Sarah felt proud with her brother sitting next to her, she listened intently to what he had to say and whispered back to him, "her name is Kurumi and she is an awesome prefect. I don't think you need to ask, yet I will ask anyway". Sarah turned to her prefect, "Kurumi, this is brother James. He would like to know if he could have a cookie please" she asked. She was sure Kurumi did not mind, yet it did not hurt to ask!

Ronnie looked up at the staff table as the new Headmistress began to do the speech. She seemed real nice, Ronnie had a feeling she'd really like her. She looked at all the people that the Headmistress introduced, and after she finished speaking Ronnie began to clap. Man, she really didn't care about anything right now. All she wanted was to go and curl up in her bed. Maybe she could slip out of the hall and into the common room...would anyone notice? But there'd be a new password to get in of course, so she obviously couldn't go. And someone would have to notice her leaving. Oh well. The feast would be over soon, she'd survive...right?

Tom's eyes grew wide a little as Kurumi cuddled him tighter only serving to intensify the blush to his cheeks. Lucky the hall was lit by candle light or he'd find himself even more embarrassed. The greeting was welcome nonetheless. It made him feel a less like a complete outsider.

“I don't intend to.” He replied to her 'don’t go anywhere.' “Me ma'd have a fit. An' in any case it was either go back to me maggle school or find a job. Weren't really much of a contest.” He shrugged. Graduate? Tom would miss Kurumi. REALLY miss her. She was such a warm person and had welcomed him to the school the first time around despite him losing his temper to that older boy, Josh. The situation could have turned out a lot worse if Kurumi hadn't been there. “It's your last year?” He asked her sadly. There would be a massive empty hole left in Hogwarts without Kurumi around.

He chuckled and took another bite of his cookie before proceeding to devour it in one. “Any more of them goin'?” What a gracious boy Thomas was.

He nodded as she spoke. That was good. Better than her last one then. “I've been arigh'.” He replied, not really wanting to go into detail about recent events at home and the months he was AWOL. "Fings have been uneventful really."

LIES.

His stomach was still rumbling despite Kurumi the lifesaver with her cookies. Thomas looked down at his plate again longingly, imagining it filled with hot chicken and roast potatoes and Yorkshire puddings and mash and gravy and... you get the idea... but it just made his empty stomach gurgle some more.

Urgh. <___<

A hungry Thomas was a grumpy Thomas.

He didn't see anyone approaching and didn't notice anyone behind him until the lights went out as a pair of hands were placed over his eyes, blocking out his empty plate and distracting him from feeling sorry for himself.

Guess who, came a voice from behind him.

Now Thomas may have been slow to pick things up in class, but he certainly wasn't stupid enough to not recognise that voice. He smiled, still blinded by those hands. Should he say immediately, or play along here?

“Um..” He thought for a moment. “Squeaky voice an' tiny rough hands.” He smirked as he thought aloud. “Are you one of them 'ouse elves?” He teased his best mate and grinned.

Didn't take an awful lot for Nessie to cheer up the lad.

It was broken? Thomas eyed the girl curiously. “Dont it blaady kill yer?” This girl must have a MASSIVE pain threshold. Tom was well impressed. “Make sure you do.” He added, in a sort of big brotherly way. “An' if you need a 'and to get there, I'll be 'appy to help.”

She liked his name? Tom thought it was very bland. Three letters. T.O.M. Boring really. Toooommmmmmmm.. Yeah. “Fanks.” He smiled. Yeah, he thought Alice looked quite a bit younger, maybe a second year. “I'm sure you'll catch up to everyone else soon.” He reassured her. He had to agree that she was pretty tinnny.

“I'm a fifth year... I should be a sixth year, buh I missed me Owl year. Me ma's insistin' I sit them.” Which Tom found ridiculous. She knew fine well he was going to fail.. as did he. But he was trying to keep her sweet at the moment given the hell he had put her through over the past few months. He owed her. Big time.

“Headmistress should 'urry up an' put us outtah our misery.” He mumbled, glancing over at the staff table. Everyone was hungry!

