p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;"Pultra spent five weeks in a place called The Leaky Cauldron. She had learnt many new things over those peculiar five weeks. Such as she can't use magic outside of school, using a killing curse was apparently against wizarding law, and that making friends was extremely easy, as long as you don't threaten to make a jewellery out of their body parts./p
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p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;"However, Pultra did want friends. As her parents has less things to teach her as the years went by, she had more free time. Eventually reading spell, potion, charms etc books became boring, so her house elf, Gillius, (who particularly hated Kenneth and Cynthia and loved Pultra) got her muggle books. Pultra did find herself quite enjoying them, enough to ask for more. And in those books she read about friendship and relationships, two things she had never experienced but desperately longed for./p
p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;"The first time she was approached by a stranger, it was a rather short boy with dreadlocks at the Leaky Cauldron. He had asked for her name, and she had kindly said 'I suggest you stop talking to me before I make a necklace out of your teeth'. After that incident, Pultra had thought a lot, and she decided she would actually make an attempt at having friends, but using her Veela powers obviously to make it all easier for herself. She used the three steps of charming (as her mother liked to call it) on any random person in preparation of her first day of school. And it worked particularly better than Pultra expected./p
p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;"Pultra was a beautiful girl, and she knew it. She had long, dark brown that fell past her shoulders in silky waves. Her brown eyes were big and doe-like, and when the edges of her delicate lips tilted into a smile, dimples crease her cheeks, making her appear innocent, although she was the exact opposite. Her stunning looks often helped Pultra when charming someone./p
p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;"On the 28th of August Pultra decided to go to a place called Diagon Alley, where she could buy all of her books and everything necessary for school. Pultra didn't particularly want to go to Dumbledore's school, not that she had a choice, but how else was she supposed to make friends. And besides, Pultra finally got to wander freely without her parents breathing down her neck./p
p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;"Pultra had to ask around a lot to find Diagon Alley, but eventually she found herself wandering amongst other witches and wizards with all kinds of shops either side of her. Reading off of the letter Dumbledore had sent her, she bought everything she needed with her parents money, successfully avoiding starting a conversation with any shop owners or customers./p
p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;"Once she got everything on her list stuffed into a large bag that was weighing down her shoulder quite considerably, she decided to go to a wand shop called Ollivanders. Pultra did own a wand, but it belonged to her dead grandfather. She had read that it was the wand who picked the wizard/witch, so she wanted to get one that had picked her. /p
p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;"As she entered the shop, she awed at the rows and rows of wand boxes filling most of the space. There was a friendly looking old man standing on a ladder, but otherwise she was completely alone./p
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p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;"The man's head snapped towards her at an impressive speed for an old man, and his face broke out into a large smile,"Oh, Pultra Abduco. I was wondering if I was ever going to meet you,"/p
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p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;" "Alder Wood, unicorn hair core, 9 and three quarter inches and unyielding flexibility," He said, handing the wand to Pultra, "Perfect,"/p
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p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;" "I'm very glad you came here, Miss Abduco," he said,"That wand is the only wand in this shop that I didn't make. It belonged to my father, you see, then Albus Dumbledore, and now you,"/p
p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;" "But Dumbledore is still alive," Pultra said, stating the obvious quite densely. /p
p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;" "Indeed he is. But the time came where another wand chose Albus, and this wand was given back to me,"/p
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p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;" "Under very rare circumstances, maybe,"/p
p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;"Pultra decided to not ask any more questions. She paid for the wand and left the shop. She knew exactly where she wanted to go next. The pet shop. She'd always wanted a pet, but the closest she ever got to one was the house elf./p
p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;"She entered the shop excitedly. She looked at all the owls, and toads, and cats eagerly and eventually her eyes landed on a large, fury spider. She bent down to get a closer look, and all eight of it's eyes watched her curiously. It was quite cute, in Pultra's opinion. It scuttled up the wall of its box and on the roof, making Pultra giggle slightly. Pultra didn't find many things amusing, so it was a rare sound even to her ears./p
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p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;"He grinned, "So do I. I had a pet tarantula from second year to fourth year. But I ended up stepping on her,"/p
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p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;"Lee then left and Pultra continued to stare at the spider until she decided to buy it. All the way back to the leaky cauldron she was thinking of a name for her furry little friend. It was female, which meant one day she could consume a male and produce dozens of babies. Pultra had no idea how she could handle that many spiders, but she wasn't worried about that at that moment./p
