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hermionesclone 
Alec raised his eyebrows. A Hufflepuff? Really? "I'm a Hufflepuff as well!" he said, grinning at her. This was great! Now he had met another Hufflepuff! Maybe he would be able to see her around the common room sometime as well. That would be nice. "So what year are you in?" That was another important introductory question.
Alec waited for Avery to answer. She wasn't pulling a prank on him was she? He was a hopeless twelve year old, there was no way she'd do something like that to him. But before he knew it, Avery had grabbed his hand and was leading him towards the tree! What was she DOING?!
Alec followed her, trying to dodge the many branches that seemed to be flying at them. This tree was dangerous! But before he could say anything to Avery, the girl had managed to touch something that made the tree... freeze? Could it do that?! "How... how..." his voice trailed off as he looked between Avery and the tree and then back again. "Wow Avery! How did you do that?"
"What did you expect...a Slytherin?" She asked, teasing him.
"Cool!" She said as she returned his grin, they could be little Puffs together!
"I'm in First Year, what about you?" Avery said, wondering whether he noticed that she looked to be 13 or 14, instead of 12. Due to her illness, her growth had rapidly increased and she'd done a year and half worth of growing, in just half a year. But now, it had slowed down and was actually halting to let her body caught up properly.
Avery laughed out loud, but not in a mean way at Alec's face. It was one of pure shock and slight terror, but mainly awe.
"Practise. I've done it about 10 times since arriving here and I learnt how when I was spying and saw some fourth years attempt it, but fail. I noticed where they went wrong, and I went right."
She looked over at Alec and smiled. She wondered what he would want to do now that the tree was frozen and unable to harm him.