Raven notice Thea always move bit by bit, she sure gaining a weight, either by the cat of her self "It's heavy isn't it" Raven said eyeing the cat, "Ooh, yeah I have one with me, in the owlery, his name is aguiluz, an eagle owl, he is very handy, always bit me at least twice every time he is bored." Raven add. "So far, how Hogwarts with you?" Raven say asking

Carter smirked and followed Simon. He did his best not to crack up laughing. When he finally surprised Kurumi, causing her to nearly tackle Simon, Carter couldn't contain himself any longer. He burst out laughing. Merlin, did laughing feel good after not being able to for awhile. (Yes, a few hours of not being able to laugh made Carter miss it.)

"All better." he said with a bright smile. "Want to see? You can't even tell I was hit by a bludger today." He looked great and bruise-free.

"Ooooh. Cookie!" he said excitedly taking it. "Thanks. This makes my day." he said before devouring it in a single bite. Mmm... cookie.

"Mmm. Wow. That was great. Thanks." He was almost positive that Kurumi must have put a mild euphoria elixir in it because he felt great.

"My holiday?" well that was a certainly a change of topics. "erm...well..." what did happen to her during the holidays aside from visiting her grandparents both at the Gaunt side and the Olsen side and receiving tons of presents and going to a dinner with Dani's family and Connor's and seeing Mizuki get engaged; Camellia having drama with the bartender guy but being able to fix it...

And presents. Tons and tons of chocolate sweets, pastries and camera films as well as new lenses for her camera and a new camera as well. (to which she was not allowed to use in school yet.) "My holidays...were...." what to say? what to say? "interesting, but all in all great!" setting aside the drama she barely even paid attention to, that is, sensing that she really shouldn't even pay attention to such unless necessary. "how about you Kurumi?" maybe Kurumi's had a better Holiday than she did...without that much drama going about that is.

"it's still a lovely name no matter what to be given to such a lovely cat." Heather honestly said. "well...i do have a pet...." she scratched her head, trying to think if she should consider one of them as a pet. "I have a snowy owl named Sythe...and a pandadoll that moves which i call Mr. Panda. He's not really a pet, but he's a good companion." and grounded up in the dormitories for messing with her chocolate stash again.

"Then you'll be getting more on your next match!" Heather said. "I promise, i'd do my very best to take a photo of you with still shots."

Nika let out a small giggle. "Yeah, I like eating too." She said laughing even more. "Especially chocolate! I'm not allowed to have chocolate at home so whenever I'm here that's really all I eat!" Well okay that was an exaggeration, but still.

Nika raised her eyebrows when Selina said everyone should try out. That would be crazy. A tryout for the gryffindor team with every single gryffindor showing up. Nika couldn't help but chuckle just thinking about it. "So the capitan is graduating next term right?" She asked Selina. She had only talked to Simon once herself and that was in the DADA room for the DADA session he was teaching with his friend Jim. "Are you going to try and be captain for next term!? She asked with a smile. The second year seemed like she was good enough and it was her second term on the team.

Nika turned around and saw Thea in the common room too! She ran up to the firstie and gave her a sudden hug. Only this time she knew it was Thea and she didn't think it was a random slytherin. "THHEEEAAAAAAA!"

Selina couldn't contain her laughter. She hadn't been able to for several seconds and her laughter was starting to get so out of hand that her sides shook violently. She leaned down and wrapped her arms around her sides to try to keep in the laughter. To no avail.

In some distant space she heard Simon ask if something was funny and Selina wiped the tears from her face, "Yes, very funny. I think the whole last minute and a half just made my day. Uh, stop your killing me. No more laughter. I'll explode."

She stumbled over to Carter who was also laughing with her. This was priceless.

Selina nodded, "Deal."

Selina was shocked by the request. Her as Captain? Her as a Captain in her second year? That was crazy. It would be an honor for sure but the chances were slim to none. Besides she knew a lot of people who were equally as good as her. But she couldn't lie, the idea made her a little excited.

"I've never even thought about it. Really, but that would be an honor. Although I'm not sure it would happen after my second term."

"I wonder why chocolate, is almost moderated by elders in muggle world" Raven said un-intentionally

"Nika did you know that chocolate is good for wizardkind, it give strength not only in physical but in magic too" Raven say.

