OH YES.

Owen was excited for the start of a new term. It was a bit sad thinking that some of his friends won't be coming back this term because they have graduated but on the other hand the thought of meeting new friends, housemates and classmates this term was enough to keep his spirit of excitement afloat. It was going to be another awesome year, he just knew it.

And what better way to celebrate the start of another great journey with a bag full of treats? That's riiiight. He would not have to buy any from the Food Trolley because he had his own rucksack. HEHE.

Henric was just passing by when he noticed a lone familiar looking Hufflepuff boy sitting in the compartment. And what is this...he seeee! TREATS!? Now, it isn't fair to just eat them all without sharing!
He knocked on the compartment door, "I'm sorry, but I have to give you a warning note for not sharing your treats with your new prefect." He conjured a sticky note and his hand-dandy quill from his pockets."I do not condone this behaviour, thank you." He pretended to give the second year a stern look.

It must have been some sort of miracle! Azura and Jazz has actually managed to make it into the train! The correct train! And with all of their stuff intact! Azura's owl wasn't so happy about everything, but at least everything was working and she hadn't fallen!

Woo!!

All right! Azura found an empty compartment and she dragged her stuff in there.. "Hey Jazz does this look all right? She asked him as she turned to face him and just at that moment.. The train jolted, Azura lost her footing and pitched forward!

Landing directly in Jaspers arms!

Eeeeeeeeeekkkkkkkkkk!!

SPOILER!!: claims you both <33

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Originally Posted by Tazzie

OH YES.

Owen was excited for the start of a new term. It was a bit sad thinking that some of his friends won't be coming back this term because they have graduated but on the other hand the thought of meeting new friends, housemates and classmates this term was enough to keep his spirit of excitement afloat. It was going to be another awesome year, he just knew it.

And what better way to celebrate the start of another great journey with a bag full of treats? That's riiiight. He would not have to buy any from the Food Trolley because he had his own rucksack. HEHE.

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Originally Posted by Symphora

Henric was just passing by when he noticed a lone familiar looking Hufflepuff boy sitting in the compartment. And what is this...he seeee! TREATS!? Now, it isn't fair to just eat them all without sharing!
He knocked on the compartment door, "I'm sorry, but I have to give you a warning note for not sharing your treats with your new prefect." He conjured a sticky note and his hand-dandy quill from his pockets."I do not condone this behaviour, thank you." He pretended to give the second year a stern look.

After putting all of her luggage on the luggage cars, Ava and her precious Russian blue cat tried to find an empty compartment... or maybe tried to find her friends who was already sitting in one. Was she excited for the new term? Well, 80% yes and 20% no. Most of her favorite professors wouldn't come back this term and she didn't know if their replacement would be as good and cool as them.

The young lioness noticed there's one occupied compartment with a familiar face. wait.. two. There's Owen and Henric there and, really? Did the new Prefect just threaten a boy to ask him some treats? "It's not funny to threaten him with your badge, Nicolei." She spoke up and shook his head. Yeah, even that she knew Henric was joking but still... THAT'S NOT FUNNY, AND COOL. "Hi, Owen!" Of course she didn't forget to say hello to her Hufflepuff big buddy.

Jasper grinned, having boarded the correct train with Azura. And, he assumed to Azura's disbelief, they had gotten there without an incident. And she had said she was massively clumsy!

"Yeah," he answered with a smile, just in time to notice that Azura was falling.

In his direction.

His green eyes had widened at that, though instinctively he'd moved to try to stop her from falling and hurting himself. His entire face flushed as he realised he was practically hugging her though.

And he had frozen, unsure if she was steady yet.

What was he meant to do?????

Okay.. This was okay! Jazz had caught her! So she wasn't hurt at all! But she was still in Jasper's arms! Her purple eyes were wide and her face was heating up.. She was frozen as well!

What was she going to do!!

Flying Fwoopers!! How to get out of this!!

Okay! Okay! She ignored the frantic beating of her heart, and the fact that her head was spinning and slowly tried to untangle herself from her friend.

She gently pushed herself backwards and stood straight up and took a breath as she swallowed a bit hard.. "See I.. Uhh told you I was clumsy." She said as she pushed her hair behind her ears a bit nervously and looked at the ground a bit, her face still bright red!

"Thanks, for catching me." She said as she bit her lip.

It was awkward.

Really, really awkward.

The only thoughts going through Jasper's brain were how weird the situation was, and frantic thoughts about what he was meant to do. His brain didn't provide any answers though, instead just continuing to freak out about the situation.

