"Oh. I am sorry to hear that." Well that had to suck. Being adopted by a couple and then have them split up. So it's like he had gone from one bad family to another one.

Poor guy.

Mia laughed and was tempted to lie back on the floor because her bum was getting numb on this cold floor. "Eh...I think the sterotypes for each house are bogus. I mean Ravenclaw are supposed to be the smart ones but they came in last place, last year. And the Slytherins have a bunch of nice people in their house." Or maybe she just hadn't meant the nasty ones.

Jake thought she had actually been thanking him for his help. Mia shrugged her shoulders, oh well whatever, she wasn't about to correct him.

"I think I need to get off this floor. I'm starting to lose the feeling in my body." Problem was she didn't think she could actually move right now.

"Congratulations, princess." Cass said with a smile as she hugged the girl fiercely "I knew you would get into Slytherin!"

"So how does it feel being back at Hogwarts?"

"It feels great." Cass said with a bright smile "How about you? How does it feel to be in Hogwarts?"

"Uh yeah. Sort of." Cass answered with a smile."What took you so long, hun?"

Sierra's attention was drawn away from the nearby conversations when some man up at the staff table called for their attention. Some man, hmm. She assumed he was the headmaster, since it was customary for him, or sometimes her, to give a speech at the opening feast. She'd been taught that much from being born into a family of witches and wizards that had all attended Hogwarts, as well.

She shifted in her seat and faced the man. Do not die. Well, that seemed easy enough. After all, she was no Gryffindor. Weren't they the brave ones who dived headfirst into the face of danger? Yup. Her own mum and older sister had been one. Sierra thought herself smart enough to stay away from dangerous situations, or at least make better decisions concerning them.

The school needed a security consultant to ensure safety, though? Her eyes flickered from the headmaster to the Gevrik man. Apparently, Gevric was going to speak to them about something they needed to make a decision about. A decision that would be right for themselves. Well, of course she'd make a decision that was right for herself. She hadn't been sorted into Slytherin for no reason, after all.

Every snake for themselves!

Wait just a minute here. The school had been flooded?! There was an underground fight club?! She found herself instinctively reaching for her wand, despite the fact that she still didn't know how cast any spells with it. She wasn't going to try anything now, of course, but it was comforting to know that if she'd possibly be eyeball-deep in water in the next few minutes, her wand was there just in case.

...and according to Gevric, more security meant Sierra would be able to sleep better at night, and if there was anything she enjoyed more than a good chocolate frog, it was staying up late and sleeping in!

She perked up when the man mentioned rewards. This speech just kept getting better and better. Gevric was going to prevent them from drowning, fighting, and getting rudely awakened, and then--he'd reward them! What in Merlin's name took Gevric so long to get here?!

Who cared what else he had to say. He'd spoken the golden word as far as Sierra was concerned.

Rewards.

Salander's eyes shifted towards the dias as he saw the Headmaster stand up and waited for the hall to quiet down. Seems like a Hogwarts tradition these speeches... he mused as he listened to the man speak. He had to raise a brow as a smirk played across his lips on the mention of Do not die. Who's gonna die? The Tri-Wizard Tournament was over. Now its just gonna be good 'ol predictably boring school year wasnt it?

As soon as Tate grew quiet Salander bolted upright from his slouching "Alright!" he started, eager to finally get a good chow down when suddenly one of them new faces stood up and started talking too. "What??? More talking? he grumbled, obviously his listening skills arent up to par as he failed to notice Tate call the other man by name. Salander started to skulk, impatient for the other dude to finish. "They're not gonna make all the new ones give a speech too are they?" he grumbled as he started to drum his fingers on the table.

Aaand tall, dark and talkative was done! "Can we eat now yeah?"

"Step brother." he said with a threating smile. He hated him, his father had just married Matt's mother for the name, the glory and everything that their family stood for. "He is also in Hogwarts thankfully he refused to change his last name." He ran his fingers through his hair. "I believe he is in Gryffindor, like yourself." he told her pointing to her robes and their embled on them. He sighed. "So Miss Elyon you are indeed a brave one to walk over here," he winked at her. "We Slytherins have a nasty temper towards other houses." He cracked his knuckles. "I shall protect you from whatever they through your way. Think of me as your knight in shinning armor." He told her with one more wink. He knew that most of his fellow classmates respected him, but maybe not all of them. He had a nasty run in with one of the girls she had been on and on about her family, but he brushed her off like if she were a bug. "By the looks of it I would say you are most defenitely not a fourth year am I correct?" he asked her

OOC: Was this directed to us?