"Yeah. He is. He got sorted into Hufflepuff. I don't know why. Apparently, he got an owl with out telling me. A barking owl."

House elves? He wasn't serious was he?

Because if he really thought she was a house elf, it was amusing and maybe just a little silly. Renesmee believed her best friend was cleverer that and hoped he was just teasing her, rather than really thinking she was an elf. That would have been insulting.

"My hands aren't rough, and not that tiny either." she defended herself as she moved her hands away and eyed them. She'd get him back, there was tons she could think of teasing him about one of them being he's dog Diego. As for the squeaky voice, she had to give him that, her voice was high pitched at times and she could defintely not make it as a super star singer. "I may be squeaky, but at least I don't have an adorable accent." Not to mention that it was actually improving.

Renesmee took the seat beside him and grinned. She was so glad to be with her bestie here again. It had been around a year since they had both been at Hogwarts together, and it was nice to have to think about what he was doing back home, for a change.

Eying all the Gryffindors for a moment she smiled at some of the familiar faces. If there was one house she got along with other than her own, it had to be the red house. There were so many of her friends that were lions and having a best friend as a lion only proved that more.

"You didn't really think I was a house elf right?" She turned her attention back to Thomas. "Because those things look a little ...unhygenic." The last bit was said quietly. She didn't want everyone to hear.

Louise walked over to this table she sat down she took out her book and sweets and chocolate and cakes from the train a girl had to eat

SPOILER!!: Tag

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Originally Posted by Team ronmione

Then an older student, Gideon, turned around to say hi to Tag and Penelope. So, Tag returned the hi with a simple hi too, and asked Gideon, "How was your summer? Any exciting adventures you went on?" Because all the older students had the most exciting vacations in the world.

"It was peaceful and good," Gideon answered, somewhat thankful that the beater bat issue hadn't happened sooner else he would have likely had to deal with that all summer. The prefect shook his head at the mention of adventures. "Nae...actually stayed close to home this summer. What about ye?"

SPOILER!!: Trainclimber

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"Wait so Scary Bat-Girl's in this house too?!?!?!?!" She blurted before she had a chance to stop herself. With the last word uttered she clapped both hands over her mouth and sunk down into the seat hoping to go invisible before the girl could find out who had said that.

For a moment Lex forgot how to breath as she stared over at the girl who was looking at the people around the table. This couldn't be happening!!! It wasn't until she felt a burning in her throat that she realized she hadn't been breathing and when she tried sucking in a deep breath she started choking on the cookie. This was all her doing!!!

Her young career as a Gryffindor had only just begun--she wasn't ready to die yet!!!!

...And she was still handing out that flyer...? Though she would never ask her that.

Gideon heard yelling from down the table...it was hard not to from the volume coming out of the sunken girl's mouth. He raised an eyebrow as he looked for the source debating speaking up to correct her on her behavior. However Kurumi seemed to have beaten him to it so the prefect simply shook his head and turned back to what had been going on before.

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"Hey Gideon." Anya said brightly greeting the other Gryffindor Prefect. "Where's Selina? Neither one of you got hurt, did you?" she asked.

And as if on cue, Selina appeared. "She still hasn't found that thing?" she asked Gideon.

Gideon was about to answer with a shrug when Selina herself appeared answering her location. "Nae...I don't think so. At least I didn't," he answered, still not at the moment sure of what if anything might be up with his girlfriend. At the third year's finally question all he could do was shake his head.

Nope...Selina Skylar had NOT found Mortimer Yet. Sigh.

SPOILER!!: Ariadne

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And here came the other Prefect. It dawned on Ariadne that although she had seen him around the castle many times, she still didn't know him personally. That should be remedied. She nodded when the boy greeted everyone at the table and waited for him to sit down before she could introduce herself.

'Sorry to barge in like this, I just realized it was weird that we haven't met before. I'm Ariadne Marchbanks, fifth year.' I know who YOU are.

Gideon looked up as someone else tried for his attention, the seventh year seemingly failing a bit this feast since he had done so well being energetic. "Nae...no barging in," he assured her, offering a soft smile as he managed it. "Nice to meet ye, Ariadne..I'm Gideon Gert." Just in case she wasn't aware.

