Ravenclaw House Table
 

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by Beatrice Castell (tomewitch)

The glittering night sky is clear and visible through the enchanted ceiling, and the floating candles bedeck the entire hall in a warm golden light. All seems well with the world, aside from the empty plates still waiting for food to appear.

Nigel walks to the Ravenclaw table looking at all the amazing things around him in the Great Hall. This was his first Start of Term Feast. He starts think about food since he forgot to get snacks on the train and wondering how good the food is here.Sitting down at his table he starts to wait for others to join him.

Ameliah entered with Harvey, grasping his hand. She turned to him. "Guess plans were averted, do you want to go sit with everyone else and talk a while before we shock them?"

Nate nearly sprinted into the Great Hall, sitting down at the Ravenclaw table and leaving ample space around him for Pam, Jez, and Jordan--who would be most likely spending his time with the Ravvie trio due to the events of the summer--to come and sit down. "Alright, back at school!" he yelled happily, almost howling to the moon. He wasn't sure quite why, but he felt great about being at school. Maybe because it meant nine months of not being hunted down by an evil, elite assassin team? Yeah, that was probably it.

Violet skipped along to the Ravenclaw table. She didn't need to be sorted this year, and it was nice to just come to sit there by some new Ravenclaws. She turned to the two students that were by the table. "Hi! I'm Violet. Nice to meet you all." Violet put her hand out for a handshake or high five from them. "Can't you guys wait until the new school term and the food that's going to come. I am absolutely starving right now!" She smiled really cheerful to them.

Violet was going to try her best to ignore Maxwell from now on since her quick break up with him. She glanced over at the Gryffindor table. Nope, he will never say hello to her ever again from that incident with her mysterious memory loss

Ameliah couldn't help but let her mouth drop. "TAY? OHMIGOSH I LOVE YOUR NEW HAIR!!!!!!!!!!" she squealed. "Minnie's work, I assume?"

Nigel smiles, looks at Violet and high fives her."Hi I'm Nigel and same here i am starving too, i forgot to get food on the train"

Ameliah grinned. "Definently. We were talking at your party and thought of starting a buisiness together, changing hair and eye color." she laughed.

Violet looked over across the table and saw another boy sitting down. So many people she could make friends with! "Hi there! I'm Violet and welcome back to Hogwarts." She gave a small smile to him. "Aren't you excited for the food that's going to come? I'm starving. Oh sorry for talking so much. I'm just so jumpy on the first day back." Violet gave her hand to the boy as a friendly gesture of a handshake. As she looked at him, he reminded her of Maxwell, but she shook the thought out of her head. Maybe boys were too early for her right now. Violet then dropped her hand and looked down at the bench.

Ameliah grinned. "Well, me and Harvey were gonna go to the Puff table, feel free to come." they needed an audience if the plan was going to work.... she gave her sister a quick hug before moving to the other table.

Marie sat down next to Damon. "Hey how are you?"

Sydnie / Anna!!
 

Ellie kept her head down as she dragged her feet toward the Ravenclaw table, knowing the path by heart, where she clumsily slumped into a seat. Facing away from the Hufflepuff one. Otherwise, she'd probably be scanning it the entire night, searching for something that wasn't going to show.

Bunny, she treated much more carefully, setting the small pet carrier she was in between her own plate, and the one of whoever sat beside her.

Hopefully they'd be alright having a bunny there. Or else they'd just have to deal with it. Because Ellie was a scary seventh year now and wasn't afraid to just do whatever she wanted, regardless of the younger ones' thoughts. She wasn't in the mood to care anyway.

Or, said person could just re-locate themselves.

Point is, Bunny was staying right where she was.

anyone.... just vm me if you reply so that I know to look
 

Lily hustled into the great hall, yawning. She had gotten her own compartment on the train somehow and had decided to take a quick nap so that she would be ready for the long night. As she walked in, she took a deep breath and smiled. She was home.

The only difference was that now she knew exactly where to sit and was preparing to see the sorting from the other side. So she made her way down to the Ravenclaw table, looked around and took a seat. Now that she was here, you could see that she was definitely excited for the new year.

Maxwell walked over to the Ravenclaw table to see Taylor, he walked up behind her. "Hey." He said and looked over and saw Violet, he felt guilt. "Hello, Violet." He said kindly unsure if she ever remembered him.

