Dan:
Dan stumbled over someone's foot right into the ground. His face hit the ground and he could feel the skin on his chin open.
"Oh my are you alright?!" an alarmed and worries voice said from above. Dan shifted his head and looked up. He saw a raven-haired boy bending over to help him up. With his help Dan picked himself up off the ground.
"Thanks" Dan said as he used his robes to wipe the blood from his face. The station around them buzzed as parents hustled their kids on the Hogwarts Express.
"Yeah no problem it's a madhouse here" The black haired boy replied. "I'm Phil by the way"
"Dan… well thanks again. See you around" he says rather hurriedly.
"See ya" is his reply, then he's gone and Dan hurries to get his stuff on the train before it leaves. No parents to say goodbye to he rushes onto the train. Almost all the compartments are full, but he manages to find an empty one. Dan shoves his stuff above and sits next to the window, head against it, eyes watching stragglers as the train begins to pull from the station. Then he hears the voice.
Phil:
"Dan was it?" Phil sees the boy nod and then asks "You don't mind do you I can't find another compartment"
"No" Dan said and gestures to the seat in front of him. Thoroughly relieved Phil lugs his stuff in and sits in front of him. For a while it's very quiet and both boy's stare out the window as the countryside sweeps by. Finally Phil can't take it anymore and tries to strike up a conversation.
"Are you okay? Your chin seemed to be bleeding badly." he says thinking back to the moment.
"Yeah m'alright" Dan mumbles into his robes. "Hey do you know much about Hogwarts. I got my letter 3 months ago explaining some things and how to get to the train, but not much else." he says it and then goes red like he's embarrassed to not know much about it.
"Oh are you muggleborn?" Phil asks slightly surprised at how much Dan just said since he's been so quiet.
"Uh yeah…. I mean no…. uh I grew up in an orphanage so I don't know." Dan stuttered utterly confused by the question. Phil took the silence that followed and began to talk all about their new school.
Dan:
"And the paintings move and talk! So do the staircases….. Uh I mean they move they don't talk." Phil says excitedly before he pauses and takes a breath. Dan sits straight and listens politely, fascinated by everything Phil said. He got more and more intrigued as the boy talked. Hogwarts sounded like a magnificent place. He was captivated by every detail described, but mostly by one that he continuously questioned Phil about.
"So what are the houses names again?" Dan asked enthusiastically.
"Well there's Ravenclaw, where all the smart ones go, Slytherin, the cunning, Gryffindor, the brave ones and Hufflepuff's are the kind ones."
"And where do you think you'll go?"
"Well I don't know it's not up to me, I could end up anywhere as well as you."
The two boys stay submerged deeply in their conversation the pressure of a friendship growing within it. They talk and talk and talk some more. All about Hogwarts and their lives. Phil is interested in where Dan grew up and Dan all about the Wizarding World. Their lives are so different and they each take turns talking about them, that time flies and soon the witch with the trolley comes around.
"Would you dears like anything off the trolley?" She says sweetly poking her head in their compartment.
"Dan are you hungry" Phil asked looking over at him. Dan was utterly confused, he couldn't pay, why would Phil ask.
Phil:
Oh wait, Phil had almost forgotten that Dan didn't have money and jumped up.
"Yeah I've got some money, I can get you something if you're hungry." Dan stood up, feeling kind of hungry and took Phil's offer.
"What would you recommend?" Dan asked staring at the strange goodies, before him as Phil also realized that he didn't know about wizard foods.
"Well it's all up to preference, but I think you might like Chocolate Frogs or Chocolate Cauldrons." Phil says thinking about what his new friend might prefer. "Might not want Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans, those aren't the best thing to start with. I came across a tire flavoured one and I haven't liked them since."
"Oh well whatever you think would be good" Dan replies and goes to sit down. Phil grabs some stuff off the trolley and pays the kindly old witch. He walks back to his seat and dumps the snacks next to him.
"Go on try some." He adds when he sees Dan glance at it nervously. Slowly Dan reaches over and grabs a Chocolate Frog pack. When he opens it the frog jumps out at him and he jumps.
"OH sorry I forgot to tell you that they're enchanted to be like real frogs." I tell him feeling bad for forgetting and the frog almost giving him a heart attack.
"S'okay" He mumbles, but then begins asking questions about Hogwarts again. They talk and talk for hours until the train finally reaches the infamous school.