“Well, let’s see,” Melchior said as he grabbed one of the serving spoons, taking a small scoop of the food, and placing it onto his plate. He looked at the casserole.
“Must be a beef, corn, noodle casserole,” said Melchior. Hogwarts had some peculiar food. He then picked up his fork and took a bite, noting the anomalous taste.
“It isn’t bad, you should try some,” he said taking another bite.

Mickey walked over to the slytherin table once she re-entered the hall from her trip of getting lost looking for the Hufflepuff dorms. Figuring that everyone would be in the hall eating she went looking for Fai. Seeing a few first years who might know where she was. "Hi, do you mind if I join you for a minute or two? I'm waitin' for my friend." She said to the boy infront of her.

Alright, so Mia left Marie at the 'Puff table and Matty still hadn't shown up so now here she was, heading back over to her own table. The very table that had already lost them house points. This did NOT please Marie at all. She was going to have to have a talk with those friends of hers who seemed to be over there in the middle of all that drama that had been taking place when Lafay was there.

Spotting Evelyn and Destiny... who Mia was now with, Marie started to make her way towards them. Getting distracted though she didn't quite make it there.

Spotting the new guy sitting alone she went and sat next to him instead of her friends. Well someone had to welcome him to Slytherin. Might as well be her. "Hello, welcome to Slytherin." Yes, she knew he was new to their house and school. She had seen him get sorted not so long ago.

Indya squeezed herself onto the end of the long bench. It looked like everyone else had already started eating. Despite being a Slytherin, and coming from a long line of Slytherin's she was so shy when it came to big groups of people and just wished she could run away and hide from all these people.

Sarah laughed as Melchior dissected the casserole, then she spooned some onto her own plate. She took a bite with a clean fork filched from Melchior, and chewed thoughtfully. "You know," she said after swallowing, "you're right, it does taste pretty good." she laughed, well, you learn a new thing everyday right?

Having drunken his glass of water, João was onto looking through the sky. Sure, the ceiling was really impressive, but... he shrugged. As it was the usual in this island, the weather was again cloudy, and not much could be made out. He shrugged to himself again. Hearing a voice so close, he lowered his gaze on the source of it and saw a pretty girl welcoming him to the house. She was older, surely, but she was still pretty and a little bit of flirting didn't hurt. He smiled politely, taking the last sip from his glass before answering.

"Obrigado," he said in Portuguese, thanking her. "I'm João Neves, for your sake." For the sake of her to remember his name after tonight as well.

"And you are?"

Even with her boyish demeanor and looks, Eris' cheeks tinted profusely. "Oh! Merlin, I'm sorry...." she had to stop herself from letting out a chuckle embarrassed at her own mistake on his year. She then felt a brief wonder in his latter statement.

"But what if a girl is born in your family who doesn't like knowledge?" If this was even possible, it could be genes within his family that caused this. She frowned though, most people here had family within their own house...yet her only she had no Hogwart's attended relatives that belonged to the noble house of Slytherin.

"I am very much enjoying the meal though thank you" she beamed as she had recently been brave enough to try a roll before engulfing the other platters since the silverware fiasco. "Was it like this last year...?" she asked in earnest curiosity more than small talk. "The silverware thing that is..."



Sitting quite comfortably and with a nod of her head in approval as she glanced down at the shining silverware, Eris decided to no longer hesitate with using the brand new utensils to bridge the desired gap between her plate and a hunger that had been carried around with her since the train ride.

Every witch and wizard seemed to have finally made it to their seat, or to the seat of another house, quite happily with mild conversation everywhere.This was all going to be her home now for seven years was the thought that passed through her mind as her eyes traced the Great hall from the shadows on the castles wall’s to the people around her. Her blueish-grey eyes traced back a few spots as she had past over a familiar face who had just walked up to the table with a look that seemed like contentment.

The boy from the platform!

Eris made her way over to the boy who had just sat down a little ways away from her with interest, before wrapping him in a split second, but excited hug, as she was about to burst out with a spheel of being in Slytherin or what not. Though, she got distracted as she looked down at his arm, which was the real purpose she had made the particular journey from her spot in the table, to his.

“Did you manage to find the healer to fix your arm,João ?” the small witch asked in curious earnestly. The train had been so crowded she couldn’t be sure he could have found the lady easily; and a whole train ride with a hurt arm sounded just about as fun as playing leap frog with unicorns.


"I understand that" Eris gave a laugh, "My mum seems obsessed with it...I don't get the big deal though..."

"My dad was a Ravenclaw...so I'm sure he rooted for that..." Eris replied slowly and a bit thoughtfully. Her father would never come out and directly say that of course, to him she could be anything. Or at least that's what she thought.

