Riath sat in the middle of platform 9 and three courters. Her day hadn't been too bad. Other than having to rapidly pack her things, and freaking out thinking that she'd hit the connecting brick wall, she was here. At the train. The place she'd wanted to be ever since she found out that her brother was a wizard. In fact he was the one that she was mad at. But she guessed she should be grateful. After all if he hadn't pulled her through the wall she wouldn't have been here. She would have still been panicking at the muggle station. Muggle. What a strange word to her. She was raised by her "muggle" mom. She was as her mom put it "a gift from the sperm donor stork". So when she and her brother got the word from Hogwarts a year after one another. She was exited. She always wanted to learn magic and here it was. But suddenly a new thought came. What if I'm too different? If I don't know anything at all? I mean I freaked out at the WALL. There's worse things than that! But if worse comes to worse, they probably don't know what a sperm donor is either..."
The warning whistle sounded bringing her out of her thoughts and into the situation. Her mother hurried her and her brother Joshua onto the train and waved goodbye as she separated from him and went to go find a compartment. After checking about 5 she dreamily wandered into a compartment. There was a girl there reading.
"Umm… may I sit here?" Riath asked timidly.
The girl looked up with a smile on her face and said "sure! My name is Venus. What's yours? Are you a first year like me?"
"Yeah I am! My name is Riath. How're you?" She asked grinning as she pulled her baggage into the compartment.
"I'm good. So are you a muggle born?"
"yeah. How'd ya know?"
"Well you were looking about like you were nervous and I just guessed."
The warning whistle sounded bringing her out of her thoughts and into the situation. Her mother hurried her and her brother Joshua onto the train and waved goodbye as she separated from him and went to go find a compartment. After checking about 5 she dreamily wandered into a compartment. There was a girl there reading.
"Umm… may I sit here?" she asked timidly.
The girl looked up with a smile on her face and said "sure! My name is Venus. What's yours? Are you a first year like me?"
"Yeah I am! My name is Riath. How're you?"
"I'm good. So are you a muggle born?"
"yeah. How'd ya know?"
"Well you were looking about like you were nervous and I just guessed."
"wow that's some good guessing! Yeah I'm really nervous. My brother goes here and he refused to tell me what happened the first night. So what are you reading?"
Venus showed her the dark green cover that displayed a black heading that said Trolls and their history. By Ethilna Yappenrs
"TROLLS? Do they even exist?" Riath exclaimed.
Venus burst out laughing. "Of course they exist!"
Riath's jaw almost dropped. "YOU CAN NOT BE SERIOUS!"
Venus just nodded. "Man what is the muggle world like that you don't know these things?"
Riath blushed "I mean people just account that stuff abut being fake!"
Conversations about families soon ensued. As they talked Venus explained about her family. :P
"I come from a line of wizards that consider themselves to be the true line of wizards. Mud blood is insulting because it implies that your line of heritage is mud. See, my family has all been in a house called Slytherin and they expect me to go into that house too."
"Do you want to be in Slytherin?"
"No! I want to be in Ravenclaw! That's where all the really smart people go!"
"Are those the two houses?"
"No no!" said Venus. "There's also Gryffindor for bravery and also Hufflepuff for loyal people! Any way it doesn't matter what house your in so long as you're a good person. I need to use the bathroom want to come with?"
They set out and on their way back they sighted two boys with extra luggage sitting outside the compartments in the hallway. One of theem was taller with black hair pulled back in a pony tail and round half moon glasses and the other a muscular medium heighed boy with light brown hair
Riath's eyes became large as she recognized two of the cases. "Bass and saxofone!" she squeeked. Her eyes immediately became focused on the two boys "Which one of you plays which?" She asked.
The black haired boy stood "I play the saxofone. My name? Dave Minnow." He said with a mischievous grin. "
That means I'm the bassist" said the sandy haired boy "Name is Abraham. Please though call me Abe." He smiled sheepishly. "which instrument tdo you play may I ask ?"
"Piano, but I write music!" Riath replied.
Venus meanwhile seemedmore concerned about how attractive David was rather than playing a musical instrument. "Why don't you come back to our compartment guys." She said. "I'm Venus and our compartment is just us."
Abraham smiled. "Yeah that'd be nice right Dave?"
He nodded and they headed off together to the compartment.
The which with the food kart came by and Venus bought some chocolate frogs and bertie bots every flavored beans.
"Here." she said as she handed one frog to Abe.
"Mmm thanks." He said. Abe nibbled a bit of the frogs head off and felt slightly rejuvenated. Meanwhile Riath was the first one to stare at the chocolate frog riggling in her hand.
"What the hell is this?"
"You don't know what a chocolate frog is!" exclaimed Abe. After a blank stare from Riath he explained.
"Well. It's an enchanted treat and you get a card at the end."
"Like Pokemon?" Asked Riath and got a stare from the other three
"What in Merlin's name is pokemon?" They both exclaimed.
As Riath explained And so the night went on. Venus had brought a ton of sweets and they had a blast tasting all the treats and daring each other to try new things. By the time that night fell they had become fast friends and hoped to be in the same house.