Here we go (Open)

Lucas decided that he wanted to go and be exchange student in Ilvermorny for at least for year or maybe longer if he likes there. He packed all his stuff once again and then went to Hogwarts Grounds where was the Ferry Launch what took people from Hogwarts to Ilvermorny. He had sent even letter with owl to his parents that he will go there. Actually he had even discussed the matter with them. He was still only fourteen so he couldn't really decided by himself about his own future yet. His parents allowed him to go, they said it would be good experiences to see other magical schools too. So here he was on the Ferry Lunch now going towards Ilvermorny. Boy wasn't sure how long it would take yet, he hoped that it won't take very long time.

Casey was getting away from all of the people and the pressures and the things that made Hogwarts so miserable. She was not someone to care for much, but she had cared for Lily. She had focused so heavily on protecting her cousin that she forgot to make friends, forgot to find a class or a professor that made school worth it. And suddenly, Lily was gone. And so was her reason to want to be at Hogwarts.

It helped that her family was no longer a comfort, but a painful reminder of their failures to be good to each other. There were too many Weasleys romping about the enchanted castle for her to feel comfortable stretching into herself.

But maybe in a new place, somewhere she couldn't be compared to the rest of her family...

Her parents had wanted to make a big deal of it, but she had insisted it would make it harder on her. So it was Sawyer, her elder brother, who would be taking care of her. He had met her at the ferry, and was tightening the straps on her trunk while she wrestled Edgar, her mouse, into her coat pocket, slipping a handful of nuts in after him for him to nibble on.

"Ready, kid?"

Casey wrinkled her nose as she zipped up her jacket. "It's not a big deal," shes aid dryly.

"Of course, of course," Sawyer said, nodding. Casey looked at him in exasperation and he clamped her to his side with a grin, tussling her hair. "You'll be great, Casey Lou. It'll be good."

Casey finally hugged him back, irritated at the public display of love for her elder brother. "Thanks, Sully."

He released her and smiled. "Alright, get to it. Go make friends."

She heaved an exaggerated sigh and he laughed loudly, causing a nervous looking second year to jump. She glanced around and spotted a boy in her year. She shrugged. "I guess I'll go... be... friendly." She spat the word out and gave a small smile to Sawyer, who tussled her hair again before she turned around.

"Hey Lucas."

Malaika was looking forward to expanding her horizons, at least, that's what she'd told her parents to get them to agree to this trip.

From the gossip in the halls, it seemed a lot of people were hoping to board at Ilvermorny for a year or more. Privately, Malaika supposed those people were afraid of the dangers in the British wizarding world, even though such dangers seemed to have fallen quiet of late.

She also suspected the American wizarding world had dangers of its own. The African one had, after all.

So Malaika had decided that how long she stayed at Ilvermorny would depend entirely on her impressions once she got to that school. She would plan for one term initially and then if she liked it enough, extend her stay, assuming they would have her.

Sure, being at Hogwarts was not always sunshine and roses. She was both a first year and a Hufflepuff, two of the worst things a person could be, if the older students in other houses were to be believed. But at least nobody at Hogwarts had tried to murder her. Not yet, anyway.

There was already a group of Gryffindors dithering on the dock while luggage disappeared momentarily to reappear on the ferry.

Much as Malaika hated the Hogwarts houses, she knew enough people placed stock in them to hope she wasn't going to be the only Hufflepuff going to Ilvermorny. But just in case, maybe she ought to make some friends. Right, that girl had called that boy Lucas.

"Yeah, Lucas, Hi."

She probably wasn't tall enough to pass for the same age as them, but she might just pass for a second year if she was lucky.

Kasey was part of the Ilvermormy welcoming group. Somehow by some strange twist of events the staff of Ilvermorny had decided it would be a good idea to have her be one of the people to show the hogwarts transfer students around. As soon as she had found out Kasey had criticised the schools serious lack of judgement on giving her this job. Honestly as if she was going to have the patience to sit through classes just because of some transfer! Maybe the school thought a student from a different school would have a good impact on her behaviour or something. If they did Kasey couldn't help but feel maybe her professors were a tad delusional.

And yet there Kasey stood with a collection of other Ilvermorny students and professors waiting to welcome the transfers to the school. Bored she looked around at the other students and then focused her attention back at the water silently wondering at which point things would go wrong.. After all she had just seen her brother, Leo, slip a small firework from his pocket.