"Come on, guys." Sean had been sitting across from Hermione. He stood to greet Harry and Neville, then naturally took a seat beside Hermione.
"Where's Ron? Isn't he always with you two?"
"Haha, his parents went to Romania to visit his brother, so Ron's staying at Hogwarts for the holiday," Harry said with a smile. "But Neville and I prepared a present for him this morning, and besides, he's got his brothers with him."
The train slowly began to move. Sean took quite a few snacks from his robe pocket and laid them out on the table. They were only a small portion of the gifts he had received.
"Help yourselves." Sean smiled at the two of them.
Harry thanked him, unwrapped a piece of toffee, and lazily tossed it into his mouth.
"Neville, don't hold back when Sean's treating." He gave Neville's shoulder a hearty pat, then grinned at Sean. "Neville's gran won't even let him eat more than a few sweets."
"Come on, Harry." Neville nudged Harry with his elbow, clearly unhappy that his friend was exposing him.
Sean was extremely curious about the families the two had grown up in. After chatting for a while, he asked, "I read in a book that you two came from, uh, the Twenty-Eight Pure-Blood Families?"
Harry gave a disdainful snort. He clearly had little regard for the title.
"A bunch of arrogant, ill-mannered people made up this..." Harry thought for a moment, his expression growing even more disdainful, "disgusting thing for the sake of their pathetic, lowly so-called 'sense of honor.'"
Neville unwrapped his third piece of candy and added, "Some Pure-blood Wizards in the Wizarding World care a lot about that, but neither my family nor Harry's does. And by the way, Harry learned what he just said from