"I have yet to hear about the house of Gryffindor...." Eris added, as she had learned about pretty much every house but the one that sported red and gold.

Aurora smiled, here was some new friend material... she wondered momentarily whether Gwen would be any good at potions...

Why would you need Dementors..? "Well, they're prison guards aren't they, I mean, they guard some of the most dangerous wizards around... So, you know, we just do. And it's better to make use of them rather than let them go around freely sucking out peoples souls..." she said, she'd never really thought about it in depth before. It was just one of those facts you accepted and got on with your life. "Oh no, I don't think they've ever had to come here... maybe once or twice in the old times and during the great war and stuff. But I don't think they've been here since..."

Aurora looked at Gwen... "What's a commune..?" she asked, scrutinising the girl. "Oh, no, we don't go to Limerick very often. We have a cottage in Dublin though." she added. Yes. Dublin, London, Cologne, Berlin, Paris and, of course, the family Manor. But most of them were also used by the extended family... so they didn't technically own them exclusively... But they used them a lot...
"Well... I guess I used to be a snob... but I've kind of grown up. I think Mother might have a heart attack if I brought home a mud-" she stopped herself. "Um, muggleborn boyfriend but I'm kinda growing up a bit I think, it doesn't bother me." she said, shrugging. Yeah, she would probably never entirely throw off the prejudices that had been hammered into her since birth but she was definitely trying her best.
Aurora nodded, "Yeah... my sister is having twins... I pity her... Though I doubt they'd be crazy, Tiff went to Durmstrang, her kids will probably be very disciplined." she said, chuckling ever so lightly. "Well... I guess. Though my brother's always there if I need him so I'm not a proper only child. It feels like it at the moment though..." What with Krys being ill and all...

"They live in the Kitchens... they get to eat." Aurora said, shrugging. "You kind of get used to them being around. You'll have to come and visit one summer, our House Elves are almost invisible a lot of the time. You don't even notice they're there." she added. Yeah, House Elves were something she took for granted, like, a lot. She'd never had to live without them before and wondered what it was like having to do all your own washing, cleaning and cooking... not that she ever would... when her parents died she'd have enough money to buy out NASA, let alone have her own house elf...

She pondered for a moment before saying "Yeah, I guess that's sensible. I mean, I was homeschooled before I came to Hogwarts so I suppose I never had to think about practice..." Yeah, Helga wouldn't have let her come unprepared... Aurora glanced up at the Staff Table again; when was Tate going to make his speech? She was so hungry!

Angelina listen as Gwen told her about her family and what house they wanted her to go into when she replied, "Yeah for me, I had brothers and sisters in ever house, and my parents were in Slytherin, so it was bound I'd be anywhere," All her brothers and sisters never thought anything different from one being a Hufflepuff to one being a Ravenclaw, it never really mattered between them...

"oh, is it nice in Limerick?" Angelina was all fascinated with places in England.



Angelina was looking around at her new house table, and saw a boy walk over and sit down, he was all alone, so she thought she would just get up and talk to him. Angelina walked over to him and said, "Hi, I'm Angelina," She smiled to him while she said this as well.

Obri... what?

Marie had NO idea what this guy had just said to her.

She looked at him with a rather confused look. "Umm... I really have no idea what you just said." Nice first impression Marie. Let the guy know what an idiot you are.

"I'm confused Marie Salazar. Seventh year. Nice to meet you Joe" Okay, so he didn't ask her year but eh, might as well get that out of the way.

"Well... Finally the dishes are done! That will be a memory of our first night in Hogwarts then! That and we are already -12 points." Scarlett rolled her eyes looking at the house points at the very front of the Great Hall. She wondered also when they would be wandering off to the common rooms for some sleep.

Melchior looked at the girl. “No problem,” he said. He then patted the seat next to him. “You can sit here.”

“Hey!" he chuckled playfully. "That was my fork!” Sarah was a very humorous girl. He then took a new fork from an empty spot, and took another bite of his casserole.
“So Sarah, how did you figure out you were a witch?”

Victoria looked over to a guy sitting not so far away from her. He seemed to be in deep in some thought...he's not so happy from the look of it. Victoria almost thought of leaving him alone until she realized that this may be an opprotunity for more friends. "Hi there." said Victoria, what she hoped was that she said that cheerfully. Though, that don't always turn out to what she hoped.

"You're whole family have attended Hogwarts?" asked Victoria, interested. "How old is Hogwarts? It seems to be thousands of years old by the look of it." Victoria said as she looked around the Great Hall once more. All the dazzling decorations blocked most of the cracks and stains on the walls. Even the table looked ancient. But Victoria didn't mind it a single bit. She thought that it made Hogwarts more...mysterious.

