"What?" she said turning from the charms teacher to face Elaine again. "Oh, um, yeah I guess. It's for people active in class and who do homework and just put that bit of extra effort in ya know?" She blew on her soup and took a few sips before looking back at the staff table.
"Anyway. Next to Descoteaux is the new Care of Magical Creatures teacher, then the Astronomy teacher who we didn't have last year so I don't know anything about them." She checked her watch and fiddled with sleeve. "Then is the Arithmancy teacher, Professor Hadley. She's really nice and supportive." She gave great advice. But kindda got uncomfortable if someone started to cry in class though. "And the empty seat on the end is for the Ancient Runes professor. And that's all the professors on the left side."

Merlin, she never remembered this many teachers last year! "On Tates right is the groundskeeper Mister Stryker. He's french." She said french with some emphasis, like they were special or something. "Then is the nurse. I don't know her name. Nika will, she had to visit her twice last year! Then are the new Herbology and History of Magic teachers, then madame Donovan..." With her scary black hair. "Professor Zookara is next. He teaches muggle studies and lastly is Professor Lafay. A.K.A the dragon lady." she whispered this part. She may be far away, but she woudn't put it past her to be able to hear her. "Don't mess with her if you want to... live." Yeah, that was about it. "And them empty seat if for Transfiguration... and that's about it." Wow, that was a lot to take in. She needed more soup now.

AHH. AHH. AHH. Why? Just, why? Why did she have to come over, skipping like an over-excited pixie? She was so terrifying...It was like he was in the looming presence of his grandmother - she was pretty scary too. Hair bobbing, eyes wide; if he wasn't so scared he'd of probably noticed she was quite pretty. But in this case, that only made things worse. And then she sat down. Well. That was it. All those nerves, all that fear; his stomach knots unfurled, and he practically exploded.

"Well, of course I'm nervous!" He smooshed his potato. Ow. *smooshsmoosh* He really needed to work on his spasm-y arm-flailing. "I mean...Look at you! You're...You're...YOU'RE A GIRL. YOU'RE SCARY."

SPOILER!!: Selina & Caroline

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Selina smiled at Carloine who avoided the topic of her father. Whenever she mentioned that her father was Jake Skylar, Chaser for the Fowlmouth Falcons, it seemed like people forgot that Selina was a person. She became the name that her father had built. She wanted to accomplish things on her own and experience all of her life experiences without her own person being hindered because of her Dad's job, "It's a great broom."

When the topic moved to the boat Selina joked, "Aye aye Captain Kyle... alliteration without even trying. Well done Selina," she said patting herself on the back.

"So when is the mission?"

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Caroline watched as Kyle spoke about the boat some more. She watched her eyes gliter with excitement. She wondered that the same as the other two. Where did the boat come from. Kyle and Caroline hadn't been friends for to long, but she could tell when she was up to something.

She gave Selina a grin and laughed, as she joked calling Kyle Captain Kyle. She looked from Selina to Kyle and back to Selina waiting to hear the answer "Yeah, when Captain Kyle?" She joked around about Captain Kyle as well.

Kyle couldn't help but laugh when Caroline said when Captain Kyle. "Well I wouldn't call myself captain - we could just say be like the three musketeers..." she smiled dramatically throwing her arms to her hips like she was standing before danger and ready to face it head on laughing as soon as she did.

"Alright so how about tomorrow after the feast we...well, look from afar? You know just get information on it at first" groaning slightly she had just sounded extremely Ravenclaw even though it was her own house she didn't always like sounding like a textbook drone. Not one bit. "Alright, lets get info on it, be safe...because I don't want to have any of you guys get hurt - and if you do you know I'm bringing you immediately to the hospital wing no questions asked" she sounded confident right then. However her own fear of getting others hurt, and herself hurt was nagging at her saying this was a horrible idea. That someone was going to get hurt - or that there was something on that boat...or no way to get to it.

"We will need to learn the boat conjuring spells" she spoke her tone calm suddenly "after all there might be no way to get onto the boat - and I surely don't want to swim in the lake to the boat...not with Grindylows, the squid, and the merpeople" and there her less brave-side shown through but her inquisitive side was still winning out. It always did.

Ginger rolled onto her back on Simon's lap pawing the air slowly, my turn she flipped onto all fours once more, and crawled forward. Slowly she began to rub her head against him, his legs, his stomach...and soon higher. Gently sticking out her claws she hooked onto his shirt and climbed upwards.

Finally stopping when she was sitting on his shoulder. Where she squirmed forward rubbing her little wet nose against his neck. Yes she was trying to return the favor of his petting her. By not only rubbing against him but slightly scenting him saying he was her friend.

