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AmbiguouslyMe 
Tibi looked over at Jake, who seemed to be dozing off; that wasn't such a bad idea. Tibi yawned and stretched, but then noticed that Ella was talking to him.
Turning toward her, he was grateful she'd changed the subject. "Diagon Alley? Oh, it was fine, I suppose. A third year knocked me over in the street on accident; got a pretty nasty bump." Tibi subconsciously rubbed the back of his head where it had hit the street that day. "But he was really nice about and we talked a lot... I wonder where he's sitting..." Tibi's voice trailed off as he considered looking for William and telling him about the Willie, er, problem. Thinking better of roaming the corridor with that crazy Hufflepuff on the loose, Tibi continued, ruffling his already quite messy hair.
"And then the day after, I read the Daily Prophet and found out about the werewolves..." Tibi lowered his voice. "I, uh.." oh, well this bit was embarrassing... "kinda freaked out a little bit and started crying and saying how I didn't want to come to school in the middle of Florean's...and another firstie came over to try to get me to be quiet." Should Tibi explain why he was scared? Yeah... probably... "I was just surprised to find out werewolves existed was all... I mean.. they're pretty nasty in horror movies and the paper made it seem like they were roaming the grounds and... well..." Tibi was rambling and decided that it was probably better to change the subject. He was certainly making himself look like a real baby.
"Anyway," his voice strengthening again, "Mum was worried about them too, and changed her mind about me getting an owl, so I could write to her. She surprised me with it." Tibi smiled now, thinking about his tiny owl in the other part of the train. "Nothing else really exciting... just, you know, shopping for supplies." Tibi was grateful for having a chance to talk about something other than Willie Crocker. He shuddered, thinking about what the boy might do the next time he saw Tibi...
"Anyway.. how was the rest of your shopping? Hunter do any more mischief?" Tibi hoped not, but figured that once he and his mum had left that their prank war had resumed in full force.
Ella sat and listened; both seemed relieved with a topic change. Quietly, she imagined him doing every adventure he was talking about.
"I got an owl too... we could write to each other during the summer," she pointed out. " And werewolves? Oh yeah. Hunter used to scare me with those." She raised an eyebrow. She was so glad to be away from him once again.
"Nah," she said in reply to the prank war question, "He said it wouldn't be such a good idea then, you know, with all the stuff going on. Plus, he said I was scaring you. Er, sorry." she said, keeping a straight face. Hunter was such a ninny.
"So, do you want to go explore? I thought I saw that wacko Hufflepuff guy head to another side of the train." She hoped he'd agree; she thought that they were running out of topics fast.