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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.
"I think I'll love it to. Especially the historical parts," Theodore grinned with anticipation, longing to join the other tourist muggles in their adventures in a new city. "Do you have any travel tips? Are they any places that are must-sees?" He had heard great things about places with bloody histories, such as the Tower of London. They intrigued him, but terrified him, all the same. Blood and violence... EEK!
"That...
thing is a landmark?" He rose an eyebrow with surprise. "Why... maybe I should reread
Hogwarts, A History, because I remember nothing about a murderous tree that was adored by Hogwarts historians." He laughed, but his curiosity was peaked. Why would such a vicious plant be made a landmark? He doubted that many people would be angry if the tree was removed, if one
could remove it without losing a limb or two, but it was no big matter.
For a quick moment, he had taken her seriously. So, Ellie wasn't just a smart girl, but a heroic one, too? She must have been quite the Gryffinclaw. But alas, at her admittance, he had to chortle along with her. "I hopw I'm not stuck in that situation. But knowing some of my friends that tend to be, erm..." He lowered his voice, glancing around for a moment fearfully, "
clueless, I might have to save the day for them." He grimaced, hoping it would never come. But knowing some students such as Braeden Stonem and other silly Gryffindors, that day might come sooner than later.