Hogwarts:A New Era(IC/OPEN)

[Lorellion]

Ella

Ella pondered the question curiously. "Well each wand wood and core signifies something immensely important about the caster. Because the wand is going to be how the witch or wizard channels their magical powers, a wand is something that is deeply personal for the caster. It could be something about their personality, what magic they are particularly talented at, or even something such as a gift that they have magically. The wand chooses the wizard based upon these characteristics and then bonds it to them. Is there a specific reason you are asking or a certain wand wood or core you are interested in?

[United States of Cascadia]

Arthur sat up from his seat right as Agatha left, a massive grin on his face. "I'm gonna go get changed. Not really a good idea to lose house points before we even get to school - there'll be plenty of time for that during the school year." Arthur exited the compartment and headed down to the now very full compartment where he had left his luggage. Giving a quick hello to the denizens, he grabbed his robes, said hello to his cat, and went off to get changed.

[Woodstovia]

Ella

Ella pondered the question curiously. "Well each wand wood and core signifies something immensely important about the caster. Because the wand is going to be how the witch or wizard channels their magical powers, a wand is something that is deeply personal for the caster. It could be something about their personality, what magic they are particularly talented at, or even something such as a gift that they have magically. The wand chooses the wizard based upon these characteristics and then bonds it to them. Is there a specific reason you are asking or a certain wand wood or core you are interested in?

"Yeah but wait one second, I need to get changed;" Alexander answered, becoming more and more conscience that they were getting closer to Hogwarts. Alex stood up and gathered his robes from the trolley before shooting off to the back of the train, into a cubicle to get changed. His wand wood was Yew, he had been told it was bad but didn't quite know why. He wasn't sure he should bring it up but he was curious.

[Novacom]

Andros groaned as he opened his eyes, which he blinked rapidly, with a further groan he levered himself up, his left hand groping around on the floor for his glasses, which were fortunately unharmed after his fall. Slipping them back on with his free hand, the other rubbing his forehead intently, after a moment he looked up sheepishly, “I’m sorry, I hadn’t meant to do that,” he let out meekly as he pushed himself back upright, nearly losing his footing again.

With a grunt he lowered himself onto a free chair and brought up his right foot over his left knee and looked at his shoe before groaning again and shifting his gaze out to the corridor. “He knew, he even said to be careful, I wouldn’t want to slip up,” Andros continued on in this vein for a short while muttering about prophecy and being literal and quite who “he” was, was no doubt beyond the other two girls, before turning his attention to the pair. “I’d only came along to tell everyone that we’re nearly there and that we need to get changed into our school robes,” he smiled awkwardly as he’d grabbed a handkerchief out of his pocket and rubbing intently at his shoe.

“I don’t know what’s been going on, he evidently will though, but there’s slime and slugs all the way down the corridors in all of the compartments, I thought I’d avoided it all but when the train rocked I must have stood on one, oh where are my manners, oh forgive me,” he became quite agitated at this last dropping the piece of cloth fortunately by now having removed all trace of the slug and it’s slime bringing his other hand to his mouth as if to shield it for a moment before looking down into his palm. “My names Andros, Andros Anvar, it’s a pleasure to meet you both,” with this he looked up again nervously and smiled again.

[Setinel]

Hector had turned when a cat ran by, then was run into by Nina. "Bloody Hell. What where you are going." He said, steadying himself. "Oh, a Malfoy." Hector said as Jennifer returned to her compartment. "Is this your cat?" He said, turning around and picking up the cat and taking the chocolate away from it.

"yes, thank you. sorry I ran you over. and what do you mean 'oh, a malfoy'"? she inquired. she was used to getting sneered at and such, but he could mean something else.

nina had been casually watching her cat, but when the cat in question suddenly grabbed the frog and streaked down the hallway, nina had to run after her.
"stupid cat! chocolate will kill you! and you never get candy on your fur. you just want to make me run in a short skirt!" she hissed at the white cat. suddenly, she ran smack into someone.

guys, anyone can jump in here. open opportunity.

Thomas woke in the compartment he had chosen. He sighed, sitting up from his seat.
Still alone... the guys must be in another compartment.
He stood up opening the compartment door. He walked down the hall before noticing two students he recognized from his classes.
"If you want to kiss there's an empty booth I just left," he laughed. "Nina and hector right? I'm Thomas, if you don't already know me from my many misadventures. I think one went to the infirmary after the soaped corridor incident. Or maybe it was a Ravenclaw..."

[Fowlick]

Hector smiled. "I didn't mean anything sore against it. I was just stating a simple fact based on the stereotypical features, and attractive...I mean blonde hair." He said with a bit of a blush. "Did your cat happen to eat any of the chocolate? If so then we have to act quickly." He looked at the boy who came over. "I am sorry, but I don't recognize you. We'll have to catch up."

