Pet Pearlescent

Felix had considered Valentin to be one of his closest friends since they fought on the same team during the Hexwizard competition. The older boy was kind and cared deeply about his friends, but he had a habit of... meddling... Inserting himself to into his friend's personal lives. He usually meant well, of course.

Like the time Valentin had decided to spice up Greta’s love life by orchestrating an entire competition—yes, a competition—complete with food and trinkets to draw people into the elaborate tent he had prepared. Once he had drawn enough of a spectacle he had announced the competition and the prizes. It wasn't difficult to get a few boys to fight for a chance to go on a date with Greta, considering how sweet and beautiful she was. The prizes were just a cherry on-top of the odd event. Felix had tried to step in intervene—to shut it down before it got out of hand—but Val had lured him in to playing by using Felix's weakness against him as one of the prizes.

Crups. So small. So adorable. How could he resist? He had came out victorious and had claimed his prize, a tiny half-crup that he had named Pearl, after Greta.

Unfortunately his mother hadn't allowed him to take the tiny pup to Durmstrang with him. As a crup breeder herself she argued that Pearl was simply too young to take to handle the cold Durmstrang castle, besides, she wasn't even sure if crups were allowed at Durmstrang. Felix argued it was just because his mother wanted to keep Pearl all to herself. Typical of her, really. She already had two crups, Sapphire and Emerald, who she used as a breeding pair. Why the hell did she had to take Pearl too?!

After returning home from Durmstrang he had all but demanded his mother return his dog to him... By simply taking Pearl back and ignoring his mother's half-hearted protests. She didn't fight too badly, but he figured it was either because she was heavily pregnant and too exhausted to really fight or that she had finally accepted the small pup's place was at Felix's side.

In reality, as he discovered a few days later, it was because his mother found out Pearl wasn't a pureblooded Crup; it turns out she was actually a half-crup. Good. He had been practically begging the women for a crup of his own since he had learned to talk, he would happily settle for one that was a half-muggle dog. Dogs were adorable regardless, and he could take this one around muggleborns without fearing she'd become aggressive.

Hidden away from the world in his bedroom, Felix allowed himself to drop the hardass persona he usually clung to. A small smile on his face, he cooed as he scratched the small Jack Russell Terror-looking pup under her chin. Her split tail wagged eagerly.

"Don't worry," He whispered, leaning down to kiss the dog's head, "I won't leave you alone again. You're coming with me everywhere from now on."

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