He was here. Start of Term Feast....

...his final Start of Term Feast.

All these final-type realizations was just starting to flood in now, and although he was kept mighty busy with all his old and new tasks, the feeling just wouldnt subside, no matter how hard he pushed them down. But for his lovely Lions he would keep to the sunny side of things like he always did throughout all these years, that charmining smile that could light up a room affixed on his face, and yes newly cut SHORT hair. sighs he kinda miss the rock and roll look though.

He plops himself onto his usual seat, makes it easy to say hello specially for the new Lion cubbies the Hat will be sending their way.

Wait...... he was one of the first to the table. For the first time in his going on six years in this castle. How had that happened?! Especially since he was pretty sure he had seen at least some of his fellow Gryffindors in the Entrance Hall. Oh well, he wasn't going to dwell on it. Actually, it was kind of a good thing, since he still had on the special boot from his accident this summer and he wasn't keen on anyone seeing it right now (aside from those who saw it on the train, of course).

Ronan made his way to a prime spot in the middle of the table and carefully maneuvered his booted foot self onto the bench and sat. And looked.

Hmm......Muggle Studies!Stewart was still here (though, it was probably okay to call her Professor Stewart now, since he didn't see Transfiguration!Stewart at the staff table). He smirked slightly, wondering how she'd reacted to finding out that he'd passed his Muggle Studies OWL with a big fat flying O.

Also new? The haircut a certain Head Boy was sporting. "Nice haircut!" Ronan complemented. "And congrats on getting Head Boy!" Now, where were the new female prefect and the Quidditch captain?

New place. New school. New people.

Her time in the train wasn't pretty much how Amara had planned it to go. She was still pretty annoyed about the turn of events. But all of that had disappeared when she set eyes on the Great Hall. It was just magnificent!

Finding the Gryffindor table wasn't hard. It was at the far left with bright red and gold banners floating over it. Bright and sunny. She knew that's where she had to go. As she neared the table, she found several pieces of cutlery and no food.

WHAT'S WITH HOGWARTS AND NO FOOD FOR ANYONE POLICY ? ? ? ?

Looking at the empty plates and goblets brought back the fresh memory of the train. She just stood near the table, deciding whether or not to sit down lest some towering girl comes and reprimands her for touching cutlery.

Her final start of term feast was here. Biting her lip, Vi made her way into the Great Hall and found an open seat next to her wonderfully ahead Boy. Stealing the seat, she offered a smile to her fellow housemates that were seated, especially Ronan and Amara. “Hello!” she greeted as she settled down.

Then she stole a glance at Tenacius, wondering what he must have been thinking. Was he too worried about this being the final year? She subtly took his hand into hers. “Galleon for your thoughts?”

The train ride had been eventful, to say the least, although Stasya was trying not to let it all get to her. She was trying to make a resolution not to end up in either Professor Hirsch’s office or Professor Marchand’s in tears on the first day again. She was going to be strong, although upon taking a glance up toward the staff table, her resolve weakened a little as she noticed a few absences. Namely, Healer Reed and Professor Stewart, the latter of which made her wonder how Emmeline was feeling. She figured her bestie knew why her guardian wasn’t there anymore, but it had to be weird. Kind of like how she felt like she’d feel if suddenly the DADA professor wasn’t there, except her attachment there wasn’t nearly as official.

Tearing her attention away from the professors, she’d turned to walk the rest of the way to her table, sparing a glance over toward the Hufflepuff table to look for a few faces before she’d gotten all the way to her housemates. The few who were there already, anyway, and she’d sent Ronan, Vi and Ace each a smile. “Hi everyone!”

It was the that she’d noticed the firstie standing there awkwardly, and she’d given her a smile too. “You can sit down. The food will show up once the headmistress gives her speech, but I’m pretty sure lots of us have snacks if you’re hungry before then,” she said, sliding into one of the many open seats nearby. Yes, she remembered her from the train, but that had all been cleared up so no harm done. And besides, she wondered when her bestie would get there. Or Liv, because she knew she was supposed to be back this term even if she hadn’t seen her since the summer. Everyone couldn’t have abandoned her.

Amara's fixation on the table was disturbed when she heard someone say Hello. She looked up to see a girl seated few seats away. She had a smile on her face, Amara found that inviting. "Hi--" she started, but then she saw that shiny badge. Her face fell. She knew that girl was going to tell her off. Maybe for just standing there.

