Hogwarts Express Thread!

[erised_npcs]

Who: Any and all Hogwarts Students
What: Riding Back to Hogwarts
Where: The Hogwarts Express, of course!
When: September 1
Warnings: None
Open to: Anyone who would be on the Hogwarts Express this year

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[toriagrey]

Prefect! Even after last year, the novelty of it still hadn't worn off. Victoria took the job seriously, of course, and she really did love it - helping out the teachers, making sure the younger students got settled alright. She had to admit that the badge looked nice on her robes, too.

She'd said her goodbyes to her family and was making her way through the train entrance now, looking around for anyone she knew - Millie or Nicky or maybe Sam.. she didn't know, but it would be nice to just catch up with her friends. Even ones she'd seen over the summer.

She'd definitely miss being home, having time to read whatever she wanted and spending time with family, but she was really looking forward to sixth year, too!

[notsuchababy]

Unlike Victoria? Yeah, Nicky couldn't believe that the school officials had decided that he should be a prefect. Of course, he could be responsible when he had to be and when the situation called for it... but, really? Him? Holding a position of power? Someone must've had a little too much firewhiskey when that decision had been made.

He couldn't complain, however, because he loved helping people. He really did. It was just... strange. Still, after attaching the badge to the front of his robes, he couldn't help but look at it and chuckle. Now. Now to find someone he knew, someone he liked....

Victoria!

His grin widened when he saw her and he pushed his way through the crowd to catch up with her. "Victoria!" He called out as he waved an arm. "Hey!"

[toriagrey]

"Nicky!" Bri's smile was accompanied by a slight blush as she turned her head to see the boy coming after her. She slowed her walk so that he could catch up, tucking her long brown hair behind one ear.

"Hey!" she greeted him happily. It was good to see him.. again, as usual. She still couldn't help blushing like crazy whenever he was around, of course, but they'd spent enough time together over the summer that she could actually almost speak around him now, at least.

"How are you?" she asked conversationally, once he got close enough that she could speak at a normal volume.

[notsuchababy]

Nicky's dimpled grin widened as his strides become a little longer to catch up with her. Sure, they'd spent a lot of time together over the summer, but that didn't mean he was any less pleased to see her. "Hi," he repeated with a bright grin as he slipped one hand into his pocket. "I'm pretty fantastic, actually, and... well. School. Not my favorite place, but it'll be a lot of fun."

Grinning down at her, he raised both brows a little before tilting his head to the side. "You? I've missed you."

[toriagrey]

Her smile grew at that, along with her blush. He'd missed her? That was cute and unexpected, even if it shouldn't have been so unexpected and she couldn't help feeling really, really happy about it.

"It hasn't been that long," she reminded him, trying to tease him a bit, though the words came out quietly and her blush deepened. Oh, that sounded kind of bad, didn't it? As if him missing her wasn't actually a good thing.

"Not that you're not still allowed to, I mean, because you definitely are. It's nice that you've missed me and it's good to see you, too, I just meant.."

Yeah, maybe it'd be a good idea to shut up now.

[notsuchababy]

Cute and unexpected? Nicky hadn't thought so. But then again? Nicky tended to think a lot of things that he did were perfectly normal and that there was nothing strange about them at all. Truth be told, most of them were incredibly odd, but hey! Who cared, right?

He chuckled at that as he shrugged. "True that," he said with a laugh. "I mean, come on, how could I not?" He went on as he looked at her. "It's not that surprising, is it?"

And there. Babbling and rambling. He couldn't help the amused grin on his face as he watched her, brow raised a bit. "I know what you meant, don't worry," he said as he laughed again. "It really hasn't, but the fact of the matter is, I did." A pause. "How were the rest of your hols?"

[toriagrey]

Toria's blush only seemed to grow the more he said and a part of her just kind of wanted to crawl in a hole and die of embarrassment, but the sane part of her reasoned that if she did that, she wouldn't be talking to him or walking with him and seeing him look at her.. and that was something she didn't want either.

"Oh, they were good," she told him with a quick nod of her head. "Lots of time with family and I got to catch up on my reading..."

Yeah, it was probably odd that she spent so much of her summer reading, but that was only odd if you didn't know her.