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An eye roll, eh? That's all Ella got from her ogre? She thought the heart comment had been pure gold...but she was kinda biased. At least he was smiling, though. That was a good sign. "I know."She said in response to his 'good one', a small smile on her face. She was seriously becoming a mini Edric. How frightening.
Frown. Frown. Frown. A terrible change? It wasn't THAT terrible, was it? Her green eyes went a bit wider as he continued on, commenting on her lack of cheeks. Absently her hands went up to her face, pulling at her own skin to test his theory. MERLIN'S BEARD! He was right! But wait, wasn't the fact that he couldn't pull her cheeks a GOOD thing? She had kinda hated that. But the hair ruffling...surprisingly she didn't want that to stop. "But...you could still ruffle my hair if you wanted...sometimes." Not that she was going to ADMIT that she enjoyed it. Nope. Her lips were sealed. "It doesn't change anything really, my getting bigger. ...Does it?" She asked, clearly worried. He was still her evil fairy godfather and she was still his fairy godchild, yeah?
Anyway..."So um...how was your summer? Did you..." He probably wasn't going to like this but she was too curious NOT to ask. "Did you see Evelyn at all?" Eyebrowsssss.
Edric seemed taken aback as Ella merely gave him a smug 'I know'. Since when was the little one so over-confident?! Merlin. This really was another person. Another person too similar to him, actually.
As Ella, her confidence now a little weakened, assured the ogre boy that he could continue to ruffle her hair, Edric shrugged. Of course, he was going to continue doing it. But, seeing as Ella actually kind of enjoyed it, he would be evil and leave her in doubt. "We'll see." As the girl then went on to ask if her getting bigger changed anything, Edric looked off into space absentmindedly. "Well. Yes, it obviously does. You're not a child anymore," he explained, then returning his gaze to the girl. "But, change doesn't always have to be bad. I can finally teach you how to do that ice cream trick from last term," he said with a half-smile, referring to the time he'd transfigured a bowl into ice cream just to cheer up Ella one day they were at the Great Hall. He'd told her she'd have to wait until her fifth year, but seeing as he was graduating this term, he'd have to give away his tricks now.
And then the summer questions.
Edric knew this would be coming. For reasons unknown to him, humanity made a habit of wanting to know everyone else's summer, like this was some special time where people took trips to the moon and took rides on the Loch Ness monster.
Ella was specific, though. She wanted to know about Evelyn. Edric narrowed his brown eyes at her. At least one thing hadn't changed: Ella was still as curious now as she had been at twelve. "See her? No. She's in Scottland now so I think the chances of seeing her again are slim," he replied simply, crushing any hope Ella could have ever had for Edrilyn. What he didn't mention though, was the letters he'd written the girl and the 'swimming lessons' they'd shared on Evs's last day at Hogwarts. It would make Ella too giddy and curious, so he'd keep all the juicy information to himself. Evil ogre.
But by mentioning summer and Evelyn and reminding Edric of the last few weeks of the term before, Ella had sort of dug her own grave, as Edric now asked, "What about you? Did you see that boy you were snogging last term?" Yeah, Edric was good at bringing up topics delicately.