Hecate made her way to the celebration. She wasn't her calm self, she seemed stressed and worn out. She was sure to find the Headmistress here, as well as be present for her Snakes...

... Birds, meet stone.

Of course the Headmistress was here, attending the end of term quidditch whatever thing. She HAD to support #TeamHufflepuff! They were her old house! And what a bunch of winners they were.

She sauntered in in a good mood, then casually made her way toward the Quidditch official. "Tiara. Lovely set-up you have here." And oh, wow, SOMEBODY was dressed to the nines. She gave the woman's dress a head-to-toe glance, then nod, of approval. Merlin. Now Bunz felt silly for wearing pants.

But... there was Hecate, and she wasn't too over-the-top either. "Hecate," she greeted the potions professor levelly.

Even though Schuyler was not a member of the Gryffindor quidditch team, she was still all too content to go to this quidditch celebration. She even wore red. For Gryffindor. This aside, she was here to celebrate all her quidditch friends and even the ones who weren't really her friends. Also the treats. Also, shindigs like this were fun, and they gave her an excuse to dress up, which she liked to do all too much. Briefly, she wondered how Aidan would show up, as she was now aware that fancy attire was not exactly his thing..

"Hi, Professor Tyner," she greeted with a smile. That color looked good on the woman, she noted. The fifth year walked on into the massive tent and her eyes were immediately drawn to the stage, where a soft golden light illuminated the area. It was pretty. Her eyes trailed over now to the table with the food. From here, it looked like mostly dessert things. Treats. Sweets. The snitch cake caught her eye first, and she figured that when it was cut, a quidditch player ought to be the first to have a slice.

Tag walked down towards the Quidditch pitch and shortly found the tent in which the celebration would be held, and walked right inside. It looked like he was exceptionally early. Which was new for him. Upon entering he saw Professor Tyner by the entrance "Hello Professor. The set up all looks very nice. An you look very pretty today." Nod. Yes. That was good, right?

The boy then went on his tiptoes and saw the table filled with OHMYGOSH FOOD!!!!! The boy was grinning cheek to cheek, but he didn't want to be rude and immediately walk over there.

"Hi Professor Lafay. Hello Head Mistress." Tag said greeting the Professor and Headmistress, yes, still smiling. Good manners.

Forrest DID take a shower after the match (his hair was still damp) so he was clean of any sweat, but he wasn't clean of his smug manner. Nope. This was THEIR cup and mainly their celebration. He didn't care if they would also award the best players. The main focus would still be Hufflepuff's success and that deserved smugness.

People would just have to put up with him, it seemed.

Entering the tent in his school robes, he first saw the Quidditch teacher--Tyner, was it?--then the Headmistress, then the students there, and went scarlet from head to toe. He felt so STUPID. He WAS stupid. Of course this was a celebration and people were ought to wear FANCY clothes in them. He looked back at the castle and contemplated changing his clothes. But he was lazy to cover that distance. Plus, what if something important happened while he was away? Nah. He was just going to look dignified. He lifted his head once again and continued walking inside.

See the Hufflepuff crest on his robes? He was a part of that team. The CHAMPIONS. Yeah. Come congratulate him, people.

Cool tent.

Ella approached slowly, fidgeting in her dress as she did. She wasn't exactly sure what the dress code for this thing was but she figured black dress was good either way so she went with that. You couldn't go wrong with black.

Entering the celebration, the blonde paused to greet Professor Tyner. She was looking quite fancy, did she know? Which was awesome because that meant she hadn't went overboard with the dress thing. Sweet. "Hello Professor." Grin. "You look nice." And so did everything else in here, actually. It was a really nice set up and there was food so yeah, she was digging this.

And Professor Lafay looked...like she was on a mission. Ella gave her a polite smile before her gaze went to the headmistress. Was she happy for Hufflepuff? Ella suspected as much and she was just glad she could make the woman proud. Assuming she was proud. Oh gosh, was she proud? O.O ...Anyway. "Hello Headmistress, Professor Lafay."

FOOD!

