytherin?! Yay!" she giggled, hugging her friend and clapping excitedly. "Well done girliee!"

Suddenly a girl, who seemed to be very young, sat down right in front of her at the table and announced who she was to everyone. Seeing at neither one of them knew anyone else, Brigid shrugged her shoulders and decided making a new friend wouldn't hurt anyone, even if she was 11 years old. With a friendly smile, Brig responded, "Hello Emmy, I'm Brigid, a fifth year, though this is my first year here, it's nice to meet you." Even though shaking hands was extremely formal and they were just in school, Brigid stuck out her hand and hoped Emmy would shake it. Formal was just what she did.

Elle nodded, speechless and too ecstatic. "I know!! This will be one of my most unforgettable days." She laughed. "Thanks, Tay." Elle grinned.

Tay laughed- Elle looked thrilled to be in Slytherin, to be honest- Tay had never really been that excited about it- to be labelled as mean for life was a little insulting, but- oh well! She smiled again at Elle- "It's okay- i'm here for ya!" she giggled- "So how are ya, how was the journey for ya?" she asked her, sitting down elegantly and playing with her curls.

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"Thanks again, Tay." Elle smiled gratefully. "I'm feelin' pretty proud of myself." She laughed. "Well, I fell quite hard onto the floor, causing me to have a small cut and a panic attack. You see, I.. have a phobia for dirt. But I washed off the bacteria. Sorry if I'm grossing you out, Taylor." She looked at her friend apologetically. "But none other than that, my journey was really nice and smooth. I love the view outside! And I'm hoping yours was much better than mine?" She laughed.

"Aww you fell?! Don't worry- I do that a lot!" she said comfortingly- for someone so graceful and elegant- Tay fell over. A lot. But she had learned to laugh at herself now. "You have a dirt phobia- that I perfectly understand!" she said honestly- "Yeah, it was a good journey- I got to see everyone again, spend more time with my guy." she told Elle happily with a big smile. "You are gonna have such an awesome time, Elle!" she giggled with Elle.

"Now, what do we have here..." Damian said louder than she expected to, turning to the boy that seemed to be trying to shut his stomach while blushing. Damian's eyes reflected sarcastic joy - indeed, slytherin may have changed, but the aura of the place - never. "So, how's it going... hungry much?"

Not even a whole minute after Brigid had finished talking Emmy was already shaking her hand and talking...and talking, and talking. 'Was I that hyper four years ago?' This was extremely happy, it seemed. Was there really all that much to be excited for? "Potions? Really?" That seemed a little boring to her. She wanted to take easy classes. "Um...I'm not really sure what I'm excited for. Not the classes, I've never been a fan of class." It was pretty boring, what were the chances she'd like classes here? "Uh, well, what do you want to know?" Brig was so bad at meeting new people, she never knew what to say.

Trixie smiled at the new arrival at the Slytherin table, another, judging by the wya she entered, running whilst still rushing to get dressed properly, the Blonde couldn't help but to let out a small chuckle as she watched her. "Your not late, your perfectly on time in fact" the seventeen year old informed her, smiling softly, still slightly fakely, her mood had improved but she was still upset, missing people terribly. "And even if you were, I wouldn't tell anyone" she winked. "My names Trixie, I'm Head Girl" she held out her hand for a polite handshake.

This ones smile was cute, and she seemed to brighten up slightly as she spoke to Trix, so the Head Girl softened her concerned look. "Its a pleasure to meet you too Meredith" she glanced at her robes and then back at the girl. She didn't want to be in Slytherin? But.. why? "You'll grow to love your house I promise you that. We Slytherins are actually a friendly lot" she told her. "And I promise you won't be stereocast as long as you don't act like it. I wouldn't be Head Girl if I was mean or prejudice would I?" she asked. "I'm a Slytherin because it runs in my family. And because.. well you get me with my Best Friend and.. I'm incredibly sarcastic, slightly big headed and very egotistical, but thats only with him" she giggled, hoping that this would cheer the younger student up. "But I'm friendly really" she smiled softly.

