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Post by seanna on Nov 20, 2007 4:59:10 GMT -5
Seanna lent forward from her position next to Drew's feet, her brown eyes examining the scar that his sister's rabbit had left him. "Ouch, that must've hurt, no, that defiantly would off hurt" Seanna decided on in the end, grimacing at Drew when she thought of how painful getting bit by an animal would be. Then again, getting bitten by any animal would be painful.
While getting by an animal was annoying, she had to agree there, having an animal that could read your thoughts was even more annoying. Most times, she could block Percy from entering her mind, but other times she couldn't and the duck had used to use it to his advantage when they first met each other. At the start, Percy was like the annoying next door neighbor, who came over unannounced and just popped their heads in the door just because they felt they could. Now though, he was the quiet next door neighbor that never said boo... the Huffle was sure that wasn't going to last long.
"Percy's annoying in a different way, though" Seanna started off, trying to find the right way to word it too Drew that Percy could read her thought's and vice versa so he wouldn't think she was crazy. "His protection shield really isn't the only thing he's got that's cool. The duck can read my thoughts... and I can read his" Seanna mumbled quietly, avoiding looking at Drew for now she was sure he was going to think she was mad, or at least, weird. The Huffle really didn't broadcast that bit of information around the school, either, only a few people really did know that and that was by accident, she really didn't want people to know that about her duck or about her.
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Post by Drew Thornton on Nov 22, 2007 1:10:24 GMT -5
"Huh..." Drew answered, a non commital response that could have meant just about anything. The truth was he had never known a duck to have such abilities, but it still wasn't out of the rhelm of possibilities.
"I've never heard of a witch who had a duck for a familiar," he told her, a small smile playing on his face. "Usually they're cats." It kind of made Percy even more special if he had such powers.
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Post by seanna on Nov 22, 2007 12:13:54 GMT -5
"A what?" The Huffle's brown eyes finally finding their way back to Drew, after they had looked at everything but the Ravenclaw in front of her. Seanna was sure that Drew was going to tell her that she was mad, or that she was weird. While Nic and Celina hadn't said that either, the girl was positive that they had thought it, not so much Celina, but definitely Nic. He had said that it was 'freaky' that her duck could do read her mind, but freaky was the same as weird in Seanna's book.
If duck's had ears, Percy's was now sticking out. Ignoring the ball for the meantime, the duck did some kind of excited jump in the air with an added "Quack!" As if saying that Drew was right, the boy was good, Percy thought. While his owner had only had him for two months or so, she hadn't figured that out and had only figured out some things of him... but it had only took Drew a couple of minutes to figure out exactly what Percy was to Seanna. The duck could forgive his owner, though, it wasn't her fault she didn't know what a familiar was.
Seanna looked at Percy when he quacked and raised one, brown eyebrow at him, then she looked back at Drew at again, her eyes now full of confusion. "I think Percy's saying you're right... but what is a familiar? I have no idea what that is" Seanna asked Drew, feeling a bit more comfortable talking to him about her duck.
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Post by Drew Thornton on Nov 23, 2007 15:10:05 GMT -5
"It's like an animal soul that attaches itself to a human, usually a witch or a wizard, and serves as a kind of guardian," Drew answered. "They're usually highly intellegent and highly magical." He winked a little at Percy, now confident that the duck fully understood him, and continued to Seanna, "Not everyone gets one. I mean, everyone gets some really good cats or owls or things, but a true familiar? That's pretty impressive."
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Post by seanna on Nov 24, 2007 19:41:57 GMT -5
"Quack!" Oh, Percy liked Drew. Out of all his owner's friends, only he seemed not to be afraid of the fact that he could understand humans and what they were saying. Though, Drew was the only one bar Nic that really knew about the duck's abilities. That girl with the nice cat knew some, but not of him understanding humans. Percy was sure that even the nice girl that owned Podge didn't know about his abilities, the duck was beginning to think that maybe his owner was actually scared of him.
Seanna looked at her duck again, her eyes widening in a little bit of shock. "So you're saying, that Percy's meant for me? No, that I was meant to have him?" It made some sort of sense, but only because her parents did give the duck to her, after telling her that it ran amuck through the museum. Trust her parents to find something unusual but yet, very magical.
