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hermionesclone 
Oh, they were on surname basis? Cool. Good to know. "Mordaunt." He nodded back at the boy. Grayson looked over at the tapestry and snorted. They were scurrying to get back into place. "Yeah, it is." Funny, that is. Especially as a watcher. "Wise words, Cutty," he said, his blue eyes settling on the boy again, "That's probably what makes the minor actions so good. The reaction you get out of it is worth it because it can be so major and dramatic." And, you know, as long as you don't get caught.
SNORT. He was funny, did he know? "I was wandering around. Getting to know the little secrets of the castle." Meaning that if anything happened here, he was innocent. And could possibly help Cutty out of a sticky situation. Possibly. "Have you seen anyone get nicked by the stairs?" If they were using his terms.
Speaking of, how was it that he hadn't seen anyone get their foot stuck on a trick stair? HMMMMM?
Oh. Wait. He was missing out on asking an IMPORTANT question. "What are you doing here?"
Grayson Whitlock couldn't have crafted a better response if he'd had time to go home and write it out in essay form. "
Exactly! It's like getting something for nothing."
And how many things are free these days, I ask yer?
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Yeah." He said sounding a bit surprised, as if hadn't everybody heard of such an instance as the one Grayson had just asked about. "
Plenty of times. It's a fairly common occurrence here, actually. I once had to heal a boy who was jumping from one staircase to another unsupervised. He fell and hurt himself. Good thing I was there."
Cutty's eyes fell on Grayson when he asked his next question. He was actually quite the good-looking boy with his bright and blue eyes and thick, dark hair. "
Me? Believe it or not same as you. This will be my thehd year at Hogwarts, but you'll find that there's still parts of the castle that you won't know about." Like his laboratory. Where had it gone?
And now, for the informational truffle-pigging. "
Was there anything like that are your old school, Whitty?"