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Oh, see? Now Tobias felt bad. He was about to offer her a helping hand to get back up, but she was already making her own way back to her feet, so Toby quickly diverted his hand so he brushed some his hair away from his eyes.
"I'm really sorry," he said then, uncomfortably aware that that was three times he'd now apologised, his face twisted into a weird expression between awkwardness and guilt. Awkwuiltness. There. He'd just invented a face.
Luckily, the girl didn't seem to be dwelling on it because she soon smiled and mentioned the plimpies instead. Toby liked it when people smiled, so he smiled too before looking over at the plimpies. "I like that they're different colours," he explained somewhat sheepishly. It seemed the girl thought he had been trying to win the game part... which seemed a little bit more acceptable than 'I liked the colours' so Tobias decided to go ahead and not explicitly correct that assumption. "And this is the first time I've ever seen one up close before."
Did you actually get to WIN the walky-fish-things though? Because if so... THAT WAS SO COOL. Maybe he WOULD have a go.
Tobias knew he had some sickles in his pocket, so it wouldn't hurt to give it a try. And it was probably quite fun anyway. "You gonna give it a shot?"
"It's okay," Sophie said.
"Really, it is." This kid had to be a Hufflepuff. Not that she had anything against Hufflepuffs, because she didn't, but she had their personality pretty much down pat.
"Do you go to Hogwarts?" she suddenly and randomly asked. Well, it wasn't random to her. She just really wanted to see if her Hufflepuff suspicions were right.
"I've never seen one up close either," she said.
"I mean, I know what they are, because my whole family is magical, and I've heard about lots of magical things. I've just never really seen one." She perked up then said,
"Once, my grandmother had her class dissect them." Looking at them in the little bowls now, though, they didn't seem right for dissecting. At least not the ones in the little bowls being advertised as pets.
Did she want to give it a shot?
"I don't know. I'd like the challenge, but I don't really want a plimpy. If I win one, though, you can have it if you want," she said.