Train ride! Open to anyone. :)

[gabriella__]

There were people all around, saying goodbye, searching frantically through their things. Gabi rolled her eyes as one younger student stopped right in front of her because he had dropped his owl. Idiot.She had no one to say goodbye to, no one to wish her farewell. So Gabi wasn't hesitant to boarding the train once her things were secured in the

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[xblodwyn]

Blodwyn had managed to disentangle herself from her parents (why they still insisted on sending her off, she had no idea) and was on the train already enjoying the seniority given as a seventh-year when she took notice of the little squirts that were running around gasping at the Hogwarts Express. She'd seen the train quite a few times already and instead concentrated on finding a compartment that was either not full or had no one she couldn't stand in it.

Unfortunately, all the other compartments already had occupants, and if she had to hear another "Hey! Ginny!" to her from the other end of the train she might have to scream. Blodwyn came into Gabi's compartment and offered a smile. "'Morning. Mind if I sit?"

[gabriella__]

Gabi's eyes met Blodwyn's and she matched her smile. "Not at all. I'd love your company."

It was much better than some snobby Gryffindor or loud-mouthed Hufflepuff. Gabi set her magazine down beside her and crossed her legs. Her friend looked slightly annoyed, but Gabi could sympathize.

"It's pathetic, isn't it? Like some ritual, to run around making themselves look like fools. Every year, it's the same thing...."

[xblodwyn]

Blodwyn levitated her trunk up to the rack and sat down across from Gabi, sighing. "It's a complete madhouse. They act as if they haven't seen or heard from their friends over the summer so, naturally, they must all catch up in the middle of the walkway on the train."

[emiko_yoshida]

As she made her way through the train, Emiko caught sight of a few familiar faces. She wasn't particularly close with either of them, but at the very least she knew they were Slytherin-- which counted for something.

She watched as one, and moments later the other, ducked into a compartment. If it was at all possible, she'd rather share with girls from her own house.

"Hate to be a bother," she said stopping outside of their compartment, "but woud you mind if I join you?"

[xblodwyn]

Blodwyn looked up from where she had been examining her nails carefully for lack of better things to do as the train geared up to start. "Mmm," she muttered vaguely with a small smile, and looked back down, an approving gesture. She recognized the girl as a Slytherin in Ben's year - one below - and supposed it wouldn't make much difference. Better than a Hufflepuff. Or that strange Lovegood girl. Or anyone other than the people she didn't mind, really, which didn't seem to allow for much.

[gabriella__]

"Might as well," Gabi said with a nod to the younger Slytherin. "Just make sure you close the door behind you."

She picked up her magazine for a moment and tried to find where she'd left off. But it seemed to be a fruitless search. "So Emiko, how was your summer? Glad to be going back to school?"

[emiko_yoshida]

Emiko was half-tempted to smile as both girls agreed to let her sit with them, but instead only nodded in reply. She stepped in, closing the door behind herself as instructed, and sat down with her light traveling bag.

She was about to rifle through it and find something to do until she was adressed by Gabriella. She looked up with a bit of a shrug.

"It was fine, I guess. Blew by quicker than I could count the days, though."

She decided not to mention how dismayed she actually was about not going to France with her parents and being stuck at Hogwarts again when she replied thoughtfully, "it's always a little refreshing at the start of a new year. Future prospects and all. How about you? Anything interesting occur over break?"