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Lucy made ​​her way to the back of the train carriages .. she did not want to leave her snowy owl too long alone and a certain point, as she passed in the corridor, she saw something gleaming, a white and gold glitter.. she turned around and saw a girl holding a snow globe in her hand .. Lucy, overlooking on the door of the compartment, said: "It' s really wonderful your snow globe..it is very sparkly! I love so much the snow globes!The snow globes make me daydreaming!..Oh I'm Lucy,this is my first year here and I'm a first year..What's your name?"said Lucy, giving her hand to the girl..

Now Leah and her kneazle made their way to the front of the train, and randomly peeked through a door. It seemed vacant at first, but a closer look told her that there were two girls in there, probably introducing themselves. The second year skipped into this scene. "Hello, do you mind if I sit down?" She pointed at the seat opposite them.

"I hope I wasn't interrupting," she apologized, "Er... I'm Leah, second year, and this is my kneazle, Filomena." Leah thought that it was not right to stay quiet when one girl was introducing herself already. "Nice snow globe you have there." She commented.

Ellinia looked up from her snow globe when she heard the intruder speak. Eyes wide in surprise she didn't know what to say. Instead, she jumped slightly in her seat before standing and smoothing out her clothes with one hand. If they could even be considered clothes - she was wearing her first year robes. Her mommy had said they would be pretty and magic-y. Ellinia just found them itchy.

"T-thank you," Ellinia muttered, shaking the girl's hand. WAS HER HAND SWEATY? She really hoped not. The girl quickly sat back down and placed her snow globe back on her lap, causing the fake snow in the globe to spin around before settling slowly. "I'm Ellinia and I'm also a... uh... f-first year," she said, giving the girl a small smile. People were talking to her. That was weird. Hogwarts people were nice like her mommy had said.

She held her snow globe a little bit closer when she heard the door open.

Another person was here. Was she popular now? Was it the snow globes? She knew her sisters were wrong when they said that she'd be weird if she kept carrying around a snow globe. "Oh, uh, no, please sit down," Ellinia said, gesturing to a seat before quickly grabbing her snow globe. She didn't want it to flop and crash to the ground. That would be horrible. And the girl had a kitty. Except the girl called it a kneazle. What was a kneazle? Was it a common thing? She'd pretend it was. "I'm Ellinia," she said. "It's nice to meet you," Ellinia added quickly. Because the girl was older. This Leah was a second year. That meant she had been at the school for two years.

So it would be manners. Right? "That's a really nice kneazle," she said.

Bree really wanted to make friends around here being on this whole new journey, she certainly did not want to go it alone. She found a compartment with a few girls who looked about her age and entered it. Hi, I'm Bree, mind if I join you girls.", Bree said as she noticed one girls snow globe of a castle that looked just like one in her letter. "Oh my gosh, is that a Hogwarts snow globe. That's so cool!", Bree exclaimed lightly trying not break the sound barrier. Seeing a more 3d model of Hogwarts was making her all the more excited to see the real thing.

"Hello Bree, nice to meet you!", said Lucy .. Lucy was really happy and excited ..a short time ago she was sitting alone and now she was in the company of all those girls her age! She looked at her schoolmates and said, "I hope that we are all in the same House!"

Derry was pretty unimpressed with today, Hugo had woken her up at stupid o'clock, and then she'd spent hours waiting around for her dad to take her down to London... which he hadn't. Her parents had both been pre-occupied and things were running over and she was getting later and later...

So she'd come by herself in the end. Not impressed. Her last year at Hogwarts and she'd come to the station by herself. Great. She got her trunk on the train, then searched for an empty compartment. It didn't take her long, and she hadn't had to scowl at anyone for being in the way yet, so at least that was a small victory.

She found a compartment and closed the door behind her, chucking her bag on a chair and falling heavily into one of the seats by the window. Well, at least she was sat down now. Derry grabbed one of her lollipops from her bag and unwrapped it quickly, hiding the rest of them. She wasn't in the mood to share sweets today, people. Not in the mood. Grump. Huff. Grr. Time to stare out the window dramatically and attempt relaxing.

Derry was beginning to relax a little. It was nice to be out of the house, even though she'd been there for the sum total of about two weeks for the whole summer, and she was almost relieved to be going back to Hogwarts. At least if she got annoyed when she was at school she could go flying or something, back home she was questioned at every single turn, even if all she wanted to do was take her horse out for a ride.

She closed her eyes and leaned her head back, wishing they could just get going already. It felt stupid to come down to London just to head all the way back up to Scotland again, but at least she'd see her friends... probably... if they turned up... though to be honest it was probably her fault for not looking for them. But she still had gifts to give them from her travels. Eh, oh well. Derry's eyes snapped open when she heard the door go and she crunched the rest of her lollipop. Oh... "Hey, Caleb." she said, smiling a little at the boy. "Yeah, sure, sit down, it's fine." She sat up a bit so she wasn't spread out over three seats - thank you lanky legs - and chucked her bag on the floor. "You alright?"

Bree looked toward the girl who addressed her and smiled, "Thanks, so what's you're name". The same girl was soon saying she hoped they all ended up in the same house. That would certainly be nice but what were the odds. Just be positive, who knows what can happen "That would be awesome, so what house would you guys like to be in or are in?".

Which house I'd like to belong.. Lucy muttered.."My father was a Hufflepuff but he always has said that I'm not patient rather I'm a little nervous and I'm not hardworking.. but I really love the plants.. My mother is a Muggle and she says that whatever Sortin Hat decides will be fine .. I think I'm a combination of many different things and I don't know which house could suit me .. But I really admire the courage and audacity of Gryffindors and so I'd feel proud to be part of that house..And you?"

Play wiff me? :3
 

Penelope walked around, looking for a compartment to sit in. Spotting a compartment with a few girls who looked her age, she entered the compartment. "Hi, I'm Penelope. Can I join you?" she asked, looking around the compartment. One of the girls had a Hogwarts snow globe. "That's a pretty snow globe," she said.

"I don't know. I only recently found out I was a witch. I grew up with a muggle family who adopted me when I was 6 months old. I was told my parents died in a house fire but the truth is my parents were bad wizards who set up the fire, but were caught soon after and now reside in Azkaban. and I am lucky to be alive thanks to muggle authorities. They were both Slytherins. I at first thought that is the last house I would want to be in but reading up on that house I see that Slytherin values are not horrible and that they could do good with their sly and cunning if they use it against evil. If I do become Slytherin I believe I could help the Slytherin house earn a good rep and perhaps prevent future bad witches from sliding down that slippery slope they think is their only option".

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The time had finally arrived! Valon was that much closer to stepping on Hogwarts grounds. Leaving his mother was the toughest part of all this, not because he was going to miss her but because he didn't want her to be alone. They were still new to England, after all.

After securing his trunks he made his way to the compartments, there were crowds of people and all he wanted was a place to sit and probably read a book or play with his cat, Gatinho.

Looking left and right compartments were filling up quick! My goodness there were lots of people here. The new soon-to-be Hogwartian spotted a compartment, upon all the chatter going on around him he smiled and settled for the empty compartment.

First things first, Valon arranged his carry-on next to him and placed his cat on his lap. Sighing and feeling a tad bit nervous all of sudden, the sixteen year old looked out the window and traced his name on it.

A girl with bright red hair had scoured the train thus far and hadn't found a compartment yet that she could sit in. She was throwing glances into the windows. Each so far was full, or was occupied by someone she knew she did not get along with. She passed one compartment that was empty except for one boy, and she thought she spotted a cage.

Kanna backtracked, unsure if she wanted to venture further down the train and risk being crammed into a compartment. Tapping politely on the glass, she poked her head in, pulling her shoulder bag close to hers o people could still walk by.

"Excuse me," she said, "May I join you?". She did not recognize the boy, which she liked, but he did not appear to be the most jovial right now, which discouraged her. She was ready to politely nod and leave, something that she needed to be ready to do more often.

