Cadence POV:
It was early in the morning, too early, and I looked at Brighton Pier, which I wasn't going to see for one year. I knew I'd miss it, but I was looking forward to going to Hogwarts, the School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. "We have to go now, honey", said my mother and I nodded. We touched an old, used shoe, which was our portkey to bring us to London. For a moment, we both had a weird feeling, and after some seconds, we landed in a public toilet in the King's Cross Station. We tried to sneak out of it without anyone noticing, but it was not that easy, as my mother was not even wearing Muggle clothes. But eventually we managed to get to the platforms 9 and 10. How could the Muggles not notice that today the train station was crowded with lots of people in weird clothes? Or did they just not care? This was a question that always made me think, but maybe the Ministry of Magic did some spells, I didn't know.
"Cady!" I heard a familiar voice yelling. I turned around and saw Jayden running towards me, a boy I had been friends with ever since I first came to Hogwarts, even though we were not in the same house: I was a Hufflepuff and he was a Ravenclaw. "How are you?" he asked, with a big smile on his face. "I'm fine, how about you?" I answered. My mother greeted his parents and we all went through the secret gate to platform 9 ¾ together. The platform was already full of students and their parents, hundreds of owls were screaming and everyone was saying goodbye. "Okay then, have a good year, study hard, write letters…" said my mother, the same things that she always said. Jayden and I got into the train together, both holding the cage of our owls in one hand and our luggage in the other. "Let's find the others", he suggested, and I agreed. We walked through the train and looked into every compartment, but we were very slow as the train was packed with people. "Jay, Cady!" we heard a scream, "we're here!" It was the famous Albus Severus Potter, the son of The Chosen One - Harry Potter himself – and his wife Ginny. Albus highfived Jayden to say hello and then hugged me. He had never done that before and for some reason I was very happy that he did it now.
The compartment was already filled with my friends: Diana, my roommate and best friend, Bailey, another close friend of ours, Matthew, who was the genius in our year and Rose, Albus' cousin. We all greeted each other, then Jayden said: "There's not enough roomfor all of us in this compartment, but who cares?" "Cady can sit on my lap", said Albus and laughed. My heart made a huge jump and I asked myself: Why is he like this, suddenly?
"It's okay", said Rose, "I'm going to see Leah and the others." They were her friends from Gryffindor. "Okay, greet them from us", said Diana and Rose went away. "How were your holidays, guys?" Jayden asked.
"We were in Brazil, it was pretty nice", Albus answered, "but my sister got sick so that ruined it a bit."
"What did you do in Brazil?" Bailey asked while we could hear a "rich kid" comment from Jayden.
"Well, Dad was invited by the Brazilian Minister for Magic in Brasilia, the capital, and then we went to Rio the Janeiro to do some sight-seeing and enjoy the beach. And what did you guys do?"
"My holidays were not near as interesting as yours, Al", complained Bailey, "we only went to Spain, but it was pretty nice."
"I went so Norway and France to see family, nothing else", Matthew said.
"You probably did some studying too", Jayden suggested.
We laughed and Matthew simply said: "Well, we had to."
"Anyway, I was in Ireland, together with my cousins", Jayden said, "Diana, Cady, what about you?"
"I wasn't even abroad", Diana said with a sad voice, "we visited some friends and family in Cornwall and Birmingham."
"I was in London to see family as well", I said quietly, "and then we did a spontaneous trip so Switzerland."
"Switzerland, that's cool!" Albus said, "I was there too once. What did you do there?"
"Hiking and so on…" I answered. Albus smiled at me and I had a feeling that this could be a good year.