These Hallowed Halls: A Hogwarts rp ((O/A))

[STUMBLEF00T]

...Robert Jack Pedley...
Hufflepuff
"Hey little darlin'"
Patronus: Hippogriff

Robert walked onto the train and sat down in an empty compartment by himself. He didn't know where anybody else was but got out his new charms book and read the introduction. Many students ran past the door screaming or chatting, seeing their friends for the first time since the end of summer. The compartment was becoming rather stuffy on the warn, autumn day so Robert placed his book down on the ruby red seat, and opened the window. The smell of train smoke blew through the window along with the sound of families chatting outside.

[Amethyst Everwood]

Ok guys two things!

One: The train will be arriving at the school by the end of this week real time.

Two: I have added an affiliations block to the front page. Please feel free to check out any threads I add there. I will put up mainly other hp threads I think are interesting.

[Nefaret]

Romulus sucked in a quick breath through his teeth.
"Ouch man but I know how you feel." He said looking around the cavernous Great Hall "This place has always been one of the few places I will ever call home."
Then as the doors opened Romulus had almost jumped but when a lone woman walked in he recognized another face from his school days. After taking her hand in a quick motion he fixed her with a blank look.
"Yes you know me Michelle, we were in the same house and you never once gave up in telling me about how my exam scores shamed the name of Ravenclaw." He said almost coldly "It's me Romulus."

~ Romulus Alexander Rahl ~

RAGE is a TOOL...NEVER an EXCUSE!

[Syuisho]

Rychard had gone back to sitting with his back agianst the back wall of the compartment watching the door. He was still spinning his wand through his fingers when a new scent hit him and he knew who it was before the door was even open. When Daren had finished Rychard made a point of smirking so one of his razor sharp fangs were visible.
"Well what can I say." He began cooly "We've been pretty popular the last few decades."
Rychard knew Daren would understand his inflection; as he had seen him around those who didn't hide their distaste of him attending Hogwarts.

}{Rychard Kaylar Black}{

[Eleventh_hour_reprieve]

☀Cassiopeia Carina Malfoy☀

TXoXnXiXgXhXtX I'mma fight
XXXXXXXXXXXXXTill we see the sunlight ☀

☀Cassie nodded, slightly impressed with the fact that asked the question up front, a lot of people danced around the subject of her family, particularly those that knew of her animosity towards them. “It's fine, I don't mind talking about my family," Cassie laughed, it was more likely that her family wouldn't talk about her, last she heard her parents weren't acknowledging her existence. "Yeah, Draco is my father, unfortunately.” Cassie couldn't stop the bit of bitterness from creeping into her voice. "We aren’t exactly close though." Cassie leaned back reminding herself to relax. 'There's no one grading me on my behavior anymore.'
☀"I'm surprised you remember Scorpius, you don't seam like the type he would have associated with. He's my elder brother, and a practical carbon copy of my father." Cassie knew she shouldn't have said that, it was unwarranted given the conversation to insult her brother like that.
☀Cassie glanced up when the door opened to reveal a rather handsome looking Sytherin. She didn't trust that charming smile one bit, it reminded her of her brother, only she didn't know the newcomer well enough to read what was behind it. "I suppose you can join us," she said hesitantly, she didn't want to judge him solely on the fact that he was a Sytherin, in her books that was just as bad as judging someone on their blood status.
☀She glanced at the other guy in the compartment, Rychard, if she remembered correctly, wondering at his comment 'we've been popular?' 'We' who exactly? Was he a pureblood, no that didn't make sense; 'we' had to refer to some sort of sub-group, something that Darren obviously wasn't a member of. She mentally filed the tidbit away, it would come in handy later.

Tick tock on the clockXXXXXXXXXXXXX
But the party don't XsXtXoXp

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No oh, oh oo whoa oo whoa oh

[Amethyst Everwood]

Daren Morpheus Bayes

Daren's grin grew marginally wider, slightly amused by their comments as he was. He stepped fluidly into the compartment, each movement portraying how sure of himself he was, and his confident manner. He carefully curbed the attitude just enough so he wouldn't seem full of himself though, he knew his reputation as a Slytherin could work against him of he was to haughty.

He sat down in the open seat by the shy looking Ravenclaw girl, and across from Rychard, relaxing back in his chair. "Well that's fortunate that there was room in here then. It's always good to hang around the popular guy." He said amiably. He flashed a smile at the blonde who had spoken earlier, since she seemed to hold a bit of mistrust in him. "It's nice to get a chance to talk to people outside of my housemates for a change. I'm Daren Bayes."

[left_dreamer]

Michelle "Micka" Joyce Wayland

With a quick jolt, Micka instantly put all those long-forgotten school memories in place. It was Romulus Rahl standing before her, along with William Hathaway. In the blink of an eye she recalled the not-so-good memories involving the two. "Romulus, what were you even thinking? I'm suprised you even passed your O.W.L.s!"... "Romulus, did you even study for that essay?"... "How did you even get into Ravenclaw, Romulus? It's quite astounding how hard you try to NOT succeed."...

