"Well, I certainly hope so." Kimalia said kindly. "You had any experience flying.. or any other related practices?"

If there was one guy who was living up to his title, it was definitely Kennedy. Addressing their house first, telling people to listen to her now. Yep, things were perfect now. "Of course, we're snakes after all and no matter what we slither together."

Aw, it was younger Zhenya. "Hey yourself, my summer was great, how about yours?" New plans with Quidditch.. Hmm.. "Regardless, you did fantastic last term, so I hope to see you try out again." Sure, some doubt was normal, Kimalia had it herself a few times. "But in any case, certain.. conditions might be the same." Winking, hoping she got the idea. Perhaps certain protection masks might be enforced again, just maybe..

"Nice to meet you West, I'm Ellowyn." She smiled and stuck out her hand. "I expect he's a big-and-powerful wizard then? Coming from the best house?" It must be so cool having familial house pride. Her mom had been a Hufflepuff back in the day, but Elle knew her mother would be proud of her just the same.

She laughed, imagining his brother as a muscular dude with a bald eagle perched on his arm and an american flag for a cape, americans. "They're horrible! He tried to make a roast once but we ended up having to call the fire department!" She laughed at the memory "He tried to offer them the roast when they showed up." She also finished up the remnants of her cake and goblet. "I can't wait. I bet they'll be all sorts of chicken and rolls and cakes for dessert..." She trailed off, dreaming of the soon-to-appear-feast and enjoying the warm atmosphere of her first Hogwarts dinner.

Ariana nodded "i'm a great flyer, my dad taught me a while back and i played for some time over the summer with my friends, i loved being the chaser." she said a bit too excitedly

Could this start of the feast get even better? He doubted it. It was already great. There were snakes making friends and getting to know each other. This was great.

Kennedy turned to the little Miss next to him and grinned. "It's nice to meet you Ailsa, I'm Kennedy," he said, extending his hand to her.

He knew he would do that, but he was just testing the kid. He passed. Kennedy had prepared himself and didn't stumble, but his hand with the water goblet wavered a bit. "You got a strong arm there," he said with a chuckle, setting down the goblet...just in case.

Kennedy's eyebrow slightly rose as he listened. Wow, she had an eventful summer. "A sister? That's great. What's her name?" he asked. He didn't have legitimate siblings, so he wouldn't know how it was to have a sister, less a newborn.

"My summer was good," he said, nodding his head with a grin. "I actually went to a Quidditch game in France, so it was fun." It didn't turn out as he had expected, but the game had been interesting.

Kennedy did a fake pout, trying to conceal his grin. "Just a bit? Aw, dang it," he said, snapping his fingers as if not growing over the summer had been a sad loss. "And here I thought I did," he chuckled.

M'hm.

He couldn't agree more with what Kimalia said. Kennedy settled down a bit, although he was still high in spirits considering what happened in the train and scooted over to Kimalia. "You speak like a true captain," he said, honestly.

Kennedy was sure the other houses' captains weren't too bad, but they did have the best.

That was what he thought. West nodded and made a note to console Aspen and tell her that it was okay that she wasn't a Slytherin like him and their dad, cos he still loved her anyway. She WAS the best sister ever.

"BUT you've already had.... three? And this one is your fourth? You must be a super expert now!" West obviously had no clue that she'd transferred in. "YEAH! If I'm allowed I mean. YEAH! I wanna play QUIDDITCH!" And if he couldn't he'd SO BE THERE FOR EVERY GAME!

Ailsa wasn't even too long of a name so West didn't bother to shorten it. He did give the girl a knowing look though before he answered. "Everything, obviously." OBVIOUSLY. "But I wanna do potions too, because I think its going to be like blowing stuff UP!"

Though, if there was also cake, he wouldn't mind.

"A restaurant is pretty cool. My dad is a curse breaker and used to be in charge of the WHOLE of Gringotts and before that he was a auror." West was obviously rather proud of his dad.

Good cos he wasnt' gonna tone it down if she didn't. West simply grinned, still obviously excited. And she just said her name too. "Your name is nice but a bit long. Can I call you Ari?"

He would whether she liked it or not. Basically. It was what Wests did.

"Hi Ello!" Shorter was better. He gave her hand a high five instead of shaking it and then nodded. YES all of those things. His dad was SO cool. "He does stuff for the Department of Magical Law Enforcement now. He's chasing bad guys. Undercover." That was all West knew about it though. He knew that and he knew that he missed his dad. A lot. "He's real smart. My dad knows everything." West beamed, eyes shining.


