School Year Starting Logs: Train + Feast/Sorting!

[shnpc]

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!

Comments

[caresawholeawfullot]

Yeah, pretty much. But nobody can blame you for that.

[givesyouaboner]

I've been there before, but this is the first time taking the train. And going as a student.

[caresawholeawfullot]

Oh, you got family at the school already?

[givesyouaboner]

Yeah! My uncle's a professor. And Dave's a fourth year.

[caresawholeawfullot]

Oh, so you're a Strider? I'm in the same house as your brother.

Ted Wiggins. Nice to meet you.

[givesyouaboner]

Yeah. I'm Dirk.

_{[Are you ready for the fistbump, Ted? Let's make it happen.]}

What year are you?

[caresawholeawfullot]

[Oh, cool. Those are rare for him.]

Third year. It goes by fast. But not. It's hard to explain.

[givesyouaboner]

_{[That's going to have to change because fistbumps are cool.]}

That makes sense. The years at my old school always went by fast after winter hols, though.

[caresawholeawfullot]

Well, it was -- it still is -- pretty crazy for me. I mean, I'm muggleborn, so it was like all that stuff I always wanted to exist but it didn't suddenly... Did.

[givesyouaboner]

Me too! I'm still learning things, because this is like an entirely new world. It's also just weird to have to go without internet for so long.

[caresawholeawfullot]

Oh, then yeah! You'll see what I mean. And yeah, I bet. I don't really use that that much.

[givesyouaboner]

I kinda just... use it all the time. I guess I'll get over it eventually and it'll be no big deal.

[caresawholeawfullot]

Yeah, I bet.

[givesyouaboner]

_{[Quick, Dirk, find a way to keep the convo going. Try being more sociable.]}

What do you like best about Hogwarts?

[caresawholeawfullot]

Gotta be flying! It almost makes up for not having my scooter.

[givesyouaboner]

Do you ever worry about falling off the broom?

[caresawholeawfullot]

Um... Sometimes, yeah.

[givesyouaboner]

Do a lot of people do it?

[caresawholeawfullot]

Nah! Professor Banks makes sure we know what we're doing first.

[givesyouaboner]

_{[This is a relief.]}

I think I'm just a bit apprehensive, because if you fall off, you could die.

[caresawholeawfullot]

...Trueee, but it's better not to think about that.

[givesyouaboner]

I wonder how easy that'll be when I actually have to do it.

[caresawholeawfullot]

Easier than you think!