Disclaimer: Though it is fairly obvious, I do not own anything you recognize that belongs to the Harry Potter franchise. I hope you enjoy reading this and I apologize for any grammatical errors or problems with sentence structure. English may be my first (and only) language but I still seem to struggle with it on occasion.

Harry had noticed the book. It said the history of dueling and he wondered if it had anything to do with the dueling in his old history textbooks. Honor duels with swords and things. Once he opened the book he was instantly entranced with it. It was even better than he had been expecting.

"That's one of my favorites," a girl with long dark hair said coming up beside him. "Fay Dunbar by the way. Are you starting at Hogwarts?"

"Yeah, my names Hayden."

She quickly ran her fingers over the books in the shelf before finding the one she was looking for, "you should check out this one Hadrian," she said handing him a book. The title said Modern Rules and Regulations within the dueling circuit. "If you're interested in dueling, it's important to know."

He took the book smiling slightly shy. "Thanks," he said gratefully, "do you know if Hogwarts has any sort of dueling thing?"

She thought for a moment before shaking her head, "not that I know of. I mean there use to be a duel club but that's not been around for a long time. The best competitions are in the summer. Since we are under 15, we can only do the hands off magic dueling. After you turn 17 there are a lot more options."

"I didn't think you could do magic during the summers," he said shocked since already he had heard that very thing mentioned a few times.

She grinned, "Except if you're in the dueling competitions. If you're in the competitions you apply for a special waver from the ministry of magic with your forms to enter dueling. They will almost always grant you leave to do magic during the summers though sometimes they have stipulations depending on if your muggle or wizard born."

"Cool," He said amazed, "that sounds bloody brilliant."

Fay was extremely excited which was apparent. Finally someone to talk duels with. "I know right? There are four tournament levels. First till third year, Fourth and Fifth year, 6th and 7th year then the real tournaments. In the real tournaments, if your good enough you can enter them at say eleven but you need to show such proficiency that your dangerous in the school aged tournaments. It's really rare for someone to get bumped up before they are 15 though."

The two ended up talking even after buying their books, they left the area just talking for hours. When they had to finally leave each other they made promises to meet the moment they got on the train.

"Mind if we sit here," Fay asked finding a carte with just one boy within.

He looked up surprised but nodded as they took seats. "I'm Hayden, this is Fay."

"Neville," he replied as they kept pulling him into conversation. Of course, it did not take long before the topic of dueling was brought up.

"You both plan on dueling," Neville asked hesitantly.

Harry nodded, the moment he had begun reading the books, he was hooked on the idea. The magic waver was a nice idea as well. "I've been planning on entering dueling since I was five. My dad took me to a competition and it was beyond brilliant. Have you ever been to one Nev?" Fay asked curiously.

The easy use of his nickname surprised the preteen, he had never really had the chance to spend time with people his own age and had not expected such easy acceptance. "Um, no. My grans not a large fan of them and when she went I usually stayed with the elves."

Harry had no idea what the other student meant by 'elves' but just accepted it. "We were discussing maybe training together to enter the competition," harry stated. "You're welcome to join us."

"I don't think I'd be any good at it, my family thought I was all muggle for ages," Neville admitted.

Fae knew the term, a lot of old families use to call squibs all muggle. It was not a kind term for squibs. "You're from an old wizarding family aren't you?"

"Yeah."

"Well, your clearly not a squib if your here," Fae stated, "You probably have a lot of potential. You just need to learn how to use it. You won't ever know until you try and I mean, Hadrian here was raised with muggles. He's never had a chance to practice spells or anything. You don't know if you will be any good until you actually begin.

Harry agreed whole heartedly, already making a friend had really given him a confidence boost. "Fays right, if you act defeated before beginning you have no chance of doing anything. From what I'm reading, magic's about intent. If you believe you will fail your magic won't work properly for you and you won't be able to do the spells."

"Exactly so it's decided, you will learn how to duel with us. I think it's a good friendly activity," Fay stated. "Friends need something in common and that they can do together."

"Friends," Neville asked wondering exactly how it had been decided.

"If you don't mind us being then again...If I've learnt anything, Fay usually gets what she wants," harry stated as she beamed at him brightly. "So that means we are now friends."

All three of them had very little positive contact with kids their own ages so it was a relief to them all to have already made friends however that had happened.