Making New Friends Closed

Interacting with @Damion White

Date: September 20th 2020
Time: ???
Place: The Small Hall

Hogwarts. It was the home away from home that was actually way better than my actual home. I've just got here and everything still finds new ways to utterly amaze me. I have a habit of wandering aimlessly exploring new places. It was walking through the halls of this massive castle and tried to look for places I haven't gone to.

The common room. Check. The quidditch pitch. Check. The library. Check. What next?

I leaned my back against the wall and put a hand under my chin. As I turned to go back upstairs to my dorm room over at Gryffindor, then I stopped. Something caught my eye. The flickering light from the fireplace in the small hall.
"How did I miss this place?" I thought. I walked into the small hall and decided that this place was nice, but not nearly as nice as the other places that I've seen.
I was welcoming the peace and quiet with open arms after such a hectic day at Hogwarts. I turned and realized that another guy was right in front of me. He was staring directly at me. To be honest, I was a little startled, like I just got jump scared.

"Hey"

I said as I mentally scolded myself. "Hey. That's the best you got. You make 6 freaking friends here and this is what you're doing!"

"Sorry, man. Just call me Logan. What's your name?"

I stood in awkward silence as I watched the fireplace crackle and light up everything.

Damion had been staring at the paintings there and drawing them as much as he could capture. He was after all a young kid himself and this wasn't something that was going to be easy for him. He smiled as his eyes glanced up at the painting in blue that was staring at him. He was happy being here. Well as much as he could be. He wished that he had Dylan here with him. Dylan was sometimes all he could think of.

He needed to get a hobby to get his mind away from Dylan if he had to get himself into some school work. he needed to be away from Dylan mentally. He was physically away from the guy as Dyllie was in Wales and Damii was in England. He sighed as he kept drawing focusing on his drawing than where his mind was going.

He smiled as he saw another boy. He hoped that he hadn't scare the boy. He never wanted that to happen. He smiled softly and said "Hi there." He was happy to meet someone new and start a new friendship. he wanted to get himself to have some friends. He was not very open when it came to friendships.

"I'm Damion." Damion introduced himself to Logan. "I'm in Ravenclaw. What house are you in?" he asked Logan with a smile. He put his pencil down and gestured Logan to a seat near him.

@Aemadall Zarcovich

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Interacting with @Damion White

Making friends was, is and will never be my strong suit but that doesn't mean I wasn't gonna try anyway. I took the plunge and told him my name to get this conversation started. Apparently, his name was Damion and by the way he spoke and acted he seemed nice. He also said he was in Ravenclaw. Naturally, I would be sad because he got the house I expected to be in, but I've learnt to let little things like that roll off my back. I was about to leave but he asked me what house I was in.

"Um... I'm in Gryffindor"

He offered me a seat as I said that and I obliged. It was nice to hang out with a guy for once. Usually, I was either alone or with a bunch of people.
As I sat down, I wondered what he would be doing here of all the places in the castle. I looked down at his lap and I saw that he was drawing one of the painting on the wall before I came in. "Well, that's one thing we have in common" I thought to myself. I wasn't ready to sit in awkward silence with this guy.

"Cool. You can draw just like me. I would have shown you my sketches but they're up in my dorm"

Damion was happy that he was making an effort to make some new friends around. He needed a few people around him and wanted to have a good circle of friends. He missed Dylan. He didn't want his life to be revolving around Dylan. He looked at the small hall's painting and smiled. He was trying to draw them. Oh wait! Logan was there. He shook his head again as he looked at Logan and smiled. "I hear that's for the Brave" he said smiling. He didn't know much about the houses to be honest. But he was still trying to make a conversation.

Damion smiled at him as he saw Logan sitting down. He was happy to be here. Well here as in the small hall not Hogwarts. A part of him missed Wales. He looked at Logan and smiled again. He listened to what Logan was saying and nodded his head "Yeah I do. Oh it's alright. I'd like to see it some time." He said. He got a little flustered and said "It's a loner thing. I do it sometimes." he added. "I don't have many friends here. And I seem to have a lot of time besides being in class" He said. "What do you like doing besides drawing?" he asked. He smiled softly.

@Aemadall Zarcovich

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Interacting with @Damion White

I'm a happy that I go to Hogwarts. I was exploring a whole new world that strangely, wasn't too different from the world I already knew. I had friends. Check. I wanted to be on the sports team. Check. I had a rivalry with someone. Check. Now all I need is to get a wedgie from a towering bully.
According to him, he didn't have many friends here. I said,

"Well, I'm here. I guess you can add me as your friends"

I smiled at him. Truth be told, I didn't know much about this guy but he had a very good friend potential. He asked me what I like doing beside drawing. I smiled and said,

"I like pranks, art, nature, sports and the occasional exploring"

I was starting to like this guy. I wanted a close and small group of friends but I got more than I bargained for. Either way, I can't complain. I looked at the paintings. They were beautiful like the ones I saw in the museum but not nearly as beautiful as my sister's art.

