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Gryffindoll
Edric eyed the blonde girl as she went on about being there first and the ducks being hers. Oh, Merlin. It was times like these that made him miss being part of an all-boys school. Girls were absolutely ridiculous. This one, especially, seemed a royal pain in the neck. And, as she enchanted the bread to become as large as her oversized, air-filled head, Edric realized with horror that her uniform matched his an awful lot - she was a Gryffindor too.
Oh, great.
Edric rolled his eyes as the unfriendly girl stole all the ducks and shooed him off. Honestly, did she really think she had a say on what other people could or could not do? 'Causeā¦. she didn't. And Edric was staying. ESPECIALLY now that he'd discovered this awful, unpleasant creature. If having him around was unhappiness for her, then this duck pond was about to become his second home.
"I wouldn't be so sure about that," muttered the Gryffindor boy as a lonely duck lingered by his side of the pond. It was a smart duck - when he realized that all the other ones had gone away to fight over the same bits of bread, he stayed behind and took all of Edric's offerings to himself. He was taking alone the meal of at least a dozen ducks. Edric smiled with amusement at the realization.
Who knew ducks could be so clever?
As a few of the other ducks began to notice what Mr. Brain was up to, they came over to Edric's side, taking greedy bites of the bread they didn't have to compete so fiercely for.
"You may have more ducks, but my ducks are certainly happier," pointed out Edric proudly. He was a good, kind ruler. That annoying girl was just a manipulating dictator. Psh.
This boy was mean. He could have all the ducks in the Pond, excluding Bubba. And he kept dragging Bubba back over to his mean-boy bread.
Hmph. Alice thought of throwing more bread at him, but that didn't seem fair to the ducks. And she had to think about her ducks. She was going to be a majestic queen for the rest of her life, and would be ruling things much more important than ducks, and she couldn't let anything slide out of her grip. Not at the hands of an old bloke with grey in his hair and air in his head, she wouldn't.
The lioness pulled on her shoes and picked up her loaf of bead. After climbing off of the rock ledge, she skipped over to the side of the pond where the boy was standing. Getting a closer look at his robes, she noticed the crest on his robes.
"You're a Gryffindor?" Oh, the horror. But. If this was a boy in her House, he'd have more than plenty of time to bother her, so she might as well end her suffering now. Without waiting for a reply, she pushed him in the pond, robes, bread, and all.
The next thing she knew, she was dripping wet.
The boy had made such a splash that Alice had gotten drenched, too. Her bread had somehow also ended up in the water, and the ducks were all happily gobbling up
both their soggy loaves. BUT. She still won.
"I win!"
Then she poked the boy.
"Do you want any help getting out of there?" He wasn't annoying when he couldn't talk, so she might as well be nice for those few moments.