"Oh I see, but aren't you really good in potions? What's more to study, bro,"Henric teased back as he stroke Gus again. The critter truly reminded him of his pet toad Princess...and it made him sad that she had gone too soon. Urgh...he hated those spiders. He wished them banished far, far away from here but he knew he couldn't do anything about it because the forbidden forest was their home too. Sighing... He looked back up to Adi,"Are you still training Gus to enter him in a toad racing competition, Adi?"he asked,remembering the promises they had but it just not meant to be...

"Umm...yeah,"Henric muttered a reply. Honestly, he wasn't sure himself if he was ready to hear it. But he had decided, didn't he? Maybe it was time to face the demons of his past again and learn to forgive what shouldn't have been forgiven long ago. He could handle it, right? He wasn't a young disobedient child anymore, he was much older and wiser now. He hadn't thrown a tantrum for years after they took him inside the orphanage.

"I don't know Adi...I stopped hoping when I realised noone was coming back for me,"he told Adi truthfully. "All I remembered was waking up in that dark alleyway with no recollections of who I was and why I was there. I tried to ask for help...I really did...but there were people trying to do more harm than good..." Henric paused, trying to shake the bad memory off his head."Anyway...when the ministry people finally got a hold on me, they couldn't find my birth rights in the registry either...it was as if I was ghost... maybe the one who left me there didn't want me because I w-was different,"he glanced away, remembering the hurtful words uttered by those adults and some kids in his orphanage. Thank merlin... for his adoptive parents who had found him and nurtured him well throughout the rest of his childhood.