THE STORY CONTINUES – CHAPTER 1
As the train rounded the corner, Rose said to Albus, "Come on, we'd better find some seats."
They walked down the train, and as they past packed compartments, they saw people staring at them. After they had gone through a whole carriage of this, Albus remembered what James had said.
"Rose, James told me that we should expect people to stare at us because of who our parents are. I'm not sure that I like it."
Rose stopped and put her hand on Albus' arm.
"Remember we're here together. If James can get through this on his own, we can do the same. Oh, here's a compartment."
Albus looked in and saw a scared looking boy sitting down on his own, staring out the window. Rose opened the door and walked in.
"Is it ok if we sit here?"
The boy looked up quickly, and his mouth fell open. Somehow he managed to nod, and the two sat down.
"Y…Your parents are H…Hermione and R…Ron Weasley, aren't they?" he stuttered at Rose, and looked at Albus when Rose nodded, "and y…your parents are H…Harry and G…Ginny P…Potter."
Albus nodded. He had been afraid that this would happen, he didn't want the attention. Suddenly the boy seemed to pull himself together and he shut his mouth.
"I'm Shaun Goldburg, but you can just call me Shaun." He held his hand out to each of them in turn. "Do either of you know what house you will be in when we go to Hogwarts? I hope I'm in Gryffindor, both my parents were in that house. That's where they met."
The three of them talked about Hogwarts, and soon became friends. As the lunch trolley came round, they all eagerly got their money out. The compartment was soon full of sweets, and there was a short time of peace, as they started to eat. Albus properly looked at Shaun for the first time. He was small, even smaller than Albus, with mousy-brown hair, and large, round, blue eyes. From the clothes he was wearing, Albus could tell that he was well used to wearing muggle clothes.
During the afternoon, the talk turned to lessons and what they would be like, with both Shaun and Albus admitting a fear of what level of magic they would be required to do.
As evening fell upon them, the door opened, and Victoire came in and sat down beside Rose. She was already in her Hogwarts robes, with the red and gold prefect badge of Gryffindor.
"You'd better get your robes on, we'll be at Hogsmeade Station in ten minutes."
With that, she stood up and walked out of the compartment and down the walkway.
"Who was that?" Shaun yelped.
"That's our cousin, Victoire." Albus said, "And we'd better do what she said. We want to be ready when we get there."
They quickly got into their robes, and soon the train was pulling up at the station. As they got off the train, they heard Hagrid calling for the first-years, and when he reached them, he smiled, said hello, and was quickly introduced to Shaun.
When all the first-years were gathered together, they left the station for the Lake, with the boats to take them across the river, as Harry had promised.
They managed to get a boat to the three of them, and as they came into sight of the castle, there was an audible intake of breath from everyone.
Albus, Rose and Shaun were no different. They all looked up at the magnificent castle with awe and wonder as they draw closer into the magic of Hogwarts.