The Whomping Willow
 

This. Was. So. Amazing.

It was one thing to read about the most amazing tree, but it was something completely different to see it. A lot of feet away, of course, because Nora also knew what the tree could do, but still.

With her tiny lizard in the pocket of her robes, the girl was slowly approaching the Whomping Willow, but still kept a fair distance between them. But... since catching her attention was not a difficult thing to do, she eventually noticed this slightly familiar boy.

... so why shouldn't she just go and say hi?

"Hello... the one on whose feet I stepped on and I still feel bad about it," she said with a large and cheerful grin on her face, hoping that she wouldn't scare him, because she kind of appeared in front of him all of a sudden.

*waves*
 

The wind blew Jonathan's hair. The weather was cool but not too cold. Sometimes it could be warm but not so hot. Definitely, fall is coming anytime soon and quite frankly, he is just happy that his mother bought him tons of trench coats for fall this summer. Norway is a much colder place, so the coats would definitely be something cozy to be in. And of course, Jonathan loved the fall season.

It may be dark and gloomy but to him it is the most serene season among the four. As much as he doesn't want to do it this term, one of the major reason why he likes fall is that he gets to hibernate. Now, with OWLs and everything in between he can't just hibernate right? That's not the best idea to be doing during fall and don't get him started over winter season. Last term all he did was sleep, he was procrastinating a lot that the only class he manage to complete was Potions.

Fifth year. He's a fifth year already. The least of his worries right now is if his pillow back at the common room is as comfy as it was before. NO. He needs to reassess himself with all this. His father is just expecting too much of him.

Jonathan's thoughts faded as he heard a voice from behind him. He turned his back to see who it was and saw a girl that seemed to be very familiar. New kid that he talked to perhaps, no? Transferred student, no? His expression right now is puzzled. He can't seem to remember her but he does know she is familiar. He has seen of her.... somewhere. Only the name strikes him.

"Uhmm..." he mumbled. he looked in a different direction so that he could at least recall names of people he just met. Think Jonathan... think. He met a lot of people during the feast, unless he met this girl over the summer...

Then that hit him. SUMMER! Yes, he did saw this girl down at Diagon Alley this summer. And she recalled that she stepped on his foot. WHAT? A lot of people has stepped on his lovely foot. Why was that?

Focus. Her name... HER NAME..........
Jonathan is always having one of his pauses everytime he greets a stranger that knows him "--Nora?" he said in slightly confused tone. Now, he can't be sure if that was her real name. Worth a try. Besides, if it was in correct, the girl will just correct him with her exact name.

Danae had been walking back from Herbology when she noticed a boy standing alone by the Whomping Willow, a tree, as it had in Hogwarts, A History had been on the grounds of Hogwarts for more than 100 years.

Hearing an odd sound, Danae wondered if the boy had been smacked because he seemed to have faltered a bit. Walking over quickly, not even thinking of the danger of the plant she asked, "Are you okay?"

Eh. Paulie thought the tree was interesting enough, but it totally just murdered a bird. If he happened to score a date this year, he made a mental note not to set up a lovey-dovey picnic at this spot.

But a voice soon pulled him from any thoughts passing through his mind, and he turned to see a girl. A girl with, like, the best hair he had ever seen. She was a looker. "Me? Oh, yeah.. I just..." He glanced back over to the willow, then back to her. "I don't think that bird is."

For anyone
 

William sits down by the tree. He is waiting dor somone to talk to today.

Anyone...
 

Rose walked up to the Whomping Willow. Obviously not so close, that'd be stupid! And if there's one thing Rose isn't, it's stupid. Sometimes. :D

hey
 

Janice went around Hogwarts Grounds on the first few days after the summer break. Near the whomping willow, she saw Rose.
"Hello..."

'Hey, Janice!' Rose smiled. 'How've you been? I didn't get to see you at the train, we lost you!' Rose laughed.

Janice laughed.
"Yeah, I kinda got lost in the back part of the Train. It was so hectic and everybody's screaming until I can't even find my way to the small bathroom and back. I went into the wrong compartment twice, and fell a lot of times.."

Ouch. That hurt.

Even if it made her feel better when he actually remembered her, it still hurt that it took him so long to remember Nora. See? The common name was to blame. But... did this mean that her face was common as well? Like... that hard to remember?

Alright. Just because she still felt bad about stepping on his feet some time ago at Madame Malkin's, Nora decided to put on that usual smile, and not act as if she was really hurt. "Ten points for Slytherin for guessing my name right," she grinned, marking off the green part of his uniform. Yup, a fellow Slytherin, apparently. "Or make it twelve, so we wouldn't be in the negatives anymore." What happened, anyway? Since she noticed those pretty hourglasses, the Slytherins had minus twelve points. How was that even possible?

It took him a long time to figure out the little girl's name and did she happen to be a Slytherin like himself? He didn't know for sure. He hasn't seen her go by the common room yet and if it were true then maybe Jonathan had already dozed off when she even entered the area. Yes, Jonathan is indeed a fan of sleeping. Always was... always will.

