Chapter II: The greatest dad
Marianne's P.O.V.
My heart swelled as I started to run toward the wall between platform 9 and 10, on the first September. I had spent two wonderful months, resting revisiting, travelling, playing and even sometimes larging for school to start. There I was running into leig wall, after a great summer holiday and a visit to Diagon alley, I was a little doubtful and worried probably the people around would have found it very odd if they had seen. As I had planned, I went threw the wall and arrived onto platform 9and ¾, facing the great and red Hogwarts express. A few seconds later my mum arrived,planting, carrying my 4 year old sister, who was hitting her and shouting furiously :"Bad Mummie!"and then to me "Mummie tried to crash me into the wall! Bad mummie!" My brother and my dad came running in, the second one looking a little amazed, ensure and bewildered , but trying to hide it, my dad's a muggle, and a mathematician, he doesn't get the things that don't make sense and don't have an explanation, like magic. He said, trying to sound as casual as possible
"Your sister made so much noise she attracted the attention of all mouggles…"
Mum burst out laughing, I smiled and said : " you mean the muggles, dad!""Yoah, that's probably what I do mean"
My sister was still talking about mum's attempt to turn her into a " flat Alice." I gave her a big hug and glancing over my mum's shoulder, I saw Rose and Dominika as happy as if they had just heard a new library was opening next door, Axelle was there too. I ran to then and gave each of them a warm hug,we were so excited that we were jumping up and down enthusiastically. After a minute the three of us started to drag our trunks up to a door, we stopped, out of breath, Rose raised her eyebrows and moved them all in with a tiny, flick of her wand.
I ran back to my parents and hissed the Goodbye spending a lot of time and finally say "See you at Chistmas! BYE!"
I met the girls again and climbed in. There, we found a compartment, the same one as always, in the back, put our trunks away and came back outside. We bumped into James, Fred and Albus on the way. I jumped on Fred and Axelle on James , givind them a huge hug as they struggled to breathe and I said : "Oh, Freddy! I missed you!" Albus looked at us questionningly, murmured "Fan attack" and finally, mimicking us jumped on Dominika and said:
"Oh, Dom! I missed you!" Dom screamed and pushed him aside.
"Stop it Albus, that's not nice!" I said
" You're just jealous!" Axelle hinted
" I missed you too, you know!" I smiled
"Yeah, Albus! We like marks of affection!" James pointed out
"Yeah right!" Albus anwered "They were strangling you!" , we all started laughing and hugging Albus and we finnally invited them into our compartment.
"Where are the Malfoys?" I asked as the train whistled and started to move
"Not here yet…"All answered.
"What do you mean yet, if they don't come now, when are they going to come?" I asked worried, al shrugged and we all sat down the seats. The conversations were all about the holidays, then James borrowed Dominika's MP3 and started to listen to some metal song curiousles as the conversations whirled around owl subjects.
"I chose to do care of magical creatures, divination, sports and arithmancy." said Fred
"I'm sure to do Arithmancy" Dominika said. I was worried sick about Scopius and Arachno, I had never heard of anyone missing the train, I decided to ask Albus if James had had good holidaysdespite his best friend's loss.
"Well, yeah. We tried this muggle therapy that Grandpa Weasly recommended us, psychology or something, it worked I think. He was much better"
"Good" I said as I smiled, Suddenly a hard crack was heard in the corridor and then a few screams. James darted up, he had like his father a strange feeling that it was his duty to help whoever needed help. He burst into the corridor his wand at the ready, followed by our group.
Once at the end of the corridor, he lowered his ward and pocked it, he looked disapointed that it wasn't something more dangerous our exciting . He shrugged his shoulders and said in a very casual and even bored tone. " Its only your palish twins who apparated slap-bang in the middle of the train with their palish dad. Nothing more, not to worry."
And sure enough,there they were, Scorpius and Arachno Malfoy with their father, very alike all of then and looking awkward as Scorpius whispered "Oooops ! Meant to be more descrete… " The father had an air of satisfaction and waving good bye,he dissaparated in anther loud crack. In the compartment, we squished ourselves to make space for the two new guests. We were crushed like a bunch of sardines.