Victoria nodded slowly. There were quite a few people going up to the Staff Table. She can be sure that the professors don't bite. William didn't mention anything about the professor being mean. Thank Merlin.

João was now examining the ceiling, and so he didn't notice the little girl approaching him. He was content in his corner, examining and occasionally adoring the Hall's design. It was a magical place, definitely, although the schools of Italy and Spain had also been nearly perfect. They weren't this--

"O que você está fazendo?" he questioned the attacker, his voice echoing through the hall. First the danger of dying because of dirty plates, now this shameful attack--wait, after jumping a good one metre back from the offenser, he got to take a better look at her and...

"Eris!?" That was both a reprimand and a surprise, although the latter was stronger. "What are you doing?" No one, NO ONE up until this moment had shown him any signs of friendship and NO ONE had EVER dared hugging him, except for his girlfriends, of course. Clearly he had been too soft to the girl, maybe as a result of Louisa's presence there. Sure, he liked having little students adoring him and whatnot but HUGGING and HUMILIATING him in the middle of the whole school was just too much.

His features softened as he got over the first shock and upon hearing her pronounce his name perfectly. Now, maybe for that, she deserved a hug. It wasn't his fault, after all, if he influenced people so positively, no? He even offered her a tiny smile, before he explained: "I fixed it myself." Just like that.

"I see you're in Slytherin." One more point for her.

Of course she had no idea what he had just said. NO ONE 'round here seemed to have visited Portugal even for one bloody hour, because then they would have at least heard Obrigado. With an INNER sigh, he said "It means 'thank you' in Portuguese." And that was the end of his small gestures in Portuguese. If no one understood them, it was time wasted.

...

... ... did she just say Salazar? Now, finally someone worthy of giving his full attention. For this time, he could even overlook her small mistake of nicknaming him 'Joe'. They had just introduced themselves, and such small mistakes could be forgiven.

"You can call me Marcelo too, if you want. That's easier." So, there, he would show he didn't enjoy nicknames with a small correction. Hopefully, she was at least half as clever as her beauty to get it.

"I'm a fifth year." Pause. "Salazar, have you said?" Could you elaborate on that?

Hearing a cheerful voice, he turned towards that direction to see another blond girl adressing him. Usually, they said the blond gene was recessive, but apparently it wasn't so among the wizards, or in England in general. "Hello," he said merely, turning to examine a gold cup now. Looking at her one more time as if inviting her to go on, he wondered how people were also so... outgoing in here. It was to the point of silliness; one could never know who to trust.

Wonder if she knows any Portuguese.

" Do not give my year another thought, it is ok with me" William told Eris.No problem if a girl is not in RavenClaw or a boy is not in Gryffindor, we are still family and hope they do the best for their house in all their endeavors" Willaim explained to Eris. " Nah, we would disown them" William laughed. " I am just teasing you about the disowning" William said to Eris. The meals are always great" Willaim smiled."Actually last year, there had been a mysterious pirate ship that cocked near HogWarts and maybe a couple of professors had beeen kidnapped from here, but we had good professors from the ship anyway if they did come from the ship" Willaim explained to Eris. " Just always be on your guard here" William smiled.

" Hogwarts is very ,very, very, very, very old" Willaim told Victoria." My whole family has attended HogWarts and there are more starrs and Weasleys to come here" William said to Victoria. " My cousin Victoria Trigwell just married Jason Potter Weasley a few weeks ago" Wilaim smiled. " Jason's grandmother is Hermoine( Grainger) Weasley, grandfather os Ron Weasley, his cousins are Harry Potter, his wife ,Ginny( Weasley) Potter, his mother is Orinda( Potter ) Evans, his father Hugo Evans, but his last name is Weasley because he protected the Weasley castle from the Deatheaters" William explained the other part of his family history to Victoria." Actually, I like this porofessor whose last name is Lafay, she is the potions or charms professor, they call her something like the " devil lady" William warned Victoria.

"My dad says they're really brave. They also seem to dislike Slytherins. My mum said that's a load of rubbish and that Gryffindors and Slytherins are more alike than people realize. She says that the founders of those two houses were best friends. Of course, my dad argued with that.' Alice blushed and realized she had been rambling.

"Do you know anything about Hufflepuffs?" she asked, trying to let Eris speak.

Victoria became a bit annoyed when the guy started starring at a stupid gold cup. Well... "I'm Victoria." said Victoria, not that cheerful anymore. She's not mad at him for not saying anything. She's not sure what she's feeling. Victoria guessed that maybe she doesn't like to be ignored by anyone. Even if the guy didn't mean to ingnore her after just after one 'hi' because he was so interested in the gold goblet. Still, it made Victoria feel being ignored.

