balletandbow, I'm really sorry that I haven't posted...

Ginny~

"Julianne, Fred, Mars, what're you three conspiring about?" I ask suspiciously as I round a corner to find them all standing there. "Nothing, Ginny! Whyever would you think that I was doing something like conspiring! Me? Never!" Fred says in an obviously falsetto voice, winking in a way he must think is inconspicous at Mars and Julianne. "Fred Weasly, you don't fool me one bit!" I say. "What, you mean you don't believe me?" he asks, with a false air of indignancy. "Yes, exactly. But I want to know how you got Mars into it!" I exclaim. He shrugs. "I knew I couldn't fool you. But don't ask me how Mars got convinced! I didn't do it. Ask Julianne." "Julianne?" I oblige. "Um... Ask Mars!"

I frown at her. Never mind, I think. I just want to know what they're planning- No, where they're planning- so I can avoid it. "Well, where are you planning to put the pranks?" Julianne looks surprised. "I can't tell you that! Are you going to Hogsmead, though?"

"Yes, of course."

"Well, you'll be safe. We're not pranking the people we like," she says with a gleam in her eye.

"But stick around to see us get Malfoy!" Fred butts in. Mars has been quiet this whole time, looking with slight amusment back and forth between all of us. I start to walk to the Gryffindor common room, calling over my shoulder "Alright, Fred, I will." I'm still not comepletely at ease. They can be so much trouble, I don't know how Mum and Dad put up with them! 

Cadance~

I skip happily down the hall. Hogsmead's in five days! I've only been once before, but I'm very exited! Why so happy? My mind whispers, and the nagging doubt hidden in the back of my mind comes into full view, bringing me down mid-skip. Not about Hogsmead, thank goodness. It's about the Triwizard Tournament reenactment. Julianne said that she was going to sneak a slip of paper with her name on it into the Goblet of Fire tonight. Before Dumbledore said people could, and I don't know if she's old enough... Nonsense. She wouldn't do something like that! Or would she? No. You haven't been scything every resource of information, like bugging Harry. She'll be fine, you're just paranoid. I frown and turn to go back to the common room, my good mood drowned. It returns some when Pearl, my orange munchkin kitten, climbs up me and sits on my shoulder. Ginny enters soon after.

"Hey Ginny, want to play chess?" 

"Sure." She looks sort of... off. "I told you not to stay up so late, even if you are studying! How late was it last night?"

She looks abashed, and immediately I feel sorry, but she says "1 O'clock AM."

"Ginny!"

"But-"

"I know you want to be even better at your studies so that your Mother and Father won't be disappionted, and so that you can get a job easily, but this is too far." 

"I know," she said miserably. "But also, Julianne is going to enter and- I wouldn't like to play chess anymore." Ginny turned and went to the Girls' Dorm. I feel miserable as well, but sort of uplifted knowing that I'm not the only one with these doubts. I'm lost in my homework until a voice says, "Cadance?" It could be Ginny! I lift my head, more than ready to apologize, but then I see it's Hermione. "Hermione!" I say, grateful for the company. It's 7:00 and everyone is rushing around the common room, doing everything imaginable except for homework. She sits down in an armchair next to me. "I just finished my homework and I felt like a board game. I'm sure anyone here would be glad to play one with me, but I'm also sure none of them have done their homework except you. Are you almost done?" I nod. "Yes, I'm just finishing up." Pearl purrs and runs off to play with Crookshanks. "What do you want to play?" Hermione asks. "Let's play chess," I say, and we sit in companionable silence, setting up the game I brought from home.

TOP!! Post!!! Somebody!!! I'll post again soon if no one else does....

Sorry I haven't been posting lately, something about the internet not working and blah blah blah. So I am back but could one of you guys post first?  

~|Mars|~

I hurry into the Great Hall right after my last class without putting my bags away, so that people won't be packed around the Goblet. In fact, I'm the only one in the hall. I grab a piece of parchment from my bags, and place it on the table. Whipping out my quill, I set to work filling it out. 

It soon reads Marsella Orwell, fifth year, Ravenclaw house. I turn around, facing the Goblet.

"What are you doing?" I whip around to find Fred and George standing behind me. I can tell I'm blushing. "I'm just entering in the Triwizard Tourmanent. That's not against the law, is it?" I demand rather fiercely.

"No," one of them admits. "What are you doing here?" I snap. "We're entering the Triwizard Tournament. That's not against the law, is it?" the other one says in a sarcastic, snippy tone.

"Shut up," I mutter, tearing the section off of the parchment. I walk over to the Goblet, breathing hard. I drop it in, flinching a little as I do so.

"You don't seem all to happy about doing this, Mars," the first one observes. "I'm just not so happy about you two sneaking up on me like that," I snap, trying to keep my cool.

"Honestly though, why are you entering?" he asks. "Because I want to."

He smirks, pulling out a small piece of parchment. He drops it in as I start running as fast as I can to the Ravenclaw dormitory, which isn't very fast, as I'm carrying a heavy book bag. 

Sorry I havn't posted in a while I've been really busy. Anyways.........

