Harry Potter and the Trials of Hogwarts [Revamp]

[Iuna Iovegood]

Luna nodded a bit and decided to let the poor girl believe there was really no terrible conspiracy going on within the Slytherin house. For that moment that her mouth had hung open just a tiny bit, Luna noted that she had very pretty teeth. She hoped that the conspiracy would not affect the girl, anyway. Watching her flip through her book, she spoke again.

"Do you like potions?" asked Luna, genuinely curious.

[Mechanical Woman]

"You could say that..." Lynette sighed. "I take extra potions classes with Professor Snape. He isn't that bad with me, but it is kind of a testimony to how much I love potions. You'll learn soon, everyone does."

Lynette looked up at the girl, observing. She had said nothing regarding her Slytherin comments, and that bothered her a bit. Lynette still hadn't figured out wether or not this girl would be useful. She was extremely odd, but it might be able to be put to good use. Maybe Lynette could try and figure something out for her...

[Iuna Iovegood]

"Professor Snape..." she said quietly, almost in a whisper, thinking over the name in her mind. "Wasn't he a..." she began, but cut herself short, deciding not to continue to worry this girl with the Slytherin conspiracies once again. She shrugged off her own interruption with a smile, and sat back, watching the fluffy looking kitten.

"What's your name?" she addressed the cat, rather than the owner.

[Mechanical Woman]

Lynette looked at Luna for a moment as whispered Professor Snape. She began to arch her eyebrow again until she stopped, and relaxed her face. Lyn answered for Thanatos, "Her name is Thanatos, it's the Greek god of Death." The cat looked up at Lyn when she heard her name, but when she was not pet, she curled up on the Potions book.
Lynette paused before asking carefully, "What is your name?"

[Iuna Iovegood]

"My name is Luna Lovegood..." she said distractedly watching the cat. "Your cat looks rather unlike a god of death."

After a moments pause, she laughed a little bit and looked back to Lynette. "What's yours?" she asked.

[Mechanical Woman]

Lynette smiled, "My younger brother, Devin, named her. Thanatos was originally Devin's, but then he got his own dog. My older sister calls her Toast for some reason..." Lynette said as the cat yawned and stretched out on the book.

"My name is Lynette Fay," Lynette thought for a moment before reaching her hand out for a handshake.

[Iuna Iovegood]

Luna stared at Lynette's hand for a while that seemed far too long, then reached out and lightly touched it. "They're very nice hands." she said whispilly admiring her hands. It was rather obvious that Luna hadn't quite gotten out much...

Letting go of her hand, she gave Lynette a very grave and serious look, leaning in close and whispering. "You should be careful. I suspect that nargles might tamper with things like that, and if I know one thing about nargles, it's that they very much love to cause mischief. Last summer, I wore gloves to bed as a precaution..."

She leaned back and looked around a bit as if expecting some kind of nargle--whatever that was--spy to show itself and cackle at her.

The random student sitting beside her failed to stifle a groan.

[Moire Frost]

[[ Fred, George ]]

"C'mon, you great slimy git..." Fred teased, pulling his luggage behind him as he shouted at his brother. "We'd better hurry, there aren't going to be any compartments left at the rate you're going." The Twins had arrived on the Hogwarts Express literally seconds before it left, having lost their siblings on the way. Fred shouldered his way past two groggy first-years, mumbling incoherently about how they took up too much space for their own good.

He finally found an empty compartment. Sure, it smelled horrible, but he was Fred Weasley, with his Twin, George... a little smell wouldn't do any harm now, would it?

"Fred, me boy," George said, holding his nose as he stepped into the foul-smelling compartment. "You're terrible. Can't we find another compartment?" With his brother's reluctant nod, he continued on to the next compartment, housing a few girls.

"Hello, ladies!" Fred exclaimed. "My brother Fred and I..."

"I'm George, Fred. You're Fred."

"Right, right. My brother George and I have decided to grace you with our company on this lovely ride here," beamed Fred, stuffing the luggage into the overhead storage and taking a seat next to the second-year.

[Iuna Iovegood]

Luna witnessed Fred and George clamoring in to their car and inviting themselves to share it along for the ride with wide eyes. It was not that she was shocked or perturbed, but instead that she could not believe how they both looked so very similar. Ah hah, of course. Twins.

She smiled with satisfaction at their good humour. "Do you sometimes forget which is which?"

[Moire Frost]

George shrugged, squeezing himself in on the other side of the second-year. "Sometimes, but not sometimes as well." His brother just laughed.

