Arriving through one of the walls, Marion had glided about the Great Hall, observing all the hustle and bustle, when she happened upon a gathering of daaaaaaaarling young ladies. Ooooooh how LOVELY it must be to have a bit of girl talk. Oh how could the ghost resist?

She couldn't!

"Helloooooooooooooooooooooo dears," she cooed as she descended elegantly from above to "sit" herself down beside one of the charming young ladies. "I just simply could NOT resist joining you in your little girl talk session. So, DOOOOOOO tell me what ARE we talking about? Who the newest Hogwarts studmuffin is? Hmmmmm?"

Alabama? Where was that? Probably Canada. Wait, no ... Yea Canada! Chance smiled. "Ive never been to Canada!" He said cheerfully before taking a swig of his pumpkin juice. "What's it like there? And how'd you end up here?" So he was full of questions.... and food.

"Oh! Im Chance Coeur by the way!" Chance said with another smile. One probably filled with food. Food was his favorite. "Nice to meet you too!"

Okay, okay. She got dem signals. No more discussion of whatever this right hand was no matter how curious Ms Abster was. It would get to her another time. curiosity never faded away that easily.

HUH? What she liked crystal gazing? Why?

Cough, cough. "Rubs is DIVINE. See what I did there?" Well, did they??

Ugh as for that whole cow problem. Abs just sighed dramatically at Ruby. "My cows are fine, I like being the boss one, but like not too controlling yeah?" With Bart she wasn't so much 'the boss', but with Lucas. She was sure she could make him do ANYTHING. Not that she'd ever really make him do something he didn't want to but you know?

"What Zara said!" BRILLIANCE. Utter BRILLIANCE. Her eyes then shifted from Zara to Ruby and Puck."What's the plan then?" Cause currently nothing too WOWEEE had formed in her head and BOOF..GAH. GHOST. HELLO HELLO.

Studmuffin? Why did the old lady want to know such things but heh EASY PEASY. Grayson LOOK-wise only though cause gosh he was one hella annoying person. So in that case no mention for that thing. Instead she thought of somebody 'better'. "That quiet Paris guy isn't bad looking," she responded, she didn't know his surname though. "Pheonix Toros has been quite the ladies man too." Not that she knew too much of him just yet.

Puck could see that Zahra couldn’t talk about things now, she’d have to ask her about that owl later…and maybe tell her some of her own…escapades? Because really Hogwarts could be such an interest place.

And the Ruby girl seemed to have some Sass – that was good really sass was always good. ”She’d have a cow if she ever saw my non-uniform clothes” she laughed and then they were talking about those Balls again. And then there was giggling…

”that doesn’t sound so bad,” really she could go either way – start a rumor…or do something fun – both could be fun. Wait, ghost? Asking about Hogwarts studmuffins?

HELLOOOOOO GHOSTY! Puck gave the former Professor (that she never knew of course,) a smile. ”What she said” Puck nodded….

The fourth year ate some more food and while she was waiting for a response from this new person. Well he was new but she was to her. Canada? "I've never been to Canada either." Emmylou let out a giggle. "I don't know what it's like in Canada but I know in Alabama it gets pretty darn hot and we don't get any snow and when we do everything gets closed." Emmylou was glad that they rarely go snow because she hates the cold. "I went to Beauxbatons for the first and second year and I didn't like it there so my dad and my aunt wanted me to go to Hogwarts, they thought that I would like it a lot better than Beauxbatons and they're right. I love it here. This is my second year here." The fourth year beamed.

"Chance. I know that name from somewhere." It would come to here at some point today. Emmylou thought really hard about where she had heard that name before. "OH I KNOW! It's from that really old muggle movie, Chance is a dog and he is very outgoing and bounces off the walls because he gets so hyper and he's so curious." But what was the name of the movie. Emmylou took a sip of her pumpkin juice. "I think the movie is call Homeward Bound."