Salmandrius Beaugustus Malfoy simply brushed off the front of his robes and cast a disgusted sneer in the first year's direction, "Sit down and learn your place, kid."

Read: Get out of my beautiful face, flobberworm.

Trying to smile at Lefay's retreating back as well as swat the older boy's hand away was not an easy task. He found himself in quite an awkward and un-fabulous position, cheeks pinkening up and artfully arranged hair no longer in place, "Yeah, Big Sally, sure thing."

Not.

Katie sipped at her juice and looked at her food, she had been wanting her food for ages, but now, she didn't want it.



Katie was once again was feeling dizzy, she needed to know what was happening, she was official in detective mode, she was going to find out no matter what, she was determined, first thing was needed to send a letter to her father, like Luke has said to her. Buut for now, she was getting hungry, she stated to eat.

*nomnomnomnomnom*

"You know..." she started, glancing back up to the staff table but leaning forward on the table so not only could Marie hear better, but she could get a better view of the staff. "It's like, they're disappointed they have to come back to teach. It's like, they almost don't want to see us. It's almost insulting. I for one, would love to come back to a great year and teach you Marie."

...

Hehe, of course she was being rather dramatic. Really, being a professor has got to be one of the most stressing jobs a human could have in the world. It's no wonder Lafay set them on fire.

Snickering, she took a small sip from her goblet before setting it down once more, nodding and waving her hand towards her She-Snake friend. "That's a good one actually. But why Wonder? That makes him sound too, special." And not the kind of special that she wanted it to be either. On the other hand, Sierra had a point. Fleas, rabies... "A rat?" she asked, shuddering noticeably. Rats were gross. "Well actually, he could be like...a ratty mutt."

Hmm, she remembered that food fight. Three hour long showers later and she still could smell that rotten banana all over her. "Yea." the Slytherin nodded, her gaze flickering over to Marie, grinning ever so slightly. "Such a, magical day." That had got to be the first time her and Stalker Dude met wasn't it? Great. Great day. Could they hear the sarcasm in her voice?

Raising a brow at the violent Slytherin across from her, the dark hazel eyed girl ignored the comment about Finn and turned her attention back to Sierra. "There are a few." Biting the inside of her lip, Evelyn's gaze landed on the table, thinking it over. "Which, you'll find out later."

When Lafay wasn't roaming around.

Of course she was right. Slightly paranoid, but right all the same.

Oh. "We just had a bit of a disagreement is all." she muttered, suddenly interested in her nails. "I mean, really, she was the one that started it. Insulting me like that." Shrugging her shoulders, the girl glanced towards Salander, staring at him for a moment before...

"And I may have blurted out something about her being, I don't know...a hag..." Waving her hand casually as if she said this kind of thing in all her conversations. "But then she pulls her wand out and starts hexing everything in her sight! Trashed her own shop, she did. I managed to dodge most of the spells but..."

The woman was crazy.



Hearing the start of the speech, Evelyn's attention moved up to the Headmaster, placing her elbow on the table and leaning her head against the palm of her hand. These usually lasted awhile didn't they? Heck, she was too hungry to remember. Which was surprising since she never ate all that much at the opening feast.

Sighing quietly at pretty much the Headmaster saying don't die, again, the Slytherin's attention then moved to the...other man...

Wow. Kinda intimidating wasn't he?

Blinking, Evelyn sat up straight, placing her hands neatly on her lap and actually listening attentively to what he was saying. She may have shifted uncomfortably on the seat at the mention of a fight club, though her focus didn't move anywhere else.

Safe choices leading to good rewards? What... was he just copying the Headmaster? Safe choices leading to you being alive. Yea. *snort*

K-Lee was starving after a whole day of forgetting her lunch on the train. Sure she had bought sweets from the trolley, but it wasn't enough.

Eating some mash potato, K-Lee swallowed to drink her pumpkin juice. She looked over at some of the other students, particularly some other second years.

"Hi, how are you?" K-Lee asked a girl, Katelyn Star if she remembered rightly.

