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Now Richard had started to wonder if the girl was feeling uneasy because of these creatures. He eyed the fire crabs especially the one who seemed to be staring at him ooor was it just him? Richard threw it a look of belittlement. Stupid creature. It just would not dare shooting or pooing fire on him, would it? If it tried that the Slytherin boy just could kick its stuping fire shooting butt a mile away.
Anyway, back to the girl, the creature would not dare that. ''It only has to try it.'' he said with a grin. That could be a good show, right? The crab would try to attack him and Rich could make it fly faaar away with a kick. But he doubted the professor would appreciate that. Too bad. It could be some good way to cheer the girl up as well. Looking up a bit, he was imagining how far the fire crab would fly if he kicked it when the girl spoke again taking all his attention back on her.
His expression becoming a serious one now, he eyed the girl from head to toes again when she offered him his hand. Harlow. So that was her name. She was not a bad piece at all. She only needed to warm up a bit more and that was not impossible. ''Richard.'' he said taking her hand and shaking it a bit. Obviously, she was a Slytherin too. ''I never saw you in the common room.'' Or any chocolate frogs...that is.
Harlow looked at Richard as he challenged the fire crab.
"Do you usual have this much bravado?" she asked him. Not that fire crabs were seriously dangerous or anything, but it was good to know if she was standing next to a boy that would challenge a hippogriff or something. She was small enough to be considered bird food after all.
"It makes your eyes go all sparkly." she added before she could stop herself. Ugh how was is possible she could be this lame with boys? Her cousins were masters of the opposite sex. They could have a man praying for them to walk all over them in their Louboutins, and she was telling a boy his eyes were sparkly when he puffed his chest out to pick a fight with a fire crab.
There had to be a manuel for the socially inept right?
Her attention was pulled back to Richard as she wanted for him to shake her hand. Harlow stood steady as the boy eyed her up and down again. This would have been a perfect time for biology to have shown up and filled out the rest of her frame, but no such luck. She gave Richard the firmest handshake she could with her little hand. Though his hand felt like a baseball mitt to her.
"Pleased to meet you Richard." she offered. She inched away from the fire crab cage a little. The thing was eyeing her and since it was bigger than her she figured it was better to not know if she was flame resistant just yet. She looked up at Richard,
"Oh um well I don't spend too much time in the common room. The furniture is a little big for us pint sized Riddles." She smiled getting some of the old Riddle back.