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Louisa Carter just spit popcorn in some girl's hair. Ellie snorted and clapped a hand over her mouth to stifle her laughter. Even though no one could hear her because of the muffliato, but whatever. Once her giggling subsided, Ellie nodded. "Yes, LouLou. It's a cute nickname." Ellie popped a Milk Dud in her mouth. "By the way, very classy move there... You missed a piece." Ellie pointed to a stray piece of popcorn in the girl's hair. Ohhh, this was hilarious. And Milk Duds were delicious.

Well. LouLou was also quite demanding today. Ellie stuck her tongue out at the girl as soon as she turned her head. "Yes, mummy." She muttered and popped some Sour Patch Kids in her mouth.

WEEEEEEEEOOWW.... O________________o SOUR. EH. Ellie didn't expect it to be that sour. And she was paying attention to all the animals on the screen, so it kind of surprised her.... But she LIKED it. So she popped more in her mouth and squealed a little. OMNOMNOM.

Just then Ellie saw Louisa sit up straight and still. Ellie noticed it in her peripheral vision. Ellie slowed down her chewing and turned her head slightly and looked at the girl with a perplexed and slightly worried look on her face. "What are you looking at?"

Well, it was good that ONE of them was enjoying this lame excuse for a movie hangout. Louisa was scolding herself over and over again for suggesting the movie to Ellie. It wasn't that the girl was boring, it was the contrary in fact. Ellie was just too excited and happy that Louisa feared for her solemness to go away sooner than expected....and then the girl was making weird sounds. <__< Louisa eyed her sideways, Ellie's face was contracting in a way no one should ever do in public. People had eyes to see and tongues to talk. One glance at the snack Ellie was eating, and Louisa almost 'aaah'ed loudly. "Easy there," she muttered.

"I am just admiring your eating etiquette." HA! Good thing professor Gemma had a lesson for that soon. Ellie MUST attend that. With a satisfied smirk, Louisa was popping popcorn into her mouth again and focusing on the screen. Hopefully, Ellie would fall asleep soon from all the food and Louisa would be free to go back to study.

Vlimia walked into the room she had been trying to find for the past five minutes. She had seen on the notice board that it was magic-free, and it was a kind of movie theater. Vlim had read about them in a book on Muggle Studies she had found in a bookstore, before her parents wrenched the book away. She looked around, and instantly spotted a big table full of what looked like Muggle sweets. An odd machine popping out yellow puffs of puffiness, an ordinary stack of cups and another weird machine that had logos all over it were next to the sweets. Coca Cola, Sprite, Nestea... Muggles had such crazy names for drinks. Water was water. Iced tea was iced tea. The list of beverages that were beverages went on and on.

Past that was what she recognized as loads of Muggle sweets - even she could identify sweets. Odd names were given to these sweets, as well. Milk Duds, Sour Patch Kids, Starbursts... Would these Muggles ever stop? Vlimia grabbed a red and white box and put it under the machine she now noticed was labeled Popcorn. So they heated up corn kernels until they popped? Seemed quite simple. Now the drinks... there were cups, but no drinks! Maybe the mysterious Logo Machine held them. Vlim put a cup under the logo Sprite, wondering what it would taste like. After getting her drink, she grabbed a fistful of sweets, and sat down to watch the movie. She knew that movies went for about two hours, and that they were either animated or real life. Vlim took a sip of her drink, and flinched as her nose tickled. The beverage was very sweet and fizzy, but Vlimia quite liked it.

Next she tried the popcorn. It half dissolved in her mouth, and left an artificial taste. Deciding that popcorn was not yummy, Vlim set it aside. When she got to the sweets, she unwrapped the individual paper on them. They really were difficult to open. Once she had gotten a Starburst open, she popped it in her mouth and chewed. It was almost like Drooble's, except it wasn't magical and it dissolved in her mouth after a while. Vlimia concluded that Muggle sweets were exactly like wizarding sweets, except they missed the magical quality.

Butter and salt, I'm fine with that.He said, he was careful not to talk of candy anymore. He could tell that Alyssa felt just as much responsible about it as he did, but now was not the time. Maybe he could talk to her after the movie. Soooo I've heard that this movie is like Hamlet?

Conrad laughed. "That's OK," he said. "You guys will probably have to put up with me asking annoying questions throughout the whole thing because I've never seen a movie before. Speaking of which, you've been to movies before? Melanie says there are a lot of them. How many have you seen?"

"Wow," Conrad breathed, squinting his eyes at the tiny photographs in the dim lighting. "That's awesome. You were three? You look so young."

As soon as his eyes focused, he noticed something strange.

"Why don't the pictures ever move?"