Raven bit a chuck of cookie and sip lemonade, eyeing the crowd as he always do. then back his eyes to the people, he talk to.

Kurumi simply blinked at Selina when she started getting all dramatic over Kurumi's cookies. "If you think that hurts the cookies feelings just imagine how it feels with all you nibbling on it," Kurumi said in a very serious tone.

Kurumi had to giggle at Selina's comment about it being a matter of genes. Selina did have a point, all of her family had eaten a lot. Kurumi's eyes hadn't even been able to register how much food was on the table before half of it was already gone "M-Maybe you're right," she laughed.
"It's actually a genetic mutation that causes their short legs," Kurumi nodded. Thankfully, it didn't cause any problems with their jumping and frolicking - contrary to what Josh always thought. "Yep, I got him right before I started my first term. He will be four in April though."
Kurumi loosened her grip around Simon's neck and decided that since she was now practically on the other side of the sofa that she may as well put her feet on the floor beside where Simon was standing. "G-G-Glad to know you are better," she smiled. "You, well, you took quite a beating during the match." She then flicked her wand again and summoned another signet cookie with Simon's name on it. "Of course, this one is for you." It even had a little frosted captain's badge on it.
Wait...WHAT?!

o______________________O

Did he really just ask if she wanted him to strip in front of her again?! Kurumi's cheeks burned and her eyes instantly flew to the ground. "I-I-I-I believe you..." she stammered as she began tugging on her hair that was now turning a slight burnt orange rosy pink color. Kurumi then nearly tripped over her own feet as she slowly backed away from the sixth year.
"Y-Y-You were?" she squeaked with a big smile on her face and her violet eyes sparkling just a bit. She sure hoped that Lucas hadn't done anything like Lola. That girl had made a T-shirt, banner, AND was telling people to use the force of the cookies during the match. Kurumi, thankfully, hadn't heard or seen any of this during the match, but if she had she most likely would have fallen off her broom. "T-Thank you for coming, it...it means a lot."

Awkward much?

Kurumi took her attention of Lucas and focused on scratching Diego's fluffy belly.
"Thank you, William," she nodded. "I'll keep that in mind." Why was he talking like he was leaving the school?
"I went back home to Japan, mother insisted," she shrugged taking another sip of her tea. "Its tradition to spend New Years with your family...all of them...so it was back to brown contacts and acting like a proper young lady." She sighed and sunk into her seat a bit. "I missed Hogwarts...and everyone..." She turned her gaze to Heather. "And I of course missed you."

" I am always around for a good laugh, too" Wiliam told Kurumi. " You can find me anywhere in the school, but the library" William said to Kurumi. William laughed.

She sat beside Kurumi listening to every word. She really found Kurumi and their traditions interesting. It was a wonderful thing to learn about a different culture.

Contacts? Oh Contacts! Right! It was those muggle things muggle put in their eyes to give it color. It was because Kurumi's eyes were purple. Heather's were silver....but...no muggle bothered to ask her why it was so...so it never bothered her...but it must have with Kurumi since she also had differently colored eyes.

And she began to say somethings about missing hogwarts, everyone and at this, Heather melted when Kurumi said she missed her. It was really sweet and Heather jumped and gave her best friend a bear hug. "I missed you too Kurumi!" she said happily, her cheeks turning pink. "So did Mr. Panda." and she giggled at that.

Thea grinned. 'Ouch! Henry always bites me.. he's my other kitty' she explained as she couldn't remember if she had told Raven that.. 'Maleficent hasn't bitten me yet.. she knows I would bite her back.' She laughed. Then, she nodded. 'Also, yes.. she is heavy!' Thea put the cat down. Without moving from where she had been placed, Maleficent began licking her paws while glaring up at Thea. 'Lessons are good. I'm enjoying most of them.' Thea told Raven. 'How are things here with you?' She smiled.

Thea smiiiiled. 'Thankyou!' She said to Heather. All Thea could say was at least she didn't know any other cats called Maleficent! Her grey eyes widened when the panda doll was mentioned. 'Ooh! A panda doll?!' She asked again. 'Oh wow! Could I meet Mr Panda sometime?' The little lioness was genuinely intersted in the doll, it sounded so cool!

