#8 | Tea Time with Hagrid

He thought he could hear a low voice inside and strained to listen- a mistake as it turned out when a dog started barking a heart beat after.
Joe was not scared of dogs in general but he was a little bit jumpy right now, having had his imagination run wild on the way here and he involuntarily took a few steps back when the door was opened.

He could not see behind the half-giant so he was not aware of the two Slytherin students insidenor could he see the dog but he was fairly certain such a bark belonged to a big dog and he almost expected it to pop its snout out behind the groundskeeper's frame.
It did not follow though and Joe looked up at the beaming face of Hagrid.

"Hel- hello!", his voice came out embarrassingly high-pitched and he cleared his throat so that Mr Hagrid did not think he was scared of him or anything.
"I'm Joe King." He was not sure why he had introduced himself but he felt like that was the polite thing to do. He also regretted not having introduced himself as 'Jonathan' just this time.
"I heard I could get a pot for gardening from you, Sir? Please, I like to garden...Is that alright?"

Joe could actually feel his legs tremble a little and he hoped that it was just him who noticed. If word got back that he was too scared to ask for some help to get his gardening started...
Well, probably nothing would happen but he did not know that.