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Grinning from ear to ear are her improved pronunciation - YOU'RE WELCOME! - the Hufflepuff pinches his own cheeks to loosen them up a little. It was hard you know, speaking a language not your own and sometimes you needed to help your face muscles out a little. He was working on his tongue still for Parsletongue - an activity he often fell back on when he couldn't quite get himself to fall asleep at night. "I know," he nodded. Never thought she couldn't. "But s-s-some people learn ki---kines---" Eeeeer...what was that word? "...learn better if they get s-shown directly. My cheeks-s-s us-s-sued to be S-SO s-s-s-sore after dad's-s tutoring."
Getting comfortable in his chair again, legs crisscross applesauce, Derf nodded his head. "YUP!"
He was a very strange boy, Natalie thought. She didn't know why... But he just wasn't like other boys. Or other girls. He was just a little different in a few ways. She did think it was pretty cool that his dad taught him Mermish though. Her dad just had an American accent, so now she had a weird, Irish, English American mixture that just made her words sound different than anyone else.
"Why do you talk funny?" the young Slytherin asked suddenly, curious about his speaking.... problem? It was strange. He stuttered a lot. There must have been a reason behind it. |