A/N Please R&R and Enjoy!

Cha Hakyeon boarded the train, the small boy hiding his nervousness with a smile. Like so many other kids of his year, he had came a long way for this train. He nervously futzed with the sterling silver ring on his finger, enchanted with a translation charm, until he learned english. It was a little off putting, not hearing his own voice every time he talked, but a perfectly articulated british one- one that sounded completely different from his own. He shared a few passing hellos and excuse me’s with other students he passed, eventually trying to sit down in a carriage full of older kids, being brave enough to try and make new friends.

“Do you mind if I sit here?” Hakyeon asked, the voice that wasn’t his still slightly unnerving him as he pointed to the empty seat next to a bulky looking boy.
    The boys all chortled, the bulky looking one stretching out to take up the full length of both the seats with his long limbs.
“Outta here firstie chink, all the seats are taken.” he said, one of the other boys looking to him with a surprised expression.

“Woah woah woah. Calm down Geoff. Let the kid sit.” he said, then looking to Hakyeon with a smile as he pushed the bulky kid off of the two seats, who grumbled in response.

    Hakyeon, his smile having disappeared from the offputting ordeal, smiled again with a small nod, sitting down on the seats, struggling to put his trunk up on the top compartment- a rack that was much too high for any eleven year old like him to reach. The nice boy from earlier helped him, Hakyeon thanking him with a small smile as he let his cat out of her cage, the small kitten immediately settling down on his lap. The bulky boy, now sitting down on the ground, looked at Hakyeon with a cross expression, his eyes narrowed and lips pursed.

“Well then what’s your name firstie?”

“Ha-” Hakyeon stopped mid word, twisting his ring to turn it off, he at least would tell them his name in his voice, as the translation simply butchered it, “차학연.”

“H...Ha-kyee-on?” the bulky boy struggled to say, “that’s a bit much. Do you even know what it means?”

    Hakyeon wanted to impress them, and thankfully remembered his mother telling him the meaning of the name once. He thankfully remembered to turn his ring back on before he spoke.

“It means I learn things fast.” he explained with a small smile, the nice boy then chiming into the conversation again.

“Well, that’s a really nice name- but Geoff’s right, it is a bit hard to say… can we call you…” the boy visibly struggled for a good nickname but something seemed to dawn on him, “N? Can we just call you N?”
“N?” Hakyeon repeated back to him, confused, why would a letter be a good nickname? But, being a kid who was eager to impress, he nodded and obliged, “sure! I would love it.”

“Great! I’m Wyn, and you already know that’s Geoff.” the nice boy said, pointing to the guy on the floor, “and these two sitting beside me are Winnie and Reese.”

    Most of the kids he referred to looked nice enough, and so Hakyeon wasn’t as nervous as he had been before. They had an alright conversation throughout the rest of the train ride. As the scenery rushed by and changed, Hakyeon told them little basic facts about himself, like how he was from Changwon- even though they didn’t really know where that was- and how he had two older sisters. That’s when things got a little odd.

“Oh? Did they go here too?” Wyn curiously asked him, looking at him with mild interest.

“No.” hakyeon said with a small laugh, “I’m the first one in my family who has actually gotten a letter.”
“...oh.” he said plainly, his face darkening for a second before it brightened again, “so… your sisters and parents went to the Japanese school then?”

“...no? I’m the first wizard in my family… is that bad?” hakyeon asked, looking confused at the older boy’s expression.

    Wyn seemed to hesitate for a second, a heavy silence settling over the carriage.

“Y’know what? I’ll… help you get your stuff down.”

“You want me to leave?” Hakyeon asked, looking heartbreakingly confused as he looked at the older boy.
“Yes.” he stated, looking unphased as he got hakyeon’s trunk out of the top compartment, handing the heavy object over to hakyeon, nearly crushing his cat in the process, who jumped off of hakyeon’s lap with a hiss, “go on now.”

    Hakyeon got up with his head down, dragging his trunk behind him as he left the carriage, the door slamming behind him as he picked up his cat again.
“I can’t believe I didn’t see he was a mudblood until now, I should have known.” a muffled voice through the door said, sounding aghast.

“Psh. I could smell it off him the moment he walked in.” another said arrogantly.

    Hakyeon couldn’t help but to sniffle to himself as he walked off, switching off his ring as he looked for an empty carriage, preferring to not talk to anyone now for once. He eventually found one that he thought was empty, setting his trunk on the ground with a loud bang as soon as he shut the door shut, hugging his small kitten close as he pondered why he wanted to cry. Hakyeon then felt a light tap on his shoulder.

“...you alright?” a voice next to him quietly asked in Hakyeon’s own native tongue, scaring the wits out of him as he