"Rachel hurry up!" Natasha yelled from outside their hotel room in downtown London, England. "We need to get to Kings Cross before 9 and it's already-" Natasha held her wrist up so she could see, "-ten past eight! Holy shit, HURRY UP!" Rachel appeared from the bathroom wearing her Slytherin Robes, Plaited green & black skirt and knew high socks. Her hair was up in a high pony tail and she was applying lip gloss dramatically.

"Well I need to look decent." She said with her hands on her hips. "I mean come on, Draco is going to be there!" She gave Natasha a little wink. It was the girl's third year back at Hogwarts and she was already thinking about getting back with her past fling Draco Malfoy.

"RACHEL YOU ARE SUCH AN IDIOT" Natasha half-screamed at her "You can't wear your bloody robes on the train!" She rolled her eyes dramatically. "Muggles will see you! Just hurry the hell up and put on some jeans or something."

"But…" Rachel stammered.

"No butt's! Seriously. Go" She gave Rachel a little push into the bathroom. Rachel groaned and five minutes later came back out wearing jeans and a tank top.

"Better." Natasha said, "Now grab your bags and let's go!" Natasha was already hurrying down the hallway with her two Louie Vuitton travel bags rolling behind her. Rachel sighed deeply and followed close behind.

"It's not my fault I don't have the ability to get all pretty and nice looking in less than an hour like you do." She whined. Natasha just rolled her eyes. And they continued on their way to the hotel lobby. They girls had been living in the hotel room since mid-July. A month and a half prior to when they were needed at Hogwarts, like every other summer, so that they could have all their shopping done at Diagon Alley instead of having to scope downtown Vancouver for special overpriced shops that would have what they were looking for. They had been going to Hogwarts for three years now, along with quite a few other international students. A whole class of them to be exact, it had just been recently that Hogwarts started up their new exchange student program so that Witches and Wizards from across the world could be taken in by the best Wizarding School in the world to learn everything they needed to know about sorcery and magic.

After the girls had checked out and called a cab, they were on their way to the Train Station.

"What are you going to do when you see Cedric?" Rachel asked with a nervous giggle. Natasha blushed furiously.

"Nothing," she replied. "There's nothing to say! We already talked about the whole situation last time I saw him." Natasha had been dating Cedric for six steady months but ended it furiously last fall right before the Yule Ball. She was fed up with the amount of time he spent finding things and singing about Cho Chang –Natasha and Rachel's arch nemesis- "I mean," Natasha continued. "I really liked him but I just couldn't handle his strong emotions for Cho. I mean obviously he likes her so much he needs to constantly sing about her… so what's the point of me sticking around? Anyways he's so annoying sometimes and he has this weird fetish for glitter so… whatever I guess." She shrugged.

"Yeah I hate that guy. And Cho." Rachel said. "I seriously don't know how she manages to get all the guys, her and Ginny." She said, referring to their other arch nemesis.

"Ugh" Natasha groaned "Don't even mention Ginny. It's bad enough being best friends with her brother, no need to talk about her when it's not necessary."

"Oh yeah." Rachel said "Right, sorry." Ginny Weasly was a bitch. There is really no other possible way of describing her. Together, Ginny and Cho were the "Plastics" of the school, always getting whatever and whoever they wanted.

"Last stop." The cab driver said looking into the mirror at the girls.

"Thaaankss" Rachel said giving him a big flashy lip gloss smile. She handed him a twenty as Natasha retrieved the bags from the trunk of the cab. As he drove away Rachel blushed "He was kinda cute." She said.

"Ohmygod." Natasha said. "You seriously need to get over your boy crazy obsession."

"But there are just so many of them! And they are all so cute!" Rachel giggled as they walked into the train station. "Now, never mind that. Where are we meeting the boys?"

Natasha took out her blackberry and went into her inbox too look at past messages.

"Ron said food court" She said putting the phone back into her pocket.

"Of course" Rachel snorted. They made their way downstairs to the food court where they found their best friend Ron chomping down on a big mac. They hadn't seen him for months and when he saw the two girls standing there he dropped the burger and stood up in seconds. Natasha ran to him and wrapped her arms around him. Rachel joined into the hug awkwardly on the side when she heard another voice from behind,

"What about me?" In the cutest English accent. Rachel turned around with the biggest grin on her face. "HARRY!" she squealed jumping into Harry Potter's arms. After a minute she laughed and let go. Natasha and Ron were still talking and laughing about their summer adventures and hadn't noticed Harry's arrival. "How are you!" Harry asked Rachel.