[United States of Cascadia]

Bran finished pulling the plain robes over his head, struggling to get it on. I don't think this is the right way these on... He thought, trying to get the robe back off, getting tangled up in them as he did so. His leg having been caught, he tripped, falling up against the door, opening it, and collapsing onto the ground. "Gah!" He shouted, wreathing around on the ground, before finally managing to poke his head through an arm hole.

Finally being able to see, he managed to get the robe off of himself to try again. A second attempt to get it on in the hallway was much more successful, perhaps do to his embarrassment over collapsing through the doorway.

[Tomia]

Walter was surprised by Alex's sudden departure. He seemed like he wanted to get out in a hurry. "I wonder what's bother him?" He said to Ella, a little puzzled. Alex seemed to get a little jumpy when they began talking about wands. Walter wondered what was going on.

[Kazirstan]

Having changed into her school robes in her compartment, Lina set off down the corridor to find a restroom when a boy wearing horribly tangled robes came crashing through a compartment door and landed on the floor a few metres in front of her. Startled, she jumped back while he struggled around on the floor for a few moments until he finally got up and put on his robes correctly. It looked as if he hadn't noticed her.

"Are y-you alright?" she asked, stuttering. It was then when she noticed how heavy her accent was compared to everybody else here, she wondered if they would laugh at her. She started to back away slowly.

[Kuhlfros]

Cyrus grinned and leaned back, indicating he was already in his robes since he was bored earlier and changed so he wouldn't have to later, He watched as the others left to change and he began to doze off while looking out into the Scottish Countryside while tapping his hand against the seat to show he was still conscious and awake...in case there were any prankers.

[Tiktaaland]

Corvus, having restored Trouble to his normal size, quickly changed into his robes.

(ooc: and, I'm off for the night.)

[United States of Cascadia]

Bran looked to the funny accented girl. "Ugh. Yeah, I'm okay, I guess. I can't believe I'll need these for the whole school year. I'm Bran by the way, how about you?"

Arthur
After finishing changing into his robes Arthur made his way back to his compartment, he saw a first year struggle with his robes, but figured them out after a a bit. Apart from the that his trip back was uneventful and Arthur took his seat once again, leaning back into the seat to watch the countryside.

[Heartina]

Time seemed to pass slowly as Will went back to reading, Stamp just purring and laying on his lap. Lynn started listening outside, hearing laughter and conversations. A cat streaked by, a guy ran into a girl, all that things. The 14-year-old started to sigh as she put her head on the window and started to snore...

Will, on the other hand, was fully awake and started to pull out his phone, that he had smuggled from his room. He took a quick photo of Lynn and put it back in his backpack, grabbing a package of jellybeans. "Stamp, tell me something." He look hopelessly at his tabby, tossing a blue jellybean into his mouth.

[Toronina]

Andrew decided to continue sampling the beans. He soon had tasted and written down nearly 20 flavors. Eventually he finished the list and the box. After placing the box in the bin, Andrew decided to try some more sweets

[Newter]

Walter was surprised by Alex's sudden departure. He seemed like he wanted to get out in a hurry. "I wonder what's bother him?" He said to Ella, a little puzzled. Alex seemed to get a little jumpy when they began talking about wands. Walter wondered what was going on.

Having sat in the background for most of the debate, Albert was sure the other passengers had forgotten him. He decided to speak up to announce his presence and answer to boys question. "He was embarrassed about something... I mean that's just a guess but in my experience i would only leave so abruptly if had something to hide." After a moments pause Albert spoke again "I'm sorry I didn't get a chance to introduce myself I'm Albert, first year." He offered the other students his hand to shake.

[Corrian]

Adair and Mist
Adair was about ready to go over and grab the glasses for him when she saw that he was stumbling around for them, but he managed to grab them before she was able to do so. As he tried to regain his composure from hitting his head, standing up and almost falling over again, both of the girls came up close to him, ready to steady him if he started to fall over again.

"Whoa, steady" Adair said, putting her arms out to steady him as he almost lost his footing, Mist nearby ready to do the same. But he seemed to manage to keep himself upright, and made it to a chair to sit down. Then as he mumbled on about "he" and other weird stuff, both Adair and Mist looked at each other, confused. Adair was starting to worry that he had some brain damage or something from the impact, while Mist was the one to assume that this was how he tended to behave normally. Considering that Mist tended to live a world of strange, it wasn't particularly surprising that she would then end up sticking with thinking someone was naturally strange.