SPOILER!!: Penelope

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A few times? "That's cool. What did you two do?" Penelope was curious to know what boyfriends and girlfriends did - besides kiss of course. She didn't have a boyfriend and no one was interested in being hers, but she still wondered. And oh, that stuff that had happened in Hogsmeade. That was sad, having your wand stolen. "I could've given you mine, if you wanted." She was rubbish at magic anyway, so it wouldn't have been much of a loss for her. Gideon probably had needed a wand then more than she did.

Couldn't go back and change it now though, of course.

But even Penelope noticed the change in Gideon's mood when Selina had appeared to hand out those posters. "Something wrong?" Was he worried about the bat too?

Gideon tilted his head as if thinking, pulling his thoughts back to the events of the summer. "Mostly just hung out around both of our homes, maybe a bit of quidditch mixed in" he answered with a one-armed shrug. Nothing too exciting but that was them in a nutshell. Plus the previous term had been exciting enough.

The prefect waved off her remark about his lost wand. "Nae...I wouldn't have asked that of ye," he said with a shake of his head. "Besides it wasn't that bad with classes mostly over and yer wand works best for ye. There would have been no guarentee it would even work for me."

She had noticed his downtrodden mood...at least that was one but not exactly the one he wanted. "Nae...its nothing," he remarked doing his best to muddle a good expression upon his face.

------Speech-----

As their attention was asked for signalling the start, Gideon turned his attention to the staff table. A very crowded staff table that he hadn't noticed had extra seats on it, but then he should have expected seeing as they couldn't very well have the Board of Governors onboard the train and not invite them to the feast. He listened intently to the start-of-term speech, clapping when it was finished, giving said guests the respect they deserved.

When he moved to turn back to the Gryffindor table to begin the feast now that official business had been taking care of, Gideon's eyes graced the staff sitting there. There were no empty seats except Vindictus and the chair occupied by Astronomy was once more filled making the prefect's eyes widden slightly before he smiled happy at the revelation. YES!! It was to be taught again!

Okay so his mood had been lifted somewhat from its downtrodden state because of Selina.

Harvey looked round as he recognised the voice of the person that called him, he smiled as he looked and saw that very person. He walked over to her "Hey Rons, how are you? Still your excited self?" he asked her as he chuckled. It was always good to see a good friend around here.

Dylan listened as Kurumi talked to him and explained her cookie thing, since she was a first year? wow that means she had been baking for a long time "Wow! and what year are you in now?" he asked so that he could work out how long she had been baking for cause it sure had to be a long time. Well that was nice of her, to not just bake for the students but that staff as well. "She won't take too long to give her speech right?" cause he didn't want to be here for much longer than necessary "Yeah I guess you would, I hope to know the common room well too" he said to her... maybe a little too well maybe escape routes or anything if they have any, which he hoped they would cause he may need them.



Dylan looked over at some as they congratulated them on making Gryffindor, he smiled as he looked over at her an older girl.. man he was meeting alot of older people "Thank you! It was good.. a little bumpy but good. " he said to her still smiling! "How are you? Besides being glad that I made it into the same house as you" he chuckled.



Dylan chuckled as he heard his familiar nickname being called out "Hey Ronnie!" he smiled "Thanks! At least I made one of the houses that I wanted to be in so.. I am good" he said to her "How are you Ronnie?" he asked her as he sat there

Laura looked at Anya and smiled as she nudged her friend hand out of the way so she could talk to her. "Well that is good then." She gave her friend a playful nudge, before whispering to her bestie. "Are you planning on getting married to him?" Laura had thought she would with Oakey but now she wasn't so sure she wanted to anymore, being boyfriend and girlfriend was a lot different to getting married, you really needed to love them for it too last, but well laura had ages to think about that, she wasn't getting married until she was at least 20.

Laura turned to looked at the boy Anya was pointing at, what was she suppost to say, in the end she just decided to say hi. "Hello." Laura didn't even introduce herself because she didn't want to intrude on Anya and Jakes time together, should she go away and speak to Anya later or what, in the end she just stood next to Anya wondering what to do.

