Back to School Event: (word) Problem
1st September: Meeting a new friend
Word Count: 238
my first friend (make it count)
Albus Severus had a problem: he could not make friends. It wasn't that he was socially awkward, or even that he was a bad person: it was because everyone he met seemed to be more interested in his parents than him. He had taken to asking people on their opinions on his parents before getting to know them, just so he could see whether they were a worthy friend or not. They usually weren't, and Albus Severus had had no friends beyond his family when he was growing up.
That changed when he was on his first trip to Hogwarts. The emptiest compartment only had a pale boy in it, with platinum blond hair and bright blue eyes. "Can I sit here?" Albus Severus asked, his green eyes pleading with the boy.
"Sure," the boy replied, not looking up from his book.
"Thanks. I'm Albus Severus Potter, who are you?"
The boy glanced up at him, blue eyes scanning his features before replying with, "Scorpius Malfoy."
"What's your opinion on my parents, Scorpius Malfoy?" He had to cut to the chase. If this boy wanted his parents autographs then he would leave and stand in the corridor or something. He couldn't stand people who simpered over his parents.
"They're alright. What's your opinion on my father?"
Albus Severus grinned. This boy had passed his only test. He was sure they would be friends for years to come, now.