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Anna Banana 
Sophie shut her Runes textbook with a distinct thud. "Yes," she said, matter-of-factly. She wanted to ask how he knew this and what he wanted, but she decided that a poker face was much better in this case. "...and the granddaughter of your former Potions professor." Since he seemed so interested in potions.
"I can do my own homework," she said, before even responding to anything else. She only trusted her own good work at the moment, since Cutty was being so suspicious. "What do you want to talk to my mother about?"
"Are you ill?" she asked, as a side thought.
The grand-daughter of Hecate Lafay. What a small and cozy little community the Wizarding World had. That was one of the things Cutty found he liked about it. It took such minimal effort to get a fire going amongst the populus. Even if Sophie didn't introduce him to her mother, he was probably a few conversations away from an in from someone else. Or better.
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Oh, y'know...potions things. How'd she get started and what she might suggest to budding business-wizards to assure their success. That sort of thing." Then it struck him. Sophie was acting like many before him had had the same idea. How quickly she'd changed her mind when he'd mentioned her mother in relationship to her career. She'd been used. Or was determined not to be. He'd have to work so much harder than this.
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Nar." He said a little too quickly. He did not trust anyone enough to appear sick or weak in any manner in front of them, but especially not Sophie Newell. Nevermind that he'd healed her brother when he'd taken a nasty spill at the Herbology greenhouses last year.