Tainted memories PV Aaron Jones Finished

Aaron reached her in no time, a cheery smile on his face. “Congratulations on making it onto the Gryffindor team! I missed tryouts for Hufflepuff, so now I’m just on the waitlist,” Ariana noticed him eye her quidditch uniform with a slightly longing expression and his smile drooped slightly. She felt a sudden pang of sympathy for Aaron as she smiled back, quickly thinking of a way to distract him from this matter. That said, it would be a hard challenge, Aaron was a huge fan of quidditch, Ariana was sure it was on his mind most of the time. She recalled their brief meeting before term had started. Pity he had missed tryouts, she thought to herself. She snapped sharply out of her daze, and looked up into his warm, dark brown eyes “Thanks Aaron!” she exclaimed brightly, her green eyes shining with gratitude, “That’s really kind of you! And don’t worry, I’m sure you will be on the team in no time!!” She punched his shoulder lightly, in a way to reassure him. “Hey, Why don't we go for a walk in the grounds? We could sit and chat by the lake if you'd like?"She offered kindly, "Id love to get to know more about your family!" She said excitedly, bouncing on her toes. It was true, growing up in the wizarding world was awesome, but it also meant that you lacked certain experiences that muggle-born children would have encountered. Ariana was eager to know more about life outside the wizarding world.

Ariana listened to Aaron’s words with fascination,“Wow Korean! That’s pretty awesome! So your brother isn’t a wizard like you then?” She pondered on the thought “You're lucky, I’m glad you came to hogwarts” she grinned “Oh and I’d love to have a younger sibling , I absolutely hate being the youngest” she gave a slight chuckle, her eyes brightening as they they reached the lake and sat down on the grassy bank. The sky was a beautiful blue, and the waters were still, untouched as there was no breeze. It was beautiful. "So, how about your family? Are any of your brothers here at school? Do your parents have magic jobs?" Ariana felt a pang of pain at the mention of her family, the severed connection between them had been eating her up slowly over the past days, reminders still pained her a bit. She ignored this however, she had gotten used to hiding her emotions, besides, she absolutely loved telling Aaron about the magical world, he seemed so intrigued and fascinated with anything she had to say, she was lucky to have met him. “Well you already know I'm the youngest of 6 brothers, but all of them except for one attend Ilvermorny in America, only my brother Hugo and I attend hogwarts. My parents went to school in America you see, they met there. I lived in Argentina for a while and then moved to England when I was ten because my parents wanted me to go to hogwarts.” She paused reflecting on this, she really did miss Argentina, a lot. “My parents both have magical jobs, my Dad works in the Department of Magical Law Enforcement at the ministry and my mom works in the Department of International Magical Cooperation, also at the ministry. I’ve been there before, it’s pretty cool! We have moved around a lot, I’m not always sure why we do but my parents never really tell much” she smiled up at him, “When did you find out about your magical powers? It must have been a big shock, right? I’m not that good with surprises myself.” She gave a little laugh as she dropped her gaze to the ground, lacing her fingers through the lush grass and yanking out the green tufts.

@Aaron Jones

Ariana listened, fascinated as Aaron retold his story of accidental magic. She dissolved into laughter at the part where he explained his homework being set on fire. Ariana despised homework. Anything to eradicate the irritating hanging of its ever lingering presence was certainly welcome.

When the question was diverted back to her however she gave a slight chuckle, reminiscing at the memory. “Celebrate? I mean that's one way you could put it," she giggled slightly again, “More like my mom had to hide away all the China and valuable objects around the house and make sure I didn’t get into a temper, or I would probably burn the house down.” She was exaggerating of course, but it was partly true, her first signs of accidental magic weren't too thrilling to experience if you weren’t expecting your hair to be singed by magical sparks of fire. “I would get into temper tantrums when I was younger, tiny sparks used to bounce everywhere from my hands as a baby,” She explained, placing her hands on the soft grass behind her as she grinned back at Aaron. “I was quite fascinated by it all really. I admit my parents weren’t too fond of having to repair everything every two seconds though, I was also prone to making things float and then drop unexpectedly, sometimes I didn't even realize I was doing it!” It was strange, yet comforting, being able to confide in someone else about her life before Hogwarts, it was even more captivating knowing that Aaron had never been exposed to the magical world before, she was undoubtedly intrigued with the outside muggle world.