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p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;"This was her chance to make friends. Her parents would like her to become friends with all the other death eaters' kids. Such as the Malfoys' boy, that she had heard her parents talk about a fair amount. But Pultra wasn't sure if she wanted to become a Death Eater. Obviously she wanted to impress and obey her parents' wishes, but now they were in Azkaban, did their opinion really matter? And besides, Pultra didn't really want to worship someone who was defeated by a mere baby./p
p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;"Just as that thought crossed her mind, a boy with jet black hair, green eyes round glasses caught her eye in a compartment. She had seen that face many times in newspaper, and sometimes her parents even stuck a picture of his face on a dummy to practice dark spells on. After about ten seconds of staring, Pultra realised that the other two people in the compartment were looking at Pultra quite strangely./p
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p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;"He nodded,"I'm Pultra Abduco. It's truly a pleasure to meet you,"/p
p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;"Harry had already fallen for her charm, and it was obvious,"It's a pleasure to meet em style="max-width: 100%; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; color: inherit !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important;"you, /emPultra," he said/p
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p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;""May I have the honour of knowing your names?" Pultra asked politely/p
p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;""Ron Weasley," The boy said, as if he were in a daze./p
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p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;"Pultra could tell she wasn't really sorry, she could hear it in Hermione's voice. Her smile faltered slightly,"Well, that's all in the past now,"/p
p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;"Harry and Ron look at each other in confusion, clearly having no idea what they were talking about./p
p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;""I actually don't have any friends. Could I sit here with you guys?" Pultra asked innocently./p
p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;"Her mother had once told her that one of the best things about having Veela powers was being able to get away with guilt tripping. Guilt tripping was exactly what Pultra was doing./p
p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;""Yes," Harry and Ron said at the exact same time as Hermione said,"No,"/p
p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;"Pultra was quite taken aback,"Oh,"/p
p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;"Hermione quickly explained herself,"Sorry, we're just having a private discussion,"/p
p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;""That's completely fine," Pultra gave one more dazzling smile and left the compartment before either Harry or Ron could protest./p
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p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;""Veela? Like the girls from the Quidditch World Cup?" Harry asked/p
p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;"Hermione nodded,"You two have to promise me you will avoid her at all costs,"/p
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p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;""Do you two never read The Daily Prophet?" The two boys shook their heads,"Her parents were Death Eaters! They recently got sent to Azkaban for keeping her inside the house all her life and teaching her dark magic,"/p
p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;"Harry and Ron both looked quite shocked,"And I suspect she has similar beliefs to them," Hermione continued,"Harry, do not trust her. She's most likely out to get you,"/p
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p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;"Pultra decided to look for Lee, since he seemed friendly enough. She was worried that other people would have read The Daily Prophet, and known about her. Pultra assumed Lee was the type of person who would rather stick needles in his eyes than read The Daily Prophet, but that wasn't necessarily a bad thing./p
p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;"Pultra was almost at the end of the narrow corridor when she found Lee. He was sitting in a compartment with two, identical red-headed boys. They appeared to be jinxing each other, since on of the boys was hopping around with both legs seemingly stuck together, while the other two were laughing style="max-width: 100%; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; color: inherit !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important;" /br style="max-width: 100%; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; color: inherit !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important;" /Pultra slide open the door and aimed her wand at the boy's legs,"Dissero," and the boys legs parted so quickly he almost fell into the splits./p
p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;"Upon seeing who had just entered the compartment, Lee beamed happily,"Pultra!"/p
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p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;""It's a pleasure to meet you, m'lady," The twin that had the jinx said flirtatiously, shooting a wink at Pultra,"I'm George Weasley, and this is my brother, Fred," /p
p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;""It's nice to meet you," She said sweetly, recalling that Ron was also a Weasley,"Do you mind if I sit here, I don't know anyone here,"/p
p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;""Of course," Lee said enthusiastically, clearly affected by Pultra's powers./p
