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"Hmm," Kurumi murmured checking out the article a bit more. "Are you sure they don't exist? I haven't come across anything in my magical creature research, but perhaps they are just very very sneaky buggers?" Kurumi closed the paper for a moment to think. "Or, perhaps they are like Pogrebins and can blend with the environment really well?" Add another thing on her list of things to research.
Kurumi looked up to ask more questions about the existence or non-existence of Nargles when she saw Treyen standing rather close and blocking her peripheral vision. There was that shinny smile of his again...but this time it was a suspicious shinny smile. Tilting her head to the side, Kurumi tried to look past Treyen to see what he was trying to block. Was the trolley out of licorice wands?! Because that would be terrible. "What's that?" she asked pointing to something, really nothing, off to the side hoping to distract him long enough to see what was behind him. "It looks like a Nargle." Or not...
He...had no idea what to say now.
How could you prove something didn't exist? By proving the existence of facts that claimed otherwise. And there were no facts.
"I...personally? I haven't seen them, and I've been around mistletoe, I mean, we all had, eventually, no?" because the Castle was always filled with that during Christmas time, and no, he didn't mean for mistletoe to the be the main issue here, but...,
"I've never seen anything around mistletoe, seriously," unless boys and girls are Nargles gathered around mistletoe, but that was not the case,
"Unless, they're like Thestrals, and that would explain why I can't see them," nor had he had any of belongings lost in the Common Room, perhaps it only happened to the ones staying up there on the Seventh Floor? So, Nargles don't like the grounds. And the Hufflepuff Common Room was by the Kitchens, therefore, no Nargles.
Pogrebins?
"No, no, it says here that you can see them, though not as clearly as one could see an owl, for sure," sooooo, yeah, no Pogrebins. And she should think of less creepy creatures, by the way.
But, oh, she was probably thinking something was up, since his stance had changed and he was blocking her view of Salander. He wasn't falling for that.
"I doubt it, Kurumi," but, really, was there a Nargle around?
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Snape'sGirlThru&Thru Vashti smiled a little as Kurumi seemed to recover from her tears. And she was right, a smile did suit Treyen a lot better than that panicked look he'd been wearing. She took the edition that Treyen handed her, shrugging at his suggestions so as not to interrupt his and Kurumi's conversation about nargles, then dug around in her pocket for those twelve sickles. She was probably not going to get any candy after paying for this, but that was okay. Going without anything in her stomach for a few more hours wouldn't kill her.
It was as she laid the coins on the trolley that she noticed Salander not too far away, also looking at the Quibbler and appearing a little unsettled. Well that wasn't good. Was it the same thing that had bothered Kurumi, the Statute of Secrecy? Vashti bit her lip, a little bit worried now. Maybe there really was something strange going on here. But what was it? What was it about the Statute that was upsetting people?
Vashti had noticed too, about Salander, and in reality one always needed to worry whenever the Wizarding world started to talk about the Statute of Secrecy. Always. Worry. Yes. But Treyen didn't feel the need to worry about it. Unless Fletcher was involved, in which case Treyen would've already found out and would be fighting right by his side, or trying to get him out of whatever trouble he managed to get into.
He looked at her before glancing at the paper again. And now she was helping someone else?
See, no need to worry about the Statute, just worry about the girl who dropped the candy.