Originally Posted by Bazinga (Post 11250832)

Minerva had seen Ameliah walking and was going to say something, but her friend spotted her and started over. Smiling she was happy to see her, they hadn't seen each other all term. Was she hiding for a reason or just busy with classes Min wondered. Shrugging it off she smiled "Am where have you been hiding? Sad that it takes the common room being locked for you to come out and be social." She joked with her friend and gave her a hug.

What has she been up to.. That was a crazy question within itself for this term at least. "Well..... Let's see, I moved in with my muggle grandparents over the summer and wasn't suppose to come back, but then got to come back." Yes that was new, "I've been crazy busy with classes, Maxwell and I are no longer together, he is actually with a claw named Elliot. I have been announcing quidditch games, which as been a blast. I'm still changing my hair that's not new." She giggled about the hair knowing Am would like that comment. "Oh and the best part of my term. I'm dating a fifth year claw now, and he is just wonderful." She smiled with her last statement super happy about it.

Originally Posted by Presley Black (Post 11250965)

Good. She was working on Homework. This was turning out better than expected. "Presley Black, fifth year." Presley introduced herself in the same manner as the firstie had, shaking her hand. "I also am working on homework. Studying for my O.W.L.'s mostly." Because at this time in the year, any fifth year doing anything else was crazy. Psychotically crazy.

The fifteen year old studied the kid for a second before just blurting out her idea. "I have an idea. How about if I help you out with your homework, and you help me?" Lay out the basics, then expand the idea. "I can help you out with that spell, but more importantly, can you quiz me from my books? It'll help me, and by the time your fifth year rolls around you'll already be familiar with the concepts." Right? Any Ravenclaw firstie would jump at the chance to be helped on homework by a fifth year. Hopefully this kid was on the same page.

Originally Posted by nogoodforyou (Post 11250347)

She knew she was late.

Well, they hadn't set a certain hour to meet, only that they'd see each other in the courtyard after cleaning themselves. She still couldn't stop thinking about that awfully disgusting water that filled that corridor... ugh.

Walking at a fast pace, Nora finally reached the large doors that led outside, and instantly spotted Cora. "Cleany clean, I am," she said with a large grin on her face when she was close enough not to yell to be heard, and finally took a seat next to her friend. "I'm sorry it took me so long, though." She just wanted to make sure she got off all that icky yuckyness.

Originally Posted by FireboltSword (Post 11251017)

Good thing the Ravenclaw student still offered her her hand despite all the books she's carrying. "Nice to meet you, Presley. Wow, you're on fifth year? Blimey!", she said surprisingly as she was very astounded by her young looks.

"Really, you're taking your O.W.L.s now? I'm soo excited to take that too when I get to fifth year. How is it like? What do you study on OWLs?", she asked the girl excitedly as she's been wanting to take those already.

Then Presley asked her for some exchange, that she will offer herself to practice with her with the spell, and for exchange, she will help Presley study her O.W.L.s. Hmm...this is great! she thought. Befelda gave sign of approval. "Hmm...that's a brilliant idea. Ok, I'll help you study your OWLs then you will be going to help me practice the spell.....but, how am I going to help you with those books....I mean with your OWLs?" she asked as she had no idea how to help her study since she has no knowledge on the OWLs yet.

Originally Posted by Presley Black (Post 11251206)

Hufflepuffs. Didn't Presley look fifteen at least? Well, maybe not in her dance gear. "They're in a couple of months," Presley replied. Which meant it really was crunch time. "It's stressful, really. Mostly just way advanced versions of what you're studying right now." Plus a couple of extras. Presley planned to get all 12 OWL's.

They'd finally come to the point. "Well, I've written up a list of questions to study" Presley handed the book on the top of the stack to the girl, and set the rest on the ground. "And the answers are on there too. I study best when I'm dancing, so if you could ask me the questions and check my answers while I work on my variation, that would be great. Then you can jinx me to your hearts content." Presley wouldn't even mind being jinxed half to death if it meant she would get 12 O.W.L.'s.

OOC: Just ask her any Harry Potter question you can think of. (:

Originally Posted by ameliah_longbottom (Post 11251004)

Ameliah made a joke stink face and laughed. "I haven't been hiding, I've been apparently just not around enough." She hadn't seen ANYONE lately. POUT. She raised her eyebrow as Minnie summed up her term. Well, she had known Minnie and Max weren't together, but Maxwell and Elliot...? Ugh. Am hadn't met much of Eilliot, but enough to know she was pretty bratty. She grinned. "Yeah I noticed, still loving your hair though!" And now Mins had a new boyfriend... she had to check him out sometime.

