Hey there! This is really my first time with this type of fanfic...So...yeah... I just hope I can interest anybody with my work...laughs Um, as you can tell, I prefer the Marauders over Harry and the 'new generation'... If you have any questions or comments, PLEASE, post a review or whatever! I want your imput! Well...Hope you enjoy the first 'chapter' of Origins! bows graciously

"Ok…" Emily briefly looked around with her hands on her voluptuous hips, "We've FINALLY made it to King's Cross…Now where do we go!"

"Would you chill for a sec.! It's only ten after ten!" Julia glanced at her watch quickly, "Train doesn't leave 'till eleven!"

"But it may take some time to get there! We don't wanna be late, do we!" Emily stared pointedly at her friend who only stuck out her tongue in response.

Katherine, however, sighed, "Let's just find out where we need to go first! THEN we can decide whether or not we have to hurry to get there." Her face was hidden behind a fairly long piece of parchment that held all the information of the three teenagers' acceptance to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and the process of reaching the school itself…which was, in a sense, complicated…

"Right…" she said after reading over the letter once again, "Now we have to find platform nine and three quarters…" Katherine wrinkled her European nose as she read the number.

"Nine and three quarters! What idiots do they take us for!" Emily shouted as she re-read what Katherine had just stated…and a little too loudly as well, for there were now at least half a dozen people staring in the girls' direction.

Julia blushed at Emily's brashness and pretended to look for something behind her pile of luggage. Katherine hit her friend in the back of the head, "The goal here is to bring as little attention to ourselves as possible! That's challenging enough as it is…being stupid Americans and all…"

Emily now had also noticed the passing locals all looking at her oddly and hung her head as she let out an exasperated sigh, "Whatever…Let's go then…" Emily took off in a huff…she did not like being indirectly embarrassed like she just was… She stared at the decorated platform signs that hung above her as she flew past each one…. "12…11…10…9…eigh-Wait!" She ran back between platforms nine and ten and paced back and forth examining each one. "Right then, genius. Where is it!" She flung her arms up in the air and let them fall again to her sides as Katherine and Julia caught up to her not only with their own bags, but Emily's as well.

"Does it look like we know, Emily?" Julia huffed as she dropped the many bags she had been carrying.

Katherine squinted at both of the elaborate designs on the platform signs still swinging above them, looking for clues.

"I'm still not sure, Emi…I'll figure it out though…"

Emily growled under her breath, "Well, you better do it soon!" Emily tossed herself against the nearest wall to wait, "Wha!"

Katherine looked to where Emily had been, "Uh…" she and Julia looked at each other cautiously, "Emily…?" They both walked to the brick wall that she had leaned against and stared…

"Where'd she go!" Julia turned her head sideways; a look of utter confusion plastered on her face. Katherine walked around the stone pillar that separated platforms nine and ten, thinking Emily had just played a simple trick on them... "Well…she's not hiding…" she admitted slightly downcast.

"Maybe…there's a door or something?" Julia asked with her eyes still fixated on that one spot. Without another word the two remaining girls reached out and tried to feel up the wall in front of them, instead, each of their forearms disappeared. In perfect unison, they gasped and pulled back their hands; checking them over to make sure they were still 'usable'.

"What the hell!" Julia's eyes were wide as she continued flexing her fingers tenderly. "I kinda need these!" She was referring to her love of the piano. She wasn't terrible at it either! In fact, far from it! She was brilliant; she could produce the most beautiful sounds from her seemingly short, yet feminine digits. Julia was also skilled at trumpet playing and used it more as a hobby. Katherine too was a musician. She, however, preferred the bassoon as her primary instrument. She very much liked jazz and also played the saxophone. Katherine now looked at her own hand which was, to her relief, still there. Her fingers were just barely longer than Julia's and even though they were well-worked they still looked elegant.

As Katherine looked between her hand and the brick wall, she developed an idea. She stepped closer to the wall, closed her eyes and held her breath, and then suddenly…her body from the waist up was gone!

"Gah!" Emily fell back onto the ground. "What the hell!" She pulled herself up and dusted off now slightly sore…and confused. Hadn't that brick wall been solid? She thought as she glanced around to see where she had landed…and who had seen her…

Surprisingly it seemed as no one had noticed Emily's fall considering they were all scurrying about a very large train. She did notice that the people around her had to be witches or wizards: they all had huge trunks rolling (or floating) behind them and a few of them had owls in cages or perched on their shoulders. Emily then looked up and saw what she and her companions had been searching for… There above her hung a sign that read: Platform Nine and Three Quarters in big gold letters.

"So that's how you get here…" she muttered throwing her gaze back onto the wall she had fallen through just in time to see Katherine's head and shoulders appear in front of her.

"Shit!" Emily jumped back, nearly falling over.

"Nice to see you too!" Katherine glared at her friend. "Why'd you run away!" she asked sweetly.

"I didn't run! I fell…and it ain't like I did it on pur-" PHWEEEEEEEEE! Emily was cut off by a loud whistle from the train not 500 yards away. Katherine then took notice to her surroundings. "Hey! This is the Hogwarts' express! Cool!"

"Yeah…I guess that's what all this is…why'd they hide it though?"

"Well…" Katherine thought for a second, "It's probably to keep the other people away, y'know…?"

"Oh! That makes sense…" Emily looked at the train again. It was black and red and very elaborate…far nicer than any 'regular' train.

"Ok… I better grab Julia then…" and with that Katherine had disappeared again.

"Kat!" Julia was panic-struck at the disappearance…er…half disappearance of her friend when she returned only two minutes later. "What the hell just happened!"

Katherine grinned, "Julia, c'mere! I found platform nine and three quarters!" she paused, "Oh! And Emily too…" she added as an afterthought, her eyes laughing at her joke. Julia hesitated at first, but then slowly inched her way up to Katherine and the seemingly solid wall. "Okay…now what?" she asked.

"Just lean in!" Katherine stated. "I promise it's not gonna hurt you or anything!" she tried to reassure Julia at the sight of her face which was stuck in a state of confusion. Katherine waved her hand through the wall like it was nothing, "See?" Julia sighed, swallowed her pride, and thrust her head into the brick wall…no…through the wall! She was now half-way through a brick wall!

"Hi Julia! What took you so long?" Emily waved from in front of the coolest train Julia had ever laid eyes on. (Which weren't too many, but still…)

"What in the -" Katherine's upper body had just appeared next to Julia's, startling her just a tad.

"Hey guys! Cool ain't it!" she sang.

"You're tellin' me!" Emily agreed turning to look at the massive train they would be boarding within the hour.

Julia was about to reply when she and Katherine were abruptly pulled back by a pair of white spindly hands.