And people! "Hi Schuyler. Nice dress." Nodnod. It was really pretty and Ella liked the color. As for the leprechaun, he got a big smile too. "Sir Sassy-pants!" He didn't mind her calling him that, yeah? "Any sign of our boy yet?" Yes, their boy. Ella shared Alec with Tag. Or actually, Tag shared with Ella. And she was totally okay with it. She was a leprechaun fan, you know.

And that bludger cookie? That was hers. Just hers. NOM.

And Forrest! Hi Forrest! "Looking good, little badger." Grin.

Nigel was sure he was under dressed when he walked in. Was this suppose to be strictly formal, because nobody told Nigel. He was wearing just a normal outfit just with a tie. Seems like he should have dressed formally. Whatever

But Tag was somewhat casual and since he was sure he was not going to win anything it should be alright. Now this whole thing was new to Nigel. Quidditch awards and everything. The real question was where they going to give all the houses trophies because the is just dumb. Just give the winner the trophy and move on. Who wants a trophy for coming in fourth place. "Hello Professor Lafay. Hello, Headmistress."

Yes, he was not the first student here. Nice. "Hey Schuyler" . His eyes quickly found the food and it did look delicious. And there was Tag and Ella. Which meant that Alec would not be far behind."Hey Tag and Ella"

Time to sit down.

Of course Alec Blake Summers was not too far behind. No. Not at all. Because... Quidditch-related things, you know. He felt as if he needed to be here. So, Alec headed down to the large purple tent, his hands dug into the pockets of his jeans. He... didn't really know what was required for them to wear -- Jeans? Converses? Was he allowed to wear that Snitch t-shirt LochNessie had gotten for him years ago? -- so... he had improvised. This meant that the dorm was messier than ever but... that was something the boy could worry about never later.

Nearing the entrance of the tent, the boy loosened his tie a little bit more before heading over towards... the Quidditch Lady? Yeah, that was her. "Erm... hey Professor!" Professor. It just seemed right, you know? "Brilliant set up!" Because it did look great. A simple peek inside the tent told him all he needed to know. He gave her a small smile before heading into main arena.

... Right. MORE professors. "Hey Headmistress! Professor Lafay!" Waaaaave! Looking around, his eyes then landed on... people. Student people. People he mostly knew, and some he knew a lot better than others. "Hey, you guys!" The Schuyler girl, Ravenclaw Funny Dude, Forrest and his two favourite blondes. BLONDES! Waaaaaves for everyone.

... Also. The boys were dressed kind of casually. Did this mean that he had overdressed...? ... Shrug.

He cast his eyes around the tent, taking in everything in there, until he spotted... something. Something that looked a lot like the snitch? ... Yeah, curious Summers was curious. He moved away from the spot he had been standing and over towards the food table, the grin on his face spreading even wider when he realised what the snitch like object was. "Wow!" A SNITCH CAKE. The house elves had really outdone themselves, did they know?

More important questions were floating through his brain, though. Questions like: were they allowed to have this? And was someone meant to cut it or... could they... help themselves? Because hungry seventeen year old right here!

Ahhh. Ella came in shortly after Tag and she was looking nice as well. "Hello Ella! You look pretty today." Yes, we know you like calling him Sir Sassy Pants. Tag did have his rare moments of sass, he guessed, so he would not object to his nickname. Boy, he had unique nicknames, didn't he? And, apparently they owned Alec, which made Tag smile. "No, I haven't seen him yet. He's probably ruffling his hair to the perfect proportion." That guy could spend minutes on his, but Tag GOT IT.

There came Nigel near by, but it seemed soon after his little greet he went to go take a seat. Tag would just hang around with Ella for the moment till they were told to take a seat. "Hi Nigel!" He quickly greeted the ravenclaw before he was out of earshot.

Who was this little badger ( Forrest) Ella was speaking to? Tag lifted up his hand and outstretched it to the boy. "Hey, I'm Tag." This boy had to be on the Hufflepuff team. He was wearing yellow after all.

Then Schuyler. Tag didn't know her too well, or at all, if he could remember, but he had seen her come in and out of the Gryffindor common room a few times this term. So the blonde boy merely waved at the girl Ella had addressed.

But, just as soon as Tag had greeted everyone here came his favorite hair ruffler. Almost on cue. Tag waved back to his boy best friend. And he seemed really impressed by the snitch cake. Of course he would. SMILE.