The compartment she had entered was getting crowded. Too crowded for Penelope. She exited the compartment and went to find a compartment with fewer people in it. Most of the compartments were full, but she found a compartment with two other people in it and entered the compartment. "Hi, I'm Penelope. I'm a first year," she said, "What are your names?"

Having spent a lot of the train journey so far with her boyfriend, Cris, and Jasmine, Lux decided that it was a good idea to maybe get up for a little while and walk around a bit. She would come back to the middle of the train of course, but she wanted to explore some more and see if she could spot other people she knew in order to say hello.

As she reached the front of the train, she saw her good friend Ana sitting alone in one of the compartments, which made her smile because Ana was awesome.

Heading over to the doorway, she stood in the threshold, knowing that the polite thing to do would be to ask to join instead of randomly walking in and sitting down. "Hey, Ana. Mind if I join you?"

As soon as Ana had given her approval, Lux bounded into the compartment and took a seat beside the other girl. "I thought it was good to be proper," she said with a laugh before pulling her friend into a hug. Even though they had seen each other recently, it had felt like ages. Besides, Ana gave some of her favourite hugs though of course Bay's were the nicest.

Stretching her legs out in front of her, Lux got herself comfortable on the seat. "So you excited to go back? Where is Terry?" She had not spoken much to him, and always felt that it would be great to get to know him better. Hopefully that would happen this term, and no one else would start ageing again because that would be dreadful. Once was enough, and Lux never wanted to witness it again.

Things at Hogwarts were going to be perfect, she kept telling herself.

Griffin, i suppose u are talking bout us. If not pardon me.
 

Gareth scoffed and started to watch outside from the window. Maybe if he tried to sleep this journey in this stupid train would pass quickly and he could bear the time it took that way until he could get rid of it. Where was he going to lean his head to sleep though? He had no doubt that, as filthy as the train was, it must be dirty and filthy everywhere and he was not going to lean his head on filth.

He was annoyed. And when he heard the tapping on the compartment door, he was even more annoyed. What did they want? With a deep frown on his face, Gary stared at the girl who just...asked if she could join her. The Slytherin boy eyed the girl from head to feet. She didn't look stupid, like a mess or whatever he didn't like. And actually...she could be considered a pretty girl, so why not? Plus if he couldn't sleep, having a conversation with a girl could make the journey kind of bearable.

He gave her a polite a nod and shifted his gaze on his owl. "Careful with the bird, though."

And someone else walked in. Gareth raised his eyebrows at the small girl. Oh...she seemed to be brave walking into his compartment like this, not knocking or else notifying him of her existence before talking to him. So, she was a firstie. Well, that explained things a bit but still they needed to learn, did not they?

"What do you want?" Gareth told the little one curtly

"Yeah, pretty good summer - considering that we hadn't died and stuff from old age," Caleb said with a chuckle. He took his trunk and lifted it up onto the luggage rack and then plopped down oppose of her. He leaned back and propped his feet up, hoping that she wouldn't mind if he made himself comfortable - he was wearing new trainers so it's not like they were dirty or anything.

"So, ready for your last year?" he asked with a small smile. He wasn't sure if she was upset about leaving or excited - it was always one or the other with seventh years, it seemed.

Lux couldn't help but laugh at that teasing comment about her becoming a proper lady. "I am not sure I am totally there yet. I haven't mastered the high heel yet." Every time she had tried, she walked around super wobbly; one time she ended up with a sprained ankle. Not only had that hurt, but it also meant that she was stuck in bed not doing anything. Booooooring!

Of course Ana was excited about Hogwarts. Everyone seemed to be on the most part! "Babushka? So that's your grandmother, right?" It had to be if Ana had looked like an old woman last term. It must be scary to look like your own grandmother; Lux loved both of hers, but she would cry if she had woken up one morning and looked into a mirror to see that she resembled one of them. Fortunately, the topic of Terry drove that thought out of her head. "Oh, I lost Bay earlier too. But I found him again, so it was great!" She had been sad when she lost sight of him.

"I'm really looking forward to starting another term at school, though I really hope that nothing like last year happens again." The Muggle Studies lesson about death had been the worst part, because there had been a coffin involved. That had totally freaked her out. "And the last time I saw Bay, he was going to the food trolley because he didn't eat lunch before the train, or bring one." Eye roll. "Of course I have some cucumber sandwiches, but he hates them. He also told me he would bring me back something!"

This would not work, Penelope thought. Instead of finding a quiet spot, I seem to have bothered an unfriendly, and much older student. "Sorry to bother you, I'll just leave."

Even though Lux knew that Ana was joking, she pretended that her friend was being totally serious. "I don't think I will EVER be a proper lady." Dramatic sigh and a few sniffles thrown in. But seriously though, she wondered how Ana managed to do it. Even with the bit of advice, it still seemed almost impossible; with wide eyes, she stared at the four inch heels. "If I tried those, I would break something, I just know it." Heel related accidents were very much a reality for Lux. "So basically, I need all the help I can get."

Oh, awesome. She had remembered something correctly. Though, she wasn't sure how much of that had been memory, and how much of it had been logic... Regardless, the girl was proud of herself. "That is totally understandable, I wouldn't want to look like either of my grandmothers, even though I love them." If Ana was lucky, she would age like her Babushka.

The cucumber sandwich theory made Lux laugh and shake her head. "You might be on to something there. Bay tried to eat one last term, and he threw it up." So long story short, she had learned her lesson and never asked him to eat one since that day. It was a good thing that he hadn't gotten mad at her over it, because she felt terrible and didn't want Bay angry at her. "But Louis, Lucas, and Sander like them! Sander's brother Cris doesn't though." Oh well. That was life. "My birthday was great! I had a lot of fun though I missed seeing you there." It was okay though; Lux totally understood.

Posted Kanna in the wrong color by mistake DX
 

She smiled, taken off guard by his granted permission to join him. She closed the compartment door behind her and took the seat opposite of him. "Thank you so much," she said, acknowledging the owl that she was to be careful of. If she hadn't stowed the food in her luggage, she would have offered up a treat. As it was, she only had human treats, which she was more tempted to offer to him since he let her sit with him. Without hesitation, Kanna flipped up the flap on her shoulder bag and reached in, pulling out a sugar quill and popping it between her teeth.

She then held out the box for him to take one, if he wanted. "My name's Kanna," she introduced politely, after setting her bag beside her and removing the quill from her teeth. He didn't seem to be in the mood for... much of anything. At least she had offered him an introduction and something sweet to eat. As far as she was concerned, she obliged him nothing more or less.

Her head swiveled in a flash of koolaid red and she offered a smile at the proclaimed first-year. She almost gave her name, but her host seemed to go in a different direction. Holding her breath at the awkward clashing of personalities, Kanna nibbled at her sugar quill to keep quiet

The firstie left after giving him her apologies. Well...she had already started to learn, did not she? Good for her. And once the firstie was gone, Gareth stared at his new compartment companion not saying anything in reply to her thanks. He just gave her an emotionless look and turned back to the window to watch whatever the stupid train passed by outside.

He heard the small noises of the girl doing something, opening a bag or something, and simply ignored it until she spoke introducing herself to him. Gareth turned and eyed her again in his silence. He stared at the box of sugar quills then at her face as if doing some evaluating.

Then he leaned back ignoring the sugar quills, a half smirk appearing on his face. "That stuff is bad for your health, Kanna."

What kind of a name was that?

Well. The dark and brooding type. Kanna felt indifferent about them, but much preferred people who were a little more... lively. Ah, well. Can't win 'em all. Even though he leaned away from the box, she continued to hold it out, casting a glance between him and them, finally giving the box a little shake.

"That wasn't a 'no'," she said, a hint of a teasing tone in her voice. But she was getting vibes to leave him alone. If he still declined the candy, she would sit back and leave him be. She was very upset over losing her MP3 player. Her father had been able to charm it enough for the muggle device to still work fairly well. She had no idea where she had lost it, but...