The other thing that was making her eyes widening in shock was that Drew actually winked at her duck. "And you... you're not afraid of him? Or well, you don't think it's weird that he not only can read my mind, but can understand what you're talking about as well?" Seanna felt funny asking Drew that, but she had to know. Okay, so it had been only one person that thought it was weird her duck could do that, but if Seanna was telling the truth, even she thought it was just the tiniest bit weird that she had that connection with her duck.
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Post by Drew Thornton on Nov 26, 2007 1:18:15 GMT -5
"You guys were meant to have each other," Drew clarified with a crooked smile. "A familiar is different than a pet. You belong to him as much as he belongs to you."
"Why would I think it's weird?" Drew asked. True familiars were rare, but not unheard of and Percy sure seemed to fit the bill... no pun intended. "I mean, it's not like it hasn't ever happened before between a human and an animal, right?"
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Post by seanna on Dec 1, 2007 21:40:54 GMT -5
While Drew spoke, Seanna was thinking. Which sometimes was awfully hard for the Huffle to do, especially when she had so much stuff all ready on her mind, this new information would just add to the growing list of things she just had to figure out. But Seanna thought that maybe she understood what Drew was saying. "So you're saying that a part of me is attached to him and a part of him is attached to me? And that's why we have that ability to talk to each other with thoughts?" That definitely made sense to Seanna, it was the only way she could think of too, as to how they both could communicate with each other.
"But then, that doesn't explain how he can understand everybody else" Seanna said to Drew, looking over to him and then back at her duck, who was still looking at Drew and was now captivated with the whole conversation. Yes, he was his owner's familiar, he knew that when her parent's had rescued him, he also knew that he had to find her no matter what, to protect her. After all, when one did a lot of exploding work, one did need to be kept safe from all that.
"I just thought, because it is unusual, that you might think it was weird of me to communicate with an animal... that was all" Seanna shrugged and smiled sheepishly at Drew. The Huffle shouldn't have thought that Drew would find it weird that she could communicate with a duck, he was after all, the most level headed boy she had meant that was in her class... well, level headed when it came to knowing things.
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Post by Drew Thornton on Dec 1, 2007 21:52:27 GMT -5
"Well, most animals have a basic understanding of humans," Drew told her. He wasn't sure why humans couldn't understand as well. Perhaps it was that they relied too much on the sounds coming from another's mouth. "And magical creatures, well, they have an even stornger understanding. You take it up a notch to a familiar and he's really going to get it."
"That about right?" Drew asked the duck and though he didn't understand a single quack that came out of the bird's mouth, the boy was pretty sure he'd understand the meaning behind it.
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Post by seanna on Dec 1, 2007 22:59:29 GMT -5
"Quack!" Percy responded, nodding his head up and down. This sure was exciting to the duck, finally he had someone that knew something of what he is and now he hoped that his owner could find out more of what he could actually do. Percy knew that there was more to him then a protection shield and a understanding of his owner and other animals, it was just up to his owner to find out what that more was.
He was an outstanding magical duck, after all. One duck didn't come much better than himself, or well, that was what he thought, anyways.
Seanna jumped a bit when Drew started to talk to her duck again and Percy responded with another quack that she knew that he definitely could understand him. The Huffle was now wishing that she hadn't bombed out of Care of Magical Creatures, the curriculum would probably help her now that she had an animal to care for. "Its strange watching you talk to him like he's normal, some people got freaked out when I told them that Perc could read my mind and understand them" Seanna finally told Drew the other reason as to why she thought he might've found it weird about the special ability between her and her duck.
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Post by Drew Thornton on Dec 2, 2007 22:05:18 GMT -5
Drew let out a small laugh at Seanna's comment. "He is normal," Drew reminded her, finding very little that was abnormal about Percy. He was a perfectly normal, magical, duck-familiar. "I mean, I haven't met a whole lot of familiars and Percy's the first duck, but that doesn't make him abnormal, right?"
"I don't know, maybe if more people gave animals a chance, they'd realize they were familiars and not pets after all..." It was an interesting theory, but Drew wasn't sure how to prove it.
