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Topic Started: Jun 7 2018, 02:36 PM (114 Views)
Fleur van Houten
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Fleur was bored. Sure, she had homework she technically could be doing, but she didn't feel like it. Right now, all she wanted was to move. She had the urge to run, jump, maybe even fly. But as she looked out of her dormitory window after waking up, she had been dismayed to see rain spattering the glass. Even though spring was definitely starting to warm things up, it still wasn't always the best weather. The girl had contemplated going outside anyway, even thinking she could use the shelter of the trees as an excuse to peek into the forest, but had decided against it. The idea of wet clothes wasn't very appealing, and she didn't enjoy the feeling of running around in the rain.

So instead, she had decided to train inside. The energy coursing through her still needed an outlet, after all. Putting on track pants and a simple shirt, Fleur had taken off from the Gryffindor Common room at a fast pace. It was still early in the morning, so not many students wandering in the corridors. Fleur decided the stairs of the North Tower would give her a good work out, and before long she was running up the steps with her red hair bouncing in a ponytail behind her. Once at the top, she had to take a moment to catch her breath before turning around and running back down. It wasn't as good as running outside, but at least it got her blood pumping.
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Stella Wright
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Stella smiled and hummed softly to herself as she started on the steps up to the North Tower. She was on her way to the owlery, to post the letters home she'd written last night. It didn't seem entirely fair to the owls to send one out in the rain, but she had woken up this morning with the insatiable urge to do something, some physical activity that belied the rain coming down outside. Of course, there were plenty of things Stella could think of to do inside, but she didn't want to delay sending these letters. Really she needed another science project to do, but she hadn't thought of one she'd be allowed to do yet this year.

Lost in her own thoughts, Stella didn't notice the girl pelting down the staircase until she was almost on top of her. "Woah!" They almost collided, and Stella flattened herself against the wall to allow the other girl some space. "Sorry about that! I really wasn't paying enough attention." Now she thought about it, Stella really should have registered the pounding of footsteps, or the flash of the girl's bright hair. A scientist should pride themselves on their observational skills, and it seemed that today hers really weren't up to scratch.
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It was as if running cleared Fleur's mind, making her feel better almost immediately. She was so glad to be moving, even though she wished she was outside. She could almost picture herself flying instead, maybe on the bac of a dragon. But she was snapped out of that fantasy when she nearly collided with a brunette girl she recognized from class. Fleur came to a stop, nearly stumbling down with the remaining momentum. She ended up one step lower than the Ravenclaw, bracing herself against the wall. Looking up, she gave the girl a sheepish grin. "Oops. I should probably say sorry instead, I kind of lost track of where I was." She said, though she wasn't sure how much sense that made. "I wanted to go running but it's raining too hard outside. But when the urge strikes, you gotta do it you know? Like how some sharks have to keep moving to stay alive." She had read a bit about that during the holidays, and was always eager to share tidbits of interesting animal facts. Whether they were regular animals or magical creatures hardly mattered. "Are you okay?" She asked, a little belatedly.
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Stella Wright
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Stella chuckled at the other girl's reaction. "Hey, don't worry about it. I know the feeling." How many times had Stella been so lost in thought, so fascinated by something she'd been reading or something that had happened in class, that she'd forgotten to pay any attention to what she was doing? Now she came to think of it, she'd met Phoebe that way as well. Maybe she would make another new friend today. "Yeah, absolutely." Stella had never gone running in her life, but she could relate to the importance of doing something while you were in the mood for it. "I felt a bit the same myself this morning, actually. Just had to get up and do something." She gestured with the letters in her hand "I chose sending these, though." Stella was curious about the shark quip, but didn't know how to respond to it, so she settled for saying, I'm fine, don't worry about it.
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Fleur smiled at Stella, glad to hear the girl understood what she had been doing. She had half-expected to be scolded, but at least that didn't appear to be the case. "I feel like I should know your name, you've been in classes with me for three years." She said candidly. "Sorry, but I don't." She added with a small shrug. She wasn't too embarrassed about this fact, as she was pretty sure she had never talked to the girl before. Fleur hardly paid attention in class, so missing a few names wasn't too strange. The Gryffindor couldn't help being a bit disappointed at the girl's lack of response to the shark tidbit. She thought maybe a Ravenclaw would appreciate some sort of fact. She looked over at the letters. "Who are you writing?" She asked curiously, not really thinking about if it was rude to ask that of a near stranger. "I'm Fleur, by the way. Glad you're okay."
