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"Sight-seeing? Well... not much. I think I might take a trip or two to London over the holiday breaks, but those are quite far away." Theodore grinned with anticipation. Architecture was one of his favorite things and if he had been a squib, he would have probably pursued a degree in that area at a muggle university. Ever since he had been a child, he had always marveled at the various types of buildings, from brick-and-mortar apartments to world famous skyscrapers, near his home. Theodore even owned a novel dedicated to the various renowned architectural structures of the world, from The Louvre in Paris to Big Ben in London. The irony was that he was deathly afraid of heights. That would be another fear he would have to conquer.
"Whomping Willow? Even that name is a bit... foreboding." Raising an eyebrow, he gave once last glance in the direction of the imperious tree before turning back to face his companion. The definition of whomp was enough to scare off the sixth year; his dictionary of a mind recalled that whomp, as an noun, was a loud and heavy blow, slap, or bang. Ouch.
He had to refrain from cringing as he saw her battle scar. "What did you do? Pick a fight with it?" Biting his thin lower lip, he could only imagine the pain that she endured from that menace of a tree. If only he had known that his predecessor had saved an unassuming, lion-maned Gryffindor and his kickball from the tree simply the year before the current term.
Ellie nodded.
"That should be fun. I love London." She said with a smile. Ugh, Holiday breaks were so far away. Couldn't they be here already? And yet it was only the beginning of term. Ellie sighed and looked back down at her hands. She remembered the days when she hated going home, seeing her family. But now all she had left was her mother. She had no one at Hogwarts. And all she wanted was to be home to spend the last moments with her mum. But, you can't always get what you want.
Laughing a little, she nodded again. Foreboding was probably the best way to describe it.
"Yeah, tell me about it. But... It's a famous landmark. Historical. So it might be bad if they tried to get rid of it." She said with a shrug. Ellie always found that tree rather intriguing. She had read somewhere that there was a nob or something somewhere on the trunk that, if pressed, an entryway would open and a tunnel led to the Shrieking Shack. Ellie had always wanted to try it, but was too afraid to get beaten to a pulp. Or get in trouble by Stryker.
"I saved someone's life." She said seriously, looking Theo in the eye. But, she soon laughed out. A terrible liar.
"Oh, some new kid didn't know about the tree and it was giving him a hard time, so I ran over and tried to yank him away. But the tree left a reminder." Ellie looked back at her ankle, then tugged her pant leg back over the scar. That "new kid" was Hyun, who sadly, moved back to Durmstrang during the summer. She missed that kid.
"So, I wouldn't mess with it if I were you." Ellie said with a wink.