<strong>Bartemius Crouch Jr.</strong><br/><br/>Barty grinned as Bella came to join them, letting his legs slip off the bench as if they were dead so she would have somewhere to sit. Though the girl was clearly more than halfway to losing her mind and she would draw her wand on anyone who did anything the least bit bothersome to her, he enjoyed having her around for the simple reason that she was an neverending font of entertainment as long as he wasn't the target of her hexes. Thankfully, he had learned how not be on her bad side since she started to spend more time around Rodolphus and, by proxy, himself. He also found her loyalty to the Dark Lord refreshing, as she was probably the only person who took their future servitude as seriously as he did.<br/><br/>"Oh, didn't you hear? I'm looking to join the Order once school is out," the Slytherin sneered jokingly. "I've been hoping to hang around those Marauders some more this year. They're all so<em>charming</em>, don't you think?" Barty was, of course, being entirely sarcastic. He felt the Marauders were so full of themselves that they put even a pureblood Slytherin to shame, and he was sure even the Gryffindors wouldn't argue that point. "Really, Bella, don't you know me at all? I was just trying to earn old Remedy's trust so we can get her back with her dear brothers sooner rather than later. The only trouble is that Lupin, but I'm working on something for him..." He trailed off and glanced out the window, lightly twisting his wand between his fingers.<br/><br/><strong>Karin Blutfremd</strong><br/><br/>"I'm pretty excited to do some N.E.W.T.-level magic," Karin said quietly, realizing too late that her phrasing probably called attention to her "Squib" status, though these people didn't seem to care that much. She then handed back the band list Symphony had produced. She had recognized a few of them, but there was really no point in bringing it up now that the exotic-looking girl had already changed the subject fifteen times. The idea of singing them in choir intrigued her, though. She definitely knew them better than any of the ordinary wizard world songs they usually performed, though she didn't know how well Professor Flitwick would respond to the proposal. He was definitely not one to break away from tradition very often. For how many years had he been teaching students the same charms, regardless of whether new ones were discovered that actually seemed to work a bit better? Bring it up, though, and he tended to get a bit overemotional, so most people just let him be.<br/><br/>The young redhead tried to tune it out as Symphony went on and on about more things than the other three could actually respond to. The girl sure knew how to talk; not that Karin minded all that much. It took a lot of the pressure off of her to provide conversation, so she could just sit there and stare at Symphony's sunflower so that the Hufflepuff thought she was making eye contact and listening intently. She heard something about younger brothers in Durmstrang, which caught her by surprise. "Your brothers go to Durmstrang?" she inquired. Durmstrang was a good distance away, so either they were sent a long way away from home or Symphony was, though she couldn't figure out the reason for it. Why not just send all of them to same school?