Ravenclaw Common Room
 

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The Ravenclaw common room is a wide, circular room at the top of the seventh floor. Graceful arched windows punctuate the walls, which are hung with blue-and-bronze silks. During the day, Ravenclaws have a spectacular view of the surrounding mountains. Overhead, the ceiling is domed and painted with stars, which are echoed in the midnight-blue carpet. There are tables, chairs, and bookcases, and in a niche opposite the door stands a tall statue of white marble: Rowena Ravenclaw. A delicate-looking circlet has been reproduced in marble on her head with the tiny words 'Wit beyond measure is man's greatest treasure' etched into the diadem. The statue stands beside a door that leads up to the dormitories above.

Come in, have a seat and make new friends. Welcome to Ravenclaw!

Everyone
 

"They so shouldn't have put a puzzle in our first day.." Louisa stumbled through the hall and had her robes on her shoulder. A messy ponytail and shirt, her skirt was fine though. If anyone looked at her, you'd guess she just fought with her Monster book for CoMC. She yawned and moved forward for the closest couch her eyes caught. "Aaaaaah.. home sweet home." She half-sang half-sighed and threw herself on it, sending her robes on the floor.

How cool was it to be as messy and slobbish as you wanted without a ranting aunt over your head? Exactly! She forgot about her promise to keep her things tidy for the house-elves, specially that her oath was triggered by a book… long time ago, say like two months ago. And a busy girl like her wouldn't remember such silly stuff.

Smiling at the feeling of the cushions against her back and …ahem..chair-area(!), she opened her eyelids slightly and watched the cozy room. It wasn't that cold yet for the fireplace to be on but the sight of it made her feel warm and just want to snuggle. The warm colors, the enchanted ceiling, the view of the sky, the white ferret….
…What?

She straightened herself quickly and looked at the little thing on the floor. "Aaaaaaaaaah!" Screaming as loud as her tired self managed, "A rat's in here!!" She exclaimed moving her feet up to the couch and hugging them tightly. Someone should use some kind of a trick to get this thing out.. QUICKLY!

…Wait.. she's a witch! She can use her wand now only.. where is it? She looked around frantically but nothing. She fell silent and had her both eyes on the little thing just in case it decided to roam around the room and ATTACK her with its claws... who knew where does it hide them?

Everyone and Dallin :)
 

Gavin was impressed by the riddle and hoped he would be able to figure them out throughout the year.

And the Common Room was everything he had imagined and then more. It looked comfortable and homey, and somewhat made him think of his parents' study.

As he looked around, he wondered again where his cat was. He shyly approached the Prefect.

"Excuse me," he said shyly.

She was so much older than him and looked so self assured that he felt intimidated.

"I'm Gavin," he introduced himself, remembering his manners. "I was wondering if you could tell me where my cat is," he asked.

Jacob walked up to Ravenclaw tower. He hadn't eaten that much in 3 months, and now that he did, he had to walk up to the top Towers of the school. This was torture... complete inhumanity. But then again, it was pretty good exercise.

Jacob hit the knocker once, and the eagle spoke.

"What's made of stone, but is soft like a pillow?
Where you can float on top, or dive down in it?
Where you can sink underneath, but it doesn't crush you?"

Jacob's mouth opened and closed continuously, if someone was watching, he might have looked like a fish... "Uh... Sand?" he half said, half questioned. He thought these were usually logic, no actual answer. But obviously the knocker was being sill today.

When the door didn't budge, Jacob gave a small sigh. "Oh come on. Sand. It's made of stone, but it's soft when wet. You can lay on top... or sink underneath." it made sense, didn't it?

At that the door opened. Obviously the door wanted an explanation for his answer... "Darn door. Making things difficult!" he grumbled under his breath

Jacob made his way into the common room, and quickly made his way over to HIS couch. The one he had completely incinerated last term. He sat down, making sure his wand was in its holster and not his back pocket this time. When Jacob sat down, he took off his back pack, for the very first time in hours... He still had no reason to open it. He'd start charming the papers when he gets up to the common room.

Anyone ;)
 

Kyle walked into the Ravenclaw common room, her little kitten Ginger sitting snugly, and happily on her shoulder. Why did I wear heels?[ She thought as she stepped further into the room. She almost looked like a kid wearing their mothers heels for the first time as she walked each step, careful, almost planned out.

But not enough, she never was careful enough. Almost three steps from the couch she was walking to she slipped.

Cursing under her breath she took off the shoes, stood up, and looked around. her face red with embarrassment. She knew someone must have seen that lovely little spill there - she would forever be known as the toppling one. Since after all, she fell all the time.

Running her hand to her shoulder she found Ginger was safely, there.

Ginger cried loudly as Kyle fell, her own fear of getting squashed flashing before her little eyes. She hissed as Kyle tried to check if she was alright.

Looking around the room she hopped off her back with a simple bound she jumped onto the back of the sofa.

Common room! Yay! Hugo took the knocker and knocked. The eagle spoke.
"You are inside a dark room with bloody vibrating walls all around you. Yet, you are at the safest place in the whole world. Where are you?"
Hugo thought for a while. "In the... Heart of your loved one?" he said. "Very well," the eagle said and opened the door.

Yess! The common room. After putting his trunk down in the dormitories, he went to sit down in front of the fireplace and sighed. Loooong day.

Anyone wants to make friends with Ellie?
 

Ellie entered the Ravenclaw common room, surprised that she had had to answer a riddle. This was all a new experience for her.

She sat down on the first empty chair she found and cuddled up to her kitten Nico. She hadn't really made friends with anyone yet and was missing her old friends. Right now she was hating her dad for making her move from America to England.