"YEAH I do. Strong like my DAD." West grinned at the prefect and then, "You should tell me things. About Hogwarts. And being a Slytherin. And tell all of us things so that we'll all be the best in ALL the classes. Like even better than we all are naturally."

Cos, they were Slytherins. YEAHHHH. Naturally awesome.

Ariana smiled and laughed at his stupidity "WoW Kennedy." she said chuckling.



of course it bothered her, only her father called her Ari but, she knew someone would call her it eventually. She smiled " no, i dont mind at all." she said to the little firstie

Ello was a new one, and she laughed at the high five-handshake. "Dude thats so cool!" because of course, undercover agents really are the absolute coolest things in the entire UNIVERSE, no contest at all. West's dad was probably in the Carribean right now, catching some nasty wizards in a high speed underwater chase, no doubt looking really cool while doing it. "Is that what you're gonna be then? Like the new father/son crime fighting team?"

"That's good! Mine was really great, my mother had twins so I spent a lot of it playing with the babies," Zhenya said smiling.

She probably would try out again. Even try-outs were fun! "I think I will then," she said with a big smile. Ugh, she still remembered that nasty blow to the face at the end of their first game. It hurt so badly at the time. Not even thinking about all the events during practices... getting stuck in the hoops and everything. Yeah, that was fun.

"Are you looking forward to your OWL's?"

"My sister's name is Ava-Salome, and my brother is Theodore," she said, smiling. The twin babies would be home again... with the family. Oh, she wanted to see them! They would be almost one when she got home.

"Oh wow that sounds fun! Who played? I've never actually seen a Quidditch match out of Hogwarts," Zhenya said, hoping one day she would.


Speaking of Quidditch, Zhenya heard someone else get excited about Quidditch. Really excited. Smiling and turning her head, she saw a firstie who was clearly keen as beans to join the team. WOW! She was amazed and hoped he would try out, and make it. "Do you play at home or anything?" she blurted out with a smile

Finally, it was time for the opening feast. Jonathan immediately changed his clothes upon arriving at Hogwarts and stacked all of his luggage under his bed. He'll just mostly fix them after the feast is done. He still have time to fix some of his stuffs. Usually the books are just the ones the needs the arranging.

Jonathan entered the hall and had a smile stuck on his face. He should make most of his term right now, he is after all graduating this year and he was gone for half the term last time, so everything right now just suddenly felt nostalgic for some reasons. He wanted to skip but that would just be weird, to see himself and by other skip to find a seat on one of the Slytherin chairs. He fixed his bangs onto the side and for a moment starred at the whole place for awhile. The candles were still floating, food wasn't still there, first years getting themselves sorted and most importantly professors were sitting up front.

He sat down excited to munch something good to eat but ALAS! the food wasn't still there, they of course, had to wait for the headmaster to give some fancy speech before the food appears. So while waiting for the food and for speech, Jonathan decided to talk to some first years... transferred students who were sorted under Slytherin. "Welcome first years!" he starred at a few of them and then to some unfamiliar faces "And transferred students" do they even have transferred students? Jonathan wasn't really sure. "Welcome to Slytherin" he gave a big smile. Best house. He saw prefect Kennedy and wait! Jonathan heard Sierra was the new prefect girl. Where is she? And Selena was the new Head Girl? Where are these girls? He then saw the Quidditch captain, Kimalia and gave a small nod and smile.

"That's good. You LOOK like an Ari." Yeah! She did. It suited her so far. West beamed. "How old are you? What year are you in? What is your favourite class? Which professors are the coolest? Which are horrible and easiest to bribe?"

Important questions, all.

A FATHER SON CRIME FIGHTING TEAM????!?!?!?!

West immediately started imagining this in great detail and even struck a pose. Yeah he could do that! It even made him not think about missing his dad too much, because it was such a COOL idea. He would write to his dad and SUGGEST it. He WOULD!

"I wanna be a curse-breaker like what my dad used to be." Still dad related. West actually wouldn't have been able to think of a single thing that WASN'T related to what his dad did or once did.

"What are YOU gonna be, do you think? OH I KNOW what would be COOL, a LIZARD wrangler!" Yeah! He could raise and breed Nile Monitors!

West lit up at the way the conversation was leaning at the table. YEAH QUIDDITCH! "I've never played!" He admitted. "But I know ALL the stats on the teams and stuff!" And he sure wasn't scared of heights or anything.

"Do YOU play?"

Wait.. what did she say before?

A GIANT?

How dare she called him giant. Gary admitted tthat he's very tall for his age, but giant?