At least Iris was providing a nice escape from the rest of the people she was talking to, mostly first years and a few older but still new students here and there. "I don't mind talking to them all anyway, I just didn't expect that Slytherin would be gaining so many new students. Its brilliant though, more opportunities to win the house cup.. again. Third year running" she smirked a little as she spoke of the points. Those, PRECIOUS points.

The Blonde noticed that Iris was looking down at her wrist, obviously spotting Trixie's precious bracelet. "It was my seventeenth Birthday present, Oliver made it" she spoke but did not look up, instead choosing to look at the delicate bangle. "I haven't taken it off since he gave it to me" she smiled weakly. "Heh. He probably wouldn't accept it" she bit her lip, he never did. Well apart from his birthday present, GAH she wanted a lightsaber battle right now. "Its a good idea though" she looked up with a gentle smile.

Err.. Why was she looking at her like that?

Was there something on her face? Was her hair out of place. Oh goodness please say her skirt wasn't tucked up. But the look seemed more, admiring maybe, shocked almost, rather then one of humour. "Pleasure Elektra. YOu have a really unusual name, its pretty" she told her genuinely. She had a rarely used one as well, but hers she had never heard used before. "It certainly is amazing, you have every right to feel excited, I know I was" she glanced around the Great Hall.

..*BLINK*

How utterly rude! Trixie STARED at the KID.. Yes he was a kid because he was WAY younger then she was. True he was a Slytherin but that did NOT mean that he could be mean to other people. "Would you MIND not being rude to my fellow students?" she asked glancing down at her badge and then straight back up to him. "Say anything else and you will have the Head Girl to answer to" she GLARED at him more before turning away. He was not worth her energy and she was upset enough, she didnt need to add anger to her list of emotions.

"Ah my whole family has been a Slytherin, guess I fitted right in with that pattern. I love being a Slythie though" she stated with a smile. She was a proud Snake and there was absolutely no doubt about that.

See now THAT she liked.

When people turned their whole attention to her and didn't get randomly distracted so she ended up standing like a potato in the middle of a conversation. "I don't think I got your name..." she stated. He hadn't mentioned it had he? She wanted to learn as many names as possible in case they ever needed her for anything. "You looking forward to classes then?" she asked.

"Hey. Welcome to Slytherin" the girl smiled over at a new arrival into the room. She seemed like a new snake, well she hoped she was otherwise her statement sounded utterly stupid.



So the girl in the Menagarie, the one who's sister was a previous Head Girl, she DID become a Snake after all. Well that was BRILLIANT, though she wandered if the small weird one, the Beclher kid, whether he would join them in the House of Awesomeness. "Hey Sierra, glad your sat here with us, guess you really were right, you definitely belong here" she winked and giggled slightly before turning her attention to whom she was sat with, older snakes, not older then herself but ones she knew had been here a while.

Was that.. TRUEBRIDGE?!?!?

:O

Oh My Gosh, she really liked him, he was her first DADA professor and.. was he BACK?! For her last year as well, that was just utterly brilliant! Though she wasn't entirely sure what lesson he would be taking though, there were a few staff changes this term after all.

"Glad to see you back Professor, did you miss us all too much?" she smirked a little and laughed. "Which class are you taking by the way?" she asked glancing down at the badge and then back up. Hopefully one she was planning on taking at NEWT level, she needed those NEWTs and Truebridge was a great teacher.



And there was another badged person. But why was he not joining them? Too busy socialising by himself. Well FINE, guess she was the only one talking to practically everyone. "Don't want to join us lot then?" she raised an eyebrow. Pfft.. Wuss.

That was a hard question. Trixie loved ALL her lessons. "I would say whichever class your best at, but I have all 12 OWLs so I'm pretty avergae at all of them. My personal opinion though, I like Muggle Studies" and that wasn't only because Jeremy was professor, though that did certainly help "Being pureblooded I think its fascinating learning about how the Muggles live." Which was the truth. "But, Astronomys great too, if you follow it, can get a little complicated here and there, and Charms" It was really difficult to choose.