As she stood rooted on the spot, thinking, as a few others had joined the table. Another older girl spoke to her and Amara turned her attention to the smiling girl. She seems nice. She says food will come. "Uh..." FOOD. Amara had certain doubts. Can we eat it? "..It-- doesn't belong to anyone? I have my galleons with me" She patted her side pocket. After the episode in the train, she had added a few more coins to her pocket, just in case everything had to be bought in Hogwarts. Can't take chances.

Ok Ok cool Théo was not first to the table not like he cared and the odds of him being first was really low considering how forgetful he was. But he liked entering when people where already there because sitting waiting for everyone was boring and yeah just boring.

WHOA

He didnt notice on the train but Vi and Ace where Prefect and Head Boy.

"CONGRATS GUYS"

Nice badges and interesting haircut for the Head Boy. Not going to say anything on that. Also who was the first year or did Théo miss more than he thought when he got taken out halfway through the last term.

"Oh right Sup everyone"

Théo did a sup nod and grinned at everyone there.

Now the torture of having to wait for the feast since he never cared about the sorting or speech.

"HOGWARTS, HOGWARTS, HOGGY WARTY HOGWARST, TEACH US SOMETHING, PLEEEEEASE!"

Matt paraded into the Great Hall for his very last Start of Term Feast. HIS VERY LAST YEAR WAS ABOUT TO COMMENCE. YES!

He was READY! Ready to LEAVE school for good - thank Merlin! - and ready to start off his career as an Auror. YAS! BRING IT ON, NEWTS!

Or not just yet. Heck, he would have to do a lot of studying and truth be told, he wasn't particularly looking forward to that. Well, whatever. It was FEAST TIME, so he'd think about NEWTs later.

"HELLOOOOOOO, GRYFFINDOR!!!" He exclaimed, arms open wide because that was only THE BEST HOUSE EVER!

And finally, it looked like the Gryffindor table was filling up. Which meant one thing and one thing only, actually no. It meant MANY things, but the most important thing that it meant was that Captain Zoryn Amari Justine Janvier Levi Kenning Spinnet could make her appearance now.

The Gryffindor walked into the hall with the same sort of majesty she'd imagine the queen to walk in with. Meaning, her chin was held up high towards the magnificent ceiling and her hand was cupped in a sort of royal wave. She beamed at ALL of her subjects even the annoying ones like Juniper and Skylar Diggory, before making her way towards the Gryffindor table.

Her first order of business was running up behind Théo and grabbing his shoulders, "BOOO!" in an attempt to scare the living daylight out of him. Did it work? And with that she slid onto the bench beside him, making sure to acknowledge the others with a boisterous, "YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, Gryffindoooooor!" Making sure to echo Matt and give him a NOD in approval.

Also, please let it be known that she was taking mental notes here. Recruitment was a thing that she planned to have a leg up on.

After a particularly calm train ride (read: she slept the entire way over because she'd not slept the night before BECAUSE she'd spent her last day stuffing her face full of muggle candy that her parents had informed her they will not be sending over. Where did the bracket go. There it is). Fresh off her wonderful train ride and FULL of LOTS of VERY EXCITED FEELINGS about H O G W A R T S (but not classes because no one likes those) Sylvie Norcott made a mad dash from the carriages to the Great Hall only to stop, turn, and madly dash for the bathrooms.

Pee is a thing people. Even if she's not particularly fond of her mother right now, she does always say to go if you have to because infections can happen and that's like, not good at all.

Once again with vigor, Sylvie made a second mad dash for the Great Hall and beamed as she looked around. Good old great hall. However, she noticed with some sadness, no food yet. This fourth year (!!!) was absolutely starving and she sincerely hoped the little people would hurry up with their sorting because all of them needed food to live and stuff. Anyways, the noticeably taller blonde took the steps two at a time as she spotted her favourite people mucking around at her favourite table and butt-nudged Zoryn to move so she could fit herself nicely between her CAPTAIN FRIEND and her other, regular yet still BEST friend, Théo.

"HI GUYS. I'm hungry."

Blinking away his thoughts when he felt a presence join him, Ace smiled at Ronan's greeting "Thank you Ronan! Not quite my choice this one.." he chuckled as he ran a hand through his sheared off locks "... but it was 'just proper' as my folks said with the new badge and things."