'RAWRRRR!' Cried Thea as a mane of red hair came speeeding towards her. The little firstie was nearly knocked off her feet as Nika waded in with a rib crushing hug. 'Hi hi hi, Nikakakaka!' Thea grinned.

Thea gasped. 'Oh! That sounds painful, does it not hurt him?' She asked. Even though it really looked like the little cat wasn't bothered the way he was jmuping about all the time. 'Naw, he's a cutie.' Thea grinned. Looking down, she checked her big white beast was still at her feet.. sitting on her feet. Sigh.

'I suppose that's good enough. Hogsmeade is such a wonderful place, I'd love to live there when I grow up. I love my hometown too, but there simply aren't enough magical families around.' the girl mused.

'Oh, so your friends still spend the summer here in England, even though they study somewhere else now?' That was a good solution indeed. Speaking of transfers, Ari started to worry about so many of her friends which she hadn't seen in months, like Jory, or Tayla, or Zara. She desperately hoped they hadn't changed schools. But they would've at least told her, no?

Ari smiled. Expert in electrical appliances, hmm? 'Well, I've always been curious about how the microwave oven works. I saw one at my friend's house. I'm worried I have inherited my mum's disasterous cooking abilities, so I'd need some help.' the young Gryffindor laughed.

'That's too bad. Some of the muggle inventions were revolutionary, we should give them credit for that.' Ariadne said with conviction, although none of those revolutionary inventions came to mind at the moment.

'It's just that you don't hear that every day. Do you really think it's brilliant?' the girl grinned, regaining her confidence. 'I talked to the Headmaster and he seemed to think I could pull it off. He told me to speak with Madam Donovan about choosing my classes before my third year.' Ari explained.

"yep. a doll. Of course, i'd introduce him to you sometime..." she said, remembering that the doll was supposed to be grounded. Still, Mr. panda would love to see new faces and the company. The doll did miss hanging out with her.
"pretty soon, I'll bring him round to meet you."

" Hi Heather" William smiled. How are you ?" Wiliam asked Heather.

Kurumi smiled and nodded. William had his moments - both good and bad - once again proving to her just how complicated boys really were.

Kurumi shook her head. "Not it all. Munchkin cats are perfectly capable of doing everything that a regular cat can. I suppose you could kind of think of it as the same sort of principles like how some of us are taller than others. Just because one person is 5 feet tall doesn't mean that they are any less capable of walking than someone who is 6."
Kurumi giggled as Heather practically leaped across the sofa to hug her. "How id Mr. Panda? I haven't seen him around with you all that much recently." Her tone grew a bit serious. "Is...Is your father already insisting that you start to seperate yourself from him?" Kurumi thought that she remembered the silver eyed girl mentioning something like that before.

Mr. Panda. Heather stared for a moment but then shook her head as she let go of her hug for Kurumi. "No, no...not yet...but...I sort of grounded him for hiding my chocolate stash and messing with my stuff. He started to be temperamental and part klepto." She paused for a bit of some thought and then looked back at Kurumi. "have you been missing any socks lately? ... he's been stuffing some socks under my bed and i just told him to return it to where he got them. The other day, he put scarves under my bed...." really weird. "I think he's just trying to get my attention, but i'm trying to not get too attached with him...or i'll be having a hard time separating from him next term. I wouldn't want to inanimate him-it hurts his feelings..." she sighed sounding like a little girl. "nowadays i find it hard to believe he's even a doll, but that would be just mean....he isn't just a doll. He's a best friend to me."

a small smile graced her lips. "well...maybe...i could play a bit with him...he might have just been feeling lonely, and it's my fault too for leaving him behind most of the time. Maybe i should go up to the dormitories now and get him..." she glanced at kurumi. "Would you like to see him now?" her doll would really appreciate that.


...but before she could get to that, there was William once more, saying hi to her. She raised a curious eyebrow and tilted her head to her left. "H-hi William..." she said, putting on a smile. "didn't i just say hi to you?" she asked with a laugh. Had William forgotten so quickly? "I'm still fine...if that's what you wanted to know."

William smiled back at Kurumi.

" I do not remeber if you just said hi to me" William told Heather." Ok, glad you are fine" William said to Heather.

Nika nodded she was sure that Selina had a good chance of getting the position as captain. There were a people on the team who were playing on a team for their very first time and Selina had the advantage of playing last term too. "Well I'll have my fingers crossed for you!" She said beaming at her friend. "So what's new?" She asked trying to steer the subject away from Quidditch because if they kept talking about it Nika would eventually get to the point where she had no idea what she was talking about.