Everyone seemed to busy talking to someone else so Violet looked around the Ravenclaw table yet again to find her friend Lily. Oh how happy she was to finally see someone she knew. Violet went over beside her friend and sat down with a big smile on her face. "Hi Lily! It's nice to see you again! How was your summer holiday?" She went over and hugged her friend really tight. How much she missed her!

Ravenclaw! How wonderful. It had been one of Anna's first choices; either that or Hufflepuff. She had read about them, of course. And she felt almost honored to be in such a wonderful house. She was practically bursting with excitement!

She was so excited, in fact, that her usual shy self was hidden somewhere, and she felt uncharacteristically bold. So bold, in fact, that she was willing to walk right up to a stranger girl and talk to her.

Even if that girl happened to be a seventh year, and the Quidditch captain. Of course, Anna didn't know that yet.

"Can I sit?" She asked, leaning forward a little to look at the girl. "Everyone else seems occupied with someone. Unless, of course, you were waiting for someone else. Then I can go sit somewhere else." Okay, maybe she wasn't as bold as she thought she was. She was rambling. Nervous.

But then she noticed the pet carrier. "Merlin's pajamas! Is that a rabbit?!"

Maxwell smiled at Taylor. "The robes bothering you yet?" He asked knowing she hated the, he wasn't annoyed when she asked Damon to stay, maybe he was changing...

Violet then felt someone behind her back. She turned around to find Maxwell and Taylor standing really close together. Rumours had been going around about them dating, but Violet tried to ignore them until she saw it with her own eyes. She clenched her jaw together and while taking a deep breath through her nose. It wasn't something she could change, but it still hurt that Maxwell had left her like that. She thought he would be there for her when she was hurt and sick. He had said that when they first met. She met their eyes with a piercing stare, yet her mouth was curved up in a careful smile to hide her feelings. "Oh hey Taylor. Hey Maxwell. How're are you guys?"

Ellie turned her head at the voice to see the dark haired girl. Younger, she seemed. Overly excited, she seemed. First year, she seemed not. Transfer, perhaps?

She was quiet for an awkward moment as she sized the girl up. Tried to place the face, because who knows, she might have always been coming here and Ellie just never noticed her. There were those people who always seemed happy to be locked in an old castle, forced to study and do work, for nine months. "No," she said softly, "No...I'm not waiting for...anyone." So, yes, the brunette could sit if she wanted to. The Captain even managed a small smile.

One which grew, not in size, but in how genuine it was, when Bunny was mentioned. "Yeah," she answered, with a surprisingly happy tone. Getting Bunny was definitely a good idea. Good distraction.

Maxwell laughed a little at what Taylor'd said. Then he heard Violet. "Hey, i'm good. How was your summer?" He asked politely, feeling guilty because he could see the pain in her eyes.

Maxwell felt a little weird about Taylor talking in private with Violet, His girlfriend and is ex-girlfriend... He laughed a little as Taylor spoke about the robes. "I kind of like it, they're warm and i don't have to think about what to wear, although i'll miss all of your dresses." He said smiling and thinking that she must have at least one for everyday.

She continued to stare, but not as to make them uncomfortable, she was just lost for words at the moment. "Er..my summer was pretty good I guess. I travelled back to Canada to visit my family." she said with a small smile to Maxwell. She didn't realize how much she missed his voice.

Violet then looked over at Taylor. She looked quite uncomfortable, but she wasn't exactly sure why though. She wasn't mad at them for this happening. It was quite unavoidable anyway. "Er..sure. Probably after the big feast of course. We'll talk in our dormitory then." She said that with a laugh when her stomach growled loudly.

Is she going to tell Max to come with her to see damon?
 

Maxwell nodded as Taylor talked about her dresses. "Of course you will." He said sounding very amused. He turned to Violet. "That's good, I got to go back to New York for a bit, it never changes too much." He said with a smile thinking about his city. He turned back to Taylor. "I'll have to say goodnight before you head off to the entrance." He said knowing what Damon intended.

Anna and Ellie are in here ^_^
 

Maxwell nodded. "Sounds like a plan." He said sweetly. "I want to try and meet up with Ariana anyway and give her the bracelet back, maybe i we can walk up he stairs together." He smiled.

Marie looked up at Max, he looked different. Emotionally that is. "Hey Max, how are you doing?" she whispered.