It was then that he spotted the special boot. Surprised, he nudged his head at Ronan's foot "Exciting summer didja?"


He was watching the sorting of this one, and for a moment Ace did wonder if the Hat needed some kind of reboot. But after a while he saw the young one's robes change colors and is now a legit Lion cubbie "Welcome to Gryffindor! Come have a seat. We dont bite, not one of our own anyway." he smiled brightly at the young girl.



He smiled softly at his girlfriend when she joined him, and squeezed her hand in return "Yeah just....I just realized this is our last Start of Term Feast yknow? The last time we'll do any of these...." he gestured around. Something that he's been doing for seven years now, the duty things for four of those, it was part of his routine, part of who he was "Same time next year what would we be doing eh?" Pause "Sleeping in I hope!" he laughed.



Ahh Stasya has turned up, and seems to be in a pretty happy mood-- which is a good thing. Sad Stas makes him sad. "Hey Stas! How'r you doin'? How'd your summer turn out?"


Theo was so chill Ace felt like his BP was lowering just by looking at him. Does he know he had that kind of therapeutic effect? Best not to say it until the very end otherwise he might start charging money for it "Thanks Theo! And how did your summer go?"



As always, his Star Wars counterpart never fails to amuse him. He laughed as Matt made his way towards their table "Was that supposed to be an audition because I think you're supposed to get up on the stage first." he snickered as he pointed at the Staff table full of busy, serious adults adulting.



Of course to balance the universe, when theres a Matt, theres also a Zoryn, and the laughter just kep rolling off the Curly Top. He's met Zoryn earlier on the train so he just gave her a playful salute. She is Captain Zoryn after all.



Ah good another Gryffindor has made their way toward the table. And indeed have verbalized what everyone else was really wishing. "Hi Sylivie. Do you want some jelly slugs to pass the time?" he waved a packet in the air. Since they were his faves theres always a packet stashed somewhere in his pockets for emergency snack cravings. Which is pretty much all the time.

oh Théo's summer was alright. Parties and Quidditch and travel he couldnt complain. Though his summers from now on will just be quidditch. Which is what he wanted.

"Oh just playing quidditch mostly and you know just having fun. You?"

SWEET GALVANTING GARDEN GNOMES.

Théo almost jumped 10 feet in the air. He was so not ready for Zoryn to scare him and he almost had a heart attack. He quickly turned his head to Zoryn and smiled. "You are going to give me a heart attack, Captain" Théo started humming a song he has had in his head since this morning horrible song but it won't leave his head.

SYLVIE

"I have some good news and bad news for you Sylvie. Good news i have a song in my head i need to sing and bad news no food for a while." He started singing softly "Every night in my dreams I see you, I feel you. That is how I know you go on "

He did say it was a horrible song

Matt liked that kid. Zoryn, wasn't it? He's seen her around and Ollie was her friend or something. Yep, she was ENTHUSIASTIC about Gryffindor too and Matt APPROVED. YAS. YOU GO, KID!

And she was wearing a badge. Matt didn't really care too much about that so he didn't pay attention to what type of badge it was, but HEYO, he DID see that CHEWIE over there had a HEAD BOY badge.

"Oi, mate! Does that mean I'll have to behave?" MATE. Head Boy. Since when was his friend such an overachiever?

Oh yeah, since pretty much always. Which was fineeeee, as Matt was used to being friends with golden kids. Raaahhh! Audition? "Nah, thanks. Gonna pass the opportunity to shine like the lot of you from drama group last term." The seventh year deadpanned because heck. HECK. Such madness, much CHAOS! And that wasn't even Auror traineeship! Sheesh kebabs.

Anyways, HUH? Was that a prefect's badge on Olivia's vest? "Aw mate, what are you both doing?? Will we have any fun at all this year??" It was a rhetorical question, of COURSE, because Matt knew he was. HE WWAAASSSSSS no matter who was prefect or whatever, mannnnnnn.

SEVENTH YEAR WAS GOING TO BE EPIC!

Vi saw the younger girl (Amara) smiling back at her. She was about to ask the girl if she wanted to sit down when Stasya joined the table. "Hi Stasya," she greeted with a nod as she watched the younger year interact with the newer younger girl. Oh good. They seemed to be getting along. Then as Ace welcomed the girl to the house, Vi nodded. "Yes! Welcome to Gryffindor. Yep as Stasya said, food will be here shortly. If you're hungry in the meantime, I do have some pretzels that you can have if you'd like." Though if the girl was hungry in the meantime, Vi always kept a few snacks tucked in her pockets. Thank goodness the pockets of her robes were big enough to store a few small plastic bags.