Nika shrugged and then responded with a simple, "Well my parents don't let me have it because they think I'll be too hyper." Hehe. Well it was true. Nika was already hyper enough without chocolate.

Then she raised her eyebrow as Raven told her about the chocolate giving you strength. "R-really?" She had never heard that before. "In that case, YAY!" Now she has yet another excuse to have some more. "How do you know all of this!? You must be really smart."

Nika giggled as Thea acknowledge her with a RAWR. She really did love this girl. "Hi hi hi, Thea-ea-ea-ea-ea!" She beamed at her firstie friend and bounced up and down in excitement. "Wazzzup?!" hehe. Giggle. Nika attempting to be a gangster-rapper person. Yeah... no. She can't pull it off.

When the girl laughed at his answer, Josh smirked and opened his eyes to look at her properly. Aha...had not she played the position of one of the chasers at the match? The match he had managed to watch only a part of it with Madam Donovan, due to his late release from detention. ''You girls were awesome at the match'' he said being quite aware that it was random. Hehehe. Being random was good though it brought life to conversations.

And he couldn't help but laugh when she spoke again. Being Josh was a hard job? Well...maybe...kinda. Eh...he didn't know. But there was one thing he knew: It was funny. BAHAHAHAHA. ''Eh...not really if you can survive a bit detention, summer work and meetings with girlfriend.''

Hehehehe...



''There's nothing abnormal with sleeping on the floor'' Josh agreed with a smirk nodding at the younger girl a bit. ''And you don't have to classify wherever you sleep as normal or not. The important thing is if you feel comfortable or not. Other people considering it normal or not...meeeeh...i wouldn't bother about it. It's me sleeping not them. Right?'' Yup, he had always been like that doing whatever he thought right regardless of others' ideas about it. ''And thanks for the blanket offer but i usually do not use such thing. It annoys me.'' And not to mention he was not going to sleep right now, at least until he found out a way to punish this cat for ruining his stuff with feline urine.

So, eyeing Walnut the Cat who was struggling in his hands and shirt, the lion boy considered over many ideas that had been previously in his mind about this cat, however, at the same time he did not want to upset Kurumi by being too mean towards her cat. Glancing at the princess as she kinda stuttered his name out, he held Walnut up and closer to himself totally ignoring the possibility of a claw attack at his face or chest.



Well...to be honest it was more difficult to find a way to punish this cat while considering not to upset his mistress so Josh figured it was going to take a bit more time to decide than he thought it would do so. Perhaps he could ask for suggestions aaaaaaaaaaaaand there his besties, Si and Carter, just arrived obviously having sensed that Josh needed them for some suggestions.

''GUYS!'' the half naked Josh called out for the two boys making sure the cat is safely trapped within his grip no matter how much it struggled to be free. Hah! There was no way a little legless cat could escape the strong hands of Josh Carter. ''Out the Hospital Wing, off from seeing the hot healer you two? I need your help''

While approaching his friends with that usual rather cool air of his, the boy carefully listened to the convo between the boys and Kurumi. WAIT! What?!!! Kurumi had made special cookie for Carter with his name on it!!!! ''Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey!'' the seventeen yeard old lion exclaimed, holding the cat with shirt under his sweaty arm while attemping to snatch the cookie from Carter's hand. But unfortunately he was too late and Carter the Cookie Destroyer had already consumed or destroyed the cookie.

''That's not fair!'' so Josh protested looking at all three of them. ''I am the RIGHTFUL owner of that name. Because it is my last name coming from family! He...'' he dramatically and accusingly indicated Carter ''...stole my cool last name five years ago and made it a first name for himself so it would not look like a stolen last name. Did not he Si, did not he? You know it?''

So, he was the rightful owner of that cookie.

''Spit the cookie out....you dirty name thief otherwise you'll meet the Josh Bludger.''

And that kind of bludger, as everybody knew, was way worse than the ordinary one.

BAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA...

Not remember? Did William hit his head and had amnesia? She stood and went to check the first year's head for any bumps or anything. It was surprising still she was barely taller than the firstie himself, but Heather was busy checking William.