He was glad when it was Azura who had begun moving, untangling herself from them so that they once again were separated. His entire face was probably red. Raising a hand up and scratching the back of his neck he offered a sheepish smile before nodding and clearing his throat.

"I guess you are a bit clumsy," he said with a smile on his face. "Uh... no worries." Him catching her wasn't a big deal. Though he had to fight back an apology because of the situation that it had caused.

Taking a seat, and hoping that she would also sit down without another incident because he was certain that he could not deal with anymore awkwardness, he scratched his neck again, tilting his head to the side as he thought of something that could stop this awkwardness. Something that could end it all.

"Well we made it to the right train?"

Janelle was relieved to have finally stored her trunk. Now, her fourth year at Hogwarts was about to officially begin. She made her way down the train corridor, looking for a compartment to inhabit. When she came upon an empty one, Janelle opened the door and went inside. She dropped her backpack onto the seat and plopped down next to a window.

Wondering what was in store for her this year, Janelle thought about her friends who had moved on to the grown up world. Things would not be the same without them, but that didn't have to be a bad thing. She would never forget them, but Janelle hoped to make new friends. Hopefully she would not have to ride all the way to Hogwarts alone. Unzipping her bag, Janelle pulled out a book and began to read. That would keep her occupied.......for now.

Uhhhh ohhhhh!!!

No no no no nooooooo!!! He was flustered and red and scratching the back of his neck!

EEEEKKKKKK!! They had finally gotten past all the awkwardness and the redness and everything and now she had to go and ruin it by falling straight into him!! Part of her felt like crying, the other part felt like hiding!

She had just alienated her new friend by hugging him without his permission! Merlin..

Okay! This was all right, she could fix this!! She carefully sat down across from him, determined to get a smile back on his face! "Hey look, at least we got our first hug out of the way right?" She tried to give him a half of a smile..

Blazing Basilisks! Bad Form Azura!

"Sorry.." She mumbled a bit as she twirled her hair around her finger and tried to stop her face from flushing more!

"Mmmm, We did make it to the right train!" She said with a bit of a more normal smile. "So that's good.. right?" She gently tapped the floor of the train with her sneaker.. Solid..

She couldn't fall through it like she wanted too!

Jasper lifted his eyes daring to look up at her after she spoke, before blinking once. Then twice. Then he managed to get a smile to cross his face as he actually processed what she had said.

"Don't worry... it's true... we've ticked 'awkward first hug' off of the friends bucket list," a sheepish smile crossed his face as he bit his lip waiting for her response. Hoping that it would be positive. Though his hand still sought the comfort of scratching his neck as he nervously waited for her to respond.

Saving her comment had to mean that he could get extra points for saving this friendship conversation right?

"Which means we're on our way to Hogwarts now," and he was beaming at the thought alone. It was actually happening. They were actually, completely on their way to a magical school to learn magic because they were magical!

That had to be enough to distract her right?

Crickets..

Azura nervously twirled her hair around her finger as she looked at Jasper to see if he would respond to her comment.. if not.. She glanced at the door.. Perhaps she could make a run for it? She might be able to make it out of the door without killing herself! Though.. she wanted to stay with Jazz..

She felt like crying when..

He smiled? And he responded to her comment!!

The worried look left her face as he spoke and she nodded. "Exactly! We've ticked that off and so now all future hugs will be less awkward!" She said with a bit of a smile as he bit his lip! That was so adorable! And she smiled warmly at him. "So what's next on our friendship bucket list?" She said with a bit of a grin before he smiled at her..

Ohh dazzling!!!

"We ARE on our way! I'm so excited! She said happily as she looked over at him and beamed at him as well!! Awkward hugs aside.. she couldn't wait to start at Hogwarts!

Jasper grinned at the girl. He was happy now that she was happy again. "They will be less awkward!" he agreed, before pausing slightly realising what he'd said. He quickly moved on before she realised, or worse commented, on it. The best thing in his opinion would then be a joke about their 'friendship bucket list', inspired by his baby sister. Then with as straight a face as possible, he said "We make friendship bracelets and scrapbooks, of course."

He hoped that she got the joke in that.

He was NOT going to make a friendship bracelet.

"So am I!" he could've been bouncing in excitement. He was beaming at the thought of it alone. "It's so close now!"

Finally.

The waiting was over!

Oh Miss Strawberry Shortcake here was reprimanding him, eh? Henric chuckled. "It is to me, Ava.Why can't I have fun with it for once?" He shrugged and quickly scribbled something on his stickynote. He then pasted it onto her forehead. Heheh.