This silenced Ella for a few minutes.. SCARY? Ella looked at him.
Looks like he's about to have a fit.. she leant over the table and put some more potatoe on his plate.
'Try not to kill this one?' Her eyes fell onto his floppy hair. And he called her scary? She was just loud!
She covered her mouth as she smiled, her eyes bright and excited again.
'Yeah. I'm a girl.' She took her hand away from her mouth, openly grinning at him now. 'I thought I would come and talk to you, instead of shouting across the table like a total lunatic..' Even thought she pretty much knew he already thought of her as a lunatic...

Matt sighed, folding his arms across his chest in defiance. Sure he'd just made a complete fool of himself in front of his housemates, but he was still cool. He was smoooooth. Well, he liked to think so. But his nerves, damp sleeve and mashed potato covered right-hand didn't exactly agree with him... "Try not to kill this one..." he muttered in a stupid voice, taking the mick, a scowl set firmly in his features.

"You are a lunatic... he said, peering at her critically from beneath his fringe. "A scary lunatic." He leant forward, shoulders hunched, fingers quivering and shoved a spoonful of his new mashed potato down his throat. *NOM* He chewed it angrily. *NOMNOMNOM*

Ella raised her eyebrows. So he can talk can he?
'It's not my fault you've spilt your drink and killed your potatoe!'

Oooh. This one had an attitude! Passing her hand over her hair again, Ella's eyebrows raised. 'A scary lunatic?' Pausing, Ella thought about this 'insult'.. 'I've been called worse.' Giggling Ella watched him eating his potatoe. 'People'll just think your amusing now.. not a moron!' Watching carefully, Ella waited for the next explosion. They made her even more determind to talk to him, even though he was clearly just going to keep on throwing insults at her.. She'd had 'scary' and 'lunatic' .. any more? Eyes narrowing again, Ella waited.

"Well, you were the one who 'graced me with your presence'!" He scowled. "You knew I was freaking out. You did that waggly-wave on purpose!" He jabbed her shoulder with his spoon. Haahaaa, her shoulder was dotted with potato now. ..But if he hadn't known any better, the gesture could've be seen as teasing...The corners of his mouth had turned upwards slightly, after all. He was..grinning? AHH. NO. DO NOT LET YOUR GUARD DOWN, MATTHEW. His grin was instantly replaced with a defiant frown, and he turned back to his plate. He wanted to just shove his face in it, sink down into its potato-y depths. Potato Land would be so much better than where he sat now.

"Pfft." he rolled his eyes. "Moron?" He cocked an eyebrow. "You. Are a bum." Setting his jaw, he desperately removed the glint from his eye.

A grin slowly spread across her face as once again, one of her eyebrows raised. Brushing the potatoe off, she flicked it back at him. HAHAHAH. She won again!
'your meant to eat the potatoe, moron!.' Emphasising the last word she sat up straighter.

HA!He had smiled! She had seen it! He thought she hadn't, but she had! Mwahahaha! [B]'If I'm a bum, your an even bigger MORON! She kept repeating the word.. she liked that word.

Moron.. Moron.. MOOOORON!

Matt shrugged. "You're right...Can't believe I wasted my perfectly good potato on you." He shot her a look, flinching as she flicked the mashed spud back at him. "O." He reached out, dipping his index finger into the icing of the cupcake Ella'd given him earlier, as a peace offering - it hadn't really worked out - before dolloping the bit of icing onto the tip of her nose.

"Well then you're the biggest bum in the entire universe. You're the size of the sun." He puffed out his cheeks, lips pursed, eyes bulging. Haaa, he was acting like a complete and utter prat.

Eh. It was fun.
Not that he liked her or anything...She was scary.

"I am jealous that you got to practice magic over the summer," Kurumi frowned. She wished that her family, well, her mother was more understanding about who she was and that her father wasn't such a stickler for the rules. "The only magical training I got were lessons from my father to help me control..." she leaned in and lowered her voice. "...my abilities..."

Hugo knew what she was talking about, right? She had begun to lose track of how many people she had sworn to secrecy about it. Perhaps she should take Lexi's advice to heart and just come out with it. Go to class one day with bright orange hair or something.

"I don't think the Ministry officials that have been at the school have been all that bad," she said frowning a bit. "Mr. Ikenna really helped me out while he was here. I-I'm a little sad that I do not see him sitting at the staff table to be honest." Lord Borr, on the other hand, she wasn't all THAT disappointed. She was pretty sure that the man had wanted to swallow her when he had eaten all her cookies.
"Cookie magic...right," Kurumi giggled taking another sip of pumpkin juice when...

...she began coughing and hitting her chest to make the darn stuff go down. Her eyes flashed to Selina and she shook her head as she continued to choke on her pumpkin juice.

"Father has been helping ME with MY studying," she corrected as she continued to shake her head.

