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Oooh, Ava Jade. Pretty name. But before Braeden could admire it too much, the girl was asking him if movies were a muggle thing. Smiling, the boy nodded his head. From the way she spoke, sounding a bit unsure, he could only assume she was either a pureblood or a half-blood who had been completely isolated from the muggle world. His vote was on the pureblood possibility, though.
"Exactly!" said the boy, rather excitedly, when Ava Jade asked if they were pictures with sound. "It's usually a story, just like reading a book, except that instead of reading, you're watching it come to life," he explained, almost sparkly-eyed as he talked about one of his favourite things in the world; ever the little muggleborn boy. "Unless you went really far back in time… movies didn't have sound back then, so you'd have to do a bit of reading…" he muttered, looking off into space thoughtfully for a moment before returning his brown eyes to the Hufflepuff girl. Enough about that! He didn't want to bore her to tears.
"What about you? What're some of your hobbies?" he asked curiously. "Besides, y'know, sneaking up on unsuspecting Gryffindors and making them jump like cats…" he added, obviously teasing as he flashed the girl one of his dorky smiles.
Ava Jade listened to him explain about Muggle movies. It was more than obvious from how he described them -- and how he looked as he described them -- that they meant more to him than simply a hobby to pass the time. "That's so fascinating," Ava Jade said, raptured. "I wish I'd paid more attention to the movie I watched a long time ago. My friend and I talked most of the time, didn't really even watch it. It sounds like it could be...a real art." She hoped she was doing the thing justice. She could already tell it meant a lot to Braeden.
"Hmm, my hobbies..." She thought for a moment about what she did outside of class, friends, and the mixture of both (when she and her friends all tried to hex each other or mockingly predict each other's futures). "Quidditch is definitely a hobby," she decided, "even though I couldn't try out for the team. No time," she quickly added, hoping he wouldn't ask about it. It was a bit of a sore subject still, after she'd gotten her hopes so high about trying out and then couldn't even make the try-outs. "I like playing with friends," she said, trying to move the topic away from the official Quidditch team. "I'm always chaser, but I can play all the positions. I also love spells, which is why Defense Against the Dark Arts is definitely my favorite subject!" Now that she thought about it...she even sounded like a Muggle-ignorant pureblood. Her world revolved 100% around wizard-related activities. "Maybe sometime you could tell me more about movies," she suddenly blurted, then tried to cover with a casual smile. "I'd love to know more about them!"