Glancing over her shoulder Annie noticed Andrew come around, and sighed as he ruffled her hair, trying to flatten it in vain. "Well I thought we went through this, I don't need you Andrew... so why did you ask to be put with me anyway, I thought you were so consumed in getting into Ravenclaw because of how smart you think you are" she asked almost harshly, though curiosity actually there.

She hadn't thought that he cared about her that much.

"Dragons? That sounds really cool... so they actually exist then!" she exclaimed happily, she'd always loved the idea of dragons when she was a little girl, and now finding out they actually existed! "Yeah... her names Lofty... Andrew got her for me while we were out shortly after we got our letters"

Seeing how Kurumi also addressed her brother she thought that she might take the chance to quickly introduce him to her.

"Kurumi, this is my brother Andrew... apparently he's also in Gryffindor and Andrew... this is Kurumi but she just introduced herself anyway" she said happily, glancing over at the other boy who like her had blonde hair and blue eyes... the family resemblance might be noticed then...

Ronnie shrugged. "I guess. My head still hurts but my mood is a lot better since I'm around all my friends now." she said. "How are you doing? Enjoying the feast?" she asked. Huh. She was a lot more talkative than before now. That was always good, right? Right!

Ronnie smiled at how happy he was to be in Gryffindor. That's the spirit! "I'm pretty good I guess. Had a pretty rough day...but it's becoming a little better." she said with a shrug. She really needed some sleeep. Was the feast over yet or...?

"Ohh, that's cool. Hufflepuff seems like a great house, I'm sure he'll love it." Ronnie said nodding slowly, which made her head hurt more. Jeez! This headache HAD to go. Oh? A barking owl? "Wow, that's interesting." she said thoughtfully.

The elfsies were becoming late, so Pips dragged the plant in the direction of the table dressed in pretty red as well. he wanted to check just to make sure the elvsies were okay before going up to the Headmistress with Red Hair. "Is the leaves bothering the elvsies? Pips can readjust the scary plant leave for his fellow elvsies, he can." Pips could touch the scary plant leaves for the elvsies if he needed. "Pips is also proud of Toddles for being a big and good elfsie. He would have to get Nimma to give Toddles that treat for being so well behaved.

He grabbed hold of the heavy pink plant once more and began to heave it towards the table dressed in red. "Elvsies must get to Headmistress with red Hair quickly if they want to deliver pink plant on time. Elvsies must iron their ears extra hard tonight."

"Yeah. Uh...just sayin' but you look like you have a head ache. Maybe you should go see the nurse?"

Noah walked over to where Jen was sitting.
"Hey Jen Who's your friend?"

"Don't mention it," Kurumi said with a small blush. "I'm not too familiar with the story to be honest. It's not one that is read in Japan around Christmas. Only heard about it when I came here." Like so many other things really.

"N-N-Not really..." Kurumi stammered, showing even more why Paulie had nicknamed her blushes. "They help bake mostly. I remember the first time I went there, in my first year, they went into a slight panic that I insisted on baking cookies myself. One took a cookie tray to their head several times...it was awful. But, now, we sort of have an understanding," she laughed. Whenever a new house elf arrived it was an entirely new story, however.

Kurumi nodded. "I have, and today it felt like it had been forever ago that I came here, with everything that happened on the train and platform...but, now, it feels like just yesterday," she mused as she toyed with her empty goblet. Right. She had been wanting pumpkin juice. "It's been like home. I hope it feels that way for you too."
"I never use magic when I bake," Kurumi chirped, shaking her head. "Baking has always severed as something to remind me that I am more than just a witch. It just seems...wrong to use magic." Of course, Kurumi's thoughts on this ran much much deeper, but she would probably end up talking the entire night about her philosophy of cookies and, well, there were other things that should be discussed and pumpkin juice to be drank.
Kurumi sighed and laughed nervously. "I'll be the first to admit I was a bit panicked, especially seeing everyone getting hurt," she replied. Of course, there was the factor of people getting hurt that wasn't appealing. No one wanted to see their friends injured. But, Kurumi's issue was more with...blood and some student's joint looking, well, not in places that the should be. Kurumi had been the ONLY person to faint in the Healing seminar two terms ago...and there hadn't even been real blood there. "Now that everyone is bandaged up and in the Great Hall, I feel more at ease."

