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CHAPTER ONE
Frank Iero, Gerard Way and his brother, Mikey Way, Robert Bryar and Ray Toro. These were not ordinary fourteen year olds; they were wizards and they were on their fourth journey to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Frank, Gerard and Mikey were a part of Gryffindor whilst Ray and Bob were Ravenclaws.
As desperate as they were to live a normal life; it would not be possible, perhaps for Frank more so than the others. He and Gerard had been trying to hide the fact that they were a couple from the prying eyes of the rest of Hogwarts School, however, because some students were slightly more adept at discovering things, i.e. the Weasley twins; Fred and George, who received their information from their younger brother – Ron who was close friends with both Frank and Gerard. It was through this means that the boys were introduced to 'The Boy Who Lived' – Harry James Potter and Hermione Granger.
Frank and his friends sat in their compartment discussing the summer… and Summer. Summer was Frank's 'baby' sister, (they were twins, however, she had been born after Frank,) she too was a proud Gryffindor. She and her own friends, away from her brother, had decided to have their own compartment. Some things, in Summer's opinion, were definitely not for her brother's ears.
"Frank, had you heard anything from H. or anyone over the summer?" Bob repeated anxiously; although from a different house, Bob had bonded with Harry, perhaps more so than the others.
Frank shook his head. "No. He's probably been 'busy' though, we all saw what happened at the World Cup…" He sighed, linking his arm with Gerard's.
"And, we all know that his aunt and uncle enjoy locking Hedwig up." He added, self-justifying his statement. Silence filled the compartment as each was lost into his own thoughts.
_____RaY'.ofview______
With at least three hours of the train journey left, the five of us had begun to get very slowly bored. Being stuck on a train for such an extended period of time gives few options of activities. Mikey was trying to not get distracted by his brother and best friend embraced beside him, by re-re-reading 'QUIDDITCH TEAMS OF THE 20TH CENTURY', the book was now dog-eared, moth eaten and several pages had been taped back into place. Bob, who sat opposite me, had begun waving his wand distractedly and therefore, blue sparks shot out of the end, narrowly missing my hair.
Another half an hour passed. By which point, Frank had decided that he was going to complain about being hungry. Also, people, who, like us had gotten bored of their own compartments were passing by, giving us the opportunity to catch up with friends and in Summer's case; family. She had brought several of her friends; Sophia, Bella, Ellie and two girls whom we did not know. Much like Frank, she possessed the typical traits I had come to associate with Gryffindors; the pride, the loyalty, the compassion and more importantly – the bravery.
"Guys, I thought I'd let you know that the food trolley has just been down our end of the train, so she'll be here soon." She grinned, throwing a Berttie Botts Every Flavour Bean at Gerard's head.
We thanked her briefly, thankful for the delivery of news that would finally shut Frank up. For a while, at least. My attention was drawn to one of Summer's friends; it was almost as if she struggled with words when she was around, well, people. Her eyes were fixed on Bob as he drummed into thin air. Bob remained transfixed on his rhythm, not noticing the attention he was receiving.
"Oh, Frank, if you're wondering where Harry, Ron and Hermione are – they're down our end. We could send them up this way if you want," Sophia added, a deep pink climbing up her neck.
He shrugged. We would meet up with Harry, Ron, Hermione and Ginny sooner or later; at that precise moment; he was too wrapped up in his boyfriend's eyes to pay a considerable amount of attention.
______Summer'.._________
It was typical, having to watch my brother flirt and be downright sickening with Gerard. I had no problem with them being a couple; however, it was not fair when I had put up with it for the entire summer! I was not the only one either, who was beginning to get kinda pissed with it – Bob had already told Ray and me that he needed a girlfriend, so having to watch Frank and Gee together was causing him more pain than any of us.
