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Oh PERFECT! A fellow explorer. Would be a lot better than his waddling brother, that was for sure.
Grinning, ear to ear, Mihkel leaned in a little bit as if sharing a secret that the rest of the world should know. After all, mysterious black ship. Traps. Disarmed. It was a mystery for investigation and everyone should do their own investigating. Winners came out on top yes? Or something like that.
Yes, apparently he was making a secret, school wide competition. Heh. And the best thing? Only he knew about it. Home base advantage for the win!!
"Have you heard anything more about it? How DOES a ship end up in the lake any ways?" Besides the obvious reasons of course. "And why would someone just LEAVE it there. It's like a muggle forgetting where they parked their car!" The nerve! Well not really, because it just made Hogwarts that much more interesting!
"All I know is what I read in the Prophet," Zack admitted.
He didn't know much about how ships show up in the middle of lakes, but he had a theory.
He always had a theory.
"My best guess is that that the students who had to take they're big ship back to Durmstrang all those years ago- you know when Harry Potter was in the Triwizard tounament?- they messed it up somehow, and that's not REALLY a big black ship at all, but like a ghost of it... or something. A Magical Impression or something that just NOW bubbled up to the surface."
Could be right? Could also be that he'd get O's in Divination this year... Actually no, the ghost ship was a more likely scenario.
As boys are known to do, Zack had forgotten all about his disdain for Gryffindor and that this boy might be a real and proper Gryffindor. "Zack Thorne," he introduced himself, pushing his open hand toward this other boy for a shake.