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Mar 24, 2017 22:22:16 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2017 22:22:16 GMT -7
Dom was outside again, which wasn't a surprise to anyone who knew her. She absolutely loved being out of doors, but today was different. Today she was on a mission to make a new friend out of a stranger, which wasn't particularly something she was used to, but she was alright with that. Her cousin Anna was dating a boy from Beauxbatons and she wanted to meet him, maybe spend some time getting to know him. Also ... she might want to practice her French a little bit. The big question was: how was she supposed to find him? She walked kind of close to the Beauxbaton Carriage, but didn't want to go inside, so she stayed outside, deciding to wait for a bit and watch. Hopefully he was inside and would come out soon.
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Mar 25, 2017 11:36:24 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2017 11:36:24 GMT -7
Oscar didn't spend much of his time in the Beauxbatons carriage anymore, except for when he was required to be there for his lessons. He spent most of his time inside Hogwarts, with Anna, or walking around the grounds, thinking of...whatever it was that he wanted to be thinking about. Normally his mothers, or Caden. Lessons had just finished, which meant that Oscar was leaving the carriage and wasn't intending to come back until curfew. When Oscar stepped outside of the carriage, he noticed a red-head waiting outside. She looked like Anna. Considering the amount of cousins that Anna had, it wasn't out of the question that she was related to Anna in some way. "Can I help you?" He asked, hoping he sounded polite and not annoyed.
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Mar 25, 2017 21:39:15 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2017 21:39:15 GMT -7
When people started coming out of the carriage, Dom pushed off the tree she'd been leaning on and stepped forward a bit, watching them carefully. Oh! There he was! The guy was handsome enough that recognizing him as the guy that went to the Yule Ball with Anna wasn't difficult at all. He noticed her and Dom smiled warmly at him, "Hi, I'm Dominique Weasley, but everyone calls me Dom. I'm Anna's cousin. You wouldn't happen to be Oscar, would you?" She asked, quirking an eyebrow at him. She hoped he didn't have anything planned because if he did, she would have absolutely nothing to do with her afternoon.
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Mar 27, 2017 10:47:54 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2017 10:47:54 GMT -7
Oscar’s suspicions about the girl being related to Anna were confirmed when she approached him. Not many at Hogwarts had a reason to speak to him, since he wasn’t the Beauxbatons Champion, but Anna’s friends, and presumably her family, knew that they were dating, so they did have a reason to talk to him. When the red-head spoke, introducing herself as Dominique, Oscar nodded. “Enchanté.” He greeted quietly. “Yes, I am Oscar.” He added, in case his greeting hadn’t been enough to confirm his identity. Oscar repeated his earlier question. “Can I help you?” Oscar’s voice was a bit more insistent the second time. He didn’t want to be rude to Anna’s cousin, but he would honestly rather be spending his time with her than her relation.
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Mar 29, 2017 16:18:25 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2017 16:18:25 GMT -7
Dom grinned when the boy confirmed that he was, indeed, Oscar. Hmm ... he was very handsome. Still, that wasn't the reason she was here. She nodded when he asked if he could help her. He seemed busy or something. Maybe he was on his way to meet with Anna. Oh well. Dom was going to see if she could get him to talk to her. "Yes, I was wondering if you could help me. I'm looking for someone to practice my French with and thought you might not mind, since you and Anna are so close?" Dom was speaking in French to try and get his attention more. She also made the comment more of a question, asking whether or not he wanted to/had time without really asking. If not, maybe she'd try and find someone else to practice with ... but probably not. She didn't really have a connection with any of the other students from Beauxbatons. Besides, her french was pretty good already, since her grandparents lived in France. She just wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to practice.
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Mar 30, 2017 19:43:31 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2017 19:43:31 GMT -7
His second attempt at asking the question yielded more results than the first, and Oscar made a surprised noise when Dominique started speaking French. He wondered briefly why Anna hadn’t just asked her cousin to teach her the language, since she was obviously proficient, and probably a better teacher than Oscar was, since Ozzy wasn’t a teacher by any stretch of the word. “Yes, of course we can talk together.” Oscar replied, fumbling over the French for a second. He had gotten so used to speaking English while in Hogwarts that now it was his mother tongue that felt strange in his mouth. While he enjoyed spending time with Anna, Oscar also enjoyed having a purpose, and helping someone brush up on their language skills was a purpose that he didn’t mind having. Oscar paused. “Is there something you were wanting to discuss?” Oscar asked, wondering if he was going to get another variant on the shovel talk from his girlfriend’s cousin.
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Apr 4, 2017 18:40:20 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2017 18:40:20 GMT -7
Dom smiled mischievously when Oscar seemed surprised that she could speak French. Her grin widened when he agreed. "Thank you," she said enthusiastically. He asked if there was something she wanted to talk about and Dom's eyebrows furrowed as she thought. She shrugged, "The tournament?" she wasn't sure if he'd want to talk about that, but was almost certain she'd learn new vocabulary talking about it.
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Apr 7, 2017 12:19:42 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2017 12:19:42 GMT -7
It seemed Anna’s cousin was very eager to speak to him in French, if her thanks were anything to go by. She didn’t seem to have thought of a topic beforehand, though, taking a bit and shrugging before suggesting that they discuss the Tournament. “I would have thought that you have had your fill of the Triwizard Tournament.” He commented. Not only was Dominique’s cousin the Champion for Hogwarts this cycle, but both her mother and uncle had been Champions previously. With so many relatives involved in the Tournament, Oscar would have figured that she talked about it more often than most. If that was what she wanted, though, Oscar didn’t have any better ideas to offer, so he would go along with it.
