It was Harry's first year at a magical school known as Hogwarts.
As of right now Harry was sitting with his first friend ever Ron Weasley ,sharing the various treats he bought from the trains traveling concession stand.
A chubby unconfident boy, and a unattractive bushy haired girl opened the compartment door. "have any of you seen a toad, Neville has lost his" the bushy haired brunette asked, pointing to the chubby boy.
"Sorry, we haven't seen any toads" replied Harry
"well there you go Neville, we have checked the entire train. i'm sure he'll show up when we reach Hogwarts though" the bushy haired girl stated, looking at the disappointment on Neville's face.
With a look of defeat, Neville sat down opposite to Harry and Ron, the bushy haired girl shortly after followed.
"My name is Hermione by the way" the supposedly Hermione stated, Harry made a mental note of both of his new acquaintances' names.
Before Harry or Ron were able to reply, a dreamy blond barged in. Wedging herself beside Harry, completely ignoring them. The girl started to read an old edition of the Quibbler, upside down.
Giving each other similar looks, they waited for somebody to say something, creating a vexatious silence. surprisingly it was Neville who broke the uncomfortable constrained reticent.
"Hello Luna"
"Hello Neville, Trevor, Hermione, Ron, Harry" Luna replied somehow knowing all of the first years names.
Before anyone was able to make a remark on Luna's ability to know things she shouldn't, there was a loud and dramatic outburst from he discovered his toad because it jumped out of his pocket, answering Ron and Harry's question don who Trevor was.
After the outburst of affection everyone realized Luna had called the raven haired boy Harry. Creating an awkward silence as they looked at Harry, all thinking the same thing 'was he Harry Potter the one who defeated he-who-must-not-be-named'. leaving Harry in an uncomfortable position.
Harry's POV
'Why is everyone staring at me as if they are star stru-oh, why always me i'm just Harry, like i remember what i did when i was that young!'
"Are you Harry… Harry Potter" Ron spoke, saying what was on everyones mind.
He gave a small nod in confirmation, feeling startled. I am definatly not used to all this attention.
He watched as all their eyes widened, except for Luna's as she went back to reading the upside down Quibbler.
End Harry's POV
"why didn't you tel-" Ron uttered, being cut of mid-sentence by a sudden stop, causing all of the passengers to either fall to the floor or be jerked around in their seats.
Before anyone was able to sit comfortably in there seats again the sky became extremely dark. The only thing visible were volts of electricity, circling around them so fast if you weren't looking close it appeared as if the sky was an odd electric blue.
Like a man watching the Veela, every person was entranced by the whirling blue light, completely perplexed at the strange phenomenon oblivious to everything and every person around them.
The volts of electricity steadily grew brighter, yet they were so captivated they paid no attention to the the harm they were causing there eyes, that is all but Luna who realized the no doubt fatal outcome.
Reacting quickly Luna performed an advanced spell causing all the windows to be blanketed in a thick black paint, blocking the enticing light and surrounding them in complete darkness. The unusually out of character Luna cast a lumos, and returned to her upside down Quibbler.
Returning from there entranced state the momentarily dazed and baffled inhabitants of the Hogwarts train returned to their original positions on the comfy seats of the Hogwarts train.
Luna's pov.
"what happened" uttered a baffled Hermione
'what do you think your the smartest one here you can't expect us to know more than you on such a new subject', yet contradictory to her thoughts Luna did have some insight so she decided to share.
"we are traveling through a portal, a Blibbering Humdinger told me to be in your compartment, i guess this is why."
it was really hard not to laugh at the shocked look on their faces. i'm guessing they ignored my comment on Blibbering Humdinger or they would have for sure commented on it.
before anyone could question Luna about traveling through portal there was another sudden stop thrusting everyone around in there seats.
"now were done traveling" announced a detached Luna
'i have to admit its hard not to laugh when they have such priceless facial a good thing that Blibbering Humdinger got in contact with me or else every person on the train would be blind. Its not that bad starting school one year early, just upsetting that i wont become friends with people i would have become friends with.'
End Luna's POV
"well we should probably put on our uniforms" with that statement Luna stood and exited the compartment shortly followed by hermione.
Who answered there odd looks with a smirk and a confusing "changing in the change-room" causing curious looks from all the males as strangely only the woman have a change-room.
Neville quickly explained " the train wanted to save space so they only made a change room for the girls, that makes a change room for the boys in their compartments."
A dawning look of comprehension crossed the remaining boys faces.
"this has got to be the coolest school" exasperated Ron
"what makes you say that" replied Neville
" they must have changed the train, because Fred and George never said anything about a portal"
" Ron of you grew up with a wizard family, how do you not know this" questioned Harry
Neville was the one who answered " my grandma is closer to Dumbledore, being as there both around the same age, so I overhear a lot about the school that even some of The teachers don't know.
Harry's POV
I will have to ask Neville later about the school, after all I could use all the knowledge I can get.
Ron's right this is cool. I wonder if they'll teach us the portal spell, maybe its an illusion, either way i want to learn how to do it.
He chose to ignore the recent events, as they were too confusing, it would probably be explained later.
End Harry's POV
The boys decided to change and see what awaited them.