Coach Amelia Pierce
March 30, 2012 7:58 PM
Crotali, this way, please by Coach Amelia Pierce
Now in her seventh year at Sonora, Deputy Headmistress Amelia Pierce, all of them as the Crotalus Head of House, she was as comfortable in giving the yearly speech as she was ever going to get. A creature of habit, her speech hadn't really changed much since the first one she'd drafted and had one of the other heads check over. This year, she was changing maybe ten words total, and that included adding in the new prefect.She had taken note of each of the kids that the potion had turned red; being the one to hand them the potion made it easier to keep a tally and take a mental snapshot of the students she would need to lead out later. Now, as the feast dwindled to its end, she collected those same formerly red skinned children. The effects had worn off by now, but she remembered the faces of those who had joined Crotalus.
With a great deal luck, this first year class would get along as well as her most recent classes had. It was a larger group than she'd had last year, and there had been a rather spectacular reaction among the O'Malley/Brockert family as one of the girls turned red. She hoped that did not bode poorly for the new year.
The difficulty was that Crotalus tended to collect two very distinct and not entirely compatible groups of people: 'proper pureblods' and 'everybody else' were the informal catch-all names she'd mentally given to the two sides. She thought this year's group may have some of each. She dearly hoped her streak of good luck was not coming an end. Not in regards to the first years, and not in regards to the undeclared war between two of her newest Prefect and the new Assistant Quidditch Captain.
"Crotali!" she called out again, drawing in the stragglers that her first few summons had missed. "First year Crotalus students gather around me." The last child joined them and she took a final headcount to make sure nobody had wandered off. "If any of you turned a color other than red, you're in the wrong place," she advised, but nobody left, so she figured she had the right group.
"I am Coach and Deputy Headmistress Amelia Pierce," she announced, reasonably sure she had her full set of new first years, "of the Boston Pierces. I am your Head of House, Sonora's Deputy Headmistress, and the Quidditch Coach. Please follow me and I'll show you the way to our common room."
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