And there was no blood. YAY!
For the 9383438748 time that evening, Kurumi's cheeks flushed brightly with color. Friends. They were something Kurumi had never had before Hogwarts. Something that had seemed like one of life's illusions. The sort of thing one only read about in fantasy books. But all that had changed and dramatically so. Now she knew what friendship was and it wasn't something she could just read about. She could experience it. Breathe it. Feel it. And she was. Every moment of every day, including right now, speaking with Alice.

And it felt wonderful.

"Thanks, Alice," Kurumi smiled. She was too caught up in these thoughts to notice Alice had cut herself off, but it was probably for the best anyway. "Interesting...I think will be an understatement."
Kurumi shook her head, not entirely sure how to proceed with this portion of the conversation. Really, she had nothing to apologize for. Nothing at all. The wounds were still somewhat fresh in Kurumi's heart and it didn't take much for them to be reopen. Only two people were really capable of keeping those wounds at bay, Selina and Lewis. A little bit of Treyen as well. Well, no, not a little...a lot. So three people were able to help Kurumi through the lose. "It's...hard to talk about her," Kurumi clarified. "I don't dislike it...it's just hard." Which hopefully was both reassuring and answered her concerns.

As to what she liked... "I like baking," obviously, "and kendo. My home is partly a dojo. In terms of school creatures."

Kurumi could only really blink and stare at the story being told to her now. "All that...over a sticker?" Kurumi asked, completely not shaken by the behavior but more the cause. Worse things had happened, surely, and to have such an extreme reaction to a stick just seemed so...pointless to Kurumi. Then again, she had been one of those students in her school who wouldn't have even been given a sticker if she had asked due to her small town's xenophobic nature. "Oh, well...he was on his way to the kitchens to make himself a sandwich...guess he didn't want us to follow him? It ended up working in the end though. We got his attention and he heard our request." Even if the Astronomy Tower hadn't actually opened up at that time, their protest had somewhat worked out.

"Just...be careful where you roar...not all the professors are very...kind to Gryffindors," her eyes darted towards the staff table. Gryffindors and, well, Kurumi herself really.
Kurumi simply smiled back and offered Ronnie a small nod. Hopefully the girl would be willing to open up later, on her own terms of course.

Kurumi HAD actually heard James speak to Sarah, but decided not to really say anything since, well, it could have startled him. Kurumi had been the same in her younger years, so she turned her head with a sort hmm? when Sarah spoke to her again.

"Oh, of course you can," Kurumi said, bypassing the he and addressing the new lion directly. Kurumi blushed at the word awesome attached to her name, but tried not to linger on it. "It's nice to meet you James. I hope your sister has explained things to you." She gave Sarah a quick wink.

Maggle school? Kurumi had to pause for a moment to think on that one before remembering the way Thomas spoke. Like...really remember. She could still remember the first time they had had a proper conversation, how hard it had been for her to understand him because of his accent. Now, well, she still struggled sometimes, but she had become used to it. HAD been used to it really, there was going to be some readjusting now that he was back!

"It is," she nodded sadly. Her seventh year. How had time passed so quickly?! Honestly. It really did seem like just yesterday she was at her first opening feast and Cam was charming one of her lion cookies to rawr and paw at the air. "I hope I can make the best of it." Not waste a moment.

Oh, he WAS hungry. To answer his question, all Kurumi did was point upwards towards the still dancing cookies. As many as he wanted. She had been on a baking spree the past few days.

Kurumi wasn't really buying his answer, but she figured that whatever it was that had been going on was not something that he really wanted to discuss. At least not here in the Great Hall in front of all these people. "So," she said as she leaned back to change the subject. "What is the first thing you want to do now that you are back in the castle?"
Kurumi's ears twitched and she snapped her head around to sort of....gawk at Nessie for a moment. Did she just...imply that...her family house elves were... "Actually, they are probably the most hygenic breathing things in the castle," Kurumi replied.

