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(31/12/03 12:01 pm)
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First Day Back at Hogwarts-Welcoming Feast-Slytherin Table
Slytherin Table
The noble Slytherin table, decorated with green and silver, sits at the far right.
The Bloody Baron leered at the students. "Another year at Hogwarts begins. Welcome to Slytherin, the best house of them all."
"Good evening, Bloody Baron!"
Kallias looked quite happy, his hand lifting to wave in agreement to the ghost as he looked over the new batch of Slytherins. He looked prim, as usual, his hair near perfect even after the long trip on the train, and his robes had been enchanted to stay flat and neat even though he had been sitting for hours.
He was smiling boyishly, lifting various types of food and laying them attractively on his plate as he shifted against the uncomfortable bench that served as his seat.
"Yes, Slytherin is the best house indeed. I wouldn't have picked it if it weren't."
He spoke to a nervous looking first year next to him, who seemed to melt into a pile of wet noodles after he had the "wondrous" experience of wearing the enchanted sorting hat.
Penny was so glad the sorting was over. She had almost squealed with delight when the food appeared on the tables, though she was quite used to it by now.
While her teeth worked hard on a bite of crunchy pecan truffle, Penny's brown eyes searched the table. There it was! "Mff, mmmf!!" She chewed furiously for a few seconds more, then gulped. "Kallias, pass the mushroom creme pie."
Kallias turned slightly, half caught in a conversation with a rather attractive looking boy his own age. Eyebrows were raised slightly, before he smirked as he reached for the dish.
"Really Penny, you sure you need it?"
He joked, muttering polite "excuse me"s as he lifted the heated platter from it's resting place before setting it in front of Penny.
"You seem to have had a nice trip here. Look better than usual, I must say."
He thought Penny was one of those rather charming girls with her head in the right place. Her fashion sense was impeccable, as well.
Penny glared at him. "So, you're saying I usually look worse?" She has never muched like Kallias, with his clothes all neat and his hair done. He was a little too tidy, in her opinion. Penny turned her attention to the truffle. Oh, it looked so good. She cut herself a piece and blopped it on her plate.
Kallias' eyes rolled a bit, as he continued to smile (even if his expression had taken a rather patronizing turn).
"What I meant, love, is that normally you look nice, and now you look better than nice."
He smiled wider, before turning back to talk with the boy next to him once more. Really, having to explain a compliment to a girl was rather sad. It made him wonder inwardly if it would be better to compliment to a Ravenclaw girl, because many of the ones in Slytherin tend to be a little like... well... Hufflepuffs.
Penny ignored him. Boys!
But Penny knew that inwardly she had glowed at his compliment. She grinned at her plate through a mouthful of truffle, but her face sobered as she came up.
As Penny took a sip of juice, her brown eyes looked around at the other Slytherin faces. They rested on the boy Kallias was talking to. Hadn't his hose turned up a little more last year? And hadn't his hair been cut short? Now it was longish, and behaved no better than James Potter's. It kept falling into his eyes, and he had to flick his head back every few sentences to keep it out of them. Penny found it very attractive.
Suddenly she shook herself. Penny Peterson was not a boy ogler. She never had been, and she never would be. She looked down at her plate, hoping no one had noticed her staring. But as she finished her truffle, Penny found herself sneaking glances at him between bites.
"Well it shouldn't be too hard this year. OWLs are over, and NEWTs aren't until next year, so I have plenty of time to catch up..."
Kallias smiled as he talked quite animatedly to the boy, that earlier first year he had been talking to left in the dust a long time ago. The Slytherin only paused to take a sip from his goblet, blanching at the taste before shaking his head.
"Really, somebody needs to update the menu here... these foods are old-fashioned, at best."
The boy chuckled shaking his head at Kallias' remark before he took a sip from his own goblet (minus the wince of disgust, of course).
"Don't start that, again, I'm really not in the mood right now. Next thing you know, Kallias, you'll be talking about how the draperies don't match the chairs and how the dinnerware clashes with them both."
"Hmm... you're right, this room is just a hodge-podge of everything ugly imaginable..."
Penny was done with her food, but didn't want to leave yet. Kallias and his friend were very entertaining to watch. Then, when the two Slytherin boys started talking about neatness, she groaned decided it was finally time to go to the common room.
"Leaving so soon, Penny love?"
Kallias teased the older girl, chuckling to himself as he took a sip from his goblet. His mouth twitched into a smirk as he watched as Penny started to rise and go toward the exit of the Great Hall.
"But we were just getting started. Really, it's rude to leave in the middle of a conversation."
He leaned forward, propping his chin on his palm as he rested against the elbow secured on the tabletop. Eyes watched Penny, before eyelids started mockingly fluttering toward the young woman.
Severus hadn't paid attention to the people at the table. His form hunched over as he pretended to be studying from an old tome that was open before him, nose almost pressed against the paper as his hair formed greasy curtains around his face.
In reality he was trying to listen over the din of the excited room to the well known group of trouble makers that seated themselves at the Gryffindor table. However, unless he made his movements known to anyone watching him, the greasy boy wouldn't be able to hear them at all.
However, it was obvious they were up to something.
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