"My sister got me into art and my brother got me into pranking"

I had pretty quirky siblings. I smiled and asked,

"What about you? What other things do you enjoy? "

Damion was happy that he got to meet new people around. He had met quite a few people and well he didn't have 'friends' so to say except you count Dylan. Well that was back in home- in Wales. He looked at the drawing that he had put aside for now. He was talking to Logan for now. So his drawing was on the table on the side where it was just sitting there. He looked at Logan and smiled. "Oh yes for sure" He said with a smile. He was happy to have met Logan. "We can have so much fun together" He said. He looked at him and then thinking about what they could do he said "We could go in the town and I can treat you to ice creams if you like them. I have a cat" He said. He petted his kitten that was sitting near him. "His name is Jasper" He said smiling.

"Ooh Exploring and pranks... wow." He said smiling. He'd like to explore the island. He looked at him and said "I like to do embrodiery, decorating of cookies and cakes, well drawing obviously, exploring and well studying. I know I'm a little weird." He said. He looked at him and said "Well I was the only child, so I guess my parents got me into weird things. But I now enjoy doing it. I once cleaned the Herbology Green house here." He said.

"So you have older siblings?" he said. "well the closest I came to having a sibling was with my buddy back in Wales. That's where I am from. Well my buddy's name is Dylan." he said. He looked at him and said "Will you teach me some pranks? Well harmless ones. That might scare people but not hurt them." he said smiling.

@Aemadall Zarcovich

Words: 308

Interacting with @Damion White

Damion was a nice guy. It would be good to have a guy friend that wasn't in Gryffindor. Kinda like foreign relations. Plus, I had more girls as friends here than I had more guys as friends here. Talking to him was cool... until he started saying what he liked. He liked embroidery and decorating of cookies and cakes. Honestly, I was a bit freaked out by that. I didn't know many girls who liked those. But I was determined to have a male friend, even if he acted a tad female. Apparently, he was an only kid. "That explains it" I said to myself.
He asked for me to teach him some harmless pranks. Honestly, now I can't TP someone's house, dump water balloon on them or even fill their locker with marbles. I didn't know much about magic pranks but there was a place called Weasley's Wizard Wheezes that I was gonna visit when I got the chance.

"Sorry man. Considering the fact that you're a wizard born and all I know are muggle pranks. No"

It took me a while to notice the cat that was sitting beside Damion. It was a gray fluffy cat. I decided to try and stroke its back.

"I'll be up for ice-cream anytime"

Damion was happy that he had decided to take a stroll outside his dorm. He had wanted to meet new people and get to know more thing about this school that he was going to be a part of for the next five years. He was in his second year now so well he was excited for what the future held for him. He looked at Logan and smiled. Thoughts of his friend, Dyllie were in his mind but then he was not letting them dominate him as of now. He wanted to be able to have a life outside from what it had been when he was in Wales. He didn't want that to hold him back. He smiled looking at his cat. He noticed that Logan hadn't answered his question about his siblings and he was okay with that. He didn't mean to pry on his personal life. The question had just blurted out of Damion's mouth. "I'm sorry I didn't mean to pry about your siblings" He said. He didn't really mean to make Logan feel weird or uncomfortable. He wanted Logan to be his friend and maybe a best friend one day but for now he'd be happy to make him his friend.

"Hey it's alright, Logan. I just thought... I'm sorry for thinking that you were wizard born too" He said looking apologetically. Though it didn't matter to him that Logan wasn't wizard born. "It's alright we can go and see some wizard pranks at Weasley's Wizard Wheezes" He said with a smile. He wasn't going to lose this chance of making a friend. He looked at him as Logan spoke. "That would be awesome! We can have an ice cream- it will be my treat and roam around town and get to see things there." he said. He hadn't been able to visit the near by town yet. he had just been to the ice cream parlor.

@Aemadall Zarcovich

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Interacting with @Damion White

I wanted Damion to be my friend. I wasn't really desperate enough to change my opinion to make him like me, but I was smart enough to not say something stupid.
Part of me wanted to go back to Scotland and hang out with my friends, Leo and Travis. But the other part of me wanted to stay her and learn magic. I guess that was one of the problems of being a halfblood... not knowing where you truly belong. I decided to just forget about it and focus on what was happening now.
"I'm sorry I didn't mean to pry about your siblings" Damion had said,

"That's alright. But that is a topic that I'd rather not say now. I got a lot on my plate"

I had to get my grades up, make friends, learn magic and have fun. All of which I have to do to avoid very dangerous consequences. He mentioned ice-cream and pranks, two things l love. They're great individually, but should never be put together. I made a smile and said,

"Sure. I'd love to have ice-cream with you. I haven't gone anywhere magical but here and Diagon Alley."

I remembered all the pranks that I pulled on people. The most crazy one was standing on the roof of our school and dumping rotten eggs and toilet paper on a bunch of bullies that made fun of my friends. I let out a crooked smile at the thought of what magical pranks would be like,

"I'm up for pranks anytime. Just say when."