Jamie was in disbelief. He had never been on a broom. That was going to have to be fixed immediately. She was going to have to figure out when the first flying class was. "Yeah it's kind of weird, I'm not going to lie about that one." She smiled as he let go and was just himself. His arms flailing all over the place. Then they were down by his sides again. When he asked her if she would try out she thought about it and said ,"I would try out but I'm accident prone. I'd end up making the team but some how hurting myself before I'm even in the air for an actual match." Yeah, it happens.

OOC: Sorry. Trying to get on Lafay's good side.

"Hey, man, sorry about that. I'm trying to get on Lafay's good sie at the moment. I have something important to talk to her about. And as for "learning my place"? That'll never, ever happen."

Benjamins eyes turned as black as his hair. His jaws tightened, and you could see the muscles through his skin. He saw Professor Lafay walking away briskly and decided she was more important than this one year older than him kid.

Iris watched Zoey carefully until she'd finished her giggling. "Okay... are you done now?" She asked, with an amused grin on her face. Something in the corner of her eye caught her attention, so she looked up at the Staff dias. "Ooooh. Tate's fiiiinally going to give his speech."



Don't die... have fun... Welcome back. Tate's speech was short, but it was full of all the usual stuff. There wasn't really anything new.

Iris just wanted that feast that was on the other side of the speech.

As Tate brought the student's attention to one teacher in particular, Iris rose her eyebrow, and looked to Aaron with a somewhat worried look on her face. "Why do we need special security? ... Why now? Nothing really bad has happened... in, what, two years."



Watching Professor Vindictus as he started to clap... loudly, Iris smiled slightly.

...

Then she noticed something unusual. He wasn't sat on the right side of Tate. That scary looking Ministry man was.

Did that mean... ?

No. Tate wouldn't have let that man become Deputy Headmaster.

... Or did he? Iris really hoped he wasn't and that there were just some... seating rearrangements. If not, then the school was screwed.



...

He just... stuck the Quidditch Professor's hands together. Iris stared up at the Staff Table. That was SUCH an immature way of handling that round of applause.... And Tate was expecting them to look up to this guy for security guidence? Pffft.... Yeah, not gonna happen.

This guy was talking, too? The food was going cold!

Iris listened to him, ignoring the loud noises her tummy was beginning to make. The things he was talking about happened 4, 5, 6 years ago. WHY does it matter for them to have this special security now. Iris's eyes flickered towards Professor Truebridge at the table...

Was it something to do with him coming back? ... He'd been in Azkaban for a little while, after all.

Remain open-minded? Iris looked to Fallon, Trixie and Aaron. "This guy... d'you think Tate knows about something bad that's going to happen? ... Or do you just think the Ministry are being nosey, intruding arses? It's not like they've not done this before." She indicated to the man, who was stood talking. That's what worried her. That the Ministry had done this to Hogwarts before. It didn't accomplish anything then... so why do they think their "safety" precautions given by this bloke will be any different?

She watched as the man sat down.

His name was one that Iris wasn't even going to attempt to pronounce.

The prefect frowned, and thought over the things that this Ministry bloke had said. She didn't trust that smile of his.

"Can we eat, now?"

Tyrone couldn't help it, he had to laugh. There was just something about an accident prone person asking about one of the most accident-inducing sports known to wizard kind. It was nothing but hilarity. His arms moved to clutch his stomach in a futile attempt to stop the pain in his sides. He leand forward to try and accomodate the lack of air in his lungs as he slowly came off his laughing high.

"I'm sorry" He panted, once he had his breathing under control. "An accident prone girl, talks about an accident inducing, broom riding sport to someone that has never been near a broom, let alone having ridden one. I find the situation highly amusing."

Slowly, as he regained a normal breathing pattern, Tyrone looked towards Jamie. "You told me something that made me laugh, want me to try and do the same for you? Only, if I do tell you, you have to promise to keep it a secret" he whispered, looking around to make sure no one else was listening to them.

"It's fine," Jake shrugged. It wasn't fine, so he'd just lied, but something told him just to go with it.

Anyway. Stereotypes. Yes.

"Ahhh, I suppose so. I knew a Hufflepuff who was just... well, he made Head Boy and I remember thinking 'how on Earth did he manage to become a Hufflepuff'," Jake remembered. Good old Dominic Denton. "Plus, Slytherins aren't necessarily mean... just cunning. I fit the mold for Hufflepuff. Hardworking, just, true, patie-... uhh... maybe not patient... and loyal."

