A Mess of Chocolate

Kit was completely taken in by Diagon Alley. Although it wasn't her first time here, it was so completely immersed in the wizarding world that there was something new to discover every time. She was enchanted by it. Today, it was her magic textbooks. Her godparents took her shopping for school supplies and Kit was extremely impressed with the books. She loved books in general and loved learning. Which was why she was walking around Diagon Alley with her nose stuck in The Standard Book of Spells: Grade 1. She wasn't trying the spells of course, but Kit figured reading up on them couldn't hurt. Probably there would be a lot of kids at Hogwarts who had lived their whole lives in the wizarding world and would be way ahead of her so she wanted to get a fresh start. Plus, they were really interesting!

Kit was usually pretty good at walking around and reading at the same time (or maybe other people were just good at avoiding her), but... well, this book was really interesting. She felt herself bump into someone and apologized, as a piece of chocolate cake splattered itself right on the title page for Chapter 2. "Oh no!" She moaned. Kit absolutely hated damaging her books. She wasn't sure chocolate cake would come off it easily.

As Nick turned around, Kit got to see the face of her book-ruiner. She wanted to be angry, but he apologized and introduced himself to her as a fellow student at Hogwarts. He seemed kind of nice. She was still pretty disappointed about her book, but she supposed he didn't do it on purpose. After all, he lost his cake. And it looked like pretty tasty cake too, even if she thought it was a bit early for that much chocolate.

"That's okay." Kit said, still sounding a little sad. Maybe there would be a spell that could remove chocolate from books. It seemed oddly specific, so unlikely, but she could hope! Oh no- what if the cake had ruined the page of the spell that removed chocolate from books?

That thought was so ridiculous she just shook her head and smiled shyly at the other Hogwarts student. "I'm Kit." She introduced herself. "I am, or I will be a student at Hogwarts this year. It will be my first year."

From a distance, Brice smirked. The boy splattered the chocolate everywhere. In a kid, too. Ah well, he didn't feel like being mean or anything close from that in Diagon Alley. He just didn't ever feel like it with the warm and comfy area. Although windy, it was still nice. He approached them, catching all the pieces he could, and even though he shouldn't, he was just seeming kind to the people walking nearby.

With all those things in hand, he walked to the two talking. It was kind of getting his hands dirty, but it didn't matter. He went in the store, and asked how much it was to replace it. Without listening to the answer, he threw a bag with 50 galleons, probably much more than it was worth, and waited for the clerk to count the galleons.

"Sir, it's not that ex--"

"You can have it anyway."

With that, he picked up another package and went to the boy. He extended his hands for him to pick it up, and smiled at him.

"Hello. I think this was yours?"