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p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;""Why are you only joining this year?" George asked./p
p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;""It's a long story," Pultra said as innocently as she could, she wanted as little people as possible to know about her parents,"Technically, I was home schooled before,"/p
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p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;"The four of them chatted for a while. Pultra found out that all three of them were in sixth year, meaning they had no classes together, which was disappointing because Pultra had to go through the effort of making more friends. She was kind of hoping she could squeeze into a friendship group and then not have to worry about anyone else in the school./p
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p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;""Yes, I've met Ron,"/p
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p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;""Poor Ron," One of the twins said. That's when Pultra realised her mistake. She had worded it so it seemed like she didn't care about Ron, and only his famous best friend./p
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p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;"And then the boys burst into another chaotic fit of laughter, and Pultra decided that there was no use in explaining herself./p
p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;"The topic of the conversation soon drifted to something called The Quidditch World Cup, which Pultra had never heard of. Apparently there was a Death Eater attack, which didn't surprise Pultra in the slightest. Her parents had been planning an attack for ages, so she was already vaguely aware of it./p
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p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;" "I'm afraid not,"/p
p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;"They then took it upon themselves to explain every little detail about the somewhat brutal game that was played on broomsticks./p
p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;" "We play it in Hogwarts. Fred and I are beaters for the Gryffindore team, we get to hit bludgers at people,"/p
p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;""Hold on, I'm still stuck on the fact that one of the balls is worth 150 points," Pultra interrupted, without realising that that was the first time she had had the nerve to interrupt anyone. She was warming up to them already without even noticing./p
p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;" "It's not just any ball. It's the golden snitch," Fred (Pultra had figured out who was who by then) said/p
p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;" "So you can be winning the game by far, but then the other team catches that golden ball and they win? That's a bit stupid, don't you think,"/p
p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;" "Do not question the art of Quidditch," Lee said very seriously./p
p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;"Looking out the window, George said, "I can see Hogwarts, we're almost there,"/p
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p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;" Dumbledore's word of advice when he last saw Pultra was 'the universe holds some wonderful people. Please take advantage of that'. Pultra assumed he was telling her to make friends. As tragically lonely as Pultra was, she didn't really want some wrinkly old man reminding her about it./p
p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;"However, Pultra did want friends. As her parents has less things to teach her as the years went by, she had more free time. Eventually reading spell, potion, charms etc books became boring, so her house elf, Gillius, (who particularly hated Kenneth and Cynthia and loved Pultra) got her muggle books. Pultra did find herself quite enjoying them, enough to ask for more. And in those books she read about friendship and relationships, two things she had never experienced but desperately longed for./p
p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;"The first time she was approached by a stranger, it was a rather short boy with dreadlocks at the Leaky Cauldron. He had asked for her name, and she had kindly said 'I suggest you stop talking to me before I make a necklace out of your teeth'. After that incident, Pultra had thought a lot, and she decided she would actually make an attempt at having friends, but using her Veela powers obviously to make it all easier for herself. She used the three steps of charming (as her mother liked to call it) on any random person in preparation of her first day of school. And it worked particularly better than Pultra expected./p
p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;"Pultra was a beautiful girl, and she knew it. She had long, dark brown that fell past her shoulders in silky waves. Her brown eyes were big and doe-like, and when the edges of her delicate lips tilted into a smile, dimples crease her cheeks, making her appear innocent, although she was the exact opposite. Her stunning looks often helped Pultra when charming someone./p
p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;"On the 28th of August Pultra decided to go to a place called Diagon Alley, where she could buy all of her books and everything necessary for school. Pultra didn't particularly want to go to Dumbledore's school, not that she had a choice, but how else was she supposed to make friends. And besides, Pultra finally got to wander freely without her parents breathing down her neck./p
p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;"Pultra had to ask around a lot to find Diagon Alley, but eventually she found herself wandering amongst other witches and wizards with all kinds of shops either side of her. Reading off of the letter Dumbledore had sent her, she bought everything she needed with her parents money, successfully avoiding starting a conversation with any shop owners or customers./p
