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"I've only read about them," Kurumi replied shaking her head. "Although, Professor Saylen keeps Abraxan in the stables by her cottage. I would go down and visit them often." For some reason she was attracted most to animals that could fly. But that was probably because she was a terribly flyer herself. Professor Vindictus really shouldn't allow her into his classes anymore. She had fallen into the giant cupcake he had conjured along with other mild disasters.
Kurumi turned the book she had been reading over in her hands and hugged it to her chest. "Um...owling might not be the best means," she said shyly. "I won't be in the same place for too long this summer. I will be staying with friends, flying back to Japan, and spending time with my father here in Diagon Alley."
Oops...she sure hoped he didn't think flying meant flying on a broom. She had already failed three times at explaining airplanes to people.
Then Kurumi backed up her mind again. Connor had mentioned that he needed a book on water creatures for his pet. "C-Connor?" she said slowly unsure if she was saying his name correctly. "What sort of pet do you have? A Plimpy?" That was the only magical creature she could think of that could possibly be a pet.
"My favorite is Thestrals." Connor sighed. He had to push the thoughts floating in his head away. All the trouble in his family was doing his head in. Add that to the fact that he really did not want to run into his littlest sister and he had a really good reasin for needing the headache remedy that He needed to go by the apothecary to get. He stacked the books about the Basilisk and the Acromantula together in a neat pile when near him he spotted a copy of "Magical Water Plants in the Highland Lochs." Now this might do him some good, both with herbology and with feeding dear Nessie.
"Japan huh! I do hope you're not taking a broom that far dear. Please tell me you will be going in a flying car or one of those muggle flying things, Air buses...no that's not the word...Airplanes." He smiled, after getting it right. "Flying on a broom that far is just not safe." He said vehemently, shaking his head. Connor thought fondly of his flying motorbike and hated that he was going to have to park it in the garage for so long.
He was pulled out of his reviere by her soft voice calling his name. He smiled, enjoying the sound of it and hoping he heard it again. "Yes Kurumi?" He almost added Dear or Love behind that, as was his nature, but he didn't want to scare her off or have her think he was being anything less than a gentleman. He listened to her question and smiled. He was quite sure she would be interested in Nessie. "Well, I am not sure what the magical term is for her, I need to look it up. But the muggles in the villiage near where I love call her for lack of a better term, a Water Horse."