It was an unusual friendship, to say the least.

Adelaide Longbottom watched her grandson out the kitchen window, keeping an idle, wary eye on her grandson and his peculiar playmate. She well remembered the day that she found the child caught up in the venomous tentacula's limbs, being bounced about like a child's toy -- and loving it, laughing and shrieking with joy.

iMy Neville's going to be a different one,/i she knew: It wouldn't be the last time she found herself quietly wondering exactly how the tentacula managed to rock the good-natured toddler to sleep with all those thorns.

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