And Sarah. ^__^
 

...She was staring.

Anna fidgeted with her shirt, waiting for the girl to say something. When she finally did, Anna sighed in relief and took a seat next to the girl on the bench. "Thanks," was all she said. And just like that, it seemed that any confidence she had had was gone.

But they were talking about bunnies! That was something, at least, that she could relate to. "That's so great," she said, trying to look into the pet carrier without leaning too far into the girl's personal bubble. "I have two bunnies. At home." Sadly. She had her cat here at Hogwarts, and couldn't bring anything else.

Leaning away from the carrier, Anna looked around. And saw Milton. How had she missed him before?! She eyed him for a second before looking away again. He was in Ravenclaw, too. Why? What had she done to deserve him in the same house as her? She was a good person!

Maxwell nodded to Marie. "Congrats on Ravenclaw, You really do remind me of my sister." He said smiling, maybe that's why he was fond of this first year. He looked to Taylor. "It does."

Nod. She was welcome.

Wait.

SHE had bunnies, TOO?! "You do?!" Ellie wanted to ask why she didn't bring them, but if her suspicions about the girl being a transfer were correct, she might have been too unsure to bring a pet that wasn't on the list Tate sends out. "What do they look like?" Surely they weren't as cute as her bunny was. But they were still probably really cute.

"I think she's a bit scared," she said, tilting her head to her side as she opened the carrier door for the brunette to get a better look, "The compartment on the train was wicked loud. I don't think she liked it." Shame, too, the Prefect compartment was usually pretty mellow.

Walnut will forever be blamed for everything.

"You in Ravenclaw?" Cause if she was, Ellie'd totally let her get a better look at Bunny once they were in the Common Room.

But when she turned her gaze from Bunny to the girl, the girl's gaze was no longer on Bunny. And why not? Hmmmmmmm? What was so much more interesting and more worth looking at than her adorable baby bunny, huh?? So, of course, Ellie followed her gaze to a boy sitting not too far away. "You know him?" she asked, wiggling her fingers at the boy.

He could be less antisocial, you know, and join them. Distractions were extremely welcome to the Captain tonight.

Maxwell nodded. "Of course, I'm very much looking forward to it." He gave her a crooked smile.

anyone :)
 

Daichi had never been to the Ravenclaw table before. Now that he thought about it , he had never been to any of the other house table during a start of term feast. He had always had people walking to him at the Snake table or he only talked to his fellow house mates.

So why was he here? Well, because he wanted to see someone. Daichi did not know why or how but he kept having these feelings that he wanted to see the girl he had met in Floreans and later in the train. It was strange.

His arm was tightly wrapped around Mr.Duckles as he checked the blue table and finally saw who he was looking for. He sneaked up behind Indy and smiled as he saw Pink Ted on her lap. "Guess whooo~!" he said in a singing voice and obscured her vision with his hands.

Oooh. Oooh. She couldn't see! Someone was holding their hands over his eyes. Indy giggled, her hands letting go off Pink Ted. She could kind of recognise the voice. Really recognised the voice. But it was nice. Hopefully this would mean that someone would come and talk to her. She didn't know where Spike or Beezus were. So she was kind of alone. Not really alone, because she did have more friends at Hogwarts. But Beezus was her best friend and she liked talking to her.

But now. She needed to decide who this was. She really did recognise the voice. Indy giggled, her hands trying to pry the hands away from her face. She'd heard this voice earlier today. When she was on the train. Mmm. She knew who it was. "Daichi..." The third year giggled, hoping that he'd take his hands away from her eyes so that she could see. She was happy that Daichi had come to see her. That would be fun.

Although...she was kind of hoping that it was Daichi. Because it if wasn't it might have been a little bit embarrassing.

His plushed duck tucked under his arm and his hands still obscuring Indy's eyes the Slytherin raised an eyebrow when she giggled. Must be a girls thing. He watched as she let go of Pink Ted and as she tried to pry his hands away with her own Daichi's cheeks flushed a little as he realised that she was basically holding his hand. Even if she wanted to pry his hands of to see who he was.

But the snake would not let her win until she guessed who he was. After hearing his name followed by another giggle he let go of her and jumped down beside her on the bench, placing his duck on the table. "Yep, you're good!" He said as he pushed his glasses up and smiled at her. "So this is the Ravenclaw table huh?" the Snake looked around the table and the people on it. Mweh he still thought the Slytherin table was better the only thing missing at that table was Indy..

