Tay's smile brighten at the pink eyes. Oh how she adore him! "I think i am going to keep you around for a bit." She smirked, "Unless you have an objection to that?"

Maxwell smiled he loved how she was accepting his eyes when not to long ago it made things awkward...but what about when and if they turn white? Could he fight that? His father told him it was near impossible. "I think that sounds like a perfect idea. I think you need a Lion in your life." He said kissing her cheek.

Tay smiled and laughed, "Thought so." She pulled him a little closer, "Yeah i dont think i would mind a lion being in my life." Taylor kissed his cheek in returned.

Alyssa noticed the older girl was giving her that KIND OF LOOK. 'Uh Oh! We have a live one here. Little Miss Pompous who thinks that she's better than anyone else.'Alyssa thought to herself. The mere fact that this girl wanted her to keep her shoes away from her made her want to move in a lot closer to her now.

"Oh yes. For me it is nice to meet everyone. Every term I always make it a point to try to make friends with those who don't seem to have any of their own. I mean there are a lot of students here who feel like they don't fit in, because they are not well of, like you for example." Alyssa said looking up and down at the clothes Josslyn was wearing. 'So I make it a point to make them feel that they shouldn't feel awkward at all. That at Hogwarts, everyone is equal."

Alyssa almost regretted saying what she did, but she knew that this girl even though she was clearly older than her, needed to know that money or who you were, wasn't everything. It was who you were inside, that was more important. So she continued saying, trying really hard not to laugh."Oh wait, unless you are trying to be incognito like me. You know like I try to dress down and look like I'm not filthy rich, when in fact I am and live in Bel Air. But shhhh....please don't tell anyone that."

Maxwell smiled and let himself be pulled closer. "Well, i'm not going anywhere." He said gently kissing her lips and then Helios made a horrid squawking noise because he wasn't getting any attention. 'Needy Bird' Maxwell thought to himself.

"Good." She smiled and kissed him back. Tay heard Helios but ignored him, being focused on Maxwell.

Maxwell smiled he loved that she didn't mind his crazy bird, but any girl who wanted to be with him would have to. It was an immortal bird who was extremely loyal to him. He smiled at Taylor. "You're great, you know that?" He asked as a rhetorical way. "And don't say that you're not because i know for a fact that you are."

Tay laughed and smiled, "Okay i wont say that im not." She laid her head on his shoulder. "Though i think your bird would say im ot great since i am taking your attention from him." Taylor glanced up and smirked, knowing he would know she was teasing.

Maxwell smiled and laughed a little. "I don't know i think he might be jealous of me spending time with you, he's quite fond of you. You should hear the way he sings about you." He said which wasn't odd Phoenix's are songbirds, what was odd was the way Maxwell made it seem like he understood Helios, He wondered if Taylor would say anything about it.

She laughed and smiled, "Awww, well i am quite fond of him too." Tay glanced up at him, "Oh he sings about me?" Taylor didnt know what exactly that meant though.

Maxwell laughed and nodded. "He does. Sometimes when i can't sleep or i'm far away from you he sings about you for me...It helps me sleep. He describes you wonderfully, he's a brilliant lyricist along with song bird...Is it odd i can understand him?" He said with a laugh but at the same time it was a real question.

Whittaker had said his farewells and quickly went off to find someone he knew He wondered casually down the platform enjoying the fact that he was once again free for his older brothers teasing. he had realized when he returned home fof the start of summer it wouldnt ever matter how old he got Bentley and Beale were gonna torment him the rest of his life it was their job as his siblings.

It wasn't long before he spotted Harlow chatting with a smile he waved as he made his way closer.

Narumi had said goodbye to her parents when they got at the train station, they had to go somewhere, she had tried to ditch her brother at the entrance to the platform but no, he had to stay with her... She fixed her dress and looked around for someone other than her brother, who she managed to scoot away from...She straightened her lilac dress and steped further away from her brother.

