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Written For: The Becoming A Wizard Yr 1 Challenge, A Bit of Motivation Competition and the One Million Words Competition, The If You Dare Continued Challenge.
Prompt: To write about scenery. Word Limit 1,000. I Live To Tell.
Train Ride Scenery
Exhaustion washed through Harry's tired body as he leant his forehead against the train window and watched the scenery pass by. Cities, Towns, Houses, farms, trees, fields and more swept by in the blink of an eye as Harry found himself fighting to not doze off.
'I wish I could say everything will be alright as I'm going to Hogwarts' Harry thought depressed as he spotted a passing large windmill 'But I'm just escaping one hell for another one, my friends are a lot like the scenery, they arrive at different speeds but they always disappear very fast.'
Letting out a tired sigh Harry slowly allowed himself to drift off into a light doze as less and less other than empty green fields with nothing in them slowly became the norm and the September day turned to a cold September night.
'I wonder what the paper has printed about me this year' Harry wondered 'It must be another extremely bad thing if not even Hermione or Ron have come to find me. I wish I could become like the scenery and not stand out so much.'
Footsteps from the other side of compartment door caught Harry's attention only for Harry to stay in the same position but reopen his tired eyes and stared out at the window, into the darkness of the world. Suddenly the footsteps stopped only for the door to slam open and an angry Hermione Granger to come storming in with a newspaper in hand.
"Why did you not tell me?" Hermione screeched out in anger as she slammed the newspaper down on the small train seat, "You know I would of stood by you! And Ron would too if we knew!"
"What do you mean Hermione?" Harry asked as he never moved a single inch, "I have told you every little detail about my summer and since I boarded the train I have not move from this position."
A sudden sharp intake of breath was heard and Harry just knew that Hermione's anger was disappearing at his words.
"You don't know? You really don't know do you?" Hermione asked with wide eyes as she picked up the newspaper and shoved it into Harry's lap, "Read for yourself, it is not just the Wizarding news papers that are printing this either, it is also all over the muggle world about your relatives."
Frowning in confusion Harry picked up the paper and read the first headline only to let out a silent groan. It seemed that someone had found out about his relatives and had decided to report them to the newspaper as the muggle police did not seem to be doing anything. Unable to look at the newspaper any longer Harry shoved it back into Hermione's hands before turning and looking out of the train window and allowing himself to get lost in the passing scenery.
End of Drabble.