Trixie looked up at a final student entering, hopefully this would be the last of the new students because she was finding it difficult to keep up, though THIS one seemed older, a fifth year if she had to guess. "Hey. Welcome to Hogwarts" she stated, not wanting to be as blunt or repetative as she had been with the rest of the students.

"Well the grounds are MASSIVE I'm pretty certain we'll be able to find at least somewhere we can hide, in fact, using the whole grounds would be hilarious, make it SO difficult for the seeker to find us then" she laughed.

"Yeah its a great escape to go out with the horses riding, when your stressed or whatever" she smiled weakly. But she missed looking after them whilst she was here. "If you ever wanted to ride one, you could always come over, my family don't mind." She would even let people keep their own in her stables. That was what one person did anyway.

Food and shopping? "I think I would be distracted by the shopping, food not so much, being vegan and all" she giggled. "But give me muggle money and let me loose and I may go slightly mad" Yes a trip to Italy seemed to be in order for the Head Girl.

By this comment from little Lulu, both eyebrows raised. Ara had never had such thoughts as...dookie heads? Obviously this was a little girl and not ready for anything spectacular as boys. Oh well, more for her that was for sure. She gave her head a few big nods, showing that she understood quite well, more or less this little girl was just plum crazeh.

"Okay, then," she paused and forced a smile to her lips. "It was...a pleasure to meet you, Lulu." As if. She rubbed her hands together as the girl began speaking loudly to the rude Slytherin boy that Ara liked. It was obvious that Lulu secretly liked this Wolfe character or she wouldn't pick on him so much. It was fun watching people from time to time.

Her eyes glanced towards the Wolfe boy just as he spoke of Lulu's farret and let out a VERY LOUD giggle followed by her hand slapping her mouth shut. That wasn't supposed to happen yet it was nice to see that there were others who were not fond of a farret at the dinner table. She rolled her eyes smirking to herself before turning her nose up and looking around again.


And there she saw him. Finlay. She couldn't look too happy yet she had to show some interest in the Ravenclaw Prefect. He was cute, that was for sure, and fun and...well, he was a Prefect, obviously a popular student. She lifted her hand and waved a few fingers towards his direction then winked. That was all for now yet if he wanted to come visit with her, she would be more than thrilled, she was just not going to chase boys. They should be chasing her, famous words from her mother by all means.

Evan hadn't seen him get sorted, but it hardly mattered. He must have missed him while trying to spot Marie or something. He was just happy to have another bright-looking--oh. Scratch that. He was a little disgusted to have a dirty little boy in the house. Wrinkling his nose, he looked around if anyone else had seen it. It seemed everyone was enjoying themselves. Good, because he didn't want the kid to be embarrassed on his first day.

Leaning on the boy a little to whisper, he held back what he got to say, because he was asking a question. Aha. A great question indeed, because EVERY one should know who Truebridge was. First things first though, and he still wanted to warn him before anything else.

"First of all, welcome to the noble house of Slytherin!" He said in a normal voice with a pleasant smile. "I'm Evan Cartwright, and I'm your prefect." Pretty clear from the shiny and proud badge on his chest, but still... words always made it more permanent.

"And secondly--" he lowered his voice "If I were you, I would pick that up before anyone else saw." He gave a serious nod, looking directly into his eyes. What he did was disgusting, and Evan didn't want to elaborate on it any further... just... pick that up.

Looking at Truebridge happily, he turned back at the boy again. "And lastly," he started excitedly, "Professor Truebridge used to teach here, had been one of our best head of houses ever and it's of course quite pleasing to see him again in here." Ah. He'd pay him a visit, for sure, even maybe tonight. Or first thing to do, for tomorrow.

He'd missed his head of housing. He didn't have anything against Lafay--how could he, she was too scary to feel anything for her--but still... Truebridge had been different.
As he was giving a lesson explaining stuff to the other boy, another newly sorted girl introduced herself. Wow, she had some courage. He personally couldn't have addressed the whole house at the age of eleven. She looked really nervous though. Aww! The prefect smiled at her encouragingly.