The puzzled look now turned into a smile when the girl joked about giving him 10 points for Slytherin. If only those points were real, then he could really make a great contribution to the house. Jonathan loves earning house points but he seems to be a little bit behind last year. As he said, he was hibernating a lot last year that even thinking of points made him lazier and lazier. But now, he is willing to change that. No more slacking off.

"That's funny" he chuckled when the girl added 2 more, to make it 12 additional points. Speaking of which, those are the exact points they lost over the great hall. Bubble gum incident was it? Jonathan couldn't remember why Slytherin was deducted by the head of the house herself. All he saw was Lafay talking to Sierra, and two other girl and they seemed to be covered in bumble gum or at least Sierra was. Everything just felt blurry to Jonathan right now, He doesn't even know if he saw the scene correctly.

One more thing, "Sorry I completely forgot your name." he truly was. Curse his ability to forget names easily. "I met A LOT of NEW people this summer and your not the only one who stumbled nor stepped on my foot" true, there were a couple of kids who stepped on his foot.

Was that a new trend anyway?

"Bird?" Danae frowned and looked up at the Whomping Willow, not seeing a bird in sight. What sort of animal would be stupid enough to go near a tree so dangerous, surely their little birdie pals would tell them about it.

"I don't see a bird." she shook her head looking at the boy again. Maybe he was in shock over something?

"Did you hit your head or something?" the young girl asked with concern, fighting the urge to play Healer and start feeling his forehead for a temperature.

For Lottie
 

Cassie had no idea why at least once for the first couple of days back at school every new term she had to visit the whomping willow. It was a weird tradition she started back in her third year, but for whatever reason it confirmed her being back...after all nowhere else had a tree that whacked anything that came close to it.

She folded her arms and watched as the tree swayed gently..almost as if it was dancing. It must be in a good mood today or something. It almost made her not want to chuck a rock at it to see how far across the lake it could hit it.

What on EARTH was this?

She was all for nature and stuff but this tree was moving, and not with the wind, it was moving of its own accord. It was certainly a tree she wouldn't find herself hugging.

Approaching it warily, not taking her eyes off of the sweeping branches, Gwen got as close as she possibly could without being too close. She didn't know how much harm it could do to her and she was pretty certain her brothers had never told her anything about this before. As she got closer she noticed an older student stood about the same distance as she was.

"Well that's different" she spoke, almost to herself but hoping the other would hear it. Gwenyth wasn't brilliant at talking to people she didn't know, especially in a strange environment like this.

Cassie turned around not expecting anyone else to be there and saw a girl who she was pretty sure she had never seen before. She didn't look like a first year though so she assumed that she must be a transfer. She held the stone that she was about to chuck at the tree in her hand. Stoning the whomping willow was definitely not a smart thing to do and she didn't want to set a bad example for the younger girl.

She smiled at the girl and nodded, even though she might not have been talking to her."Yeah it is pretty different and violent." She looked at the tree that seemed to be growing more restless now that it had an audience of sorts."I don't think I've ever seen you before today..are you new?" She turned away from the tree now so she could fully face the girl.

"Violent?" the brunette repeated as she stepped closer to the older girl. Violence wasn't something she was used to, in fact it was completed prohibited in her household. She stared up to the top, taking in the entire tree. Yes, definitely something she wasn't going to hug in the future. "I've never seen anything like it" she blinked a couple of times before deciding to edge a few steps further back.

Oh. Well there was the proof that no one knew her and she didn't know anyone else either. "Yes. Third year but I'm new to magic" she smiled weakly and apprehensively. Would people find it weird she wasn't a first year? But she was sure there were a lot of older students that were completely new to magic, she couldn't be the only late developer. "I'm Gwen" she told her moving her eyes back to the girl to speak.

Cassie nodded and looked at the tree again."yeah it's done a lot of damage over the years and have snuffed out quite a few birds too." Poor birds. It was a good thing that the owls were smart enough to avoid the tree otherwise students would have to replace their pets quite often. Despite all that the tree was pretty amazing in it's own right."Well I doubt there's anything quite like it anywhere else."

Cassie was only a little taken aback by her third year late to magic tale. It wasn't completely unheard of, at least not to her. Freddie started in his seventh year and Thomas was a third year now? So yeah she knew a few late bloomers."Oh you are? I know another person around your age who is new to magic too." She smiled at the girl and offered her hand."I'm Cassie."

She sounded skeptical. "Well, uh.." Paulie glanced over his shoulder to see, of course, nothing but the Whomping Willow. She didn't see a bird because he was dead! "Yeah, there was one.. he just, I think he's on the ground, you know? Like, dead."

Merlin's beard, she didn't believe him at all. To top it all off, she thought he was hallucinating! Although.. Maybe he should say he was concussed. Then she might feel bad for him and at least he'd get her to stick around outta sheer pity. Hmmm. "You know... I can't remember," he lied, sneaking a glance at her to see her reaction, and hoping he wasn't too transparent. "You're right.. I might've hit my head or something." He tried to suppress the smile that was twitching at his lips, but the truth was the the boy wasn't exactly the greatest liar. "So.. you wouldn't mind keeping me company until my thoughts come back to me, would ya?"