I had the perfect way to put an end to his pain; to set him up with my friend, the girl who had blushed first to a deep peach straight through to a wonderful plum purple. Her name was Kerry, she, like Robert, was a Ravenclaw, enjoyed drumming and was an incredibly shy person. It was perfect…
______Frank'.._______
Bob had been sitting unusually quiet since Sum and the girls had left, still shooting blue sparks from the tip of his wand. Gee had got quite annoyed with this…
"Bob, if you do not stop doing that, I will have to show you what happens when you burn my GOD-DAMN CLOTHES!" He yelled suddenly, drawing his own wand on Bob threateningly. It transpired that Bob had singed his precious muggle jacket. I took it into my own hands to calm the situation, Mikey was still reading his book and Ray was staring out of the window quietly.
"Bob, come with me. We're going for a walk." I said suddenly, climbing to my feet. My statement came as a shock to Gerard and Mikey. I had never been all that close to Bob – his presence had the tendency to scare me ever so slightly.
Gerard gripped my hand as I made to walk out of the door. "Gee, baby, I'm only going for a walk – I'll be right back." I reassured him, pressing my lips to the back of hand gently.
Bob followed me from the compartment, skepticism clouding his face. Not surprising really, we rarely had the time to speak alone; he was a Ravenclaw whereas, I was, am even, a Gryffindor. Animosity among the houses was stronger than most would think between our two houses.
"What, Iero? I have work to be doing," He muttered, staring a hole through my skull; I was almost a head shorter than him… Being so much shorter, a hell of a lot shorter than him – I would have to rely mainly on my powers of persuasion.
"You like Kerry, don't you?" I said shortly, skidding to a halt in the corridor. He stared at me, reading my expression intently. Finally, he nodded once. I was shocked that Bob had finally, for the first time in all the years I had known him, admitted that he like a girl, and this time, she was not just any girl; she was perfect for him. All Sum and I needed to do, was to get the two of them together.
______Bella'.._______
Frank and Summer fought like cat and dog, however, they could come together and raise hell when they got along. They were closer than a lot of siblings at Hogwarts, and that included the Weasley twins.
When we had managed to navigate our way back through the train to our compartment, Sum's anger had been replaced by a fit of giggles, mainly over Kerry's reaction when she had seen Bob.
"Kez, you like Bob, don't you?" Summer asked suddenly, her giggles subsiding. Kerry stopped what she was doing to gawp at Sum, almost as if she could not believe the accusation.
"Course I don't…" Kerry answered sarcastically, finally admitting what we already knew.
The conversation soon turned to something that was occurring at Hogwarts this year. Living in the muggle world had its disadvantages; none of us had had access to 'The Daily Prophet'; Sophia did on the other hand.
"Have you guys not heard then? Something big is supposed to be happening…" Gloated Sophia "My parents said it's a bit like a contest or something…"
All of us dropped what we were doing and stared at her. "You cannot leave it at that!" I yelled at her, dropping my box of Chocolate Frogs on the floor of the carriage, the others echoed my statement and began throwing Berttie Botts Every Flavour Beans in her direction.
Sophia ducked behind a book and hid there until we had exhausted our supply of beans and, well, as a group of teenage girls, we would not use our Chocolate Frogs as ammunition.
"Okay, fine. I give in; Mum told me, even though she wasn't supposed to, she works in the Department of Magical Sports and Games. So, she kinda heard about this thing that has been put together – three wizarding schools gather together to compete in three kinda dangerous tasks… That's all she told me, okay?" She squealed, holding her hands up in surrender.
We took this as an adequate response, knowing that if anything so significant was going to happen at Hogwarts, Dumbledore would announce it at the feast. So, silence fell and we began to examine the scenery flying past the windows of the train become darker and greener, which could only mean one thing; we were nearing Hogsmade Station.
"Come on, ladies. I think we should change. I can see Hogwarts." Ellie announced, wiping the condensation that had been obscuring her view, from the window.
_________
Rain lashed at the windows as Harry Potter stared out of the compartment door... Barely listening to the argument his two best friends were having beside him.
"Ronald! Will you control that damn owl! Crookshanks is trying to sleep!" Yelled Hermione Granger angrily,
"I can't control this bloody thing Hermione!" Answered Ron miserably, throwing an owl treat at his owl's cage in a hope of shutting it up. To no avail...
