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Alys should have known better than to examine the letter too closely and then say out loud the words "Welcome Ball". Mama had extraordinarily sharp hearing as it was but when it came to matters of clothes and hair, Maria Diederich was a woman possessed, hellbent on making her skinny, pale daughter into a beauty queen she would never become. As a result, Alys stood now at what looked to be the most expensive dress shop in the area as her mother fussed over some polka dotted fabric at the other side of the shop - to the delight of the sales assistant who was helping her.

Alys really hated polka dots. Had ever since her mother first sent her off to Muggle kindergarten in a white and pink dotted creation she had stitched together herself. But the witch also loved her mother and insisting on picking her own clothes would have opened a whole new topic of conversation Alys was not ready to have anytime in the next ten years. So she let Mama pick her clothes, it made her happy. And well, her uniform robes would cover anything the girl wore anyway so it would be a win win situation.

The blonde wondered aimlessly around the shop, her bored gaze passing over fabric after fabric. She had to give the establishment credit, even if for nothing more than having an unlimited supply of different colors, patterns and prints.

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The letter in his hand read "dress robes" for the Welcome Ball. Dress Robes, he thought to himself, well there is only one shop that he knew to get those from, Goldenen Straße.

So there he stood, outside the clothes shop, debating whether going inside was a good idea, finally plucking up the courage to go into such an alien shop, he pushed the door open. The bell above the door ringed loudly in the quietness of the shop. Only the mutterings of two older women could be heard, whilst to his right another girl, what he presumed a fellow Durmstrang student, stood looking absently at the clothes.

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As Alys roamed the shop, not really looking at the selection of fabrics, she felt eyes following her. At first, the witch let it go but when the feeling of being watched persisted, she turned her head to see a blond boy looking her way. An awkward moment took over her as she debated whether to be angry, shy, ignore him or walk over and introduce herself. However, just as she had decided that it might be alright to wave at him, she heard a squeal from the other side of the shop and turned to see her Mama gushing very loudly over some pale blue dress that the assistant had laid out in front of them.

"Alys!" Mama all but screamed at her. "Come look at this darling! Don't you love the color? Oh this will go so beautifully with your eyes. Come here and try this on, child."

Blushing profusely, the girl made her way to her Mama.

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He made his way to the back of the shop, where the mens department was. Ignoring what had just happened, he picked out a light grey set of dress robes with a blue grey shirt, along with a matching bow tie. He thanked the man in the store for the help he had given and left the shop without any other contact with another person.

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