Kurumi's smile faltered for just a moment, but not too long to be noticeable. "Seventh," she replied simply, her tone implying so many other feelings that came with that one word. "Um...not too much longer I would imagine," Kurumi nodded, looking at the staff table again. It did seem like almost everyone was present at least.
Kurumi laughed, rather loudly as well with how she responded to the dragon talk. Kurumi didn't mean to be rude, it was just...cute? It was something Kurumi would have said as a first year actually. "Very much so. Last term we even got to watch a hatching in a lesson." BEST YEAR EVER! And now Kurumi missed Professor Williamson...a lot. "I have a cat as well, Walnut. Well, kneazle actually." One that was too smart for his own good too.

"Oh! This is your brother, well, nice to meet you and welcome again," Kurumi smiled. It must be nice to have siblings in the same house and she had already met two pairs today. This really was going to be a proper pride this term!


And then Headmistress Truebridge had stood up and was giving her speech. Kurumi picked up her still empty goblet and tapped it with a spoon to get the attention of those lions who were still too deep in their own conversations to notice.

And it was apparently that those were not the only words the woman wanted to say. Right? She hadn't actually SAID anything...just introduce people. People that Kurumi recognized from the train ride - especially the man who had told her that she should work in the Ministry's cafeteria. Right...not gonna happen.

Still, Kurumi rose from her seat slightly and clapped loudly for the school's guests and encouraged her housemates to do the same.

Oh! Look who had come to visit!

"PIPS!" Kurumi chirped, glad to see the little house elf again. "You alright there? Would you like some help with...that?" Kurumi pointed to the thing that the little elf was dragging. She really didn't want any of them to iron their ears... "It's no bother at all."

They were getting soooo close to the red hair lady. They were!

Toddles continued to walk under the plant's pot, which probably made it seem like the thing was walking on its own with the other older house elfsies holding it's hands. Teehee that made Toddles giggle a bit. When he was walking Toddle almost missed that he was at the red table.

"PIPS! We're at the RYFFINBLORR Table!!! Remember Toddles telling you elfsies about the catch playing he had here with the shiney? Remember?!" They remembered, he was sure of it. Yes. But more plant carrying.

Beezley beamed, although you really couldn't see her because of the leaves covering all her face. All you could see of Beezley was her little legs buckling under the pressure of the plant, and her elfish ears poking out the top. Beezley could hear just fine, though. "Toddles is being so good this school year. Toddles is growing up right before our very eyes," she said.

The elfsies seemed to be moving all around now. Beezley thought they were at a different table now, but she couldn't be sure. So much movement. So, so much movement. "Beezley thinks they should walk toward Mistress Truebridge now," she said. Beezley didn't to iron her ears. She was too scared.

Kurumi's smiled was widening more and more when Beezley and Pips also made their appearance at the Gryffindor table. Now, wait, where had Algamus gone off to? He had been here earlier looking around...

"Hello Beezley, Pips," Kurumi greeted with a wiiiiiiiide grin. Kurumi tried not to laugh at Pips' enthusiasm. That little house elf had certainly caused quite the stir a few terms ago and then Kurumi had become the unofficial house elf baby sitter - not that she minded. She enjoyed spending time with her family them. "I remember Toddles, staying out of mischief I hear?" she asked, winking at Pips and Beezley. Was Nimma around? Kurumi would love to see her as well.

And, really, DID they need help with the....pink plant?

Pips jumped when he heard someone call his name. He almost dropped the scary pink plant. He turned to see the Prefectsie with the shiny red badge offering help. "Pips is honoired that Mistress Prefectsie is offering help. But Pips is a brave elfsie, he is. He and the other elvsies can carry the big scary plant to Headmistress with Red Hair and iron their ears afterwards. But elvsies is most grateful that Mistress Prefectsie has offered her help, they is. Mistress Prefectsie was very kind ans kept her badge very shiny. Very good studentsie, Pips thought.

