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CreativeAllie18 
"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."
Paulie gave a nod, glad that Adam wasn't sensitive about his previous comment. Some guys could get real defensive about stuff like that. Usually the snobs.
Huh. Apparently his new acquaintance found Paulie's inability to woo girl FUNNY. Naww, Paulie returned a lazy smile and shrugged in an 'it's the truth' sort of way. He listened, then, to the boy's suggestion. Hmm. Hmmmm. That actually wasn't a half-bad idea. Girls did love animals, huh? He contemplated this for a moment. "
Good point, buddy. I'm sure there is probably a spell out there to block the stink.." And the circus..? Well, maybe that wouldn't quite work. Seemed like an awful lot of moving around, and Paulie Foster was only fifteen and schoolbound. "
Yeah, true. I'd get bored in a few days."
Aha, so Paulie had managed to meet another guy who was headed to Hogwarts. Not that this would be too uncommon in Diagon Alley right before the start of school, but this was different 'cause Paulie was actually in the process of, hopefully, becoming friends with this bloke. "
Oh yeah? And your year, then?" By the sound of it, Adam seemed to have been quite the traveler. With.. schools, that is. Briefly, he wondered why his family moved him around so much, but he decided he could save that question for another time. "
I've never been to the States," he added casually. "
So, why'd you come here?" Maybe this would answer, even partly, the question that had previously crossed his mind, too.
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Lilly-Anne?" He shook his head. A double-name thing like that would have remained in his memory at least until he got to Hogwarts.