She didn't want to press him to introduce himself. She was learning to not be so pushy. Kanna would spend their time together without knowing his name if she had to, but hoped he would at least... Pff. She didn't even know. But she hoped his mood improved. As it was, he didn't feel like a black hole of energy, which was good, because she couldn't stand people like that.

As the girl kept the box at the same spot she was holding it and did not taking it, looking at him that way, Gareth gave her a look that simply said "What?" and this time it was not exactly intended to sound like the usual message he gave out by using the question word, that meaning simply being 'How dare you bother me.' Nope. This time he really was puzzled about the girl's motive. Normally, as he had experienced, people would just be meh and leave him be yet this girl...her reply was interesting. What was she trying to do?

After eyeing the box of sweets again, he looked back at the girl's face raising an eyebrow. And even though he had the feeling that he would be regretting the move later and cursing himself for him, he reached for the box and picked one of the sugar quills being extra careful about not to touch the other sweets in the box as he picked one of them. "So you already know." That it was bad for her health... "But still want to have them."

Lucy was moved to hear the story of the young girl .. Lucy was in agreement with the ideas of Bree .. maybe at Hogwarts she would have known anything about her origin .. or she might meet a cousin ​​.. but Lucy did not say anything to not upset her .. "I think the Slytherins would be lucky to have you in their house" ..

"Not dying is good." Derry remarked, half smiling. "I'm glad you didn't." Y'know, she'd be sad n stuff. Ah, feet up, good idea. Derry wasn't wearing new shoes. She was wearing the boots that she'd shoved on this morning to go and feed the horses. No worries though, she drew her wand and quickly cleaned her shoes before kicking up her feet onto the seat in front of her. Chill, see?

Ready for her last year..? Eh. Derry shrugged a little and tapped her toes together absentmindedly. "I dunno actually..." she said, thinking a bit. "Like... sure, I'm graduating, but... life starts, y'know?" Not that she had any kind of plans or anything... not after the muggle exam result she'd got this summer. She might have to go back to muggle school for a bit. Eh. "What about you, excited for third year? Cooler than all the first and second years, yeah?"

A slow smile forming on her face, she watched as he reached for a sugar quill. It was like coaxing an antisocial animal; There was a feeling of achievement about it. Placing the quill back between her teeth, she fastened the box back together and tucked it away in her bag. Before speaking, of course, she removed the candy from her mouth.

"You make it sound like I'm a huge daredevil," she mused at him. It was true that she had a bigger sweet tooth than most people she knew. But she intended to be eighty years old one day, still with a whole shelf full of candy to eat.

"The way I see it is that if something like a sugar quill or a licorice wand or a fudge fly can make you happy, then it's not really bad for you in the end." Provided you didn't eat them all the time and had good teeth-brushing skills. Of course.

"Thank you, and Gryffindor is a nice house too. And I had a good life growing up with my adopted muggle family, true mum and dad treated me like their princess But this part of me really does fill in quite a few gaps (that caused horror but that's over now) and now I get to be more then I ever thought possible. Anyway, how about you. Did you always know you were a witch? What about the rest of you?".

Separated from Caleb now the now third year Slytherin found his way into the front cars. He liked the idea of arriving at their destination before everyone else in the other cars even if it was only by a fractional amount. This was probably due to the fact that he was exceptionally petty. Cutty found a spot near a window, good for lighting and peering opportunities, and took a seat.

For reasons known only to himself, Cutty put on a pair of fake spectacles and took out his copy of 'The Lonely Potioneer's Diary' by Augustus Stubbins and began to read from a bookmarked page.

My father is a wizard ..He is a Healer and works at the St. Mungo's hospital. When he was a student he went in Italy to holidays, and he met my mother on a beautiful beach .. They fell in love .. My mother followed him to London and I was born here, but often I go back to grandparents' house in Italy and I have many friends there.. muggles friends..
I was in a muggle school.. my parents thought that I was not a witch until a six years.. I was angry with a my classmate who was teasing me and without lifting a finger I sent against him all the colored chalks and a blackboard eraser .. then a old wizard has came to clear the memory of all my classmates... it was a shock for me!..

*got permission*
 

Angel was bored, so bored, very bored, she had been looking around for a seat for ages and she couldn't find one, she was about to give in when she saw a compartment with a few people in, she was sure she had found a spare seat.

Angel wasn't paying attention to where she was sitting and instead of sitting next to the boy she had been aiming for she accidently sat on his lap, she didn't really want to move now that she had sat down, surely the boy wouldn't mind her staying there, it had been an accident after all.

"Me too," Caleb chuckled. "Made quidditch pretty brutal, that was for sure," he mumbled with a sigh. He was never going to be able to shake that feeling of his joints BURNING like they were on fire while trying to fly around the pitch. It was miserable. WHY had he done that to himself again?

"Yeah, that's scary," Caleb admitted, hoping he wasn't freaking her out or anything. "Any idea what you'll do after school?" he asked. Maybe she had a plan. Maybe she'd go play Quidditch or something? "And please, I was cooler than them in my FIRST year," he joked with a cheeky grin.

Well, half joked.

posties for Dani & anyone if they'd like!
 

The twelve year old Ravenclaw, whose name we have come to learn as Josette, quickly settled into one of the compartments in the front of the quickly moving train. In her tiny hands was a little kitten, a kitten that she'd just bought a few weeks ago for her birthday. He was so tiny & so fluffy! She actually could hardly still believe that her father allowed her to buy him for her twelfth birthday. He figured it'd alright to allow her something to keep her company while she was at school.

Now, as exciting as it was for her to have a kitten; whom she'd named Sebastian, she did have to admit it was a bit of an adjustment for her taking care of another living thing. Not only that, she was still trying to figure out the strange things he did. For example like right now, why he was always managed to somehow end up on her head. She didn't know why, but whenever she'd hold him the tiny thing would wriggle out of her grasp and would begin climbing up her shoulder only to hop up onto her head and lay there. Seeing as to how she'd never understand him, nor deny this cute action, she allowed him to stay on his perch.

She whispered, "W-Would you like a treat Bastian?"

Taking a moment to reach into her bag, she'd taken out a treat for her temporary hat. But it was when she'd done this did she softly mutter, "Oh no.." She couldn't exactly see where the little critter's mouth was to feed him the treat, how was she going to do this? Josie bit her lip before slowly lifting her hand up with the treat and slowly began moving it towards Sebastian.

...Was she getting close?

:3
 

Talikins! :3
 

Marigold was already with no one she recognized. ... How did that happen? She had been looking for either a compartment with Zahra, Mitch, or Kace, or an empty compartment. She trailed her fingers on the edges of her straightened hair which was already puffing back into curls. Well, she was fluffing it a lot. She guessed she could only have one at a time. Shame.

As for what she was carrying, it was only her Kneazle, Nibbles, who was squirming and trying to escape her arms. She shifted her cat's position to something more comfortable for Nibbles and Marigold. She looked at the scratch over the flower she drew on her arm. Shame.

Oh, and empty compartment! She only saw it out of the corner of her eye, but she lunged and slid the door open. She skipped in and shut the door in front of her. She sighed in relief, then turned around. OH!

"Sorry, I didn't see you!" For there was someone already in the compartment. But before she could leave, Nibbles had jumped out of her arms and landed on the seat. She winced.

You stop off at the food trolley for a little bit and your kneazle goes missing. It was perhaps the story of the Gryffindor's life. Felix must have slipped out when someone else had opened the door to leave because when she'd gotten back to the Prefect Compartment he was gone. Next time, she'd just take him with her. Leaving him behind was hardly worth the walking she was doing now.

Lex went down the line of cars by the front of the train, peering into a few while entering others. He had to be around here somewhere. They were on a moving train and her baby wasn't stupid. He'd never survive a drop and roll, nor would he try to.