Silas had heard his new friend running after him and stopped to see what was up. It did him well to know someone wanted his company! Silas was pretty amazing, too. He didn't judge anyone and he was crazy nice. All smiles Silas led the way into the Great Hall and over to his house table. Sitting at one if the long benches he posted the seat next to him and grinned.

"What you gonna eat? I'm starved! Going all the way down to the dungeons and back up really will wear you out." Really he was a thirteen year old boy... which meant he was always hungry!

Archie was glad that Silas had heard him and let him catch up, and reached out to hold his friend's hand like he did with his cousins. "Wow, I've not sat at the Gryffindor table before," he commented as he sat down. It was cool, and hopefully he'd be invited to sit here more often - there was no way Archie would have got through that potions lesson without the Lion's help.

"What sort of question is that? A bit of everything, of course. Can't let anything go untested."

Silas was a bit startled that Archie took his hand... but he went with it. It was nice. Although it... made him feel things. Weird.

Smiling at his friend he said, "Well you can sit with me everyday if you'd like. We can like eat meals together and stuff. Like proper friends." Because like... they had not officially established that they were actual friends and all. This was his way of finding out. Hehe.

Grinning he started piling his own plate full of food. This was the BEST thing about Hogwarts that he had found. ALL THE YUMMY FOOD!! "So... do you have any brothers or sisters? You talk about your cousins but I have never heard mention of anyone else." Seeeee he was showing interest and getting to know him. HE WAS AMAZING AT THIS FRIEND STUFF!

Archie swung Silas' hand a little bit, just as his cousins did with him. It was fun, and Archie grinned. "You wouldn't get bored of me?" he pondered aloud. The friends bit was already a given in Archie's head, it was more the everyday bit that he was worried about getting boring. "We should sit over at Ravenclaw too though, different view and all that." Sitting at the Gryffindor table WAS cool, but he was super proud of his own house too.

Following Silas' lead, Archie was soon piling his plate high too - sausages, mash, pie, yorkshire pudding, the works. "No. It's just me. They're like my brothers and sister though. What about you?"

Oh gosh. Hand swinging was happening... Silas gave his hand a small squeeze and a shot a smile his way. Did... no certainly not. "Why would I get bored of you? You're kind of... the only mate I have." There he said it. As sad as it was he'd said it. He was awkward with most people... He had had fun with a couple of housemates, but that was it really.

"Yes we could sit wherever you like. Even could get food and eat on the grounds." Like a picnic together. Cool, right?

"I have two older sisters. Much older. They're really good to me though. Kind of look out for me since my parents are... busy all the time." Nope. He was not going to think about sad stuffs... Digging into his mashed potatoes he cast a glance over at Archie. Besties for sure. Amazing.

He was hungry... starving even... and an evil criminal mastermind could not set about destroying the earth without being fed first. So, with this in mind, the first year Gryffindor scuttled into the Great Hall and slid onto the bench before swinging his legs over. WHAT was there to eat?

There was variety, and he very much LIKED variety, but what he liked even more... was cake. Was there any cake? Hhhhmmmm? His hazel eyes scanned the length of the table until they came to rest on... UH HUH! "Carrot cake!" He was sure of it. And even if it was deceptive cake - feeding him vegetables - it was still pretty good stuff. Helping himself to not one, not two, but THREEE slices, Zeke then pulled out his wand and another of his planet material bag things.

With a bite in his mouth, Zeke attempted the spell!charm thing they'd learned in class. "Finigereeerr Elementiii." Only, with his mouth occupied with carrot cake debris, his incantation wasn't all that clear. The bag with planet material inside EXPLODED in his face.

Cough. COUGH. Cough.

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Okay, no more incantations whilst attempting to EAT.

With his mouth void of food, Zeke withdrew another of his planet bags, and tried again, the remnants of his failed attempt were swept to the floor. AHEEEEEEMMM... "Fingere Elementi!" he recited with clarity this time. His second bag responded in the way the ones in class had, and his other homework one too. It rose in the air, hovering, and morphed into a sooth spherical figure of a planet. A red planet.