It killed birds? "Oh those poor things" she spoke sympathetically, glaring up at the tree as if that would give it a big telling off. But it was still a living thing and Ma had always told her to respect nature. Besides the tree probably didn't know what it was doing? Right? Maybe not. It seemed to have a mind of its own after all. "Definitely not in the muggle world" she blinked at the massive club like branches. "The willow doesn't act like this" The normal willow that was. The weeping willow as it was more commonly known.

So it wasn't as shocking as she thought it would have been? "I've met two others, they're both my age" Kinda weird. Maybe thirteen was the typical age for discovering your magic if you weren't born with it? But then she had a hand outstretched to her and so the Brunette took it and shook it. "It's lovely to meet you Cassie" she smiled warily.

Poor things indeed, but you'd think after the birds had seen so many other birds get creamed by the whomping willow they would stop flying so close to it. No such luck, so poor them indeed. the girl seemed a bit upset about the unfortunate fate of the birds but not upset enough to really dislike the tree. She seemed conflicted with her feelings on the matter..perhaps she was a nature lover? It would explain why she came out here to look at the willow."Hardly anything that isn't alive moves in the muggle world. The magical world is so much more exciting and vibrant..." she stopped herself before she went into a rant." [B]Oh we have a few normal ones here as well, but they don't attract quite as much attention as this one."[/B

Two others? Hmm She only knew about Tom and now Gwen, that would make up her two. Perhaps late bloomers were more common than she thought." Really? Is one of them a Thomas Broadmoor? Goes by Broadmoor?" If not then that would take them up to four late bloomers in their their third year. She grinned and shook the girl's hand as well." It's a pleasure to meet you too Gwen, I hope you enjoy your time here at Hogwarts."

" How do you like the Whomping Willow?" Willaim asked the girl. " I am jsut sitting around and enjoying myself" Willaim said to her. " i am not sure id we met, but my name is Willaim Starr" he introduced himseslf to the girl. " Like to sit here with me?" Willaim asked her.

Chloe was standing near the tree she knew not too get too close as it was dangerous so she admirred it from a safe but close distance. She smiled happily to herself as she taught of the Quiddich Try-outs. As she looked around she notice a familar girl. She waved at her "hey" she said kindly

Rosalie walked closer to the girl, "Hey, we shared a compartment on the train! How are you?"

she smiled "yeah we did sorry i left without saying good bye" she said "im good thanks...I got Ravenclaw what about you where did you get sorted" she asked her

"Yeah, its okay we were all in a rush. Ravenclaw, thats really good. I got into Hufflepuff theres some really nice people there."

"I didnt think i would get Ravenclaw taught id get Hufflepuff" she said honestly "i love it here it so beautiful plus we can do magic without fear of muggles seeing"

"I know, I'm like in love with the beauty of this place. Did you try out for the Quidditch team?"

Funny? Well... at least she tried to save their house from having negative points. "Do you know what happened? All I noticed was poor Nimma, who wanted to poke herself in the eye and -" ... that sweet woman that happened to be their head of house and Potions professor, "professor... Lafay?" Ahh, she'll have a lot of names to remember this term.

Aww that was sweet of him to apologize! "Don't worry," Nora said with a large smile on her face. And... in her opinion, that was the perfect moment for a big, Slytherin..ish hug, but fortunately, she managed to resist the urge. However, she couldn't stop herself from giggling like the silly girl she was when he told her that she was not the only one that stepped on his feet. "So you didn't get a special treatment only from me," she concluded, grinning.

And... his poor feet. Who knows by how many other feet they've been stepped on?

Chloe smiled at the mention of Quiddich "oh yes...I know first years dont allways get in but i really really want it" she said as taught happily about the game "what about you have you tried out yet?" she asked her

"yeah im a little nervous too" she admitted. She frowned a little "nope only the older boys but i dont know them" she said with a small laugh

Chelsea walked near the Whomping Willow not to close of course she didn't need a trip to the Hospital Wing. She sat down and took some parchment and a quill from her purse. She began writing a letter to her aunt and uncle.

Dear Aunt Astoria and Uncle Joshua,
I'm having a great time here at Hogwarts. The Slytherin common room is very nice. I met so many friends so far Temperance, Raven, Kelsey, Sage, Violet, Scott, and Faina. I do miss home though. And as you know I signed up for quidditch try outs I really hope I make seeker. I did write a letter to my parents which maybe was a bad idea I know your going to be upset that I did so but it was just something I felt I needed to do. Please respect that. I understand that Durmstrang is off on a break right now so if you see Oliver tell him I say hello. Its been awhile since I last saw him and I miss him. Hope all is well.
~ Chelsea Nicole Charm

She rolled up her letter and put her quill away. I'll take this to the Owlery soon she thought. She sat back and looked at the beautiful grounds of Hogwarts. Then she got up and walked away.

