The dog entered the Sorting Room first, followed by a leash, followed by a tall man in a black coat being dragged behind. "Six, knock it off!" the man said, with an accent somewhere between Noo Yawk and European. He let the leash slide from his hand and the dog took off to sniff out the corners off the room
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His eyes are dark, and watchful. They miss nothing.
"Welcome to Hogwarts."
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Finally, some information. Now if this kid could answer how he got there, it would be a start.
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The tiniest seed of irritation in his (flat, monotonous) tone suggests he is familiar with the experience, and recently.
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"Okay, I'll bite," she said, tone teasing. "Moonlight swims?"
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One look at Hogwarts' newest inmate gave Charles an eerie sense of deja vu. It also gave him the weirdest craving for peanut butter cookies.
Where had he met this guy? There'd been so many bars and dives and general holes-in-the-wall between Hampden and El Paso, Charles couldn't keep track of it all, and he hadn't exactly been in the most coherent state through all that time. He was pretty sure he'd never met anyone named John Amsterdam, but it wasn't like he asked for names, ranks, and serial numbers from everyone with whom he drank a beer or shot some pool, either.
He cleared his throat. "Ah ... hello." He smiled his charming polite Macaulay smile. Maybe this guy would help out with some clue as to where they might have met.
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He'd already seen lots of things, but this sort of deja vu was new to him. It was like he'd seen the guy somewhere before in the past, but that only happened to the people around him.
John wasn't liking this.
"Have we met?" he asked. "New York, maybe? Sometime in the last few decades?"
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"Upper East Side?" he ventured. He named a fashionable address (Olivia's building).
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"You know, you're right? People really do forget records ever existed? Especially once the paperless society really gets going. Throw a Crisis or a Great Disaster or two into the historical mix, and well, things get mighty muddled!"
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