SPOILER!!: Hedgehogs? XD
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Gryffindoll 
Edric looked up absentmindedly as his one-man party came to an end when a girl randomly appeared into the scene. He should've known it would have been too good to be true that he'd get to spend a whole thirty seconds straight in the lovely company of his own thoughts that usually just revolved around conspiracy theories and his secret love for hedgehogs.
Lost in his own thoughts once again, Edric returned his gaze to the steamy water, not noticing as yet another character arrived into the scene. This time it was a familiar little blonde, the first person ever to make Edric genuinely laugh or smile. He hadn't seen her coming, though, so as she suddenly spoke up and made her presence known, Edric nearly fell face-first into the water in shock.
Sharply turning his head in the direction of the girl, Edric furrowed his brows disapprovingly. "You're going to miss
me more after I die from this heart attack," he replied to her comment about missing the ducks.
Edric's expression softened and morphed into one of curiosity and surprise as he looked at the girl he hadn't seen all summer, and who he hadn't seen much of during the last few months of school last term.
She looked WAY older. o_o Like… a tiny little woman or something. Wasn't she supposed to be eight or seven or somewhere around there?! Edric narrowed his eyes, as if suspecting that Ella might've taken a potion that would make her grow older faster. "You've changed." He left it at that.
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Oh Merlin's beard. WHY was she always doing that, scaring her ogre half to death? She hadn't meant to. She was actually pretty surprised seeing as she hadn't wiggled her eyebrows at him or anything. Biting her lip in an attempt to stop the smile from forming, the third year shrugged her shoulders.
Ohhh Edric. Such a Drama King.
"I didn't know ogre's had hearts." She said playfully, finally allowing her smile to form fully. She had missed him, the big grump.
And then Edric was studying her as if she'd grown antlers over the summer break or something. She frowned slightly, tucking her hair behind her ears. Was her face doing it again? ...Being a comedian? He wasn't laughing though, so that couldn't be it.
She'd changed? Well...that was normal, yeah? People grow up, get taller, eventually get wrinklier.
"I guess I grew a couple of inches taller..." Shrug. No big deal.
"I'll be fourteen so I guess it's normal...The growing thing. It's not a bad change...yeah?" Cause now homeboy had Ella feeling all kinds of insecure.