Too much homework! Open Closed

Attire: Usual weekend kit: Slytherin pride, neck ring, kilt, no shoes. Nothing fancy!

Reducio

Colin finished his homework at last! Now he could pay more attention to listening in on the interesting conversation going on just around the corner. Everything was so interesting --- he found it hard to pick a favourite subject! Their conversation turned towards the Sorting Hat, and that piqued Colin's interest! He recognised Lily's voice, one of the new snakelings, and undoubtedly a trouble maker in the making! The French sounding girl he didn't know, though had heard her talking in the great hall several times. The other two he didn't know, though apparently the boy was Slytherin as well.

He decided to get up and see if he could join them. Talk about mysteries and the Sorting Hat was too much to resist! As he came around the corner, he saw that the French girl was standing up and pacing about, talking excitedly about future jobs and the nature of that dratted Hat! Lily too seemed exceited about the talk of mysteries and future possibilities; but the silver haired Slytherin boy and the girl he was with were getting up to leave. "Perhaps mysteries aren't their thing!" he said under his breath. Colin wondered if maybe they had a date and that's why they were leaving.

Colin went over to the table and, bowing to the two girls, sat down across from Lily. He leaned over the armrest of the chair to greet the cat curled up under the table. His long hair spilled over and down to the floor. "Miaurau!" he called softly. Then he turned his attention to the others. "Hello, sister snake! Hope it's okay if I join you two? I heard you talking about mysteries and the Sorting Hat! What have you two figured out? I should have been in Ravenclaw, but here I am in Slytherin! But as you know, the Hat is never wrong . . ."

@Lily Blaze | @EmmaLee LeDames || Slight godmoding of Emily Flower by agreement.

Colin listened to the girls talk about the sorting hat and their ideas about how it chooses which students it sorts into each house. Mostly, though, he just listened to the way the three of them were talking. He knew that a lot of kids thought they should be in other houses. Colin always thought his friend Kim Aoki would make a good Slytherin. Or a Ravenclaw. He was a smart lad after all! Bailey, he thought, would have made a perfect Hufflepuff --- she loved baking and being with people, and she was just such a loving friend. Literally to everyone!

Of course, Colin thought he himself should have been in Ravenclaw with Liam. And now he wondered about these three. He didn't know Rita at all, though had seen the Hufflepuff around, of course. He had to stifle his laughter, though, when she started up on doing homework and how they had to be quiet so other students could work! Total Ravenclaw that one! he thought.

EmmaLee seemed nice and also curious. Perhaps Hufflepuff suited her well! Lily, of course, was a fellow Slytherin and he met her at her sorting. Like him, she was adamant about being in Ravenclaw. When she asked him what his thoughts were, he said: "I think you've got a really good point, TigerLily! Like --- you said you were determined to be in Ravenclaw, and so was I! I reckon I'm smart enough for Ravenclaw and I love studying and learning new stuff and all --- but here we both are! Slytherin!"

"I've always heard it said that the Hat takes into account where we think we should be. And you know what? I think it does! I just think it doesn't care that much what we think! Some of us end up where we really want to be; some of us end up in the last place we want to be. I reckon a lot of kids don't really know much about Hogwarts at all. It just puts us where ever it wants to, or maybe where ever it needs us to be!"

Once Lily announced that she was going outside, Colin checked his pocket watch to see what the time was. He still wanted to read for a while, so as Lily got ready to go, he said: "Was nice meeting you all! I'm going to off now and exercise my inner Ravenclaw by reading! See you at dinner, TigerLily!" He bowed slightly to the other girls before leaving.

@Lily Blaze | @EmmaLee LeDames | @Rita Su

Colin leaves the thread.