It was funny but Micka could hardly remember a time involoving Romulus when she didn't nag or critisize him. She could clearly visualize him laughing and talking with other students, having fun, but never smiling of laughing with her. Besides that, she could easily recall William always being there, but she couldn't for the life of her remember ever talking to him. 'Of all the walks down memory lane, why did I have to stroll down this one?' Micka thought with haste.

"Well, so you are Romulus. William, always a pleasure." Michelle smiled politely at both men before her and moved to pick up her things. "I guess I wasn't really much of a people person back in the day. That was always Danny's forte, I suppose." She quickly brushed her bangs from her face and the light in the hall glinted off her wedding band. "I'm sure you remember my late husband, Daniel Wayland," With an almost force smile, Michelle Turned towards the stairs. "Well, good evening, gentlemen. I'm off to unpack. I guess I'll see you at supper."

Michelle's polite and graceful good bye was a bit dampered when she tripped on the first stair, but she caught herself before she fell, and quickly moved out of sight.

[Digital Abstract]

Natalie Wells

Natalie continued her walk to the Great Hall but stopped abruptly once she saw a women pass her by a bit away from her. She got a look of her and tried placing who she was. She was mostly good at remembering faces and after a short while, she remembered. "Michelle" She thought, knowing she had been in her brothers year. Her first intention, was to go say hi but she had gone pretty fast and the thought of following her felt kind of creepy. She decided she would talk to her after or during the feast instead.

She then went into the Great Hall. She was meeted by the sight of two men talking. She immediately recognised them and walked up to them, slowly. Somehow she felt shy even if she had gone to school with them and talked to them before. Once she had reached the two she smiled slightly. "Hello, it's nice to see you two again" She said studying both of them, seeing how they've changed appearance wise.

[Evil_San]

____________A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.____________

Will rubbed the heel of his hand into his eye vigorously, trying to wake himself up. He'd hardly slept the previous night, trying to calm down his youngest sister after a rather horrific nightmare, and then after that, his own demons had returned. But being back at Hogwarts was apparently fixing his problems already; he felt like he could sleep for ever. He cleared his throat and nodded towards Rom.
"Yeah, not such a brilliant time, but like you say, i feel like i've come home." He chuckled and slipped his hands in his jacket pockets, playing with some fluff in the bottom of it.
Having accepted the job of DADA teacher, seeing one person from his generation back there seemed like a stretch, but when Michelle appeared, confronted Rom and then greeted him, he grinned, happy their numbers were growing.
"And yourself, Michelle, I'm glad to see you so well, though I offer my deepest condolences for the death of your husband, he was a good man." He took the hand she offered and brought it politely to his lips instead of shaking it.
That conversation didn't last long, but to know there was more than just him under the age of 100 made him feel a little better.
The next figure he saw was yet another from the distant Hogwarts days, one Natalie Wells. He smiled kindly at her and waved slightly, showing his aknowledgment.
"It's nice to see you too, how hae things been?"

[left_dreamer]

Michelle "Micka" Joyce Wayland

Michelle walked swiftly through the eerily silent halls of Hogwarts. As a student here, it was never so entirely silent, and the weight of that silence caused a chill up Michelle's spine. Walking the halls as a teacher definitely changed the overall feel of Hogwarts... and so did the lack of friends nearby.

With a quick intake of breath, Michelle shook off the self-pitying thoughts, and cooed down at the cage in her hand. "Wingnott, let's get settled, shall we? It's about time that we made ourselves at home here."

At that, Michelle swung open the door of her new class room. A cheery golden light filtered in through the tall arched windows, lighting the room and it's furnishings. Surrounded by the smell of books, Micka's heart settled for the first time in nearly a week, and she smiled. "Here we are, Wingnott. Now be good."

The last part was spoken as she unlatched the cage, freeing the large owl. With a loud coo, the bird happily flew from the cage, quickly knocking over a globe from a table, and scattering a large stack of parchment from on top of a bookshelf. With a curse at the bird, Micka hurried to right the mess.

"You silly bird! Stop making such a mess, we just got here!" Micka scolded, righting the globe with a wave of her wand, and heading for the mess of parchment. She noticed instantly it's yellowed appearance, and wondered just how long the stack had sat on top of that bookshelf. Picking up the top sheet, Michelle read the scratchy, choppy handwriting scrawled there.

Sophisticated Transfiguration Concepts,
Written and Illustrated by Minerva McGonagall
Advanced Principles, Spells, and Concoctions of Transfigurations

Written in the bottom corner was a quick note, in the same handwriting but it appeared more rushed, even irritated.

Needs editing- spells on pages 96 and 108 don’t work. Remove Chapter 3, too risky for public knowledge. Also remove--- The last few words were burned out, a hole where they should be.