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Stella nodded thoughtfully. ”Actually, yeah, I don’t know yours either,” she admitted. ”Guess neither of us are very good at names.” Stella was usually too busy paying attention to her classes to take much notice of her classmates, with the exception of occasional chats with those she was already friends with. "I'm Stella," she added, smiling. Stella had never felt she was very good at small talk, but maybe they could move beyond that and she could make a new friend. Either way, it was nice to have a conversation with someone new. "My family back home," Stella replied, not at all taken aback by the question. "One for my parents, one for my little sister - she's coming to Hogwarts next year."
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Fleur wasn't surprised the other girl didn't know her name either. Sure, they shared classes, but besides that they didn't have anything in common. Fleur was glad to be talking to her, as she felt like she should get to know others in her year. She grinned when the girl introduced herself as Stella. "Flower and star, huh?" She said, cracking a joke about their names. "That's kind of funny." Fleur didn't put a lot of thought into names and meanings, but the meaning of their names wasn't very difficult to know. She wasn't surprised to learn the girl was writing family, but perked up at the mention of a sister coming to Hogwarts next year. "No way! So is my little brother!" Fleur said with a grin. "They'll be in the same year like us. Maybe it won't take them three years to meet." She paused, frowning a bit. "Though, knowing Lars it'll take him three years to meet anyone. He's the shyest person I know. What's your sister like?" An idea was brewing in her head, but she had to get a bit more information from Stella first.
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Stella chuckled. "Yeah, I guess it is." Stella didn't often think about the root of her name; it was her name, and she was too accustomed to it to give it much thought. When she did, though, it always amused her. "Well, I'm really into stars. Are you interested in flowers?" She asked half as a joke, and half out of genuine curiosity about what this girl was interested in. Even if her interests didn't include flowers, the question was likely to spark some discussion of what they were. Stella grinned back, enjoying Fleur's enthusiasm. She was always keen to meet someone who could get excited about things the way she did, even if they were different things. "Oh, cool!" She laughed, then nodded slowly. "I don't think she's that bad, but Nell is pretty shy too. She's really sweet, and, um, she's a big bookworm."
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Fleur was glad her silly comment about their names had made the girl laugh, though she was surprised to hear Stella actually really liked stars. Maybe she was one of those people that liked Astronomy? Fleur wasn't really, but there was no reason to get into that. "Man, your parents must be seers or something." She joked, grinning. "Or did you start getting interested in stars once you knew what your name meant?" Either outcome of that question was kind of funny to the girl. "I'm not really into flowers, though. Well, maybe snapdragons." She joked, then realized Stella would have no context for that joke. "I'm really into dragons." She clarified with a small shrug. The news about their younger siblings being in the same year starting next year made Fleur smile, especially when Stella revealed her are was also shy. "I never said he was bad, just that I didn't know any people that were more shy than him." Fleur said with a small shrug. "Maybe I mostly know outgoing kids." She didn't need Stella to think Lars was a total weird kid, especially if her idea was going to work. "What if we set them up as friends? That way they each have someone they know at the start of the next year. I think Lars could really use something like that." She said, smiling hopefully at the brunette.
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Stella stared off into the distance for a moment, distracted by the question. She had never given any thought to whether her name had sparked her interest, or how it had come about. She'd been fascinated by space for as long as she could remember; where it had started was lost in the mists of time. Maybe her parents would know. Maybe she should ask them. "I don't know," she said slowly. "They definitely aren't seers, but it does seem like a strange coincidence. My mum's a scientist, that might have something to do with it - both the name and the interest, I mean." She glanced back to Fleur when the Gryffindor said she was into dragons, smiling, though not so much at the rather feeble joke. "Oh, cool. Dragons are cool." Anything you could do science about was potentially interesting in Stella's opinion, and dragons were certainly fascinating creatures. "Hey, do you know how dragon flame works?" It was something Stella had wondered about before, since she couldn't think of a way in which it would be physically possible for a creature to breath fire out of its mouth and not be hurt by it. "Oh, I didn't mean bad in that way, just that I don't think Nell's as shy as that," Stella added, hasty not to cause offence. Although she had heard that Gryffindors had a reputation for being outgoing, so maybe her brother wasn't all that shy after all. "Ooh, I like that idea." Stella had been meaning to introduce Nell to her friends, and show her around the castle, but it would be even better for her to know someone her own age. "I think Nell could do with that too. What's Lars interested in?" Stella liked the idea, but it would only work if their respective siblings had something in common.
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