Alyssa almost coughed up her popcorn when she heard Oakey compare the movie Lion King to Hamlet? "Ham what?"Alyssa laughed. Then she remembered hearing a book called like that in the Muggle World. Her muggle friend had complained that she had to study that in her school. It was written by someone called William Shakespeare.

"Oh that Hamlet. I haven't read it but I do know that in Lion King, it's about the evil brother who gets the other brother who is King, killed. Then he get's the king's son, Simba to think that it's his fault. Simba goes into exile and meets a couple of cool friends. Ghost of father appears and tells him to man up and so Simba goes home to challenge his uncle. Oh yeah along the way he meets a girl lion, they fall in love and all that stuff. I just love the songs in the movie. Like this one here, Hakuna Matata....What a wonderful phrase, Hakuna Matata! Ain't no passing craze, It means no worries for the rest of your days, It's our problem-free philosophy........."Alyssa started singing.

Autumn smiled, she was beginning to really like conrad, movie theatres were always so warm, she unzipped her jacket and placed it on the back of her chair, She was wearing a flowy tank top, with skinny jeans, her blonde hair in waves and her makeup done a little more than she would wear to school!
"Thats ok, umm well I don't really keep count and it usually costs a fair amount of money to come to the theatre. My favoroute movie though is love actually, but i dont think you would like it! It's a romance!" Autumn smiled.

"So do you think it's more fun being with Muggles in their world, with all their activities, or being with the Wizarding world? I'm curious. I've always lived with Wizards in our house, but I did used to play with muggle kids when I was a kid. And they always found me really strange for liking Herbology and Potions. They were into dolls and things..." she said with a shrug. She loved it better in the magic world where she could be herself. Although if she was with witches, she probably would like the muggle world.

Zhenya took a handful of her salty/butter popcorn. "Yeah I love that stuff you have! But to be honest I do sort of prefer salty foods a little more. Did you want some of mine?" she asked, holding out her salty popcorn, skittles and malteesers.


"Yeah it was terrible but I was younger so I don't really remember it. So that's good... but not good about being sick when you're older," she said, remembering her grandparents. "Well I'm glad you're better!"

"Oh wow! Never been. Oh... well I don't think that's so weird, especially here. I bet most people haven't seen a movie - unless they are muggle born, or have a muggle parent. "

Zhenya got very excited as Desiree speculated the movie was about to start! She had to bite her lip to stop her from yelling out "YAAAAAAAAAY!"

Melanie laughed. "Muggle photographs don't move," she explained, "the picture stays the same, just like it was when you took it." She then gingerly closed the locket and let it fall back onto her printed t-shirt.

"I like Love Actually too," she said to Autumn. "It is kind of a romance, but it's also really funny."

She then looked back to Conrad and chuckled slightly. "Sorry, we're leaving you out! Why don't you tell us about...what was it? Exploding Crap or something like that?" she asked, looking at him quizzically.

"I've never played doll. In fact, most of my muggle friends are boys and there were only a few girls. We loved to play in the playground and my favorite was swinging in the afternoon and some sports and field games. Yay, I missed them." Since her family left Liverpool, she never met them anymore.

And.. Desiree never watched movies before? No doubt, she was a pureblood, right? Some purebloods avoid to do the muggle activity.

"I think Wizarding and Muggle world were amazing. We can use our magic for fun and in muggle world you can use the technology. I appreciate muggles for their intelligent." she said while she was eating her popcorn.

And the movie was started. Good!

Conrad tried to concentrate on Autumn's wavy, blonde hair as he replied, but he wasn't sure if he actually succeeded- Muggle clothes looked very good on her. He swallowed hard, and replied "Oh... what's Love Actually about?"

Exploding crap, Conrad thought. Half-bloods could be so funny sometimes.

"Exploding Snap," he said, overenunciating his correction, "is this card game where you have to find the matches before they explode. Or find them so they explode. It kind of depends on how you play. I have some cards if you want to learn later..."

Making sure to include both of his new friends, he quickly added "You can come too if you want, Autumn. We'll have a three-player game!"

"The cards...explode?" Melanie inquired, her eyebrows pulling together with confusion. It didn't exactly sound like a safe pastime, but Conrad didn't seem to have any hair singed, so maybe it was alright. "Sure, I'd like to learn. Maybe in the Great Hall sometime," she suggested excitedly, grinning broadly at Conrad. She would really like to learn some wizarding things. It'd be nice to not be so clueless all the time.

Jen got a bag of pop corn and a large drink cup and filledit it up with a drink called Pepsin. She also go
got a package of red vines and found a seat in the back. She layer back in the chair and watched the movie.
"Wow, this is the rashest class ever" she thought

"Perfect!" he said. It'd be great sport to humiliate this poor half-blood in front of hundreds of other students in the Great Hall. Only... he wasn't sure he wanted to humiliate her. He kind of liked her- something about her seemed different from other half-bloods he had met.

