 be curious, not judgmental
She had friends? That was curious. Did the people within these portraits go visit other portrait-dwellers or did they go visit "friends" that were there when the picture was taken? Mia couldn't pretend to actually understand it - she'd never thought to look into this sort of thing when gathering information about Hogwarts - and she ended up just looking at Joel with a blank expression.
"Friends, yeah," she nodded coolly like she totally knew for the sake of this conversation.
When he accused her of trying to break in, though, Mia feigned shock, a hand over her heart, and a smile tried to creep onto her features as she defended, "I don't know what kind of person you think I am, Joel, but I would never break the rules." Amused, she turned back to face the portrait. She stayed standing. "I want to ask her what she remembers about my dad. He was a Gryffindor Head Boy."
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