”McGonagall wrote a Transfiguration manuscript? And just left it in her classroom?” With a shake of her head, Michelle scooped up the disheveled stack of parchment and headed for her desk. Locking it in the top drawer, she sighed. “I’ll get that to the headmaster, I guess. Until they show up, though, I’ll just hang onto it, it may come in handy.”

Looking at the sun on its path to setting, Michelle figured she still had a few hours to arrange her classroom and office, so she got to work.

[Syuisho]

Daren's awnser slightly confused Rychard. He was sure that he had seen him with the same group of Slytherins who made it a regular part of their day to tell him he didn't belong. Yet Daren didn't show anything other than cool neutrality as he walked into the compartment; maybe a bit full of himself but that was expected of most purebloods. Not really wanting to talk much at this point he pulled out The Book of Standard Spells Grade 6 as he listened to the coversation. He wasn't exactly reading it as he could already do most if not all the spells as well as use them them without speaking; mostly Rychard was just giving himself an excuse not to be talking.

}{Rychard Kaylar Black}{

[Amethyst Everwood]

Amethyst Rose Everwood

Amethyst shifted, feeling a bit uncomfortable as the compartment grew more crowded. None of the new comers seemed like bad people, but she had never been much of one for crowds. She glanced over at the girl that had come in, giving her what she hoped was a friendly smile, and nodded toward the boy who had sat next to her. "I a-am Amethyst Everwood..." Her nerves bringing a slight stutter back to her quiet voice.

She tried to relax again by drawing some more, but she just couldn't get her thoughts to focus. After a few moments she got to her feet. "I-i think I am going to go change into m-my robes....P-please excuse me. I w-will be right b-back." She said, reaching up to grab her robes out of her trunk where they were folded neatly on top. Clutching them to her chest like a life preserver she hurried from the room, her face tinged slightly pink with embarrassment. Mentally she yelled at herself for getting so easily flustered. Especially after she had finally been having a real conversation with Rychard and Mercy.

[Eleventh_hour_reprieve]

☀Cassiopeia Carina Malfoy☀

TXoXnXiXgXhXtX I'mma fight
XXXXXXXXXXXXXTill we see the sunlight ☀

☀Cassie looked at Darren specutivly, he seemed harmless enough for now, she didn't see any reason not to talk to him, “I can understand how that might get boring, talking to people who are just like you" she smiled mockingly, she couldn't help it. She bet he thought he was clever with the 'lovely ladies' comment.
☀Cassie smiled back at the nervous looking blond girl as she introduced herself. She would have talked her but she turned back to the sketchpan in her lap. 'I suppose its for the best, the poor thing looks so flustered she might faint.' Cassie felt vaguely sorry for the girl, who so painfully shy, Cassie clamped down on the pity, knowing that she wouldn't want anyone to feel sorry for her if she was shy like that. 'I wondered what she's drawing.' Whatever it was Amethyst abandoned shortly, saying she needed to go change her robes. Cassie glanced around at her classmates, she hated awkward silences, she wished someone would start a conversation, but since Rychard had gone back to his book the chances didn't seem good.
☀Cassie looked down at her watch. "Oh, wow. Amethyst was right, we need to get our robes on." Cassie gathered her robes up, "Well, see you people later," she hurried off, if there was time after she changed she would return but, given how late it was there probably wouldn't be. 'What is with me being late every where today? Granted being late to the train was totally to cabbies fault, but still.'

Tick tock on the clockXXXXXXXXXXXXX
But the party don't XsXtXoXp

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No oh, oh oo whoa oo whoa oh

[Nefaret]

Watching Michelle leave it make him smile on the inside that seeing him in an important position had made her neverous and second guess her action when they were kids. However he was wearing a frown as he was out of the country when John had died and he didn't get the news until after the funeral.
"It really was a shame about John I really liked him." He said looking at his feet but looking up he noticed another recognizable figure walking towards them with a shy smile on her face.
"Hello Natelie." He said with a wide grin "I've been good over the years as I hope you have been."
As he finished there was a loud bark followed by the sound of something with four legs running up the dungeon path. A white streek shot out of the archway leading to Romulus' office and when it got about six feet away it pounced on him knocking him over.
"Arrgh!" He said as he hit the floor and when he did there was a fox sitting neatly on his chest looking at him; it yipped once "Ah okay Nyte I got it now let me up."
Fox seemed to smile as he walked off Rom's chest and his companion got up.
"Nyte says the students should be arriving very soon." He explianed to the others.

~ Romulus Alexander Rahl ~

RAGE is a TOOL...NEVER an EXCUSE!

[Digital Abstract]

Natalie Wells

Natalie listened as the two talked before replying "Oh, I've been alright myself." She said and smiled. Suddenly a loud bark was heard and her attention directed to the dungeon path too see what it was. A fox came in running over to Romulus and she smiled at how cute it was. "Aww..." She said quietly looking at it. She only let her gaze move from the fox when Romulus had spoken again. "So the students are arriving. Well I guess we'll have more to do then..." She said running a hand through her hair. She hadn't been doing that much since she arrived here and she was getting a little hungry. She was really looking forward to the feast.