Anabelle walked into the Great Hall buzzing with the gossip and laughter of the other students. Even with the background noise, the clacking of her shoes on the floor seemed to echo throughout the entire hall. Taking in the sights as she walked, Ana slowly sat down at the Ravenclaw table. As she looked at the delicious food, her stomach growled, a little louder than she was expecting it to. She looked around for a moment, embarrassed, and put some food on her plate.

She picked at it a little and soon realized that her hunger had disappeared. Feeling satisfied, she left her seat and went to see what else there was to do.

Sarah came quickly down into the Hall, rubbing the sleep out of her eyes and hoping that she wasn't too late for dinner. Even before she'd reached the Hufflepuff table, she could see and smell the heavenly grilled chicken, one of her favorite foods.
'Oooh yaaaaay CHICKEN!' her inner voice squealed.

OOC- I wonder if this will ever be touched
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Nana walked into the Great Hall for dinner (?). She sat down at the Huffle puff table next to a girl she had never seen before even thought they were in the same house. Nana put some chicken on her plate and began to eat it. The chickn was quite dwlicious!

Muchia: IT'S TIME TO PARTY!!

*Muchia Screamed as he enterd the great hall. HE was excited and he didn't have a clue why. All he new is he wanted to be loud, have fun and eat alot of food.
He literaly sprinted to his seat and started wolfing down anything he could reach. He even took some chicken off the plate of the girl next to him*

Muchia: oops *he said with his mouth full* sorry. that was very rude of me. let me make it up to you.

*he passed some more chicken over to the girl*

Muchia: here take as many as you wish.

Sarahy simply stared at the loud kid who sat down next to her and the girl beside her. She looked sideways at the girl and smiled. Even though she'd never really talked to neither of them before, they seemed like good people.

Valentina was sitting on the Slytherin table, with her Transfiguration book open infront of her plate, happily munching a chicken wing.

she was so bussy reading that when a Hufflepuff student walked into the Great Hall, shouting:
"IT'S TIME TO PARTY!" making the whole hall fall silent with surprise, Valentina leapt a few inches from her seat, making some girls giggle.

she looked over to the Hufflepuff table and recognised him immediately.
it was probably Muchia Dawson, she heard many Slytherin girls talk about him in the Common Room, saying how they appriciated his loud and outgoing charecter.

she smiled weakly, before retourning to her studing.

she was nearly understanding a long and difficult phrase when a 6th year girl spoke, in a loud clear voice (making Valentina choke on her chicken wing):
"i heard that Melanie Hunter saying that we should begin our flying lessons soon!"

she looked anxiously at the girl, which she didn't recognise straight away.
"W-When?" she gasped, her voice trambling with surprise.
"Flying lessons are, like, my favourite lessons ever!"
she remeberd for a few seconds her early childhood days, when she was flying along with her brother in the backround garden, which looked more like a park.

"soon, i said!" replied the Slytherin girl slyly, but Valentina could easily see she was surprised by her sudden amousment.

she got up and left the table, her throat acheing with the chocked chicken she had gulped down.

Nana heard a boy's voice scream,
"IT'S TIME TO PARTY!!" She was so surprised by the sudden screaming that she almost spilled pumkin juice on herself. Then Nana was even more surprised when a piece of chicken was taken off of her plate, not that she wasn't used to it sometimes people didn't look down long enough to see her. The person who took her chicken said with his mouth full,
"Oops. That was very rude of me. Let me make it up to you."Then he shoved a plate of chicken at her. She jumped a bit in her surprise then politley picked up a piece of chick and put it on her plate. She said quickly,
"Thank you very much" She watched several people stare at him and she almost wanted to tell him it was a good idea to be quiet, She would have if she asn't so scared of all the people taller than her, but since she was she kept quiet.

*Muchia could see that the girls next to him was either embarrassed or nervous or something like that. He felt kinda bad. He thought to himself that he'd make it up to her, even if it wasn't realy his fault.

Muchia: *to nana* so hows it going?

OOC- ahh I'm getting confused, Nana knows him but doesn't recognize him K?

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The boy (who looked familiar but she couldn't remember where she had last seen him) aked her,
"So how's it going?" Nana hadn't expected him to say anything to her. He seemed like he must be pretty popular, by the way he acted. Maybe he felt bad about something because she acted weird or had said something. She was so busy thinking she almost didn't answer. She remembered and Nana said,
"Oh errr, pretty good. Got a detention. How about you??"

*recognition came to Muchia as he heard her mention her detention.

Muchia: Oh ya I remember. You were late for herboligy weren't you? *He laughed* so was I. I helped you out of the trick stair. Remember?

OOC- did you realize that you rhymed- yes it thought that was weird- mention-detention!!
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It clicked to Nana it was the boy who had helped her out of that darn trick step. That always got her. Nana remembered his name too it was Muchia something or other. SHe said to him,
"Oh, yeah thanks for that. How did you end up even more late then me??" She had been wondering that since they had gotten the detention. She had only been about 5 minutes late but he was about 10. She saw the dessert appear on the table and she got some pudding before it was all gone.

