fresh air and boredom pv, Charlie Grace, Colin McCoire finshed

Colin squeaked and nearly jumped out of his skin when he heard someone speak! He turned his head only to find the Slytherin girl standing in the grass. The one from the corridor the other day. The one with the wet shoes and the damp robe hem. He blinked in the bright sunlight.

"Um!" There was something in his left hand. He blushed, ducked his head and shoved the something into his pocket as quick as he could. "Sorry about that. Er. Yeah. Yeah! You can sit here!"

"I brought my fiddle out to play a bit, perhaps, but the Sun was so nice and warm and the views of the Highlands around so beautiful that I never even opened the case up!" he said.

He stood up then and brushed his robes off. Somehow, even though he was just sitting in the grass, he'd managed to get bits of twigs and random grass clippings and feathers stuck to him. Colin looked to be a rather scruffy magnet for all sorts of green detritus! "Sorry. I never did introduce myself proper up in the corridor. I'm Colin," he said, bowing to the girl before sitting back down again. "I'm Slytherin, too --- heh! I guess you can see that, right? I don't much like it, though. Headmaster said the Hat is always right, but I don't see how... I don't think I fit in there."

"im so sorry for startling you!" she said "thank you for letting me sit here!" she said as she took a seat in the grass next to him. The sun hitting her face. 'This spot was nice' she thought as the boy next to her said something about a fiddle.

"Oh its fine! For the introduction, Colin, Sorry for being soaking wet! Anyways im Quinn" She introduced herself. "so you don't like being slytherin? why is that if you don't mind me asking" She asked

"personality I don't mind, I don't know why i'm in slytherin... But as you said the hat never lies!" She told Colin.

The girl was sorry for startling him? He hadn't seen many Slytherins he'd think of as 'nice'. A Slytherin who at least came across as nice was a pleasant surprise! He watched her carefully as she sat down, wondering if 'nice' wouldn't sooner or later turn into 'cruel'.

"Oh, um. It's okay, really. I should be more used to it by now. It's just that a lot of people look at me weird. It's like they know something, or can tell there's something wrong. I --- it just scares me sometimes. And yeah, I don't like Slytherin at all. A lot kids look at me like I'm a freak or something. And my brother, Liam --- we were so excited about coming here and being placed in Ravenclaw together! But then that old hat told me to go over to Slytherin and Liam got sorted to Ravenclaw." He sighed deeply and picked absently at a blade of grass. "I'm so proud of him, of course! I just wish I could be with him. At least we share one thing: I don't know why I'm in Slytherin either! I'm happy you don't mind. But ---"

Colin suddenly felt something tickling his ribs. He yelped in surprise! He could feel movement from the pocket of his robes! "Drat!" he said under his breath. He tried to catch it, but something small and quick leapt from the hem of his pocket down in the grass and scurried away. Colin turned quickly hoping that the girl Quinn didn't notice anything too unusual or odd about his behaviour.

He noticed that Quinn was looking at his fiddle case in the grass. "Would you like to hear? I'm not very good or anything!" Colin set the fiddle to his chest and began to play.



The music calmed him. He hoped Quinn wouldn't shut him up or run away screaming!



@Quinn Root

Colin gave her a wired look, like he was surprised. To see her. He told her why he doesn't like to be in slytherin. "People just like to stereotype Slytherins because they only remember the mean and dangerous ones, There can be nice slytherins." She reassured him "And sorry about you and your brother, I don't have any siblings so I don't understand, But I do know what its like being separated form someone you care about, Before hogwarts my best friend was a muggle, So I kinda get it?" She rambled.

Something then ran from colin's pocket, into the grass. It was odd but she didn't say anything, and instead looked at his fiddle case sitting in the grass. He asked if she wanted to hear, But before she could respond he stared to play. She was going to say yes anyways so it did not bother her. His music was beautiful she sat in the grass listening to his music. After a minute she said "that was wonderful! Did you wright it your self?" she asked the colin, Even if he did not wright it would not bother Quinn.

@Colin McCoire

Colin knew that Quinn had to have seen that mouse scurrying away from his pocket! But he smiled, visibly relieved she didn't say anything about it.

He listened intently as Quinn talked about her muggle friend from before Hogwarts. "I've never even met a muggle before, but I think you get it pretty well. She's your friend, and you may never that friend again. That has to hurt. I haven't seen Liam proper since the sorting! We write letters to each other and send them by owl. Huh! I have to write my own brother letters --- At least I can be happy he's where he should be! He's soaring with the eagles!"

Colin sighed. When she asked him about the music, he said: "Oh, no, I didn't write it. I don't know if I can, but of course, I've never tried. It's an old song. Probably about some bloke dying. Or killing some other bloke!" Colin smiled grimly. "Lots of our songs seems to be about that."

Suddenly he straightened up. "But what about you? Tell me about your muggle friend! What's it like living around them? So far, all the muggleborns I've met have only managed to confuse me even more than I already was!"

@Quinn Root

Colin looked relived that Quinn did not comment on the mouse running away.

She was happy that colin was interested in her friend. "Yes it does kinda hurt but not as bad as it did, Wounds heal right? So you have never met a muggle? I mean I guess that's not uncommon to some wizard Its weird you have to wright letters to your brother when you go to the same school" Quinn told Colin "But its good that your not mad at him! If you where mad at him... your friendship would be.... well- shaky" She told him.