"Welcome Emmy!" he said with a wave. "Evan Cartwright, Slytherin prefect." He didn't think it was necessary to tell his year as well, that 'prefect' adjective was on top of all. Hehe. It was something cool like that.
"Nice to meetcha, Elle," he said with a smile. Elizabeth Woods, Sierra Greingoth, Emmy... Gotta remember all. The names would be a challenge, but he hoped he could get all at last. After some hard work, maybe. And yet, there were many people he didn't know!

He laughed. "Who wouldn't be, it's Slytherin." The best house ever. Surely she would be ecstatic, the most natural thing to feel.

"How did you like the castle so far?" Although she'd seen a really tiny portion of it...

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Evan flushed slightly with the question. Oopsie. "But you're too busy welcoming people!" he defended himself. She really was surrounded by a huge group of people, and he was quite surprised how she managed to answer them all while also being angry at him. Girl power was beyond his understanding.

After pondering it and eyeing the people around her, he finally got up. "Okay, maybe you're right..." All prefects should stay together, it looked better. Probably.

..."How are you, so far?" Not bored of people yet?

Hmm. Finn did like slytherin. Maybe he'd just mooch around here for the rest of the feast, he was sure that he wouldn't be missed at the ravenclaw table. Oooh. There was Fallon. He smiled at her, glancing at who she was with. Hmm. He'd stay over with Marie, and Evelyn for now, and see Fallon later. Hehe. He was going to have so many friends in Slytherin. Oh how epic.
But then...someone waving at him caught his attention. It was Ara. The pretty girl he'd spent the majority of the train journey with. Finn had enjoyed that, it had been fun. Hmm. He could go and talk to her for a few seconds, because well he awas awesome, and knew she'd want to talk to him.

Finn grinned at Ara, before wandering over to wear she was. "Hey Ara." Mmm. Hello Pretty Ara, how we have missed you for this short amount of time. Maybe he would definetly stay here for the rest of the feast.

Simon took a bite of the cake and smiled wide when he swallowed. "That hit the spot." although he was still hungry, but now he could wait. "Thanks. You saved my life you know." he laughed. The boy could be so dramatic, but eh, that's what happens when someone is raised with twin sisters. "Hey, I have a fast metabolism." he said in response to her boy comment. Haha, he didn't even know what he just said.

Simon smirked, "You really wanna try that 'cause I'm on." he said. Merlin's beard, he was SO excited now. He could be crowned the Chocolate Frog King! Hm, he would have to owl his parents to either send him 200 frogs or money to buy them. Better the money, Simon knew his mom would freak out if she knew what his intentions were. Ahh, sweet freedom.

"That's impossible." he said as he took the last bite of the cake. "I can't touch your heart." get it? It was a lame joke, but then again the boy didn't know many.

Ah shucks, the boy had forgotten to introduce himself, nice first impression. "I'm Simon Macalister." he smiled and shook her hand. "Yup, specially DADA, maybe Potions and...food." he smiled sheepishly. For sure they would have break inbetween their classes, right?

"Yeah, I think everyone can hear my stomach." Simon groaned. First day! First day and his stomach was embarrassing him, nice. He then turned around and noticed that a girl he didn't know was speaking to him. "I'm Simon Macalister, by the way." he said, extending his hand for a friendly shake.

"Great minds think alike",Fee giggled.Sometimes it scared her how amazingly much they had in common.But most of the time she just loved it and wanted to hug the world.Hehe."Yeaahh for their own good.Otherwise we could amke them do things",she wiggled her eyebrows.Oh come on,as if she would ever do something to a firstie.The Slytherin loved the little cute kiddies.

Looking around for that really evil kid she scanned the great hall with her eyes.No little screamer found.Where was that dork?!Probably had claaed mummy to come take him. Nooo they werent suuper mean,that kiddo had screamed at Feenella Schwarzberg.That was just a no no."Cant see him anywhere",she stated,"probably to scared and hides somewhere."

