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Originally Posted by SilverTiger Adrienne grinned. "You don't want to know how weird my experience getting them was," she said as William agreed that the pygmy puffs were cute. She still was quite entertained by the memory of that shopkeeper and his feigned interest in her shoes. Which was really one reason she wished she'd been able to really talk to Chloe, so she could tell her the story. But then, as she came back from her tiny mental tangent to hear his question, she blinked. "You're familiar with Dolce and Gabbana?," she asked, the faintest hint of incredulosity in her voice. "I mean, yes. It is. Actually, I gave her the name because I own a purple pair of Dolce and Gabbana heels," she explained, still a little bit shocked that the third year boy knew designers. Or, at least those two. But as he spoke about his own pygmy puff, she let her surprise fade a little as he withdrew another purple pygmy puff from his pocket. "Well, he needs a name," she said, feeling sympathy for the poor little nameless ball of fluff. "What comes to mind when you think about him?" Maybe she could help.
She smiled again as his owl actually seemed to react to her greeting in his own way, reaching into her purse for an owl treat to appease Rochester as she felt him shift on the back of her seat. "That's true," she said as William replied to her apology for her owl's mood. "I felt like I needed to say something anyway." Then he had lapsed into silence, and she started petting Dolce idly as she wondered if she had said something weird or something. She didn't think she had, but it wasn't like she was really well-versed in how to talk to younger boys. But at least her comment about his tarantula seemed to bring him back. "Sure," she said as he asked if she wanted to see the tarantula. Just because she hadn't ever seen one before, and she had the faint idea that most people would expect her to completely spaz out if confronted by a big furry spider, didn't mean she wasn't going to gain the experience. Besides, then she could taunt Riley since she was fairly certain her brother wasn't one to have seen too many tarantulas either. Ha.
As William's owl chose to go to sleep, and the tone of the conversation changed radically when Diagon Alley was brought up, Adrienne bit her lip before picking Dolce up again. "Someone died? That way?" Someone had used an Unforgiveable in the Leaky, and nobody had stopped all the students from running around? She was almost glad she hadn't known about that, since that would have made the last few days that much scarier if she had. Even though she knew she was nowhere near incapable when it came to magic, nobody could fight against that curse. And now she also had the curiosity about who had actually been hit. As William looked away uncomfortably, she felt her owl hop from the back of her set to her shoulder and took a hand away from the pygmy puff in her lap to stroke his feathers for a second. They needed to get onto a different topic, before the mood in the compartment got too depressed to stand.
Thinking fast, she spoke again. "So, what do you think is going to happen this term? Are you looking forward to anything?" Okay, and that was probably the lamest thing she could come up with, but at least she'd tried. No one else had shown up to help, so it was up to her.
William grinned back, "I'll take your word for it." he replied, wondering what that had t do with anything. you go in, ask the shopkeeper, they hand one to yo the end. Easy peasy as he liked to think. Looking at Adrienne though he cold tell it was an interesting story though. At her incredulous statement he nodded, "Yes, my mm is a huge D&G shopaholic. I don't really care where my shoes or clothes come from, usually they all end p the same, dirty and ruined." he replied, listening to her next words. "My mum has a blue pair of heels, her most prized possession." he joked, a slight grin forming on his face as he gently petted his pygmy puff. Looking for at the adorable purple ball of fur he couldn't fathom a name that would fit him. He had his own personality, "I don't know." he muttered softly, now gazing at the interesting creature. "I feel... excited, and a bit giddy." he replied finally, his light blue eyes darkening slightly. Thinking was frustrating. "I was thinking either Zazu or Zorba." he finally stated frowning.
His sense of unease was slowly coming back to him; something he thought he had gotten rid of during his second year. There had been no times for being shy, what with all the action. It was still unbelievable that he had gotten though that unscathed, except for the oddly reoccurring dream he kept having. He didn't want to think about that, so instead he glanced up at Adrienne and studied her. Now that he was actually seeing her, he was now sure that he knew her from somewhere, but the thought wouldn't finish itself, instead running through his mind over and over like a nick in a record. He became s lost in thought that for a moment he had forgotten he had asked if she had wanted t see his tarantula and blinked, straightening up. "Ok." he replied, putting his hand in his pocket for the clear case he kept Goldie in. Slowly he lifted it into his hand, keeping the lid on just in case Goldie decided to jump out and roam. Zima tilted her head, watching rather sleepily as William held up the clear cage, allowing Arienna to see the medium sized light brown with black spotted tarantula sitting on a log. "Looks like she's just sitting there, it's not hibernation time yet." he stated glancing into the cage curiously.
Goldie remained on the small branch, until William accidentally jiggled the cage. It was than she decided to move, stepping once off the branch with her long leg. It seemed like she was looking everywhere; even though it was clear she was focused on her new surroundings. Smirking at her, he unhooked the lid of the cage a bit t give her a bit f air before looking back up at Adrienne before he nodded, his face paler than normal; though not from fright but from the thought of someone actually doing that in the bright day light for all to see. It was inconceivable! He didn't want to go int any details, or assumptions since he didn't really know much anyway - not that he wasn't curious or anything. The rumors he had heard were enough to chill him to his core, but he knew better than t listen to rumors.
Thankfully though, she decided to change the topic, allowing the atmosphere to unwind and calm down a bit. It wasn't fun to have their first day at school morbid and depressing. What did he think would happen, well knowing Hogwarts; anything. "Well, I hope nothing bad, for once I'd like to really enjoy my time at school instead of worrying that merpeople or ghosts are going to flood the school and destroy everything." He replied finally, his eyes never leaving the far wall. Unbeknowest to them both, Goldie had managed to climb up onto the top of her cage, poking her long legs through the cage and poking her head out. With a small push she poked her body out and crawled onto William's leg.
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