(Before speech) Most of you + mention of Sir Nicholas
 

Henric grinned towards Ava,"Hey there Chelsea McBlue fan. Of course, I'll never forget it...only you out of all the FIFA football gamers out there managed to defeat me in that one match,me...the one and extraordinary KebabBoi90210(Game ID username). I'm not going easy on you next time, Ava,"he teased. Henric really did underestimate the first year. Nope...no more of that. He was just as competitive as her so GAME ON. Oh right, he promised he would have a one-on-one match with her in basketball. "Did you bring the hoops and the basketball?"he asked her.

And then there was Zander waving back at him."Hey mate, how was your summer?"he asked with a smile. Henric hadn't have a chance to know him well, but wasn't he and Sophie Brown got a thing for each other. Rumours and all. Headboy and headgirl a couple, huh? Interesting....

"Hi Rissa, hope you had a fun holiday in New Zealand? How was it?"he asked, smiling at the shy older student. Henric remembered bumping into her at the bookstore, accidentally of course. He also helped her to find a travel book for her too.

Henric rolled his eyes at Candice,"Yeah you...am I referring to a ghost?" Oops. He quickly turned to Sir Nicholas, he wasn't implying him at all...no he wasn't mean! "Sorry...slip of my tongue...uhh...really nice to see you again Sir Nick!" Fuu....rectify that. Henric faced back at her again as he patted Adi's back,"Don't mind her Adi, she just jealous of our badger brilliancy and our great looks." Henric chuckled deeply.

He noticed another girl who was newly sorted as well (Noelle) "Hello there,my name is Henric...congrats for making Gryffindor," he greeted with a welcoming grin.

Kaycee nodded. "Yeah. Couches sound good." Laying out in the grass actually sounded better, but whatever. She had other sources to go outside with her. She really needed to soak up the sun before the freezing unbearably cold weather started.

She was not looking forward to winter.

She nodded in agreement. "Yeah. Classes really get in the way of other things." Like dance practice. Plus, classes generate homework with just exponentially grows the amount of time she spends on school work.

"At least there's not those exams this year." That was really the only plus side she could think of at the moment.

She fell quiet while the feast was going on. Camps? "What do you think that's about?" she asked dishing herself up some food.

"Do you think we'll have an actual camp?" She liked the idea of a campfire and being outside under the stars.

Dora GRINNED WIDELY as Keane said he was glad she was there, too. OMG SOMEONE WAS GLAD SHE WAS THERE?! Heheheh. And I mean, whatever. She would keep calm about it... or just bounce in her seat slightly. Yes. That was what she would do. BOUNCE BOUNCE BOUNCE.

Dora looked over the other people's heads and pointed to Sabel. "The young one. With the dimples. He's my favorite. "And she was TOTALLY going to be HIS favorite too. Or her Daddy would not be happy.



Dora had let her eyes move down the table as the Headmaster spoke, but she lingered on Sabel mostly. A dueling club? HMMMMM. She wondered if first years would be allowed, considering they didn't know defense spells yet... most of them anyway. Heh.

Nodding happened as Noelle spoke of how exciting everything was. IT WAS EXCITING. "I want to do dueling club. That other stuff sounded like a snoozefest. " Really she just wanted to blow stuff up...

Yoongi, Marsha, Adi, Blair, Bentley, Zeke, Zander, Candice, Henric O__O and SPEECH!
 

....... Beard? Nemo Beard? Beard-mo? Neard? What was going on here? And Why was Damien only just noticing it? Maybe he'd been too busy searching the crowds for that telltale flash of pink, or straining to smell a hint of raspberry. Not because he wanted to see Roria, he did not want that at all, no, but he felt a weird...need to know that she was here.

"I'm always ready, Grimm." Damien said, turning his attention back to his fellow Gryffindor, he found himself wondering if food got stuck in that beard, which lead to him wondering if he could stick something to Nemo's beard without him noticing.

Challenge accepted.

He'd have to wait for the food, though. "I've got an idea, not an adventure, though, I'm over that after last year in the chamber." Damien said, his lips pulling into a rueful half grin. His leg still hurt when there was a storm out, it was a little, unpleasant reminder of what he'd gotten into.

".... Have you seen Rorie?" He couldn't help asking.

Lol it's not like a full beard, like 5 o'clock shadow
 

Nemo had noticed his friend's wandering eyes, He wished he himself had high hopes of seeming someone here. But Whyttyr had graduated and was living at his house, waiting for him. "Good, i need a partner in crime this term." With no Whyttyr and no Rorie he hoped they'd have more time to just hang out and be bros.

His own blue eyes looked around at the different tables. it was a different place now.. Whytty was gone, Eden.. there were new teachers and hopefully nothing too terrible happened this term. But who wouldn't wanna say 'Hey, i graduated the term the entire school went mad!' Not that it wouldn't be too vague. "So what's your idea? I'm curious." He grinned, mischief on his face and in his eyes. Nemo had never been one for trouble. But he had a thirst for this now, maybe it had to do with him settling down with Whyttyr soon, or maybe it was just that he was a seventeen-year-old Gryffindor.