It seemed to be Ameliah's turn to talk. "Well for me, me and Harvs aren't together, he broke up with me last summer. I'm pretty sure he and Ella are together now. I've been training with my old friend Fergus to make my reflexes more controlled. AND guess who I'm dating now!!!" Cause she wasn't gonna say unless Minnie guessed, or if it just burst outta the Claw. The second was more probable.

Originally Posted by CassiopeiaAKTF (Post 11249431)

There it was again. The *i'm sure you will do fine* speech. Why did people always think that he would do fine with his exams? Were they feeling bad for him that they knew he wouldn't make it so they lied to him? Because he just KNOWS he wasn't going to ace it!

Breathing rather loudly, Daichi realized what he was thinking again and tried to calm himself. Before his fifth year he hadn't felt this much pressure before and he thought it was a miracle he wasn't in the hospital wing yet for a calming potion...

Eventually, his breathing came to normal and he watched Indy as she took the bracelet from him. His heart was pounding now as he waited for a sign that she liked it. And when she said she did his cheeks blushed again. "R-really?" he asked as his eyes watched how she put the bracelet on her wrist. "I-i'm happy to hear that" he wasn't going to say that he had had that bracelet in his pocket for a year now. That would be just awkward...

But the fact that she had accepted the gift was special to Daichi. It meant that this was his chance right? His hands were shaking again though he didn't know if it was from the cold or the nerves. "Indy?" his voice was soft, maybe not even audible when a strong gust of wind swept over the courtyard. "Do you.." Another strong blowing wind rushed over as the snow was covering the duck hat he was wearing. "want to" Again, the wind blew so loudly that he couldn't even hear his own voice. Getting frustrated by the irritating wind that was ruining EVERYTHING, the Slytherin took a deep breath to shout over the loud breezing wind.

"WANT TO GO OUT WITH ME!?" Daichi froze when he realized that the wind had not been loud this time and he had just literally shouted to the Ravenclaw. "I-i'm sorry! i didn't mean to shout, the wind.. and the wind!" he waved flailed his arms up and down and then quickly walked to the entrance to the castle. Feeling embarrased yet at the same time he hoped that Indy would stop him...

Originally Posted by Bazinga (Post 11251409)

Minerva laughed a bit as Am commented on her hair, "Well some things will never change." Yes, Min would never grow tired of changing her hair different ways. She watched Am as she talked and noticed a few things, her shock or eye brow raise to Elliot, hmm maybe she was another person that finally saw through Elliot. Min made sure to make a mental note to ask her about this one day. Then the look with Ethan, "He is in your house, do you know him?"

"Yes I did know that you and Harvs ended, he told me when I got back to school and yes him and Ella are together." They were adorable together, but Min wasn't sure whether to actually say that or not. She named a friend that Min kind of remembered, "Now this was a friend from home, correct? Your with your aunt now aren't you? How did that go this summer?" She thought they had fixed things, but wasn't completely sure. Then her eyes grew a bit bigger.. She was dating someone new well that was great! "Well there are a ton of boys here at school, at least give me year and house..."

Originally Posted by ameliah_longbottom (Post 11251472)

Ameliah shook her head at Minnie's question. "Nah, I don't think I do. You'll have to take me to meet him sometime!" So Am can see if he's worth Min or not. Cause if he's a jerk like Elliot, he can go *away*. She nodded. "Yeah, Fergus is one of my old friends from before I came to Hogwarts. And me and Aunt Lucretia have been going really well. Oh and we found my dad at some point over the summer, turns out he was alive." Ameliah was never going to get used to that. She giggled. "Well, you should know him... he's on a break from Hogwarts but technically he should be in my year, in Gryffindor."

Originally Posted by Bazinga (Post 11251583)

Minerva smiled, "Well of course I can introduce you some time. I want him to meet all my friends." Poor guy, Minerva thought, that was so many friends he would have to meet. She hoped he didn't mind the social world, because she was big on being social. She was right about the friend and she smiled about her aunt. 'That's great that you and your aunt are getting along, and WHAT? Am that's great that your dad is alive and now you get to know him." That was exciting new, well she hoped it was at least.

Then she tried to think, he was at hogwarts, but not right now. He would be a third year.. She wasn't sure, but then something hit her. "It wouldn't be Logan would it?" She smiled thinking of her friend that she hadn't talked to in ages. She wondered how he was doing, but if he was dating Am, she knew he must be doing well.

Originally Posted by ameliah_longbottom (Post 11251918)

Ameliah grinned. "GOOD." Let the research begin.... "I've been hanging a lot with Dad, he's kind of like Harvs and me combined." And certainly NO different than Am remembered him. Her face split into a grin and her cheeks went a little pink just at the sound of Logan's name. "Well yes it is Logan," she said with a giggle that widened her smile even more. The funny thing is, though, that he was the other guy Minnie got mad at her for hanging out with and supposedly trying to "steal". The other one was Harvey. MINNIE YOU PHSYCIC.