WHAT WAS HE THINKING?! :whaa:

He turned his eyes towards the staff table for the first time and it was then that he noticed something. "Hey..where is Professor Roslund?" he asked as he nudged Indy in her side.

Not being able to see what pretty frustrating, and this person was really not letting her pry their hands from her eyes. She did start to figure that she was kind of holding who evers hands these were. Hehe. She was holding someones hand. Hopefully it would be someone that she knew because it would be kind of awkward if she didn't. But then she was pretty sure that someone she didn't know wouldn't really greet her like this. She hoped not anyway. Because that would just be really weird. Sure Indy was a bit weird, but she didnt go round greeting people by covering up their eyes. So she hoped that other people wouldn't either.

She was pretty positive it was Daichi though. She recognised her friends voice. "Yaaay." She giggled, beaming at her friend. And he'd brought Mr Duckles too. "Hi Mr duckles." Indy beamed, looking at the plush toy for a few more moments before she turned to look at Daichi again. "It is!" She nodded with a big big smile. "It's it just awesome?" Of course it was. She was here of course, but she wasn't about to tell her friend that. She wasn't really that vain. She wasn't vain at all really.

Oooh. She turned her head to the staff table as he spoke. Daichi was right. The astronomy teacher wasn't there! "Nobodies at his seat either...." She mused, turning back to Daichi and looking confused. "Professor Schirmer isn't there either..." Maybe they'd run off together?

Daichi chuckled after hearing Indy's cheerful yaaay. This was why he liked her. She was bubbly like him and understood why stuffed animals were important. He held on to Mr.Duckles wing and flapped it up and down in greeting "Hiiii Indy and Pink Ted~!" he giggled, yes giggled , boys giggle too.

The charms Professor wasn't there either? He checked the table again and sure enough the seat where usually Professor Schirmer sat was now taken by a different woman. "i wonder how the new Professors are going to be like..." He said with a slight frown on his face. The Slytherin really liked Roslund as a teacher and if he was gone for real he did not like it.

Indy beamed. It was finally so nice to have someone who got why she liked teddies so much. Aww. That was cute. She giggled, grinning at him. She was glad that he had come over now. She was having lots of fun. Indy really had no idea why she had been scared of Slytherins before, because Daichi was so nice. Which totally meant other Slytherins were going to be nice. She hoped so. Maybe she'd go meet other snakes were Daichi and he could look after her if they were not.

oh. Indy hoped that the new staff were nice too. Indy shrugged. "I hope so too..." Because it wouldn't be too good that they were really mean. Indy thought for a couple of seconds. "I hope Roslund is here...." Because he was one of her favorite teachers. He couldn't just not be there.

For anyone! :D
 

"HARVEY! HARVEY! WHERE ARE YOU HARVEY?" Lilly shouted when she reached the Ravenclaw table. She had decided to apologise, because Lilly Deluise was NOT a coward. Not that anybody had called her one, or anything. Her blue eyes darted around the table in front of her. Harvey must be there SOMEWHERE. Harvey deserved a hug from her. A BIG hug, because hugs made it all go away. It seemed like nobody ever hugged her, as all her troubles were always there, wherever she was and how happy she was at the time. Which was not usually very happy.

"HARVEY!" Lilly repeated. She wasn't going to give up until she got that hug and apologised, and he forgave her. If he didn't, then she would shout more and hug tighter and apologise more until he did. She was not afraid to do that. Not at alll. In fact, that would be quite fun. But she still wanted him to forgive her. Was that Harvey at the end of the table? It could be, easily. She ran towards the boy. Was it him?

Harvey heard his name being screamed out quite loudly.. soon all the professors may come running wondering what was going on.. so he looked for the source of the yelling.. and he got up just as she got to him "Lilly!! You ok? whats with screaming out my name.. people might think there is something wrong.. There isnt anything wrong is there?" he asked a little worried once she was done yelling out his name.. she seems to bit in a little bit of a better mood than when I had seen her last.. so thats good.

*claims* :3
 

Louisa plopped down randomly on the bench next to a random someone. This whole 'pay close attention to firsties' thing was new to her. And out of character honestly, because she'd never paid any attention to anyone unless they were peculiar or friends. This badge was probably magical -see the joke? Good.

