Open Post: Great Hall

[courageous_wit]

[When the students enter the Great Hall today, they will see it decked out in black and yellow banners, with the Hufflepuff badger in prominent display. There are also a few model badgers that are moving around

The house-elves went all out in the food, serving Hufflepuff lots of cakes and cookies and other delicious treats.

Although you are divided by your houses, it's such a great party that you can visit your friends and butt into other house conversations!]

[Gryffindor | Ravenclaw | Hufflepuff | Slytherin | staff table]

Comments

[unvarnished]

[Gale is probably the one Hufflepuff August won't have a problem with, only because this guy is a friend of Katniss and thus safe from being cursed. One arm is in a sling August made himself but he is still keeping an eye on this guy]

[fanstheflame]

[Gale tips August a nod of greeting]. Hey. Good game yesterday. It was close, you almost had us.

[unvarnished]

[ugh why are Hufflepuffs so darn nice. Be civil, August, this guy is a friend of Katniss's] Yeah, well, you guys won't be that lucky next year.

[fanstheflame]

[they won't even be here in a week, let alone a year, and being in on the joke makes him grin]

You're probably right, there. We got lucky.

[unvarnished]

You're a friend of Katniss, right?

[he already knows, but he hasn't really talked with the guy much despite his own closeness with Katniss]

[fanstheflame]

I am, yeah. We grew up together. I'm Gale. [wizards shake hands, right?]

[unvarnished]

Oh. Yeah, I think she might've mentioned you. I'm August. [yeah, he will shake your hand]

[fanstheflame]

She's mentioned you, too. [he smiles, genuinely glad to meet a friend, especially one he knows she'd brought up before all this]. I'm glad she's got someone close by if she needs a hand. .... It's a little weird, sometimes, not living as close as we used to.

[unvarnished]

We watch each other's backs. [though really, Katniss could do just as well on her own]