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

[di_intraining]

Hmph. Well, the offer is still out on the table, if you need someone to help you out before tryouts.

[rule_britannia]

I'll certainly not say no.

[di_intraining]

Good. How about this coming Saturday, after breakfast? I'm giving lessons to Victoria in the afternoon so I'm not free then, but the morning sounds good.

[rule_britannia]

.. Sure, that'll be fine.

[One eyebrow goes up]

You're helping Victoria?

[di_intraining]

Yeah. She was talking about Quidditch the other day and signing up, so I thought she might want a bit of help.

[rule_britannia]

Interesting. I hope you understand that if she gets herself hurt I'll be after your blood.

[Arthur grins slightly when he says that. He cares very much about his cousin, that much is true, but he knows she can look after herself]

[di_intraining]

Come off it Arthur, you know how Quidditch is a bit of a rough spot. I can't treat her like some dainty teapot.

[But despite his grumbling, he does know that Victoria is very important to Arthur. So out of respect for his friend, he will agree.]

Look, I'll try to make sure Her Highness doesn't smudge her robes. But I can't guarantee anything. It's a fact in Quidditch that sometimes you get hurt, and maybe training might be a good thing to prepare her for that.

[rule_britannia]

[He lets out a good-humoured chuckle]

I'm just pulling your leg, Lestrade. Knock her off her broom a few times if you must, just try not to break anything. Not that I imagine for one moment you'd hurt her that severely on purpose.

[di_intraining]

You're right about that.

[Silence, and then a small smirk appears on his lips.]

Though I may scare her a little with some tactics. Nothing too dangerous, but just enough to give her a little jump.

[rule_britannia]

[A mirroring smirk appears on Arthur's face and he nods]

I'll be sure to hold her back while she's attempting to hex you as a result.