.... why was this boy staring up at the non-existent ceiling? Resting her chin on her palm, she followed his gaze. "It's like we're outside." The night sky above them and all, "It always mesmerized me in my first year." Which was five years ago. She looked down at him and stared for a moment thoughtfully. His face wasn't familiar at all.

Maybe he was one of the new transferred students?

huzzah!
 

After taking a moment to send a strongly disapproving look at the girl shrieking for this 'Harvey' character (who did that, anyway?), Neal had gone back to admiring his surroundings.

It was then that a thump on the bench alerted him to someone sitting beside him, and from her rather graceless descent he thought for a moment it was the shrieker. But, no, she seemed much more non-confrontational than that other girl, and greeted him in a way similar to the girl from the joke shop; a way that wasn't really a greeting at all. Friendly, but unobtrusive. He sort of liked it.

"It's quite a beautiful piece of spellwork." Especially since it was a nice night outside. If the ceiling always reflected the weather, he could imagine it being somewhat depressing on an overcast day. "Have they done this with any other parts of the castle?"

Louisa's mouth twitched into a slow smile as the boy admired the spellwork. And then asked a question. Her eyes narrowing thoughtfully at him, "You're new here, aren't you?" She scooted closer, curious to actually meet the boy. "I'm Louisa Carter, sixth year." Her badge was totally forgotten by this point, she simply extended her hand for a shake. See?! Dating Adam was changing her from a total anti-social to semi-social. Kudos to the Gryffindor.

"No. This is the only hall with such a ceiling. The spellwork, however, is fascinating everywhere around the castle. So is the architectural design." The sixteen years old folded her arms on the table then and glanced around at the staff table, there were a few new professors. And that man who she'd met at the platform, the librarian he'd said?

Back to the boy next to her, "Welcome to Ravenclaw, by the way. It's the most interesting house of all." She smirked after letting out a quiet chuckle.

Maxwell pretended not to noticed as she hugged Damon and kissed his cheek, if he couldn't notice it he couldn't be made angry or uncomfortable by it right? "So what about you, are you still on for our picnic?" He asked Taylor since she seemed to forget they were talking when Damon arrived.

"I am, yes." She may have forgotten the badge, but Neal was just noticing it, and her sudden interest in him made a lot more sense. As one of Ravenclaw's leaders, it was only natural that she'd zero in on a new face that didn't belong to a first-year student, "I was homeschooled before now, but that wasn't particularly helpful for my social life."

As in, he didn't actually have one; but since he'd been told time and again that they were quite useful, he was aspiring to create one for himself, "My name is Nealan Cosgrove. Most people just call me Neal. I'll be starting in the fifth-year classes." Seeing as he couldn't really call himself a fifth year, could he? Not yet, anyway.

He smiled at her welcome, following her gaze up to the staff table. From this distance, it was impossible to tell anything about them save for the fact that the chairs were occupied. He presumed they were talking to one another, but as he knew nothing about their teaching positions or personalities he didn't even have the option of making up their conversations in his head. Soon enough that was going to change.

A smile lit up Marie's face. "Maybe sometime you could tell me more about your sister."

Homeschooled and not into social life that much? She'd met someone so close to the boy last term. Louisa nodded understandingly. "I hope you'll find Hogwarts as great as most do." Louisa herself adored the place, and she was picky. "Is there a reason you were homeschooled? You have anyone in the family that went to Hogwarts at all?" He should know that she asked a lot of questions all the time by now, no? "You seem aware enough of the system going around here, I think." She gave him a thoughtful stare. Uh-huh, he was sitting at the right table after the sorting, right?

"Nealan Cosgrove," she repeated getting the name into her head. "Nice to meet you, Nealan." And she said it quite seriously so that he knew she didn't really compliment people around. "Fifth year. Oooh. You have OWLs this term then." Louisa shot him a pitying look, she'd suffered last term coz of those nasty exams. "You need any help with that, just tell me. I practically lived at the library last year so I know where you can do excessive research or extra reading." Unless he was a non-typical Ravvie, like their captain Ellie. D:

Haha, the " D: " face XD
 

Yes, he was indeed catching on that Louisa asked a lot of questions, but they were good questions, meaningful questions, and so he didn't mind them in the slightest, "It was just a convenient thing to do. My family has a wide enough skill-set that no part of my education was lacking, and I offered them fresh perspective on their work." Especially when he found something wrong with their research or theses, but that was a rare occurrence.

