Coming down from his room with his arms hugging himself and the obvious bulge in his shirt....that was moving. Freezing on the last step, Derf gaped at the accumulating crowd in the common room and considered sloooowly backing away back towards his room to wait for the crowd to disperse.

But there was a Hazel here and he really REALLY wanted her to see what he had under his shirt.

So in the end he did absolutely nothing other than stand there wide eyed and obvious while something continued to move about under his shirt.

"Hello!" Alfred said with a jolly wave. He wanted to give them hugs, but alas, he could not. He would only freeze them if he did so! This was an ongoing problem, unfortunately.

And they wanted to know where ghosts hung out when not being on ghostly!duty? Alfred smiled. "Well, I've been down in the kitchens, and in the dungeons, as of late. The darkness is soothing for my ghostly vibrations," he said, almost playfully since "ghostly vibrations" was such a common muggle slang for their ghost beliefs. Or something similar to that. Alfred wasn't in contact with many muggles these past hundred years or so, with being the Hufflepuff House Ghost and all. "And...all of that portal energy. It makes us feel..out of sorts. Almost ill. Most of us have been resting." Difficult to do when one was a ghost. And dead. Whoever said "I'll sleep when I'm dead" was pretty much wrong if they decided to become a ghost. There was little sleep involved in this lifedeathstyle choice.

Another little one joined them. Alfred waved at her, too, in the same jolly manner. "With all the plants Myers keeps in here, I would hope you at least didn't mind Herbology." He chuckled good-naturedly.

He didn't at first notice the younger Hufflepuff boy. It was only when he sound slight movement out of the corner of his eye that he turned his head and noticed him (not the moving bulge yet, though). "Oh, hello!" Wow. These students must be so stir crazy, to come out and talk to him! He felt like his company was normally not so requited.

Kat had half a mind to join Hazel in sitting upside down. But alas Hazel was now sitting upright, "Your blood rushing to your head?" Maybe it was starting to get unconformable sitting like that. Or it made it easier to talk to the group of students arrived.

"Good how are you, Isa?" Kat smiled as Isa spoke to them. "Why yes I do. It's one of my favorite subjects." Though now a days most lessons were slowing becoming her favorites

Beaming at all of the younger students. It was weird starting to feel like one of the older students now, with all of the younger ones around now. Oh and look there was Derf. The fourth year waved happily at the blonde boy. "Hey Derf, come join us?" And waving him over. Also what was he hiding under his shirt? Mmmmm?

She turned back to Alfred..... the kitchen? The dungeons? How come Kat had not seen him there? Perhaps they had only just missed each other in passing, yes that was it. Though she could agree with him on that dark places were some much smoothing to her. "We all could do with cheering charms and sleeping potions these days, I believe." Though it wouldn't do the ghost much good would it?

Katerina laughed... was that Alfred's attempted at joke...no wait.. That probably wasn't a joke she stopped laughing and looked down at her feet. Oppps.