"Damn, where did the time go?!" Adair exclaimed when he reminded them that they were running out of time and needed to change. "I must have really enjoyed your company Mist! I lost track of time!" She giggled, before looking back at the guy and realizing that maybe her being hyperactive might not be a good thing on his head right now. Mist smiled, though she didn't act all that much like she felt like she needed to rush out and change into her robes, despite the quickly dissipating time. And it wasn't because she felt like she was already wearing a school uniform, either. That was just how she rolled, managing to remain extremely calm even when you should maybe start to worry a little.

"Trains can be quite a nuisance like that" Mist said to his comment about the train rocking. "Which is why I always walk through the passages of trains while using my hands to make sure I don't lose my balance" She said, as if explaining how to walk through a train to someone that didn't know. There were no rude intentions with her comment, she was just stating the truth about how she felt and did things, which was pretty normal for her to do. She looked a bit confused about the slugs part, but then remembered something about a spell that made you puke up slugs, and figured that there was some brawl taking place on the train, which she had heard was quite a common occurrence from her parents explaining things to her, so she didn't think much of it after that.

"My names Adair Ferland!" Adair exclaimed cheerfully, following by Mist saying "And my name is Mist Swinton", Adair extending her hand out as a greeting towards Andros, while Mist stayed behind her, smiling. Adair was of course smiling, but the little girl seemed to never stop smiling. There was always a huge, bright smile on her face. "It is nice to meet you, despite the situation!" She said

Agatha
Agatha finished up getting into her Gryffindor robes, and stepped back out into the halls. But here, she stopped for a while, thinking. Did she want to go back and sit where she had been sitting earlier, or find somewhere new to sit without that Arthur guy around staring at her and flirting with her? That idea pondered in her head for a bit, when she remembered that her pet and stuff were all back where she had come from, so the obvious choice would be that she needed to go back to the compartment that she had already been in previously. She let out a frustrated sigh, and headed back to where she came from.

Agatha pulled the compartment doors open, and stepped back into the compartment area, sitting down where she had been sitting previously, giving a brief glance in Arthur's direction as she passed. Once she sat down, she didn't say a word to anyone, but that was probably expected. She went back to staring out the window, and started to stick her fingernails into her mouth to chew on them again, but caught herself before doing so and putting her hand down onto her lap, because she didn't trust herself not to chew on her nails if her hand was anywhere near her mouth.

[Novacom]

“Nice to meet both of you!” Andros returned his face lighting up with a big grin, seeming to forget about his sore head, something of course that wouldn’t last long after looking at a mirror as he now sported a rather red forehead. “Are you both first years too?” he asked as he shook the offered hand.

He chuckled at Adair’s energetic behaviour, “You’re a bit of a livewire aren’t you?” his smile seemed to widen as she stopped almost abruptly her quick motions, “we’ll have time enough probably another fifteen twenty minutes before we arrive and probably another ten before everyone gets off the train, well unless I was out of it for longer than I thought down there,” he let out a friendly laugh at the thought as he checked to make sure his uniform was still alright standing up again carefully, he was abnormally tall for his age however he seemed to make up for it with being slightly unsteady.

“You know this is going to sound very weird but I was even warned about this, my father told me but I didn’t believe him, he can’t always be right after all,” he said cryptically as he looked out the window as the scenery began to change from wide open fields to denser vegetation and trees. “He’s always going on about self-fulfilling prophecies, I suppose this is what he means, oh well, I can’t fret about it forever, so what houses do you think you’ll be in?” he turned his gaze back to the pair sounding quite eager to know the answer.

[Corrian]

"Yup! New and ready for our first year!" Adair said cheerfully, to which Mist smiled in response to and gave a nod of her head in response. While she wasn't not talkative, it was obvious that Mist was the less talkative of the two girls. Adair was clearly the most social of the bunch.

"I guess you could say that" Adair giggled with a smile. "Just how I turned out! My parents aren't nearly as hyper as I am" She explained to the boy, Mist remaining silent because nothing was directed at her currently. To most of the rest of what he said on the subject of when the train would arrive though, they both remained silent, not having anything really specific to say.

Adair raised an eyebrow at what Andros was saying, because it made little sense to her, but Mist seemed intrigued and curious about what he was on about BECAUSE it made little sense to her, and she wanted to understand. "What do you mean, your father told you about this?" She asked curiously, her face giving off the look of curiosity. "Hufflepuff!" Adair almost squeaked out she responded so quickly, followed by Mist's more mellow, quiet, descriptive, "I am hoping for Ravenclaw"

[Allied Omaha]

"Huh" Said Marcus Kyle, as he walked in the hallowed halls of the great wizard university, Hogwarts.

"So this is Hogwarts, I imagined it being bigger. Come along, Toby." Marcus said to his pet Wolf. They both walked forward.