"I think what he's trying to say is, we like to confuse people," Fred explained, George nodding in the corner. "Me name's George Weasley, and this is me brother Fred."

"You're Fred, I'm George."

"Fine, George." George shook his head, obviously tired of the little mind game.

"Anyway," began George, "Why's that other compartment so... foul?"

"It smells worse than the Ghoul," joked Fred, rotating himself to look around their guest.

"Smells worse than Dad trying to cook food Muggle-style," added George, rotating himself as well.

"That's terrible." They both wheeled around to the second-year, smiling impishly.

"And you might be?" they both said at once.

[Iuna Iovegood]

Luna stared blankly at the twins for a moment. "Then everyone should call you both Frorge." she said contemplatively, then cracked a little smile.

"The smell in the other compartment is quite terrible. I suspect nargles." she said, nodding at Lynette, who she'd just been discussing nargles with. She looked back between the two twins again. "I'm Luna Lovegood. It's my first year to Hogwarts."

"This," she said motioning to Lynette, "is Lynette Fay and Thanatos. Slytherin house--but don't worry, I'm positive they are not involved in the Slytherin conspiracies."

She sighed and paused for an awkward moment, then buried her nose into the issue of the Quibbler she'd had with her. She'd read it enough times to memorize the content word for word by now. Just then, an odd thought crossed her mind. She remembered her father showing her a map of the world and turning it upside down, explaining that looking at things from another angle expanded your mind and perception of things. ...So Luna did just that--she turned the Quibbler upside down and decided to read it that way. Coincidentally, one of the articles was written upside down, and was now right-side up. She smiled and hummed a bit.

[Moire Frost]

"Nargles?" the twins mouthed to each other silently, looking from the other to Luna.

"My dearest Luna," Fred began, a smile playing on his face. "I believe you're reading upside-down. Brilliant."

"Could've sworn she was older..." whispered George, scratching his head and shrugging.

The Twins nodded in a quick hello to Lynette, then pulled a handful of Chocolate Frog packages from their pockets. One by one, they gorged themselves on the chocolatey treat, exclaiming excitedly when Fred found an Agrippa card.

"Ickle Ronnie's going to be jealous," mocked Fred, stuffing the Agrippa card into his luggage and scarfing down the frog in record speed. His feathery red hair had been combed by Mrs. Weasley before their departure, and now he shook his head and flicked it around to make it more comfortable.

"She ruin yours too, Fred?" George asked, smoothing his own hair back into it's rightful place. With Fred's curt nod, he turned to look out the window. They were passing by fields of sheep and cows, relaxing and contentedly chewing on their grass. Fred must've been watching, because he said,

"You thinkin' what I'm thinkin'?"

"Whistling Bottle Rockets attached to their tails? Maybe." The pair grinned, Fred rummaging through his pack and pulling out a small green package.

"Dad confiscated them from a bloke in London, trying to blow up a toad... silly Muggle magic."

[Iuna Iovegood]

Luna could not help but frown at the boys. "Wouldn't that hurt the cows? I very much like rockets and fireworks, but I don't think that a cow's tail is a good place to tie them..."

She watched out the window and smiled at the sight of all the cows. "I wonder if pranks like that are the reason Crumple-Horned Snorkacks are so elusive." she said to the window.

((Sorry for the delay. I've been getting errors from Gaia all day.))

[Mechanical Woman]

Lynette looked at Fred and George with a quick glance. "Putting fireworks on a cow would result in a hideous mixture of dung and blood. I'd bet the Ministry would have a fit," Lyn said as she flicked a piece of Thanatos fluff off her shirt.

Lynette knew she most likely shouldn't ask, but was tempted, "What is a Crumple-Horned Snorkack? And are they useful for anything, like potion ingredients?" Lynette couldn't help but ask, if it was some rare creature that could provide a good potion, she didn't care. But then again, she had doubts. The constant talk of Nargles was a bit clue to Lynette that she was insane...
(Sorry for no posts all day, I went shopping with some friends...))

[Iuna Iovegood]

Luna beamed at Lynette, eyes popping excitedly that she would ask about the creatures. "They're a very elusive creature that live in Sweden... They can't fly. There are people searching for them there." she paused, daydreaming about one day searching for the creatures herself. "If you read The Quibbler, I'm sure you could find out much more about them, but no one's sure on the very specific details of them... I'm not sure if they have anything to use as ingredients in potions..."

She offered the issue of The Quibbler she'd had with her this whole time to Lynette.