An Old Friend

Friendly Greetings

Morgan and Draco board the train, the latter slipping away before Morgan can ask him where he needs to sit, and Morgan stands there looking lost before Faust looks at him like he’s an idiot and points him toward a 5 person compartment that has one seat open and Morgan smiles at him thankfully before walking over and knocking on the door saying a little awkwardly “Umm hi… mind if I join? I can’t find another seat.” A shortish boy about Morgan’s age with messy brown hair and blueish gray eyes looks up and smiles holding his hand out “Sure. I’m Harry Potter.” Morgan smiles thankfully shaking his hand thinking to himself ‘pretty brunette. Too bad im more into blonds’ and sits next to a shy looking girl with straight medium length brown hair and brown eyes saying, “I’m Morgan Winchester.” A taller red haired boy with blue eyes smiles and shakes his hand speaking around a mouthful of candy hed just shoved in his mouth “Ron Weasley.” Morgan smiles politely at Ron and shakes the hand of a girl with messy, poofy brown hair and dark brown eyes “Hermione Granger. Pleasure to meet you Morgan.” Morgan smiles “A pleasure to meet you as well Hermione.” Hermione smiles then glares at Ron and Harry “See? Boys have manners. It’s just you two that don’t.” Harry and Ron shift around uncomfortably and Hermione looks at the girl that Morgan sat next to “Go on and introduce yourself” The girl looks at Morgan saying in a small shy voice “Hi. I’m Carley” Morgan smiles “Nice to meet you Carley.” Carley blushes at the attention and Morgan looks confused “Why are you…. Oh. Oh sorry. I promise I’m not flirting or anything.” Harry raises an eyebrow “You sure?” Morgan grins at Harry “Oh I’m sure I’m not flirting with Carley. You on the other hand cutie are a different story.” Everyone in the compartment stares and Ron starts choking on the candy he was eating while Harry turns a dark shade of red stuttering “I… I’m not…” Morgan chuckles “Not gay? Such a shame. I’m more into blonds anyway. Just friends then?” Harry nods still blushing and Hermione and Carley giggle while Hermione saves Ron from choking to death. Hermione save her boyfriend then looks at Morgan curiously “Wait… you said your name is Winchester… as in the family that just moved in with the Malfoy’s as their servants Winchester?” Morgan winces mumbling “We’re not servants… my mother is employed by them to keep their house elves in line and happy and I’m there, even though Lucius is an EXTREME homophobe, because if I’m not allowed to stay my mother won’t stay as their elf keeper or whatever they call her job.”  Hermione frowns looking like she’s mentally slapping herself “I’m sorry. I didn’t think before I spoke.” Morgan gives her a small smile “Its fine Hermione. You were just curious.” The four talk for a bit, Morgan learning his new friends are all in Gryffindor, before Faust finally sticks his head up out of Morgan’s cloak curious about the new people and Carley, who has barely said anything squeals “Oh he’s so cute! May I?” Morgan smiles and nods letting Carley pet Faust, who is loving the attention and has crawled half way down Morgan’s arm half of the snake still inside his cloak, while he introduces everyone “Harry, Ron, Hermione, Carley this is my little buddy Faust.” Morgan easily switches to parseltongue to talk to Faust “Faust these are my new friends Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Carley.” Faust looks at each of them then looks up at Morgan hissing “Carley is my favorite” Morgan snorts hissing “That’s just because she’s petting you and thinks you’re pretty.” Faust nods settling down to get petted more done talking for now and Morgan shakes his head chuckling before looking up at the three stunned faces in front of him and switches back to English “What?” Hermione is the first to speak “You… you weren’t speaking English… or any language I know of…” Morgan looks a little awkward and sheepish “Yeah probably not… I kinda forgot to mention I’m a parseltongue…” Hermione’s eyes widen further, Morgan didn’t think they could get any wider but they did, “Morgan that’s amazing! how do you forget to mention that?” Morgan shrugs “I don’t know. I’ve always been able to do it I guess I’m just used to the people around me knowing about it and I forget to tell people.” Hermione nods about to say something but the train pulls into the Hogsmede station and they have to get off Harry looking at Morgan “Sorry but you’ve gotta go with the first years so you can get sorted.” Morgan nods “Yeah I know.” Ron pats Morgan on the back “Hope you get Gryffindor mate.” Morgan smiles nodding hugging them all and saying bye looking through the crowd and seeing Draco’s platinum blond hair standing out sharply among the crowd and sighs at the cold treatment the other boy is giving him and follows the first years, and a large man he learns is called Hagrid, to the boat to take them across the lake and into the castle so they can get sorted into their house.