"Yes, those are part of the reason why I enrolled here," he admitted. "You lose something when you have to study for critical exams alone, I think. I had mock OWLs last year with another homeschooler, and it was ghastly. Completely different studying skills. Here, there's bound to be a better selection for a study group."

But... she knew where to go for extensive (for it could never be excessive, in his eyes) research, did she? If Neal were less defensive of his dignity, the look on his face may have been allowed to reach 'child about to receive chocolate cookie' level. As it was, however, it stayed at a highly-interested smile, "You seem to have bounced back remarkably well. Hardly any lingering horror about your face at all."

Tirnity sat at table and began to eat.Hello miss can pass me the green beans.

Marie looked at the girl who had just sat down. "Sure," she smiled, passing the bowl of green beans. "I'm Marie."

Hello Im Trinity McIntyre.Thank you very much.Nice to meet you.Im Taylors twin sister she smiled.

Marie smiled. "It's great to meet a fellow Ravenclaw." She grinned. "I met Taylor at the platforms."

Maxwell smiled at the mention of his sister, thinking about how proud her was of her now. "I'll have to, she's brilliant I'm sure she'd be a Ravenclaw if she were at Hogwarts. She's very much like our Mum..." He said trailing off at the thought of his mother, the person he loathed the most at the moment, he wasn't about to unload his troubles on a first year at the feast, no matter how smart and mature she came across.

"She sounds pretty cool." Marie smiled. She noticed that he stopped talking after mentioning his mother. That'd be for another time. "Is she anything like you?"

That's Louisa to you :D
 

Wow, he sounded so confident. Louisa smiled at him, "That's promising for us." And she would've winked at him if she was easy-going like that, but she didn't. Also the fact that Louisa had lost THREE of her Ravvie friends - two of which were bright in collecting points for the house, made her quite happy to have yet a new student who looked as interested in study as she was.

Louisa's jaw dropped open at the next confession. He enrolled because or the OWLs? MERLIN'S FILTHY SOCKS! She contained her surprise as quickly as possible and chuckled nervously, "Seriously? I mean, I was indeed excited to prove myself in every subject but.. it wasn't really a walk in the park." Snort. "Anyways, with that attitude I guess you'll do just great." Another non-complimentary nod.

His expression didn't go unnoticed, the Ravenclaw found it highly amusing. She grinned at him in a knowing way. Bounced back well? Heh. Yeah. Right. He didn't see her before Adam, did he? Exactly. "Yeah, my friends were great to help me go through the pressure, I guess." No, it wasn't a guess. She knew it for a fact, but he should know too that Louisa didn't really go around confessing feelings to people. Nu uh. "My boyfriend, Adam, played a great part in that too." Beam.

Glancing over at the staff table again, she murmured, "I wish headmaster Tate just give his speech and get it over with. I'm starving." She needed to smuggle some dessert to Beezus too.

Laila <3
 

Yes it is she said with a smile.well thats good i didnt have chance to meet since walk off.

"Not really, She's much smarter than me. We don't look anything alike either, but that's not too weird. We have different fathers." His sister looked very much like his mother, but she was kinder, sweeter...but not by much.

"So what do you like to do for fun?" Marie asked.

"Is she with your mom?" Marie asked quietly. She shook her head. "Never mind, we can talk about that later." Marie looked at Max, a smile on her face. "So did you do anything fun this summer besides the wedding?"

I like to read,sing,dance,write and much more she smiled.Taking a drink of butterbeer she asked.do have many friends yet.

Maxwell shook his head to the first question. "She's in France, it's her first year a Beaxbaton." He said proud of his sister. Then nodded to the second. "Well, My Dad and Elizabeth eloped so Taylor and I weren't there. But we went to New York during the summer, it was fantastic. I couldn't believe how much i missed America...I wanna go back at Christmas time, assuming I don't just stay here."

"I thought about going to Beauxbaton, but Momma didn't want me to go too far." Marie smiled sadly. "Daddy helped me convince her." She looked at Max. "Why don't you just go? What's keeping you here at Christmastime?"

"Not many, just you and Taylor, Max, Damon, Minerva and Ella." Marie smiled. "What about you?"