Victoria became fascinated and confused about William's family tree. Victoria begin to feel dizzy all over again....wait...did he say Harry Potter? Isn't he the famous boy who lived or something like that? And Ron! And Hermione! Aren't these two his best friends or something? "Wow! You have a very interesting family tree there." said Victoria excitedly. Think! A whole family of famous wizards and witches.

Victoria widened her eyes as William mentioned the school professors. "Lafay?" Victoria said curiously. "Yeah, I heard some of the people talk about her on the train." Funny how Victoria actually remembers something from the train ride! "You like her? But you said people called her 'Devil Lady'!"

"I know!" Eris gave a happy laugh as she glanced back over to the hat before clucking her tongue. "I wonder how long this dinner will last...." she continued forking at her food, wanting more than anything to see the Slytherin common rooms.[/QUOTE]

"oh, i know i feel like we've already been here for forever! I wonder what our rooms will look like!"


"I Know already -12 on the first day i wonder what those kids did? it makes me sad i hate that." Ariana was truly mad that her house was already -12 points and they had only been at the school for a few hours

she saw her friend was back, back it is unfair, he was doing his job, she sat down again, she had to be calm, she smiled at him,

Nikolas rolled his eyes at her reply "No, I think I'll stay with that is your fault because you said it before" he was joking around but it was fun to do it with Selena because somehow she actually believed him. "I say thanks to them! But the house elves from here no because I'm new" Get it? N-E-W. How can he say thanks to house elves he didn't knew? It was pointless. So, Miss I-am-so-fabulous was a fifth year too? "So I guess I'll have to deal with your constant imagination everyday then" he commented. Not that it was something bad, just something that doesn't happen everyday.

This was how he expected her to react after calling her with the forbbiden nickname, he better have his wand ready in case she punch him or something worse. He laughed "Easy girl!" trying to calm her down "Alright I'll call you candy hater and that's it" he nodded. No Selena or Sel, for him she would be candy hater whether she liked it or no. Pffft, brooms weren't mean, he frowned "Of course they have to go up high...they are brooms" Obviously. "And no, you have to race against me or else it doesn't count" he had to see her on a broom hehe. She was doing the puppy eyes? Nah sorry girl it doesn't work for him. "Stop doing those puppy eyes, I won't giving in" he shook his head. So, no candy for her? That's weird. She then said she wanted him to do her herbology homework...for two months? He thought it for a minute. It wasn't that bad, but he would have enough with his homework and then with hers. Hmmm..."Okay, deal!" who cares? anything for seeing her on a broom and besides he will win.

Now let's keep going with her big imagination. He kept nodding when she said people weren't amazing as her "Yeah I see. No one has so many random ideas at once" he replied. No one except her. Now she was explaining how she would go to Pluto. Did she knew Pluto was like light years from here? I guess she didn't "Have you thought that it would take years and years to get there?" Pluto wasn't around the corner, if for the moon have took a while to get there how can you imagine for Pluto?, but for her everything was possible. At the comment of the polar bears, his eyes widened. Didn't she knew that? Merlin, he would have to teach him a lot of things "Of course they have" What do you thought there were? Besides Santa and house elves. "And they are big, really big so I guess you should worry more about them than Santa"

She could pout everything she want but both knew he was more awesome. "I'm not lying, and that is what hurts you most because you know it is true! I am more awesome" Ha!

It was obvious this was cheating with or without rules. Well, for him it was. "Since it is my game, I say it is cheating" he frowned. "Now stop holding him or no chocolate bar for you"

He WILL seat with his friends. Okay....maybe he didn't have that enough friends but he have made friends during the summer. The thing was...he couldn't find them. This was great. He wouldn't admit it so instead he kept joking around "Nah, I think I'll stay with you" he nodded "Ahh I see the reason you came here" he felt like a imaginary lightbulb went on in his head "Youu..." he said pointing at her "Felt lonely and knew I'll be here " because he was the only one she knew "So, you could stay here. Now everything is clearer" besides she wanting to be here with him. Because she DID wanted. Or to see boys.

Now back to the guy's numbers, how come she have gotten three numbers already? Hmm...maybe she asked them? Ha! she might have so he can be jealous but no he wasn't. Or maybe they gave it without being asked? However, he Nikolas Agger would not show any kind of jealousy towards it. If he could he would have set the papers on fire, but that would have being to obvious of being jealous and no, he was not going to show any weak spots. So, instead he congratulate her because it was something she didn't expected.

