15 First Friend

When Olivia saw the boy making his way over to them with that cute puppy in his arms attempting to lick his face whilst he smiled at it lovingly, it made her heart race unexpectedly fast... she attempted to look away but realised that she simply couldn't, her eyes were drawn to him like a magnet. The Vander couple merely giggled at this scene, they could both agree that the boy looked very handsome and even looked otherworldly in some aspects.

Philip was making his way back over to the rest of his family whilst playing with Fen, he noticed his family was talking to another family, whilst all of them seemed to be staring at him. When he got to them, he looked at Euphemia before proceeding to look towards the people his family was talking to. At first, he thought it was some kind of old acquaintance of his grand-parents but then came to realise that the girl in which was currently staring at him was infact one of the girls from the Quidditch game back in America around half a year ago or so. Noticing this, his gaze became more gentle and he came to realise the situation thereafter, "Hello again, it seems like you're still doing well" Philip said as he spoke towards Olivia, "and I believe I haven't yet had the pleasure of meeting the Mr and Mrs there. Nice to meet you all, my name is Philip Potter." Philip said as he did a slight courteous bow towards the Vander family.

When they saw the attitude in which Philip had adopted, they hurriedly bowed slightly themselves,

"Ah! what very good manners you have Master Philip. My name is Ralph Vanders, this here is my wife, Elaine Vanders, and our daughter in which you've already met, Olivia Vanders. You can just call me Mr Vander and likewise for the Missus." Mr Vander said, he was also rather perplexed as to why Olivia had not introduced herself this time and instead allowed for him to do so. When he saw the look on her face though, his thoughts changed completely and realised he had made a slight error.

Olivia hadn't even realised she was still in a slight daze whilst continuously staring towards the boy in front of her. Once Philip's gaze landed on her, she suddenly fell out of her stupor and realised she had just been staring at him for such a long period of time.. she hung her head in embarrassment whilst the others merely giggled and Philip tilted his head slightly sideways.

Philip then came to an abrupt enlightenment, he took Fen from his arms and slowly pushed him towards Olivia, he believed that the reason she had been staring the entire time was due to her being intrigued and pleasantly surprised with seeing such a cute pet... Philip couldn't agree more with her and wanted to share some of the.. love. Olivia having finally noticed this, looked towards the outheld hands with the puppy sat atop them and didn't know whether she should take him or not, Philip gave her a small curt smile to which she decidedly took the puppy into her hands and looked at it. Looking at the puppy instead of Philip seemed to calm her heart a lot as she tried to pet him, Fen didn't seem too fussed about being petted by her, but still allowed for her to do so when he noticed Philip's eyes gazing towards him as if telling him to play with her too.

She gave Fen a gentle pat as she smiled happily seeing the puppy of Philip's hadn't entirely rejected her like she expected it to.

After this, the two families spent a short while together as they decided to visit the stalls together whilst they chatted away merrily. Olivia would keep training her gaze onto Philip whenever she had the chance, whilst Harry, Mr Vander and Fleamont were talking about Quidditch, Euphemia and Mrs Vander were both talking about the different sales all around the stalls to which Olivia would occasionally join in on when she wasn't watching the boy playing with his pet puppy.

"Ummm, Harry and p-Philip.. will you both be going to Hogwarts as next years freshman?" Olivia asked whilst facing both Harry and Philip with a slightly flushed and hopeful expression.

"We sure will, are you starting this year too Olivia?" Harry asked whilst also slightly expectant, after all, she was technically Harry and Philip's first real human friend.

Before she even had the chance to answer, Philip spoke up, "She should already be going into her second year seeing as how she was playing in a professional game of Quidditch over in America, also, you should be able to tell from the level of her magical power that she has already practiced to an extent in most magical fields." Despite him still playing around with Fen and not even looking back at the ongoing conversation, he was infact always paying attention.

Everyone was rather surprised behind his reasoning, not because of the Quidditch game, but rather because he had spoke of seeing her magical power. When Fleamont and Euphemia heard this, their eyes widened. Despite raising the two boys, and spending quite literally every single day with them, they had never heard Philip or Harry speak of such an ability before. They of course knew that the two boys had some strange resonant powers such as being able to tell the mood of the other, where the other one is and things to that extent... but being able to see a Wizards or Witches magical power level was something simply incomprehensible... at least for children of their age.

When the Vander family heard what Philip had said, they decided it was for the best to not ask too much right now and wait to see if and when the Potter family was ready to tell them about it, judging from the reactions of both Fleamont and Euphemia... it clearly was something even they didn't know.

Yet, the most amazing part was simply how Harry passed it off with a slight, "Ah, yeah, of course.. sorry I forgot Philip!" ... you could even almost hear a slight 'teehee' in there if you tried hard enough.

This time, Philip turned around.. simply ignoring the slightly shocked gazes from everyone and looked directly towards Olivia as he stopped playing with Fen for a minute and held out his hand once more, "So, I'm sure we'll see you soon when we arrive at Hogwarts. Please treat us well" Philip said with a slightly brighter yet still curt smile.