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sorry for leaving you hanging for so long!In his endless prep for Quidditch, and whatever other summer-winter sports this school would throw at him, Quentin had worked up a sweat. Following his new camp workout routine, ran over to the more snowy side of the arena and plunged headfirst into an embankment.
When he found his way back out, now fully cooled and covered in magical snow, he spotted a girl near him. Hogwarts. Younger than him. Reading a book. The normal fare. But the book was in French. He could just make out the words on the cover through his snow-covered eyelashes. Inventing. A British girl reading about French inventions in the language. Neat. It was as good of time as any to make a friend.
"Hey! Do you speak French?" He did his best to bolster the Parisian part of his accent—the Cajun part was rarer and not always understood by even other native French speakers.
After the words left his lips, he fully took in the girl's face. She looked familiar. Heartbreakingly familiar. Like his mother. If he hadn't buried most of his body beneath the freezing snow and his face had been a little warm, his eyes might have even teared up.
This time, his usual confidence was absent from his voice: "Um, do I know you?"
sta 16 - eva 8 - str 17 - wis 6 - arc 6 - acc 16 |||| Calming Presence - Muggle Condition - Fearless - Lovely Creature
also Della Barfield | Ruckus Weems
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The girl did speak French! Huzzah! But there was still something familiar about her. It was like the answer was on the tip of his tongue, but he couldn't remember it. And it felt like it had something to do with his mother. It wasn't the girl's accent, that was for sure.
His mother was as Parisian as they come. His father did say she used to make fun of his Cajun accent in a sweet way, though. Not that he ever got to witness this; his mother died the day he was born. That fact was a little storm cloud sitting over his happy family—no one blamed him, but it was present nonetheless. He often wondered which was harder, his father losing his love or his grandparents losing their only child.
Yet this peculiar feeling caused Quentin to want to know more about the girl. "Is that an American accent I hear? How'd you get to Hogwarts? Why not Ilvermorny?" He started to let the Cajun part of his accent slip back in. He wondered if she would catch it. Not that all Americans were familiar with the small group of French speakers in Louisiana.
"I'm Quentin, by the way. What's the book about?" He wasn't much of a reader, but if he could get her talking maybe he could figure out the connection he felt.
sta 16 - eva 8 - str 17 - wis 6 - arc 6 - acc 16 |||| Calming Presence - Muggle Condition - Fearless - Lovely Creature
also Della Barfield | Ruckus Weems
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