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sweetpinkpixie 
Too late. Mason would now forever be imprinted in the second year's mind as 'that guy that Dora glares at and hugs bookcases'. At least until the older Ravenclaw did something extraordinary to take the Hufflepuff's mind off these thoughts and give him a new label. Nothing was ever truly set in stone with the blonde - save for plants being evil...and that he totally had Scamander blood flowing through his veins and he was going to prove it someday...OH! And that amphibians and reptiles were super neat! OH! And chocolate frogs were delicious! OH -- wait...where was he going with all this?
Coming back to reality, sort of, Derf blinked a few times at Mason and tilted his head slightly. He wasn't sure the Ravenclaw understood the mechanics of a hug then if that was how he thought reaching for books went. That's okay though, Derf could teach him! "I am," he chirped. "But friends-s call me Derf." Pause. "Were you practicing hugging on the bookcas-s-se?" Another pause. "Do you could hug Dora properly and apologize for whatever it is-s-s that has-s-s her SO mad at you?"
Because of all the glaring, you see.
When the hufflepuff had been quiet for some time, the ravenclaw thought he would drop the bookcase hugging subject and he was about to turn around and grab a different book when he spoke again.
He wasn't sure which was worse. Derf having seen him hugging a bookcase or the fact that he knew about Dora and him. How many people had Dora told what had happened. Did everyone in the school knew she punched him a bloody nose? Oh Merlin's Beard.
"Kid, you got it all wrong" he said after a while.
"Yes, Dora and i had a ....disagreement...at first but we made up during the holidays" at the bookshop in diagon alley ironically enough.
"She's a friend of mine now so please don't tell rumors that we dislike each other" and to make it pefectly clear.
"And i'm not hugging her either"