Hallowe'en!

[serinusniger]

Congratulations! You've made it halfway through the winter term, and someone is determined that you will enjoy this evening. The smells of the feast started permeating the classrooms about mid afternoon, and by the time classes are let out for the day, the corridor are resplendant in pumpkins and candles

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The Gryffindor Table

[serinusniger]

Dinah has an accustomed spot on this table - right at the very end, nearest the staff table, facing the rest of the hall so she can watch goings-on at other tables.

The reason for her choice is very clear - so someone who brings her own chair and not sit on the long benche at the table - can still sit next to her best friend.

Also it gives Dinah the chance to see most of the hall and to be with as many of her friends as possible. It's been a tiring few weeks; she plans to enjoy tonight.

Re: The Gryffindor Table

[interrogoiterum]

Not that far away from Dinah's popular clique of 7th and 6th years, Renee sits at the other end of the Quidditch players, wearing the exhausted grin of someone who has spent all afternoon practising and couldn't think of a better way to spend her time.

Re: The Gryffindor Table

[will_scarlett]

Will's directly across the table from Dinah and next to Babs, he needed this break.

He's managing to do what he needs to but he doesn't think he's ever been this busy at Hogwarts before.

[serinusniger]

He'll know why Dinah quit Quidditch, then.

"How's the new team shaping up?"

Staff Table

[aim_blind]

Before the starters are even served, there is at least one flask of firewhiskey being passed around the table.

Any accusations that Professor Ross is behind this shocked display or inappropriate behaviour in front of underaged wizards will be greeted with a cheeky grin and an acknowledgment.

Staff Table -- Jo Harvelle

[veneficusvenato]

Jo didn't so much get an invitation as much as told by her best'ies she was expected at the Hallowe'en Feast. There are several reasons this is awesome.

She gets her first Hogwart's Feast since graduating. She gets to toss confetti in Lee's hair. To run into all those Professor's that still remember some of her more glorious exploits.

(And if she happens to glance over Ozai or Steph or her Order Members now and then, while scanning the hall and laughing at the antics of all the wee adorable children's? Well, that's just a coincidence.)

[aim_blind]

Leah is totally OK with there being confetti in her hair.

She is explaining this new generation of kids to Jo.

"OK, you see that blonde kid on Ravenclaw, who keeps turning around to talk to his friend in Slytherin? That's the new Sokka.

"No, I take that back. He is more Sokka than Sokka. The kid has a scary brain."

[veneficusvenato]

"And what's his name?"

Jo leaned out of her chair, to see said child.

"And what does Sokka think of him so far?"

Ravenclaw Table

[auraofmystery]

By luck of positioning of the houses, Niccolo Machiavelli has managed to get himself a seat as near to the physical centre of the Hall as it is possible to be, directly opposite his two best friends. It's also a convenient seat because the aisle between the Hufflepuff and Ravenclas tables, that runs up the middle, is sometimes used by a student of one of the lower years, some of which seem to have urgent things to say to Mac.

Ravenclaw Table: Maura

[mortuiloquar]

Maura is sitting near the top of her table, eating a pastie.
The pumpkin ones at the feast are always the very best of the year.

Good enough to be ignoring the tall, studious looking boy sitting on her right at the very least. Even though he was the rumor mill's more recent snogging sighting of hers, neither of them looked to be making the effort to talk to the other much.

Re: Ravenclaw Table

[veloxepistola]

Inara is a rather late arrival to the festivities, but it is her first opportunity to be inside the grounds - let alone the castle - since her move back to Hogsmeade.

She's still staring up at the ceiling, a little.

Re: Ravenclaw Table

[scots_wolf]

From the Ravenclaw table, somebody might be looking at her with interest.

Slytherin Table

[runner_fray]

Sitting with the Quidditch Team, Melaka Fray has a semi-permnent grin on her face, that may or may not be bad news for anyone who's hoping the feast doesn't end in a food fight. Occasionally she shoots a threatening smirk down the table at Charles Brigman.

She's being social with her peers. This, some teachers might say, isn't going to end well.

Slytherin Table

[mnt_leo]

Leonardo sits with the other sixth years, but interacts with them as little as possible while still maintaining a socially acceptable demeanor. Every now and again he looks over at the Ravenclaw table and makes eye contact with his brother Donatello. From across the aisle that separates the two tables, they hold a silent conversation.

[runner_fray]

We're going to have to interrupt this silent conversation for a serious announcement.

"Potatoes!"

Or... not.

"Hey," Mel calls up to that group. "Stop hogging the potatoes!"

[mnt_leo]

Leo doesn't hear the request for potatoes, what he feels is the sharp elbow to his side from the girl to his right.

"I'm sorry? What? Oh." He picks up the bowl and passes it down the line. "Sorry," he calls down the table.

Off in the distance Don just laughs.

[interrogoiterum]

It's an arrangement that, by this point in the term, leaves Mike sitting where he can have a conversation with Renee. Luckily, the conversation is not quite dominated by Quidditch.

"If Brigman really has been picking on first years, I'm going to break his nose permanently this time."

...sometimes it's about violence.

[interrogoiterum]

Renee gives him a dry look that suggests this really isn't that funny.

"What the hell is wrong with those people, anyway?"

She probably just means Brigman and his friends.