With Ace giving her hand the slightest squeeze, she took a moment away from all the craziness occurring around them to just focus on him momentarily. Yeah. It was their last Start of Term Feast. The last one that they would have in a while."Yeah, you're right..." she said and then paused as she let the silence sit for a moment. His question gave her pause once more and then she couldn't help but chuckle when he mentioned that he hoped they would be sleeping in this time next year. "Sleeping in! You'd sleep the whole day away," she laughed. "Maybe we'll just all have to get together. No matter where we are." Hopefully they all could get together but still the thought of not seeing her friends every day... especially Ace... that was such a foreign thought to the brunette. She didn't want to think about saying goodbye.

Then a blonde haired boy had come over and congratulated both her and Ace on their new student leader positions. She was about to thank him... Wait. Was that Theo? Merlin. He was going to be a heartbreaker this year. Yep. The girls would be all over him. Look at him! Growing up already. "Thanks Theo. Did you have a good..-" In that moment, she had been cut off by a loud hello Gryffindor followed by an even louder exclamation. She couldn't help but chuckle at the enthusiasm. Ah... Matt Solo and Zoryn Spinnet. Should have guessed. At Ace's comment about auditioning, Vi simply chuckled once more.

Then she caught site of another Gryffindor taking a seat. Sylvie! Oh hello! And she was hungry? Reaching into her pocket, she pulled out a couple of small bags containing pretzels. "Hey Sylvie! If you want pretzels, there are some too," she said as she levitated the bag over to the girl. Hah, yep. Didn't need a wand for that spell. The practice had been paying off.

Then she turned her direction towards Matt who had noticed her badge. Aw mate, what are you both doing?? Will we have any fun at all this year? Vi chuckled at his question. "Don't worry, Solo. There will always be time for fun," she winked before offering him a more stern gaze. "So long as its nothing too reckless." Yes, Solo don't go lead first years astray too much. Vi would have to keep an eye on her friend for sure. More so in jest... But still an eye on Solo.

"Hi Ace!" she grinned at her prefect, because he was her prefect, because Sylvie will likely only notice his promotion if a. someone straight up told her, or b. five months from now she'll see the badge is different. Until then Sylvie Norcott is, as always, blissfully ignorant. Clearly there were more important things to be noticed tonight, like his JELLY SLUGS. She wanted the jelly slugs. "Please?! I'm so hungry I could eat your hand," she nodded as she made grabby hands for the jelly, only about a third joking. Sylvie had grown up playing war games on her computer, she considered herself terribly hardcore and she WILL eat your hand, Prefect person, unless you gave her some jelly beans.

YUMMY.

She turned to Théo then, leaning into him a little bit because it's been ages since she's seen him (like, an hour probably) and she was genuinely happy that he was here. School without Théo was no fun. She had proof. Blinking at him, she made a face at the no food comment and was about to tell him she had food incoming from their prefect when he started singing. Which. o_____O

By Thrall, Théo is not a very good singer. Or perhaps he was, Sylvie wasn't sure, she hadn't heard him sing a lot before. "Théo, how is that good news," she grinned, teasing, before a figurative lightbulb dinged above her head and she realised she knew the WORDS TO THIS SONG. "Oh! Oh!" It was a muggle song. Uhhhhhh. She couldn't remember where it was from, but she had the distinct impression her grandfather used to like it a lot. "... Far across the distance, and spaces betweeeeeeen us..... that's just how I know you'll grow upppppppp," she laughed, shrugging. What a strange song.

Second prefect (Olivia)! "Hi Olivi- PRETZELS!" FOOOOOOOOD. Plucking them out of the air in a maneuver she would have been super proud of in another time, the blonde tore a good chunk out of one and stuffed it in her mouth, sighing happy. She loved food. Especially when she hadn't had it for a while. Food was amazing. FOOD.

Omnomnom. She still wanted the jelly slugs though, dear Prefect Ace. Mmmhm. All the food for this growing teenager please and thank you.

