Common Room Lounging *OPEN*

[Ophelia Burke]

Ophelia didn't particularly care for being dismissed. And she cared even less for talk about Samantha Montgomery and Maxi Borale. Sam annoyed her with her beauty and popularity, and Maxi... well, she was a Hufflepuff, and therefore completely beneath her notice. She knew Seth liked the girl for some unknown reason, but Ophelia found Hufflepuffs to be dreadfully dull.

Still, she figured she could pick up on some interesting gossip, or perhaps even get a chance to hear how boys talked about girls, if she stayed quiet. So she continued to flip idly through her catalogue, twirling a blonde curl around her finger.

[Samantha Montgomery]

"Trivial?" she asked pretending to be hurt for a second with her hand over her heart before she smiled and nodded, "Indeed it was..." she looked around the room as she descended from the girl's dorms. "Afternoon gentlemen." she purred as she ensconced herself into their small circle, she assumed she wouldn't be unwanted. She nodded toward Ophelia, "and lady," she finished.

"So what are we discussing?" she found a seat near Seth and took it gracefully giving him one of her smiles. She always had a smile for Seth, he seemed...well safe as far as Slytherin boys went. Plus he was head over heels for Maxi so she didn't feel threatened when she smiled at him.

[rosier]

Evan gave Ophelia an appraising look as she entered. He didn't say anything her, nor to Samantha when she decided to join the group. Evan was at that confusing age where he liked to look at the girls, but they still annoyed him. But he couldn't ignore the older girls' . . . qualities. Especially Ophelia.

[Noah Malfoy]

"Ah, dear. The usual- girls and parental control and, evidentally, your fight with Maxi? You were eavesdropping on us," Noah gave her a lazy half- smile.

Sam was the Slytherin champion, but he had never bothered to follow the dueling houses, do to disinterest in the subject, rather then actual disdain for any participants. He actually thought that Sam was rather discerning, and hadn't thought much of her being an actual participant. He might as well find out the information, due to general interest, rather then interest in Sam. Girls were only fun to flirt with, but then they usually started acting all romantic. Noah scorned that quality. It was not the time to start planning out his life, he'd rather just live it.

"So do tell," Noah raised an eyebrow. "Or was it not worth it?"

[Samantha Montgomery]

"Hardly worth what's that muggle food...? Popcorn, that's right." she shrugged. Of course Charlotte's dirty tactics on the other hand were a bit more noteworthy.

She smiled a bit coyly at Noah, " Voices carry, and this is the common room...why were you going to say something terribly secretive?" she asked then leaned a bit closer as if interested before shrugging innocently.

[Noah Malfoy]

"Maybe I was, darling. But one wouldn't know unless they were well accquainted with me. Are you trying to hint that's where you'd like to be? A friend?" Noah retailiated with a subtle lean of head toward the left. "I don't consider many people to be that, but you're interesting enough, I suppose... We could perhaps jump from one level of relationship to the next- that being the position of house mate to amici."

[Samantha Montgomery]

"Amicitia nos vadum exsisto" she replied with a general twinkle in her eye. Her Latin was nearly as good as her French but those were the three languages she spoke well the others required a bit more work. She had essentially accepted his offer of friendship and was happy to do so. She knew people in Slytherin she knew people all over hogwarts and she liked having friends. Really the event of asking someone to be your friend and then agreeing really wasn't a mark of friendship, but it was a starting point at which they would work from.

"I'm glad I pass inspection as far as interesting enough goes."

[Noah Malfoy]

Noah blinked, and wrinkled his nose, "I don't speak Latin, love. I speak Italian, but all the same, it sounded as though you accepted it well enough. And interesting is just for the fact that you haven't done anything that a bit, chimerical, shall I say."

Noah sighed lightly, and scrunched back further into the cushions of the couch. This was getting them somewhere, he guessed. And that was better then nowhere.

[Samantha Montgomery]

"My apologies. Oh I'm terrible at Italian, I butcher such a beautiful language, but if there's one thing that the italians have down to an art it would be their operas." she sighed then too a bit wistfully it had been a while since she had been to the opera then she smiled, "That was a bit random, except you see that I learned Italian from the opera which is why it reminded me."

"And no, I'm not prone to fantasizing, although I'm not sure whether that makes me more or less interesting." she nodded, "But thank you all the same."

