WHO: Ken Chambers and Theseus Rosier WHEN: August, 1995 WHERE: Flourish and Blott's WHAT: Hanging out before the start of seventh year! CHALLENGE: Backstory (Overlook), Bingo (Flourish and Blott's, a chocolate frog)
Ken's whole family was in Flourish and Blott's somewhere, at the moment - his mother, his father, his two younger siblings. They'd all made the annual expedition to Diagon Alley to pick up school supplies, and Ken had quickly gathered his new seventh year textbooks and passed them off to his mum before retreating to the highest balcony in the bookstore. From up here, overlooking most of the shop, he could see just about everything. Perching on the balcony - a bit precariously, it must be said - he unwrapped another chocolate frog and crunched the foil in his hand, scanning the aisles. Partly, he was looking out for his family, waiting to see them check out and leave so that he would be on his own and could go off and do whatever he wanted, without risking his eagle-eyed mother seeing him wander out the front door. Partly he was keeping an eye out for friends and classmates.
Down below, he recognised Theseus Rosier, and gave a catlike grin to himself. Popping the frog into his mouth, he dropped the foil directly onto the Slytherin's head, and waved when the boy looked up at him. He then attempted to convey, through a series of overly-complicated gestures, that Theseus should come up and talk, but should under no circumstances shout his name, because then Ken's parents might kill him, or at the very least force him to continue shopping as a family, ew -
The cutting-my-own-throat gesture nearly toppled him off the railing, and he grabbed for it and almost choked on the chocolate frog.