The conversation was interrupted when the door to the compartment slid open. Standing at the door was a girl from Hufflepuff... if he remembered correctly. Gus had seen her sitting a good distance down from the house table in the Great Hall a couple of times, so that only confirmed his suspicions. Through the door, he heard some sort of commotion coming from somewhere done the corridor. It was muffled, but he could just barely make out what the voice was shouting about. Something about clearing out a compartment? He didn't think too much of it, though. Maybe it was a spell gone wrong. That was actually something that happened quite often. To put it gently, the wizarding world was a health and safety nightmare. Turning his attention back to the situation at hand, he said a quick greeting to the newcomer before welcoming her in.

"Sure, come on in. There's plenty of room." Gus smiled, briefly glancing at the long-haired calico currently sprawled across a good portion of the seats. "Mind the cat, though. She gets scratchy sometimes."

Honestly, he barely even noticed the nickname Frankie had just came up for him. In his mind, it was like they had already been friends for years. Which was obviously not true, since their first meeting was less than ten minutes ago or something to that degree. Gus vaguely pondered whether [i]he[/i] should invent a little nickname for Frankie. But then again, Frankie was pretty much already a nickname in itself.

[i]"What's your name? I don't know you, so you're probably not very popular."[/i]

Wow. That was very forward of her. Gus was just scarcely able to stop himself from clamping a hand over his mouth in sheer shock. Almost immediately, the inner-mediator inside him surfaced. He had to do something to smooth out this awkward situation.

"Well, I wouldn't put it that way." He quickly cut in. Oh god, what if the Hufflepuff girl started crying. That would be bad. Pushing that foreboding thought to the back of his mind, he opted to rationalise the statement. "There [i]are[/i] a lot of people in Hogwarts."