Lex threw open a door and spotted that little Ravenclaw who played...Beater, was it? Just last term. "You wouldn't happen to have seen a kneazle, would you?" The general look around told her he wasn't in here but maybe the girl had run into him at some point?

One moment of peace, that's all she asked for. Unfortunately for Maddison, that didn't seem to be in the cards for her. Perhaps she wasn't so lucky after all.

Brown eyes looked up from Zeus and landed first on another small animal and then on its owner. "I gathered as much," She said in a matter-of-fact tone. If this girl had seen the first year, surely she wouldn't look as uncomfortable as she did right now.

"Is that a boy or a girl?" Maddison's attention had shifted back to the stranger's pet now, noting that Zeus seemed quite interested in the new arrivals too. The kneazle had leapt down from his place on her lap and inched towards the other feline, ears forward. "Zeus is an alpha so if it is a boy, they might not get on."

WAS THAT? HAH. HAH. HAH.

A wide smirk formed on Abigail Cambell's face as she walked about the corridors spotting a very familiar face. It was that boy from the Leaky, what was his name again? Graton...ot what? Heh. She didn't really care, he was so rude anyways but what did his rudeness earn him. DUN...DUN....KARMA. MHHHHM.

Looking as casual and innocent as she could, Abbi began following him whilst pretending to look for a compartment of her own. Meanwhile she already had a compartment and with all her things put down inside it, she was just out and about for a walk break and WHY not have some fun HUH?

Giggle Snort. In ze thoughts because that be suspicious to the people around.

Ohhh compartment for your own, hmmmmm person? NOT TODAY!

"Good Morning BALTIMORE!" She entered the compartment dramatically and wore a smile ever as wide as her face could handle.

Marigold bit her lip. "Sorry." She seemed to be apologizing a lot lately. That was not something to be proud of. She gave a nervous grin to the girl. She seemed first year age. Her grin became more relaxed.

Oh. Talking about Nibbles. "She's a girl." So no fighting. Plus, Nibbles looked happy. She was preening and stuffs. OOOH, cat flirting. How adorable.

Ohmygosh XD
 

This was EXACTLY the kind of company that Grayson did NOT want, thank you very much. He had thought that he'd have a compartment to himself. That he'd have some peace and quiet. Sure, knowing him, he'd probably bug someone later for the fun of it but right at this second, he was alone and that's all that mattered to him.

Boy was he wrong.

No sooner had he gotten to the second verse of the song he was humming along to, then the door opened. He hardly had time to register who was there when the person started........... singing? Calling loudly? Whatever it was, it was LOUD and this was one fourteen year old that WASN'T PLEASED AT ALL. The sound of the voice had caused him to jump so violently that he rolled............

.................... and ended up on the floor.

Grayson Douglas Whitlock was starting his journey to a new school by laying down on the floor out of shock.

When he finally came to his senses, the boy turned around and STARED up -- because he was still laying down on the floor -- at the person who had entered HIS compartment. Oh. It was her. Little Miss Sass had made her entrance.

"WHAT IN THE NAME OF MERLIN. DOES THIS LOOK LIKE A MUSICAL TO YOU?!" Looks. Looks for you.

"S'fine. It's not as if I own this compartment." If she did own it, she'd have made all sorts of changes. The first one being a 'Do Not Enter' sign with the additional note of 'Beware the Vicious Kneazle'. Maddison had also noted that this older girl seemed like the nervous sort. A new breed of Hogwartians as the others she'd met had been overly curious or quite annoying.

"Good." Zeus liked the ladies. A bit of a cat casanova, as far as Maddison was concerned. Who could blame him, though? He was a great looking kneazle. And since the eleven year didn't have to worry about some kind of feline death match now, she relaxed a bit and glanced out the window.

"Does it always take this long to get to Hogwarts?"

Seeing as Marigold wasn't being yelled at, she sat down on the ground and started petting Nibbles, who immediately began to purr. "It takes a couple of hours, yeah. Since we're going from London to Scotland." She personally liked the train ride, as she got to catch up with people and ask about their summer vacations, as well as meeting new people. Though she supposed if they all had a port key or flooed it would take a lot quicker. They probably didn't want to do that with muggle borns, though. They would be scared of stepping in fires and stuff.

"I'm Marigold, by the way. And this is Nibbles." The cat was important.

Josie was just within inches from where she'd believe Sebastian's mouth was when she'd suddenly heard the compartment door suddenly be flung open, practically making the tiny girl fly out of her seat. And from the sounds of tiny squeaks atop her head, the sudden noise had also scared Sebastian as well, causing him to slip off her head, but not before Josie managed to catch her tiny fluffy friend from falling to the floor.

Her blue eyes traveled to the compartment door and it was at that moment when she'd nearly felt all of the colour in her faced nearly dissolve. She'd recognized this older girl. It was the girl from last term that she'd unintentionally hit with a bludger during one of the matches when she was playing Beater for her team. It was almost as if the words could not be found in the twelve year old's brain.

...Words...What were words?

The fear in her eyes couldn't go unnoticed, but she couldn't help it. She'd felt so terrible after that match, & never actually managed to apologize to the girl for she was too afraid of being torn apart. But wait, hadn't she asked the second year a question? Josette could only muster one word..that unintentionally came blurting out of her mouth.

"SORRY!"

....Why had she just yelled that?

When she'd opened the door earlier she didn't think it'd have caused such a stir but the falling kitten and the rattled girl told her she needed to work on her entrance. If she didn't know any better she'd almost be sure the girl's face was losing colour but that couldn't have been it and even if that was the case, it'd return to normal soon because it was just Lex...and she was just looking for her kneazle...which admittedly wasn't that intimidating if you thought about it.

The fact the girl's lips parted told her she'd be getting an answer so she leaned against the door's frame and waited though by now she was starting to figure she already knew the answer.

Oh but Merlin the girl was obviously getting worked up about something. Lex's brows crinkled as she shoved off the frame and took another step into the corridor. Was she...missing something? Alexa twisted and took a glance behind her in case something had snuck onto the train when she never noticed. Awfully quiet train for a hijacking, wasn't it? In the end there was nothing terrifying behind her and she turned to face the girl in time to receive an apology? What?

".......................Okay.................. ." Blink blink. Did she wanna know? Probably not. "Look, it's not that big a deal. Plenty of people haven't seen him. I can just keep looking." No need to look like you've seen the ghost of Christmas past, gosh. "Are you....are you okay though?" Kinda jittery wasn't she?

Giggle. Lux had to admit that Ana was on to something, because being a totally proper lady seemed rather dull. "I like dresses now and looking pretty, but I still love sports and being competitive." Lux was never opposed to getting her hands dirty and doing hard work; this girl loved Herbology class with all it's pretty flower planting and such. As Ana went on to talk about the proper shoes to wear, Lux furrowed her brow and stretched her legs out, looking at the ballet flats on her feet. "Maybe I could try that, but I don't have any of those shoes at the moment." Was it worth it to ask Willa to send her some? Maybe not seeing how things had been between them lately.

It was a good thing that Ana had not called her a child, because Lux certainly was not little anymore as much as some people wished she was. "I really take after my mother more than anything. I hope she ages well, and that I do too... But it's okay if I don't, because I don't have a huge problem with getting wrinkles and grey hair as long as it isn't when I'm still young." That was why last term was so freaky; everyone looked sixty years older than they really were. It was almost as if someone had used a really powerful Time-Turner. Wait... doppelgänger? "What's a doppelgänger?" Was this another Russian word?

More giggles. "I know! Cucumbers are so refreshing. Bay doesn't like them though." Which was totally fine, of course. Teasing and friendly complaining aside, the girl understood and respected people's differing opinions on food. Bay liked to do the opposite thing, and teased her sometimes for liking cucumber sandwiches. It was rather funny. "Maybe we can get Terry to like them, so that at least one of us has a boyfriend who is a fan of them!" Of course if that didn't end up happening, Lux would be totally cool with it.