He beamed at his creation before forking another bite of his cake into his mouth. Ewww... pffthhtht ppfhrfhtht... THERE WAS PLANET DUST ON HIS CAKE!..... Zeke removed what he could off it, but ate the rest. He'd eaten dirt as a child, this couldn't be any worse. It was just glorified dirt, right?

Anyway, while he was chewing, he considered his next steps. He was going to use a spell he had read about and practiced once or twice to SQUISH the planet to smithereens. Or well, BLOW IT UP... same thing, no? Zeke removed a fold of parchment from his pocket and smoothed it out onto the table. Deprimo was a good blasting charm, but based on the etim...etyym... etymolology?... ETYMOLOGY... whatever that was, it had a Latin meaning of press down, or producing a downward pressure. So that's what he was going to use. It would CRUSH and SHATTER his planet, which would be super cool to watch.

So clearing his throat, Zeke pointed his wand at the target which was hovering directly in front of him and... whoops... nope... he had to cover what was left of his cake first!!! .. and then he figured he's practice the incantation first - to be on the safe side. Lowering his wand and setting it down on the table, he recited... "Dee-prim-ohhh... deee-prim-oohh... deprimooo... deprimo." Confident he was on the money, he took up his wand again, and pointed. "Deprimo!"

It didn't take long to see the effects, and in a similar manner to his FAILED planet construction, earthly matter was left floating down to the Gryffindor table, spraying out like a sandy firework. Zeke was convinced it would have looked awesome in slow motion. The downward pressure on the planet resulted in it seemingly being flattened in midair, reducing it to nothing but dust and a few chunkier debris.

Wooooop. Successs!

And now he could eat, satisfied that he had destroyed yet another planet!

Once he was comfortably full, Zeke swept some of the planet crumbs into his palm and stuffed them into his pocket.. the rest was swept to the floor as well.... ...... ....... the house elves would get to that, no?

He wasn't going to stick around to see, without any hesitation, Zeke was off, heading back up toward Gryffindor tower.

Aw, Silas gave his hand a squeeze like Jessa did! Archie grinned, and more hand swinging might have happened. "That can't be true." Archie, his only friend? Nope, the Ravenclaw didn't believe it - Silas was too cool to not have any other friends. "It's nice of you to say so though, and to spend so much time with me." He appreciated it, he really did. Who knows what might have happened to his shiny new cauldron if Silas hadn't been there to help in Potions. His work might have exploded like that other kid's too.

"A picnic? Like...with the squid?" That sounded awesome. "We should do that before the weather gets cold, unless you can do a heating charm?" Archie knew they existed, but couldn't do one yet. "Then we could build an igloo and have lunch in there."

Archie stabbed some peas with his fork as Silas spoke of his sisters. "Sounds like me and my cousins," he commented with nod. "My parents are busy all the time too. The House Elves basically brought me up." It was weird to think other kids didn't even have them. "What do they do, your parents?"

Alina sat at the long table, staring wide eyes at the heaps of food along the table. She picked up a chicken leg and put it on her plate, a Yorkshire pudding, stuffing, golden roast potatoes and, when she remembered what her mother would say, peas followed. Above her a red banner emblazoned with a lion fluttered above her. Everyone was alive with chatter, and Alina felt she really belonged in Gryffindor.

Did this dude realize?... surely not. He was precious, though so Si let him swing their hands about. Sighs. The struggle was real. "I mean... it kind of is. Unless you count Professor Cosgrach. But adults and kids aren't really friends... it's his job, but he's reay nice and I think of him as a friend." And he was okay with that. Most people sucked. "I spend time with you because I like you and I want to, Archie." For real.