Of course Adi could not miss this. He was there for his awesome House! Not to mention the food too. He excitedly stepped under the tent, glancing around as he did so. "Hi, Professors!'' he greeted Lafay and Tyner. "Hello, Headmistress!'' he added to the Hogwarts head.

And look! Captain Ella! "Hi, Ella!'' Adi called, approaching her. "You look pretty,'' he added shyly. She did! He looked around. Hi, Alec!'' Did he get a hair ruffle? Oh! He had not greeted the others. "Hi, you guys.'' Adi grinned at the others. Another Hufflepuff (Forrest), the Claw prefect, the dude that had gotten that spell cast on him in Divination (Tag) and the Gryffindor girl (Schuyler).

Adelaide had taken some time picking out her outfit. Celebration to her meant wearing a dress and she was very excited about being able to get to dress up for once. Even if she had a couple of quidditch bruises, but that was nothing a little cover-up couldn't hide.

She made her way into the tent, trying her best to keep a smile on her face. Obviously Slytherin hadn't done so well this term, but hey. She was still here. Not to mention Addi's dress was in traditional snakey colors. So house support yes?

Now if only she could find one of her teammates or other friends...

Pretty, eh? That was nice of Tag to say. The blonde looked down at her outfit a little sheepishly before looking up again, a small smile on her face. ”Thanks! You look nice too.” And she was sort of jealous she hadn’t thought to wear her converse. His feet were probably more comfy at the moment since her flats tended to pinch her toes. Whoever said pain is beauty deserved a nice bludger to the back. Mhm. The seventeen year old laughed at the ruffling comment and was inclined to agree. ”I bet you’re right. He does like to make sure his hair looks presentable.” Which it always did. Mhm.

And this place was filling up, yeah? There was a Nigel and the blonde gave him a small smile and a wave. “Hey Nigel.” The Ravenclaw was shortly followed by Adi and the boyfriend who did look like he’d spent some time ruffling that hair of his. GRIN! ”Adi, hello!” BEAM. “Thanks, kiddo. You look nice too.” As for the hair whipper, he was more interested in the snitch cake. Of course he would be. Grin.

Tap. Tap. Tap. ”Your captain doesn’t get hugs?” Pouty looks for you, boyfriend. Come on, Summers, properly greet your girlfriend.

And he looked really nice, did he know?

She'd actually arrived at the tent quite early, dressed as casually as possible. Like tee-shorts-badge casual. And then Alice had caught sight of Tyner's ball gown attire... and... and...

... changing. Changing sounded smart.

It hadn't taken her ages to find something slightly Gryffindor-ish in Dora's collection of dresses. The fact that her best had any article of clothing that she actually thought looked decent was surprising, but Alice hadn't questioned it, only shrunk the dress a bit to make it fit and pinned her badge to it. And then returned.

Only to see that... that there were people there now in jeans. Jeans? What?

Damn it. Alice looked for a table to hide behind.

OOC NOTE:

Hey all, sorry to put a damper on the party, but Emily's area has been experiencing severe weather. She's unsure of her internet situation but she is okay.

I'm closing this until she can get on and have a stable connection. Thanks for understanding! <3

Emily's Edit: Go ahead and RP to your heart's content!

Awkward.. Was that the word on how she felt at the moment. Maybe.. Minerva walked into the tent and looked around. She saw her team, but didn't just hurry over to them. No she stood at the entrance looking around. She had been to many of these over the past seven terms, but this.. this was the last one and her team did amazing at the last match and she was so proud of them even if it was hard to sit and the stands and watch.

She headed into the tent, but instead of finding people to mingle with or her team to hug she went over to the food table and got a little snack and drink before turning around to watch again. She wanted to just take it all in, plus after the past few weeks she just had been feeling awkward with her team. Not that they had done anything to make her feel that way, no they made sure she knew she was still part of it. It just was different now.. Keeping a smile on her face she just kept quietly watching.

It only made sense that she came here when she attended almost all the matches. Yeah? Though Slytherin team did not win like last year's she still bothered to come. Because school spirit and all. And there might be food. And this was a very good excuse to not have to study. Exams were nearing. FREAKING OUT ALERT! Cassia immediately tried to push the thought away as she headed towards the tent in which the celebration was held. She wanted to enjoy her time.