A big smile formed on Lux's face. "It was wonderful, and Bay asked me out that day before my party." It had been so nice. "I really hope that you can, but I understood why you couldn't go last time. My friend Bart missed it too, because he had a stroke at the end of last term." He seemed to be doing better now, so that made her happy. Lux wondered where Bart was; she missed him.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

She was so ready to join his rolling, except hers would be rolls of laughter. This was just too hilarious. Her giggles had turned into a huge fit of laughing and snorting. He was on the floor, ON THE FLOOR. Not looking so boss now. HEH. WHY? Because WHO was the boss? SHE WAS. Especially of sass. HEHEHEHEHE. Utter Brilliance, Karma, that was.

It took her a moment to recollect herself before finally being able to respond to his whole musical comment. "It actually DOES." He was singing earlier too. She was MORE than sure she had heard him just as she bopped right into the compartment with her greeting. Yet she felt the need to add. Just a little extra sass, you know? "But now it looks like you just got OWNED and BIGTIME." Owned he was and by who? THE BOSS.

Hehe. Good times, oh good times. Her eyes were looking straight down at him. She felt highly in charge and she liked it, a lot. Dynamite came in small packages after all, didn't it?

Right, that made sense. Maddison nodded and kept her gaze fixed on the scenery outside, taking mental pictures so she could describe it later in a letter to her mum. She's the only one besides Benny that'd be getting letters, the small brunette had decided. Not that the others would care much either way. There weren't exactly an abundance of people eager to keep in touch with Maddie.

"Maddie Cooper." The eleven year old pointed to herself and then nodded towards her kneazle. "That's Zeus. He's my confidant." And she liked him best because she knew her secrets were safe with him.

For Sarah
 

Cris was making his way back to the middle cars and to his friends. He had decided to take a short walk to stretch his legs. He smiled and nodded at the other students he passed by, so intent to acknowledging everyone that he didn't realize he wasn't watching where he was going.

"OOOooommpppphhh. I'm sorry. I should have been looking where I was going. Are you okay?" Cris asked the person.

......................................... Dead!pan.

Grayson was not amused but it turned out that the Sass Master was. He raised his eyebrows at her, just watching as she continued to laugh. He could feel his blood boiling because this girl was laughing at him specifically. Jeez. Could she not? It was doing dangerous things to his ego. Things he did NOT like.

Scowl. How long was she planning on doing this for, again?

Oh good. She had finally stopped laughing at him. Oh, so it was a musical, then? His eyebrows were going to stay right up there, then. "Where are the saxophone players, then? Off taking a tea break?" He might have still been laying down on the floor but the girl was still going to get sassed back. Just because he can. And because his ego was calling for a chance to restore itself.

And he got OWNED?! Did she really have to put it like that? Grayson rolled his eyes. "Fine. I got owned." If they were going to use her words. Jeez, he hated this. "This isn't the end, you know. We're going to the same school. I will get my back, Little Miss Sassy." How he was going to do this, he didn't know. He'd probably have to try that prank that Nigel had talked to him about back in that sweets shop.

But now, there were more important things at hand. "Now are you going to help me up or not?" he asked, holding out his hand. He was waiting.

"MY HAT!" Monty felt the bump of someone walking into his back, but he wasn't at all concerned for himself. No, the fact it made him lose his grip on his precious tricorn was what worried him most.

For a few seconds he ignored the boy who was obviously speaking to him, and instead scrambled around on the floor to try and grab the hat before anyone stepped on it.

Hugging it to his chest, he stroked the feathers and mumbled softly to it, brushing off some dirt that had found it's way onto the trim. His poor hat. Turning round he was going to glare at the older boy, point out what he'd done and demand that he clean it for him. But he recognised the boy from the food trolley earlier. The one who had helped him cool down. The helpful, nice one. So Monty merely smiled, shrugged and stuffed his hat onto his head. It was safer up there.

"Cris! Hi. Oh, it's okay. I'm fine. This though," he pointed to his hat and pouted, "is a bit dirty. Do they never clean the floor of this train?" Looking down he groaned, spotting a smudge on his tights where he'd been too close to said floor. "Flibbers. They were new."

Sarah/Monty. Not going to quote to make edits easier xD
 

Cris almost groaned out loud when he heard the boy exclaim loudly about his hat as he dropped said hat on the ground. He was about to lean down and pick it up for the boy, but the boy was faster than he was.

As Cris watched the young boy, turned around while brushing off his ha...wait a minute it was a tricorn!! Cris immediately recognized it, having seen it worn by some of his ancestors in the moving portraits in his house.

Why was the boy wearing a tricorn, was Cris' first thought. Second thought was why was Monty wearing a tricorn, having belatedly recognized the younger boy. He had met him earlier at the Food Trolley.

He shrugged at Monty's question. "I think they do, but it's hard to keep it clean with all of us traipsing all over it. Awww....I'm so sorry, Monty. I can clean it up for you if you want. I can help clean your tights for you too," Cris offered, the moment he saw the dirty smudges on the Tricorn and his tights, taking out his wand to do so.

"I'll try not to destroy in the process," he teased Monty before realizing it was a wrong choice of words.

"Um...I was kidding. I won't destroy it. Want me to try cleaning it for you?" he asked Monty, sticking out his hand to take the Ha..Tricorn from the boy.

Pearl :-) me neither lol
 

Sarah
 

Cris couldn't help but notice Monty staring up at him in wonder when he offered to help clean his hat for him. He smiled as he nodded down at Monty, "Sure I can. Once I'm done, it'll look all brand new again."

When he saw Monty first hesitate and then widen his eyes in terror, Cris knew that it had definitely been the wrong time to crack a joke like that. Despite that, he still found it funny that the boy actually believed him.

....well okay, he had a point there. Monty had only just met him, so he wasn't to know that Cris was very efficient at his spell work. Quickly turning his head, Cris coughed into his hand, in an attempt to smother the laugh that was threatening to burst from his lips each time he looked at Monty's face.

He waited patiently for the boy to realize he had only been joking and took the hat that Monty kissed affectionately before handing it over to him.

"Okay here goes," Cris winked at Monty before pointing his wand at the smudges on the hat. "Tergeo" he said the incantation as he cast the spell to first suck up the dust off the fabric. Once that was done, he ended that spell before casting the Cleaning Spell to clean it, and ending it once he was done.

Holstering his wand, Cris inspected the Tricorn. Then he made sure the tricorn's folds were properly creased before bending down to hand it over to Monty. "Here you go, Monty. I hope this passes inspection." he grinned down at the boy.

Baek/Jun
 

Vinnie entered the train, looking for an empty compartment. They would need a big one. After all they were like 5 a million people. She was so excited that she finally seemed to have made some friends. She wasnt gonna be alone on this train ride, how awesome was that. Maybe Hogwarts wasnt so bad after all....

Lost in her thoughts the brunette almost walked past an empty compartment, taking a few steps back the girl peeked inside and grinned. This would do. She opened the door and immediately dropped her trunk on the floor. This thing was heavy. But then again it carried all her life so it would be quite disappointing if it wasnt heavy.

Plopping down on one of the empty seats she put her feet on the opposite one. As long as there was space this would be her position. Vinnie sighed happily and looked out the window, watching all the families say goodbye. For once the girl was excited to start the school year, there was so much to be planned. Like the party. They were having a party and the year hadnt even properly started, how good was that. She seriously couldnt wait to talk it through with Jun.

For Adi and Anyone Else :)
 

Kace was exploring the front compartment. He saw some new firsties and some new students. He smiled to them and he was looking for his best buddy. He hadn't seen Adi all summer. He wondered what he could have done over the summer. He looked through compartments trying to find his buddy.