"Oh Toddles knows he's being good. But he's not growing up, nope Toddles is still little. But if I grow up will Toddles get to grow a beard like that Professor man?!" That would be worth growing old. The baby elf wondered about those things sometimes. How old was Beezley, would she grow a beard?
A familiar studensie voice made its way down to Toddles way at the bottom of the plant. "Miss Kurumi? Toddles is down here, helllloooo! He's being a good elfsie!" He was going to wave but his hands were too busy lifting the plant above his head so a tiny baby elfsie foot waving in her direction would just have to do.

"Hello Mistress Prefectsie," Pips said, still struggling under the weight of the plant. "Toddles behaves today, so Nimma and Pips is giving Toddles a treat after they is ironing their ears," he clarified.

"Elvsies must be going to Headmistress with Red Hair now," Pips said sadly to the Prefectsie and gently pushing Toddles' waving foot back down. "Then elvsies is ironing ears and is giving Toddles' his treat and then they is going to bed, they is. Tiring to for the elvsies." Yes, it was, indeed. "Goodbye, mistress prefectsie!" Pips led the plant and the elvsies away once more and in the direction- FINALLY- of the Headmistress.

"Oh, hi there. I'm Ronnie." Ronnie said, smiling a little. "You must be Jen's brother.." she said, looking to Jen to make sure she was right.

"I do. A terrible one, that is." she said, rolling her eyes. It sure was annoying as hell. MEHH. "Yeah, I think I will...do you know where she is?" she asked, looking around the Great Hall. She was probably busy with tons of other students...she had seen a lot of people hurt at the station after all that had happened.

Harvey looked at her as she spoke to him, he could see she was not herself. He smiled at what she said though "Aww poor you Rons! well thats good that it is better.. we all like moods that are better" he smiled as she asked how he was "I am good.. yeah I guess I am.. walking around the hall and hanging out with a few people here and there" he chuckled as he looked at her maybe he could improve her mood a little

The very first person who drew Selina's attention toward themselves was the captain's favorite little first year. For a moment, she took the time to really see how much Penelope had grown over the summer. It was always strange to see everyone get older, but it was working on Penelope. Then again she never was as crazy as Anya was in her first year, so it would look nice on Penelope.

But she thought no more of Penelope's age when the younger girl mentioned something with her bat! AHHH HER BAT! Right, that was something that was immensely important at the moment. She could be nostalgic and all of that nonsense later. Besides, she had a feeling that she would be seeing a lot of Penelope this term if she made the team, which was no guarentee but the girl was an amazing flyer.

Wait! 2088? Oh Merlin, she had messed up the bloody year. Turning the flyer that was in Penelope's hand around so Selina could see it better, the redhead nearly groaned. She had spent so much time on these posters OOC. Except not really since Katherine made them that it seemed she had made a hiccup on the date. It was supposed to say 2078, not 2088. Merlin, that was bloody embarrassing. No wonder people had been looking at her cross eyed all day when she was handing out these flyers. They were preoccupied by the date on the posters. It had NOTHING to do with the fact that she was handing out posters for a missing beater bat. Nope.

"Ugh, sorry Penelope. Supposed to say 2078... ugh I feel sort of silly now." She felt silly now... how ironic.



Turning away from Penelope for just a second, Selina caught sight of one of the train climbers. And he was looking at her like she had seven heads or that she was about to make him loose him lunch. With her infamous smirk, she waved at the kid so he knew that she knew he was looking at her. It was not that Selina was upset that these kids were in Gryffindor, quite the opposite. It was more that she was going to have to be one of the three people who kept the reigns on them. Fortunately for them- Selina was really good at enforcing order.

Ask anyone who was ever on her team...



When she heard another voice, Selina turned quickly around on her heal. This person could know where Mortimer was and if they knew where her bat was she would probably die of happiness. But when she saw the new person who was addressing her, as ma'am, which was awesome all on its own, she couldn't help but notice she had never met this Gryffie before. But he was a boy and Gryffindor could always use more testosterone. Honestly, last year there were virtually no boys.