He told me how he did not wright what he played for Quinn, "yeah your probably right. It most likely is a bout some guy dying!" She laughed "It's odd on how a lot of songs are a bout death... don't you think?" she asked Colin

He suddenly asked about my muggle friend "You want to know about my friend?" She was surprised no one had asked her about her friend. "Well her name was Raven, She loved to sing, She sung Queen and Taylor Swift ther muggle singers but she was very good at it!. Living around them was hard because I had to hide the wizarding part of my life, But other then that it was not to different then talking to a wizard" She informed him "So how about you? what was it like growing up for Colin?" She asked "How did you learn how to play fiddle?" she added

@Colin McCoire

"Yeah, I guess they heal --- eventually?" Colin wasn't entirely convinced. He didn't feel like this wound would ever heal. And then where was that whole thing with the mice. Quinn was sweet to overlook that; but he knew there would be others who might not be so nice about it! When she mentioned being mad at one's sibling, Colin gave her a kind of shocked look. "Oh, no! I could never be mad at Liam! I --- can't ever remember being mad at him."

He thought for a moment. "Not even when Seanmamó nabbed me for taking her stock of fairy wings, when it twas actually Liam! That was when I first showed my magic! But I wasn't mad at Liam --- just upset at when happened."

Colin listened closely as Quinn talked about Raven. "Wicked. She sounds talented. And she's got a good name. I like ravens. They're smart birds. Who is Taylor Swift? And I didn't even know Her Majesty could sing! That's pretty brilliant your friend can sing like that. I can see why you'd miss her."

Then Quinn asked about his own life before Hogwarts. "It seems like life for wizarding kids who grew up in the muggle world was much more complicated! You'll probably think our life is pretty boring, really." He gave her a little laugh. "Pretty much every day after we got up, we'd have our chores to do --- maybe cleaning up or working in the garden. And anyway, with six of us and my older sister Moira to boss us around, we got all that done pretty quick! Then we'd have lessons. Usually some kids from nearby would come over. We'd have lessons to read and then practice and we'd help each other until everyone got it. We'd also learn how play music --- I learned to play the fiddle by watching Moira and copying what she did. And Da taught me, too. Then we'd take a little rest and eat lunch. And after that, we'd get sent out to play! We don't have any towns or roads or motor cars or parks or any of the stuff muggle kids have. We just have ourselves and the wilds of the Highlands. So we'd go on explorations or pretend we're fighting Troll armies or Goblin wars or we'd act out favourite stories from the books we're reading. And then when it got late, we'd troop home, eat a little bit and get washed up for bed! And that's pretty much it!"

"I never went to a muggle school. I can't ever remember meeting a muggle. But it still seems they can't really be that different from us. Raven doesn't seem like she'd be that different from you. And I think muggles have their own magic anyway."

"Say, Quinn!" Colin suddenly looked all excited. "Speaking of magic, guess what!?" He flashed her a happy smile: "You remember when I tried that levitating spell in the Troll Bathroom? Guess what? I figured it out! I was saying it wrong all along! Do you want to see?"

@Quinn Root

When he gave Quinn the shocked look she said "Oh sorry, as I said i've never had siblings! It's nice how you haven't ever been mad at liam."
"Is Seanmamó one of your siblings?" She asked Colin. "Wow. I know I would have been mad at my sibling if they did that!, You must really care for your brother." She said

When he told quinn that he liked Raven's name it made her happy, And when he said that he did not know that 'Her majesty could sing!' She laughed so hard! "Queen is a boy! It's a weird name I know! He made only the best music!" She informed Colin, Queen is her favorite band. "She was really nice.." she told him

She listened to colin with much interest. "What do you mean 'boring'!" she mocked him "That sounds amazing! Exploring the Highlands, It sounds like so much fun!" She told him "I just sat at home!" "What were the Highlands like? I'd love to explore them!" She told Colin.

"Muggles really aren't that different from us. They just talk less about Quidditch, And more about foot ball!" She said. "They may have there own magic, If they do hey don't show it!" She said.

Colin got all excited suddenly wich shocked Quinn but she quickly got over it. "What?" she asked him as he flashed her a happy smile. "You figured it out?" She said happily. "Yes! show me!" She told colin. She was happy that he got the spell, Quinn knew that Colin would get it.

@Colin McCoire

"Oh! Seanmamó, she's our, um, how do you say it?" he said. He stuck out his right thumb and began tapping each finger in order. "She's our great --- great --- great --- grandmother. I think it's three greats! She was at Hogwarts when old Headmaster Dumbledore was a student. Whew! That must have been hundreds of years ago!" he laughed. "But yeah, I love Liam! We've been together since before we were born, right? And every day since!"

Then Quinn said something weird about the Queen. "Wait. The Queen is a boy?" He gave her a look of utter confusion. That sounded like something confusing the muggleborn kids say. "Muggle things can be so confusing sometimes! I'm beginning to think that muggle magic is some kind of charm designed to confuse me!" he said with a laugh.

Colin was really happy that she wanted to see how he'd progressed with the levitation charm. He got his wand out and began to breathe too fast. He thought he might pass out with the excitement! He cleared his throat and tried the little swish and flick movement, just to make sure. He dug a raven feather he'd found out of his pocket and put on his fiddle case.

"Alright, Quinn! Here it goes! --- Wingardium leviOHsa!" And the little feather began to float up into the air! It twisted and turned a bit, but Colin managed to bring it back down for a soft landing.

"Why don't you give it a go, Quinn? I bet you'll be brilliant!"

@Quinn Root