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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 8:26 PM, Patrick McCartney <<a href="mailto:hogsmeade@squaredbee.com">hogsmeade@squaredbee.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div class="Wj3C7c">While they were discussing money, there came a loud clattering noise in<br>the corridor outside. The door of their compartment slid open and a<br>plump, kindly-looking witch peeked in.<br><br>"Anything off the trolley, ducks?" she asked the three children.<br>
<br>"uhm... can you give me costs for "Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans",<br>and chocolate frogs?" Kadyn had a fairly large collection of Chocolate<br>frog cards at home, but was still missing quite a few. He turned back<br>
to Amber and Cyrus. "Do either of you need anything?"<br><br>"Yes." said Amber. She got up from her seat and looked at the trolley.<br>Colorful wrappers overloaded the cart. Packages marked 'Cauldron Cakes'<br>
and 'Peppermint Patties', 'Birdie Bots Every Flavoured Beans" and small<br>cases of 'Chocolate Frogs'. Amber ordered all mentioned, getting an<br>extra frog for Kayden, a small payment for the lost tips.<br>
<br>"Anything for you, love?" the witch asked Cyrus.<br><br>"Um, sure," said Cyrus. He purchased several Cauldron Cakes and<br>Chocolate frogs, and put down his book to eat.<br><br>The treats were priced so as not to break the budgets of<br>
schoolchildren, so they didn't deplete the children's spending money<br>too alarmingly. Most of Kadyn's Chocolate Frog cards turned out to be<br>ones he had already, as usual, but there were a couple of new ones.<br>
One of these was a witch with a mane of black hair, wearing a blue<br>velvet gown that matched her eyes.<br><br>"Winifred of West-Mere-Land," the text read, "also called the Witch of<br>the West-Mere-Land, was a well-known healer and Animagus of the 13th<br>
Century. Her animal form was<br>a black mare. The venerable wizarding family of Windermere claims her<br>as an ancestress."<br><br>"Blimey, I've never even heard of her before..." He turned the card<br>
over, seeing that the witch had disapeared. "I'll look her up in a<br>'History of Magic' book, see if it says<br>anything more." He opened a box of "Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans"<br>
and dug in<br>his bags for his "History of Magic" book, and then swallowed what he<br>thought was a cherry bean.<br><br>Amber looked at the card. Nothing. All there was was a dark black<br>background. "So, what's so special about this? It's just...blank."<br>
<br>"Well of course its blank, you can't expect her to wait around all day?<br>she's got places to go, just like any portrait." Kadyn popped another<br>bean in his mouth, then spit it out.<br>"ugh...jalapeno..."<br>
<br>Her eyes widened. She grabbed her suitcase and rummaged through it,<br>scattering clothes and nick-nacks all around the compartment, until she<br>reached a glossy piece of paper. Amber stared at her young face and<br>
the faces of two adults. One had long red<br>hair and green eyes, the other blond hair and glasses. They were still.<br>Amber sighed. She knew in the back of her mind they wouldn't move,<br>they're a muggle picture. She put them back and started to clean up her<br>
stuff.<br><br>Just then the witch on the card popped into view again, as if coming to<br>look out a window. She waved and smiled...but she didn't seem to be<br>looking at Amber or Kadyn. She<br>seemed to be waving in Cyrus' direction.<br>
<br>Cyrus happened to glance up at that moment. His face flushed scarlet<br>when he saw the Chocolate Frog card, and he reached for his book again.<br><br>"Do you know her, Cyrus? She certainly seems to know you..." Kadyn bit<br>
into<br>another Berties Bott's Bean, and gagged.<br><br>"Umm... yeah. She's a distant ancestor of mine." said Cyrus.<br><br>"Ancestor?" Kadyn exclaimed. "Wow, all my family is Muggles." Kadyn<br>
knew that this was only mostly true, but he thought it was close<br>enough.<br><br>"My family is Muggles also. Well, my grandparents are." said Amber.<br><br>"My mum's a muggle," said Cyrus. "All my dad's family are purebloods<br>
though. They were kind of angry with him for marrying a muggle." Kadyn<br>shook his head. "My parents are both wizards. They are just both muggle<br>born wizards."<br><br>"Purebloods are...?" asked Amber.<br>
<br>"They're wizards with no muggle blood," Cyrus replied. "A lot of the<br>older wizarding families pride themselves on being pureblooded."<br><br>Kadyn nodded "Almost all purebloods are related though, due to their<br>
being fewer of them then their were years ago."<br><br><br></div></div>The cabin door suddenly slid open with a slap and was replaced by a 14<br>year old girl. She was wearing her school robes and holding a blue<br>
balloon by a string. The balloon kept floating in and out of the<br>doorway.<br><br>"Oh, excuse me. I am looking for my friend Dagobert, have you seen<br>him?"</blockquote>
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<div>"No, I don't think anyones been in here, besides the trolley lady..." Kadyn shook his head. "Sorry."</div>
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