Distractions
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Jules C. Pollux
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Even though Jules had plenty of cousins who were all in different years at Hogwarts and therefore was already familiar with the shopping of school supplies at Diagon Alley, this year was his and his sister’s turn to visit Flourish and Blotts to buy all the necessary books for the upcoming year, and he was determined to find everything they needed without the help of anyone.
Agnes, the twin he was never too far away from, was already looking around at some other books that piqued her interest, while Jules tried his best to look for those they needed around the shop without getting distracted. He was the responsible one, and since Agnes was already losing the focus he had to stay concentrated and find those first year books.
“I’m sure there’s a first year section, somewhere…” he whispered to himself in French, and turned his head around to search for some clues that might have pointed to the section he was looking for. “Surely they won’t make us look for the whole shop.” he added with a sigh, sending a look to where his sister was and meeting her own gaze back, a small sign of how the two were so close they shared nearly every minute together, looking around to find the other one when they weren’t too close.
He turned around another time, starting to feel a bit overwhelmed by the quantity of books that shop had, but he was still determined to find what he was looking for by himself. But even with the best intentions, he still got intrigued by one book in particular: a rather anonymous poem book, written by some anonymous poet that wasn’t really popular. And yet, his teal gaze landed on the cover of the book, while his fingers traced the border of the book. He knew he had to look for the school books, but that one book caught him so well he wasn’t going to leave it and continue his search without an external help.
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Reducio@Damien Dragonclaw
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Distractions
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Damien was entering Flourish and Blotts as his mother and him were spending a day together in diagon alley and while she decided to go pick up their new sets of Dragonclaw robes from Madam Malkins he decided to go and find him a few new books for his second year of Hogwarts. He has read all the astronomy books he owned and was almost finished with his Greek mythology books so he knew he wanted to bring atleast three new books with him so he’d have something to read on the train ride to Hogwarts and just in general. He started to wonder around looking at the different shelves to see if there was any books that stood out to him at all, as he continued to look he found the first book on his list he could check off which was Greek mythology. He had found a book called The Odyssey, written by a guy named Homer which seemed pretty interesting and pretty long too just the types of books he liked reading. He carried that in his arm as he continued searching for the next book he’d buy. He was lucky that he found a whole section dedicated to Astronomy the only problem was there was so many books to choose from. He finally made up his mind after much debating he decided to get A Travelers Guide To The Stars, by Les Johnson. He decided he probably wasn’t gonna find a third book today and started to walk off to the checkout area before he stopped as he saw a beautiful book on poems which he was never one for but he was always down to try new things. As he approached it his finger tips touched the book before grabbing it but as he grab it he felt a tug on it from the other side of the shelf. As he turned to see what could possibly have tugged on the book he noticed a boy with ginger hair to seem to be atleast a year younger than him trying to take the book. He quickly let go before smiling at the boy softly. “Oh! Sorry I didn’t know someone else was trying to have it so here you can have it!” Damien said smiling as he always would let someone younger than him or older too have the book if they truly wanted it. |
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| IC date: 4th of July | Interactions: @Jules Pollux |
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Distractions
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Jules C. Pollux
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Outfit:
Reducio
WC: 327
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For a moment Jules was so intrigued by that book that forgot about not just the initial search, but the whole store. His family was quite wealthy, so buying stuff for leisure never was a problem for his parents, but for a reason or another it had passed quite some time since the last thing Jules bought for himself.
He thought it could have been a good addition to his books, and he could have also brought it to the ride to Hogwarts, as it was a light reading that could have gone well with the chatting of his sister during the ride. As he begun to pull it out of the shelf to then go look for the other books he needed and buy everything he felt another hand on the other side pulling it out as well.
On the other side there was a boy who looked slightly older than him, with a soft smile on his face. He said Jules could have the book and let it go, but Jules shook his head, a bit embarrassed. “Oh, uhm…” he started replying, a bit red on his cheeks, a good contrast against the pale skin, almost as if he was a doll.
“Don’t worry, I wasn’t even supposed to look at it… I was looking for the school books actually.” He quickly explained with a worried tone, not prepared to have a conversation with someone. He turned to look at his twin, who was still browsing other books on the other side of the shop. He almost envied her, how she was naturally more confident than him and didn’t have any issues chatting with anyone, while he was in difficulty every time a social situation came up.