We exchanged a few conversations with the twins about their holidays at the Malfoy Manor and elsewhere. A few minutes later, James stood up saying : "You known what, its not that I don't like you lot but I think me and Fred will go to another compartment where there is more space and air to breathe, what do you think, Freddy?"
"Yep! Maybe the one with Lysander and his friends, or Simone Vane's"
"Too giggly" remarked James, Fred nodded and continued
"Don't take it as an offence or anything, it's just a little crowded. Don't consider it as jumping off a sinking ship or as abondonning you, it nothing of the sort."
"We are not sinking !" Dominika prosted as we all erruted into a laugh.
"See you then! Adios" Fred said disapering behind the door
" Feel free to take our trunks on your way" James added comically"
"Forget it!" Rose ripposted
Later on, after we had but our robes on and before the sweet trolley arrived, conservations were going well, a few of at the same time, dissolving or starting as fast as a breath or a laugh. Whilst Dominika and Rose were having debate about something in "Magical abilities" me, the twins, Albus and Axelle were discussing our parents, Albus' in particular. He was boasting openly about his dad's achievements, his qualities and stuff.
"You know he also found the Chamber of Secrets, you know about that don't you Dominika? Oh never mind, continue your argument, don't listen to me, he won the triwizarding tournament and he was so good at DADA that he fought Valdemort and gave classes to his friends so they could defend themselves , he did it the Room of Requirement, you know about that don't Ooops .. Um.. you don't know obviously..."
"What ? said Dom "What is that?", she was suddenly interested, leaving their debate aside.
"No…its nothing, I'm not meant to know…the teachers don't want!" He mumbled confusedly. Scorpius, who hadn't understood the subject had switched a little, was rambling about his dad switching gravely sides and being the best at potions.
After a few minutes of persuasion and insisting, Albus started gradually to give facts and Scorpius stopped talking to himself and listened.
"Well, the room of requirement is um... a room..." I raised my eyebrows, Axelle shouted "Duh!" and Dominika said "No! Really?". Rose gave a heavy sigh, she waited, even though, she, Arachno and Scorpius knew too. We encoureaged Albus to continue:
"Um... when you walk past there is no door, then you walk past three times thinking hard about what you want, like a hiding place, or meating place, and the room turns into it, well like... yeah... that's it."He finished awkwardly. We stared at him.
"Is it true? The room turns into what ever room you need?" I said in disbelief. Rose and Albus nodded.
"Our parents used to go there frequently, for secret meetings of the DA, or to hide stuff."
"Our dad too." Said Scorpius glumly "When he was a- you know what..." There was a silence, filled with sighs and memories coming back. A few students clustured behind the window to look at the children of the famous Harry Potter, Ron Weasly and Hermione Granger-Weasly. They stood there, gobsmacked, or whispering excitidely. Rose threw an exasperated look at all of them before closing the blinds with a whisk of her wand. We heard protests. Dominika suddenly jumped and said, not able to contain, herself.
"That's great! Do you imagine? Thinking about a forbidden book and ending up in a forbidden library and learning all about advance, complicated, interesting, dark stuff..." I smiled.
"By the way, where is it?" Axelle asked curiously
"Oh! On the seventh floor, opposite the tapestry of Barnabas the Barmy, you know, and the dancing trolls that-"
"That'senough Albus!" Rose interrupted "That's supposed to be a secret and now they're going to go there and mess around!"
"So?" Albus said
"But just imagine!" said Arachno, his light blue eyes gleaming, "We could think of a place to have fun and we would end up in a funfair, withrides and food and no teachers... right under their noses too!" A laugh errupted and the room was filled with a lively atmosphere until the end of the journey, bursting with giggles and excited conversations. This increase even more when the sweet trolley passed and we made reserves of chocolate frogs, fizzing whizbees, Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans, licorice wands, and more which were much smaller by the time we reached the Hogsmeade sation and the castle.