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Felixir · 04-17-2024, 12:50 AM

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Originally Posted by ArianaBlack

DEAR WWW, LAINI SAGE GRACAE-RYANS HAD ARRIVED!

Best prepare yourselves now, as she was here with PURPOSE and GLITTER and a whole list of potential names for her CUTE NEW PYGMY PUFF!!! You see, it was at the TIP, TIP TOP of her list for Diagon Alley.

SEE?

Very important stuff happening today. AND SOOOOOOOO. Laini made a beeline towards the WonderWitch collection as soon as she stepped foot in the store (accidentally knocking shoulders with a few unsuspecting patrons as she made her way through, SORRY).

And there it was. Like everything she had imagined it to be. (aka, she had always made a point to press her face up against the windows outside and longingly look at the Pygmy Puff display so she knew exactly how to imagine it to be). "Eeenie Meannieeeee, Miiinnneyyyyy- THIS ONE!" She picked an especially fluffy pink puff and squished it up against her face.

Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes was just one of those shops where Elio needed absolutely none of the merchandise, wanted less than half of it, and yet was inexplicably drawn to all of it. Half this stuff - if he were allowed to buy that much - would have come home and sat unused and untouched for... well. For probably ever.

Because Elio wasn't really a prankster or even really a jokester. His own brand of trouble seemed to be perfectly organic, that is, he couldn't seem to help it that trouble sprang up around him sometimes. He also couldn't imagine himself - here on the cusp of finally going to magic school - wanting to miss out on any of the lessons.

Yet here he was, arms full of Skiving Snackboxes, Extendable Ears, Instant Darkness Powder, the works. He'd wavered near the counter, eyeing the boxes of fireworks wistfully, because those were something he would like to get his hands on. Elio wasn't sure he'd be allowed to buy them, and even if he was, he only had 10 galleons (weeks and weeks of saved up pocket money) and seven of those were going on these things he'd already picked up, and even if he could afford fireworks and was permitted to buy them from the shop... Papà might be disappointed. Elio didn't know if that would definitely be the case, but his father did get kind of funny about being wasteful with money. Were fireworks wasteful? Hard to say. They were literally burned up, weren't they?

Of course, thinking about all that had made Elio dither over buying even his chosen items, and so he'd wandered around the shop a little longer instead, eventually ending up... here. Where the girl stuff was. Which was also where the pygmy puffs were, for some reason. And as Elio approached, he watched this girl puck up a pygmy puff and nuzzle it into submission. "Are you getting one?"

They were cute, but Elio was only tempted by them in the same way that he was tempted by everything else in here - flashy surroundings and bright colours doing all the heavy lifting. Really, he wasn't planning on getting any kind of pet, because he wouldn't know if Cosmo would like it.

04-17-2024, 12:50 AM	#30 (permalink)
Felixir Banshee Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Posts: 50,307 Hogwarts RPG Name: Abraham Orlando Botros-Giordano Gryffindor Fourth Year Hogwarts RPG Name: Ivor Balfour Spurling Stemp Slytherin First Year Hogwarts RPG Name: Alexei Dragomirov Petrov Slytherin Sixth Year Hogwarts RPG Name: TBC Slytherin Hogwarts RPG Name: August Arthur Orpington Ravenclaw Second Year x12 x12	Lovely™ \| Captain Hurted \| Ariana's Bane \| Resident Antagonist \| Unparalleled Delight Quote: Originally Posted by ArianaBlack DEAR WWW, LAINI SAGE GRACAE-RYANS HAD ARRIVED! Best prepare yourselves now, as she was here with PURPOSE and GLITTER and a whole list of potential names for her CUTE NEW PYGMY PUFF!!! You see, it was at the TIP, TIP TOP of her list for Diagon Alley. SEE? Very important stuff happening today. AND SOOOOOOOO. Laini made a beeline towards the WonderWitch collection as soon as she stepped foot in the store (accidentally knocking shoulders with a few unsuspecting patrons as she made her way through, SORRY). And there it was. Like everything she had imagined it to be. (aka, she had always made a point to press her face up against the windows outside and longingly look at the Pygmy Puff display so she knew exactly how to imagine it to be). "Eeenie Meannieeeee, Miiinnneyyyyy- THIS ONE!" She picked an especially fluffy pink puff and squished it up against her face. Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes was just one of those shops where Elio needed absolutely none of the merchandise, wanted less than half of it, and yet was inexplicably drawn to all of it. Half this stuff - if he were allowed to buy that much - would have come home and sat unused and untouched for... well. For probably ever. Because Elio wasn't really a prankster or even really a jokester. His own brand of trouble seemed to be perfectly organic, that is, he couldn't seem to help it that trouble sprang up around him sometimes. He also couldn't imagine himself - here on the cusp of finally going to magic school - wanting to miss out on any of the lessons. Yet here he was, arms full of Skiving Snackboxes, Extendable Ears, Instant Darkness Powder, the works. He'd wavered near the counter, eyeing the boxes of fireworks wistfully, because those were something he would like to get his hands on. Elio wasn't sure he'd be allowed to buy them, and even if he was, he only had 10 galleons (weeks and weeks of saved up pocket money) and seven of those were going on these things he'd already picked up, and even if he could afford fireworks and was permitted to buy them from the shop... Papà might be disappointed. Elio didn't know if that would definitely be the case, but his father did get kind of funny about being wasteful with money. Were fireworks wasteful? Hard to say. They were literally burned up, weren't they? Of course, thinking about all that had made Elio dither over buying even his chosen items, and so he'd wandered around the shop a little longer instead, eventually ending up... here. Where the girl stuff was. Which was also where the pygmy puffs were, for some reason. And as Elio approached, he watched this girl puck up a pygmy puff and nuzzle it into submission. "Are you getting one?" They were cute, but Elio was only tempted by them in the same way that he was tempted by everything else in here - flashy surroundings and bright colours doing all the heavy lifting. Really, he wasn't planning on getting any kind of pet, because he wouldn't know if Cosmo would like it. __________________