More or less.

Getting up? Great, time to be tall again. Jake smiled and pushed himself to his feet first, before extending a hand to help Mia. Not because she was a girl, but because he had been brought up to help everyone up when they were down.

He just took that too literally.

Dianna smiled at Alex and shook his hand. "Dianna." she quickly answered. He seemed like a nice guy. She wondered what year he was in. "Do you mind if I ask what year you're in?" she smiled. She hoped that he was a third year too. He definitely looked like one.

Taylor went to sit by Katie again- "Hey girlie." she said with a big smile. Picking up a drink and taking a sip. "All this food is so, so good!" she laughed, before starting on the food she'd just put on her plate.

"Not that everything doesn't suit us." Alex laughed, obnoxious looked good on them. Juust like everything else, uh-huh. They were just amazing like that. He and his whittle cute blonde bestie.

He laughed with her shaking his head at the same time. No overreaction at all, sure they had knocked down a few people on their little race but still the firstie could have had the cake and better safe than sorry. Even though their race wasn't particular safe and there were a few people who got sorry... It wasn't their fault that they had been mistaken! "The kid could have had it, it's not our fault that he didn't. He should have just said so." He wondered if they would have stopped if the firstie had called out that he didn't have their cake... Probably not because if he did have it then he would have said that he didn't so... Ah, confusing thoughts. To sum it up; Fee and Alex was right and the little kiddo was wrong. End of story.

Gaaah! His best friend glared at him, he pouted his lips slightly pointing at her hair. "But... But it's my trademark." he said. *wibble, wibble* He couldn't stop ruffling girl's hair. It was just too funny, he wondered briefly if he was addicted because his hands always twitched to ruffle their hair. Heh, watch out for the Ruffler ladies! Oh cool name...
She laughed, oh thank Merlin for that. Guess he was just too irresistable, pff. And offering her a cake as forgiveness was kind of a smart move, mental note to remember that next time he ruffled her hair because ooooh yes there would be a next time. "Yes pudding at midnight you have got yourself a deal missy." he grinned widely. Oh yes! Pudding, oh yummie yummie yum.

Alex smiled widely placed his arm around her shoulders. "Oh I'm so very happy you're my best friend, my lady." he chuckled. They could mess around a little. Alright a lot... A lot, a lot, lotsa, lotsa but she was also the one who understood him. You know, if he had been a deep kind of guy which he absolutely wasn't because well... Alright confession time; he was and Fee was the only one who understood his wicked ways. Best friend syndrome probably.



Hehe, Alex couldn't help but to grin hugely, snazzy was such a funny word he had to repeat it in his head. Snazzy... Snazzy... Heh, funny every freaking time! "Like you didn't already know that partner." he chuckled.

"I like that no dilly-dallying, time to take action." Watch it Hogwarts. He was the prankster, no he was The prankster but when Sheridan had mentioned the Prefect badge he just really had to have it. When he was older that was. So he couldn't get caught...

He grinned at her suggestion and nodded approvingly. "Not boring at all. Kind of like a good bye students thing..." And it would all be forgotten after the summer! Success! "But of course we need to do more pranks during the year, Em." he winked. Oh that came natural, Em... Yup, that would be her nickname from him The Nickname Master. She already had Partner as one of her nicknames but she was so cool she deserved another one. Yep. Goodness himself.

How did it feel? Weird was the word Alex was looking for. Another one could be surreal. "It feels good. Different but good." he decided with a smile. He was finally at Hogwarts and the lessons hadn't started yet, he'd made new friends and seen his old ones. Yes it felt goood.

"You guys have to show me the Common Room later on." he winked. Ah yes Common Room times here we come!

Dianna, cool name. Wasn't there like a muggle princess or queen that had that name a loong time ago? Eh, he didn't know he wasn't very good at history especially not muggle history. Cool name end of story.

"Nice meeting you Dianna." Alex smiled. "Yeah of course I'm in my third year. You?" she looked about the same age as he was but there were very few third years out there. Like hellooo? Where were they hiding? Internal pout.