"Seems like you two already met, that's GREAT!"he smiled proudly at the two second-years. But his stomach was growling,"I famished...I need food...if you have pumpkin pies in that wonderful pile of treats, Owen, share with me ....pleeeaase." He pleaded as he clasped his hands together.

Heh! They WOULD be less awkward, but she wasn't going to comment on it! Lest he take it back and she wanted to hug him more!! She was going to hold him to that! But she just smiled at him, before giggling as he spoke of their friendship bucket list!

"Friendship bracelets and scrapbooks? I see.. I umm.." She looked up at him, knowing he was joking.."Left all my scrapbooking things at home sadly.. so it looks like that is right out. Friendship bracelets are out too.. cause I'm bad at making them.. so...

I guess we get to pick something different to do on our bucket list! She said with a giggle as she looked over at him!

She could tell how excited he was, he was practically bouncing in his seat and it was sooo adorable! Oh goodness!!!

"It is so close! I can't even believe it!" She said with a warm smile at him.. And after they got there..

The sorting!!

Ohhhhh that dreaded sorting!

Well, who do we have here. If it isn't matey Henric-y, and whoa...with a shiny! Which the older Hufflepuff was using to threaten him to share his treats. Owen mocked a terrified look and said, "Oh noooo. Not a warning note!"

*INSERT HORRIFICS + Ava's entrance*

"Hahaha! Nice one, mate. Awesome badge!" Owen chuckled as he offered to shake the new prefect's hand. "Official congratulations," Then he turned to his Gryffindor pal Ava Burton, "Hi Ava! Um, I think that's a very wonderfully worded forehead note you got there." Owen said with a shake of his head as he grinned.

This trip was already starting to look REALLY fun.

"Yea, I got pumpkin pies here." He rummaged his rucksack for a while then handed over to Henric a few pies when he found them. As for Ava, "Brownies, Ava?"

Alice walked through the train, poking her head in here and there.. Looking for someone to sit with. or even an empty compartment. Perhaps a friend would find their way to her. Were there people on the train she'd met in Diagon Alley? There had to be.

Diaval squawked on her shoulder, the raven looking around as they walked. Was she allowed to have him out? Didn't matter. He was well behaved and if not someone would tell her, right? "What are you on about now?" She asked her pet as she stepped into the empty compartment.

"This looks nice, lets get comfy."

Have fun with it? "But you cannot use that to threaten younger student, Henric. It's so WRONG! Like, on the scale 1 to wrong it's SOOOO WROOOONG." Pffft... Also, only babies who got afraid to be threatened like that. "I'll tell Adi that you used your prefect power for a wrong occasion. Merlin, he's not gonna be amused with this." Yeah, Ava missed her Hufflepuff big brother. Which reminded her that she should owl him soon. Maybe after the feast.

And what the... ASDFGHJK&#O(TR$!!!!! Ava took off the sticky note thingy from her forehead and... Huh. "Hahaha. It's so funny, dude." She said sarcastically. Extremely loud and funny? Pfffft.... She's not that loud, hadn't he met Charlotte Kettleburn? She was louder. And did Owen say BROWNIES??? "Oh, yes!! I'd like to have some brownies." Come on, who doesn't want brownies? "Also, I thought you're gonna get so cozy in the prefects' compartment or sneak out with your girlfriend and doing some boyfriend-girlfriend business." She turned her head to the prefect.

Back of the train.. was that where the cool kids sat? It was back in his day, but Ansley wasn't all too concerned about that now. All he knew was that children were currently loud back here, but he supposed he should expect nothing different when he boarded the train to Hogwarts.

The thirty year old strolled through the train corridor, keeping an eye out for anything concerning. Just kids being kids so far, though they probably should start getting into compartments and out of the corridors. Ushering a couple excited first years into the nearest empty compartment, Ansley continued on his way, poking his head into a random compartment here and there to make sure everything was alright. He murmured approvingly as he saw a girl (Janelle) engaged in her reading. He could use a little of that himself.

It wasn’t that Julia wasn’t excited to go to Hogwarts. She was. She’d lain awake most of the previous night and that morning feeling the quiet hum of nerves beneath her skin. If that wasn’t excitement, she didn’t know what was.

At least, she didn’t know what was until she’d arrived at King’s Cross station and been confronted with gleeful screaming, crying, laughing, and such over-the-top explosions of emotion that she had to wonder if it was, in fact, a school to which they were all travelling. One surreptitious check of her ticket assured her that it was the case, and now here she was… searching out a compartment will a little less exuberance (her one-a-day calendar’s word of the day) than the rest of the train. Once it was found, she set about unpacking various travel items that she would in all likelihood never use.