OOC: no i didn't it was completly unintentional.

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*Muchia thought back for a moment. Why had he been late? He grabbed some pudding as it appeard and then rememberd.*

Muchia: Oh you know. I was just saving people from stairs all around the castle. But seriously, I realized I was going to be late so i figured Id just stop to get some food before class,

Nana burst out laughing. She had no idea but that phrase was hilarious. It sounded like something she would do and had done before. She couldn't stop laughing no matter how hard she tried. She felt a few people ginving her odd looks and she tried to calm down. Nana held her breath and tried to think normal thoughts. It was working pretty well.

Interesting Muchia thought. He made one little joke and Nana burst into fits of laughter. Perhaps a little over the top but still it wa better then a forced laugh. After a while Muchia fouind himself laughjing as well. Not because he found anything particularly funny it was just that Nana's laugh was contagious.

Obviously embarraced at the looks people were giving her Nana stopped laughing abruptly. Muchia stopped too and got back to his eating.

Jesse walked into the Great Hall not very hungry but in search of a snack. There didn't seem to be TOO many students in the room which was fine. He walked further down the rows and plopped down at the corner of an empty area. He then began to get lost in the outskirts of his mind.

*I wonder what Lisette is up to. She's probably off meeting new people. I hope Apollyon isn't clawing my sheets again, I've gone through enough of them. He sure lives up to his name. I need to restring my acoustic. I wonder if anyone around here plays anything. That'd be something..starting a band at Hogwarts. We'd have to have an awesome name.*

Jesse really does think way too much. He broke himself out of his hypnosis and started leaving the hall, not noticing he didnt even eat anything.

Muchia was laughing too. She saw a boy walk in and walk back out a couple seconds later. She wondered why he hadn't eaten anything, maybe he was looking for somebody. Nana stopped thinking about it and continued with her pudding, it was really good.

*Muchia saw Jesse walk into the room and was about to call him over to have a bite to eat when he turned around and left. Strange he thought. H must have had his reasons. Muchia didn't think to hard about it and turned back to his food to mow down*

Nana put her spoon down and thought about leaving to go to the quidditch pitch. She stood up and picked up her bag off of the ground. Nana checked that she had everything and said,

"See 'ya later Muchia!" She began walking out of the great hall to leave the Quidditch Pitch.

Nani walked towards the gryffindor table very unsure of what to do and who to sit with. She was a new student at hogwarts.

I spotted my best friends waving for me to comeover i hurried and sat in between scott and Melissa.

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Solana walked into the Great Hall for dinner. She wasn't really hungry but she sat at the Hufflepuff table anyway and began to nibble on a roll. She wondered about how to approach Jesse about the band. She really like to sing.

Melanie half-crept over to the Slytherin table and looking around sank into her seat. Far away from anyone else, she nervously took a small nibble of a chicken wing. Realising that the hall had just carried on chattering, she began to eat with gusto. She was starving and hadn't anything to eat since lunch. She hadn't eaten much then because she wanted to read in the library. She had just had half a ham roll and rushed out. She was making up for it now. She just reached for yet another breast slice when the plate in front of her turned into a bowl of trifle. She sighed, not that she didn't like trifle, it was just she had loved the chicken and had been stuffing herself. She dolloped a reasonably sized portion into her dish and began to eat that as well. She began to get full and ate her second portion a lot slower, reading a Dark Arts book she retreived from her bag.

Valentina returned to the slytherin table.
She was lucky, dinner wasn't over yet.

she sat down by a first year she had seen a few times only by sight.

"hello, there!" she said happily.

she looked down at the book she was reading.

"mmh? Dark Arts? i love that subject too! is it an intresting read?"

she grabbed a slice of apple pie (the desserts were now served).

"i'm Valentina Peral Greysoul! 3rd year, slytherin,obviously!" she laughted and looked at the girl.

she looked very pretty and fragile.

"Hey, I'm Melanie...Melanie Carter and a Slytherin first year, the book is interesting, but not quite to my taste as it is slighty gruesome. Not much of a pleasure read, I got it from the library this afternoon. There was plentty there for the Dark Arts and if you're really interested I think there's some in the shelf in the Defence Against The Dark Arts classroom."
Melanie suddenly realised how chattery she had been and blushed. They must of put something in the chichen.

Valentina smilled at the girl's blush.

"oh, i would love to see your Dark Arts books! My father always told me more than i should know about that subject, bless the man, but i haven't actually ever learnt it in the reading way..."

she stopped to think about what she knew about that awful dark defence before continuing.

"...anyway, have you got that book in the Resticted section? i once got one from there, but trust me, i really did hope that those illustrations of suffering people was created by the painter's immagination..."

She rememberd a picture of a man disolving in a black puddle of bubbling liquind.

"Aaanyway....Let's talk bout something more... appropriate... shall we?" she laughted, trying to shake that immage out of her head.