"Is this compartment taken?" a short girl asked the two boys.
"N-no," both boys said in unison.
"Good, there was no where else to sit," the girl explained.
She let out an exasperate sigh before perking up, "How rude of me! My name is Elody Johnston."
"Harry Potter," the black haired, green eyes boy replied.
"Ron Weasley," the red head introduced.
"Weasley? Your name sounds awfully familiar," Elody commented.
"I have siblings," he replied.
"Me too! I have two sisters and one brother. What about you?" she asked.
"I have five brothers and one sister. You'll meet Percy, Fred, and George at Hogwarts. Charlie and Bill, the oldest graduated. My sister is coming to Hogwarts next year," Ron answered.
"Wow. My sister Maddie graduated last year. Melissa is in her third year and my brother Luke is in a second year," she replied smiling.
"What houses were they in?" Ron leaned in, engrossed in their conversation, "All my family have been in Gryffindor."
"Well Maddie was a Hufflepuff, Melissa is a Ravenclaw, and Luke is a Gryffindor," Elody replied.
"What house would you like to go in?" Ron inquired. "I hope for Gryffindor. Fred said mum will disown me if I go into any other house."
"Wow. I don't know what house I will go in, but I know whatever house it is it's going to be the best!" Elody exclaimed.
There was a moment of silence and the two just smiled at each other.
"What about you Harry?" Elody turned her attention to the isolated boy.
"Um, Gryffindor of course," he cracked her a half smile.
There was an awkward moment of silence.
"Hey, do you two want to see some magic? My brother taught me a spell to turn Scabbers yellow," Ron offered.
"Scabbers?" Elody furrowed her eyebrows in confusion.
"Oh, my bad, that's my rat," Ron held Scabbers in the palm of his hand.
"He's adorable!" Elody exclaimed.
"Okay enough of the PDA. Sunshine daisies-" Ron started.
"Has anyone seen a toad? A boy named Neville's lost it," a bushy haired girl interrupted.
"Um yeah, I think I saw it right next to your hairbrush," Elody said.
Ron and Harry snickered.
The bushy haired girl rolled her eyes, and in the process picking up the present wand in Ron's hand.
"Oh, are you doing magic, let's see then," she stuck her nose in the air.
Ron proceeded, "Sunshine, daisies, butter mellow, turn this stupid fat rat yellow!"
Scabbers let out a squeal.
Ron looked at Harry and Elody.
They all shrugged their shoulders.
"Are you sure that's a real spell? Well, it's not very good is it?" the bushy haired girl asked, letting out a sigh of triumph.
"Of course, I've only tried a few simple ones myself, but they've all worked for me."
Elody stared at the intruder, "Oh really, let's see you do a spell."
Elody watched as she strode into the compartment and sat down across from Harry, "Occulus Repairo."
Harry stared at his glasses in disbelief.
Ron didn't look impressed.
Elody rolled her eyes.
"Wow," Elody commented sarcastically.
"Better isn't it?" she asked Harry, but directed the question towards Elody.
"Holy cricket! You're Harry Potter! I'm Hermione Granger, and you are," Hermione trailed off looking at the other two inhabitants of the compartment.
"Ron Weasley," he said.
"Erm, pleasure, and you are?" she looked at Elody.
"You know you're not supposed to use underage magic outside of school? If you've read all the books you would have known that. Or maybe you were to arrogant to realize that," Elody snapped.
"You three should change into your robes. I expect we'll be arriving soon." Hermione stood up to leave, but held herself back at the door, "You've got dirt on your nose by the way, did you know?"
"Looks like we found the Slytherin princess," joked Elody.
Ron scowled.
"We should better change into our robes though," Elody sighed.
"I'll be right back," Elody told the boys, leaving for the bathroom her whole body tingling with nervousness.