Y51 Start of Year Feast

Being back at school, hadn't exactly been in Vader's plans. Really he'd put this whole chapter of his life behind him. He was focused on moving forward, sticking to his photography (which was going well) and focused on his work. But, with what had happened with Padme, and with merrie at the school, he figured one semester teaching to also keep an eye on them would be fine. Being away from Ava, Dart, Plum and his nephews was hard, but he could see his kids in the crowd of students sat at various tables and felt pleased to be there for them. He applauded for the sortees, names that were familiar to him still being sorted. Equally too were some of the professors. He glanced towards the head master as he spoke and couldn't help but shudder a little. An odd choice in his mind for the leader of the school. But the food appeared and Vader found his old favourites, ones he hadn't had in a good while.
 
Arachne let out a soft sigh when Juniper asked about her break. It had been the same as the last, and it hadn't been great. Her parents kept trying to help her and Nessie make up, but nothing they did ever worked. Arachne had fled the house as often as she could, spending hours reading or drawing outside. She didn't want to start off the year complaining about her sister again, so she just shrugged. "I didn't do anything special," she said softly. "Practiced my tarot readings a little, I'm excited for Divination." She looked at Eloise. "Are you going to try out for the team?"

@Eloise Flynn @Juniper Veritas
 
Charlotte thought for a moment about the boy's question. "Not quite. We do still have to do letters, but owls do rather well delivering them. And it's pretty neat that they know exactly where to go," she said, getting some food for her plate. "But have you tried writing a letter?" she asked, guesing this was a first year if he was asking questions like this. "Maybe you could see how long it would take first before judging," she added nicely. She wasn't trying to be sassy about it, as she knew that texting could be far easier. She had a phone that she used to text her dad, but it was always acting up because she would leave it beside all the magical items in their house.

@Henry Collins
 
Daviana was feeling good about her house sorting - it was the same as her aunt's, which was what she wanted. She would have been okay with other houses, but she wanted to be set up for success, and her aunt was pretty successful. The newly minted Gryffindor thought that it must start with which house you were sorted into. Having taken a seat next to an older girl, she listened to the Headmaster as he gave a short little speech and made note of her head of house, Professor Cade. Once he was done, she hungrily started piling food on her plate when the older girl asked a question. "It was looooong. And the seats are exactly comfortable. I mean, they're okay, but they could use a bit more cushion, don't you think?" she replied. "I'm Daviana," she continued, introducing herself to the girl.

@Apolline Fontaine
 
Juniper nodded her agreement. Yeah the Headmaster did look awfully lot like he might appear out of thin air and that made the third year shiver involuntarily. She was glad both her friends had bitten onto her question and explained their breaks to her, Juni gave a keen look at each girl as they spoke and a small smile to Arachne. Remembering their chat from the beginning of last year the Hufflepuff wondered if the girl's relationship with her twin had improved at all, she certainly hoped so. "That sounds nice, you should tryout for the team." Juniper nodded towards Eloise, she'd considered she might want to tryout just to prove she could do it. "My break was nothing out of the ordinary either, I mainly just hung with my family and spent time on the beach collecting seashells for my mum. I also filled a new jar with the sand since I lost my old one." She explained, frowning a little at the mention of her beloved jar that was now long since lost.

@Eloise Flynn @Arachne Westwick
 
AJ smiled as Oliver talked about his break and his sisters. He could relate to that. "I know, right? Siblings are weird like that. I spend half the school year missing them, and then they annoy the crap out of me after five seconds of being on break." He shook his head a little. He smiled at Oliver's enthusiasm after talking about tryouts. "Beater." He said without hesitation. "Do you play?"

@Oliver Harper
 
Eloise glanced at Arachane when she had noticed the sigh she had let out, but decided not to say anything. Though she did wonder what was going through her roommate's head at that moment. She did perk up a little at what Arachne had been saying. "That sounds like fun! I'm excited for it too! You can practice your reading on me someday if you like?" Eloise says with encouragement and a grin. Eloise was intrigued by what the class was going to entail, but she was excited for it nevertheless. The Hufflepuff shook her head. "Oh merlin no. Heights aren't for me, nor Quidditch in general. I think my brother would agree with me on that," Eloise says with a giggle and a shake of her head. After what had happened during the break, Eloise wasn't so keen on it. She turned to Juniper as she listened to the other girl, frowning in small concern. "Oh no, I'm sorry to hear about your jar"

@Arachne Westwick @Juniper Veritas
 
Henry frowned a little when the girl had stated that they didn't quite have phones or any other forms of communication aside from letters. That was useless if Henry was being honest. "No" Henry grumbled a little when the older girl had asked about his writing letters. Sure, he wrote letters, but that was for like school back home, not full-on letters to send back and forth between his family. It seemed that the magical world was living in ancient times or something. "I guess you're right" Henry mutters with a shrug. He was still getting used to the magical world after all. Henry began to eat some of his food, but turned to the older girl again. "You said there were magical versions. What magical versions did you mean?" Henry asked the older girl, tilting his head to the side a bit.

@Charlotte Astor Williams
 
"Siblings, am I right?" Ollie says with a chuckle and shake of his head as AJ had explained it all perfectly and couldn't agree more. Ollie grins. "Nice! Great choice," Oliver says with a nod. Oliver loved Quidditch; he enjoyed the sport a lot. He grins at AJ's question. "I play when I can, and I enjoy it a lot. I hope to be on the team too. My brother keeps talking about how fun it is to play on the team. It's getting annoying at this point," Ollie says jokingly with a shake of his head, with a small chuckle. He did love his brother, and Oliver wasn't going to admit that he was a little jealous of his older brother, who was able to play for the team at the moment. But Oliver knew that this was going to be his year. "I'm guessing you play too, then?"

@AJ Carpenter
 
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