p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;"Once she got everything on her list stuffed into a large bag that was weighing down her shoulder quite considerably, she decided to go to a wand shop called Ollivanders. Pultra did own a wand, but it belonged to her dead grandfather. She had read that it was the wand who picked the wizard/witch, so she wanted to get one that had picked her. /p
p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;"As she entered the shop, she awed at the rows and rows of wand boxes filling most of the space. There was a friendly looking old man standing on a ladder, but otherwise she was completely alone./p
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p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;"The man's head snapped towards her at an impressive speed for an old man, and his face broke out into a large smile,"Oh, Pultra Abduco. I was wondering if I was ever going to meet you,"/p
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p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;" "Well because you do already have a wand, ยป his eyes flickered towards the 10 inch wand sticking out of her boot, "But of course that isn't the one for you,"/p
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p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;" "Alder Wood, unicorn hair core, 9 and three quarter inches and unyielding flexibility," He said, handing the wand to Pultra, "Perfect,"/p
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p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;" "I'm very glad you came here, Miss Abduco," he said,"That wand is the only wand in this shop that I didn't make. It belonged to my father, you see, then Albus Dumbledore, and now you,"/p
p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;" "But Dumbledore is still alive," Pultra said, stating the obvious quite densely. /p
p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;" "Indeed he is. But the time came where another wand chose Albus, and this wand was given back to me,"/p
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p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;" "Under very rare circumstances, maybe,"/p
p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;"Pultra decided to not ask any more questions. She paid for the wand and left the shop. She knew exactly where she wanted to go next. The pet shop. She'd always wanted a pet, but the closest she ever got to one was the house elf./p
p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;"She entered the shop excitedly. She looked at all the owls, and toads, and cats eagerly and eventually her eyes landed on a large, fury spider. She bent down to get a closer look, and all eight of it's eyes watched her curiously. It was quite cute, in Pultra's opinion. It scuttled up the wall of its box and on the roof, making Pultra giggle slightly. Pultra didn't find many things amusing, so it was a rare sound even to her ears./p
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p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;"He grinned, "So do I. I had a pet tarantula from second year to fourth year. But I ended up stepping on her,"/p
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p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;" "That's good. I'm Lee Jordan,"/p
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p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;"Lee then left and Pultra continued to stare at the spider until she decided to buy it. All the way back to the leaky cauldron she was thinking of a name for her furry little friend. It was female, which meant one day she could consume a male and produce dozens of babies. Pultra had no idea how she could handle that many spiders, but she wasn't worried about that at that moment./p
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p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;"Charlotte scuttled up her arm in response. br style="max-width: 100%; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; color: inherit !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important;" /br style="max-width: 100%; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; color: inherit !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important;" /Four days later Pultra found herself at King's Cross Station, pushing a trolley filled with all her school equipment, plus Charlotte. She had to use a muggle transport called a Taxi to get there, and it was quite a painful experience. The driver seemed to be under the impression that Pultra wanted a conversation. /p
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p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;"This was her chance to make friends. Her parents would like her to become friends with all the other death eaters' kids. Such as the Malfoys' boy, that she had heard her parents talk about a fair amount. But Pultra wasn't sure if she wanted to become a Death Eater. Obviously she wanted to impress and obey her parents' wishes, but now they were in Azkaban, did their opinion really matter? And besides, Pultra didn't really want to worship someone who was defeated by a mere baby./p
p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;"Just as that thought crossed her mind, a boy with jet black hair, green eyes round glasses caught her eye in a compartment. She had seen that face many times in newspaper, and sometimes her parents even stuck a picture of his face on a dummy to practice dark spells on. After about ten seconds of staring, Pultra realised that the other two people in the compartment were looking at Pultra quite strangely./p
p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;"Pultra snapped back into reality and slid the compartment door open, flashing a bright smile and turning on her charm,"Are you Harry Potter?" She asked sweetly./p
p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;"He nodded,"I'm Pultra Abduco. It's truly a pleasure to meet you,"/p
p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;"Harry had already fallen for her charm, and it was obvious,"It's a pleasure to meet em style="max-width: 100%; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; color: inherit !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important;"you, /emPultra," he said/p
