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Walking through Kings Cross station was fun, never seen so many people wanting a train in my life! I probably shouldn't have been listening to my mp3 player either, hmm, that was a bit embarrassing. I suddenly started singing and dancing to 'Better Do Better' by Hard-Fi. Let's just say knocked a few trolleys around and had many stares.
It took a very long-while to find the all mystic platform 9 and 3/4, fortunately the owl that I had been sent, poor thing flew all the way from Hogwarts to South Australia, had directions for getting onto the platform and subsequently the train.
Yes, I mentioned the great land of down under. I'm an exchange student from South Australia, I convinced my parents to allow me to exchange to Hogwarts for my last year, and it took me a while. I would technically be half way through yr. 12 if I was back home but as it was when I finished yr11, the equivalent to 6th year, I still had six months before I could start at Hogwarts. So for the first five months I worked a menial job so I could afford to come over to England. The last month before school I spent in Scotland, Ireland and Wales, spending almost all the money I had earned.
I had arrived at the train station early so I could avoid the crush of students, it worked, and I had gotten a cabin to myself. I had been sitting to start with but then one of my all-time favourite songs came onto my mp3 player, "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen. Now an epic classic like that can't not elicit joy into the hearts of music lovers and as I mentioned before, I get a bit too enthusiastic. So I was dancing around the cabin singing along to Freddie Mercury when I heard a voice: "Ah, Bohemian Rhapsody, a classic, one of my dad's favourites."
I turned to stare, mortified, at a girl with bushy hair and the air of intelligence. She was actually very pretty, like a wood nymph, I smiled at my observation.
"So you like Queen? You know that'll stop working as we get closer to Hogwarts? Sorry, I'm Hermione Granger, Head Girl," said the girl, smiling with a tinge of all-knowingness.
"Hi, I'm Nemeen Cahill. Sorry you had to see that," I replied grinning at Hermione.
"Oh my god! You're an Aussie!"
"Yes, and you're a Pom, your point being?"
"Sorry, we don't meet many Australians here because your school system is so different... So, the reason I came in here was to ask if you didn't mind if my friends and I sat in here with you?" Hermione asked after pinking with embarrassment.
"No, go ahead, I shouldn't break out into song again," I replied inwardly laughing at her humiliation. I was going to have to get used to being the upside down girl and to tell you the truth it didn't bother me, yet.
Hermione turned and beckoned someone in and I unfocused my eyes and looked again to see I had nothing to worry about from her. As I was studying Hermione's aura, two more joined hers, one of them held deep affection for her and, the other, tentative love. I re-focused my eyes in time to gape at one of the two guys who had just entered my cabin.