The Hogwarts Express

Hours later, Clarion awoke to the annoying fact that someone was poking her. "Clarion! Clarion! Clarion, wake up!"

The princess let out a groan and opened her eyes. Snow was staring at her as Clarion rubbed her eyes. She stared at the excited student, who was now shaking the student beside her, "Hyacinth wake up!" She started rapidly tapping him.

"I'm up! I'm up!" he barked, "What's going on?"

"We're here, look!" Snow pointed out the window.

Off into the distance you could see the outline of a huge castle. Shadows danced across the outer walls as flames lit up the school. It had many spires. The tallest one was assumed to be the owlery and the others must be the different houses.

"It's beautiful, isn't it?" Snow looked over to see their reactions. A smile came across her face and she began to laugh, "Are you two snuggling?"

Clarion and Hyacinth looked at each other, suddenly noticing that they were wrapped in each other's arms. The two suddenly leaped to the opposite ends of the bench. Meanwhile, Snow was laughing hysterically.

"Ha, ha, very funny," Hyacinth spoke sarcastically.

As Snow continued to laugh, Clarion noticed that their new friend Sunny was not with them, "Snow! Where is Sunny?"

"Don't worry, she's up towards the front. Some fifth and seventh years invited us up there and besides, who would say no to a bunch of upper classmen?"

"So I take it you already have a boyfriends," Hyacinth teased.

"Yep! And he's so perfect! He's in Ravenclaw and he's the captain of their quidditch team!"

"What will happened if you get placed in a different house?" Clarion asked.

"We'll work it out, now come on, get dressed. You don't want to be the one person in the entire school who doesn't show up in uniform!"

Clarion looked down and remembered that she was still wearing her sundress. It wouldn't be right for the princess to be the only one wearing a dress. She grabbed her bag from the overhead and left for the bathroom. Once inside, Clarion stripped down to her undergarments. First, she pulled on her shorts and buttoned up her white blouse. When she was placed in her house, Clarion would have a matching tie to go with the whole ensemble. Finally, her cloak. The outfit looked perfect and neat of her body.

Quickly, her prior outfit was stuffed back into her bag and exited. The seat filled with her new friends was in sight, but she was stopped by a man sitting in a nearby seat. He wore a purple turban and violet robes, "Your highness." The man bowed his head to her.

"No, don't do that. You can just call me Clarion or Ms. Ree."

"Ms. Ree, your father, his majesty, spoke with me."

"Oh, I'm sorry about him, he's a little over protective."

"It's quite alright, I assumed he was just giving a warning."

"His bark is tougher than his bite. Are you a teacher at Hogwarts?"

"Yes, I teach Defense Against the Dark Arts class."

"You must be a very skilled wizard."

"Not really."

"Don't be so modest."

The intercom suddenly sounded, "All students please return to your seats, the train platform is coming up!"

"I better go back to my seat."

"It was nice to meet you."

"Indeed, and I you as well."

Clarion went back to her seat with Hyacinth and Snow. She put her bag back in the overhead and sat down. Something had happened while she was gone because Snow looked mad.

"So when are we going to meet this boyfriend of yours?" Hyacinth asked.

"Never at the rate you're going!" she barked back.

"Excuse me! What did I do?"

"Like always you'll find something wrong with him and you'll tell me and then the relationship will crash into the dirt."

"Well you don't have to let it go to your head."

The two bickered back and forth a moment, but Clarion soon grew tired of it, "You two stop it! This is not how you want to start a year where you will see eachother everyday! You're friends, you don't want to become enemies when you haven't even set foot in the school yet."

"She is right," Sunflower said as she got back into the booth with them.

"That'll be good when you become Queen, always being right," Hyacinth stated as the train came to a slow stop.

"Thank you for riding the Hogwarts Express, now everyone off!" the intercom sounded.

They all stood up and pulled their carry ons from above, "I don't plan on being Queen any time soon."

"Good!" they all laughed.

Soon they began following the rest of the students out of the train cart. The platform was swarming with students and what could be assumed as teachers. There were also giant carriages being loaded with luggage as students got into them, four by four. Towards the back were even bigger carriages that could fit up to six people.

Suddenly Snow let out a yelp as hands wrapped around her waist. Laughter quickly followed and she turned to see a boy standing behind her, "Hello, love."

"Hello. Everyone this is Holland, he's a seventh year in Ravenclaw. He's also my boyfriend."

Everyone greeted him and his gaze instantly went to Clarion. "So this is the famous princess I've been told about. I have heard many great things about you. It's good to finally make your acquaintance."

"And you as well." She shook his hand.

"Come on, you and Snow are riding with us."

"Us?"

"Yes, my friends grabbed one of the carriages in back." Holland and Snow began walking off, but Clarion hesitated.

"Clarion!" Snow called.

"But..." The princess looked back at Hyacinth and Sunflower. She was hoping she would get to sit with them.

"Go!" Hyacinth whispered.

She mouthed sorry to him before following after Snow. One of Holland's friends took her hand and helped her into the carriage. Other than Snow and Clarion, there were no other girls. The boys asked a few questions, but as the carriage neared the school the boys began showing off the magic they knew. They laughed and chatted the rest of the way.

Here's chapter two! And a little while ago I posted a trailer for this fic. You can find it on my youtube channel Bookworm Studios!