Making her rounds around the platform, Kurumi rolled up the sleeves to her red and white striped sweater and tucked a lock of her black hair behind her ear and simply surveyed the area. It was good to be going back to Hogwarts seeing as Kurumi had missed the common room and her late night conversations with Selina in the dorms. Most of all she just missed the distraction of being at school. It helped her keep her mind off of things, namely her mother's passing in over the summer, and right now she was throwing herself into her prefecting duties more than ever simply because it was something to do just that, distract her.

As she stood there, she felt someone bump into her back and she turned around to see someone who she could only assume was a first year. At least she girl had that look about her...and a slightly panicked look as well? "Hello," Kurumi smiled as she ceased her fidgeting with her sleeves.

Narumi turned to the voice that must have been from the person she hit. She said "I'm so sorry, mam. Hello!" Narumi began to mess with the top half of her dress, but soon stopped herself as she noticed she was being a fidgeter. She said So do you go to Hogwarts already? Oh my goodness, why did she ask that of course, she went to Hogwarys already does she look likes shes eleven or a first year, goodnees Narumi! Quickly trying to recover she asked What house are you in?

Kurumi's eyes widened just a bit and she found herself blinking at the younger girl who had just called her ma'am. Was she old enough to be called ma'am? Is that one of the changes that happened when you turned sixteen? Kurumi still wasn't used to people addressing her as Prefect Hollingberry, so this ma'am thing was going to take some getting used to.

"Please, just Kurumi will do." No ma'am needed. "I'll be a sixth year this term." Merlin this girl was nervous, but in a cute way. Kurumi's expression remained soft, hoping that in doing so the poor thing would stop fidgeting and not look so panicked. "I'm one of the prefects for Gryffindor.I take it this is your first time to Hogwarts then?" And her saying her name would be much appreciated at well.

Tay blushed some and shook her head, "Not odd at all, i mean you have been around him for a long time so you should be able to understand him." To Helios, "Arent you the sweetest?" She smiled and laughed.

Minerva chucked to herself a bit when Damon brought up Harmony. "Oh speaking of Harmony, is she feeling better since she got sick right before we left for the trip." Minerva didn't want him to get mad at her about the potion she had made, but she didn't know if she could keep it a secret it was such a good potion. "Well I'm ready to get back to where things feel normal. My cousin's house is not that place. I am getting a little nervous for quidditch tryouts, but with my new broom I'm hopeful. Plus, I'm hoping to spend some extra time with a certain pers..friend." she blushed a bit hoping he might not notice since she still had her head resting on his shoulder.

Minerva chuckled a bit with Ella's reaction to her potion. "Well it worked for what it was made for. Invisible ropes could be loads of fun we should look into them. They would go nicely with my supply of jokes I have in my trunk." Then she laughed as Harvey feared her joke candy again, "Oh your tongue went back to normal." looking at Ronnie and Ella "I promise it did, and Justin stopped being sick after a few minutes." she giggled again. Had she turned into a mean person, no they were jokes they were funny. "Well Ronnie this is my friend Ella, she is a Hufflepuff and probably one of the top in her class at Hogwarts." Minerva always liked telling people that of Ella, she was like a big sister bragging about her younger brilliant sister.

Damon smirked, "Better I suppose. Then again I've only seen her once since then so I'm not to positive."

Aurora blinked. Wow, that was fast... how did Harlow manage to get all those words out so quickly?! She took a deep breath. "Kennedy's fine, not that I know of, I have no idea we didn't get a chance to dance." she rattled off, not quite as quickly as the questions were answered but quickly enough.

Aurora nodded, it was nice to know she wasn't part of the only family with murderous tendencies. Though it was definitely still not a good thing... luckily their family had some sort of restraint and didn't actually end up killing anybody.

"Really? I don't know much about Japan. We don't go East very often." Everywhere else though... they were right on that. ALL of Europe, most of the States, various other places. Travelling was AWESOME! "Sure, that sounds awesome!" She'd love that, going on holiday with friends was always better than just family.