Oh well, he thought to himself. He could decide later. The important thing right now was to eat as much Popcorn as possible and figure out what a movie was.

you can just take us through the next bits of the movie *nods*
 

"Your food groups?" Kurumi asked blinking in confusion. "You mean...sugar, artificial sweeteners, salt, and saturated fats?" Kurumi picked up one of the boxes, a yellow one, and looked at it. Sour Patch kids...Kurumi had never heard of this particular candy before. She popped one of the candies into her mouth and her face immediately contorted. So that was why they were called Sour Patch kids. Kurumi handed Selina back the box. She would stick with popcorn for now...which was now all over the ground. Sigh.

Kurumi pushed herself off her seat and began picking up the pieces, returning them to the container when there was a loud BOOM and the title screen saying The Lion King appeared. This movie had far too many loud noises...

"I don't think that is quite right..." Kurumi replied now that the floor was all clean. She sat back down in her seat and ate from her own small container of popcorn. Her eyes widened when the scary looking lion practically squished a helpless little mouse. Why would a lion even bother eating a mouse? There was hardly any meat on them and lions needed to eat so much more. "MOUSE!" she squeaked, pointing to the screen. But then a bird showed up. Well, not just any bird, a Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill, showed up and saved the mouse. "I like him," Kurumi decided. But then that horrible lion SWALLOWED the bird and Kurumi gasped.

Thankfully, another lion showed up, one with a very soothing and powerful voice. One that Kurumi wouldn't mind read her the dictionary really. She decided that she liked this lion very much. Wait...they were brothers...as in the one was evil? And the one had a son named Simba. Why did all this sound sort of...familiar? She had never seen this film before...but she knew of a show she had watched a child about a white lion named Kimba whose aunt was evil and had killed his father and made the little lion cub feel as though he had done it.

"Selina...I don't like this lion...I think he is going to kill his brother and make the son think he did it..."

You know what? It was really nice to see her somewhat happy again, especially with the pygmy puff. The last time he'd seen them together, well, the situation was the complete opposite of this. Of course the pygmy puff would like him. He was the one who took care of Puffles for a little while last term. And Treyen pretty much let pets do what they wished...within reason, that is.

"Good thing he does." He smiled. If the pygmy puff didn't like him, then it'd be kicked out of the Common Room. Not really. It was still an amusing thought.

And...she hadn't been waiting for long. Awesome!

He followed after her and took a seat next to Nessie. Aha. So, the Lion King. In all fairness, he could deal with this if it had no songs...yet that wasn't the case. Oh, well. The popcorn was pretty good, though.

"So...," he was frowning just a bit, "...the lions own all that land?" that was so unrealistic, any magical creature would beat a lion. Thaddeus would destroy that place in seconds if he got mad enough.

Not to mention that lions couldn't talk, much less sing.

Ellie imagined Louisa was mentally kicking herself (and probably Ellie too) for telling her about the movie. Because now she was stuck with hyper!Ellie who had way too much sugar and an extremely high excitement level. This was an exciting moment in Ellie's life! Her first cinema experience and Louisa was being Miss Debbie-Downer over there.

Admiring her eating etiquette. HAH. Liar. Ellie snorted and opened her box of Junior Mints. "LouLou, dear. I think you're just jealous because you're not having as much fun as me." Just then, Ellie looked up at the screen an watched a stampede of large animals running away from something. Ellie's eyes locked on the screen and she saw the big lion.

... TRAMPLED. O_____O ..... *wibble* The lion's father had died. And it all sounded too familiar.

"What kind of movie is this?" Ellie whispered, horrified. She looked over at Louisa. "Have you seen this before?" Was this movie horrible the entire time? Murderous? Ellie wibbled and stuffed her face with chocolate to prevent herself from watching the movie and crying.

Selina chuckled at Kurumi's response to the food group thing and shrugged it off. If Kurumi wanted to think that she was doing bad things to her health by eating only the most health conscious and brilliant food that was her loss. Which reminded Selina, she had to make sure to head down to the Common Room after the movie was over. They were serving red velvet cupcakes the size of Selina's face at dinner and she was not sure that she could miss that spectacle to be honest. It was a rare and happy day when red velvet surfaced in the Great Hall... a truly joyous day.

When Kurumi took Selina's candy box of what happened to be her favorite muggle candy she had tried Selina pouted. She started to grab for her candy box until Kurumi gave it back to her without a fuss. As soon as she got her candy back Selina drew it close to her chest and vowed to not share ever again. HER CANDY!

As soon as the movie started, however, her candy was forgotten in her lap as she claws dug themselves into the arm rest. It was too loud and there were too many things moving too fast. The whole endeavor was just too much excitement for Selina. She felt slightly panicked at the whole ordeal.