Amara was watching students arrive one by one at the table. She heard someone(Matt) sing along the way towards the table. Amara couldn't help but stare at the guy, wondering what it was he sang. Sure did mention Hogwarts. School song? He suddenly boomed a big Hello. He was so happy and it was infectious. Amara grinned widely, forgetting all her reservations about the cutlery, "Helloooooo" she said in a voice as loud as she could manage to keep below shouting.

She was just startled when another Gryffindor(Zoryn) shouted at the top of her voice. Now Amara was just delightful! If this was what Gryffindor would be like, she could survive!

Another person with a badge turned his attention to her. Amara was starting to feel... WAIT. The guy was smiling. It was the most brightest smile of the century. She grinned widely at the older boy and encouraged by his words, she took a seat opposite him. "Thank you" Yes, she wss thankful he didn't bite. "I'm Amara" Manners maketh man. Hehe.

Food will come.

You can have my pretzels.

The words that what Amara wanted to hear. She had skipped eating at the house, and couldn't on the train. Her insides where killing her, begging her to have mercy. She couldn't help but smile at the girl. "Awesome --" Your pretzels and you ofcourse! "I'm really hungry... and you are A.W.E.S.O.M.E" She shot another smile in the direction of the other girl, Stasya.

So Faith had accompanied Sylvie to the washroom earlier because her mum had always told her it's not very safe for a young lady to walk alone in a castle that was out to kill you. Also because she probably needed to fix her hair - sleeping for five hours in a train would do nasty things to otherwise lovely hair and she had to be drop-dead stunning at the feast. Can't bring down Zoryn's captaincy by looking subpar - they were to be the Gryffindor Power Couple. Subpar would not do.

Only problem here was that Faith realised that she had to pee too, once Sylvie was all done and ready to go. Sighing, she had told the other girl to head down to the feast first while she did the necessary.

Now, bladder empty and hair in her customary high ponytail, she skipped into the Great Hall. She was here to Dazzle; to Strike Awe into the hearts of Many. But, like, where was her partner-in-crime? No matter, she'd figure out where Zoryn was sitting pretty soon, there was no way she would be quiet for long anywa- AH THERE SHE WAS. The "boo" was the best giveaway.

Faith waited for everyone concerned there to settle down, and raised her finger to her lips in a "shh don't give me away" gesture. Then, with all the stealth of a panther, the blonde Gryffindor started creeping towards Zoryn. And then she POKED HER HARD IN THE SIDES. And promptly sat on the side of Zor where Sylvie wasn't. The Squad was now complete.

"HI EVERYONE!" she added as an afterthought. Can't be rude now. "Also, I think I overheard something about jelly slugs. I can trade a pack of Bertie Bott's for those?"

Aaron had found himself wandering over to the Gryffyndor table to stop by and say hi to his friends in the house here. Looking around he saw Tenacius' familiar face from earlier on the train. Aaron gave him a head nod, and quickly laid his eyes onto Amara. Boy did they need to have a talk. Aaron was so afraid that the friendship they had just recently made was falling apart at the seams already! And that, was a HUGE no no in Aaron's book. That couldn't happen. That was one of the few things that would actually make the boy feel upset. A world without friends was like a world without adventures, without fun. But 100 times worse!!!

Going over to her, the firstie had whispered into her ear ""About what happened on the train...can we talk about it later please when we're more in private...?" He couldn't help but get the answer on this, and he needed it as soon as possible. A friendship was on the line here!!!

HAHAHAHAH !!!! OMG Théo !!!! Zoryn doubled over in laughter! ”DUDE you shoulda seen your face!!!” She grinned hard and made herself comfortable on the bench. ”No way, I need your heart healthy if we’re gonna rule the Quidditch Pitch this year,” aka Théo was gonna join their house team, yeah?

Speaking of which, there were plenty of eligible candidates here for their Quidditch team. There was no way in heck that Gryffindor wouldn’t be taking home the championship this term. Zoryn had SO MUCH faith (both the noun and the person because Faith was gonna get here REAL soon) (Zor could feel it in her BONES and she had a seat saved for her and everything). But anyways, speaking of friends, Slyvie was here!!!!!! The fourth year gave her friend and dormmate a GIGANTIC smile, letting her squish in-between herself and Théo. ”You could say that again,” she groaaaaaaaned in agreement. ”Maybe if we all give Hawthorne the stink eye, she’ll give us food faster.” It was worth a shot.