Danae blinked in confusion. Was this boy delusional, or just well mental? Looking at his facial expression, she almost saw an inch of a smile and wondered if he was just trying an act on her so that he could get to know her better.

Um, odd.

"Yeah, I'll make sure you don't hit your head again I suppose." Danae said, knowing that she didn't have anymore classes for the day.

Paulie shifted his weight as he waited for her to make up her mind. She was taking kinda long, so he basically went on betting she'd blow him off. But, to his surprise, she agreed. "Really?" He blurted, but then attempted to recover. "Thanks, I mean."

Now that she was staying, however, he didn't know what else to say. Oh. His name. Might wanna start out exchanging names. "So, what's your name? I'm Paulie." He figured that a handshake would be too formal, so he ignored one.

Danae arched a brow. The boy, Paulie as he soon introduced himself, wasn't help his case in faking this whole thing. Maybe she shouldn't have stopped to see if he was alright. Darn her and her conscience.

"I'm Danae." she said, pushing a bobby pin back into place so her hair didn't sproing in her face.

Eh.. heh. Well. Maybe Paulie's social skills were lacking too, but getting this girl to talk to him was like pulling teeth.

"That's a cool name.." Which, it was, but the one - or two - word answers were screaming 'I don't care,' and he tapped his fingers against the side if his leg nervously. "Uh, you don't really have to stay if you don't wanna." He pushed his lips to the side and met her eyes again. Hazel? Or maybe green, actually.. but the kind of green that didn't make a big deal about itself.

"The head thing was just... not... true." Well, it seemed smart when he had thought of it.

"Yeah, I've only met girls in my dorm so far. But we have all term, I think you'll make the team you seem like a pretty good Quidditch player." Rosalie laughed again, she hoped the Chloe was good otherwise this would be very awkward.

her smile widened at the comment "thank you Im kina obsessed with the game to be honest" she said with a kind smile. She really was obsessed with Quiddich she knew everything about it plus she played it all the time.
"i hope you make the team as well....fingers crossed for us first years" she said with a small happy laugh

Rosalie laughed "Yes, I agree very much! Are you excited about classes starting?"

"oh yes I cant wait for flying lessons and charms" she said "oh and transfiguration...what about you are you excited?" she asked with a hint of excitement in her voice

"Everything really, flying and transfiguration the most. Charms seems pretty cool too. I have double charms tomorrow and herbology on Thursday. What about you?" Rosalie asked with excitement in her voice hoping that they had class together.

she took a moment to think. she had red over the timetable a hundred times but yet she seemed to forget bits "i think i have charms tomorrow and......Herbology the next day"" she said "yeah i think its the same as yours" she said with a smile

"Yes! That's very cool I'm so excited to have some friends in my classes."

Ariana walked out to the Whomping Willow, it's just amazing, more amazing than she ever imangined, then she saw the two girls that she rode on the train with "Oh Hello! We wrode the train together! How are you two?"

"Hey Chloe, this is William Starr. I just met him while I was walking over to you. William this is Chole and I'm Rosalie." Rosalie said.

OCC: Sorry Jason Potter Weasley didn't yours before

chloe smiled at the girl she had meet on the train "hey how are you" she said happily

Chloe smiled kindly at him "hi William nice too meet you" she said kindly

"Ariana! How are you? I doing pretty good. This is William Starr." Rosalie said introducing the boy to her friends.

"Hello William!" Ariana said putting out a hand "how are you!?"

" Hi Chloe and Rosalie" William told them both." I just like to kind of sit next to this tree" William told Rosalie and Chloe. "So have you both been to the poool and the waterfall?" Willaim asked Rosalie and Chloe.

anyone wanna RP ?
 

Beatrice walked around the Hogwarts Grounds and eventually ended up facing the Whomping Willow, not that close mind you. She was not mad to go any closer as the limbs might attack her.

As her gaze set on the branches if the tree, she couldn't help thinking why a dangerous thing was planted there. Not that she questions the administration. She was just curious that's all. Looking for a place to sit, she found a big rock and went towards it.

Did this tree eat the birds? Maybe that was it? They whomped its prey in order to survive. Not that Gwen condoled that, being a vegetarian she believed everyone could survive peacefully without eating one another. It seemed that Hogwarts was a bit unfair towards certain species. The house elves for instance, being made to do all the chores and then punishing themselves when they don't actually do them. Tragic. "I suppose" she spoke in her distinct Irish lilt. "But its strange when you're not used to it" Even though her brothers had done a lot of explaining to her. There were some things here that she wasn't expecting. "I wouldn't think they would.." Though she could take the time to hug them, her Ma would be proud. Not that, that was what Gwen spent her time doing, she loved her Ma and she loved her morals but hugging trees wasn't the greatest of past times.

Thomas? Sounded familiar. They'd only had two brief meetings, one in Diagon and the other at the Feast after the pair had been sorted. "Yes I think that was him" she smiled and nodded, picturing his face. Slightly.. Intimidating face. "I'm glad I'm not the only one" she grinned, but it must be hard on those completely muggleborn but didn't have any siblings. They probably didn't have a clue other than what they read about. Was this girl a Hufflepuff? Those Hufflepuffs were supposed to be a friendly bunch and was where Gwenyth thought she would end up. "I shall try my best" she laughed softly.

