033 - Harry Potter and the Standard to Which He Holds Birthdays [Accidental Voice/Action]

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[Over by House 26, a lake has manifested in the back yard, and the forest nearby has warped itself to resemble the Forbidden Forest back at Hogwarts. Sadly, his favorite castle isn't on the other side of the trees, nor is anything about Hogwarts he actually enjoyed. Dementors are hovering about, but they're keeping their distance from the

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[Action] Looking at my journal friends list thing for the first time/got pinged by HP |D;

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[Nagisa just so happened to be walking by when she noticed something shiny. And by shiny I mean that really bright Patronus that was conjured up. Really, that thing is really bright. But in any case, she hears Harry's words and walks on over. She normally wouldn't do such a thing, especially with those creepy looking dementors floating around. Somehow she feels safe anyway though. She'd also just cheerfully shout but he seemed a bit... tense? frustrated? And she has never met Harry, anyway. So instead she just calmly--and shyly--speaks.]

Is today your birthday?

[Action] That's excellent! :D

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[It could be brighter, but Harry's having a tough enough time trying to maintain it. Harry turns to look at her, making sure that: A) She isn't something trying to attack him and B) there's nothing waiting nearby ready to attack her. After that, he nods.]

It is.

[Action] <3!

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[She smiles.] In that case, happy birthday. It's too bad that something like this is happening on your birthday, though.

[Suddenly idea! She digs through a small bag that she's holding and pulls out a shish kabob-looking snack, then holding it out to him. It had three small, round, colored dumplings on a stick.]

I'm not sure if you had these in your world, but these are dangos. They're really tasty, and cute too! I love them very much. Maybe you might as well.

[Action] <3!

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[He smiles a little.] Thanks. It's just another birthday, though. Nothing special.

[He looks at it curiously and takes it.]

Er, thank you. [He holds it closer to get a better look at it.] What's it made of?

[Action] Also your entry titles are clever. xD They amuse me.

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Well, I think they're special. You're welcome though!

They're made from rice flour. These kinds of dangos are colored though. The pink one is colored by red beans, this light one by eggs, and this green one by green tea. [Her parents owning a bakery actually came in handy! As she explains (somewhat excitedly--she really loves these things, you see), she points to each one.]

[Then, thinking he may possibly know of the country, she adds in,] Also, they're Japanese.

[Action] Thank you so much! They're so much fun to come up with! XD

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They can be. [Just... not in most of his experience with them.]

Are some of them not colored? [He watches her point and explain things. Her enthusiasm is a pleasant surprise in all this frustration. He decides to take a bite out of the green one, since good things usually come from tea.

He swallows the first bite and blinks at her.] You're from Earth?

[Action] No problem~ I can imagine. xDD

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[[I'm so immature. I'm sitting here in this IM conversation all, "HARRY POTTER IS EATING MY DANGOS. Happiness." |D;]]

Mhm! There are lots of different kinds of dangos. Like hanami dangos, chadangos, denpun dangos... The ones I gave you are bocchan dangos, though.

[She then nods.] Yep! I'm from Japan, to be exact.

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[gfhjfdgsdf But that's great! /blush forever]

The bocchan dangos taste really good. [As he goes in to try one of the other balls.]

It's nice to see someone else from there around here. I've not heard much about Japan, though. Do you like it there?

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[xDDD! <3]

Yay! I'm glad you like them! [Happiness! She smiles.]

Yes, I love it very, very much! Especially the town I live--er, lived in. [Her voice lowered somewhat at the last bit of that.] It's really nice there. Where are you from?

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Thank you for these! [Just gonna nom while he's not talking, don't mind him.]

Lived in? Did you move? [He doesn't think that's going to be the answer, but he's hoping his gut feeling is wrong.] I'm from England. Surrey, actually.

[Action] Lol, derping on my part and making it sound bad. :'|

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You're welcome!

U-um, well, no. I just mean before coming here to Luceti. Sorry if I made it sound different from just that. [She's a noob here so her voice lowering was simply due to homesickness.] Ooh! I've heard of England! I don't think I know of anyone from there though. [Except for Harry now, of course.] What's it like there?

[Action] ... I took the subject line the totally wrong way at first XD /gutter mind.

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Oh! No, it's no trouble at all! It's great, actually. [Good job, Harry. Always assuming the worst.] It's... well I suppose it's nice. A lot of it seems pretty normal. [The Muggle side, anyway.]

[Action] LOL what. How so? xDDD

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[Silly Harry.]

Ohh, I see... [She then glances at the Patronus.] Umm.. I've been wondering this for some time, but, u-um, what is that?

[Action] My brain went, "He has balls in his mouth!" /TERRIBLE FOREVER

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Don't worry about it. [He offers a little smile. Prongs looks over at the two of them.] Oh, him? That's my Patronus. He keeps Dementors away.

[Action] LOL LAUGHING FOREVER. I thought of that before too, so you're not terrible alone.

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Patronus? What's that? Er... And what are Dementors? I haven't heard of either of those before. [She looks back at Harry.]

[Action] Bwahahaha we are both gutterminds. XD

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[Harry points in the distance, where black cloaked figures are hovering away from Prongs' light.] Those things in the cloaks are Dementors. They drain all the happiness out of you. A Patronus is sort of like a shield against them, though they can do other things as well.