Ohh that smirk.Alex surely already had some evil plans in his great mind.Nooo good.At least for the others.Hehe."We are just too perfect",the blonde chuckled a little.Maybe they sounded a little arrogant sometimes, but who cared?!No-one understood bestie talk."I know and of course i keep that promise",the little girl nodded,"its going to be fantastic."First she would show her best friend the lake,it was her fave place of all the time and probably would be forever.


Fee scanned the room with her eyes for some of her firstie friends.Of coruse she was curious where they had gotten into.Turning her head a little she saw Elle. Ohhh Ellleeeeee.At the Slythie table.Oh my god, she had made it into Slytherin.How amazing."Elleeee",Fee waved excitedly,"cooongrats in making it in here."Wooohoo their little Slytherin friends group was increasing.Yay.

Fee noticed a little girl approaching the table.Yaay another new Slytherin.She seemed to be a little nervous,but who could blame her. Hogwarts was huuge and being here for the first time could be scary, With a warm smile the blonde waved at the girl."Hey Emmy, i am Feenella",she said",welcome to Slytherin."


Fee giggled when she saw how fast Simon nommed the cauldron cake.Wow, she should have filmed that.She saved his life? Ahhh that boy was soo obnoxious,but soo funny."Ahh soo my new name is Lifesaver!Girl",the blonde laughed.Sounded pretty cool, first day of the new term and she already saved someones life.Hehe.Whaaaaaat?! Did he just say he had a fast metabolismn? Woaah noo, really?! Fee couldnt help but crack up laughing."Oh my god, i am not sure if i can eat anything now",she tried to gain her breath,"i mean whilst thinking about your metabolism."

Ohh yes, they were songoing to try to eat 200 chocolate frogs.Maybe they would explode after the 150's buut it was worth a try.And besided it would be incredebly funny to just buy 200 of them and sit down somewhere with Simon.Ohhh fun times."I am soo in",the second year nodded,"we should do it as fast as possible."Everyone that had heard their conversation about their plan would think they were freaky,but who cared?!

"Buuuhhhuuuu",Fee chuckled shaking her head about Simon's joke,"you toched meeeeeeeeee then. Haahh, i won."This term was going to be soo fun, the blonde already knew it.Not even a full they had passed and she had already laughed a lot lot lot.

Fallon giggled. "Using the whole grounds would be fun, but the game could go on for days at that rate. Then again...that would be fun. We would get in trouble for missing classes though." It would be awesome to see how long the game would last. The seeker would get very frustrated though.

Fallon nodded her head. She was going to have take Trixie's word for that. She herself had never really ridden a horse. Fallon smiled at Trixie. "Thanks. I may just have to take you up on that offer sometime." She definitely was going to. She really wanted to ride a horse.

Fallon nodded. "I didn't know you were a vegan." Then again, she didn't know much about the older girl. They'd only met like once. "The shopping is fantastic! Maybe you could go with me sometime. My grandparents live there." She wasn't going to go into that story. Not even if she was asked.



Fallon turned away from Trixie once she heard Evan's voice. She didn't know how she'd missed him before. She smiled at Evan and waved. "Hey Evan. Long time no see." He was still one of her best friends. She really did miss spending time with him.

Fallon blushed deeper as Finn smiled at her. Then she watched as he went to sit with another girl. She couldn't help but feel a slight pinch of jealousy. She knew that it wasn't right for her to feel like that, but she couldn't help it. There was just something about Finn that Fallon couldn't quite place her finger on.

Elnesiel sat down at the Slytherin table. She did not say anything and hoped that the people nearby would be too busy talking to each other to talk to her.

"Damian Slytherin" Damian introduced herself back and reached for boy's hand. She gently squeezed his hand with a serious face expression. She was used to feel soft hands during introduction in her scared and bruised hands but this time she was introducing herself to a boy. His hand wasn't in bruises but it wasn't as soft as girls' hands as well. It was actually quite warm, to Damian's surprise. Deciding to surprise Simon, Damian pulled his hand towards herself ,as she used all her strength on squeezing it, yet not too much, so that her snake ring wouldn't make him feel pain, and a huge friendly smile appeared on her face. "It's nice to meet you... and the stomach thing... I wouldn't get all pink over that, everyone's here speaking more in stomach tongue than human language."