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Apr 8, 2017 21:42:54 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2017 21:42:54 GMT -7
Dom shrugged when Oscar made the comment that they already talked a lot about the Tournament. That was true. Maybe talking about something else would be more interesting. "Hmm ..." she thought for a moment. "How about you tell me about France or Beauxbatons?" She asked. "I know you can't tell me where it is, but can you tell me what it's like? Is it a castle or ...?" Dom had no idea if he was going to tell her anything about his school, but if he didn't she wouldn't be too disappointed. She already knew a lot from her mother. She just wanted to hear it in french and get him talking. Work on her comprehension a bit. Then maybe she could tell him about her home.
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Apr 21, 2017 22:16:16 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2017 22:16:16 GMT -7
Oscar hadn’t meant his comment to be a critique of Dominique’s conversation choice – he was just fine talking about the Tournament if Dominique wanted to – but he had to admit that he rather liked the new direction their conversation was taking. “France is beautiful.” Oscar began simply. Everyone who had ever visited the country knew that was the truth. “And Beauxbatons matches. It’s a chateau, and it’s surrounded by these lovely gardens…”Oscar trailed off. He and Caden had spent many a weekend rambling through the gardens together, and some days it was still hard to believe that that wouldn’t happen anymore, both because he was graduating and because his companion was dead. “The grounds are not as big as Hogwarts’s, but what they lack in size they make up in beauty.”
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Apr 22, 2017 7:16:06 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2017 7:16:06 GMT -7
Dom listened to the way Oscar described Beauxbatons and smiled as she imagined it. "What about in the winter? Does it get very cold there? What do the gardens look like then?" Dom had never been too interested in the scenery, being much more intrigued by whatever she was doing at any said moment, but since she went with Vic, she'd spent much more time outside on her own, much more time for peaceful reflection and she realized the beauty that was to be found out there. "A part of me wishes we had a garden here, but it probably wouldn't survive through the harsh winters," she commented after a few moments. She was so proud of herself; so far she was doing quite well in the conversation. Soon it would probably get to a point where she wouldn't know the right words though.
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May 1, 2017 18:47:39 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on May 1, 2017 18:47:39 GMT -7
Apparently, Dominique was the sort of person who, in getting the answer to one question, found three more questions that she wanted to ask. That wasn’t a problem for Oscar, since it was easier to answer questions about Beauxbatons than it was to talk about his relationship with Anna, which he had been worried Dominique would ask about. “We are in the mountains, so it does get rather cold. I do not know what the gardens are like in the winter – I did not spend much time there when it was not nice out.” More of his time was spent warming other people’s beds (in all seasons, but especially in the cold months), but he didn’t think that a wise thing to say to his girlfriend’s cousin. “You have greenhouses here, do you not?” Granted, they weren’t the same thing as gardens, but the premise was similar, in that they were both homes to plants. If anything, greenhouses were the more practical option.
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May 3, 2017 22:30:53 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on May 3, 2017 22:30:53 GMT -7
Dom smiled when Oscar started describing Beauxbatons. She loved the way it sounded, foreign and beautiful and she really wanted to go and see their gardens. Maybe her mother would be able to go and bring Dom along ... she'd have to look into that. She nodded when Oscar said he didn't spend much time outside when it was cold. That made sense, seeing as most people didn't. Dom was one of the few exceptions that preferred to spend her time outside, always. She nodded when he asked about the greenhouses. "Yes we do. I don't normally spend a lot of time in them, but they are nice and have a great variety of plants inside, if you're interested in that kind of thing." She didn't think Oscar was, but she'd give him the benefit of the doubt. "So ..." she tried to think of something else they could talk about. "What do you like most about being here at Hogwarts? Or do you wish you were back at Beauxbatons?" She asked curiously. She knew almost nothing about this boy, so she might as well learn something now.
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May 5, 2017 21:09:12 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on May 5, 2017 21:09:12 GMT -7
Oscar nodded when Dominique said that the greenhouses were nice. She seemed to know an awful lot about them despite professing not to spend much time in them, mentioning that the plants were varied. “Herbology is not my strong suit.” Oscar told Dom, wrinkling his nose slightly. He didn’t think that she would talk much about the school subject that was his strong suit, but Oscar didn’t particularly care. He didn’t think many people approved of his lack of studiousness, and knowing Anna, her family probably wouldn’t like knowing that her boyfriend wasn’t all that intelligent. “I like being with Anna.” Oscar responded immediately when Dom asked what he liked about Hogwarts. “Beauxbatons…has a lot of bad memories. I will be glad never to have to return.” He had started the year ambivalent about returning to his home school, but when Caden had died, all his reasons for wanting to return turned into reasons to stay away. Oscar did not deal well with bad memories, and being away from France would be good for him. He wondered if he would ever return there, except to gather his things.
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May 13, 2017 0:00:07 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on May 13, 2017 0:00:07 GMT -7
Oscar mentioned that herbology wasn't a strength of his and Dom's mind went instantly to Séamus. It was definitely one of his strengths. Maybe if he were here he could explain a bit more to Oscar about Hogwarts grounds and such. She didn't know much about it though. "I'm not the best at Herbology either," she confessed with a smile, which widened when he went on to say that he liked Anna. Dom gave a light laugh. "Well you better like her since you're dating her." Dom paused a moment. "Wait ... you are dating her, right? I just assumed since ethe two of you went to the Yule Ball together ..." she trailed off a little, lost in her thoughts. She frowned when he mentioned his bad memories at Beauxbatons. "I'm sorry your memories there aren't the best. I hope the ones you make here are much better. And if you're ever bored or looking for something fun to do, I can always help you with that," Dom added with another smile. This conversation was going quite well!
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