The children hopped off the train, chattering excitedly among themselves. Draco looked around for the legendary Harry Potter, just as his father had instructed him to. He spotted Harry's floppy dark brown hair in the midst of the crowd and dashed over.
"Harry Potter?" Draco asked "I'm Malfoy, Draco Malfoy."
The young green-eyed wizard spun around to Draco, not even a hint of recognition at Draco's family name. Draco had always made a point to introduce himself by his last name first, since his family was 'the most powerful and pure line' in the wizarding world. Or as his father put it anyway.
"Nice to meet you?" Harry looked disinterested.
"Likewise," Draco replied, he eyed the scrawny redhead standing next to Harry "You. Hand-me-down robes, used textbooks, unflattering red hair...You must be a Weasley!"
The Weasley Draco was addressing turned bright red. Brighter than his hair even. He looked as if he were about to explode from anger. Harry opened his mouth to speak, but Draco cut him off.
"You will find, Potter, that there are different types of wizarding families in our world." Draco advised him. "Some of them just aren't the right...Let me see...Type. You don't want to be associated with them now do you?"
"I think I can tell the right sort for myself thank you very much." Harry retorted without a blink of the eye. "Come on Ron."
Draco stared after them in shock.
"Is that your way of making friends?" Someone asked from behind him.
Draco whipped his head around, preparing to insult the voice, and came face to face with the curly-haired brunette from the train.
"You know you shouldn't do that, it can't be good for your neck..."
The girl stared him down, daring him to respond.
"That was mean." She stated simply.
Draco had never been reprimanded by a girl. He turned into a guppy, opening and closing his mouth like he wanted to say something.
"Being mean will get you nowhere." The girl thought for a moment, "Well, maybe it'll get you into Slytherin."
She shrugged and walked off.
"Can you believe the nerve of that girl." Crabbe said from behind Draco "First she wants to sit with us pure-bloods, and now she's harassing you?"
"How do you know she's not a pure-blood?" Draco snapped. Suddenly feeling the need to defend her.
"Take a look at her, we know all the pure blooded families in the wizarding world and she's obviously not part of one. She doesn't even have any sense of self worth, just look at her crazy hair!" Crabbe rolled his eyes.
Draco suddenly became furious. He opened his mouth to argue, but Professor McGonnagal interrupted him.
"Malfoy and Crabbe, I am speaking." She reprimanded them. "Children! Gather your things, we will be boarding the boats in a few minutes."