"Did you hit your head or anything, William? You just said hi to me awhile ago...even asked me if i can talk to you...on the grounds." she asked with a smile and a giggle. Silly William. She removed her hand from the boy's head and put it on her waist. "Maybe you're just too tired..are you?"

"Nice for you, and to Gryffindors" Raven said, "as for me, I'm still picking, hehe, attend classes, strolling outside, eating. No all is well, enjoying my freedom here" He add grinning.

"Bitten back the pet, nice idea, I'll do it to mine with sauce, haha"

"Nah, it's a legend, Healers knows it" Raven say. there is only thing that Raven can't hold smart, because he isn't one, why he know it, accidentally by book that Raven isn't remember too.
Raven took another pie for the last resort.

Selina smiled at his compliment and nodded her head in gratitude, "Thanks. We tried our hardest, but Ravenclaw is a tough team to beat. I got blocked every shot by literally half a second." Damn Keeper.

She raised her eyebrows and retorted, "Sounds like a hard-knock-life."

Selina blushed as Nika continued to insist that she was perfect for the Captain position and said, "Um... thanks."

When they changed the subject she silently thanked Merlin and said, "I've been good. Just lonely, miss home you know? I never go home for Christmas because, well, I'm Jewish."

Selina laughed as Kurumi shot her a blank expression. She was getting very good at her sarcastic remarks. When she had first met Kurumi she was the girlfriend of Adam Burn and the cookie girl. But now, that they had been friends for two years, she had come out of her shell more and was the Gryffindor Seeker, the smartest girl in Hogwarts, and a girl with a wicked sense of humor. In many ways she had adapted a lot of Selina's traits, but Selina had done the same. She had become calmer and less apt to act out since becoming friends with Kurumi. She had cared more about school and points and, although she still burned the food, she could make pasta now... just add water.

"Yeah... it would make sense right? By the way sorry for my cousins this summer. Sammy really didn't mean to spit all that food on you... he can't control his laughter."

Thea grinned, an clapped her hands. 'Ooh, yeyeyeyyy!' She cried. Heheh. 'I can't wait!' She smiled at Heather, again quickly looking down to check Maleficent was still plonked on her feet.



Thea nodded as she listened to Kurumi. 'Ah yeah, I get what you mean.' Thea looked at the little cat. 'It just.. well sounds painful! The leg thing..' She quickly added.



Thea clapped her hands like seal. Nika got her excited...
'Hi!' She burst out laughing at Nika's wazzzzap?! 'Um.. nothing really!' Thea grinned. 'How aobut yourself?' she asked the older lion.

Tenn, skipped her way down the stairs and into her favourite place inside the castle - aside from the dormitory. She looked at the not so empty common room and walked towards a chair by the window. She flopped herself comfortably and closed her eyes for a while. THen she slowly opened them again - as if she'll warp into somewhere else. She stared out the window and smiled. THe breathtaking view surrounding Hogwarts always make her smile. They're on one of the highest towers in the castle and it was worth it.

She brushed her brunette hair covering her sapphire eyes and gaze back inside the warm and fuzzy room. She still have to do a lot of things to do but she can do them later when she feels her body feels right. She jut let her attention wander until it focused on a group of students chatting happily.

Jayce bent down and pulled some of the young girl's papers toward him. He figured it'd be nice to help out. Or something.. He then started to pick up a bunch in his arms. "Hmm? Oh, nice to meet you Cove, i'm Jayce." he said simply, having momentarily been in another world again. "America? YEAH. How'd you guess?" he asked curiously, not paying attention enough to notice her own accent.

"Here are your papers," the boy spoke, extending his arms toward her.
Whaaa? He wass? Hmm. "Ohh. Well.. I'm alright now." he said with a slight nod of his head. Did he really look like that? SHRUG. Maybe it was Shaw's lesson that had caused him to be a bit.. jumpy. PFFT. He hadn't been that afraid of cats. Well, he'd never admit it at least.

" Well, I do not think I hit my head" Willaim told Heather." I slipped and fell on the ship" William said to Heather. " I remeber hurting my lehg badly, see it is still a little swollen, but I might have bumped my head during the fall" William explained to Heather. " Now I remeber saying hi to you and asking to talk with you "William smiled. " Tired, hmm?" William asked himsrlf. " i could be tired" William agreed with Heather.