Jun was excited to be coming back. After the transfer threat his parents gave him last term, it was pretty certain he wasn't coming back. So the family look and weird smell of the train was all nice to him. Munching on some chocolate, he casually walked through the corridors and to where he was supposed to meet Vinnie at. This party was sounding funnier and funnier every time he thought about it. Yes, Char needed to get tout more and stop being shy when it came to things like this. For herself at least. But she vaguely mentioned the boy from Barbados. Which Jun would have to get more information about later. Or when she joined them.

Searching through the compartments, he spotted the brunette looking out the window. Sliding the door open, Jun slid into the opposite seat and grinned. "Am I the first one here?" Shame.

"Wow, well something similar happened to me but not till I was 10 years old. But no one came to wipe any memories. I guess since my magic kicked in late the Ministry must have thought I had no magical abilities. It started with accidentally sending a tray of food from the lunch ladies into the face of one of the popular girls. I was just shocked and it was not long till I was the object of ridicule and more and more students were effected by my magic. I even ended up on the roof of my school once when I was trying to get away from kids chasing me. It was not till my abilities started making headline news in my small town that Ministry officials came and wiped memories and told me about my past and Hogwarts just days before my 11th birthday. Well anyway, that's done with and I can't wait to get to Hogwarts. I read that we'll be learning to fly on a broom and There's a sport involving it called quidditch. Have you heard of it. It sounds so cool! What are you looking foward to at Hogwarts?".

And, apparently Angel can do no wrong. XD
 

And the chapter that explained the blue skin was coming up next and Cutty tilted the book one handedly to let gravity turn the page for him. That was about when he felt it. A small, light-weight bum on his lap.



Fine.


It could stay there.



But on the other side because it's owner was blocking his reading light. With an exasperated sigh, Cutty put down his book, tilted his legs so that the bum's owner was on the other leg, then re-assumed his reading as if nothing at all had happened. He probably figured that it was totally natural for the totties to begin throwing themselves upon the lap of Cutty Mordaunt 'round this time of year.

Jos was back, better than before. Josie 2.0 or should it have been 3.0? Either way, there would be no need for anyone to correct her English -because there was no way in hell she was dropping her accent- and no need to correct her on her style. She had studied up and was very very prepared to join in on gossip conversations and style advise. She had even sorta tamed her hair.

Anyway, she was looking for those twits since they never bothered to tell her they were changing cars and she, being Josie was going to pop open every compartment door in search of her "friends". "'ave yer s-" She paused at the couple in the corner and made a face. It wasn't disgust, it wasn't intrigue. It was just a face. How older were they even? That girls chest was flatter than her own and the boy, he wasn't even paying attention to his girlfriend. He was physically checked out from what she could see. Some couple. Oh- she was staring "Sorry yeh? Joost lookin' fer some fri- young old man?" His ears. Even as an aged little Wizard, those ears were unmistakable. "Oh bullocks." She laughed "I almos' didn' recognise ye- yer young agen." She grinned and walked in "'Oo's yer bird?" She smiled at the flat chested skinny legged girl.

But who was she to talk? "Was' yer name again? Cuddy?" She grinned "Josie- in case yer fergot- dun wantcher to feel embarrassed 'bout dat." She smiled at everyone in the compartment. They'd benefit from knowing her name too since she was encroaching on their space.

Vinnie just watched the world pass by for a while. Whenever she was on a train she couldnt stop but wonder. What was behind, what was in the middle, what was about to come? Like you left one place and you couldnt see it but it was still there, still the same. The world was fascinating. Or maybe she was weird. Both were fine with her.

Feeling the need to drink something, the brunette got out her special cup from her handbag. It said „ Its just water i swear“ and whenever she looked at it, it made her laugh. What brought the girls thoughts back to the party. This was totally the right way to start the year and build up a rep. Throwing the best party of the year at the beginning of the year. Yep. And they would have burger pizza, like how much better could it get?!

Just as she got lost in the world rushing by again, the Slytherin heard someone speak. Probably to her, cause she was the only one in the compartment. She blinked and looked at the person in front of her. Jun! „ It seems like you are“, she grinned,“ and i was gonna say the best comes last. Shame.“ But they had so much time to plan now, this was gonna be fab. Charlotte would totally hate them. Grin.

Oh yes, we can go to see the Quidditch matches and to root for ours House!But I think the students of the first year can't play Quidditch..But we can learn to fly this year: it's fantastic!.. ( I hope that I'm not feeling dizzy!!!). The subject best fascinating for me is: "Charm Class"! During the summer I have read something about the spells (how to flick and wave a wand..).. but I look forward to use my wand: a marvelous 11 ¾ whippy English Oak wand with the core of a Unicorn Hair..!And you? What wand has choosen you?"

Angel had expected the boy to ask her to move, but well even if it had only been an accident the fact that he wasn't asking her to leave meant she could stay on his lap right, because she was a bit scared of all this, there were way too many students on this train and she had no idea how they all fitted on the train.

"So did you have a good summer?" Angel decided to ask the boy, she thought it would be polite to ask him that, she loved being polite and she totally thought that this guy was amazing and very friendly. She just hoped that the guy would still be friendly once they got to Hogwarts because she had loads of questions to ask.

O____________________o

What was this girl saying about birds? She was defiantly no bird, didn't the other lady see that she was a human been, seriously did the girl need glasses or something.

Angel though returned the smile and then just decided to wait on the guy to speak, she was a bit shy now that this other girl was here, were they dating each other and she was sitting on his knee, how embarrassing that would be if they were.

Lux could totally relate to liking dresses, because she herself had been finding them more and more appealing as time went on. "At the start of last term, I never wanted to be in a dress ever, and by the end of it, I was loving them." It was amazing how growing up worked, and how she was finally starting to understand people like her sister Willa, who loved fashion. "I haven't really had much experience dancing, most of what I've done is my own little dances." Not an embarrassing confession, since a lot of people had seen her bust out random dances when she was happy or excited. "When we did the dancing lessons last term, Louis and Sander told me that I was a natural, and that was my first time doing real dances and not something I made up." Maybe it would be fun for her to take more lessons! The thought of having some more shoes was really appealing, and Ana was a wonderful friend for offering. "I am a 6 1/2. I used to be a 6 last term!" If they were too big - which was a real possibility - they could always be resized.

The compliment made Lux blush slightly. She did not think she was all that pretty or anything, though people did compliment her on her looks. "My mom is really pretty. I've seen older pictures of her, and she looked a lot like I do now." Seemed that Ana took more after her grandmother, and Lux took after her mother. It was funny how genetics worked like that sometimes. When she was younger, she thought that everyone simply took after their parents, and that was that. Nodding along, she tried her best to keep track with all the members of her friend's family since there seemed to be quite a bit of them; hopefully one day she would meet Ana's siblings and parents. The thought of a doppelgänger was rather interesting, if not strange. "So you could also meet someone on the street that looks as if they could be your twin? Hypothetically speaking of course. Maybe not everyone has a doppelgänger?" How weird it would be if she was in Diagon Alley and spotted a girl who looked the exact same as her!

Listening as Ana talked about Terry and cucumber sandwiches, Lux nodded along. "People sometimes share sandwiches?" It was not something that she had ever thought of doing. It seemed very unlikely that her and Bay would ever do that unless it was turkey or something; he really did make nice turkey sandwiches. "I know that everyone has different tastes and that it's good to respect that. I learned it last term." See, she was growing!

Yaaay, another hug! Smiling, Lux returned it before getting more serious at the talk of Bart. "He is doing much better now, though I haven't seen him in a little while." Lux wondered where her buddy was, and hoped that she would be able to find him soon. "He had his stroke in class, and I felt so bad because I didn't notice it at the time." That was something she still felt a little bad about.

Pearl :-)
 

"That would be awesome. And first years get to learn how to fly, really? Wow. , this year is gonna be something crazy awesome. And yeah, charms seems pretty cool from what I have read about them. What charms do you know? Can you show me any? As for my wand I have ash wand, 11 inches long with a dragon heart string core.".

