Originally Posted by Nearly Headless Nick

It pleased him to know that Gryffindor wasn't as lost a cause as the Baron made them out to be. This one in particular are lovely. Articulate, polite - all those nice things.

"Indeed you may," he replied, bowing slightly and making the gesture of tipping a hat, "My name's Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington," he introduced himself, chest puffed out with pride, though his ego soon deflated with these two yahoo's beside her.



"Nearly Headless Nick, actually," he corrected the rude one, "and your name was?" he asked, keen to remember this one. As for Captain Obvious, Nicholas just nodded, "Indeed I am, but it's a pleasure to meet you Bart," at least the boy hadn't been rude.

As if the rude boy couldn't get ruder. Nicholas pulled a face at the pair of them, in all his years he had come to expect the question, but did he have to ask so brashly?
"A blunt instrument will do that to you," he replied, taking his hair in his fist and pulling his head away, simply for show, before fixing it back in place.