"I've had enough! Both of you just shut the hell up!" Harry groaned his head in his hands.
He was attempting to block out the pain from his lightening bolt shaped scar on his forehead. His friends muttered their simultaneous, and, in Ron's case, begrudging, apologies.
Harry shook his head, accepting their apologies. Although he had accepted them, he still needed a break from the claustrophobic atmosphere of the compartment. Climbing to his feet, Harry headed out of the door and made to turn down the corridor, when a familiar drawling sneer met his ears; that of Draco Malfoy.
"I mean to say, did you see that freak and his little Pansy back there? It's a disgrace that they're allowed into this school." He sneered. Famous for his disgust at the prospect of muggle-born students in the school, Draco Malfoy however, was further disgusted at the idea of those muggle-borns being gay.
"The hypocritical snake!" Harry hissed and ducked behind the wall, concealing himself from view. Withdrawing his wand, Harry murmured the first curse that came to mind. . . "Wingardium leviosa." Malfoy was suspended in mid-air and hopelessly groping for his wand, while Harry stood below and laughed. The first time he had done so since the end of the previous school term.
"The next time you feel like insulting one of my friends, Malfoy, make sure I'm nowhere near-by!" He hissed, with a small giggle.
"Oh, you wait, Potter, I'll –" Began Draco, his arms and legs flailing. Harry cut him off mid-sentence.
"You'll do what, snake? Tell your father? Oh, good. I could do with a laugh, especially when your father threatens me!" Harry laughed sourly, turning away and muttering the counter-curse…
____Bella'.____
From our compartment, we could hear the exchange taking place between Harry and the Slytherin Snake – Malfoy. Summer's hand stiffened on the compartment door, there was only one student in the school was so rudely described as a 'Pansy'; Frank.
"The evil, pure blooded, scum!" She growled, forcing the door open beneath her hand. I had to drag her back inside before she did something she may regret…
"Sum, we all know what a scumbag Malfoy is. He shouldn't be able to treat Frankie that way, however, please, for your brother's sake, do not risk getting into trouble with McGonagall for him! Harry is sorting him out. " I whispered, grabbing a handful of her robes as she stormed out of the door.
With a deep breath, she returned into the compartment to lift her case from the luggage rack with some difficulty. Kerry was helping her with her case as Ellie, Sophia and I struggled out into the corridor as the train shuddered to a halt.
____Frank'.______
Finally, we felt the train slow and draw to a stop. I clambered off Gee's lap and made to tug his case off the rack when a voice from the door of the carriage made me jump three foot in the air…
"Iero, you owe me big time, friend!" Harry Potter's voice floated above the sounds of students leaving the train.
"What's happened this time?" Gerard questioned on my behalf, his arm looping around my waist. I gripped at his other hand; normally, when Harry decided to sort out any of my problems, it would otherwise have ended in my being severely battered and bruised.
"Only our favorite snake was bad mouthing you two again…" He answered dryly, subconsciously fingering his wand. "Calling Frank a pansy, that kind of thing." He added, with a sympathetic smile on his if not troubled, face.
"That MOTHER-F-" Gerard began, however, was cut of by the girls, once again, stopping at the compartment door.
"Nice, Ger. That's just what we thought about him. Anyway, if you six don't want to head back to London, I'd get off the train now, if I were you!" Bells laughed, waving in the direction of the remaining students filling past the doors.
We each agreed with her sentiment and began collecting our belongings that had been scattered across the compartment. That was until I realized that Kerry, the infamous blushing girl, was drumming with her wand against the door frame. Between Kerry's drumming and undeniable support of the Chudley Cannons, the relationship between her and Bob would work out perfectly.
Summer took the opportunity to shepherd her friends out of the carriage and off the train where they waited for Gerard, Mikey, Ray, Bob, Harry and I, along with Hermione, Ron and Ginny. Fred and George would join us later in the Great Hall for the feast.