Zoryn turned her attention elsewhere momentarily, catching the salute from Tenacius and sending him one right back his way in return! Man, being Captain was THE life. Anyways, she whipped her head back towards her friends upon hearing a very strange noise that sounded a little like a whimpering kneazle (no offense, Théo). The Gryffindor giggled quite a bit, making sure to cheer SUPER loudly, hoping to catch everyone else’s attention to the scene too. HEHEHEHE. ”YAAAAS THEO!!!”

Anyways, again, her attention was diverted elsewhere. There was SO much going on. It was hard to keep up!!!! Ahem. Anyways, a new Gryffindor sort (Amara) ((((who she may or may not have scared a bit with her screaming… oops))))?? ”Hi, I’m Zoryn Amari Spinnet. Welcome to Gryffindor!!!” And they said she wouldn’t be student leader material! ”How much do you weigh?” Zoryn tilted her head, analyzing the girl a bit. Perhaps she could encourage the youngster to try out for the seeker position. Hm.

Her musings were interrupted, however, because in that moment, she was POKED IN THE SIDES, and her bum flew off the chair and she let out a high-pitch sort of squeal. ”Ruuuuuuuuuuuude,” she stuck her tongue out at the blonde, but the glint in her eyes probably gave her away. ”OMG FAITH, guess what!?!” She had some MAJOR good news.

The odd question from the firstie had made Stasya pause for a moment, even as people had continued to arrive and therefore she’d started wondering when certain of them would arrive. “The food? I guess it belongs to us, or at least the house elves make it for us to eat,” she finally answered, even as the snacks she had mentioned had begun appearing. “The elves also like helping us if we want to make our own food too. Cookies and stuff.” She needed to visit the kitchens soon for a little cookie baking session. Even if she had chocolate in the meantime.

She’d let the others take the offered pretzels and jelly slugs but she’d still sent the new Head Boy another grin when he’d spoken to her, along with a smile for all the others who had arrived after her. “I’m okay. Kind of curious about the new professors and everything,” she admitted, slipping a chocolate frog out of her roe pocket and taking a bite. She had more, too, if anyone wanted one. “My summer was really good. I took care of Henry’s Granian for him while he got to travel and stuff, and I saw Emmeline and Derf and Liv…” Who was supposed to be back but still hadn’t arrived apparently.

She’d heard Théo say Captain, which had drawn her attention fully to Zoryn, holding court with Faith and Sylvie and the others like usual. All that was left was for that Slytherin boy to show up and it would really be like normal. Except for Quidditch, apparently, but she was more curious if the others who had played Gobstones were back and going to join the team again. Not that she minded flying. She just hadn’t ever considered Quidditch.

Okay, and a Slytherin had joined them, but it was the boy who had been with Amara during the trolley incident. Not the one who kept following Zoryn around, but he still got a smile too.

Jessi neared the Gryffindor table and took a deep breath. It was time to meet her future. There were so many people at the table already and most of them looked much older than she was. That was ok. She could be friends with all ages. Now, she was at the table. ”Ready or not, here I come”, she whispered to herself.

“Hello Gryffindor people”, Jessi said to no one in particular and everyone in general. As she took the nearest empty seat, the first year spotted a familiar face. With probably an over enthusiastic wave, she said, “Hi Vi”. Apparently, the friendly prefect from the train was her prefect. That made Jessi happy. Then she began to look around, trying to spot her other new friends from the train. Hopefully they would be in Gryffindor too.

Stasya pause made Amara wonder if she was being silly. But her main focus was about baking stuff with the elves. Being raised most of her life in non-magical world, Amara had never seen an elf. Her mother had mentioned them in her Hogwarts 101 lessons before she and Zyanya came here. "House elves! ! !" she was excited, "Where are they? Will they bring the food here? ? ? I've never seen one" She really wanted to.

She was visibly startled when someone whispered in her ears. It was Aaron. In her excitement about possibly seeing a house elf Amara did not notice Aaron arrive at the table. And he wanted to talk about the train. Amara took a good look at him. He seemed very concerned and Amara couldn't help but give him a small smile. "Aaron--" she paused, "--well I was looking forward to explore the grounds later, maybe you can join me if you want to" Yes, that sounds good. "We can talk.." But he really doesn't need to explain. He has his reasons. "Now do you want to sit down?" she pointed at the seat next to her. "Hey how's Slytherin?" Wonder if it's super-cool like ours.