"Five?!" Wow, that was a whole lot of writing... "Wow... that's pretty amazing." Not that Aurora would ever get around to reading them - dyslexia didn't make reading at all enjoyable. Pfft. Shame really - she really wanted to know what sort of stuff Harlow wrote about...



SCORE! She was right. Ha. Canada. She only knew a couple of people from there... "Salem? Cool. I heard that's pretty different to Hogwarts." Yeah, it'd probably be weird for him at first. It was bad enough coming from homeschooling... A lot of people had looked at her funny at first, especially because of the stupid mixture of European in her accent. Pfft.

She still wasn't quite sure what she thought of Gary - he seemed cool and surly but maybe he'd lighten up if she tried hard enough. Maybe. "So do you have Quidditch at Salem?" Conversatino starter. No matter how little he wanted to have a conversation she was adamant it was going to happen.

Harvey smiled as Ella and Minnie talked and then sighed and shook his head when Minnie suggested that they should look into invisible ropes.. "See Ella.. thats what I meant.. you and Minnie sitting in the library with open books looking up invisible ropes so that you can tie ol' Harvey to..." he stopped here as he realised HE was now giving THEM ideas on tying him up.. and he didnt want that so he changed the subject quickly "Yeah my tongue did go back to normal.. after the initial shock of having it grow so quickly and not being able to argu.. I mean talk to Minnie" he smiled.. hoping she hadnt noticed his slip the tongue.. yeah he had better watch out even more now.. he was digging himself a hole. He then heard her giggle and listened as she introduced Ronnie to Ella.. she and Ella had become quite close and it was good to see that.. someone she was close to in her own common room.

The blonde guy tried to be easy going with her. Aurora seemed nice and not too much annoying like the former girls who had met in Diagon Alley. Pfftt.. You didn't need to remember about them, Gary Rush!

"A little bit different." said him. "Well, we don't have any specific house like Hogwarts, and Quidditch is pretty popular too." he continued. Gary was on team since his first year, until the accident happened and forced him to take a long hiatus from Quidditch because of his injury. He'd like to try Quidditch in Hogwarts, but Gloria had forbidden him to try, or his injury would become worst.

Narumi laughed and said Okay just Kurumi! I'm Narumi, sixth year wow! Narumi started to feel relaxed at how calm Kurumi was being, and her expression wasnt mean like her brothers. Prefect, wow I hear thats good, congrats! Yes, thats right my first time, first year! She giggled and looked around there was a lot of people, by thanks to Kurumi Narumi was no longer nervous, at the moment...

"Nice to meet you, Narumi," Kurumi said as she offered the girl a polite bow. She was glad to see the tension in the first year lessen just a bit. Kurumi could still remember her first time to King's Cross Station and how petrified she had been. The wizarding world itself had been a foreign concept to her, so she was completely overwhelmed by everything.

Kurumi blushed a bit at the girl's congratulations. It was her third term being a prefect, so it was a little awkward for her to hear this now, but she smiled nonetheless. Not like Narumi would have any way of knowing these things. "Well, if you ever need anything or have any questions feel free to come ask me, even if the Sorting Hat doesn't place you in Gryffindor." Sure, prefects were assigned to look over the own house, but Kurumi never saw her position as being limited to just her lions.

Aurora nodded, no houses? "It must be boring not having houses... the competition's brilliant." And they usually won. Last year didn't count. At all. "You gonna try out for Quidditch?" That would be so cool... Aurora LOVED watching Quidditch - she hated flying though. It was DANGEROUS!!! She cringed internally as she thought of that time Krys had let her try out his broom... since then she had hardly even touched one.

She looked up at Gary again... he really was very attractive...

No, Aurora... don't think like that. Things are complicated enough as it is... she thought as she caught herself admiring his blonde hair...