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Lottiepot 
Yes. Great.
Kid either looked frightened or concerned and the Ravenclaw breathed out a heavy sigh in response. "Sorry. Shoulda just asked you politely" she stared at the child feeling ever so slightly bad for being such a grump. "I'm in a bit of a bad mood today." She didn't eat children or anything and she wasn't scary. In fact she was stuck with four flippin' nephews who particularly at Christmas time invaded the house with chocolate and noise and she couldn't get a word in edgeways. Hence why she used to go out with her friends a lot, something she really couldn't do here.
The sixteen-year-old whose accent was very much distinguishable from the majority of the Hogwarts population due to her working-class background and childhood growing up in the 'more common' areas of London couldn't help but notice how bloomin' polite he was. All this 'I'm very sorry' nonsense. These 'posh kids' drove her nuts and most of them weren't even that posh anyway! And then he bit his lip and she stared at him even more. "That's just your way of makin' me feel guilty, ain't it?" she attempted a smile, a joke almost. Just Layla wasn't very good at this cheerful rubbish.
She was.. apologizing to him? Thornton wasn't quite sure how to react, and gave a small, forced smile.
"It's ok. I was in your way and wasn't thinking about others needing the bridge." Seeing as she wasn't moving past, though, Thornton eased off the railing. It was.. not terribly sturdy, he thought, and he didn't much like the idea of falling through.
"I'm sorry you're having a bad day," he offered, shrugging, unsure why she was still speaking to him.
Was... was that a smile and a joke? Thornton really couldn't tell and was having difficulty figuring out the proper way to respond. Clearly one of the downsides to his early childhood was the abundant lack of peer interaction not mediated by adults. He never knew what to say.
He laughed uneasily, opting to guess that it was a joke.
"No no. Not at all."