Challenge: Fire the Canon's Character of the Week Drabble Competition (week 3) on HPFC; Sunlight Hurts My Eyes' The Fault In Our Stars Competition on HPFC
Characters: Owen Cauldwell, Laura Madley
Prompt: Platonic relationship; Isaac #4: I'm just saying, I'd much rather be deaf than blind.
Word count: 178
A/N: Hello. I'm getting the family out of the way here. Owen's a halfblood, with his dad being a wizard. He is the youngest of four boys. From youngest to oldest (at age as of GoF), Owen is 11, Paul is 13, Jacob is 17 and Neil is 19. Their mothers' name is Janice, their father Miles.
"First years don't get to go to the dance, Owen."
"So?" The Hufflepuff boy didn't look up from the cartoon he was drawing over a piece of parchment. "I promised mum I'd go home over Christmas, anyway."
His companion pouted, slumping onto the bench beside him. "Don't you care?"
"Music's overrated. And besides, I can't dance. That's Paul's thing." This was true. His next oldest brother, a third year Hufflepuff, could definitely dance. That was how he'd convinced Susan Bones to ask him to the Yule Ball as her date.
"So?"
"I'm not about to learn. I'm just saying, I'd much rather be deaf than blind. I like drawing."
"You're weird."
"That's why we're friends, isn't it, Laura?"
She tilted her head, staring at the boy with the too-long hair. "That, and I know you're going to make it up to me."
"What do you want me to draw for you?"
She grinned. "Not that. You just owe me a favour."
"Okay," he said. It wasn't in his nature to see any danger in her words, after all.