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p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;""May I have the honour of knowing your names?" Pultra asked politely/p
p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;""Ron Weasley," The boy said, as if he were in a daze./p
p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;""Hermione Granger," The girl said stiffly,"By the way, Pultra, I read about you in the newspaper. I'm so sorry about what happened to you,"/p
p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;"Pultra could tell she wasn't really sorry, she could hear it in Hermione's voice. Her smile faltered slightly,"Well, that's all in the past now,"/p
p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;"Harry and Ron look at each other in confusion, clearly having no idea what they were talking about./p
p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;""I actually don't have any friends. Could I sit here with you guys?" Pultra asked innocently./p
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p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;""Yes," Harry and Ron said at the exact same time as Hermione said,"No,"/p
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p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;"Hermione quickly explained herself,"Sorry, we're just having a private discussion,"/p
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p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;""Do you two never read The Daily Prophet?" The two boys shook their heads,"Her parents were Death Eaters! They recently got sent to Azkaban for keeping her inside the house all her life and teaching her dark magic,"/p
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p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;"Pultra decided to look for Lee, since he seemed friendly enough. She was worried that other people would have read The Daily Prophet, and known about her. Pultra assumed Lee was the type of person who would rather stick needles in his eyes than read The Daily Prophet, but that wasn't necessarily a bad thing./p
p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;"Pultra was almost at the end of the narrow corridor when she found Lee. He was sitting in a compartment with two, identical red-headed boys. They appeared to be jinxing each other, since on of the boys was hopping around with both legs seemingly stuck together, while the other two were laughing style="max-width: 100%; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; color: inherit !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important;" /br style="max-width: 100%; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; color: inherit !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important;" /Pultra slide open the door and aimed her wand at the boy's legs,"Dissero," and the boys legs parted so quickly he almost fell into the splits./p
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p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;"The four of them chatted for a while. Pultra found out that all three of them were in sixth year, meaning they had no classes together, which was disappointing because Pultra had to go through the effort of making more friends. She was kind of hoping she could squeeze into a friendship group and then not have to worry about anyone else in the school./p
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p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;"And then the boys burst into another chaotic fit of laughter, and Pultra decided that there was no use in explaining herself./p
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p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;" "I'm afraid not,"/p
p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;"They then took it upon themselves to explain every little detail about the somewhat brutal game that was played on broomsticks./p
p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;" "We play it in Hogwarts. Fred and I are beaters for the Gryffindore team, we get to hit bludgers at people,"/p
p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;""Hold on, I'm still stuck on the fact that one of the balls is worth 150 points," Pultra interrupted, without realising that that was the first time she had had the nerve to interrupt anyone. She was warming up to them already without even noticing./p
p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;" "It's not just any ball. It's the golden snitch," Fred (Pultra had figured out who was who by then) said/p
p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;" "So you can be winning the game by far, but then the other team catches that golden ball and they win? That's a bit stupid, don't you think,"/p
p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;" "Do not question the art of Quidditch," Lee said very seriously./p
p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;"Looking out the window, George said, "I can see Hogwarts, we're almost there,"/p
p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;"Pultra sucked in a deep breath, only then realising how nervous she actually was. This was the start of something completely new and different to her. It could go terribly wrong, or whatever possible way it could go right./p
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p style="max-width: 100%; color: #222222; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; caret-color: #222222; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important;"strong style="max-width: 100%; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; color: inherit !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important;"em style="max-width: 100%; text-shadow: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; color: inherit !important; border-color: #dddddd !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important;"A/n: sorry there is no Seamus interactions in this capter, but I promise there will be in the next./em/strong/p