We were all on the train going toward Hogwarts. I was still shocked that I was a witch. I sat in a compartment with a boy named Neville Longbottom. He seemed like a nice lad. I looked from my book to see half of him underneath the chair.
"What are you doing?" I asked placing my book next to me.
"I've lost Trevor?"
"Who's that?" I asked kneeling down beside him.
"My toad."
"Oh, well, I could ask people while you look around in here."
"Please Hermione." I left the compartment and asked all the compartments. Only two left. I opened one to find people laughing; they all stopped when I opened the door.
"Any of you seen a toad?" they all shook their head, but one boy stood up and held out his hand.
"Hi, I'm Draco." I took his hand in mine; it felt like a spark of life flowed from one into the other.
"Hermione Granger." I said smiling as I took my hand out of his.
"Sorry, no toads in here."
"Okay, thanks." I said and left the compartment. I stood outside the last door. I opened the door to find a red head and a black haired boy sat, sweets surrounded them. The red haired boy had his wand pointing at a rat. They both looked up at me.
"Have any of you seen a toad? A boy named Neville's lost one. Oh, are you doing magic?" I shook my hair and looked at the red haired boy. "Let's see then." He cleared his throat and looked down at the rat.
"Sunshine, daisy, butter, mellow, turn this stupid fat rat yellow." His wand blasted the sweet box away from the rat, but nothing else.
"That's not a very good spell is it? I've tried a few simple ones myself but they've all worked for me. For example." I sat down opposite the back haired boy. "Oculus repairo." His glasses were now fixed. He gasped and took them off his face, only then did I realize him. "Jiminy cricket, you're Harry Potter. I'm Hermione Granger." I turned to the red haired boy. "And you are?"
"Ron weasley." He spat out around a mouthful of sweets.
"Pleasure." I said disgustingly. "You two better change into your robes." I said standing up. "I expect we'll be arriving soon."
"Hermione?" Ron said and I turned back to face them.
"Yes?"
"Stay away from the Malfoys." I frowned. I didn't even know who he was going on about. I sighed and went back to my compartment.