Making it sound like she was a huge daredevil? Unable to help it, Gareth let out a laughter, a sincere one that was, before realising what he had done and wearing the emotionless expression back. "Well..." what was he going to say about that? "I think you kind of are but you don't know me." Yeah, that was probably why she was so daring towards him.

He stared at the sugar quill between his fingers and eyed hers. She looked okay eating this candy yet he had this thought that he would look stupid while doing so. But if she was used to eating this stuff then she probably had other people consuming it around her so it might not look stupid to him when he would try to eat the candy.

He nibbled the tip of the candy quill a bit as she spoke, her words making him raise his eyebrows again. She was kind of...right. If you enjoyed it then it was not so bad at all. "I can see no errors with your reasoning, Kanna." and there was that name. "What does your name mean? I have never heard it before."

this is bad im sorry
 

"Hey, hey! We can still pretend I'm the last one here and still be the best one, yeah?" Because he was clearly the best one here. Aside from Vinnie because she planned the party. But Jun was helping her out the most. He had to look over the guest list to make sure no authorities would be there. Except for Lou, he was an exception. And Jun was sure Lex wouldn't want to come? He'll have to ask her later. She probably wouldn't want to risk her badge. Perks of dating a prefect.

"Have you added more people to the list? Shouldn't make it too big," Because their school like to suck the fun out of things. But now they needed things like food, which he was basically the chef out of the group.

For Anyone
 

Austin walked onto the train, a small bag slung over his back. He didn't feel like walking all the way to the back, although it would be quieter, so he climbed into a small car near the front of the train. Plopping the small bag on the seat, he sat next to the window. It was a little bitter sweet for him. On the one hand, he wanted to go away and learn, be away from his parents, and get some time to be his own person. But on the other hand, he won't be able to see his parents until the Holidays, and he didn't want to be alone. He wasn't that great at making friends, due to his cocky attitude and what not. But it didn't matter to him much. He would be fine on his own, and he was sure someone would say hi to him in his dorm room. Ravenclaw was the best house to be in, in his opinion, and if that hat shouted any other house name, he would be very unhappy. He probably wouldn't come back after the Holidays if Ravenclaw wasn't his house.

Sarah. Sorry for the delay. RL
 

Cris took an exaggerated bow before straightening up and grinning. "Thank you and you're most welcome. The cleaning spell? Yes I can teach you that but yes they will also teach you that at Hogwarts along with a whole bunch of other interesting spells."

"When learning spells, my Professors always tell us to first learn the incantation, which is actually the words to the spell. You need to say it correctly or the spell might not work the way you want it to. Then once you've mastered that, you learn the spell's wand movement, like this," Cris waved his wand followed by a flick.

"For the spell I just did, the wand movement as you can see is pretty straightforward. I just pointed my wand at the areas I wanted cleaning. Now that's the easy part. The hardest part is getting the spell to work, and it's not just fancy wand waving and saying the incantation. The hardest part involves this," Cris explained as he tapped his forehead with his finger.

"Concentration is what is important. That and your intention," Cris paused when he realized that he was sounding like one of his Professors.

He laughed as he looked at Monty,"I have a feeling that most of what I just told you, just went flying over your head. I know it did when someone first tried teaching me to cast my first spell." he chuckled as he recalled that memory.

"I've always believed that practice is always better than theory. So would you like to try casting that cleaning spell? You will find it very useful in some of your classes especially Potions. Don't worry if it doesn't work out the first few times. With lots of practice, you will eventually master it," Cris smiled encouragingly at Monty.

After depositing his trunk in the Luggage Compartment, Adi happily made his way towards the front cars, looking for his friends while Gus gave an occasional croak from his usual spot in one of his owner's pockets.

Adi was pleased to be going back to Hogwarts and seeing all the students chatting away just made it even better. But who was that standing there? The other boy's build was familiar...It was Kace!

Grinning, Adi poked the fourth year on the shoulder. "Hello, Kace. Did you grow taller over the summer?'' Because to the third year, it certainly seemed so.

Perhaps that wasn't the ONLY word she had intended to say..Especially since that one random word most likely wouldn't make any sense..And judging by the girl's face..it certainly did not make any sense to begin with..

....Wonderful..

...

'Why was she just standing there? Isn't she going to yell at me?'

'Should I try to run to another compartment-NOT possible, she's blocking the only exit-Although there is always the window-NO!'

...

She shook her head after those scrambling thoughts before realizing the older girl had spoken to her again. From the looks of it, the girl was still looking rather puzzled after Josie's random response. But had she seen the girl's kneazle around? Come to think, she could have sworn she'd heard something scurrying about before Josie had entered the compartment, but she hadn't taken the time to search anything out of the ordinary.

-Wait, what was that? Was she okay?

...Was she okay?

Well, aside from the guilt, Josie had to admit she was feeling a bit better for the most part. But in response to the older girl's question she slowly nodded her head, all the while stroking Sebastian's head. She bit her lip before she softly spoke, with actual words this time. "I-I um..I think I did hear some sort of a-a um..A noise when I got settled in..But I wasn't quite sure what it was.." Not to mention, she was also afraid to find out what it was, but that was something she'd just keep to herself, right?

Vinnie couldnt help but laugh at how offended Jun seemed. He was one funny dude."If it makes you feel better, you can pretend yes", she chuckled. Everybody wanted to be the best these days. What about being the coolest? Yep, that was definitely Vinnies part.

Ohhh yes yes their guestlist. Hmmm... maybe Casper would want to come? She had to ask him later at the feast.So far the list stood strong though." Nope, i think ive got everyone", she nodded," what about you? Who is on your list? Jun never even told her. They had to make sure only the class of people would come, after all Charlotte needed to find some hottie under all of the guests. But the brunette had faith in Jun, faith he d had some good looking mates to invite. For Char, not for herself of course.

"The party needs to have access to only a very well selected pool of people", she said agreeing with him, " we can let everyone it." Noope that wasnt a possibility, your first party was the party everyone was gonna remember it couldnt be ordinary.

Having lost his girlfriend at the train station, mostly due to the sheer number of students and the constant fussing and attention from his mum about it being his last year and him needing to choose which career path to go down very soon, the Slytherin made his way onto the train with minutes to spare. Once inside and with the train moving on swiftly, he dodged his way down the corridor, side-stepping students who congregated in the halls for Merlin knew what reason.

He was just reaching a compartment about to look inside when he almost accidentally collided with a small looking student. A first year perhaps? He put on his breaks, digging his heels into the floor and pausing inches away from her. ”Sorry about that” he chuckled then looked at her expression. ”Are you okay?” he asked. Was it just him or did she seem a little sad?




He continued on down the train, peeking briefly through every window until he found the one he was looking for. And it wasn’t long until he did, there sat by the window was Ana along with her friend Lux. He knocked on the door, opening it and poking his head around. ”I hope you don’t mind an interruption ladies?” he question looking between the two of them. ”Unless you’re having precious girl bonding time in which case, I’ll go find my mates.” No big deal.

He waited for an answer before he sat himself down, he respected their wishes after all. And sometimes girls wanted individually girly time with their friend’s right? He was sure he’d be able to find Theo or West somewhere, although the majority of his friends were prefects and he wouldn’t have access to their compartment. He grinned expectantly at the pair, eager for their response.

I would like to try and do a spell but I'm not very good and I might get me into trouble..but when we will be to school we will practice togheter..shall we?By the way how far it is Hogwarts?

This was perhaps getting a little creepy. She'd never been in the company of someone that did far more staring than talking...not to this extent, no and the Gryffindor didn't know what to make of it so at first she just stood staring back but that wasn't nearly as satisfying as an actual conversation would have been.

....Maybe, just maybe the girl didn't want to talk to her? Yet another thing she wasn't familiar with but there had to be cases like that, yeah? If that was in fact it then Lex wouldn't push it further, she had a kneazle to find and apparently harrassing little Ravvies would get her nowhere.

