Third Floor Common Room [Tuesday Evening]

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Bobby was, to put it quite plainly, bored.

Even the television had proved unsatisfactory in terms of entertainment factor, which is why he was now sitting on the floor surrounded by reams of paper with the television just on for the sake of background noise.

He was determined, you see, to build the perfect paper airplane.

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"I have one class tomorrow and then the rest of the week off," Merlin replied proudly.

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"Cool, so we kind of have opposite schedules," Tara noted. "What are your classes? I got ethics and history."

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"Religion with Lady Ghanima and Defense Against the Dark Arts for Muggles." A beat. "Muggles are apperently people without magic."

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"Oh." Tara tucked her hair back. "S-so is it almost cheating for you to take the class?"

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"Well, I hadn't learned that bit until I was there for the first class," Merlin admitted. "And then they had me and another large eared fellow be T.A.s."

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"I got made TA too," Tara shared. "For Master Skywalker. He said there used to be another me here and asked me about slavery." She scrunched her nose. "B-but then he said it was mostly about passing papers back."

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"But that's still good!" Merlin insisted.

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"I didn't mean it wasn't!" Tara said quickly. "It was just ... kind of a weird conversation. The job's cool."

She eyed him. "Why'd they give you yours?"

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"...I'm not sure," Merlin admitted. "I think it was the ears because he recognized my name."

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"Yeah?" Tara said slowly. She'd put together from stray comments that he was Probably That Merlin (sort of), but it seemed like the kind of thing you didn't ask about or think about too much if you liked your brain in one piece. "The name's probably kind of a conversation starter. I get Lost in the Breeze references."

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"Lost in Breeze?" Don't ask it, Merlin. Don't ask it. "Is that a book?"

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"Yeah. Well, a movie, but a book first?" Tara glanced over at Merlin from under her hair. "It's about this, this really rich girl in America about 150 years ago, and there's a war and they lose everything, and, uh, she gets married a bunch, and the house is named Tara." A beat. "My mom says I'm not n-named after it, but it's famous."

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"It's a good name either way," Merlin offered, making a note to look this up on the internet.

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He'd probably find porn if he did.

Tara smiled. "Thanks. I, uh, like yours too. Does it mean something?"

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...okay, he would. But not on purpose!

"Sea fortress," Merlin replied oh so brightly.