I am jerked awake by Tassles, the family house elf.
"Master Issac, sir. 'Tis 7 o'clock and you ordered Tassles to wake you at seven, sir." He says to me with those beady brown eyes of his staring at me.
I laugh, "Thank you, Tassles. If you wouldn't mind preparing my breakfast I have some last minute packing to do."
He nods furiously and disapparates out of the room. I stretch awake and look around. Black and yellow banners that have draped my walls for five years now, soon to be torn down by my mother the Slytherin Maniac. Being a Hufflepuff in a Slytherin House isn't that easy. I grab my trunk and Delta, my barn owl, and head downstairs to the kitchen. I have to hurry if I want to catch the train.
A million things buzz through my head. What will this year be like? I wonder how Harry is doing. Who will be the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher? So many things and more. I enter the kitchen to find my father furiously beating Tassles. Apparently Tassles had scrubbed the floors in the wrong direction. I took pity on him. I resolve after my seventh year I'll give Tassles some clothes. Maybe a Hufflepuff scarf. I greet my father and he looks at me with distaste as if I weren't worthy to be in his presence. He's been like that since I wrote him a letter saying I'd been sorted into Hufflepuff. I wolf down my breakfast that the elf made for me and said goodbye to him. I waited a few seconds to see if mother would at least come down and say good bye. She didn't. With a sigh I opened the door and left home for yet another year. If only it could be longer.
I arrive at Kings Cross Station with half an hour left to board the train. I decide to look around for anyone I might know. There's The Malfoys. I know them all too well seeing as Lucious is very close to my father. Then I see an odd sight. Harry Potter himself walking with Alastor Moody and a big black dog. I see the dog go into a waiting lobby and then see the shadow of a man. An Animagus? No. I must be imagining things. Twenty minutes to go. I head over to platform nine and ten and run right through the wall onto Platform 9 and three quarters. I set my trunk down and go off to find Valerie.
Valerie and I have been friends since day one. We know everything about each other and trust each other with anything. That's why today I trusted her to get us a seat on the Hogwarts Express. I board the train and begin searching. I pass by people I know and a lot of first years. I wave to Cho Chang, Luna Lovegood, Seamus Finnegan, Harry, Ron, Hermione, and everyone else. Walking by a booth the door suddenly blows open and out jump Crabbe and Goyle. They pin me to the wall and hold me still. Out walks Draco Malfoy laughing.
"Hey there Issac." He says with a malicious tone.
"Looking for that riff-raff girlfriend of yours? Valentine?" He added
"Her name is Valerie, Malfoy. You would do well to remember that." I spit at him.
Fear flashes in his eyes for a moment. He signals Crabbe and Goyle to begin the usual treatment but I'm ready. I nail Crabbe in the nose with a perfect right hook and Goyle steps away not wanting to be hit. Malfoy grabs him and pulls him into the booth and starts yelling at him. I continue on as if nothing had happened. After another minute I see her. Valerie was sitting with Neville Longbottom in the last booth on the train. I hurry over, poke my head in, and then sit down. I can't express how good it is to be back.