OOC: Do I start like this?

[Kazirstan]

Bran looked to the funny accented girl. "Ugh. Yeah, I'm okay, I guess. I can't believe I'll need these for the whole school year. I'm Bran by the way, how about you?"

"Oh, um... I'm L-Lina, Lina Mårtensson. N-nice to meet you Bran." She replied, inwardly cursing herself for sounding so stupid and blushing as red as her hair.

[Mnar Secundus]

"Yeah but wait one second, I need to get changed;" Alexander answered, becoming more and more conscience that they were getting closer to Hogwarts. Alex stood up and gathered his robes from the trolley before shooting off to the back of the train, into a cubicle to get changed. His wand wood was Yew, he had been told it was bad but didn't quite know why. He wasn't sure he should bring it up but he was curious.

Ah. So he does have something bothering him ... Interesting, thought Claire as Alexander exited the compartment, stopping his tinkering. Something about his wand. He recalled what he knew of wandlore: Let's see ... the woods with a bad reputation are ... elder, I believe ... oh, and yew. Elder wands are extremely rare, so he's probably a yew. Is he self-conscious about that? This striked Claire as uncharacteristic of the blond boy, who had seemed rather confident and not the type to be worried about superstition. Ah, well, I suppose everyone has a weakness. It didn't occur to him one second to try and use the information against Alexander, despite his lack of trust towards the boy. He shook Albert's hand absent-mindedly, still lost in wandlore, before focusing on the conversation at hand again and resuming his watchmaking habit.
He answered to Ella's previous question: "If I have a role model, it's probably Albus Dumbledore - I know it's generic, but he does deserve it. Then again, I don't really feel like I can identify to any wizards of the past, or picture myself as them, so role models are somewhat beyond me ... I have some admiration for most great wizards in history, anyway."

[Lightwood (Ancient)]

"yes, thank you. sorry I ran you over. and what do you mean 'oh, a malfoy'"? she inquired. she was used to getting sneered at and such, but he could mean something else.

nina had been casually watching her cat, but when the cat in question suddenly grabbed the frog and streaked down the hallway, nina had to run after her.
"stupid cat! chocolate will kill you! and you never get candy on your fur. you just want to make me run in a short skirt!" she hissed at the white cat. suddenly, she ran smack into someone.

guys, anyone can jump in here. open opportunity.

Thomas woke in the compartment he had chosen. He sighed, sitting up from his seat.
Still alone... the guys must be in another compartment.
He stood up opening the compartment door. He walked down the hall before noticing two students he recognized from his classes.
"If you want to kiss there's an empty booth I just left," he laughed. "Nina and hector right? I'm Thomas, if you don't already know me from my many misadventures. I think one went to the infirmary after the soaped corridor incident. Or maybe it was a Ravenclaw..."

"no, that was me. leave it to me to be the one wearing heels that day..." she grumbled. even though she was constantly bending dress code, she never got in trouble for it. "hey, we're getting close to school. I still need to get into my robes. i'm heading to the cargo, then the bathroom."

[Fesconia]

Ardan and Aura were looking around for a compartment to sit in and soon arrived at one. They noticed 4 other kids who looked like they were 1st years as well. "Hello, do you mind if we join you?" Aura asked, standing in the doorway to the compartment, with Ardan beside her. "I'm Aura by the way, and this is-"
"Ardan" He finished for her.

EDIT: OOC- I forgot to mention this is the compartment Claire, Ella, Walter and Albert are in.

[Lorellion]

Ella

She shook Albert's hand with a smile. "I'm Ella Fedele. It's nice to meet you." She looked out the compartment door wondering what was bothering Alexander. Was it something she said? She frowned and listened to Claire's assessment of Albus Dumbledore and role-models absentmindedly and worried about Alexander. He had been so kind to her when she mentioned who her father was, and she wanted to do the same. She understood what it was like to have something that bothers you right down to the core, so she empathized with him. Her only question was: what was it?

[Newter]

Ella

She shook Albert's hand with a smile. "I'm Ella Fedele. It's nice to meet you." She looked out the compartment door wondering what was bothering Alexander. Was it something she said? She frowned and listened to Claire's assessment of Albus Dumbledore and role-models absentmindedly and worried about Alexander. He had been so kind to her when she mentioned who her father was, and she wanted to do the same. She understood what it was like to have something that bothers you right down to the core, so she empathized with him. Her only question was: what was it?

"So does anyone know how long this journey is" Albert asked attempting to break the ice " Or where are we heading because I no nothing about this school apart from the fact its for magical people. I mean is it in the sky or something judging from what I've seen so far that could be possible?" Another squawk came from beneath Albert's cloak as he finished talking.