School Year Starting Logs: Train + Feast/Sorting!

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WHO: Everyone!
TONE: Anything!
RATING: PG through PG-13
WHEN: The day of September 2nd for the train, and at night for the feast!
WHERE: Hogwarts Express/Platform 9 3/4 and The Great Hall
WHAT: Gotta get back to Hogwarts! Back to witches and wizards and magical feasts! Students and teachers are finally heading back to school on the Hogwarts express, and with the new school year means sorting for the first years!
STATUS: Ongoing!
NOTE: There is a thread for the Train back to Hogwarts, and the Feast, with a subthread for the Sorting! First years can comment to be sorted, and everyone else can greet their new house mates/students!

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Train Thread

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Feast Thread

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Sorting!

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[taleweaving]

[Aranea had been waiting for this day since a week after school let out. It was nice to be home, with all her personal things, to have her mother around her, to have her own space. But it was also highly lonely. There were not many children of her own age living around her, and the few that were went to muggle schools, and thus there were no close bonds. Letters to Meenah had helped ease the loneliness, but as they say; there is nothing like going back to Hogwarts.

Moments after her arrival on platform 9 3/4 Aranea was changed into her uniform, robes freshly pressed, her new Prefect badge shiny and her blue tie tied neatly. Storing her belongings in the prefect carriage she took to wandering around, greeting housemates and friends, the picture perfect student. Then when everyone gets on and the train leaves the station she stays in her compartment for a bit, feeding owl treats to Athena, and finishing off a book. Half an hour passes, and then she gets up, moving through the carriages to chat to students, and keep an eye on both the Ravenclaws and the new first years, smiling at some of their eyes of wonder]

[nomorals]

[Somewhere in the back of the train, there's a compartment with the blinds drawn closed. In this compartment is one Miss Marceline Abadeer, reclining back on one seat with her booted feet propped up on the other and a guitar in hand, humming as she strums along.

Summer had been interesting to say the least, especially considering her recent status as a newborn vampire. Meeting Marshall at the Diagon Alley festival and knowing so many of her friends weren't repulsed or scared of her helped to lighten the load a little as it were. Home still wasn't an option though, and so Marcie had come to the Platform from a band mate's place.

She tilted the brim of her sunhat up, looking out the shaded window as the houses gave way to rolling green hills, chewing on the gum in her mouth. At least Hogwarts might be better than summer had been.]

[greenmoonrising]

[Bruce has found an empty compartment and promptly curled up on his side on a seat in it, bags tucked away safely and uniform still folded up so he doesn't wrinkle it during the ride to Hogwarts. It's the weekend of the full moon, and it's taken his toll, leaving him sickly pale with a bruised look around his eyes from fatigue. Despite the fairly warm weather, he's dressed in a hoodie to cover the pink weals left on his arms from the latest nightly fluffy escapades.]

[taleweaving]

[Aranea had merely meant to walk by, noting the curled up person in the compartment. Obviously someone who hadn't got a lot of rest last night, not that she could blame them. It was still so thrilling to come back after summer, sometimes even she had trouble sleeping.

But then she recognises the fellow Ravenclaw, and so she stops, gently rapping on the door as she slides it open, peering in. Already in her robes, with both tie and prefect badge on, her hair pulled back in a neat braid she's ready to go, and ready to start fussing over housemates]

Bruce? Am I disturbing you at all? If I am, say the word and I will disappear as if... as if I had disapparated, I suppose.

[di_intraining]

[Someone else has stumbled onto this one-man compartment. Longing for some peace and quiet, Greg had opted to search for a quiet seat. Quietly tip-toeing to an empty seat on the other end of the compartment, he settles in there and pulls out a out of his new textbooks to read. It wouldn't hurt to have an early start.]

[greenmoonrising]

[She's lucky she caught him when he'd just laid down otherwise he'd be sleeping like the dead. As it is though, he jerks awake and sits up, blinking blearily up at her and putting his glasses back on with a wan smile.]

Oh, hey Aranea. No it's- [yawn] fine, just a bit tired is all.

[Notes her badge with a small grin.]

You suit being a Prefect.

[greenmoonrising]

[Bruce's ears and nostrils twitch, picking up the near silent sounds and obscure scent of Greg, whom he acknowledges with opening one red eye at and blinking tiredly.]

Hey.