Jonathan shook his head. "Nope. I didn't see the whole commotion." he was busy talking to a first year named Eris. Great, he remembers her name. But clearly this Nora person seemed to know more than he does. Jonathan just heard Lafay deducting points. Probably everyone has seen that anyway. Not fair. Jonathan rolled his eyes about that thought.

Oh well, guess Slytherin will have to work extra hard to take back those negative points.

Why did she looked like that? All nice like an orange. All he did was apologize about forgetting her name. Weird. Still, Jonathan gave out a smile in return. And speaking of orange, look at his hair. It's disgusting. Why oh why did that charm had to go wrong and why oh why did his mother think this hair looked better anyway? Sigh.

"Yeah, everybody steps on my foot" he said. He kind of hated that. It's not like his foot was a cushion or something. It does hurt when everyone accidentally steps on it. Bloody hell.

"I haven't, I just was in my dormitory and the Quidditch pitch. What's the waterfall like?" Rosalie asked William.

she shook her head "nope i havnt made it there yet" she said with a small smile "have you?" she asked him

Nora noticed that he rolled his eyes for some reason, so she thought she might at least try to cheer him up. They didn't have to be grumpy, just because they were Slytherins, right? And Nora was still completely sure that the sorting hat had made a terrible mistake by placing her in Slytherin. Or... maybe she had a dark side, hidden somewhere? Deep, down... somewhere? "Don't worry," she grinned. "We'll take those points back the moment the classes start." At least she wanted to be a good student and get as many as possible. She wanted all the other Slytherins to be proud of her. Hehe.

Soon enough, her grin faded the moment she heard Jonathan speak again. "I'm still sorry." There was an attempt of hiding her face that was turning red behind her hair, as she bent her head down a little, but she had that feeling that he could still see her face. Maybe he wouldn't notice? Boys never notice, do they?

Cassie nodded. She was glad that she had some exposure to the muggle world so she wasn't completely clueless about it's happenings but she imagined it had to be really rough on people on the extreme ends of the spectrum. One would be completely clueless on all things muggle and not know how to properly function if thrust into that environment and on the other end, a muggle-born with no previous knowledge of magic. She supposed that entering the magical world had to seem quite scary, what with all the strange things one was likely to encounter...like whomping willows for example."Yeah, and yes it can be strange if you're not used to it. But that is why you're here. Hogwarts will help you get used to it and grow magically. When you think about that...it's an exciting prosspect." She gave the girl an encouraging wink."Well it certainly doesn't mean they don't have their uses though. Nip loves hanging out in the trees out here. He likes it better than the owlery thats for sure."

Cassie smiled figuring that he had to be one of them, she was amazed he hadn't scared this little one off, but he seemed to be doing good for himself with making friends. Good for him and good for Gwen too. Hogwarts was so much easier with friends." Ah I figured it was him. Did you two get on okay?" He was behaving himself...wasn't he? She nodded and smiled. Yeah being different and new must be very hard, especially in a place like this." yeah, it's so much easier to make friends when you have someone to relate to."

short reply... Sorry *ack*
 

Jonathan looked at her "We better do. Last term Slytherin won everything" yes, they did won everything. House cup, Quidditch and Gobstones. Lafay didn't crack a smile but definitely they saw some happiness in those eyes. Heck, she even made a surprise party for everyone back at the common.

Jonathan looked at his feet. Does it really need to be stepped on a couple of times in one summer. He can still remember the last time a girl did that, his toe suffered from agony. His mother was furious about that. Really, she got so furious she wanted to know what was the name of the girl. Unfortunately, Jonathan wasn't able to ask since he just had to leave and go home. "Don't worry. No harm done" he said as he saw the girl........... blushed?

Jonathan looked away and pretended he didn't saw it.

Tyler looked up at the twisting and turning mess in front of him, it was bizarre seeing a tree move like that but as the years went by he had started to get use to it. Nothing was ever normal at Hogwarts and he liked that, normal was boring after all.

He took each step carefully, worried he would tumbled right over and into a pile of dirt, not that it wouldn't be fun but if people saw him... He kept his head down, his hands casually in his pockets, his head sunk down watching the grass move beneath it feet as he squished it further down with each step. He found a rock that looked unoccupied until he sat down and realized he had company, or he'd just got in the way of somebody's quiet time. Stupid Tyler if only he'd kept his eyes on what was in front of him. "Sorry" he managed, jolting back. "Didn't mean to disturb you or anything" he said, looking right at the girl, she looked younger than him, maybe he'd be saved from being yelled at.

" The waterfall is vey pretty" William told Rosalie. How do you like the Quidditch pitch?" Willaim asked Rosalie. " I like the swimming pool there. too" William said to Rosalie.

" You would like the waterfalls" Willaim told Chloe. " I have been there" William said to Chloe. " Do you like to swim?" William asked Chloe.