Ariadne was surprised how many people were approaching her at Hogwarts, maybe she was more interesting than she thought of herself. Smiling in return, she spoke with a slight Yorkshire accent: 'Hi, Tayla, nice to meet you. I am Ariadne, but you can call me Ari. Gosh, I don't know how many times I said this today, I really must find a new way to introduce myself, this is getting boring.' the girl chuckled.

'Happy to be a Gryffie?' she asked. 'I liked the feast very much, but now I'm feeling exhausted, all I wish is to be led to our Common Room.' Ariadne confessed. 'The Prefects are supposed to take us there, right?'

Ariadne thought the train ride had been very long, so she giggled a bit when Fee said it had passed quickly for her. Maby older students were so used to it that the length of the journey didn't bother them. Or maybe Ari just didn't like trains. 'It was ok, I sat with some friends I've also met on Diagon Alley, they shared their sweets with me, it was lovely of them, since I had forgotten to pack any food.' the girl confessed.

Ari wasn't very fond of hugs at first, but after she met Fee and Melina, she found herself giving big bear hugs daily.Ariadne realized sometimes hugs could express what words couldn't. 'I don't know yet, I'll just keep it in my room till I come up with a brilliant idea to use it.' she replied. 'Unless you have a suggestion?' she raised an eyebrow.

'Oh, that's cool. Did you visit anything?' the tiny traveller in her asked. 'I love travelling, but I've only been around Europe so far. What country do you enjoy going to the most?' the girl wanted to know. 'Thanks, I wanted him to have a Greek name, just like mine.' Ari explained in a very serious tone. 'Pygmy Puffs are adorable...And an owl...I haven't got one, I suppose I'll be fine using the school ones.'


Ariadne wondered why Matt's mum didn't like talking about the Wizarding World, but didn't know how to ask withous sounding terribly impolite, so she decided not to feed her curiosity on that any more. 'Maybe she's an Unspeakable, only they like to keep everything secret.' the girl pondered. 'The wizarding world is indeed fascinating.' she nodded. 'But living on a farm must have its perks too, I bet you're healthier and more down-to-earth than most people here.' Ariadne added.

'Half-Blood, but I grew up in the Wizarding World, only with my Pureblood relatives.' she replied. 'But my mum made sure I got enough edducation about Muggles, and I befriended many of our Muggle neighbours.' Ari explained. 'Durmstrang? As in Eastern Europe? So far from home...I wouldn't have liked to go that far.' she mused. 'Did your mum go to Hogwarts too in her time or are you the very first of your family to study here?' she wondered.

'Thank you, I appreciate that. I will tell you eventually, it's not like it's a state secret.' the first year Gryffindor chuckled.

Krissa shot a disparaging glance at two first years who were being incredibly and obnoxiously loud down at the other end of the table. "Could you two keep it down?" She asked, her voice rough, "Please." She added as an afterthought. There, that was nice right? Probably not. Oh well. Stupid first years needed to learn that there was other people in the room than just them. She took another bite of her bread as she rolled her eyes.

"Well I could help you with spells an stuff. I'm good at those….well, sometimes I am." Cove told Nika. "Why do you say that, Nika? Is there something wrong?"

Selina laughed at Kyle's complete regard for the rules and thorough study. She did admire her for her thirst to prepare for their mission on the boar, but Selina was a Gryffindor through and through. She was not one to prepare when she did something it was sporadic and impatient, "I'm a Gryffindor. My patience is not one of my better qualities. We are better known for our random adventure and on the spot thinking. So this whole study thing is new to me."

Ella went cross eyed as she tried to look at the icing on her nose. Stretching her tounge out she tried to lick it off. It failed.
'Well I can't believe I wasted that cake on you! Your wasting it!' She was tempted to just smush it in his face. Hehe, smush

But she didn't.. instead she wiped the icing off her nose and ate it. Sticking her tounge out at him, she licked her finger clean. 'Biggest bum in the entire universe? Wow, great comeback!' She stuck her tounge out again. Meh.

Ella rolled her eyes right back at her. 'Sorry!' She called over at the girl. raising her eyebrows slightly she turned back around. She was sick of being thought as a silly first year! Eurgh..

Braeden The Super Braeman(!) smiled and gave a slight shrug as Emma thanked him for his earlier words. No need to thank him, though, he was just being honest. He was glad he could say something that meant a lot to her, though. It was flattering. Awwwww, and then she was blushing when he agreed to their 'date'. He would've teased her about it, but the Braeman is too nice to tease someone as sweet as Emma. Teasing Riley over the train was fine. But teasing Emma? Nahhh.