Free to decide on whoever to date? No if you have a big brother like Nikolas. "You are wrong, since I am your big brother I have to set you limits" he crossed his arms "So no dates and start studying better" yeah, because study was more important than boys. "Leaving so fast? Why? you mad because of my decision?" he smirked "Your parents should be glad that you have a brother here to protect you" Mhm, because without him she would be failing every class and flirting with every guy.

[QUOTE=PhoenixAuror169;10612042]After getting to know some fellow Puffs, at the Badger table, Amethyst strolled gracefully over to the Slytherin table. She wanted a diverse group of friends, and felt it nessesary to introduce herself to anyone who'd welcome her. She was a bit nervous, not all Snakes were evil, she knew this. Two of her close friends were in Slytherin. She first, looked to see if Sarah and Lana had gotten a warm welcome. She'd met another Slytherin, Angelina. She was nice like Sarah and Lana.[/QUOTE

"Hi!I`m Kelsey!!What`s your name?"

ooc:sorry for double posting

Zhenya thought about that for a moment.. "We're close, yes, but now that he has a girlfriend he isn't at home as much. We don't spend as much time together," she explained.

"Wow, what's it like not living with any males? And where abouts do you live?"


Zhenya just noticed another girl sitting close to her, who pulled out some parchment, a quill and some ink. She didn't want to bother her from writing, but she wanted to get to know more Slytherin first years - like she.

"Excuse me, I just wanted to introduce myself. I'm Zhenya," she said, hoping the girl wouldn't mind the interruption.


Zhenya noticed another person. This time she just wanted to see the girl, who looked very shy, just talk. So, Zhenya thought she might introduce herself to another first year.

"Hi," she said loudly - over all the racket. "I'm Zhenya," she introduced herself.

Ugh, as if she hadn't already made a bigger fool of herself. First on feeling absolutely disgusted for drinking tainted, rusty, and whatever that made the drinking water brown on her tongue.

As soon as Professor Lafay was done declaring the student's punishment Kimalia face palmed in disappointment. Of course, speaking up would come at a price. Already her name was on top of the board, but in the negatives, and all on the same night, never mind the other two losing more points, she was still part of it. She was indeed lucky she avoided detention. Hopefully her parents won't be sending a howler her way.

Seeing Professor Lafay like that made her even more concerned, she wasn't angry by choice, no she must be angry that her beloved house had made a mockery under her direction and was already in the negatives.

Scourigifying all the remaining plates, utensils and goblets nearby Kimalia took a swig of her pumpkin juice to settle herself. Juice makes me happy, yes. But she wasn't going to showcase much smiles, in case the Professor would come back and hand her detention for being too happy for losing points.

Admitting failure and owning up to wrongdoings just weren't two things Sierra was used to. Or comfortable with, for that matter. Her summer had been, for the most part, a terrible one, though; and it had taken her down a notch or two in the meantime. At this moment, she slightly resembled a beaten down horse that just kept getting kicked over and over again. When it would all stop, Sierra had no idea, but she hoped it was soon.

Hogwarts had been the one place she thought she could run to in order to escape the nightmare that had become known as reality. But no. Her own housemates were turning on her now, and she was starting to feel that returning was one huge mistake. She happened to look up and catch Kimalia's gaze, and she sat staring at her fellow third year for a few seconds. Then, just before she looked away, she gave the girl the tiniest of smiles. It was all she was capable of doing at the moment, but it would do for now.

Whatever. Truth be told, Sierra had only apologized because Lafay had shown up. Had that not been the case, ...well, who knew what would've happened. She glared at the girl in return and mentally began making plans to have a run-in with this girl at some point in the very near future.

Sierra released a barely audible gasped and then turned sharply toward her Head-of-House. Five points? ... Seriously? It wasn't the five points that bothered Sierra but rather a variety of other things she neither wanted to think about or speak about at the moment. It all went back to that feeling Sierra currently had where she felt that everyone around her was steadily kicking her despite the fact that she was at her lowest of lows.

She just looked at Lafay for a few seconds, her brown eyes staring directly into her Head-of-House's eyes, and then she looked down again. Did she still have to report directly to the woman's office as soon as the feast was over? She decided that it was best not to ask and to just show up as she'd been told.

Wow, kid. Way to stretch the truth...

Sierra didn't look up at her, though. The world was against her at the moment, and she felt that looking down was her safest bet for now. Seriously, though? Threw a tantrum? Threw gum everywhere? As far as Sierra remembered, she'd only had words with Tori, and then she'd thrown the gum directly at it's true owner, who'd been standing directly in front of her.

She sighed. There was no use defending herself now. She just needed some time, and then...maybe, the world would be on her side again.