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He raised his brows, watching her curiously. It was always the Gryffindors that struck him the most interesting. He had been one himself back in the day, but still... Never ceased to amaze him. The variations were endless, but the similarities... There were more of those.
"I stay away from sugar," he shook his head. "It's poison for your teeth." A simple 'no' probably would've sufficed, but eh. This way she wouldn't try to bribe him with candy later on either. You never know with these students. Some try to go to extraordinary lengths, none of which worked on him by the way. And she ought to know now, before she ate too much. "Not the roses then?" He wondered out loud. Of course 'stopping to smell the roses' had only been an expression, but now he was curious. First years always took things so literally. "So what exactly is it that you're doing here?" Surely she couldn't just be out to enjoy the day.
Oh and one more important detail here, "Professor Draper," he corrected FIRMLY after a few seconds. Whoever started this awful nickname had to put an end to it. Because it was infuriating. And if it was meant to get on his nerves, it was working. And it was easy to tell he was bothered. So she better remember it. "Remind me of your name?" That was the PROPER thing to do when one couldn't remember someone's name, by the way.
Blah blah sugar bad. Blah blah poison for teeth. She heard that story before but that didn’t stop her from eating them. Besides, her mother could fix her teeth in a zap if needed. Literally. So Bec put another gummy worm in her mouth and chewed on it.
“You can stop by and say ‘I told you so’ if my teeth get bad” she said. But for now she was going to eat sugary stuff.
Swinging her legs again , the Gryffindor looked around. What WAS she doing here?
“That’s a good question actually” she said without looking at him.
“I wanted to explore the grounds. I’ve only passed this place when I went to classes but I haven’t had the time to really look around” her eyes went back to him and she realized she was in the middle of the bench. She shifted to the right so that he could sit as well if he wanted to and ate another gummy worm.
……….Draper. His name was Draper, not Drapes. Bec laughed awkwardly, especially since she could see he hadn’t found her mistake funny.
“I’m sorry Sir. I honestly thought that…that was your last name” which was the truth.
“Meadows, Professor Draper” she answered.
“Rebecca Meadows. But everyone calls me Bec except for my parents who call me “Rebecca-Cynthia-Meadows-clean-up-your-room-right-now” –mellow-
“How long have you been teaching here?” she asked suddenly.
“What’s the funniest thing that ever happened in your class? What’s your favourite creature?! And you can’t pick all!” important questions, all of them.