Authors note: Hey guys this is my third real story. I hope you all like this cause I have a bunch of twists you certaintly won't expect. Please read and review.
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or Maximum Ride. If I did I would be a whole lot richer and currently sitting on a beach in Hawii. Thank-you
Hope steped into the train station pulling a trunk full of supplies she had never even heard of an eraser close at her heels. "May I ask a question?" She asked pulling the trunk a little faster to be out of range of an eraser swinging a fist at her but to her suprise the hit never came and she suddenly remembered that they were not in Itex anymore. "No!" The eraser snarled glancing at numbers of the platforms as they passed.
Hope shut her mouth she had learned to do as your told in Itex no questions asked. Normally she would have said something back, anything to irratate an eraser but this time her freedom and her parents lives were on the line. Hope had never actually met her parents. She didn't even know if her name was Hope she had given herself a name because at the Itex headquarters kids didn't have names.
They were refered to as experiment-212 or some other number. Lost in her own world Hope didn't notice when the Eraser suddenly stopped she just kept walking until she felt her arm being pulled backward. Hope held back a cry of pain as she heard her arm pop out of place as it had so many times before. "You need to pay attention to where I'm going girly." The Eraser hissed at her and she could here the dangerous edge to his voice almost as if he were about to bash her skull in. Hope mummered a quick apology to him and scolded herself in her mind for making a step out of line. Just a few more things you have to do Hope, she thought, then you'll be free to live your life with your parents. "Where is it." She heard although it was a lot softer as if she were running her hand over velvet.
She turned and watched as the Eraser's looks became softer and he looked more human. "Excuse me!" The Eraser called out to a family of redheads near the sign that read 'Platform 9'. Hope scanned the family quickly and noticed that two people were hanging to the back, a black haired boy and a brown headed girl that looked as if she had just stuck her finger in a light socket. The redheaded boy close to them burst out laughing and glanced in her direction as the Eraser's cry died out.
The Eraser yanked on her arm twice a sign that told her to play along or she would regret it later. Hope put on her fake smile she didn't use very often. You don't really have a use for it usually she thought. This was true Hope had only been outside Itex once maybe twice in her entire life. The Eraser ,whos name she couldn't remember for the world, slid his hand from her shoulder to her hand which he took and held as if she were a small child.
The two glided across to the family and two other teens who were staring at them curiously. "Hi, my name is Hayden and this is- Hope." The Eraser, Hayden, gestured to himself first and then to Hope who tried her best to look happy. "Um, Hope is new to this school and we can't find the platform." Hayden continued and Hope watched the disgust glimmer in his eyes as he pronounced her name. "Oh," said the motherly looking women that looked as though she hadn't gotten any rest in a long time.
"Which are you looking for?" The fizzy haired girl asked looking at the trunk that was trailing behind Hope. "Nine and three quarters?" Hayden said and it sounded like a question. "You mean the Hogwarts express." The black haired boy said staring directly into Hope's eyes. She squirmed sure that he knew why she was here even before she did herself. "Ummm. yeah I'm not from here you see. I'm from America you know Alaska" The red head nodded and told her that that made sense but the other two looked wary. The group stood in scilence for a few moments and Hope glanced at the clock on the wall that was about ten feet away. Good thing I have super senses she thought and yelped in suprise when someone's hand touched her arm.
"Hey, my names Hermione Granger and these are my friends Ron, Ginny, and their mom Mrs. Weasly, and Harry." She paused before saying the last name. Harry Hope thought why does that name sound familiar. "Hope?" Hermione said in that same tone that made Hope want to crawl into a hole. It was the same as the look Harry was giving her. One word suspision! Hope knew Harry must be well known because of the way his face scrunched up and he looked as though he expected some sort of reaction when Hermione said his name.
That was Hope's talent she could read people locate their inner feelings. Among other things this talent was her favorite but it wasn't like she wouldn't trade all of it for a normal life. Hope lost in her thoughts, like she was 99% of the time, looked up as someone cleared their throat. "Well if we want to get on the train we had better hurry." Ginny said and walked over to Harry who's hand she took. Hope nodded and Hermione explained quickly that muggles could not get past the barrier. "All you have to do is run at the wall and you'll go through." Ginny said happily throwing a grin up at Harry who looked slightly uncomfortable.
