This was nice—comparatively speaking. After weeks of being watched (perhaps monitored was a better word) by whatever friend or family member had been assigned to keep her company, Dionisia had finally been left to her own devices long enough to invite Ben Crouch to her home. And now he was here, in her sitting room, across from her on the long couch while Elliott played with his set of Hogwarts mascot stuffed animals in-between them. (Currently the Slytherin snake was strangling the Hufflepuff badger while the Gryffindor lion looked on. Dionisia had been watching with a confused but amused smile on her face for nearly five minutes, until Elliott finally decided the Ravenclaw eagle was going to swoop in and attack the... lion?) Dionisia looked up at Ben, subduing a giggle before it could escape and distract Elliott.

"And what house were you in at Hogwarts, Ben?" she asked quietly, just loud enough for him to hear. Elliott seemed unbothered by the conversation and continued the battle between the eagle and lion, abandoning the badger and snake altogether. There were plenty of things she didn't know about Ben, but she was still unsure what things she was supposed to know about him.

Surely everything would come back to her soon.

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