Hi Ariana" Willam told her. " Glad to meet you" William said to
Ariana. So have you been to the waterfall?" William asked Ariana.
OOC- Sorry I missed your post Jenny Weasley06- William answered you right after talking to Chloe.

Yuval :P
 

Nessie didn't know what made her do it, but she walked off heading to the womping willow. She had remembered the tree from last year. It was a highly dangerous tree. Nobody that knew about it would have gone close to it at all. She stopped about 3 meters away from the tree making sure she was still in a safe zone.

She looked around surprised at how many people were standing by the tree. They were obvouisly oblivous to the fact that this tree was really alive. She was starting to get bored and she wanted something to happen and so she continued watching waiting for that something.

"I love to swim" Chloe said happily. She really did love swiming just as much as Quiddich at times. Everyone who knew her knew that she was obessed with Quiddich but Swimming allways came a close second "can you swim at the waterfalls?" she asked him. She hoped she could.

"there's a waterfall no i havent been!"

For Zara ^_^
 

Was walking down to the Whomping Willow this difficult last term? Nope, must be the new spirit that came with the girl that made her way down the road. The last time she'd been there was with Da- the 'he' person. They're slid on a slope and it was probably the first time she felt uneasy around him.

Louisa stood still close enough to the tree, if that was possible. It was you who made me grow so fond of him, someone was losing their mind over here. Louisa bent down, grabbed the largest stone she could throw and..

*tosses*

.."You deserve that!" She called out, giggling at her own silliness.. and somewhat craziness at this point.

The tree wasn't one to be messed with, though, one of her big branches swung forward shoving the comparatively small stone back at the girl who didn't see that coming at all and crouched just in time to avoid her very own weapon.

"You're on!" She shouted and started duck-walking to find the biggest stone ever. Ha!

Second day of school! EEEP! For the first time in her short live, she actually wanted to wake up early. She wanted to explore, to smell the fresh air of Hogwarts, not like her old school which had the smelled like city pollution. It was so relaxing, hearing the tweets of the birds, the soft breeze against your face, and of course the view to the lake and the forest was simply amazing. 'Joanna. Stop acting like Snow white,' the Ravenclaw thought to herself, reminding herself to come back to earth... again.

O_o

She walked down to a tree. She heard a rumor that it could, whomp, hit, attack people unexpectedly, if they got too close. It should be hilarious seeing someone getting whomped by this tree, maybe even too painful to watch. HeHe. But, Joanna never believed rumors, and she needs proof to believe that this tree can whomp students... and maybe even teachers. Ohhh... Even funnier. Getting closer to the tree, humming to herself a cool rap song she heard in her last days in America, she saw her friend, from the yellow house. 'Joanna. Remember to learn the names of the houses,' she thought to herself, pinching her arm, as a forgetful girl she always pinches herself to remember. "Hey," she said sitting down next to her, "Are you too waiting to see if this tree can really hit people," she said, wondering if it is common to hug people when you meet them here, at Hogwarts. Back in America, she hugged all her friends ,at least, five minutes the day she left. Sad, sad memories. But know she needs to forget the past and stay in the present, which meant that she needs to get used to the fact that she's in Hogwarts. GET A GRIP GIRL!

Originally Posted by Jason Potter Weasley
"I love to swim, we should all go there sometime. That would be tons of fun, especially if we can swim! I don't know about you guys but all this talk about Quidditch makes me really wat to have Quidditch start."

"yeah we should play a game....well after flying lessons of course" she said. ""cant wait for the matches to start"

" Well, swimming is fun" William told Chloe. " I like to swim" William said to Chloe. "Actually, there is a pool by the waterfallsa' Willaim explained to Chloe. " You can also swim in the lake, too" William smiled.

" Yes, there is a nice waterfall there" Willaim told Ariana. " Interested in seeing the awaterfall?" William asked Ariana. " Are you ready for classes?" Willaim asked Ariana.

" We should all go there" Willaim told Rosalie." Swimming is good, but Quidditch is better' Willaim said to Rosalie." What poditon do you play?" William asked Rosalie.

"I know, are you guys excited for double charms? First class of the term!" Rosalie was sure that her favorite class would be flying lessons.

"I usually only play with family so I just fill in what my cousins aren't playing so I've played everything. I like Chaser the best. Did all of you try out for your house teams?" Rosalie asked the group.

"doesnt the merpeople live in the lake" Chloe ask William she had heard so many stories so she wasnt sure which one of them was the truth


She smiled happily at Rosalie "im very excitted about charms class" she admitted with a wide smile.

"If we can we should try to sit near each other, I'm so excited!" Rosalie exclaimed.

" " Sounds like you really know how to play Quidditch" William told Rosalie. " Chaser is a great podtion" Willaim said to Rosalie." I signed up to try out this term again for the Gryffindor"William explained to Rosalie. "Are you tryng out for the HufflePuff team?" Willaim asked Rosalie.

"Yeah, but I'm really nervous. I'm sure theres probably way better players than me trying out." Rosalie told the group

" You should try out becausse you might be better than the other students" William told Rosalie." You sound like a real athlete because a lot of them are nervous" Willaim told Rosalie. "So now will your try out for your team?" Willaim asked Rosalie.