"Nice to meet you Evan. and I will right now. but where do I put it? There's no plate, or any trash bins that I can see, I guess I can sit it beside me."

Benjamin pulled his wand out from under the table and said, "Accio bone." and it came flying to him, straight into his other other hand. He sat the bone beside him on the bench.

"Not like anyone wants to see that, right? OOOh that's why everyone is excited to see him. What's he teach?"

Arabella walked into the Great Hall and the first thing she noticed was the ceiling. Its bewitched to look like the sky outside. She remembered reading about it in Hogwarts, A History.

Arabella noticed the table full of Slytherins and started walking that way. On her way over, she passed a rather strange looking ghost with its head almost completely detached from its body. He looked at her, smiled, and kept floating towards the Gryffindor's table.

She took a seat. She realized she didnt know anybody so she plucked up the courage to say to the girl beside her, "Hi! Im Arabella, but you can call me Bella if you want. Im new."

"Yup, Lifesaver!Girl just saved my life." Simon chuckled. What, did he say something wrong? Maybe it was the metabolism thing, oops. "Then don't think of that....think of I don't know what do you like?" he was slightly freaking out because apparently what he just said took her appetite away. Great, that happens when he tries to mimic was his godfather says.

"Sweet." Simon grinned. This was going to be epic. "How about make it a competition?" he wiggled his eyebrows, that would make much more interesting and fun, but it was up to her.

She won? Was this some sort of competition he did not know of? "No fair, I didn't know we were playing." he said making sad puppy eyes. Maybe that'll get him to win, hehe.

Simon noticed her hand when she took his, but had no time to analyze when Damian suddenly pulled him towards her. His eyes widened in surprise, but then smiled, "Hey, you're pretty strong."

Pink? Oh no, did he blush. N'aw man.

So, he wasn't the only hungry one, good. "It's nice to meet you too, Damian." he grinned and sat back, straight. "That's a cool ring you got there." Simon said, staring at the snake ring.

"Who needs friends, you dim-wit? Every girl for herself!" shouted Lulu as a retort before adjusting in her seat to give Wolfe her back. That was all he was getting of Lulu Patterson until next MONTH.

Lulu wrinkled her nose and gestured at Robin who was banging a spoon against the table noisily, probably up in arms at the lack of edibles available. "Have you ever met a cat, Elliot?" asked Patterson with a raised brow. "They have bad attitudes and are too smart to be ordered around by other people. A ferret, as much of an idiot as he is, is definitely easier to control."

Because he was an idiot--simple logic, really. Ara seemed to be done trying to talk at her and Lulu blinked in her direction, wondering if her illness was starting to eat her from the inside out. As long as she didn't start oozing or leaking body juices on Lulu's uniform everything would be dandy.

What wasn't dandy to Lulu Patterson was that her table--her beautiful emerald sea kept being invaded by other houses. Patterson frowned at the latest addition. His shiny Prefect badge and somewhat offensive tie colors made her realize who it was: The Rooster Prefect.

And, of course, it was only fitting that he was cavorting with Slytherin's resident Boy-Loving-Zombie, Ara Noir. Since Ara was sitting next to her, Lulu thought it her responsibility to save her.

At least that was her excuse. Truth was, that if Ara was exposed to any more boy germs she'd explode in a liquefied mess of cooties, spraying all those in her immediate vicinity with it. Truth was, Lulu didn't fancy being covered in cootie juice, thank you very much.

Leaning across Ara, Lulu held one finger up in front of the Rooster Prefect's face. "Hi, yourself, Prefect!" greeted Lulu loudly, a toothy smile stretching her puffy cheeks. "What brings you to our table?"

"Oh, believe me, there's nothing cool about this ring unless you're suicidal..." Damian said in a serious voice, that was odd because she was still smiling. "So... how old are you? What year?"