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Cedric 
Paulie smiled and nodded in agreement with the boy. Although, Paulie had to admit that he was beginning to forget about the odor now as well, so perhaps he was in the same boat as this guy.
Oh, whoops. "Yeah, donno why I asked.. you don't look like a carnie." He gave an apologetic smile in case the boy took offense. But he did have some good knowledge of the fading of creature scents, so that was probably Paulie's reasoning. Whatwhatwhat? A good job..? This? Paulie contorted his facial muscles and shook his head. "No way. Not for me, at least. I've already got enough trouble trying to get girls to like me; I don't need this smell sticking to my clothes and scaring off all of 'em!" Heh.
It was true, though. The workers were probably well used to the smells of dirty creatures and animal dung. Or maybe their olfactory senses were failing them..
Right! Names. Paulie nodded when he introduced himself as Adam, then shook his hand as he did the same. "Cool, cool.. I'm Paulie. Nice to meet ya." When they finished their hand-shake, he dropped his arm to the side again. "So, where do you go to school? I'm going to Hogwarts this term.. used to go to Beauxbatons."
"Oh...no offense taken," Adam said with a little shrug of the shoulders. He wasn't surprised that the boy would think so; after all Adam was dressed a little roughly this morning with a plain grey t-shirt, a pair of dirty jeans that probably needed to go in the trash, and a pair of black boots. Although he wasn't wearing any makeup and that definitely seemed to be a requirement for the job.
Adam turned to look at kid with a somewhat amused expression as he justified not wanting the job for fear it would prevent him from getting any girls.
"Perhaps if you could find a way to block the smell from yourself this job might actually come in handy. After all girls love animals right, and I think you'd be hard pressed to find one that doesn't think that is cute," Adam said, pointing his finger towards a baby rabbit that was hopping around the same struggling puffskein he'd been staring at moments ago.
"Although I imagine doing the same thing day in and day out might get a little mundane," Adam said, his brows furrowing slightly. Animals were great and all but they didn't usually veer from their routines.
Adam shook Paulie's hand with a little smile, shoving his hands into his pockets once Paulie's arm had fallen back to his side.
"I'm actually going to Hogwarts for the first time myself," Adam said, glad he'd found a male from his year to talk to.
"I went to a couple different wizarding schools in the States before my parents moved us here." So he was from Beauxbatons? Maybe he knew Lilly-Anne....
"I actually met a girl in Diagon Alley a few days ago that's coming to Hogwarts from Beauxbatons. Her name is Lilly-anne but I uh, didn't catch a last name."