"Yeah I will, Chloe said I would do well too." Rosalie smiled at the group

Feeling amazed at the bizarre movements of the tree, her expressions begun changing. Smiling, brows arching, grinning, frowning. That tree seriously has some magic in it. Really.

Shaking her head about this tiny dilemma, a boy approached her or the rock rather. She immediately became curious with him seating next to her as she wasn't there, she looked at him. Has he not seen me? I'm invisible now? Great, she thought. And then, he turned to her, shocked. The boy apologized. She was not sure whether to be angry at him as he really seemed not to notice her, or laugh at him. With one brow rising, " It's alright. I thought I was not visible anymore." she said, half exasperated, half amused.

"I--WHAT?!" Danae looked at Paulie a little astonished that he was now lying to her.

"That's not how you make friends, mate." she said, crossing her arms and looking at him with an arched brow. "I came over here to see if you were okay, maybe have a little conversation but instead I get lied to. Doesn't seem right."

The last time Chandler ever decided to come here (and it was the first) was in October in his fourth year and his first here. He couldn't quite remember why he came down here, probably to explore. And that was when it happened. There was a boy who decided to pick up an nearby branch and poke the Willow. Which was very stupid in his opinion and it was because the Whomping Willow decided to hit him and made him fall over. Annnd this ladies and gentleman was when Chandler came to the rescue! ..After he saw the boy starting to crawl on the ground. o__O He was also quite confusing when the Hufflepuff spoke to him.

Anyway, that boy was Alex Reed. Alexander Reed. His Twin. Or used to be, he had no idea what they were now that after the summer his girlfriend told him that she liked him and..Chandler (during the heat of the moment of course) liked her back. And then last term..Alex went somewhere. Which Chandler felt guilty about him leaving. And he totally blamed the tree for that one. Maybe things wouldn't of had to be so bad if Alex didn't get hurt.

..Why was he thinking about Alex again? OH right! Because he was almost near the tr--wait a second!

THEREWASAGIRLDOINGALMOSTTHEEXACTSAMETHINGWHATALEXD ID!

Seriously? WHY do people hate this tree so much?! :whaa:

"OI! Don't zrow zat! You'll only get 'urt!" And if she did..the same could have happened to her. She could get a boyfriend just before summer and for him to like Chandler..maybe. Ew. Or maybe someone else if he had just left her and ran off. :|

No, he wasn't going to do that. No way he was letting some girl get badly injured because he didn't do anything. He was SPIDERMANNNN.

DUN DUN DUNNNNN!

"I'm warning you!" Annnnd then Chandler decided to run at her, tackle her to the ground only to have the stone grazing his arm. Yay!

At least he had saved her. He thought he did anyway.

" Good, hope we both make our respective teams this term" William said to Rosalie. " I will be rooting for you to make your team" William told Rosalie.

Sheesh Louise! He really hadn't thought it that big a deal.

He frowned and looked back at the Whomping Willow when she informed him that it was 'no way to make friends.' He already had one mum; he wasn't in need of another. But, still, the girl was right nonetheless. "Sorry.." Wasn't much more he could say.

Apparently Paulie Foster was just devoid of her righteousness.

"Thanks, I will be rooting for you to make your team as well. So what do you think of Charms class?"

" Yes, we will root for eaach other to make our teams" Willaim told Rosalie." then when we make our teams and face each other, we can't root really hard for the other team" William explained to Rosalie. " We can root for each other hard" William said to Rosalie. "I am just getting the hang of Charms class right now" William smiled.

Out of all the placed to go Witsy still had trouble managing to get in here, sometimes she wondered why. She picked some of the sticks that attacked her hair hoping that was all that attacked her hair. Sure enough paranoia took over and she started flailing sending her hair in a frenzy. "GET IT OUT GET IT OUT!"

" Calm down sweety' William told Sheri, Sit down here and I will pull out the twigs from your hair" William said to Sheri. William carefully picked out the twigs carefully from Witsy's hair without hurting her. He then kissed the yop of her head where the sticks got stucj in her hair, " All better now?" William asked Sheri,

sorry it's so late!
 

"Won... everything? As in... ?"

Oh, Jonathan, please enlighten her, because she can sometimes (or all the time) be so clueless about everything that is surrounding her. At least she had that same, old excuse, that she just moved there, but, unfortunately for her, it couldn't last for a long time. But anyway, Nora was super curious to find out more about Hogwarts. Maybe they had some medieval contests, which might be the ones he was talking about.

At least the good part was that she managed not to share any of her interesting thoughts and ideas.

Since there was that really awkward moment in which she was blushing, he noticed her and tried to act as if he didn't, yadda yadda yadda, Nora shook her head just a little and took a breath of fresh air, and her face went back to pale. Hehe. "In what year are you?" In the case in which he didn't mind her asking. Curious little creature, wasn't she?

Danae looked at him, slowly calming down. Her temper could rage like a thunder storm, striking anyone in her path, and that was something she needed to work on.

