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grangerfan8 
"Really? I love camping, me and my muggle friends went on a big campout with my brother before I got here.That and many other things."Thinking about her friends she wondered what they were doing now. When she told them that she was going to 'boarding school' they decided to do as much as possible before she left. Other family? Arya had so many questions for Jake, but not wanting to pry into his personal life she just gave him a warm smile. Eyes lighting up like the sun, Arya gently accepted Charlie. She giggled when he first touched her hands, tickling her with his little furry legs." I looooove animals, I live on a ranch and my mom is a muggle vet so it was hard not to. We have so many animals, two are mine a horse and a dog. And I baught a kneazle kitten while in Diagon Alley." Arya giggled again as Charlie crawled from one hand to another.
Bwahaha, Jake only wished he could reveal the disasters they'd had whilst camping, but the boy was sworn to secrecy... he wasn't allowed to reveal how hopeless Lawson really was at camping.
It was bloody funny though.
When the girl described where she lived, Jake sat and listened with wonder, staring wide-eyed at Arya. Heeeee wanted to live in a place like thaaaaaaat.
"I llllive in Luhh-london," he explained, which was a simple enough explanation as to why he didn't have many pets. He was always scared they'd get hurt in like traffic or something.
"I l-lived in London all muhh-my life," Jake added proudly.
"I kn-kknow the place llllike the bbback of my hand."
But the camping with Lawson had definitely NOT been in London... which was disorientating.
And here was the man himse-
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aussiegirl Being as inconspicuous as possible, Marcus left the staff table and headed through the hall and made his way to the Hufflepuff table. He sat down amongst a few of the students.
"Good evening everyone. Glad to be back at school?"
He kinda wished that the holidays had gone on for a little bit longer, the time had gone by so fast and he felt as though he didn't have much of a break. But he did like being back with the kids, probably because most of the time he was a big kid himself.
Glad?
School?
Really?
Looking straight at Lawson, Jake gave him a look that quite clearly said the man needed his head checked.
"No," he said, sounding just a tiiiiiny bit miserable.
"I wwwwant to guh-go hhhome."
It really was just that simple.
Watching Lawson, Jake scooped up Charlie from the table and sat petting him.
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SnitCHchASER Beater-pants sounded awkward. Ema cast a glance at him, shaking her head. She could see a little TINYYYY smile creeping into the corners of his mouth, but he was doing a very fine job concealing it. Seeker-pants seeker-pants SEEKER-PANTS!!!!!
'I don't die'? Ema thought, looking at him as if he were a stranded duck in the desert on top of a giraffe which wasn't supposed to be there, who was just chillin with the cactus. "It's the Whomping Willow, though," she said, thinking she would remind him of this. Jeesh, did this kid have a death wish? Unless he was immortal, though Ema highly doubted it. She opened her mouth to say something more but stopped herself. If he tried to climb that thing he would most likely find out himself. Unless he had some knowledge of a tricky stunning spell, which was wayyyyy too unlikely.
Ema's head jerked back up at the sound of the laugh, but she covered her surprise up with a sip of her goblet. The laugh was too...laid back? No. Guilty? Maybe. Nervous? Possibly. Maybe he was trying to just make her feel better. She shrugged. "Okay." she replied, glancing up at him quickly and meeting his eyes for a second before deciding to pretend to look for the basket of bread. When she didn't see it anywhere she gave up the search and decided to examine the Hogwarts decorations above them.
Looking falsely surprised for a moment or two, Jake gaped at Ema. "It's th-the Wwwwhomping Willow? Ruhh-really?! I hhhad n-no idea!" he exclaimed, being uncharacteristically sarcastic... before he winked at the girl. He kept up his argument in his mind, though... he'd not died yet, so there was no evidence indicating he would.
"Don't wwworry," he added softly, still uncomfortably with the fact that Ema was being quite... un-Ema-ish. When the girl looked at the decorations, Jake glanced up at the ceiling to check the sky. He'd totally missed the opening speech.