"Oh good, so no cruel, harsh, unusual punishment for being a bad student and not practicing?" asked the boy with a lopsided grin, looking honestly relieved. As if Emma would seriously even consider hurting him. Pssshhh.
Hmm. Well, she was a Malfoy. You never know. Either way, the boy was glad that she took it well and had agreed to continue coaching him on the magical sport. Cheers to that!

And then, out of nowhere and completely unexpectedly, the pretty blonde girl was asking him when his birthday was. Surprised, Braeden allowed his dark eyebrows to go up to his hairline. "October twenty-first," he replied simply with a smile. Hmmmmmm, what did she want to know his birthday for…? GASP. What if she had a surprise for him, or something?! "What about you? When's your birthday?" he asked curiously.

So this girl was gonna have an attitude. Who was she anyways? Some eleven year old. She had been the one being obnoxious, not Krissa. Krissa had simply asked her, at least relatively nicely, to stop. She scowled.

Ella saw her scowl over. Whoops.. She hadn't been loud on purpose..
Ella turned around.. she'd probably end up getting her wand stuck up her nose. Maybe I'll be staying out of her way.. clearly Ella irriated her.. quite a lot.

Rosemary simply raised an eyebrow at all this whilst Sienna got her attention from her friend. Being only a few months old, she needed a lot of care.

Matt shrunk down in his seat, his cheeks turning a bright fire engine red. He sniffed, before saying in barely a whisper "Sorry..." Older girls were even scarier...

There was something seriously wrong with this one. He shook his head, trying to make sense of every mental thing that'd happened that day - all these girls..his head hurt, he wanted his bed; he looked a bit like a wet dog, shaking his head back and forth. He stopped and frowned. "You're mental." He must've seemed mental too. Or, as Ella'd put it, a moron. Bit harsh... He was usually a lot more contained and controlled than this... That was, when there was no female company around. But now, they seemed to be everywhere. "And to be honest, I think wasting that cake was totally worth it." He smirked, twiddling his fork.

"Shut up." he said, scowling. He'd never been good at comebacks..He'd been brutally battered by his brothers, and now it seemed Ella already had the upper hand. To be honest, that'd been one of his best.

Rosemary leaned slightly to Matt, "Want my advice.." She whispered. "Ignore her...." She added before leaning away from him again before letting Sienna have some of the scraps she left for her.

Aww now she had scared some kid. Krissa felt bad... well kinda bad at least. "It's fine." She said, "Carry on with your business... just a bit quieter might be nice." Those Durmstrang kids must have started to rub off on her if she was this annoyed by two excited little kids.

Emma beamed him a smile and took a deep breath in, to prevent herself from turning even more red. Her brown eyes looked up at the ceiling for a brief second before meeting his warm brown eyes again. She smirked. Cruel Punishment? Well.. Well.. Well.... "Well Super Braemen, if you truly insist. A cruel and evil punishment..... Oh the choices.." she said, dramatically. Muahahaa.. Evil music.. "Your punishment is having to be put up with me." she exclaimed, winking at him. "That's a wicked punishment." The blonde laughed. Truly, hanging out with a Malfoy could be disasterous.. right?

The Quidditch-obsessed Malfoy watched her handsome friend's eyebrows raise quickly. October the 21st? Man that was close! She'd have to get him something for being a good student. "Wow! That's close. How old will you be? Sixteen? My birthday's July 11th. Summer baby! " she exclaimed happily. Yeah, twenty days before Harry Potter, which her great grandfather was not too happy about. Anyone born in July got the evil eye from great grandad. Luckily grandfather Draco was more lenient. Phew!

Ella scowled. Bleurgh, great.. now he'd gone all serious 'cause he'd got told to shut up by a Fourth Year..
She picked up the cake. She smiled. 'Well I take it you don't want it then?' She stood up and put it in her mouth. Humph! Turning around she walked away.

Now she was worried. Ella couldn't help the way she was.. being with five older boys all her life was totally part of it. Munching on the cake she went to find Nika.. she didn't like it when people suddenly turned on her.

"Well, still exciting even if you didn't find them," Chris said, ignoring her friend's obvious apprehension as she trailed off. "Agreed. Last year just didn't sit well with me I guess. Not a good year." Then there were the things Chris herself didn't want to mention. Leaving Hogwarts last year, no matter for how short a time, was the stupidest thing she'd ever done. Period.
"I'm really looking forward to runes. It was my favorite class..." and the thing she missed the most.

Chris shivered, not wanting memories of leaving to come back again. She looked over at Witsy, who was happily eating. Chris grinned wildly and leaned over when her friend wasn't paying attention, taking a huge bite of the moon-shaped pastry in her hand. "Mmmmm! This is great!" she mumbled with a full mouth.
"I would, but my schedule's crazy. I can't make that kind of commitment quite yet," Chris said sadly. "You?"