Daichi had still been looking at the Staff table and wondering who the new professors were that he had not seen that Indy was beaming. He clutched on to his stuffed duck and let out a small sigh.

It was strange sitting at another houses table instead of his own. It was not far away from each other because the two tables were next to one another with a path in the middle for the first years to enter. Daichi now looked up at the ceiling and watched the stars above. No matter how many times he had seen it , it was still fascinating.

"Eh? you like Roslund too? YAY~!" yes he had just said YAY out loud. "He was my favorite Professor cause he liked my duck feet!" Had she been in that lesson where every student got a pair of his duck feet to wear? "I really hope he's just late..but.." he looked at the staff table again and his eyes landed on the CoMC professor. "But Williamson is cool too!" despite that he had come face to face with his boggart in his class and despite that the Slytherin had literally punched him last term..eeh..

Maxwell nodded. "I kinda wish she would have came here, I think she would have loved it here." He shrugged. "I don't know, I haven't spent Christmas at home since before 1st year." He said thinking. "I just don't know what I'd do at Home, Although i will wanna see my dad. So maybe i'll go."

Took me half an hour to refresh this page. Tra la la, internet hates meeee....
 

Wait, that sounded promising? Was this some sort of interview, and if he failed he'd get ousted to a different house?

...

...no, that was ridiculous. The Sorting Hat had already done its work, and everything he'd read about Hogwarts indicated that its decision was final. Though that did make him wonder if there were some slack Ravenclaws about. Slackerclaws?

At first he didn't understand her shock -- hadn't she just said his studying was promising? -- but when he did he clarified, "I didn't enroll over OWL excitement, no; I'd have to take them even if I continued homeschooling. I enrolled to take them here, with other people."

Made sense to him, anyway. He nodded his way through her explanation of her friends and boyfriend -- that was why he wanted to acquire friends, after all -- but when she started murmuring he just sort of... sat there. Was the murmuring still directed at him, and she didn't want other people to hear? Or was she now talking to herself and he was supposed to pretend, out of politeness, that he'd gone temporarily deaf until such time as she started speaking in a normal tone again?

To help pass the time, he poured himself a glass of water.

"I'm afraid you'll have to refresh my memory." He shrugged, "I remember us talking about why we were upset... You said something about arguing and I tried to comfort... Honestly can't remember a word I said..."

After her little awkward moment with Taylor and Maxwell, Violet went over to a first year that had been sorted just now. She wasn't going to deal with anything with her ex-friend or Taylor ever again. Maybe Taylor after how their "chat" will be like after the feast. She sat down beside the new girl with a big smile on her face. "Hey! You're a new Ravenclaw right? I'm Violet and a second year. It's great to see you here!" The girl looked quite scared. How was she going to make her feel welcome? Awkwardly, she stuck her arm out to the girl expecting a handshake from her keeping the bright smile on her face.

Mika looked up at the girl who had just moved closer to her. She looked nice - atleast that was a plus.

"H-hi" she smiled over to you. "Yeah I am new - I'm Amelia Johanson - my sister was a Ravenclaw here last year...India she was a - jerk" she finsihed. Mika didn't like her. "Sibling rivalry she always tried to change my clothing to pink." She chuckled.

That was funny cause they would change back. Mika looked down at the extended hand and tentatively took it - shaking it she just smiled over to her. "Can I call you Vy" she asked excitedly.

Indy had kind of noticed that Daichi was going a little dazed, like he wasn't paying attention. That was okay though. Because Indy didn't mind that much. She kind of dazed off, having little day dreams herself too. But she did wonder what he was thinking. She couldn't ask though, because that would be rude. And Indy wasn't rude. He was looking up at the ceiling too. Hmmm. Was there something wrong with it? Indy mused, looking up at the ceiling. Oh it was looking fine. Hopefully it wouldn't like fall on them or something. That would be not be good. She didn't want her head to be hit in the head by the ceiling.

"I dooo!" Yes. Roslund was a better subject. Indy liked talking about him. But she was going to be sad if he had left. "I love astronomy." Indy nodded with a big smile. One of her favorite subjects. "I do too..." Because she didn't want him to not be there. "He iss! I love his subject too." Indy nodded with a big smile, as she held onto Pink Ted again. Pink Ted liked it too. "I like charms too....I hope the new lady is okay" Because Indy had pretty much loved Schrimer. So. This new lady had big shoes to fill.