Originally Posted by Bazinga (Post 11252466)

Minerva smiled, she was so glad that Am was getting to be with her real family and was getting along with them so well. "It's nice to know how great it's going for you. I am really happy for you. All that time that she and your aunt fought and now look. It's just great." She smiled, really happy for her friend.

Then she laughed, "Wow I do guess well don't I. Logan's a great boy, but I guess I don't need to tell you that. You hung out with him enough last term to know." Funny Ella was with Logan and Min remembered being annoyed with Am by her friendship or whatever with Logan. Now she was with Logan and Ella was with Harvey. Weird how things work out.

Originally Posted by ashfig (Post 11251102)

Originally Posted by FireboltSword (Post 11251271)

Befelda still couldn't believe that the young-looking Raven girl was already in her fifth year. She thought she was only in her third year, she seemed mesmerized. But then, the girl really looks cramming with her OWL's.

Befelda reached for the book that Presley has handed her and scanned it. "Hmm...you have an interesting way of studying your OWLs, huh? Dancing.", she said to Presley though she seemed a little bit peculiar but she thought dancing could be a fun way of studying lessons, it was like singing in the bathroom while taking a shower. Ehem.... After scanning the pages, she turned to Presley. "Alright. So I'll be asking you some questions. Ok, let's see.....ah!", she said when she saw the lessons on the DADA spells.

"Here. What does the Levicorpus do to the target?" she asked Presley.

Originally Posted by Presley Black (Post 11252672)

Presley chuckled. It was interesting. And if one knew nothing about Presley Black, frankly bizarre. "I'm a professional dancer," she explained easily. She'd even danced once with the Paris Ballet. An accomplishment that she was most proud of.

Pres began her warm-up routine, stretching out all of her muscles as Befelda asked questions. "Levitates the person holding by the right ankle. Best done non-verbally." She responded. Was it the right ankle? Maybe it was left. The tripping hex was definitely left....If she was wrong, the firstie would correct her.

Originally Posted by ameliah_longbottom (Post 11252591)

Ameliah just smiled. "Yeah, things did work out pretty well, huh?" She then laughed. "You are a pretty great guesser, it seems you already guessed us in my first year," she said jokingly. "But seriously, it's kinda funny how you got freaked out over Harvey and Logan and now...." Well that all happened!

Originally Posted by therock_sorceress (Post 11252789)

Mick walked around, with his digital camera in hand; not really pointing and clicking anything in particular. On mellow days like this, he likes to leave his finger on the shutter button and just press it 50 times a minute. He has learned that he takes interesting photos that way. And with spring in the way, he'll take beautifully interesting photos.

Not too far from where he stands, Mick saw Laura and assumingly her friends. Oh yeah, she did say that she wanted to introduce me. And I want to meet her friends, this is perfect. He headed over to the 3 girls as he raised his camera towards his face. "Don't stop what you're doing," he called out to them, adjusting the color on his camera to black and white. "I want a natural, picture fromy ou guys!" *FLICKER* The flash wasn't too much, the colors (or lack of) were terrific, and the girls looked great. The picture was a success. Mick smiled at Laura and her two friends, hoping that didn't weird them out. If it did, I certainly left an impression...

"Hi ladies," he said, turning to her friends. "I'm the famous Mick DeLarge."

Originally Posted by Harry174 (Post 11252791)

Laura looked at Mick and hugged him. "Mick!!!!!!!!" Laura smiled, there her friends have met him so now he could leave right. "I just wanted you too meet them." Laura looked at Mick and sighed, she so wanted them to get along but well she wanted to speak to Ella and Sophie on their own so now he could go and she would find him later.

Originally Posted by Bazinga (Post 11252761)

Minerva listened and looked confused at Am, she guessed them in first year. First year seemed so long ago, even if it was Am first year. She tried to think about that for a bit. What did she mean by guessing them. Then it hit her, yes she did remember Am being very friendly with both Harvs and Logan, and she did remembered being protective, but that's just how she was with all her friends. Smiling and laughing a bit, "Well I guess I just have a thing for predicting people that should be dating or that like each other even if they are saying they don't" Which wasn't a lie, since she did match make a few of her friends over the last few terms. "So what else is going on?"

Originally Posted by FireboltSword (Post 11252731)

Befelda was amazed Presley has got the answer right. "Brilliant! That's right. Well, I guess, it's the right ankle." She was not really sure.

Then Befelda scanned the pages of the book and looked for another question. "Ah...here. What is a Wiggenweld Potion and what does it do or effect to a person?", she asked as she saw the potions studies. Befelda loves Potions lessons.