"Ok." Hope said and waved at the group as one at a time they disappeared into the wall. Both Hope and the Eraser, who had been watching the whole exchange, gaped at the place they disappered. Hayden looked down at Hope and gave her another mean glance. "Ok listen, your here to spy on this school find out everything you can. I mean find ways in and out, figure out how they defend themselves, how dangerous they are. Everything about them you can find out. These people call themselves wizzards and we have seen a display of their power. In that trunk you will find a series of books and supplies read them and use them as needed. Also you'll find a communication device in the trunk use it to stay in contact with the person we have. Wear it during all of your classes so that the person can give you answers any answers they know at least. If people ask you questions make up lies. Understand me?"
Hayden asked and Hope nodded voicing the one question she would proberbly get answered. "Don't schools usually have principals or leaders or something that know the people who attend?" She asked and the Eraser just smirked. "The person we have has taken care of everything you will need in order to go along with the flow. Don't screw this up 314 or you won't have freedom or parents." He said and pushed her towards the barrier.
Hope took a deep breath closed her eyes and ran forward expecting to smack into the wall any minute even though she had seen five people do it just moments ago. Feeling nothing Hope opened her eyes forcefully as soon as she thought it was safe to stop running and gasped at what she saw. A huge scarlet train and several people of all ages standing close by. Hope dragged the trunk she had close behind her as she made her way through the crowd admiring the taste of being free if only for a short while. She closed her eyes once again and took another deep breath smelling the air. At the Itex facility it always smelled of hospital and death because so many children died of experiments.
She was one of the very few that hadn't gotten her DNA messed with. Hope streched her arms and legs thinking about how free she was at the moment and how wonderful it felt to not be watched twenty-four seven. Hope sighed her reviere broken as someone from the train yelled 'all aboard'. She grabbed the stupid trunk agian and dragged herself to the train reluctantly. Growing up in a cage Hope had an issue with small spaces. And trains, from what she knew, were incredibly long and narrow. Turns out she was right. The train was as small as she imagined if not smaller and full of people in every part of it. Hope walked from on compartment to the next searching for a place she could be alone. Eventually she reached the last few compartments and realized that she wasn't going to get any peace.
Each compartment held several people and Hope had quickly apologized to them and kept walking. Hope sighed swinging open the next compartment only to find the four kids that she had seen near platform nine. "Hi," Hope said twiddleing her thumbs. "Umm, do you all mind if I sit here? I would sit somewhere different but there is nowhere else." She finished staring at her feet "Sure you can sit here." The red-headed girl,Ginny, said and patted the seat next to her. She seemed to be the only one who wasn't suspisious of her. Even the red-headed boy,Ron, who had been friendly to her was suspisious. She could imagine why she didn't know anything about them or 'magic' for that matter. How did Itex expect her to do this if she had no clue what she was doing. Hope thought they were out of their mind for believeing that there was such a thing as magic.
She hesitated for a moment almost backing out of the compartment and going to another but despite herself she found herself in the seat beside Ginny who gave her a comforting smile and turned back to the other three people in the compartment. Hope took this time to listen to what they were saying and giving up after failing horribly at trying to figure out what Quidditch is. Nerves ran through her body and she found her hands trembling as she thought about what was at stake if she failed this mission. But how can they find me if I run away she thought raking her fingers through her hair anxiously waiting to get off of the train and be by herself. "What do you think about it Hope?" Hermione asked making Hope jump. "About what?" Hope asked and then continued "I was thinking sorry."
"That's alright we were talking about who will be the new defense aginst the dark arts teacher." Harry said for Hermione flashing her a smile. Hope smiled back at him trying to get rid of the paranoid feeling that someone knew what she was doing here and replied while really avoiding the subject. "Oh, I don't know. It will probably be someone I don't like but like I said I'm from Alaska so I wouldn't really know." "Yeah, I'm sure they couldn't be any worse than some of the other teachers we have had." Ron exclaimed laughing with the rest as they told her about all the horrible teachers they had the past six years. Hope had almost forgotten why she was here until Hermione told her they needed to change into their robes and Hope panicked. What if I don't have any of those ,she thought, they definatley won't think I'm normal then.
Hope was pissed off how could they expect her to go along with this. This was a whole different society she wouldn't even last in her own world what made them think she could accomplish this. She wasn't a witch or wizzard or anything like that. She was just experiment 314 who was striving toward a goal in which she had no hope of acomplishing. Hope sighed wondering how she was going to explain this to these people. She didn't think of them as friends in fact she didn't even know what a real friend was. Hope always had to look after herself in this horible world of pain and hunger and loss thats all she had ever known and would probably always know. She saw the the world as it was and she knew that all of the things she had seen and experienced would follow her the rest of her days.