"I could do a warming charm. And we can picnic in the castle if you ever want to. It's such a big place with all kinds of neat spots." He hadn't explored it too much, but he had found a few quiet places to hide out. Heh.

What did his parents do? Hmm. "Well they go to a lot of parties with dignitaries and rich people... other than that I haven't a clue. Dad says he's going to the office... but I've never been. And Mum... well she is out a lot. So I dunno bout her either. " Shrugs happened. He didn't care to know what they did. Pfft. Adults sucked!

Tails was crazy huh? "I like tails. Maybe we should get him together with Tinker." That fairy needed some cheering up. AJ was kind of partial to her fairies. They had just bonded after all. AJ watched as Angel danced for her fairies. "Good one, Ang." Now the fairies had no excuse to be all sleepy.

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Hours had passed and AJ was starting to get hungry herself. "Let's go down to the great hall for dinner." It seemed like more than just several hours had passed because her stomach was rumbling non-stop. These fairies weren't going to leave her sight. AJ picked them up while she waited for her sister to grab her own fairies.

As she made her way into the great hall, she found her table and plopped down on a vacant seat. When the food appeared, she started shoveling it in without even noticing what she was eating. It was food, and it was serving it's purpose. That was all she needed to know.

"So. What's been up?" AJ had even waited to swallow her food before asking the question. She might just be somewhat lady like after all. Her eye caught Tinker's face. Not again. This one was very moody. Then it hit her. "Has it been twelve hours already since we fed them last?" It had to be. AJ could see it in the fairies eyes.

Good thing she brought along the bottle of food with her once more. The lion unscrewed the lid on the jar just enough to where she could sprinkle the food in. There. Now they would all have full bellies.

Angel couldn't believe that hours had already passed seriously she had done so much in that time now she was really confused. "I think it's time to get some dinner guys." Angel was very hungry and she was sure other people would hate the idea.

"Hey sis." Angel smiled as she sat down. "I don't think Tails likes me, Fairy is totally amazing and nice but Tail is amazing." Angel had no idea what she was going to eat. "I'm going to eat something big now."

Angel then looked at her fairy. "O__________o" Angel sighed. "I think that your hungry aren't you." Angel then looked at her sister. "Want to have Tails? Tinker and Tails would make a great couple." Angel thought it would be great. "I think now it time to eat." Angel unscrewed the lid just enough so that she could sprinkle the food in. She hoped that they would have eaten enough now.

All of a sudden AJ became very possessive of her fairies. "Tails will get over it. I want to keep my fairies." They had already bonded after all. "We can let them all play together though." That was a compromise, and it was just going to have to do. "You wanna play with Tails, Tinker?" Give me a sign. Either way it was going to happen.

As AJ continued to chew on her food, she watched her fairies eat theirs. It was kind of cool to see. She wondered how they would feel about eating some chocolate frogs. AJ knew first hand that bonsai's didn't care for them, and couldn't survive on chocolate. Hmm... maybe she would find out later when she was back in her dorm, and had access to chocolate.

Man, their jar sure was dirty. How did she not notice this before? She had her some dirty little fairies. "Tinker!!! You pooped all over the place." Bell couldn't have been innocent in the poop department, but the majority of the poop probably belonged to Tinker. She looked like she pooped a lot.

This was totally unsanitary, and everybody would most likely be grossed out by doing this while others were eating, but her beloved fairies weren't going to have to live in their own poop for a moment longer. AJ unscrewed the lid and and grabbed Tinker and Bell. "Hold my fairies," she said as she shoved them into Angel's hand. The second year dumped the jar over and let all the fairy poop and pee fall on the table. Grabbing a napkin, she wiped down the jar nice and neat. Much better. With the same napkin she cleaned off the table.

Taking the fairies back from Angel, AJ placed them in their fleshly cleaned jar. "Home, clean home." Much better. Did she gross anybody out?

