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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 4:57 PM, Tashayar McCarthy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wow_its_tashayar@yahoo.com">wow_its_tashayar@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<td valign="top"><br><br><br>--- On Thu, 8/28/08, William Dean <<a href="mailto:wsdean@operamail.com" target="_blank">wsdean@operamail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>> From: William Dean <<a href="mailto:wsdean@operamail.com" target="_blank">wsdean@operamail.com</a>>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>> Subject: Re: [Hogwarts Between] Hagrid Gathers the First Years<br></div>> To: "Hogwarts Between Game List" <hogwartsbetween@gamera.cc><br>> Date: Thursday, August 28, 2008, 3:32 PM
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<div class="Wj3C7c"><br>> ----- Original Message -----<br>> From: "Zack Kunkel"<br>> To: "Hogwarts Between Game List"<br>> Subject: Re: [Hogwarts Between] Hagrid Gathers the First<br>> Years<br>
> Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:13:24 -0400<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 10:30 PM, Margaret Dean<br>> <<a href="mailto:margdean@erols.com" target="_blank">margdean@erols.com</a>><br>> wrote:<br>
> <br>> Brandon Klutzke wrote:<br>> <br>> > >> > > > Another whistle blast<br>> sounded. The wheels screeched<br>> as the<br>> > >> > > > <span>train's</span> brakes slowed<br>
> the train. Outside the windows<br>> the<br>> > >> > > > movement of the scenery<br>> slowed almost to a stop.<br>> Those<br>> > >> > > > lucky enough to have a<br>> view out of some windows could<br>
> > >> > > > glimpse the highest tower<br>> of Hogwarts through the<br>> > >> > > > tops of the trees.<br>> > >> > > ><br>> > >> > > > The Hogwarts train station<br>
> suddenly filled the windows<br>> on<br>> > >> > > > one side of the train. <br>> The features of the platform<br>> slowly<br>> > >> > > > moved from left to right. <br>
> Finally, with a final<br>> screech<br>> > >> > > > and a jolt, the movement<br>> of the station stopped.<br>> > >> > > ><br>> > >> > > > A final blast announced<br>
> that the Hogwarts Express had<br>> > >> > > > arrived.<br>> > >> > ><br>> > >> > > Paloma found a door and slowly<br>> walked down the stairs<br>> once the<br>
> > >> > > train stoped, she looked around<br>> to see what the train<br>> station<br>> > >> > > looked like.<br>> > >> ><br>> > >> > At one end of the platform stood a<br>
> man with long, shaggy<br>> black<br>> > >> > hair and beard. Several sizes<br>> larger than anyone else and<br>> draped<br>> > >> > in a long overcoat, he looked just<br>> too big to be allowed;<br>
> but<br>> > >> > what could be seen of his face wore<br>> a broad grin, and his<br>> black<br>> > >> > eyes twinkled. Waving a hand the<br>> size of a truck tire, he<br>> called<br>
> > >> > out, "Firs' years! <br>> Firs' years this way!"<br>> > >><br>> > >> Seluna and Koramori both looked at<br>> eachother with a strange<br>> > >> expression. The man who was yelling for<br>
> first years for<br>> Hogwarts<br>> > >> was huge. They were only about half his<br>> height, That they<br>> could<br>> > >> tell from far away. But he seemed<br>> friendly and they doubted<br>
> that<br>> > >> a magic school would send someone who<br>> could hurt them to<br>> bring in<br>> > >> new kids. Seluna walked over to the man,<br>> carrying her<br>> suitcase<br>> > >> behind her. Mori right behind her as<br>
> well. She carried Lucky<br>> in<br>> > >> her arms and looked up at the man. Her<br>> parents had never<br>> kept<br>> > >> books on magical creatures or fairy tales<br>> in the house, but<br>
> Seluna<br>> > >> read about them at the library and at<br>> school. This man isn't<br>> big<br>> > >> enough to be a giant, and he didn't<br>> look like an ogre, even<br>> though<br>
> > >> they were about his size, so maybe he<br>> wasn't a magical<br>> creature.<br>> > ><br>> > > [OOC: sorry Iforgot to say that Paloma got<br>> her robs on and<br>> grabed<br>
> > > what ever she needed and Luna (her cat) then<br>> went out to the<br>> station]<br>> > > Paloma followed the mans command and went<br>> over to him and<br>> waited for<br>> > > everyone else to get off the train.<br>
> ><br>> > Gathering up his stuff Heath squeezed off the<br>> train. In<br>> retrospect he<br>> > decided it was much like being toothpaste being<br>> squeezed out of<br>> it's<br>> > bottle. After being jostled along Heath finally<br>
> got a good look<br>> at<br>> > Hogwarts Castle. Shocked by the spectacle, Heath<br>> made the<br>> mistake of<br>> > standing still. Less than a second later he was<br>> shoved from<br>> behind<br>
> > into another kid who shoved him into another kid<br>> and so on much<br>> like a<br>> > pinball bouncing off bumpers. This went on for a<br>> few more times<br>> until<br>> > Heath was shoved into the legs of the biggest man<br>
> Heath had<br>> ever seen.<br>> > In fact, Heath's head just barely surpassed<br>> the man's pelvis.<br>> Looking<br>> > up Heath saw that the man was wearing a heavy<br>> overcoat and had<br>
> beard<br>> > that would make a lion's mane look tame.<br>> <br>> "Steady on, there, mate," said the big man as<br>> Heath collided with<br>> him, and he reached out a hand to keep Heath from<br>
> falling over.<br>> <br>> Raising his voice again, he called out, "Just<br>> leave yer stuff on<br>> the platform, it'll be taken up ter the school. <br>> Firs' years,<br>> this way!"<br>
> <br>> Kadyn stumbled his way off the train, his luggage, being<br>> repeatedly<br>> battered back and forth. He chuckled slightly, as most of<br>> the first<br>> years seemed to be in awe, at least to him. He waved to a<br>
> friend of<br>> his parents, who had just been passing through the<br>> station. He began<br>> to move towards the groundskeeper, who he had seen once<br>> or twice<br>> before out on the grounds of the school, and quickly<br>
> stopped and<br>> called back. "Amber, Cyrus, you coming?" Cyrus<br>> had grabbed his<br>> belongings and been sucked into the swirling mass of<br>> people. With<br>> Kadyn's call, he finally managed to get his bearings,<br>
> and attempted<br>> to wade through the crowd to Kadyn and the huge man<br>> standing behind<br>> him.<br>> <br>> <br><br></div></div>Amber <span>grabbed</span> her stuff and cat and leaped into the crowd. She was bashed between kids, each time she hit one she let out a little "ahh!" and the occasional "Sorry." In all the moving, pushing kids she lost sight of Kadyn and Cyrus."Kad- OOF!" she called as she got shoved by a large passing child. "Grr..." Then she heard Kadyn. "Yes!" and ran over.</td>
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<div>Kadyn shook his head and chuckled a little. "I really hope our entire year isn't like this train ride. We'll go home with a lot of bruises." Kadyn then began to walk towards Hagrid, and the other gathering first years.</div>
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