"How dare you call me Giant." said him flat. No expression, but actually he wanted to laugh. The blonde guy stay cool. He was quiet bored, waiting for the food appeared, then he could eat like he hadn't eat for centuries. So, what could he do now?

He took something from his pocket. There were some sweets in his hand. He didn't remember if he put them there, since he didn't like sweets. But wait.. actually those weren't an ordinary sweets.

It was ton-tounge-toffee!

Suddenly he offered it to the girl.

"Hey.." said him cool. "Do you want to have some?"

Never played? Wow, "Well I'm sure you will have so much FUN in Flying Lessons. Who knows," she said raising her eyebrows, "You might just make it on the team. The next Harry Potter!" she said, and laughed.

She took a big gulp of her drink and said, "Yes.... I was on the house team last year but we lost," she said, sadly. The snakes were AMAZING, but the other ones were just a fraction quicker with the moves.


Zhenya laughed at his expression, and accidentally snorted which made her laugh moooooooooore, "You... you... so tall! I... I'm small!!" she managed to get out through laughing.

Eyeing him off, offering her sweets, she said "Only if you have one first," knowing they... surely weren't right. After tripping her over, she didn't trust him.

Heh? She wanted him to eat it first?

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Gerald Alexander Rush didn't like sweets. He NEVER ate those sweet things or he could be die. Oh no. Not until die, maybe.

"I can't eat this. I have diabetes symptoms, a muggle disease which I couldn't eat any sweets." said him.. Lie. He didn't suffer diabetes. If she didn't want to take 'em? That's okay. He still had sooo many ways to prank her again.

"Oh, that's okay if you didn't want it."

Zhenya took the lolly and put it in her pocket, "Thanks Giant, but I don't feel like it right now. Oh, what's that? I've never heard of it before," she said out of curiosity. That was TOO BAD, how could he not eat sweets? They were good! She liked them the most! But when she was hungry, all she wanted was savoury food, and then sweet foods afterwards.

Well, wasn’t this nice? More shouting commenced as he arrived at the Great Hall. Mordred straightened up and fixed his school tie as he made his way to his old house table. He was just glad that he’s back and that everything felt at home. The sorting has begun as well, and new little—no tiny, EXCITED first years joined their table, and near the front was their prefect. Well, he should be the prefect since he’s up front doing some speech, or whatever prefects do at the start of term.

A few moments later Mr. Prefect raised his goblet for a toast. Mordred nodded and got his empty goblet and it magically filled itself with water upon his touch. He made a face and said to it, “Pumpkin Juice.” And the liquid turned into a shade of orange.

“To the proud sons and daughters of Slytherin!” he said to himself as he raised his goblet and drank his juice. It was really good to be back.

Aurora walked into the Great Hall with a look of thunder on her face. She caught sight of Kennedy, addressing all the students and stopped momentarily. She'd go over when he'd sat down. Sure, right now she'd like nothing better than to cause a big scene as ruin his reputation as Mr. Perfect but she was pretty sure that wouldn't help her cause in the long run.

Instead, she fiddled with the fastening on her robes until Kennedy had sat down, then slipped quietly into an empty seat at the end of the table. Not avoiding him exactly. Just still angry.

Anyway, time to survey the new students. Hmm... She was planning on being part of the serpent sidekick thing again and she wanted a sidekick who she could get along with... and train.

Well the sorting was interesting. She was very fond of her new house Slytherin. She glanced at some people and spotted people she already new. Hopefully she would stay out of there way. Getting in her seat as comfy as possible she listened to the prefect. Hmm. He seemed kind. And very curly haired. She took some pumpkin juice and sipped on it. It was pretty disgusting and she wanted to just spit it out but she didn't because that would be just rude.

She was now bored and all the food was quite...unfamiliar. With the chicken and the drinks there weren't so nice but thats what people from England drank and ate. Hmph. She normally didn't eat besides lollies and German sausages. And oh no! Did she not remember her lollies? That would be bad!

"And could you PLEASE stop call me giant?" asked the blonde guy annoyed, giving an extra emphasis in Giant word. He was not giant! 6'1" was not very tall, right? Then he sipped his goblet and suddenly coughed. Was it a pumpkin juice? Ewww... That's too sweet and disgusting!

Wait, did she really believe that he suffered diabetes? HAHA! Silly girl, how could she believe something too easily? With his cool face, he explained it.

"I don't think you would understand about that disease, since you are a pure-blood witch." said him underestimated. "Well, in short, there's something wrong with my body system so I couldn't accept the sweet." Hope she understood. Well, thanks Salem. They ever taught him about muggle disease too there.