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Post by seanna on Dec 6, 2007 4:33:59 GMT -5
"Right, it doesn't make him abnormal. I guess it's just abnormal for me to see anyone else treating Percy like he is normal and not a freak duck, that's all" Seanna told Drew, giving him another smile, it was really all that it was. The Huffle, while she wasn't afraid of the duck, she was afraid of the things that he could do and the things that she hadn't yet figured out, plus she hadn't really known any familiars, much less heard of the word, until what Drew mentioned told her just then.
It sure was a interesting theory. "Do most familiars that are animals, have to be magical ones, though? What I'm trying to say is, do normal animals have to be magic ones to become familiars?" It was something she had been wondering ever since Drew had told her about. Especially since Percy was all ready magical when he came to her, considering she had gotten him from his parents who had acquired him.
Seanna looked over at Percy, who was still listening in on the pairs conversation, but was now sitting down near the girls legs and Seanna lent over to give Percy a pat, wondering what other tricks Percy held and how she could find them out, all the while waiting for Drew's answer.
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Post by Drew Thornton on Dec 6, 2007 22:33:17 GMT -5
"I don't know," Drew answered honestly. "I've never heard of a familiar that wasn't magical though. It seems to me that having a non-magical familiar would be almost contradictory though. I mean... they kind of have to be magical just by the fact that they're supposed to protect a witch or wizard, right?"
He started thinking that maybe Muggle guide dogs might be considered to be familiars in a sense, seeing that they were there to protect and help the person they were attached to. It got him wondering if maybe Flicker was a familiar and Hiro had just never mentioned anything extra magical about him, like with Percy.
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Post by seanna on Dec 10, 2007 17:40:02 GMT -5
"Hmm" Seanna replied, deciding not to agree or disagree on what Drew was saying, especially given the fact that she didn't know that much about familiars, but she secretly agreed that they would have to be magical first up so that they could protect their owner who was a witch or a wizard.
Though, one thought was going through her mind and she was trying to find a way to bring it up without it sounding silly and without it being an obvious fact that was plain to anyone listening or thinking it, including her. "But what if you come from a muggle family, but yet you found out at eleven you were meant to be a wizard or a witch and had a pet that followed you around, keeping you safe from harm and all that, would that pet be classed as a familiar, or just as a normal animal?" Seanna asked Drew, not knowing if she made any sense or not.
"Because that pet would have to somehow know that the kid was going to be witch or a wizard, but if the parents bought the pet at a normal muggle pet shop, you would think that the pet couldn't have been a familiar, because technically, it's a muggle animal" The girl didn't know much about muggle pet shops, but she had seen them when she had been traveling with her Mother and Father, she had also seen people instantly pick out a certain animal then and there, like they somehow knew that the animal was the right one for them.
Seanna continued to pat Percy, getting lost in her thoughts about familiars. The subject was an interesting one and she was all ready thinking that maybe she ought to learn more about the subject. Especially for Percy's sake, seeing as how it did really look like he was one, the enthusiasm and interest that was showing in his black eyes, made Seanna think that he really was a familiar.
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Post by Drew Thornton on Dec 10, 2007 20:33:02 GMT -5
"I don't know," Drew answered honestly, finding the question intriguing. Maybe he'd do some research on the subject, write it up, and get some extra credit from Davenport. It wasn't like he needed the grade, but it couldn't hurt.
"I think you'd probably have to ask Percy that one," he finally concluded, figuring who better to answer a question about familiars. Maybe Percy would even help him with his project... hmm...
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Post by seanna on Dec 10, 2007 21:54:39 GMT -5
"Ask Percy?" Seanna looked up from petting her duck, throwing Drew a weird look. "But Percy hasn't been around any normal animals... not that I'm aware of anyhow" The Huffle explained, looking back down at Percy and wondering if he really did know the answer to that question. "I'm really not a hundred percent sure of that, I don't know what he did or who he belonged to before my parents got him" Though, she thought that because her parents had found him, he couldn't have come from anything muggle... all though, she supposed he could have, considering that her parents both acquired magical and muggle things for the museum.
"I'm not sure... " Seanna trailed off, looking back at Drew and not knowing if she could communicate with Percy while he was there. The girl had felt weird communicating with Percy in front of Nic that time and even more so in front of Celina. "I'll guess I'll never know the answer if I don't ask him, right?" Seanna finished off, knowing it was true that she probably wouldn't know the answer and while she could probably go searching for it in the library with all the books in there, asking a real familiar that question meant that she would get a decent answer.
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