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fish_kid 
Nathaniel looked at her as she talked about classes. "Oh I enjoy a nice challenge. I'm just useless at math. Do you have any idea when Potions is starting?" He enjoyed mixing things together to make new and interesting substances. "Muggle Studies really isn't that hard. You just have to know the culture to a degree, and study on from there. But, I guess it helps to have muggles in your family in the first place."
He thought about how his mother was a muggle, and how he had gained much experience from having the best of both worlds in his blood and life. His sister had also married a muggle, which was what brought her to the States in the first place. "Yes, we visit her often. I usually spend plenty of time there in the summer. Many times, we'll go travel the country, seeing landmarks of the US and such. It really is a beautiful country, despite its politics. But lets not get into that part of the conversation right now." Nathaniel giggled a little under his breath at the last statement. "That's really the furthest I've been away from home, but I really am interested in traveling. Sophia and I have often talked about traveling the world some day, but who knows, we'll do it sooner. Our families have been neighbors for a long time, we grew up together. But all the while, we never knew about each other's wizarding families!! Silly, right?"
Switching up the subject a little, Nathaniel responded with "Oh, yeah,being a beater sounds like a lot of fun. You could hit out your frustration with classes out on the field during practice or games! I can see you as a chaser, though. You seem diligent enough for the part."
Nathaniel said "I don't mind the bluntness. As I mentioned before, Sophia and I really like each other. Nathaniel glanced in the window he was sitting near and did a double-take. He couldn't believe his own eyes, as he looked at his hair, jaw dropping, as it had gone from the small streak of the brilliant, pungent blue, to his entire scalp of hair turning that color. What in the world!? Nathaniel thought to himself, as he brushed his hand through his hair. What will Sophia think?? I'm sure she'll like it, although I'm not sure if I do or not. He wondered if it was a spell or charm one of the older students had looked up in a book and put upon him, he certainly didn't have any enemies to his knowledge. "I'm not the only one seeing this, am I? It is all blue, isn't it?!" Nathaniel nearly yelled at Mariel.
Mariel shook her head.
"No, I haven't seen anything in the common room about Potions or when it starts." She sighed when he mentioned Muggle Studies.
"That's the thing though. I don't know anything about the culture. I stumbled across the professor's office at the beginning of the term and was completely out of my elelment. That's another story though." Not one she was completely sure she was willing to share with someone she barely knew. She came to school to learn about magic, not about Muggles anyway. Mariel eyed Nathaniel curiously.
"But you seem to know a bit about it... You're clearly not Muggleborn, if you're father went to school here. I'm guessing not pureblood... Halfblood, then?" Not that it really mattered to her, she just liked to figure people out.
Mariel nodded thoughtfully, lost in her own imagination as Nathaniel talked about travelling. She was snapped out of her thoughts when he said something she didn't quite understand. Looking at him quizzically, she asked,
"What do you mean you and your girlfriend didn't know each other's families? You didn't know you came from wizarding families? How is that possible?" That didn't make any kind of sense to Mariel. Everyone she knew in her sheltered life knew she was from a wizarding family. Her father made that quite plain.
She took in his unusual appearance once more.
"Yeah, all blue. I told you that you looked good blue," she grinned, trying not to laugh. She tried to look serious as she could tell he was getting awfully distressed.
"You haven't eaten anything strange, have you? Or changed shampoos?" Mariel shrugged, clearly out of suggestions.
"I'm sure the nurse can sort it out, at any rate."