[taleweaving]

[She adjusts her own glasses as she steps in, giving him a pleasant smile]

Couldn't sleep? I understand that completely. Hopefully it won't be a long day then.

[Here her smile widens. Yes someone is excite]

Thank you! I'm terribly excited, but I imagine that could be said for all the other 5th years chosen. It's something I've wanted to be, ever since I first came to Hogwarts, and to actually achieve it gives me great hope that I'll be able to achieve all my other goals in life. But I'm also so very nervous, so perhaps, if it's alright with you of course, I could come and ask you for tips and advice when needed? I know you too have a lot on your own plate, so I understand if you don't have the time.

[moveslikejaeger]

[Oh gosh what a cutie. Maxim had been running through the cars, but upon noticing the sleeping sweety, he immediately switched to stealth mode and crept up on the baby.]

[Then crawled on top of him, tucked his nose into the crook of his neck, and snuggled]

[greenmoonrising]

[Smiles wryly, sitting up and straightening his clothes out a bit.]

You could say that...

[Runs a hand through his always messy hair and chuckles at her excitement.]

Well, I wasn't Prefect last year but I'll help as much as I can so feel free to bother me whenever. I doubt you'll need it though - you're way more responsible than any of your classmates I know of.

[moveslikejaeger]

[A purple and gold blur runs the length of train, tackle-hugging everyone he comes into contact with. Well, all the boys, at least. The girls get swept off their feet, spun around, and smooched on the cheek. Regardless, affection is being given out freely, forcefully, and regardless of whether or not he knows you. Such trivial details as previous interaction matter not. You are going to Hogwarts, and for that, Maxim loves you.]

[greenmoonrising]

[Bruce twitches awake at the snuggling, simply too exhausted and half-asleep to react violently appropriately, blinking his eyes half-open and mumbling dazedly:]

Whu, Maxim...?

[moveslikejaeger]

Hey sveetie. [He chuckles, giving Bruce a little nuzzle.] Hyu go on right beck to schleep, dollink, hyu look like hyu need it. Hy vill stay right here und make sure hyu iz nize und comfortable und relatively unmolested.

[moveslikejaeger]

Hello dollink~! [Is all the warning Aranea gets before she gets swept up by the one Jaeger greeting committee. Which means a hug in a smooch] Hyu ready for anodder fabulous year at Hogvarts?

[greenmoonrising]

[Blinks owlishly and nods, curling into Maxim and nuzzling the crook of his neck as well.]

'Kay... [Blinks eyes open, frowning.] Wait, did you say 'relatively unmolested'?

[taleweaving]

[Takes one of the unoccupied seats for herself, smoothing her robes out as she sits]

... You do look rather fatigued though... Have you been ill recently Bruce?

[If she didn't have a good amount of self restraint she'd be bouncing in her chair]

Oh! Then I suppose we will learn the role together then? My apologises for assuming, I have always been slightly out of date with the older students. And yes, I suppose that is true, but responsibility is not the only necessary thing... I only help I can live up to expectations. Surely you understand that feeling?

[moveslikejaeger]

Ach, it's zo daaaaark, Marcie! [Maxim whines, swaying from side to side as he walks towards the vampire, grabbing the backs of seats for balance] Hy ken't zee! Hy'm gonna trip offer zumting for sure!

[and just as he reaches her, whoops, down he goes, face first into her chest. 100% on purpose] Ehehehehe, tol'chu!

pre-cabin snugglefest

[greenmoonrising]

[Bruce has just gotten on the train and has his bags in hand, exhausted and showing it unwillingly as he looks for an empty cabin. Hello purple gold blur of excitement, meet your exact opposite of the day.]

[taleweaving]

[She merely laughs, returning the hug, half used to the overenthusiastic acts of the Jaegers.] Hello Maxim! And yes, of course, I've been ready for months. More so since I got my letter and badge of course!

[moveslikejaeger]

[As if on cue, Maxim's hand slips down and cops a feel] Nooooo, ov courze not!

[moveslikejaeger]

[You are not allowed. Maxim will hug you better. He will do it if it kills him.] BRUCIE~ Iz time to be heppy now, ve iz togedder again!

[greenmoonrising]

[Just shrugs and keeps smiling.]

Eh, something like that. It'll pass and it's not contagious, don't worry.

[Can tell she's bouncing on the inside and grins again.]

I do, and I'm not sure why they picked me for a Prefect but... The teachers are good judges - they wouldn't have given you the job if they didn't think you could do it.