She did turn to leave but was stopped in her tracks hearing actual words. Plural of word. It made a difference. "Noise? Really? Where? Was it coming from under a seat or like....passing by the compartment...?" Now she felt like she was getting somewhere with this kneazle hunt. In truth he couldn't have gone that far...but then she'd spent quite some time in that line for the food trolley. This was what happened when everyone wanted snacks at the same time. "Don't suppose you might have seen a streak of silver-grey...huh?" His fur was hard to miss once you'd seen it.

Also. "I don't think I remember your name..." She admitted with a curious look. That was practically her asking to be reminded, just saying.

"Oh ok, I actually managed to turn my cats fur yellow and then back to ginger. I was quite shocked I managed it really. And it will be awesome to learn more together. And as for how far we've come, I don't know. I think we've been on the train about an hour.". Bree could feel her stomach rumble and started rummaging through her bag and pulled out some chocolate covered pretzels and ate a few and looked toward Lucy, "You want some? Salty and sweet, can't go wrong, eh.".

"Yeah, you played like a boss though, even with the age thing." she said, grinning at him. Everyone on the team was awesome... eh. "Maybe it'll be easier this year." She hoped so, she'd love to be able to win the championship in her last year. Who knew if she'd ever play seriously again? She was still wondering about playing professionally... but she hadn't been scouted or anything so... eh. Who knew. Maybe this year... probably not best to get her hopes up.

After school..? Ehh. "Well... I want to be a vet but... I've got to do muggle exams so..." It was kind of... a lot of pressure. "I did one over the summer and kinda... failed." Eh. EEEEEH. That's basically how she felt about everything at the moment. Maybe she should just get another lollipop and chill out or something... eh. "Yeah, totally." She could appreciate the cockiness.

"Oh how good are you! I'm not good to change the color..I'm pretty good at lifting the objects..but not too heavy.."
Oh thank you!" said Lucy taking the chocolate! "I can give you one of my sandwiches if you like it!
The chocolate reminds me of a dear friend of mine .. a girl of my age .. my neighbor .. a very kind and tender girl named Camilla .. she was very good at telling wonderful stories!
It was hard to hide her that I was a witch, but I'm sure she would understand why she was very sensitive .. and you? you left some friends at home?"

You two ladies!
 

Kace was looking around the front car for any more people and he heard Adi calling out his name and tapping his shoulder. "Hey Adi!" he replied back with a one armed hug. "Oh how did you know. I did get somewhat taller." he grinned sheepishly. "I mean i haven't stopped growing yet."

"But dude how was your summer?" he asked one of his best friends.

" Yeah sure, a sandwich would be great, thanks", Bree responded to Lucy and then heard her start talking about special people from home. It made Bree tense up for a moment, she was not really gonna miss too many people from home. Most were really aweful to her for no good reason other then she was the geek. She did have her friend Chloe who was her freind since Kindergarden and fellow academic who stuck by her even when popular girls attempted to split them apart. "As for Friends I'll miss, I don't have many but my best friend Chloe has been there for me since we first met in Kindergarden. We both were the geeky type and got picked on for it by everyone. Popular girls even tried to take her from me but she still stuck by me. I told her I got accepted into a prestigious private school overseas which wasn't a complete lie. I just hope the best for her but I do take solace that she was thrilled for me.". Soon after Bree finished her response the train came to a screeching halt. "Uh Lucy, I think we are here", Bree said and then grinned widely and then saw a glimpse outside the window of a magnificent castle over the water. "Oh my gosh, Lucy come look", Bree said making room so her new friend could glance out the same window as her.

The girl smiled in response to his laughter, making her eyes crinkle up. It was a sound she practically fed off of. And perhaps whatever had him in such a foul mood was being left behind as the train sped across the countryside. It was true. She didn't know him. Partially why she had been interested in sitting with him. She loved to meet new people. People were interesting.

And so he saw 'no errors' with her reasoning. A funny way of speaking, he had there. But that was probably due to his family, or where he was raised. See? People were interesting.

"Kanna is short for Kannalynne," she explained. "It's a German name." Or so she had been told. Annalynne and Annaliese were German names, and that was close. Plus, she was German on her dad's side, so... It was a safe thing to say.

As for a meaning, she shrugged her shoulders. "I honestly think it might be a made-up name. I've heard it means something like 'fountain of joy', but I've also heard 'music of life' and 'sunshine' and such nonsense. But I've never known for sure. I think it's made up," she said again with a laugh.

"And I've never heard your name at all," she said in a bit of a teasing tone. He seemed to be feeling better. Perhaps the move wouldn't have such a terrible outcome.

Josette immediately nodded in her head in response to the older girl. Yes, she mostly certain that she'd heard a noise coming from somewhere. But where was it coming from? She couldn't exactly remember, it had been so fain that she really didn't get the opportunity to even try to guess where it might have come from. She pursed her lips as she tried to think & come up with a somewhat reasonable guess as to where she'd heard the noise.

"M-Maybe it might have been coming from under a seat? But it could've passed by...Although I remember it was more clear in my..left ear when I'd first walked in here..So..perhaps...maybe it came from the corner under the seat..closest to the door?" She shrugged a little bit before suggestively pointing in the direction she'd thought of. Although, she possibly could have been very wrong & her kneazle probably wasn't even in here to begin with.

....Only way for certain to find out..

A silver-grey streak?

She slowly shook her head before coming up with a simple, "Not that I can recall.." Oh, she'd wanted to know her name. Right yes, of course. Her name.

..Was she sure she even remembered her own na-WAIT, IT'S JOSETTE, RIGHT RIGHT OF COURSE-OH WAIT-

..BLINK..

"My-My name's Josette.." She gave a faint smile.

Lucy went next to Bree to watch and was astonished: a huge castle perched on the mountain lit by lots of lights ..the most beautiful thing she had ever seen..She was very excited and tightened the hand of her new friend..

Kannalynne. Kannalynne. Kannalynne

That was a mouthful of a name. To Gareth it sounded much better to him that way than Kanna for some reason he was not sure about. Perhaps with the longer form it sounded more feminine to him and that tiny bit of femininity fit her pretty face. He stared at her face in silence, taking in her features before his gaze moved on her hair. He liked the colour of her hair. It was bright and shiny and...

What?

Realising what he was doing, the Slytherin quickly tried to block the thoughts of her being attractive. That was not funny. Not funny at all as he didn't really believe any girl around would be good enough for him. "German..." he repeated. Yeah, it obviously was a name of which origin he was not familiar with. "I see. But i don't think those sounded like nonsense to me. Music of life is pretty deep." and even though it was a made up name, Gary thought it had to have a meaning. Maybe she didn't know for sure what it referred to.

And she was asking for his name. Since he had sort of started to have a normal conversation with her, he supposed she could very well have his name. "It's Gareth." he said and no, he was not going to start talking about how he was called Gary by some. That was...meh. Of no importance.

Possibly my last post since the opening feast is open.
 

Oh, she was talking. The person to whom the bum belonged was talking. And she was indeed a person, or let's hope that Cutty saw her that way. "I had an excellent summer." And he did. Got to go on his own for once into the markets in Cairo without his uncle. Also, British Columbia was never better. He'd met a girl and the opportunity to emotionally blackmail his step-mother was ever present. He'd work on Treeza. Maybe he'd get a new seadoo out of her by the end of the year for the holidays. "And how was yours?"

He'd heard her voice and recognized it as the voice of the girl from the common room. The one with six billion brothers. The one that he thought would make a good fighter.

Cutty held his head high as she spoke, recognizing him. His bird? Oh. Oh, the lil tottie on his lap. He tapped his heel against the floor causing the leg on which Angel was perched to rise and fall rapidly. "Tell the lady yer name, loov."

"Josie. I wouldn't forget the name of an empress." He said before adding in. "It's Cutty. Cutty Mordaunt."