“Uhm, do you happen to know where they are? The first year books, I mean.” He turned again to the boy, made a small sigh and directly asked him, hoping to get some help while he was there.
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Reducio
Distractions
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Damien looked at the younger boy as he had a red tent that was very noticeable on his pale skin, Damien thought if he for any redder he’d match his hair. He smiled at him softly before holding the poetry book as Damien already had the main two books he needed and he would have felt wrong not giving the kid the book. Be gentle sets the book in the boys hand before looking at him. “I insist you have it! I already got the two books I wanted for myself and besides my family is very wealthy so I could just find it again if I ever wanted it!” He said smiling at the boy before he noticed he was suppose to be looking for first year books and clearly didn’t know where they were. “Oh! Looks like your a new first year at Hogwarts huh ? Well I can help you find the books come on” Damien didn’t know why but he felt like this kid has a bright future ahead of him and figured helping him would be the right thing to do. He took the boy hand and began to lead him to where the first year books were, he figured why not start a conversation while he was there. “Oh! And where are my manners I’m Damien Dragonclaw a second year Ravenclaw and you are ?” He asked as his smile showed off his pretty white smile that almost shined in the sunlight and reflected the sun off of it. |
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| IC date: 4h of July | Interactions: @Jules Pollux |
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Outfit:
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He was still reluctant to take the book he wanted, as he was still a bit red in embarrassment for trying to get the same book as the other boy, but seeing his warm smile and how he was so insistent into giving the book to Jules he eventually closed his fingers around it to take it with him.
“Oh, uhm, well… if you insist…” he mumbled, still a bit red on his cheeks and his teal gaze on the cover of the book instead of the boy that kindly left it for him. “Thank you. I was planning on reading it during the train ride.” he added, trying to sound a bit more confident this time, and bringing his gaze up to meet the eyes of the boy.
The boy – that for sure was older than him – offered to help him find the books he originally needed, and even thought Jules liked finding things by himself and being independent, he realized that he was losing way too much time, so he nodded and taking the book with him he started following him.
He wasn’t really comfortable into being held by the hand, so he respectfully slid away while maintaining himself close to the boy and following him around the store. “Oh, thanks. I’m sure they are around here, but I can’t manage to find them.” he replied looking around, still searching for the books with him, even though he looked expert enough to guide him right where the books were.
“Nice to meet you, Damien. I’m Jules Pollux. And over there is my sister Agnes.” he introduced himself as well, pointing at the other side of the store where his sister was. She was the exact copy of Jules, same facial features, height and body type, but looked way more cheerful and confident than him. “I think I might be a good addition to either Ravenclaw or Hufflepuff. We’ll see in September where the Sorting Hat will place us.” he added, assuming that he and his sister would be sorted in the same house.
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Reducio
Distractions
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Damien nodded his head as he listened to the boy speak of reading the book while he was on the train ride to Hogwarts. Damien understood that a lot as that’s what he did when he was on the train to Hogwarts. He noticed how the boy slipped out his grasp and he didn’t blame him as he himself didn’t know why he had grabbed the boy hand maybe to make sure he didn’t get lost he still didn’t understand fully for himself. He chuckled softly as he heard him mention how he just couldn’t find where they were. Damien saw his younger self in this boy as he was reminded of his first time entering the stories looking for his school books. As he continued to lead the boy to the books he smiled as he finally had gotten a name for the boy and his sister, Jules and Agnes Pollux which was a pretty good name Damien thought as he looked at Jules. “Jules that’s a pretty nice name you have there sounds French ?” Damien asked as he smiled at him before listening to him talk more. He found it sweet how he hoped that him and his sister would be in the same house as that would be adorable to see. “Well then I hope that works out for the both of y’all and I see y’all in Ravenclaw!” He said smiling as he finally made it where the books were. |
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| IC date: 4th of July | Interactions: @Jules Pollux |
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Outfit:
Reducio
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He followed Damien through the shelves of the store, looking around but keeping a good pace to match the one of the other boy, so that they didn’t lose each other. Jules looked at Damien quite few times during the walking, curious to meet someone older than him that wasn’t a relative, and curious about his life at Hogwarts. He mentioned the connection between his name and France, and with a nod Jules confirmed it.
“Ah- yes. I’m from France. We moved a few times before settling in Scotland.” he briefly explained, with his gaze moving from Damien to the floor, still a bit shy from the new interaction. His tone wasn’t rude or avoidant, though: he simply preferred to use his gaze to look at people to study them rather than when talking with them. Many thought that was quite a rude attitude, but he truly preferred to speak without looking at the other, unless he was in a really interesting or passionate conversation, like his hobbies.