She turned when the shouting Gryffindor(Zoryn) introduced herself. "HIIII " she said, energetically. Welcomed to Gryffindor "I'm already beginning to feel it's awesomeness." She sure was. "I'm Amara" And Zoryn's next question came as a puzzle to her. Weight? What was she gonna do with that? "Um... 77lbs... UH, WHY?" She was curious.

Just as they spoke, another Gryffindor girl (Faith) poked Zoryn. Amara was now beginning to understand the dynamics of being a Gryffindor. They were an active lot. They begin talking almost immediately. Greetings of any kind involved shouting, nudging, scaring. And she wanted to confirm her observations. "Are Gryffindors always like this?" she asked the new poking girl, nodding in the general direction of the chatting Gryffindor crowd. "Hyper active, shouting and poking?" It sounded fun.

BEST KIND OF HOUSE !

Amara was liking her house more every minute.

She noticed a little girl(Jessi) walk quietly to the table. Finally someone who looked her age! Everyone else at the table was waaaaaaay older. Amara waved to catch the girl's eye. "HEY THERE NEW GIRL" she called, just in case she didn't notice the waving. Amara was new, but the girl was newer. Heh.

Daehyun was not okay.

The initial dizziness he'd felt upon hearing his House had vanished as soon as he'd plopped onto the bench near the far end of the Gryffindor table, and he could finally release the breath he'd been holding, though his mind was still so blank that the noise of chatter around him was all white noise.

Gryffidor. He was a Gryffindor. A Gryffindor with zero Gryffindor traits, or so he believed. Perhaps he didn't know himself as well as he'd thought so, trying to focus on his surroundings, he took a glimpse at the cheery people around him, and immediately felt himself retracting back into his shell. He'd never been one to socialize, even less so in such large groups of people, so he'd decided to stay quiet and hope to stay invisible, as well, while waiting for the food to show up.

He was going to be okay. And he'll make Gryffindor proud to have him. Hopefully.

Vi offered Sylvie a grin as she watched the girl pluck the pretzels out of the hair and happily demolish them. Merlin. She must have been really hungry. Wonder if the Food Trolley ran out of food on the train? Note to self, always pack MORE extra snacks. It seemed like a smart thing for her to have on her.

Her attention was diverted to another hungry first year and so she levitated another pack of pretzels towards Amara. She chuckled softly at the younger girl calling her AWESOME. Amara was very enthusiastic, wasn't she? This was going much better than she had anticipated. People were smiling and happy for the most part. "Thanks. Glad to help," she said.

A smirk played on Vi's lips as she watched yet another Gryffindor head towards the table. However, this one was trying to be all sneaky. Perhaps she was surprising...? Ah. Faith was going after Zoryn. She turned her gaze away, trying not to give anything away of the situation that was happening behind the Quidditch Captain, and her eyes landed upon a young Snake (Aaron). Was the kid lost? she thought until she saw him going up to speak to Amara and then Ace. No. No.... Oh. They must have met on the train or somewhere. She kept silent momentarily, watching Amara and the nervous boy interact. Afterwards, she offered the younger boy a smile. "Hey! Congratulations on Slytherin. It's a good house. My brother was sorted there." Gotta give him a quick thumbs up! Don't want another younger year getting confused about which house they were being sorted into based on family ties and whatnot. Plus all the houses were pretty cool. Though Vi liked Slytherin a little more as her brother had been a Snake. "You're more than welcome to come join us. I'm Olivia but you can call me Vi."

Then her attention was once again diverted to Faith who was greeting the entire table and offering jelly snakes. "Hey Faith. Ace has some jelly slugs," she said, nudging the Head Boy with her arm gently. She glanced up just in time to see Jessi calling out and waving to her. Wow! This was great. Jessi had been sorted into Gryffindor!? Wonderful. "Hey Jessi. Congratulations on Gryffindor and welcome to the pride!" she grinned, delighted to see the first year as a member of her own house. "What did you think of the Sorting Hat?" Curious she was to hear of the younger ones' experiences with the hat.

Vi was about to ask another question when she noticed a quieter Lion (Daehyun head to the table. "Hey there!" she greeted, making sure not to be as loud as some of her housemates. Maybe the noise was a little terrifying? She knew she had felt terrified by it all when she had been sorted. Terrified was the wrong word for it though. Overwhelmed was better suited. "I'm Olivia Holden -- call me Vi though! I'll be one of your Prefects. Welcome to Gryffindor!"