"Of course!" Cass said with a grin. "And maybe, just maybe though, The Bloody Baron might show up..I haven't seen him yet..odd, considering that he is the house ghost"

She looked at the boy. Then at the Staff Dias. Then to the Slytherin table. "If this can wait until the feast is over, you can come by my office. That will be private enough, but I cannot leave the feast nor can I take you away. I will see you in my office following dinner then." She said to the boy.

Big Sally? Little Sally? Hecate shook her head and made her way back to the Staff table.

Ooc: no worries, just wasn't sure if that was for us or somebody else.

Sally's lip curled in that familiar way (he somehow almost always looked like there was something carrying a nasty stink nearby) at the first year, "Word of advice on Lefay: she hasn't got a good side."

As for the advice about keeping his nose out of places where it didn't belong or his toes off other, older students' feet... Meh, Sally figured he'd let the git learn things the hard way.

It was always more fun to watch, besides, their food was appearing and Sally could not be bothered by the kid any longer.

"It's not like that. I just don't wanna ruin my appetite for the main course by eating to much sugar." he said. "But I'm glad that I made you impressed." he smirked. "Oh they are?" he asked. Hmm..but then again that's not bad it means that the common room won't be so crowded. "Gah. Of course we always have the best one, Fee. We are Slytherin after all." he chuckled.

Elliot noticed someone shouting Fee name, he turned his gaze from the cookies in front of him to take a look who that girl could be. "Hey Elle." he greeted the red head. He saw how excited Elle was. "Welcome to the House Of Snake." he said smirking. When he was about to say something, he heard that Tate was going to start his speech and mentioned the students to stop talking.



Do not die? The Slytherin boy raised his eyebrows when Tate said this. 'Why he said those words?It's not there will be another Triwizards tournament again this year, isn't it?' he thought. He then turned his gaze to the guy who sit next to Tate. 'Special Security?Why Hogwarts needs a special security consultant?' that questions were going on and on in his mind. Then he saw Tate was finished making his speech, he was really glad that finally he could eat something but he was once again has to wait because the guy next to Tate going to say something too. "Oh come on could we eat something." he said under his breath. He was really hungry and the speeches were just the only thing that stand in his way with foods. He barely listened to the Special Security guy because he was really really hungry. He wished that he didn't turn that sweets Fee offered him earlier. Then to his surprised the guy finished his speech. "Finally." he sighed. "Can we eat now?" he asked.

The Baron floated over to the Slytherin table, and he looked down at the students. Savages, he thought to himself.

Iris shuddered as she watched the Baron float down the table. He reeeeally made her feel uncomfortable. But then again, so did all of the ghosts. Especially Myrtle. "G-good day, Baron." She said to the ghost, mustering a small, polite smile. They liked it when you showed them respect, right? "How're you on this... fine evening?"

Would a curtsey be too much? Probably.

"Thank you, Professor. I promise you, you've never seen anything like this before."

Benjamin was still standing there when the headmaster and the security guy made their speeches."Does Hogwarts need a security liason just to get through a term of school? this is supposed to be a place built for the kids by the greatest wizards the worlds ever seen,"he thought to himself.

Oh well. If Hogwarts wants it that way, then they can have it that way. But I seriously doubt that's gonna stop anything bad from happening.



OOC:Yeah, you were there, getting lashed by Lafay, and I saw that as answer to what I was trying to accompplish. I'm T by the way, or Benjamin Trevors, pureblood first year.

Benjamin saw that the boy he had pretty much assaulted not 5 minutes ago sitting there with his friends. As he passed, he stuck his wand out of his suede and silk robe, and muttered "Relashio!" at the boy and he was sure the boy didn't see him cast anything, so he kept walking and returned to his original seat, saw all of the food, and decided he was more hungry than before. He reached for every dish that was on the table, and dished a little of the contents onto his plate and began eating.

h looking round at alex she smiled happy to see a slightly familiar face visit him ha very funny, wait was she blushing slightly. no ofcourse not she had only known him less than a day, but there was no dening it he was kinda hot, she mentally slapped herself. good thing she had naturally rosy cheeks so if she was blushing it wouldn't show too much. she decide to try and act normal.
"haha no, i just came to see if i could meet some new people." she said with a small smile, stupid "so you enjoying your the feast" oh my god how lame. yet again metally slapping herself she turned to wait for an answer to her really stupid question.