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"Crazy." Dal agreed, half-smiling. "It's cool, though, in a kind of scary, A-Tree-Can-Beat-Me-Up way." He chuckled. A tree with personality? Hogwarts was definitely cooler than Merlin's.
He shook his head at her question. "Nope, this is my first year here. I transferred from a school in the U.S." He glanced at the tree as it moved a few branches - big, thick branches that shouldn't have been moving - then looked back at Alice. "What year are you in?"
Normally Alice's paranoia would have made her be concerned at the idea of a tree being able to act so forcefully on its own accord, but the fact that a tree was immobile made her chuckle a little at Dallin's comment.
"It is a bit creepy...thank heavens trees can't get up and move around." "Oh, you're from the states too?!" Alice responded to Dallin's transferring. So...this was his first year here. Good to know she wasn't going crazy.
"I'm from a very small, very tight knit muggle community in Virginia. I was going to go to Merlin's but my dad thought it would be a good idea for me to come to Europe...you know, see what the rest of the world is like."
Alice noticed the same thick branches that moved the same time Dallin did...perhaps they always moved like that?
"I'm a second year," Alice said, glad to have Dallin's question distract her from how creepy that branch had been.