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[COLOR="Navy"]He smiled at Ellie's assurance about muggleborns. "Oh, I didn't mean anything bad by it. It's just that I have two sisters that are witches, and so everybody expected me to be perfectly fine with magic and stuff like that." He shrugged. Magic surely didn't come easily to him. Add that to the fact that he didn't like school, and you didn't exactly get the best student wizard.
"Yeah?" He chuckled lightly. Maybe it hadn't been as cheesy as he thought. Or maybe it was, and girl's didn't mind cheesy. Hmm. "I'll admit that it's a bit nerve-wracking, being in another country where you really don't know anyone. But every seems to talk about Hogwarts like it's this great and wonderful thing... I dunno. Maybe I'll feel at home here, and it won't be so..." He wasn't going to say scary... "Weird, after a while."
After a pause, he shook his head to clear his thoughts. "Anyway, how about you? What's your story?" He hoped this wasn't too forward... but he felt funny talking about himself like that, and not asking about the other person.
Ellie blinked.
"Oh I know what you meant, I wasn't try to nag on you or anything." She smiled at him.
Sure, make the new kid feel like a loser. "Two sisters? I bet that's fun." She very briefly wondered if they were older and made him play dress up and have fancy tea parties with them. She laughed to herself and decided not to ask him.
She nodded. She could imagine it being scary being in a whole new country.
"Well, I'm sure you'll fit in just fine. Everyone at Hogwarts is extremely nice and friendly. Except the Slytherins." She dramatically glared at the Slytherin table. Oh, here she was messing with him again. Oh stop.
"Anyways, it looks like you've already made your first friend." She said taking a small bow and smiling.
She looked up.
"My story? Well... I grew up in Ireland my whole life. My mum is a muggle. My dad was a wizard. Ever since..." she paused.
"Ever since a few years ago, I've been staying at the Leaky Cauldron in Diagon Alley during most of the summer. My mum and I don't really see eye to eye." She shrugged.
"I have an older brother who works in Scotland. We'll just say he's the preffered child." She said a little too bitterly. Woah, back off Ellie. Don't want to scare the guy away. Though her brother was a little suck up... She shook her head and put a smile back on.
"Not much to it, I guess." She said lightly.