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Post by spicer on Mar 7, 2007 16:45:27 GMT -5
"They won't," Braxton's dad said with a smile, "After all when I was at Hogwarts I played my fair share of pranks."
"Of course you did dear," Brax's mom said with a smile, "And that's why you found yourself in detention more then once."
"Yeah, but it was all worth it," he said with another small smile. He didn't mind if Brax played a few pranks on people, after all there was really no harm in that, and if they did get caught a detention was just the price they would have to pay.
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Post by scobee on Mar 7, 2007 16:57:19 GMT -5
"Yeah, I had my moments too when I was in school." Jason said with a smile at how the two were going back and forth. You really didn't get away without sharing a lot if your wife was with you and you omitted part of the story or thing. Undoubtedly they would announce it anyways. He thought that Brax's dad just rolling with it was the best option. That is what he did when his wife started the same thing. "So they have detentions, as well, then?" he said thinking that there were some interesting simularities between wizarding schools and muggle schools. He had expected them to have a different form of punishment or something. Really, though, what else could they do?
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Post by spicer on Mar 7, 2007 17:17:58 GMT -5
"Yeah, they have detentions and also a point system. All the houses compete for house points and the one with the most points at the end of the year wins the house cup. Which works out pretty well, because they deduct points of things, but points are also awarded when something good it done. So it really just depends on the balance between the two as to which house wins the house cup." Brax's dad explained with a smile.
Braxton turned around and smiled, his hands full of different kinds of candy. "Well I am going to get a couple of chocolate frogs, some ice mice, and some of these other things," he said with a smile showing Ryan the items he had in his hand.
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Post by scobee on Mar 7, 2007 18:08:36 GMT -5
"That sounds like a good system. It probably works really well since it is a boarding school and the kids are there all the time." Jason said. He thought that having the houses compete against each other was a great idea. The kids would want their house to win and try and earn points towards it. They would also not want to lose points so it would keep them in line some what. "I guess it is like the token systems that they have in some of the schools these days." he said, "Where the kids get tokens, fake money or something like that, and they can accumilate it and trade it in for something that they want."
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Post by spicer on Mar 17, 2007 13:10:12 GMT -5
"Yeah it does seem to work out quite well," Brax dad said with a smile. "Although it still doesn't deter some, after all when I was at school we just ran with the philosophy of, 'It's only going to matter if you get caught.'"
His wife just looked at him in disbelief, and was extremely glad that the kids had already ran off to pick out their candy. She didn't want Braxton getting any ideas, and his father wasn't really helping at the moment.
"Yeah, it's kind of like that," Brax's dad continued, "Only they are competing for the house cup and bragging rights."
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Post by scobee on Mar 19, 2007 20:22:49 GMT -5
Jason laughed. He thought that was a great philosophy to go by. He would never tell Ryan this, but he had had his fair share of fun while in school and had followed the exact same philosophy. He had gotten in plenty of trouble too, but it was never anything serious. Just a detention here and there, on the off occasion that he got caught. “That philosophy is a good one to go by. Lets just not tell the kids that.” he said with a laugh.
Ryan looked at the candy that Brax was showing him. He was going to definitely get everything that Brax had in his hands, plus probably a little bit more. “Cool, I’m getting some of all those too.” Ryan said with a smile.
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Post by spicer on Mar 20, 2007 12:08:18 GMT -5
"Right," Braxton's mom said with a smile, after she was confident the boys weren't around, "I am sure that they will figure out that little trick soon enough without or help anyways." She knew that eventually they would learn that philosophy as well, after all she herself had her fair share of experience with it. "After all thats half the fun of living at a school like that." Okay she couldn't help but join in on the converstation, and her motherly reaction had disappeared rapidly when she knew that the boys were out of ear shot.
Corbin came running up to where Braxton and Ryan were at with his arms full of candy. Of course he hadn't managed to pick up as much as Braxton had, do to the fact that he was smaller then Brax, but still he had gotten his fair share. "I'm all set," he said beaming at both of them.
"Me too," Braxton said with a smile in Corbin's direction.
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Post by scobee on Mar 26, 2007 15:18:48 GMT -5
"Yeah I'm sure they will." Jason agreed. He hadn't gotten the opertunity to live at a school and attend a boarding school. He had gone to a regular school in the muggle world, where you went home every night and then came back the next day. He figured though that this type of an experience would be good for Ryan. He would learn to do things on his own and without always having a parent around. It would also be a good opertunity for him to make new friends that hopefully he would have for a lifetime.
Ryan looked down at Corbin's stack of candy. Dang could that little guy carry quite a bit when he wanted to. "It looks like it." Ryan said with a smile looking the stack over. He had gotten everything that he wanted to and was ready to go also. "I'm set too." he chiped in after Brax.
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Post by spicer on Mar 28, 2007 22:00:49 GMT -5
"Then lets go purchase them," Braxton said beaming at both Ryan and Corbin before he made his way over to where his parents were standing. "We're all set," he said with a smile as he looked up at his mom and dad.
His mom just smiled down at them. It sure did seem like they had gotten everything they could carry and then some. "Alright, lets go and pay for it then," she said with a smile as she directed the kids over to where the counter was. She would let Brax's dad and Ryan's chat while she took care of the boys purchases.
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Post by scobee on Mar 31, 2007 17:46:44 GMT -5
"Lets." Ryan said grinning and following Braxton over to where the parents were. He had spent the majority of his money that his dad had given him already and needed to get more from him before he could purchase his items. Arriving by his dad's side Jason just smiled. "Yay, we are." Ryan chipped in after Braxton.
Jason was already to go and take care of Ryan's bill when Braxton's mom seemed to take care of the kids and their things. He would let her for now and give them money for Ryan's share later. He wasn't going to let her buy Ryan's when he could and when he knew that it would come to quite a bit of money. After all, all of the boys had as much as they could carry in their arms and he was pretty sure that that wasn't going to come cheap.
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