"No." He seems... friendly, more or less; it's probably safe to ask questions - "Do you?"

"Well, no one really knows until they get there, do they, but I know I'll be in Slytherin, all our family have been—imagine being in Hufflepuff, I think I'd leave, wouldn't you?"

"I've heard Hogwarts is the best school," he says, because he has no idea what the other boy is talking about and this is the safest response he can think of. "I wouldn't want to go to a worse one."

"Can't be that good if it put me in Hufflepuff. Father would probably just send me to Durmstrang. I say, look at that man!" he says, nodding towards the front window—

—where a familiar giant can be seen, grinning at Victor and pointing at two large ice creams to show he can't come in. 

Victor looks at Hagrid and smiles slightly to show he noticed.

Draco notices. "You know him?"

He nods. "His name is Rubeus Hagrid and he's the Hogwarts groundskeeper," he explains.

"Oh," says the boy. "I heard he's a sort of savage—lives in a hut on the school grounds and every now and then he gets drunk, tries to do magic, and ends up setting fire to his bed."

"I haven't seen him set fire to anything," says Victor.

"Is he with you? Where are your parents?"

"Yes. They're dead."

"Oh, sorry," he says, not sounding sorry at all. "But they were our kind, weren't they?"

"Yes."

"I really don't think they should let the other sort in, do you? They're just not the same, they've never been brought up to know our ways. Some of them have never even heard of Hogwarts until they get the letter, imagine. I think they should keep it in the old wizarding families. What's your surname, anyway?"

But before he can answer, Madam Malkin says to Victor, "That's you done, my dear."

"Thank you," he says to Madam Malkin, very politely.

And - he's going to see this blond boy and his opinions again at school, he's not getting out of this, for all he knows it's a common name - "Evans. Sorry, I have to go."

"Evans?" he squeaks as Victor goes.

He pays for his robes and goes out to meet with Hagrid, smiling again as he approaches the ice creams.

Chocolate and raspberry with chopped nuts! Hagrid starts leading the way to the next store.

Ice cream is good. Going shopping for school supplies with Hagrid is good.

Next up: parchment and quills. Students are supposed to only use regular ones but there are all sorts of fancy quills: quills that take dictation, quills that produce their own ink, ink that changes colour, invisible ink...

Victor will get listed supplies in reasonable quantities. Although he will allow himself a minute to look at the interesting quills. And if the self-inking quills look reasonably priced, well, that's useful, he could use that.

"Yeh know, we got more money than yeh strictly need fer supplies, if yeh want ter buy anythin' fer yerself."

"I think I will get a self-inking quill."

He adds one to the pile.

He can have the self-inking quill! Is there anything else he'd like to buy here?