Session Summary

The first night at Hogwarts proved to be a little overwhelming. Sorted into Hufflepuff you met a few of your fellow house members:

• Finnian (Finn) O'Malley, a softly-spoken Irish boy with siblings in just about every school year of Hogwarts,
• Penelope (Penny) Perkins, a studious girl whose obsessive notetaking seemed almost reflexive,
• Lily Buttercup, a spacey but sweet girl who warned you all away from Cassian Black, a boistrous Slytherin 3rd year whose prowess at Quidditch Captain seemed to entitle him to sneer at the entire Great Hall from the next table AND
• Liam Flaherty, a sturdy food-loving boy who - like you, though for very different reasons - also managed to find his way to the kitchens on his very first night at the school
  But more significantly you began to weave the first threads of friendship between one another; Basil Featherstone, Vi Thorne and Cassie Weasley. Like so many school age children you were united by circumstance. Unlike most though, your circumstance was delivered by an invisible Poltergeist flapping a dead stuffed owl (invisible, that is, to all but one of you). It was during the course of this meeting that Cassie's baby niffler, Bernard, made a bid for freedom, coming back with a silver anklet from A 4th year Hufflepuff girl and a golden galleon from... somewhere.
  Peeves' owl carried a note from your special needs coordinator, Professor Finch, and led you beneath The Great Hall to the Hogwarts School Kitchens. There you met a handful of the Hogwarts Kitchen Elves that make the extraordinary fare throughout the year. Cassie was near force fed samples of everything from not-devilled not-eggs to an enormous leg pie, becoming known to Fizzy and Hokey in the process. Meanwhile Basil and Vi pushed on through the kitchen to find Flick, a friend of?.. Ally of?.. Somehow connected to Prof Finch.
  Three linted and hairy biscuits later and each nauseated by the tug in your stomach you continued your search, wandering into a currently unused section of the castle - a dim corridor at kitchen level, not too far from the Hufflepuff Tower with several locked doors. It was here that Cassie ditched the stolen anklet in a large planter. Upon which, she and Basil promptly vomited on it.
  But you were not alone. Peeves, sensing a chance to sow some discord, bolted away to fetch Mr Cattermole, the Hogwarts caretaker and so Vi - perhaps made of sturdier stuff as a potioneer - Scour-gified her friends' dinnerpile Cassie frantically sought a hiding place; Basil still some way distant as he investigated what later transpired to be your other pursuer: Flick, from the kitchens.
  Cassie, demonstrating just some of the street smarts she apparently possesses, Alohomora-d a door and you all stepped through just as the caretaker swept into the corridor.
  The room you found yourselves in was dark and cold. Very cold. Dangerously cold it transpired. As you pondered the strange plantlife there, alive but frozen in total darkness in strange tabletop cold frames, Cassie stepped towards a wall of tiny drawers. Mere moments later, frost-coated and frankly looking half dead she advised retreat, the corridor now empty of faculty as the receding voice of Mr Cattermole could be heard reprimanding Peeves for making up the vomit incident and for stealing jewellery from a student.
  For what I expect to be the first of very many times, Vi healed her new friend and -seemingly satisfied with the display he had been secretly observing - Professor Finch untransfigured from a hairy moth into his moustachiod flyboy form and introduced himself.
  You don't know quite what he was looking for or whether he found it. You don't know what form his 'lessons' will take or what you may learn. But you do know that he gave you homework on your very first night at school and I am sure that at least one of you seethes a little as he leads you wordlessly back towards the Hufflepuff Common Room, the halls now alive with the murmurs of students as they file out of the Great Hall, the feast now over.

Session Events

Event:: After being sorted into Hufflepuff House, Cassie Weasley, Vi Thorne & Basil Featherstone are led to the house table by Aoife O'Malley, a red-haired seventh year student

Event:: Cassie Weasley, Vi Thorne & Basil Featherstone meet Finnian (Finn) O'Malley (lots of siblings), Lily Buttercup (space cadet) & Liam Flaherty (food-lover) at the welcome feast.

Event:: Cassie Weasley, Vi Thorne & Basil Featherstone observe Cassian Black, the Alpha Slytherin from afar (Lily Buttercup warns the party that he is 'a nasty piece of work')

Event:: Penelope (Penny) Perkins is embarrassed at the welcome feast after Peeves the Poltergeist accidentally amplifies Barnaby Butterfield declaring that he 'fancies her'

Event:: Peeves the Poltergeist delivers a note to Cassie Weasley, Vi Thorne & Basil Featherstone on behalf of Jackdaw Finch. He delivers it by way of a dead taxidermy owl.

Event:: Bernard (Cassie's Niffler) steals an anklet from A 4th year Hufflepuff girl, bringing it back to Cassie

Event:: Cassie Weasley, Vi Thorne & Basil Featherstone visit the School Kitchens in search of clues and Jackdaw Finch. They learn the way to access the kitchen at will.

Event:: Cassie Weasley, Vi Thorne & Basil Featherstone meet several of the Social Elves, the 'customer facing' contingent of the kitchen staff. They meet Flick (Finch's 'friend'), Hokey & Fizzy

Event:: Cassie Weasley, Vi Thorne & Basil Featherstone help the House Elves with some NPD in the School Kitchens, exposing Cassie Weasley to Chocmint for this first time

Event:: Cassie Weasley, Vi Thorne & Basil Featherstone are each given a weird pocket biscuit by Flick in the School Kitchens"A tingling sensation spreads through your chest, and you feel an undeniable pull as if a string has been connected to your belly button.". This leads you towards Professor Finch

Event:: Reginald (Reggie) Cattermole finds the Bernard-stolen anklet in a plant pot where Peeves the Poltergeist reports Basil Featherstone & Cassie Weasley were sick

Event:: Vi Thorne cleans up the vomit of Basil Featherstone & Cassie Weasley, leaving Reginald (Reggie) Cattermole to conclude that Peeves the Poltergeist stole the bracelet from A 4th year Hufflepuff girl. In reality, Bernard did it.

Event:: Cassie Weasley, Vi Thorne & Basil Featherstone take cover in a disused room in the Hufflepuff Tower/School Kitchens basement. The room is filled with inert plants and a freezing aura that harms Cassie Weasley. Hereafter known as the Cold Plant Room

Event:: Professor Finch untransfigures from his moth animagus form and reveals himself as an observer to this, the first test of the inaugural 1939 Hogwarts DIADEMs. He reports that Flick and Peeves the Poltergeist were both (up to a point!) acting on his intructions and he had told them to observe you too.