[Noah Malfoy]

"And I happen to be terrible at Latin. I don't know much, except draco is dragon? Perhaps? I'm not even sure of myself. But I have not seen an opera. That doesn't appeal to me, much. I do admit the singers are a tad talented, but not much of my style."


"Chimerical? It means out of the ordinary, Samantha. But knowing you don't fantasize is a tad weird. How do you survive class with out thinking about something?"

[Samantha Montgomery]

Chimerical meant a different thing in her dictionary, prone to fantasy being one of them, but she wasn't about to have a vocabulary discussion discussion with him. She merely gave one of her half shoulder shrugs,"I think about my class." she answered, and she didn't mean she didn't plan or think, but she didn't daydream for the impossible.

[rosier]

Evan listened to their conversation, his eyes rolling at every sentence they spoke. It was too much not to laugh at, and so he did. "Well, this is about as fun as one of my required lessons." He stood and looked at Severus. "I'm going to grab some food from the kitchen. You want anything?"

[Samantha Montgomery]

Sam's eyes turned towards Evan, she had been speaking with Noah, but hadn't realized that conversation stopped around them or that they were somehow responsible for entertaining the rest of the group by their solitary conversation. Her expression said as much at first before it softened and she turned her attention to Severus for his answer. If her conversation was to be judged for it's entertaining merit then she expected the same from the others.

Although that was a bit too snippy she supposed, and she wondered at her quick change of mood, maybe she was tired, and with that thought she leaned back into her chair and watched the others talk.

[Severus Snape]

Severus shot Inophen a sneer, "I don't recall saying anything." He knew very well what he implied, "So did you teach her how to use her mouth like that or has she taught you a thing or two on low vocabulary?" Severus didn't think much of Borale's use of insults during the duel, he thought it was a low move, Montgomery didn't stoop that low and at least her house was known to have the reputation at least!

[Seth Inophen]

"Oh shove it, Snape," Seth said. He knew that Severus was just trying to get a rise from him and Seth frowned at the fact he may be succeeding. This is why he didn't want to bring Maxi up in convorsation. Beside Sam, Seth was pretty sure no one understodd why a Slytherin would date a Hufflepuff, it was unheard of. But like he told his peers and like he wrote in his letters home, Seth was different than what people expected of him.

[Noah Malfoy]

"Well, Rosier, I don't recall you saying anything about us having to entertain you. You could have made yourself apart of the conversation instead of being a prat about it. Do you even care about girls yet, or do they still have cooties?" Noah rolled his eyes.

Noah was quite sick of people thinking they could tell him what to do. Rosier was small enough for Noah to put in a trash can, and although Noah like him well enough not do so. It irked him that Rosier had depended on him for his entertainment.

[Severus Snape]

"Such witty word play! Maybe she did teach you a thing or two!" Severus was in no mood to take any cheek from Inophen, he was relishing the moment of watching him getting hassled for dating out of the house, in fact since Natalie and he were astranged... he felt that he had to really lay it on to Inophen. It was cruel and it was mean and it felt so good to do it to someone else.

[rosier]

"Cooties," Evan replied cheekily. He returned to his seat, even with Noah knocking him, because at least now he was part of the conversation. The reason he hadn't part of the previous conversation was because it bored him. And Severus hadn't responded to Evan's question, apparently he was too preoccupied with Seth. Whatever. "I'd rather listen to their conversation than yours anyway," he said gesturing to Sev and Seth.

[Samantha Montgomery]

Sam laughed a bit, "Oh well then I can understand, I'm not a fan of cooties myself." she smiled and turned her attention to Severus and Seth. She still didn't get this whole house business, but when you were coming into the hostilities at fifteen rather than eleven, they were less impressive. She hadn't grown with the prejudices between houses, only between blood and her mother was a stickler for it. While Sam understood the importance of being a pureblood and while she would probably marry a pureblood, she didn't know exactly her take on the issue. The simple fact was you couldn't help your blood, and Seth apparently couldn't help who he fell for, not many could, and it was disaster to try more times than not.

Her mother's marriage for instance...disaster.

[Severus Snape]

Severus shut his book and turned to Rosier, "I'd rather go with you to the kitchens, when we come back, I'm sure Inophen would of thought of a witty comeback, don't you think?" He put his book in his bag and pulled out his cloak, it made it easier to hide things in a cloak. Between the two of them, they could sneak out a lot of things.