The blond made her way into the purple tent, which she approved of because purple was her favorite color and all. Slowly she walked further in inspecting the faces. Everyone was pretty much dressed up for the occasion. She glanced down at her simple dress and wondered if she looked off. She hoped not.

Though it surely wasn't compared to Schuyler's dress. "Hey, there." She grinned at the Gryffindor. "How're you?" she asked and quickly added, "Besides looking great," Because you look great was overrated. And the snake was in the mood to joke. She also hadn't talked to Schuyler for quite a while. Probably because she was flanked by Olly almost all the time.

Letting her eyes trail further down the place, she spotted someone she hadn't gotten to talk to much either in the past period. "T'sup, winner." She winked at Forrest who was looking incredibly cute and proud standing there. Remember when he was afraid of her? Man, that seemed like ages ago. "So, describe your feelings in only three words." she demanded trying to sound serious and intimidating. Could she even be seen like that from his point of view now?

Her team might have not won but she was so very proud of them and glad they were all safe and not injured after this intense season. She searched for her fellow snake and only spotted one. Adelaide! Her dormmate! And who did great it despite it being her first season to play. How did she know? So she heard everyone saying. And anyway, at least the ginger had guts to go out there on a broom in front of hundreds pair of eyes as well as flying crazy balls. Nope, not Cassia's atmosphere. "Hi, Addi," She smiled at her.

Ah, the Headmistress was here! Good, good. That would certainly lend an extra air of importance to the occasion, would it not?

"Why thank you, Annie!" she said with a deferential nod. "It's amazing what a few banners and the help of the Hogwarts house elves can accomplish. I just wanted to do something special for my Quidditch students, and this was what I came up with." They certainly didn't have anything like this when she had been in school here, at least. Maybe this was actually the norm now. "But might I say that you look simply smashing this afternoon." Tiara had heard that fashion was one of Annie's weak spots. "Please, enjoy!" she finished, indicating the insides of the tent.


Ah, a student! Good good, they had seen the notices on their house boards. "Good afternoon," she replied to the young lion. Had they met before? I... don't think so. At least that gave Tiara an excuse to not know the girl's name.


A second Gryffindor. I hope that announcement didn't get taken down in the other common rooms. It wouldn't be much of a celebration if the winners weren't all here, after all. "Good afternoon, Tag. Yes, thank you. Although I cannot take full credit, of course, since the house elves prepared the spread in the back." She smiled down at him at the compliment to her outfit. "It seems you have had some training in good etiquette, Mr. Kildare. Excellent. Please, go enjoy yourself," she finished, gesturing inside the tent.


"Ah, Miss Bishop, the lady of the hour! And dressed in a House color as well, very classy." The compliment to her own outfit was mostly ignored in favor of the victorious Captain's arrival. "Please, this is, as they say, your party. Go enjoy!"

As Ella was about to depart, she leaned in close and whispered in the girl's ear. "The bludger cookies are the best. Get one before they're all snatched up." She winked and gestured towards the food table. Oh yes, Tyner had heard about the Badger obsession with cookies.


And not surprisingly, the Hufflepuff Seeker was close behind his Captain. "Mr. Summers, I'm glad you could make it! The championship-winning Seeker is, after all, bound to be one of the most popular people at the party." So it was a good thing he was here. Tiara had a secret fear that the whole thing would be a flop. Planning and hosting social gatherings was not exactly in the list of her top ten skills.

But speaking of the set up, he had complimented her on it. "Well thank you, there's nothing a few banners and some house elf aid can't do, it seems!" Plus a few charms, of course, such as the one currently creating the glow around the stage. "Please, go enjoy!" she said, ushering him into the tent.


As Alec made his way in, Tiara caught another greeting, this time from a student she hadn't yet had the pleasure to meet. "Good afternoon and welcome! Enjoy the party!"

Of course Josephina HAD to show up because most importantly of all, she was Head of House for the winning team. And she was uber proud of her house, so why shouldn't she be there?

Entering the tent, she glanced around and took in the decor for a moment or two before deciding who to approach first. The quidditch official, perhaps? OR her captain, for SURE! Spotting her first, the head of house strode over to the sixth year's side.