"She's...not here, Mate.. you didn't know?"

*haz no brains for the replies BUT WE'RE MOVING*
 

*sorry it's late*
 

Momentarily caught off guard by the absence of the two former professors, Reagan glanced at Iselin. "Just looking for a few familiar faces at the staff table, but they aren't there." While this was a little disappointing (since she'd liked and enjoyed both Professor Bentley and Professor Thompson very much), Rea could appreciate the rare opportunity this presented. She'd get to learn from fresh personalities, which meant FRESH perspective. It might've seemed intimidating to some, but not her. She loved acquainting herself with new faces.

New AND unfamiliar, two things Reagans were into.

...and she'd been excited to properly explain about the two trees and how helpful their natural resources were...when the speech began. As a hush fell over the room, all her attention went towards the staff table. Oh! Professor Botros! Reagan remembered him; a very kindly, lovely older gentleman. As for his speech, it was filling in most of the blanks. Paul Myers had been introduced as the new Herbology professor and Rea memorized his face, SET on traveling to his office at the earliest convenience. Ahem, future BFF! Feeling further excitement from the remainder of the announcements, save for Dueling Club - Violence? Why? - that's when it happened.

...The food arrived.

...which meant it was her cue to excuse herself.

Gripping Iselin's hand once more, Rea offered the Gryffindor another warm smile. "Can we catch up later? I need to go with the Ravenclaws..." It was a personal choice...and she'd never say anything ugly about those who did choose to eat meat, but it made her feel a little sick. Just the sight...was a little much for her to handle.

Dude got it? Good. Awesome. As for cheering him on now... heh.

Zeke grinned. "You'll always have my support, so long as it's not against us," he mused. House before former-adversaries? Yeah, something like that. It was a thing. He was MAKING it a thing. "Not sure how often I'll get around to watching." It really depended on what all he was up to, and potentially other parties that were involved.



Zander did NOT look impressed, or was he? It was hard to tell, but Zeke couldn't help but snort as he attempted to contain his amusement. The dude got made, but he wasn't alone. "I fell for it too, if it makes you feel any better," he shared. There was no shame in it, no harm either, it was all good fun.

Little Burton really was quite something, raising his hand to meet hers in the high-five, Zeke grinned.

Aaaaaaawwwww! She didn't like Little Burton?!

"Tough cookies, unless I can think of anything better, it's all you're getting." She'd learn to love it.




It was a deal then... and he was looking forward to sinking into its plushness. It was good to be home.

Classes really were the worst, and it was killing him that he couldn't drop HoM yet, the subject would be the death of him. At the mention of exams though, he couldn't help but release a sigh of relief. "Ordinary Wizarding Levels... don't I know it." He wasn't under tremendous pressure to do well and get straight O's, but he knew he had to do well enough to leave himself with 'options', whatever that really meant.

Turning his attention away from Kaycee and to the staff table, Zeke listened with mild interest as Professor Botros (or was it Headmaster Botros now?) made introductions regarding new staff. Neat. Or whatever. BUT... what REALLY got his attention, was all this talk about unity and camps and THINGS. He exchanged a look with Kaycee. She raised two very good questions. What did he mean by 'camps'?

"I... don't know," he admitted. "Camping in the grounds doesn't sound all that exciting, but the forest isn't an option." Excursion maybe? But for them ALL to leave the school would be ridiculous. Wouldn't it?

Partner in crime, the words left a bitter tastes in his mouth, one that would not be so easily washed down by pumpkin juice or butterbeer. He'd never been that guy, the bitter boy angry with an ex-girlfriend and he'd never wanted to be, and definitely not with Roria. Half of him wanted to blame her for everything be angry and move on, and the other half.... Still loved her so much, not as his girl, but as his best friend and his partner in crime.

It was kind of crazy to think that A) Nemo was going to be getting married and B) that the two of them were graduating this term. Graduating.

Graduating

Damien felt restless, fearful and excited all at once at the thought and it was only the beginning of term, merlin knew it would only get worst. "Oh, you'll see." Damien said, smirking away, not at all in a hurry to share his little idea, oh no, this was something he was planning to work out in secret, thank you, very much. "You'll have to wait and see, Nemo." He added, grabbing a goblet full of cold water and taking a deep drink.

.......

The words hit him square in the chest with the same force of a baseball going 95 mph. He froze, his features set in shock as his mind absorbed the information as quickly as it could.

She wasn't here, she hadn't come back, Rorie Hazelwood had left the building.

What the hell.

Who just suddenly drops out without warning? Without telling him people? Had it been that easy for her to just abandon [s]him[/s ]her school, Puck and Arabella- how? How?? Damien stood suddenly, knocking over the goblet in his haste, he needed to get out of there, he felt like he couldn't breath, like someone was squeezing his lungs.

"I- I gotta go-" Damien said, not even glancing back at Nemo as he took off, out the hall and up, up, up.

He needed to send a letter.