"Hey." she tentatively reached for his hand to get his attention. "It's fine, I'm sorry I blew up at you. Long day, hardly any sleep." The price of being a know-it-all insomniac.

Witsy sat down as she was told. "Is there anything else besides the sticks? I hate creepy crawly things," she shuddered as she asked. Witsy smiled when she felt William's kiss, "Thanks," she said softly.

There were a few moments of quiet and Paulie avoided looking at her for fear of receiving a death glare or perhaps another lashing.

But upon hearing her first 'hey,' he could hear the change in her tone. And when she took his hand, the boy finally looked to her with a new smile. "No worries. I'm open to forgetting the past five minutes.." Actually, he preferred it. Now that they had cleared the air, so to speak, he felt it easier to move on. "So, Danae." He liked saying that name. And also it kiiiind of made him feel like he was talking to the actual Greek princess. "What sorta stuff do you like to do?" Or maybe 'what are you interested in?' was a better way of phrasing it. Aah well.

" Nothing besides theae sticks" William told Witsy. " Wait a minute, just these creppy things" William teased Witsy about his hands on her head." You welcome" William smiled. "Could you come to the healer and help me stay with Louise?" William asked Witsy.

"Deal." Danae said with a bright grin and giggled, holding out her hand for him.

"Hi, I'm Danae Zoto and you are--?" she asked, following the scheme of forgetting everything including introductions.

What did she like most. "Well I love Quidditch, and that's mostly my brothers fault I find. And I love to draw, but I never think I'm that good." the Ravenclaw replied and then cocked her head to the side to show a sense of curiosity.

"And you?"

Nessie got a little fright when she heard somone call to her. She turned around to see Jo. She ran up to her friend and gave her a hug smiling. "Hey Jo Jo" she said as she pulled back. The Hufflepuff giggled at what Jo Jo said. Jo must have heard about the Whompping Willow and she must have wanted to come and check it out. "Well, I've seen it hit someone before" the ranga said looking back at the tree.

Jo must have thought she was crazy for just standing there for no reason. "I actually don't know why I'm watching the whomping willow" she blurted out not meaning too. Ness always knew how to mess things up. She giggled trying not to sound so serious.

Relieved that she was keen on the whole forgetting idea, Paulie mirrored her grin and shook her hand.

"Pleasure to meet ya, Danae Zoto," he said, briefly wondering why her last name seemed to ring a bell. "I would be Paul Foster, but I go by Paulie." And only Paulie!

Ohhh. Well, it was no wonder that her name seemed familiar. Wasn't there some quidditch star named Zoto? "I don't really follow quidditch, but I think there's a player who shares your last name." He cocked an eyebrow. "Is that your brother..?" He gave a small smile and nodded when she continued to say that she was fond of drawing. "Well, I've heard artists are most critical on their own work."

And him? He drew a breath. "Uhmm.." Gosh, he didn't play any sports. Nor did he play music. Or draw... "I like building model planes..?" He offered. "And I like cars. Old cars."

"Pleasure Paulie." Danae said, giggling not able to get the thought of a parrot out of her head as she said the boy's name.

"Yeah, that's him alright." she nodded, beaming now because she idolized her brother so much. He was her best friend in the whole wild world. "And yeah I am, but I'm kinda critical on everything I do."

Planes and cars. "Muggleborn?" Danae was technically Muggleborn as well, because her adoptive parents were Muggles but she wanted to find her parents one day to see if she was of magical blood.

Oh, lordy. How come girls always seemed to giggle when he introduced himself. "What? Paulie wanna cracker?" He asked, lifting an eyebrow and grinning a little. "I get that one a lot. And then recently this one girl thought my name was 'Polly' so she thought I had a girl's name. A girl's!" Although Paulie found it more amusing than anything.

Heh. It was easy to see that Danae had a close relationship with her brother. "I guess you must be real good at quidditch, then. What with your brother being a pro and all." It'd be nice to have an older brother, he thought. Or any sibling, for that matter. "Being kinda self-critical probably pushes you to do really well in school and.. anything, for that matter, though. Although it sounds pretty exhausting." Paulie was aware that he himself could be pretty lazy sometimes. Maybe she would rub off on him a bit.

"Uh, yeah," he answered. He supposed it was probably rather obvious.

Witsy sighed out of relief until William said except and jumped up. She felt his hands tickling her and jabbed his arm, "that's so mean," she picked up one of the sticks that William pulled from her hair and gently through it at him, teasingly.

"Of course, right away. What happened to Louise?"

" I am mean?" Willaim asked Witsy laughing. " After whey I did for you" William smiled." You are so mean back" William told Witsy as she threw the stick at him." At least you do not think my hands are creepy" Willaim said to Witsy." Louise's back went out again, the helaer helped her, I stayed with her when I could during the day, but she is back at school now" William expalined to Eitsy. " She told me to say thank you for your help" Wilaim smiled.

Witsy laughed and took William's hands, "No, I love your hands," she said kissing them. "Oh I'm so happy, do they know what''s causing her back to go?"