Wait, hold on... did he just state that Mortimer was a bat. What the bloody hell was THAT supposed to mean? Of course he was a bat, what else would he be? With her teeth gritted slightly, Selina sat into her hip and tried not to snap at the newest Gryffindor inducty. Just because Mortimer was a bat did not mean that he was any less than anyone else. It was racist comments like that that were bringing down the wizarding world. People needed to garner some respect and fast.

Letting out a small chuckle, she contained herself, "Yes. He is a bat. And he's missing. AND MAYBE we could be a tad bit more sensitive, eh?" Because she was still just a Mommy who had lost her child. There was only so much she could handle right now.



Before she seriously rung out this boy for being insensitive to her feelings, Selina heard another voice who understood her plight. Little Alice. Selina visibly brightened when she saw the younger girl. The redheaded Captain was quite fond of the younger student. She had been on her team at one point and Alice was the nicest of girls. There was never any problems when Alice was concerned and Selina always appreciated that.

AND SHE seemed to appreciate and understand that Selina was heartbroken by her bat going AWOL. No one else had a heart in her house it seemed. Or at least that last boy had really hurt her feelings about the whole ordeal. "I know, right? Alice it's been the worst two months of my life. No one understands that a girl just needs her bat." It was common knowledge.



It seemed that the rule breaker had finally spotted Selina because while Selina was engaged in conversation with Alice she heard a pointed yell. The scary bat girl was she? Oh well. She had been called worse things during her time at Hogwarts and scary bat girl was not nearly as bad as some of her nicknames. Although most of the nicknames had come from a certain Slytherin sixth year. Elektra never did really know when to stop.

With a smirk on her face, she approached the younger girl and said briefly, "My name's Selina... and I'm the Gryffindor Quidditch Captain, not the scary bat girl." Not that she thought the younger girl would stop calling her that.



Selina then saw her fellow redheaded captain approach the Gryffindor table. She supposed it had something to do with Tom being there and she was right. Not interrupting their conversation the redhead just waved in her fellow captain's direction. Nice girl, Nessie.



Finally, Selina saw Kurumi. Oh they needed to catch up SO terribly. It had been torture not seeing Kurumi all summer. July had been... hard for Kurumi to have any company and Selina understood why. But she had been spirited away to Lewis for the whole month of August, which meant no Kurina time. It was not that Selina was a jealous best friend, but more that she missed her friend more than she could ever put down in words. Their friendship was one of those friendships that sort of defied description. And they had so much to talk about.

So she bolted over to her friend and threw her arms around her in a bear hug. Although, she was sort of curious as to why Kurumi was laughing... Ah well.

When she pulled away she was going to ramble on and on about how much she had missed her when she noticed something odd. Kurumi was wearing her prefect badge. Didn't Kurumi make Head Girl this term? Why was she wearing her prefect badge then? "Erm, Kurumi?" Selina said curiously, "Why aren't you wearing your Head Girl badge?" Odd.



A familiar top of curly hair started to make its way toward Selina while she was busy handing out her flyers when it, somewhat deflated, sat down. The redhead was a little curious as to why her boyfriend was acting so strangely, but that was when she recalled that he had been acting oddly all day. They had not really gotten the chance to talk on the platform when she had been handing out flyers and scolding the first years to get down; they hadn't really talked on the train when she had been handing out the flyers and getting cookies; and now they weren't really talking when she was handing out the flyers and catching up with people. What did all of those moments have in common?

Oh.

Now she felt a little badly about her behavior. She had been so preoccupied with Mortimer that she had not even said hello to him. In all fairness, she hadn't really said hello to anyone, she had more just sort of jumped into conversation, but he was different. He was her boyfriend and one that she had not really seen all that much during the summer. Of course he had popped in a couple of times and they had gone to that one match where they had bumped into Elektra and Ivan, but it wasn't like they saw each other all the time. And she should have realized that he would have liked to have spoken to her.

Walking up behind him, she wrapped her arms around his middle as he was sitting in his seat. She kissed his cheek and whispered in his ear, "Hello sir," with a twinge of jest she asked cutely, "have you seen my beater bat?"