Yay! A new story! I decided I've had enough of those grown-up love stories, and I wanted to put one out there that depicted the development of this particular relationship. Enjoy!
"Has anyone seen a toad?" Hermione poked her head into another compartment, this one containing two boys surrounded by candy. Hermione resisted the urge to wrinkle her nose. "A boy named Neville has lost one."
The red haired boy, who had a beat-up old wand out, shook his head. "No," he said. Hermione could tell his mouth was still filled with candy.
"Oh, you're doing magic?" she asked. Hermione was curious about the other students' abilities. "Let's see then."
The boy looked a bit bewildered, but he cleared his throat and scrunched his eyebrows. "Sunshine, daisies, butter mellow… Turn this stupid, fat rat yellow."
A faint flash of light came from a box of Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans on his lap, and Hermione realized there was a sickly looking rat there. She pressed her mouth into a thin line.
"Are you sure that's a real spell?" she asked, laughing slightly. "Well, it's not very good, is it? I've only tried a few simple ones myself, but they've all worked for me." She sat down in front of the dark haired boy, aiming her wand at the tape wrapped around the bridge of his glasses. "For example: Oculus Reparo!"
The dark haired boy took of his glasses, looking at them in amazement. Hermione spied a lightning bolt shaped scar through the parted hair on his forehead, and her eyes widened.
"Holy cricket," she said. "You're Harry Potter!" All the facts she'd come across whilst reading flashed through her head. "I'm Hermione Granger," she remembered the ginger boy, and decided to be polite. "And, you are?"
He'd just stuffed his mouth full again. "Ahm—Ron Weasley."
"Pleasure," she said lightly. She directed her attention back to Harry. "You two had better change into robes, I expect we'll be arriving soon."
Just as she was about to leave, she turned back to Ron. "You've got dirt on your nose, did you know? Just there," she touched the side of her own nose and turned down the train corridor. For some reason, she couldn't stop wondering what house Ron and Harry would be in.
Reviews will make chapter 2 come up much quicker, and so on and so forth! So the more you want to read, the more you should review!