Scanning the table again, Zhenya noticed herself sitting down. Wait, huh?

IT WAS HER! The girl that looked like her!! The one with such a huge European.. er history! Zhenya smiled at her, not knowing if she was looking, and took a drink of her own glass. Just water.

"Hi again," she said to the girl who liked lollies.

Raising her eyebrows, she replied, "I'll stop calling you giant if you stop calling me clumsy girl. I'm... only clumsy when you're around."

Her father was a healer, and she had never heard about this Diabetes before, which she found odd. Was it a real thing? Or was he just lying?
Well, she didn't care, he obviously didn't eat sweets so more for her. YAY!

"So what was it like at your old school? Different than here I guess..." she said looking around. She loved her school, but she would have loved to see her mother's old school in Russia where her beloved Grandpapi worked. She felt so sad all of a sudden.

She took another sip of her pumpkin juice forgetting that it was horrible. It was really disgusting! I mean who wanted juice with pumpkin in it!? Or pumpkin with anything in it! Pumpkin was horrible even worst than cats. It was orange which was one of things that made it bad too.

She heard a voice close to were she was sitting and she looked around who made the sound. IT WAS HER! "It's you!" she exclaimed.

Zhenya smiled, knowing that was sort of the reaction she would get. "Hi! Glad to see you're in Slytherin," she said, which made it even MORE odd seeing as they looked VERY similar, and now they were in the same house... so maybe they had the same personality traits. Hmm...

Wait.. what did she mean about 'I'm only clumsy when you're around.'? Did it mean that the blonde guy made her look clumsy?

WHY?

There's a big question mark in his head right now. Did it mean that...

SSSSSHHH...

Keep calm, and stay cool Gary Rush!

"Well.. okay." said him short. Tried not to think about her last statement, and he tried to call her first name. "..Zhenya." then she smiled to her. But he felt strange to call her first name, though in his previous school he never felt like this before. Pssstt... STOP IT!

Eww.. this pumpkin juice was weird! Gary looked forward for the food right now! There's nothing that he could eat or drink. Then she asked about his former school, Salem. Was it different from Hogwarts?

"A bit different." said him short. The blonde guy eyed the girl who was VERY similar with Zhenya right now. She was the girl in the bookstore!

Did they have any blood relationship? He wondered.

Ohmygosh, she smiled at me, she thought. Zhenya smiled back slightly, and had to look away quickly before she went red. She could NOT let that happen! She removed her arms from the table and began fidgeting underneath the table. Why was she so nervous? Was it these teenage hormones starting to hit her or something? She was sure Dima would be proud of her for talking to someone other than Raven.

She liked the sound of her name coming from him. WHAT!? Inside her brain was like a car accident! So many things were buzzing through and she didn't know what to think. This boy didn't like Zhenya, so why did she feel so weird?

Did he not like his drink? "Don't you like pumpkin juice, Gary?" she asked, trying not to smile when she said his name. Honestly, this was not good!

Fourth year already.

Daichi had entered the Great Hall before the first years and as he seated himself on the bench at the Slytherin table he waited and watched how the little ones got sorted in to their respectful houses. He placed Mr.Duckles his stuffed duck on the table near his empty plate that he desperately wished to be filled with food now and sat it upright against the drinking goblet.

His stomach growled for he had not really eaten much on the train. He had been too busy catching up with Thea whom he had not seen in a year that he had forgotten about ...food. Stomach growling again, Daichi grabbed the wings from the plushy duck and pretended that the duck could fly as he passed the time by holding it in the air with his hands. Wooooooosh~!

Hmm. There was a big variety of food she just didn't know what to pick. Actually she didn't want to eat anything here besides her lollies which were in her trunk, in her trunk up stairs or something like that. Fail. She could've put it into her pocket. She was sure that it wouldn't mind. At this point she was craving for her jelly snake and if she could she would just run out of this ginormous hall and go eat them.

Hogwarts was big. Like REALLY big. Maybe she would need a map it felt like kilometers around her and she certainly didn't want to walk up the stairs. She would get tired easily but it was for her education so that was good?

She looked at the girl who just talked. Would it be bad if she forgot her name? Maybe she wouldn't just jump to a different conclusion if she was asked her name? That sounded like a good idea. She only felt a little bad that she forgot the weird, creepy look alike girl's name. She nodded a she spoke.

She looked around at the table she couldn't see any familiar facess. Besides one. Oh no. It was the tall, good looking guy also know as Rushman. She took another sip of the pumpkin juice and spat it out with disgust.