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This was not the first time Regulus had noticed the street vendors. In all his wanderings through Diagon Alley, when he was just pacing the time away until his father collected him in the past, he'd seen them alright. Heard them. Caught the aromas of the different stalls on the breeze. Other times he'd been here to buy his school things, and had no extra money for anything frivolous. That's why today was, in its way, momentous. He had with him actual spending money, and not only that, but his papā had given it to him. Maybe that was a sign of their changing dynamic. Maybe not.
The issue now, of course, was that Regulus couldn't decide where to splurge this extra money, or if he should at all, but save it instead. Perhaps it was a test. Papā would probably save it, but then Papā was averse to spending any money unless he had no other choice. Was it, perhaps, a test to see how alike they really were?
It wasn't good to keep thinking like that, Regulus knew, but he couldn't always help it. It was that thinking that had driven him out of every shop so far, so that now he had been walking up and down the vendors' stalls for a good twenty minutes, jangling the coins in his hand, which he kept in his pocket. He could not remember ever having such difficulty making a decision, or puzzling through the deeper meaning of the choice he had been given.
Mentally berating himself, Regulus stopped in his tracks, and turned to the nearest stall. Confetti Popcorn. That one.
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