But as the movie progressed Selina's muscles laxed on her death grip on the chair. Everything was calmer in her body and she could feel herself being sucked into the story. The whole movie contraption was a brilliant idea. Whoever had decided to movie pictures and make them sing snappy show tunes, well, good on them.

Kurumi whispered something about a mouse and then Selina noticed that her best friend liked the colorful bird. Of course she would. They were sort of similar in many ways, especially about following the rules and such. But when the bad guy came on the screen Selina rolled her eyes and whispered, "The villian's name is scar? Wow, could they be any more obvious he is the bad guy?"

Then the movie introduced the young lioness Nala and Selina smiled. Yeah, she liked her a lot. A lot of spunk. She sort of reminded her of Anya Phillips... just a tad. AND THEN THEY SANG AGAIN. Selina leaned over to the Gryffindor Prefect and said, "I like the whole singing thing... its clever. How do they put it with the pictures by the way...?"

if anyone gets the reference...then you are awesome :D
 

Kurumi continued to much on her popcorn, opting to try something that her brothers sometimes did when they were able to go to the theater. Getting up for just a moment to grab some snacks. Kurumi returned to her seat with a small box of Junior Mints. She opened them up and promptly poured them into the popcorn just as Selina spoke again.

"Well...he does have a scar above his eye," she shrugged. Not the most creative name. Something like Taka could have been a bit more appealing and unpredictable. "Makes you wonder how he got it though. I mean, it brings so much more attention to the scar since it is his name too. Do you suppose it came from a fight with Mufasa? Could be reason why he dislikes him so...or...that baby Simba got his claws out when the mandrill shook that staff over him. Maybe he did it?" Kurumi thought that the black mane and bony body made him look more like the villian. He stood out too much and had tried to eat two perfectly innocent creatures within two minutes of each other.

Kurumi popped the combination of mint and popcorn into her mouth and chewed as the song came to a close...with the bird being sat on. Poor guy, couldn't catch a break could he? And this was so not going to end well. They were going to a graveyard after scary black mane lion and tricked Simba. Kurumi hugged her pillow tightly too her chest. "What do you mean? There are special places called studios where people draw pictures that make up the animaion and then another place where voices are recorded. And then, they put them together."

Kurumi turned her head back to the screen and sighed.
Kurumi smacked her forehead. He was such a Gryffindor. "Hey, Selina, you get the feeling that we are watching a movie about...our house? Besides the obvious thing about most of the characters all being lions that is."

Zack was really excited for his first was turning out to be more fun than he thought it would! WooW first year and a movie night who know what his second year has in store?

As he walked in, he was shocked to see all the muggle stuff in Hogwarts. Oh, right, this was the muggle studies class so it was easy to guess, he would find the muggle item in here!

As he moved the stamped onto something that was something like someone’s leg? Was it? He had so much on his had that made it difficult to see what it was. Ignoring it he moved towards the seat and sat as soon as he found one on his way. He really didn't care for the movie. It was good they had so much to eat. Yayyyyy!

Cardigan looked around once more.Over by the snacks,she saw Vlimia!With an excited expression,she ran over to her and said,"Vlimia!So nice to see you!Care to come sit with me once your done?"Cardigan asked,gesturing to the food.She remembered that delicious stuff she grabbed not too long ago.Was it.....was it....Sour Patch Kids?And....and...Cola?Seeing she was right,Cardigan grabbed one more serving of each,even though she had quite a lot already,while waiting fir Vlimia`s reply.

"well Love actually follows a few people's lives each have a diffrent story but they somehow all connect... its a very romance, girly film" autumn smiled. "Yeah ofcourse... sounds.. loud."

SCOOOFFFF at that. "Yeah, I told you I shouldn't be enjoying myself when I have a Charms article to read." Louisa shoved another bunch of popcorn into her mouth and munched on them grumpily. Her eyes were on the screen, the familiar movie going on just fine.

..until Ellie took this whisper-the-obvious attitude, which was alarming considering how loud and lively she'd been a second ago. Louisa lowered her popcorn bag and looked at the girl, unable to show any emotions yet, she nodded. "This is a family movie, Ellie. It's not that sad." Louisa was not getting what was wrong over here. The Lion King was essentially funny deep movie, she loved it. What was wrong with the father lion dying and....

..Oh. Well. That was pure stupid of Louisa.

Opening her mouth and closing it several times, the young girl didn't know how to respond. How to fix things. She cleared her throat and tried, "I-i-it's not a sad movie. Really, it has so many cool and cute animals. You just wait and see." Laaaaaame attempt. BUT Louisa was smiling now! A nervous and alarmed smile, but it was a smile! Yeeeaaah!

You wanna mess something up, call for Louisa Carter. <__< If Ellie ended up crying, Dallin would give the young eagle a pointed look for ruining his girlfriend's first movie experience.