Text Cut: A Miss Kurumi Hollingberry
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“Th-Thank you,” Kurumi blushed as Treyen enchanted some of her papers to come back to her. Meanwhile, she gathered a few that had fallen at her feet and attempted to return them to a neat stack. After having done so, she set those down on the end table and returned her attention to Treyen.
Well, at least he had caught onto the names being different – while also stating the obvious. “And my father doesn’t look exactly like this man either,” she frowned pointing especially to his nose. “Father’s nose is a little different, as is his hair color…but the eyes and smile are the same.” Minus the innocence that this particular image was glazed over with.
Swallowing nervously, Kurumi set the book back down and gripped the edges of her gray skirt. She remembered the conversation she had had with Mrs. Elo during a Hogsmeade visit last term and what the woman had told her there. Kurumi needed proof that the elderly lady who rather enjoyed her firewhiskey wasn’t batty and had been telling the truth. Kurumi wasn’t sure the exact year it had happened, but she had two years’ worth of old Daily Prophets stacked to her right. Surely there was something in there about the…accident…or whatever it was that had happened to give the woman the impression that a Charles Edward Gaunt had been killed.
“He changed his name,” she said as calmly as she could muster. “I-I don’t know why…father has never mentioned it to me…” Nor did he ever tell her that he was a Metamorphagus until she came home at the end of last term and practically threw a dictionary at his head for not saying anything. “But, look her,” she said pointing to his mini biography under his picture. “Metamorphagus and he became the official Ambassador to Asia.” Yep, and that he how he met her mother. She assumed this anyway. Her mother and father hardly ever spoke about how they met other than it was love at first sight.
Kurumi then arched an eyebrow at the Hufflepuff with the sparkly smile – she should have brought her sunglasses. She never took him for one to like the library. Then again, their surroundings did assure that he was the brightest thing in the room. Kurumi’s cheeks flushed a bit more at the thought. “Trying to study some more so you don’t have to copy off my paper?” she teased as she gave into the urge to stick her tongue out. She had to admit, she would be a bit sad if he stopped sitting next to her during Arithmancy. "Numerlogy is fascinating though."
Kurumi liked numbers. They were always stable and constant.
"My pleasure," he said, after she'd thanked him. But it was really nothing, he'd summoned most of the parchments, that could hardly be considered any help, after all, it was rather easy to flick a wand.
Treyen was about to mention that his own dad didn't look as the Jack from 20 years ago, but never got around to say it, because there seemed to be something else behind Kurumi's story, or rather, Kurumi's father's. Plus, she was clearly wondering way too many things. Why did she seem so agitated? It couldn't be just for the picture, right? It certainly couldn't, because there were more than a couple of books next to her.
Official Ambassador to Asia? That was kind of amazing, actually. But strange enough that Kurumi was looking for information about her father in the Library here at Hogwarts.
"If you don't mind me asking," he started to say, leaning towards Kurumi,
"What are you looking for? I mean, couldn't you just ask your father about it?" why was it that Treyen Lockhart seemed to be one of the few that could ask his dad almost anything and still get an answer?
"I may be able to help you," like, for real this time, because if she had to go through all those books, well, it'll be taking her forever to finish.
But then she--OH. Touché. He had to smile at her boldness, even if he did notice the blush this time,
"I think all my parchments would say 'Kurumi Hollingberry' if I did copy yours," Kurumi Hollingberry with hearts around it "I only make sure I'm doing the right thing," he said, and winked. Doing the right thing by copying. Now, that was a little bit like Gilderoy.
And then he raised his eyebrow at her,
"I...kind of have to disagree, I hate numbers," yes, he was being completely honest about that. But, he was sort of intrigued by something Hadley had mentioned the last time they met.
Also, you know what?
"For all it's worth, I prefer Kurumi Hollingberry than Gaunt, by the way."