9. Okay
The heather across the Scottish country side had just came into view. The Hogwarts express had left the station about two hours ago and they were almost there. For Morag MacDougal, she was ready to start school. She tugged at her slightly worn robes before going into more depth of her story. Surrounding her was a group of a couple of bored preteens and teenagers.
"Only then did Katrina and Isobel finally stopped picking on me," said Morag rolling her eyes. Katrina and Isobel are her two older sisters by a couple of years. Despite being from a rich family, Morag still got her sisters hand me downs. This had lead to the teasing in the first place of all things. She looked around at the people in her compartment before realizing that nobody was listening to her. As a promise to her mother, she said she would sit next to Daphne Greengrass and Pansy Parkinson. Both girls were too interested in the boys in their compartment to even listen to her.
Sighing she only looked around the window and watched as the sights of London, turned to rolling fields of heather. Her head resting on her hand already bored of this trip. She could have just used the floo network, but nooo, her parents insisted. It was part of the experience of going to Hogwarts in the first place. The MacDougal family already lived in Scotland, so why go to London only to go back?
Her pale blue eyes only looked around the room, hoping that none of them would be in her house. Like her sisters, Morag was most likely going to be in Slytherin. Being a pureblood meant being in Slytherin with the other purebloods. She could already see it now, Crabbe and Goyle following Draco Malfoy around like henchmen. Daphne Greengrass and Pansy Parkinson worshiping Blaise and Draco from afar. Theodore just watching and doing nothing about it.
Biting her lip, she was about to break that promise to her mother as she got up. No way, was Morag Grear MacDougal going to be around them all 7 years of Hogwarts. The first thing she was going to do was make new friends. Casting one last look at everyone, she tossed her red blond (more red than blond though) hair and stalked out of the compartment. New friends would be easy to make right? Her parents had basically thrown her together with the ones she did have.
Looking around, Morag started to look at her potential classmates. A pudgy boy, a girl with bushy brown hair, a girl with her hair in a plait, and the best thing: none of them reminded them of her former friends. A shiver ran down her spine at all of the possibilities. Turning her head she tried to narrow down who to sit with. Just hearing them talk helped greatly. The bushy haired girl sounded smart, but in a show off-y way. Plait haired girl already seemed to have a close friend. Morag wanted a new friend that was just her type.
Analyzing the girls around her, she closed her eyes. Nobody was going to fit her exact description and all the fun they were going to have. Opening her eyes, she took a small leap toward friendship, as she just sat in the nearest compartment. Inside the compartment, already sat four girls, none seemed to be talking to each other though. One girl had corkscrew curly black hair and startling bright blue eyes. The other had wavy brown hair and dull dark blue eyes behind black frames. The final two had tan skin and wide brown eyes. Both girls looked exactly alike, as they appeared to be identical twins.
"Mind if I sit with you?" she asked uncertainly. Surely they weren't going to object? The compartment wasn't even full of people not quite yet.
"Sure," said the girl with the corkscrew curls. "I'm Lillie, Lillie Moon."
Well she seemed friendly enough. Morag only smiled and sat down next to her right away. A friendly person is much more likely to be friend than a non friendly one, right? The other two girls only looked at her before the tan girls smiled next.
"She's Padma and I'm Parvati," said one girl wearing pink. "I'm going to go sit with Lavender and few other students but I should be back." Parvati soon exited the room leaving Padma to wave shyly to her. Padma seemed more like the type to be her friend. Finally, Morag's blue eyes danced over to the last girl, the girl with wavy hair, before long she would eventually have to say something. Her pale blue eyes caught the girls dark ones as soon as she looked over. Both of them daring to say something with Morag giving in.
"By the way I'm Morag McDougal," she said fidgeting herself. "Nice to meet you all!"
The girl with wavy hair only put a half smile on her face before saying anything. "I'm Rachael Runcorn."
Morag felt herself relax around all of the girls. Finally she had made new friends! One's that weren't going to be in Slytherin or turn out all bad. Then maybe, just maybe, they would be in the same house together. Everything would turn out okay after all.