For some reason, his family had insisted on stopping in England for a couple of weeks. He didn't know why and quite frankly, he didn't care. They could have left him back home and he would have been fine on his own. Apparently they were worried that he was going to get in to trouble, maybe burn the whole house down while he was at it. If only they were that lucky. He wasn't the type to play with fire, though he had left the stove on a time or two. That still wasn't a good enough reason for them not to trust him to be by himself. He was sixteen years old for crying out loud! It was like they didn't trust him and that hurt.

Well, not really, but he could pretend.

Thaddeus didn't crawl out of bed until after noon and by then, he didn't really feel like doing anything. However, since his parents felt he wasted a good portion of the day, he was set loose on the town, with explicit orders to stay out of the muggle area. These people really weren't any fun. He knew that he would have been better off back home, but nope. Here he was, stuck with his parents who were currently busy visiting his grandparents. He supposed at least he was lucky to not have to be stuck there with them. His grandparents were okay, but they were old. They didn't really have anything to say tha the wanted to hear.

He had found his way to the Magical Menagerie and was looking around at the various creatures that they had for sale. It was weird that they didn't have anything a little more dangerous here. Maybe that was just because he was used to what they offered at Durmstrang. Hogwarts just way too tame. He heard the bell over the door ring just in time with the sound of someone falling flat on their ass and he looked over, arching a brow curiously. "You know, there's a reason you shouldn't stand in front of doors, especially when they aren't glass."

It was kind of cute the way that guy who just entered apologized as though the whole thing was his fault. "Relax. It wasn't like you knew someone would be standing where they shouldn't." He offered the barest hint of a smile before taking a step back, allowing enough space for the new arrival to fully enter and for the person on the ground to get up and move.

Family events were never something that Thaddeus was happy to attend. He did it out of necessity. He knew that he had to keep up appearances, because his great-great grandfather had done a fantastic job of fucking everything up. He just had to go about trying to make the world pure. It was true that Thaddeus felt the same way as Gellert Grindelwald had, but he at least had the decency not to try and wipe out half the world because of it. There were better ways to take care of things. Their family just didn't seem to have a good grasp on the realm of right and wrong. Maybe that was why Thaddeus always managed to get himself into trouble. He didn't have enough fingers and toes to count how many detentions he'd been sentenced with last year, let alone the years before that. Most of the time it was because he couldn't keep his mouth shut, but sometimes it was because he just wasn't in the mood to deal with anyone's shit.

Sometimes a fist flew. It wasn't his fault!

There were a lot of things in life that Thaddeus didn't have the patience for. People who started shit for a simple accident were one of those things. The kid on the ground was lucky that they were smart enough to clamber up to their feet and scurry off. The dirty look that was cast his way was met with a challenging look in return, daring him to try something. It seemed that the kid had some smarter friends around, who simply let him away and made promises that everything would be okay and that he needed to "let it go". If only he knew.

"I wouldn't worry about it. It's not like that kind of fall could do too much more than bruise an ego." He extended his own hand when the other male introduced himself. "Thaddeus, but you can call me Thad." He turned a little and began to walk towards the back of the room, eyes taking in the various boxes and books that were pressed up against the walls. "You looking for a pet or stocking up food for the thing?"

Thaddeus didn't know why it was that he thought it was a good idea to stop and talk to this kid. Maybe it was because he had knocked someone on their ass (even if it was unintentional), but that kind of spoke to him on a personal level. There was no shortage of people that he wouldn't push over if he had to. Then again, it was more intentional when he did it. That was something he could think more about later on, after he got to know this guy more. It was a good thing that he had caught a name from the other male. The last thing he wanted was to walking around and saying 'hey you' to someone that he might potentially grow to be close with.

That almost made him laugh. Thad didn't get close with anyone and it was certainly for a good reason. Whatever, there was a first time for everything. Maybe this would be the first time that he let someone in. As he moved around the shop, he looked over his shoulder, trying to get a guess on just where the guy was from. The accent said that he was probably from the area, or at least somewhere around the United Kingdom. It was quite a contrast to his own voice, which was definitely more Hungarian than anything else.

"Likewise, Abe." A smirk touched his lips and he moved around towards the food for the animals. "Not of my own, no. My mother has a demon cat that tends to eat my flesh if he's not fed right." As though to offer proof, he stuck his hand out, which was littered with the scars from various bites and scratches, along with a few fresher ones. "I really don't like him, but there's not much I can do about it."