"Captain Bishop!" Hadley exclaimed, approaching the all too happy captain (but why SHOULDN'T she be all smiles). "I must say, .... well done! AND by golly, that snidge cake looks almost too good to eat!" Yes, she still called it a snidge. Old habits were hard to break.

West had decided to be in a good mood. It wasn't even pretending, it was a decision. He'd used eye drops to fix his eyes up after blood vessel issues from stress a few hours earlier, and there wasn't any physical sign that there was anything wrong with him so he was good to go with his decided good mood and whatever.

The tall Slytherin had a spring in his step and a smile on his face when he arrived at the giant purple tent. Hey there was food here, right?

She wasn't late was she?
The seventh year walked into the quidditch party set slowly looking around and noting that there was barely anyone in the tent... This was suppose to be a party yeah? She tossed her Hair back over her shoulder and played with the charms on her necklace. Oh there was Min and an Odessa. They both got waves as she saw them. hey guys, hey. Anyway there was snacks here and Ari made a beeline right for the snack table grabbing a cup of pumpkin juice and downing half of it before stopping. She was thirsty ok?

Anya walked into the party holding Jake's hand. She was proud of him. Why? Because he was on the leaderboard for keeping, chasing, and beating! Proud Anya was proud.

And she was pretty sure she'd been talking his ear off since they left the common room.

Another Quidditch awards ceremony thing. At least this one was a group one instead of separated by common rooms. Those weren't as fun as these that included everyone. Especially since those had been sorta ruined by stupid dementors. But this term was free of them and it was very nice and lovely and all that good stuff.

Penelope entered the tent and saw that a lot of people were there already, and she might have started making her way through the crowd to find someone to talk to, but then she spotted the food table. So, of course, she immediately went in that direction.

Mmmm. Food. It all looked amazing. She picked up a quaffle!cookie to start off with and took a bite. Just as yummy as it looked. Awesome.

Would it be bad to say that Jake wasn't really paying attention to what Anya was saying? He was mostly just listening to her voice, because she was talking at speeds so fast that he couldn't keep up. He did manage to nod in all the right places, though.

"Hungry?" he asked. Without waiting for an answer he headed over to food and grabbed a quaffle cookie and handed it to her, then grabbed one for himself. Food was the best part of Quidditch parties.

Well, now the tent was filling up with more and more people. Oh look, there was the cute boy from the train station. He was the seeker for Hufflepuff, wasn't he?

There was a dress compliment coming from behind her, and she turned with a smile to see the champion captain herself. "Thanks, Ella. Congrats on the Hufflepuff win, by the way," she added. The team had earned the big banners here, so Schuyler imagined Ella must have been feeling pretty on top of the world right now to have led her team to the championship title.

The next voice was considerably lower. Nigel, of course. "Hey, Nigel," she greeted in return. Mr. Quidditch player prefect right here. But she didn't have time to say another word to the guy because then there was Ella's boyfriend, Alec approaching with an exuberant 'Hey guys!' and Schuyler couldn't help but grin, even if she didn't really know him.

She caught sight of Tag waving her way, and she waved back with friendly smile. She hadn't really talked to him much, which was fairly inexcusable considering he was a fifth year Gryffindor. She shifted to direct the smile to the first year Hufflepuff who now was bidding hello. Her eyes flickered around and eventually landed on another Gryffindor. The Gryffindor captain, to be more specific. Not only in a dress, but strapless. She wore it well. "Alice," she said, a little louder than normal because of the crowd. "You look really good in that dress." Although the converse with it? Schuyler couldn't say she was a fan. Difference in taste, that's all.

There was a flash of blonde and a 'hey there,' and there was Cassia. "Hey yourself," she grinned, giving the Slytherin a poke. "I haven't properly talked to you in ages, you know." Shame on them. Schuyler missed her. But anyway, how was she? "I'm well, no complaints. You?" She lowered her eyes to get a better look at the other girl's dress and she realized that the print was floral. Roses. "Aah! Cute," she said, nodding to it.

Noticing a familiar lanky, spring-stepped snake joining everyone, Schuyler threw a smile and a wave in West's direction. Someone was happy.