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

[eighttimeshandy]

[........SWOON. He's trying very hard not to look at Professor Rhydderch with starry eyes, but he's probably not doing very well. It's not just the show of strength, but also from the comment about fear]

Of course, Professor. Thank you very much for the assistance. I look forward to your classes, once the semester starts.

[grandhighwizard]

You always do well, don't you, my lad? [Yeah, Rhys isn't stupid, he can see those starry eyes, but he'll politely ignore them, as funny as he finds it that a 16 year old boy would practically be swooning over a 62 year old wizard.] You seem to have an affinity for certain aspects of the class more than others, though.

[eighttimeshandy]

[He's swooned over older, but they're generally fictional and vampires]

[He shrugs one shoulder] They're just a bit more interesting.. It's one of those psychological things, I think. The more forbidden something is, the more allure it has.

[grandhighwizard]

And what would you study, given your choice, ignoring the required curriculum?

[eighttimeshandy]

[A smart person would probably come with a vague answer, or maybe some of the "gray" magics, anything to throw suspicion off them. he was, after all, talking to a teacher. But Professor Rhydderch's classes always walked that fine line between standard and dark, and most people regarded his dark leanings as the cherry juice in wine glasses kind of theatrics.]

Oh, given my choice, I would focus on blood and soul magic. [He says casually, with a nonchalant shrug] Not exactly the kind of magic that leans heavily on potions, but there are plenty that alter one's perception of the world - love potions are very good example, though I know they're largely dismissed as comedic, and those have their own personal sort of fascination.

[grandhighwizard]

All the oldest potions begin with blood. But real love potions are forbidden. [Rhys comments lightly, then fixes the boy with a sharp gaze.] Tell me why, Mr. Slepner. Not what you've been told, why you think that kind of magic would be considered taboo.