The front-most cars on the train seemed to be the loudest and busiest. This was one reason the pint-sized first year had zoomed his way toward the back, bouncing a little as he moved and automatically swerving around anyone who ended up in his way. He zzzzzooomed around one particular tall and broad figure before stopping short and turning around to look up, up up...

That was not a student. He looked waaaaaaaaaay too old. His little nose wrinkled a bit, and he squinted at the man. His father had told him that the train was for the students, so... he must be some sort of conductor, here to make sure nobody's parents tried to accompany them, and that no kids fell off the train or something. Right?

Jay cradled his little hedgehog in his hands and maaaaybe slowed down his walking just a bit. Just in case.

Slowing down wouldn't stop him from zooming right around the next girl whose path he crossed, though. He had just been passing by her when Sniffler poked his head up and started squirming in his hands; Jay stopped, grumbling a bit, and did his best to keep his little friend from falling to the floor.

"You can't run around here. That giant guy will squish you with his big feet," he explained, as patient as possible as the little hedgehog paws pushed at his hand. Sniffler was not having it though, and Jay looked at the girl he'd stopped by, holding him out. "Can you hold this for a minute?"

So he could, you know. Find treats and stuff to placate the tiny creature.

Henric chuckled."Go ahead tattled on me, it's not wrong if it's for their own good. And don't think I'm not eyeing you for playing pranks on us again, I'm watching you like a hawk!...Unless of course I'm in all of your plans, I'll be lenient to you." Besides, sharing is caring, Ava!

"It is funny...cos its true,cake." He chuckled as he ruffled her hair.

His smile got bigger when Owen offered him a few pumpkin pies. Holy Dragons, he was loving the kid already! "Thank you, Owen! Pumpkin pies are simply the best! See, Ava...why can't you be like Owen here, he's so nice and caring. He offered me pumpkin pies. He's going to be my new bestfriend starting from today." He playfully frowned at her and put an arm around Owen's shoulders.

Henric grinned wide. "Yup I will, I'm just here enjoying Owen's treats here and getting to know my new bestfriend, never you mind Ava. You seemed to know more about my boyfriend-girlfriend business, why don't you have one too...hmmm?" he wiggled his eyebrows.

For a moment, Jasper wasn't entirely certain whether Azura realised he was joking, but when she looked up at him he knew now she was playing along. A grin played on his face for a moment, before he forced himself to pout. "So we can't scrapbook or make friendship bracelets? What a shame."

His pout only lasted for another two seconds after that before a massive grin crossed his face again. "Well the trip to Diagon Alley is definitely on that bucket list!" he exclaimed, remembering her promise of showing him around.

She seemed to share the same excitement about Hogwarts, but despite his own excitement he realised that her face dropped once again.

Knowing she was excited to go, and knowing she was looking forward to classes, it took him a minute to realise what was going through her head.

Smiling sympathetically he leaned forward to grab her hand. "It'll be alright, we'll get the same house," he reassured her, the smile still on his face.

Maybe if he had enough confidence for both of them it would come true!

"Uh... sorry," he apologised, withdrawing his hand. It almost made him laugh, considering it happened the other way around at the station!

Julia looked up from the unpacking of her travel items--because Merlin forbid you go anywhere without a bottle of sunscreen--at the 'this' being held out by the boy. She looked at it for a few moments, then at the boy holding it out, then back at the hedgehog.

"Is it poisonous?"

Azura giggled a little as Jasper spoke and pretended to pout. "I know, it's really sad isn't it? How shall we proclaim our friendship to Hogwarts if we don't have out bracelets and out scrapbooks?" She asked in an over dramatic tone. "I guess our friendship is.. to strong for this world." Now she was just being silly, but it was helping to ease the mood a bit.

Though at his grin, Azura laughed a little, feeling rather dazzled as he spoke. "Ahh yes! That is totally on the list! She was still looking forward to that, and she would probably be looking forward to that ALL year!

She hadn't managed to get to his level of enthusiasm and it seemed like he had figured out why, for this time HE reached forward and grabbed her hand and she was left starting wide eyed at him!!

That.. was the first show of.. anything he had done for her! Azura's face slowly moved into a smile and she looked down at their hands for the moments that they were connected.

She looked up at him and nodded. "I'll try not to worry, I'm sure that you are right." She said softly as he pulled his hand away and apologized.

"It's all right! It's only fair.. seeing as I did that to you earlier." She said with a warm smile.