Yog Sothoth said
Isaak was surprised by her ability to smell the feast, it took him a few more second before the smell of the food came to his nose. at first he was a little nervous to be entering the Great Hall with Verlin because of how she dressed, but he was a loyal friend and he considered the girl his friend so he would have to get over the possibility of people making jokes about them. he followed her into the wondrous gathering with the candles floating close to the ceiling which was enchanted to look like the starry night sky. he had Perun held in his arms and he took a seat beside Verlin at the Slytherin table, he then let his pet sit on the floor between his feet.. he then heard Acacia talk to their fellow Slytherins about the inccident where Willow fainted and he heard them laugh at the story. this made him clench his hands into fists in anger. did she have no true sense of kindness? he was almost tempted to say something very rude to the fourth year, but he stopped himself.he just said to Verlin in an angry voice, "can you believe her? there's nothing funny about Willow fainting. she deserves to drink a wart festering potion."he saw the heated words going back and forth between Acacia and Casimir. it kind of amused him that the seventh year was sticking up for a shy Gryffindor since he had a bad reputation of hurting people with hexes and having a slight obsession with getting revenge. "You should be careful around Casimir, he has a bad reputation for practicing dark magic, he could be dangerous and we might want to be on the look out for him in case he ties anything" he told Verlin. he then heard Casimir give his threat to Acacia about showing her why he had a reputation for using dark magic. this made him even more annoyed, here they were at the start of the school already threatening each other."they are both making our house look bad. I had hoped that since Voldemort was dead that our house would lose its reputation for having students who were ether very cruel and manipulative, or practitioners of the dark arts" Isaak told his Verlin. he had a bad feeling that the both Acacia and Casimir would cause trouble this year. he now felt inclined to keep an eye on both of them in case they tried to commit any acts of cruelty this school year.
Ester saw the ferret under the table and went over to him, and close pawed batted him gently, and playfully. "I know it is rotten what she's saying. I'm sure Willow thought Acacia was her friend." She shrugged, "but as much as it pains me to say it the best course of action right now is letting it go and bidding our time." She clicked her tongue on the roof of her mouth thinking about the Acacia girl, but as she thought about her more drama seemed to be rising from the Slytherin table. She heard the Acacia had proclaimed Willow to be her friend. She raised her eyebrow at this 'One minute you're picking on her and the next you're her friend. I don't get it.' Verlin thought to herself. Despite herself she was becoming interested in Acacia's game.
"Besides it's not the manipulation I have a problem with. We all do it to one means or another." She looked to Willow sitting at her table, and wondered what it was about the girl that had caught her interest. If she were honest with herself, she had a twinge of the manipulation gene. The only difference is she was friendly so she used it in the service of people. She noticed being friendly made people more likely to do things for you. She believed in the whole catching more flies with honey. She contemplated for a minute how people were truly more like the animal she favored than she gave them credit for.
She then thought about Casimir. She wouldn't seek him out for a friend persay, but to her understanding if you left him alone he would leave you alone. "I'll reserve judgement on Casimir. It might be better not to make an enemy of him." 'Oh what a tangled web being a Slytherin is.' She thought to herself. When she put the hat on her head it gave her two odd choices. She could have been a Hufflepuff if she wanted. She did have the right amount of dreamy qualities, and she was creative, but she liked the house with a bit more pride. She accidently said grumbling under her breath "Sometimes I wish I had just been a Puff." As she saw Casimir's frustration at Acacia. She thought to herself 'Yep wish I had let the hat put me in Hufflepuff.' She decided to preserve her own skin for today though, and decided to just stay out of both Acacia's and Casimir's way for now. She could see the allegiances she made this school year would be important.