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CassiopeiaAKTF 
"It would?" Daichi asked. "It would right! He NEEDS to know about this and bring the ducks back!" Even at this age, Daichi believed everything that was being said to him even when the other spoke in a sarcastic manner. It was a bad habit of him and his father had warned him occasionally about it. His trait to believe people instantly had gotten him in to trouble before in Knockturn Alley.
"Yes, i will tell the man this!" ...soon...someday...when he wasn't so nervous as to actually knocking on his door. If only Murdoch was still here, then Daichi did not have any problem knocking on the door and asking about the duck pond.
Seeing a ball roll away over a lane, Daichi looked at it curiously before turning his head to the other guy as he spoke again. "Mini golf?" he asked, obviously not getting it. He was a halfblood and knew about some muggle games but not all. "What's the point of this game when there was an awesome duckpond before?!" But even Daichi whom had looked in disinterest at first was now looking curiously.
"So..uhm..how do you play this? ... OH! i forgot to tell my name!" he gasped before he bowed. "I'm Daichi~"
Edric tried his best not to face!palm as Daichi took his sarcasm totally seriously. Honestly, if this weird guy went and got his butt kicked by the new groundskeeper, Edric didn't want to have anything to do with it. He had enough guilty incidents crowding up his conscience.
"Right. Well, you should probably leave that for later," said Edric. "Some twenty years later, maybe." Y'know, when he was far from the school and this kid and couldn't witness anything unpleasant.
Luckily, though, the distracted child-like boy forgot the groundskeeper once more as his attention returned to the mini golf course.
"Well… it can be a little more entertaining than ducks," Edric responded to the boy's question. "You can't hit ducks with putters and stuff them in holes on the ground." Which was precisely what you did in the game and, simple as it sounded, it was a fun way to pass time.
But then Edric realized that what he'd just said sounded horrendously gruesome. Duck Boy would probably start crying again. "I mean-- y'know. Not that anyone would want to do that to a duck. That's why we… use golf balls instead…" he tried to explain in a hopeless effort to make himself sound a little less sadistic. Well done, Barlow.
"Forget it."
Let's just forget the ducks and move on to a new topic, shall we?
Luckily the blonde boy played along and proceeded to introduce himself as Daichi. Edric merely nodded. "I'm Edric Barlow." He looked the boy up and down. "Slytherin?"