She wouldn't stay lonely all year though, she had to make some friends at least.

Noel walked into the Ravenclaw common room, wide-eyed as he stared around the circular chamber and tried to absorb everything around him. It was brilliant!

Lowering his eyes from the cieling, he spotted a familiar head of red hair bending over some parchment. Grinning he bounded over to Kana, interrupting her letter without so much as a "sorry". He was waaaay too excited to see her.

"Kana! You're here! We're both in Ravenclaw! This is brilliant! I've missed you! How was the rest of your summer? And oooh Kit's here! Hey Kit remember me?" he asked the ferret, holding out a hand for the little white thing to smell and perhaps decide to wander up.

That's when he heard another voice.

"It's not a rat, it's a ferret!" Noel protested indignantly. That's when he saw the wand in the girl's hand. "Oooh no, put that away, don't hurt her! She's a pet! Don't you dare try and curse her!" he told her. She looked older than him, which meant she could do some serious damage to Kit with that wand. And he didn't want that to happen.

Neither would Kana, he guessed.

But seriously, how could anyone mistake Kit for a rat?!

Stella was sitting on a comfortable blue armchair, looking outside the window bored. She hoping something will happen in the common room. She noticed a girl entering the room, walking slowly and carefully. Stella raised her eyebrow wondering why is the girl walking like that, but it was rather amusing. Just before the girl got the couch she fell, Stella smiled and giggled silently so the girl won't notice her.

"Ar-Are you okay?" she asked with a smile. This year her aim is to be more generous and caring and less egoistic and selfish. She began fiddling with her hair as the girl got up.

Slightly tensed, Louisa glared at the boy who seemed to be willing to jump between the ferret and her readied wand. She kept her feet up but lowered her wand... still clutching it tightly and her white knuckles confirmed how serious she was. "'Kaaaay."

Louisa scanned him from head to toe, he was young.. and so was the girl sitting nearby writing something. "Are you guys first years?" Because if they were, she'd be in a HUGE embarrassing situation and she should look for a justification for her freakout-ish reaction.

"Wow!" was Rachel's first thought at the Ravenclaw common room, it was HUGE! She was egar to make friends, she hoped that it would be soon, she only knew Luna Keirans, and was nervous about meeting others. There were loads of bookcases, which she hoped that she would have read all of them by the end of the school, and it was all decorated in blue and bronze, her favourite colours, she marched oover to a group of other first years she reconized from the sorting, "Hi, my name is Rachel Annabeth Chase, whats yours?" She asked, for some odd reason she always used her full name.

*pretends she was a part of the group*
 

Hateya was pretty much as open-mouth-impressed by the room as the rest of the first years, and didn't really bother trying to hide it. This was where she was going to get to stay all year? Okay, now she could see why people got attached to their houses.

From the corner of her eye, she saw a girl about her age marching over (and was impressed about the marching, as it had been a long day and they'd just come up seven flights of stairs), and waved at her, "I'm Hateya Stern. Have you seen this room?"

Obviously she'd seen the room, but no harm in asking anyway!

"Yeah! Its amazing! Theres so much in here!" she liked this girl, she was really nice, and Rachel wasnt at all surprised that Hateya was also impressed by it, "So Hateya, where do you come from then?" maybe she lived close to where Rachel lived, "Are you muggle born? I am." she told her.

Excitement was definitely infectious. That was for sure. Hateya shrugged at Rachel's question, "Outside London a bit. Surrey." Before, she'd have assumed that everyone knew where that was. Now, with transfer students and all the rest, she wasn't so sure, "How about you?"

She felt a yawn coming on, but kept her lips firmly stuck together. Once the feeling was gone she replied, "No, I've got wizard parents. But hey, do Muggles have jelly beans where you actually know the flavour before you eat them?"

Not that she didn't believe what Conan had told her; she just wanted someone else to say it was true.

Hateya turned to the waving boy... man... almost man... and smiled at him in a way that said 'I have no idea what points are'. Be confident in your ignorance, and someone will correct you faster, right? Or something like that.

"I live on the wirral, near liverpool, yeah, Muggles do have jelly beans like that, I prefere them to Bertie Bots, they are horrible!" Rachel was gobsmacked that she didnt know about proper jelly beans!

"Tsh," Hateya made a dismissive tone and flipped her hand back and forth in the air. "They're not horrible. You just have to pick the right flavours. It's trickier that way."

Plus, she'd sort of never known there was an alternative? She had to admit, it would be strange to pick up a bean knowing exactly what it was going to taste like. In fact, she wasn't sure if she'd trust the description on the package or not.

Okay...so maybe some of the first years didn't know what points were. Finlay hadn't expected that. Umm. He kind of smiled at the young one. "You get points in class, and for doing homework and stuff. There's a competition between the houses, and a cup for whoever has the most points." He explained with a nod. "So....earn lots." Because he totally wanted to win.

Oooh. And these two firsties were talking about Bertie Botts. "I wouldn't let a certain seventh hear you talking that way about her Beans..." Nope. Finlay didn't think that Neptune would be too happy. Her family did own the bean company after all. "I love Bertie Botts..." He continued with a big smile. They were his favorite, and he was glad he was such good friends with Neptune, she got him lots of free beans. "You just have to get used to them..."

Kyle turned to Stella and smiled as she stood up.

"I'm alright - and thanks for asking, I'm just wretched at walking in these" she pointed to the rather uncomfortable shoes. Taking out her wand she quickly smiled. "I don't think I ever officially met you - I'm Kyle Manning" she smiled as she swished her wand and transformed her uncomfortable shoes into a pair of comfy flats. Much better.