~Skye

I look at the goblet in front of me. It seems really intimidating. Neville isn't going to be happy, I think. I look down at the parchment in my hand and imagined it getting pulled out of the goblet. I dropped it in. If Neville got mad, so what? He probably won't find out anyway, I thought. 

*Fanfare* I'm here! So, I'm gonna do one more big post, 'cause my family and I are flying out to my grandma's house tonight, and I should have Internet, but I might not, soooo yeah. I have a different device than I had the last time we went to her house, so it might take me a bit to get internet on. 

|~| Henri

I stretch, sleepily slipping out of my bed and onto the floor. No one else in my dorm is awake yet  Yawning, I start slipping into my 'First Week of Classes Only' school robes, then throw them back off again excitedly. It's Saturday!!! Hogsmeade!!! (The first week of classes is over!!!! No mate robes!!!!) I throw on my white shirt, grey sweater, and brown and gold tie before kicking my skirt under my bed and slip into my grey pants. Skirts are instruments of evil, designed to make it impossible for girls to prank.   

Quietly, I snatch my bag of my bed post and rifle through it, while I run down to the common room. It's entirely empty, which just means that no one else in Hufflepuff has enough incentive to get up at the crack of dawn. Some people would normally be awake by now, but as Quidditch hasn't started yet, the team is still sleeping. 

After making sure my bag if full of all the appropriate pranking supplies, I rush down to the Great Hall, arriving just in time to see the Weasley twins and Ron shuffling through the doors. 

"WAKE UP!" I shout as I whizz by to take a seat at the empty Hufflepuff table. They all start, and Julianne laughs as she comes past them. Since I am literally the first person in the Hall, she grabs a seat beside me and digs into breakfast. 

"Good one," she mumbles through a mouth full of food as the boys stumble over. "They'll never know what hit them."

"Just like Malfoy won't," I whisper as the boys settle themselves across the Hufflepuff table from us. "This one'll be good."

TOPPPPPPP!!! YOU CAN NOT DO THIS TO ME!!!! WE MIST CONTINUE!!!!!

YOU CANNOT DIE!!! YOU CANNOT DIE!!! I WILL POST TODAY!!!! YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO DIE!!!!

I will post soon!!!!!!!!!!

I can't right now cause I am hosting a sleepover tonight and I have a lot of last minute preperations,but I WILL POST SOON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DO NOT DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

|~| Ron

Fred, George, Juli, Henri, and I are about to head out of the Hall when someone else whizzes in. I gape for a moment, sure that I must be seeing things, but when the black-haired figure plops herself down at the Ravenclaw table, I realize that she's really there. Fred walks over saying,

"Hey Mars! Glad you could make it!"

Behind me, Henri drops her fork and as her mouth falls open. "Mars?" she asks incredulously. "Mars Orwell?"

"Yup," Fred says, returning with Mars in tow. "We finally got her to come."

"Hi guys," she says, nodding to each of us in turn. "Ron, George, Juli." She comes to a stop when she sees Henri. Uh oh. Now I remember one of the reasons that Fred and George haven't asked her to come before. Mars, really really doesn't like Henri, a feeling that is not mutual. Henri doesn't mind Mars, but she like to be really really really loud, which drives Mars mad. Finally, she gets her act together. "Henri," she adds coolly.

Henri is still gaping, seeming slightly impressed. "I uh... Wow, I just didn't really think... Uh... Welcome to the crew!" she stutters.

"Thanks," Mars replies, still a bit stiffly. "So... How does this whole pranking thing work? Do we just hit random people or-"

"Hit random people?" George exclaims. "That would be terrible! We might hit people we like! No, we have selected a few people who now lucky enough to be on Fred and George's Pranking Watch list! We'll hit them as much as possible today, and any friends they have with them. Fred, you want to explain more?"

"Sure!" Fred grabs Mars's arm and steers her out of the Hall, George in tow. I pick up my bag and some toast to eat on the way while the girls gather up their stuff. As we leave the Hall, the girls begin whispering behind me.

"Ron," Juli hisses. "Ron!"

"What?" I hiss back.

"Well," she continues. "We think-"

"We think that we're going to have a second Percy," Henri bursts in.  

"A second Percy?" I ask, confused. "What do you mean?"

"We're pretty sure that Fred fancies Mars." The two of them giggle as they say this.

"What?" I exclaim. "Fred and Mars? How can you even-"

"Just watch them today," Juli says. "Then we can see." 

~Luna

I don't know what made me do it. Mabye it was the things they said. I really don't care. All I know is that I entered the Tourment on the morning of the first trip of the term. I wrote my paper and went to the entrence hall. I was about to drop my paper in the goblet when I heard a voice.

"What are you doing Looney?"Draco Malfoy said. I looked around franticly I couldn't see anyone. I prayed that a teacher would appear but no such luck. No one was going to deffend me this time. I would have to do that myself.

"Entering the tourment of course" I said "What does it look like?" Draco reached for his wand I took a deep breath. And than....

"What is going on here?" Proffesser Flitwick asked walking in.

"I was about to enter the tourment, Sir" I said before Draco could say anything.

"Luna, you may go"

So I did but not before dropping my paper in the goblet. I had been lucky that time a teacher had found out. But as I had learned earlie on they didn't always. So I had to be on my guard.