Angel giggled at her sisters response. "I knew it... I knew it... I knew it." Angel continued to giggle. "You might pretend you don't like girly stuff like fairies and things but deep down you do." Angel finished her dinner before sticking her tongue out at her sister. "I knew you would enjoy this as soon as the Professor told us what we had to do." Angel would rather care for plants less messy.

"What do you think Tails want to play with Tinker sometimes?" Angel looked at her fairies they were both just staring at her but before she could figure out why her sister was putting her fairies in her hand. "Hey what you?" Angel started to say and then she saw.

Angel didn't say a word to her sister... she waited for her sister to finish and take her fairies back before looking at her own... maybe that was why tails was in a mood because the jar was dirty well she'd soon see.

Angel unscrewed the jar and then got hold of the fairies. "Here look after Fairy and Tails for me." Angel put the fairies in her sister hand... Angel then went over to a bin and tipped the content in it... she then got hold off a napkin and cleaned out the inside of the jar until she was sure it was perfect.

Angel then went over to her sister and took the fairies back and put them in the jar before fastening the lid back on. "Sis that is how you do it... you don't do it on the table when people are eating." Angel wondered how the others felt.

Walking into the Great Hall, Lux made her way over to her usual spot: the Gryffindor Table. She liked eating meals with Bay, and today they were meeting for lunch but she was early.

Pouring herself some pumpkin juice, she sipped it as she waited for him to join her.

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Finally making it to the Gryffindor Table Bay spotted Lux right away! who couldn't the red hair was a dead give away, smiling he moved over towards he and sat down in the empty seat next to her. "hey babe" he said while giving her a big hug, well as big as he could because they were sitting next to each other. "man I'm so glad just to get a break" he's barely seen anyone other than in class because you know.. duty calls.

Okay Puck was hungry, and a spot of dinner sounded like good idea. The only good idea she had in a while really…well, that wasn’t true. She grinned at the assortment of food sitting at the tables and sat down carefully she grabbed herself a plate of food and carefully opened her bag and removed her little jar of faeries from her bag.

“Hey girls,” she grinned at the fairies – really she wasn’t sure if one was male and the other was female…or even both were male. All she knew was that both had very electric rock-star hair at the moment.

She grinned at the fairies and carefully cast a silencing charm on the lid of the jar before she sprinkled food into the jar for her two fairy friends. Carefully she conjured two tiny cups of water and lowered them into the little habitat before she closed the lid again and watched them quickly begin to eat their food.

Taking a bite of her own food.

Oooooh, big hug!

Giggling, Lux wrapped her arms around Bay. "I missed you." What with his studying for NEWTs and doing Prefect duties, they didn't get to see each other around the school as often as they used to. But she understood how busy he was and was proud of him for working so hard.

Smiling, she started heaping food on her plate. "What a nice spread they have today." But then what was new. She was so happy to be with her boyfriend.

See this is why she was so awesome, she knew that he was busy and she didn't press him for any more details. "i hope so" he said for he's seen plenty of nice looking dudes that would probably jump at the chance to date Lux, but too bad boys this girl was his.

"oh yeah.. the food looks amazing!!! I'm starving" and he was picking up some turkey sandwiches and some cheese and some crisps he piled up his plate.. "they always make the best things…" he said as he shoved the sandwich in his mouth and he instantly started to cough… bad idea… shakily pouring himself some pumpkin juice he gulped it down quickly.. "i should really pace myself while eating… or thats how i'll eventually go" he said while laughing and picking back up that sandwich and starting to eat again, but slowly.

Gosh, he was so silly sometimes. "I hope you missed me too," she joked before sticking her tongue out at him. But yeah, of course she missed him he was her boyfriend and he was so busy lately doing Prefect things and studying.

Watching him dig in, she snorted. "No need to inhale that sandwich, babe." Immediately he started coughing. Oh dear! Concerned, she patted his back after he drank the juice. "Yes, please be more careful. I don't want anything else to happen to you." She couldn't bear to lose him.