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Hannah watched as Ethan struggled with some sort of emotion as he looked over at the puffs. She wondered for a moment what was going on inside that mind of his. "If you need to go over there I don't mind." she said with a raised eyebrow. She didn't like feeling that she was keeping him here when really he preferred to be somewhere else.
So he did transfer this year. She didn't think that she had seen him before. Surely she would have remembered a face like his. "Beauxbatons huh? So how is Hogwarts measuring up? She always thought that Beauxbatons was more sophisticated. He certainly had manners maybe that was from there or perhaps his parents. "Only child? You have to tell me what that is like" Hannah was far from being an only child and she could just imagine what having no one to compete with would be like. She felt like she had to prove that she was just as good as Marcos which was difficult to do since he was so perfect...according to her parents anyways.
Of course he would want to know something about her in return. What should she tell him? She never did really open up to people that quickly. She shot him a smile. "There's a lot more to me besides my awesome taste in friends and my oh so lovely dreams you know." Where to start? "Well I come from a long line of noble purebloods." Oh yeah...and she was proud of that. She was brought up to be proud of her heritage. "My parents are very strict." That was understatement. "Everybody has been in Slytherin." She eyed him to see how he was taking what she was saying. A lot of people automatically assumed that she was bad news...which she could be if somebody went there with her. "I'm far from an only child. I have an older brother, younger brother and a younger sister." She had a love/hate relationship with all of them, but who didn't right? "Oh and my favorite color is green." Go figure right?
She leaned in closer and rested her head on her arms which were propped up on her legs. "Anything else you would like to know?"
Oh how rude of him..
"No, I'm fine.. Just distracted for a moment. The girl looked like she might have gotten burned." But now she looked to be alright with Belle assisting her anyway.
"Please.. forgive my rudeness," Ethan added with a friendly smile. He prided himself on being well-mannered.. and he certainly wasn't if his company was made to feel as if he wished to be elsewhere.
Beauxbatons.. Ethan leaned back in his seat and smiled wistfully, thinking about his former school.
"I think I like Hogwarts.." he began, mulling that thought over.
"Yeah, I do," he confirmed with a nod,
"Maybe not as much as my old school, though." But to be fair, he had spent four years there and only three months here.. he was still getting used to the fact he had to go to a new school.
"We certainly don't have as many classroom disruptions," he said with a chuckle, thinking of how nearly every class had a ghostly or elven appearance.
"Is that a regular thing?" The boy gave Hannah a quizzical look. He certainly hoped not.. that would take plenty of getting used to. Not to mention the cold winters.. sure the snow is great for snowballs and skiing, but the boy didn't really care for it on a daily basis.
"If you ever get the chance, you really should visit the South of France.. it's really beautiful. There's a private beach we used to visit on the weekend.." Sort of like their Hogsmeade weekend, he guessed. Eh.. now he was feeling all nostalgic and homesick.
Ethan then turned to face Hannah fully as it was her turn to offer something about herself. He nodded at a few points, then chuckled as she said her parents were strict.
"Yeah.. I know what that's like," he said with a smirk, then listened as she continued.
"Oh, all of them?" he asked lightly as Hannah mentioned her Slytherin family. He thought a lot of families ended up in the same houses, but not always.
"I think I told you my mum was in Slytherin," he offered.
"A lot of her side of the family was.. There were some Ravenclaws in there too though. My father went to Beauxbatons.." He thought for a moment then added,
"His side were all Beauxbatons or Durmstrang.. I don't think any of my ancestors on his side went to Hogwarts." And now he was rambling. The boy quickly shut his mouth and smiled at Hannah to encourage her to continue.
And she had a fairly large family..
"Yeah.. I guess a bit removed from being an only," he said with a grin.
"Do any of them go to school here?" He thought for a moment about her question. He never quite knew how to answer it as he didn't know any different than being an only child.
"Well... I guess I get a lot of attention," he said with a chuckle. And that was a good thing and bad thing, he guessed. Bad because his parents were super-strict and he couldn't get away with much of anything.. good because he probably was a bit spoiled, if he would admit it.
"I do have a few cousins my age," he felt the need to add. A lot of people assumed he had a lonely childhood without siblings.
Anything else? Oh yeah, he'd like to know plenty.. He felt like he had just gotten to the tip of the iceberg. Ethan slung his arm around the back of his chair and leaned into it.
"So.. tell me what you like to do for fun.. What's there to do at Hogwarts?" Because so far he hadn't found all that much excitement here.. other than a few games that he didn't really play.