“Thanks! I don’t have any preference, I think. As long as me and my sister are in the same house everything will be ok.” he nodded again when Damien mentioned that he would have seen both of them in the same house, maybe. Jules was pretty confident that the Sorting Hat would have put the twins in the same house, but he had to wait until September to be sure of it.
“Are you happy in being a Ravenclaw?” he then asked, quite curious to know more about his school life, as he only had his relative’s stories to imagine Hogwarts.
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Reducio
Distractions
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Damien nodded his head as he listened intensely to Jules talk about how there from France but finally settled down in Scotland which was a pretty interesting experience and probably means he has cool stories to tell one day.“Thats pretty interesting Jules which means you definitely going to have to tell me if you get into Ravenclaw or any other house!” He said smiling at him. He found it kinda nice how Jules didn’t have a preference on what house he was as that means he was free from the expectation of his family judging him and shaming him for not getting into the house that they wanted, Damien was a little envious at that but brushed it off as he looked at the boy. He stopped for a moment as he heard the question Jules asked him, was he happy to be in Ravenclaw. It was a question Damien asked himself a lot was he truly happy to be in Ravenclaw as that means he became an embarrassment to his family especially his father and grandmother or was he just faking happiness to hide his sorrow, Damien himself didn’t know the answer to that but he did think he got sorted into Ravenclaw for a reason so he liked to stick to that logic. He looked at Jules before smiling at him, “Yes! I am truly happy with being in Ravenclaw it’s one of the coolest houses plus it means we get a good view of the constellations!” He said smiling at him. |
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| IC date: 4th of July | Interactions:@Jules Pollux |
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Outfit:
Reducio
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Jules was really happy about how Damien seemed interested in what he was telling him. For him frequent moving across the countries was almost routine, so he didn’t feel like it was that worth mentioning, but the other boy even pushed him to tell him more. “Oh, sure. I guess we’ll see each other around the school, we’ll have occasion to talk more.” he replied with a little smile, genuinely hoping that he and his sister would be sorted in the same house.
“Not the first day, of course. My cousins told me how we ride the boat only for the first year. But we’ll see each other at the sorting ceremony.” he added, recalling all the stories he and his sister heard from all the members of their families through the years. He thought about all the kids that didn’t have magical relatives and had to figure it out all by themselves, and for a brief second, he shook his head: he couldn’t imagine being projected in a completely different world like those kids.
“Oh, really? It’s because of the location of the common room, right?” he then asked, shifting his thoughts into something more cheerful, and seeing how Damien was happy about the hat’s choice he really hoped he had the same luck as the other boy. “But that’s nice to hear. I guess the sorting hat really never misses a hit.” he considered, nodding a few times with his head.
As Damien was older than him, suddenly another question popped into Jules’ mind, and he asked “Oh, what’s the most difficult subject? I bet it’s potions or charms.” while he started taking the first year books from the shelves, now that he had found them.
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Reducio
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Damien nodded as he smiled at the him, he chuckled softly to himself as it seemed like Jules had a understanding of Hogwarts due to his other family members. “Yeah! That sounds great and yeah let’s hope your both representing blue so I can see yall at the table!” He chuckled as he patted him on his head gently. His smile grew brighter as Jules asked more about Ravenclaw. “Yeah! And ooh you’d love the common room it’s really amazing very blue but feels lovely, and yeah the sorting hat is never wrong…we just got to sometimes trust it’s instincts!” Damien said letting out a joyful laugh as he was enjoying talking to Jules very much for he had become quite the interesting person to have a conversation with. Suddenly Damien eyes widen as Jules asked a question he didn’t think about often what class was the hardest. This was a question Damien had to think as any class really could be what some would say is the hardest class it just depends. Damien was pretty good at Astronomy, Charms and history of magic as well as herbolgy and defense against the dark arts so those he thought were pretty easy but the more he thought about it the more he realized he was good at all the other classes too so this would in fact be a tough question to answer. Finally he found the perfect answer and looked at Jules. “Well I’m pretty good at all the subjects but there will be time that it can get hard so I’d say it’s whatever you struggle with the most at that time!” |
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| IC date: 4th of July | Interactions: @Jules Pollux |
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