“As for my brothers-” She shook her head slightly, inwardly rolling her eyes at the memory of their rowdy behavior. “They are all older than me, i'm the youngest and only girl. Come to that, let me tell you it hasn't always been so fun. They are way too overprotective for my liking” She loved her brothers dearly but Arianas venturous temperament sometimes contrasted with her brother's willingness to shield her from harm. While she deeply appreciated the act, after a while it became a rather arduous task, evading their protective attitude. “Having a big family comes with its problems, but overall I love it, often people might think we all are the same, but you would be surprised, there are alot of personalities in one family.” This statement was certainly true, as much as Ariana got on with some of her brothers, there were others *cough*Noah*cough* that she couldn't stand in the same room with, for even 5 seconds before one or the other hurled a malicious comment [or in Ariana’s case, a heavy object] at each other. Let's put it down to ‘they love each other at heart’. “I get along better with some than...others” She said airily, turning her gaze to the bright blue sky, admiring its oceanic, far flung beauty.

“What sort of things do you muggles have that we don't?” She asked curiously, “I mean to say, how do you get around without magical transport and, well how do you do...stuff?” She struggled for a way of how to place these words into Aarons possession, furrowing her eyebrows as she contemplated her own question.

"My dad is already training me to be protective of my little sister,"

Ariana had to smile at this, his pride at the idea of protecting his little sister was cute. Something Ariana had always longed for was a younger sibling, yet she had never gotten the chance. She supposed, her smaller cousins were close enough. She continued to listen as he answered her question. Planes? She'd never heard of those before, wow, the things muggles were able to create without magic were astonishing.

"Our most common form of transportation is buses and cars, though." Ariana knew about these of course, though she supposed that the muggle versions weren't quite the same, nevertheless it was amusing, knowing that, to some extent, the two worlds weren't too different from each other.

“I've never heard of planes no…” She started slowly, “Oh but I do love flying, I'd love to go inside one! Muggle cars and busses aren't too different from our ones I guess, I mean except from the fact that they are incorporated with magical abilities.” Aaron was still yet to answer the second part of her question though, and Ariana picked up a stray leaf from the grassy bank, shredding it into pieces as she listened to his voice. “Wow, I'd forgotten about broken stuff,” she gasped, looking up at him. She hadn't really ever given it much thought before, but now as the idea came to her, it seemed shocking to hear that muggles couldn't just wave their wand to conjure the fractured pieces back to their place. “There are certain things you can fix in the wizarding world of course, it depends though… some powerful objects can’t be mended”

"Oh! But we have the internet! That's something you guys don't use much, right? Because there's no wifi or anything here," he said, looking at Ariana with a grin. "We can find pretty much anything on there. AND we have video games. Do you play?"

What the bloody hell was the internet? Was Aaron messing with her? She gave him a skeptical look, was it a made up word? “Aaron, what the hell is that, stop messing around!” She laughed, throwing her head back in amusement as he grinned at her. “Video games?” she stifled her giggles, now she thought about it, she had heard that word before, maybe from her cousin Raf or from her best friend Janet, both of them had a little more experience of the muggle world than she did. “Games? I mean I've never heard of ‘Video-Games’, but we have wizard ones like exploding snap and wizard chess, you know? What is a video-game?” She questioned again. “Oh!” She exclaimed suddenly, come to think of it, she had a pack of the explosive cards in her bag. Fishing them out she turned them over gazing at the back of the cards, “Exploding snap” She grinned “It's an awesome game,” she stated, returning the cards to the pile as she collected them up, “Have you ever played?”