We separated into smaller groups; Sum, Gerard, Mikey and I in one carriage. Sum's friends in another. Harry, Hermione, Ron and Ginny in the final carriage. Little did we know that Crabbe and Goyle had flagged down the next carriage for themselves and Draco.
_____HARRY'..______
I was fuming for Malfoy's earlier disrespect for my friend. He seemed not to understand that despite the fact that Frank and Gerard were different, they were not to be considered outcast! I must have wandered into my thought process in the middle of a conversation as Hermione waved her hand in front of my face, bringing me back to reality.
"Harry, are you still with us?" She asked anxiously, waving a hand in front of my emerald eyes.
I nodded indifferently and lay my head back against the wall of the carriage – I blanked out the conversation between Hermione, Ron and Ginny, revolving around the incident with Malfoy and how Frank and Gerard were coping.
_____Summer'.._____
Since we had climbed into the carriage, Kerry had not quit her complaining about Bob and my attempts at matchmaking. I was determined that, by the end of the school year – Kerry and Bob would be a couple. If I could not accomplish this through the normal channels then, I may have to resort to forcing a love potion down their throats… Okay, maybe that was going a little far. I put it down to spending so much time with Frank and Gerard over the summer. Frank had been threatening to slip Seamus a love potion on my behalf. So, yes, I had a slight thing for Seamus Finnegan, and now, Frank, Gerard and even Mikey knew!
"Stupid damn brother!" I grumbled aloud, causing every head in the carriage turned in my direction. I was saved the hassle of explaining my outburst by the carriage stopping outside the school doors.
\\ CARRIAGE 3 – DRACO&CONNIES //
Draco Malfoy sat opposite his Slytherin apes; Crabbe and Goyle. He ran a hand through his perfect, ice blond hair, cursing Harry Potter using every profanity in his extensive vocabulary. This was then followed by a string of curses as the carriage had bumped over a lump in the road.
"You can stop staring, too, Goyle! This is all the fault of the Gryffindor Pansy and his freak of a boyfriend!" He spat angrily in Goyle's direction. Continuing his rant, Malfoy now chose to begin the insulting of Frank's treasured sister; Summer Aimee Iero.
"Oh, and that scumbag's sister! She's almost as bad as her brother; you should see the way she acts around some of that Gryffindor slime! She'd be much better off with a Slytherin boy." He added, smoothing his hair as he clambered out of the carriage.
\\ INSIDE THE CASTLE //
Just inside the doors to the castle, the girls had met up with the others; Frank, Gerard, Mikey, Ray, Bob, Harry, Hermione, Ron, Ginny and Fred and George.
"Come along, ladies; we'd best go and get a seat." Summer laughed, with a glance after another gaggle of Gryffindor boys… Seamus among them. She grabbed hold of her brother's arm and dragged him into the hall. This left Bob and Kerry alone.
_____BOB'.._____
Daring though it was, I had Frank's words ringing in my ears: "don't be such an idiot. We ALL know she likes you… Do not let this pass you by!" He had yelled at me, the sound was actually incredibly intimidating…
As we walked alone towards the Ravenclaw table; I caught her hand in mine. I now realized, that Frank and Summer had been right all along. Looking across to Frank's table, I blushed as he gave me a brief thumbs up.
_____FRANK'.._____
I barely suppressed my giggle as I watched Bob and Kerry chatting merrily; their hands were laced together under the table. With a nod of happiness, I turned my attention back to my own table and noticed with a jolt of annoyance, Summer was staring dreamily down the table in Seamus' direction. She was so god-damn obvious…
Our table quieted down when we noticed that Dumbledore had stood up, ready to make the special start of term announcement.
"This year," He began; now, it appeared was the time we were going to hear the special plans. . .
_____SUMMER'.._____
Now, I must tell you, my brother is the kind of wizard who is extremely protective of those whom he loves. This therefore meant that, he was giving me daggers – FOR LOOKING AT SEAMUS!! Is it any wonder people decided to avoid Frank and I when we argued? It was a nuclear blast of similarities. . . I received a sharp nudge to the ribs from Bella when Dumbledore had got to his podium in front of the staff tables.