"I'm amazing, now." She laughed. "Wow I've really missed you." She was blushing. Her and Harry had been subtly flirting for years now. She always hoped that something would happen but being The Boy Who Lived, he was always taken by the most popular and pretty girls in the school. Maybe this would be her year. "How are you?" she asked back politely.

"I'm amazing. So effing glad I'm not stuck with Vernon and Dudley for the next ten months!" There was a big grin on his face, the kind of grin that made Rachel grin right back at him.

"Well we better go-" Natasha turned to Rachel. "OH! HARRY! HEY!" she gave Harry a big hug and kissed him on the cheek. "How was your summer?"

"Pretty great" he smiled "I'll tell you 'bout that later, let's get on the train guys!"

"Gotta get back to Hogwarts" Ron smiled "Finally" They all walked to platform nine together. Standing around they heard the conductor yelling at a first year: "Platform Nine, and Platform Ten. NOTHING IN BETWEEN."

"But…but sir… please!" the kid said. "look at this letter! A bird gave it to me!" The conductor just laughed and walked away.

"Poor kid" Natasha said, she walked up to him and tapped him on the shoulder. "Hogwarts?" she asked him with a big smile.

"Uhhuh" the kid said with tears in his eyes. "But I'm never gunna get there, I can't find the right platform."

"You must be Muggle-Born," Natasha said. "Me too, here you can hang with me and my friends until you get settled on the train. Look this might be scary but you just have to run through that brick wall to get to the train!" She pointed at the nearest brick wall.

"Really?" The kid said.
"Yep! She said, might be scary but here, watch Ron do it first. Ron?" on queue Ron gave Natasha a little nod and picked up his bags and ran through the wall with no problem.

"See?" Natasha said. "Easy. Now follow him!" She pushed the boy forward and he ran through just as easy. After him Rachel went, then Harry and then Natasha herself.

"That was wicked!" The kid said when they were on the other side, standing in front of the Hogwarts Express, along with many other Wizards and Witches who were reuniting after a long summer. "Thank you!" He gave Natasha a big hug.

"Uhh, you're welcome…?" She laughed nervously.

"My name is Kevin." He said sticking his hand out. "Kevin Baites. I want to be a Ravenclaw."

"Eww" Rachel said from the sidelines quietly. "Ravenclaw…" Natasha shot her a dirty look.

"That's awesome." Natasha said shaking his hand. "I'm Natasha, I'm a Hufflepuff. That's Rachel," She said pointing at Rachel "she's Slytherin and they," she pointed at Harry and Ron. " Are Harry and Ron, they're both Gryffindor."

"HARRY POTTER AND RON WEASLEY?" Kevin exploded with wide eyes and excitement. He ran over and shook their hands.

"Yeah." Rachel said stepping between him and the boys. "Now don't crowd the famous friend, shoo!" She shooed him to the other first years. He went happily with a huge smile on his face, now that he had met Harry Potter and Ron Weasley, he was happy.

"Be nice to first years" Natasha said to Rachel with her arms crossed.

"No." Rachel said "They're fricken annoying!" Harry and Ron laughed at the girls bickering.

"Ladies," Ron said grabbing Natasha by the hand, "Let's get on the train." He pulled Natasha through the crowd of first and second years who were yakking away. Natasha was blushing furiously at the fact that Ron was touching her. Rachel giggled lightly as she saw Natasha's Reaction to his gesture, but followed along with Harry.

Once they were comfortably seated in their cabin on the train Rachel started telling them about her fantastic summer in London and all the concerts she and Natasha went to and all the shopping they did.

"Wow." Harry smiled "You guys had a fantastic summer, really."

"What did you do Harry?" Rachel asked curiously.

"Sat upstairs in my room pretending I didn't exist. Ate some RedVines. Watched Glee and some musical about talking bugs in space. It was cool though." The four friends smiled their whole way to Hogwarts laughing and talking about how much of a fantastic year they were going to have at Hogwarts.

And that's was it was going to be, fantastic.

Absolutely Magical.