Tiffany and Harmony grudgingly wheeled their trunks through Kings Cross, both with blotchy faces due to their crying protests about leaving their music at home. Carly and Link, who they had been following, stopped suddenly when they got to the barrier between platforms 9 and 10.
"Okay you two are going to quit pouting and are going to have fun at Hogwarts," Carly said facing them, pointing her finger sternly at the two of them while her other hand had a tight grip on Link who was doing his best to get out of her death grip, "You have two new radios so you won't be 'deprived.' Don't you dare roll your eyes at me Tiffany Gabriella Partridge. You two can and will get through this, Hogwarts is great, and you will both make a ton of friends."
"Now you two write often and Harmony, send me all the letters to your parents and I'll send it to them muggle style. I don't think it would be good for an owl to show up on stage in the middle of a concert," Carly said smiling a bit as Tiffany and Harmony giggled a little no matter how hard they were trying not to.
"Goodbye girls! I'll miss you!" Carly said hugging and kissing them both, "I love you both! Now Link, say goodbye to your sister."
"Bye," he muttered, looking at the ground. Harmony and Tiffany both looked at each other and smirked. They both quickly bent down to Link's level and they each kissed one of his cheeks, resulting in him turning scarlet.
"Ew! Gross!" he said whipping his face frantically.
"Bye squirt. Bye Carly!" Harmony said messing up her brother's hair and earning a scowl from him.
"Bye mum, Link. Now where's the train?"
"I know this sounds crazy, but just walk through the barrier between platforms 9 and 10." Said Carly and then pointed at some people about 10 feet away. The four of them watched as the family of six walked nonchalantly toward the barrier and through it. Link, Harmony, and Tiffany all gasped and Link yelled "Let's go!" pulling on Carly's hand.
"No, we're not going through the barrier, just the two of them." Carly responded smiling.
"What? Why not!" Link asked very upset. What nine year old boy wouldn't want to walk through a wall?
"We're waiting until you're 11 to see if you're magical or not."
"Sorry Link," Harmony said hugging him and then wheeling her trunk towards the barrier with Tiffany. In the last 10 feet they both started to run, looking at each other quickly, smiling just before they went through the wall.
"That was so fun!" Harmony said after they had gotten to the other side and stopped.
"Again!" Tiffany yelled starting to turn around, but Harmony grabbed her shirt collar.
"We need to get on the train, plus your mum is probably still out there." Harmony said letting go of Tiffany's collar.
"Fine," Tiffany said putting and started pushing her trunk towards the scarlet train with Harmony next to her.
They walked up to one of the closer doors to the train and both tried lifting Harmony's trunk up first. They got it a couple inches off the ground before they dropped it back on to the cart.
"My goodness, what did you bring, rocks?" Tiffany asked panting giving her a dirty look.
"No!" You packed more than I did!" Harmony said folding her arms across her chest defiantly.
"We're doomed!" Tiffany said sitting on her trunk.
"Would you like some help?" asked a girl coming up to them who looked a few years older.
"Oh yes! Please! Thank you so much!" Harmony answered smiling brightly, while unfolding her arms.
"Hey, Sev, mind helping me?" the girl called to a foreboding looking boy who was standing a couple feet away looking skeptically at the scene. He nodded curtly and climbed aboard the train grabbing his end while the girl grabbed the other. He had no difficulties with his end, but she was having some problems raising her end of the trunk. Harmony and Tiffany started forward to help, but were intercepted.
"Here Lily, let me help," said another girl that looked about the same age as the other two.
"Thanks Elenore!
"You're welcome. I just got done helping my triplet sisters and brother with theirs so I'm getting pretty good." She said, brushing some of her blond hair out of her eyes.
"Ooh! Are you excited that they're finally here at Hogwarts too?" Lily asked as she, Sev, and Elenore lifted it successfully on to the train. Harmony and Tiffany followed them as they walked down the corridor looking for an empty compartment for them.
"Yeah they've really missed me and me them. Speaking of which, when we looked for a compartment, they got the last one, do you two mind sharing with them?" Elenore asked turning her head back while walking.
"Sure," Tiffany answered as Harmony shrugged.
"They're just two more down Severus."
The five filled into an empty compartment. The oldest three put the trunk into the overhead compartments, where there were already three identical trunks.
"Thank you" Harmony said standing right outside the doorway with Tiffany beside her.
"Yeah, thanks." Tiffany added.
"You're welcome," Lily said smiling at the two then suddenly said, "Oh where are my manners! I'm Lily Evans, this is Severus Snape, and this is Elenore Jardine."
"I'm Harmony Morrison and this is my best friend Tiffany Partridge." Harmony said pointing to Tiffany.
"Nice to meet you," Tiffany said as everyone else said it to each other also, except for Severus who just nodded in response.
"So how do you two already know each other? It's not often you get to come here with your best friend when you're muggle born. Well I'm guessing you are since I haven't heard your names before." Elenore said.
"Well, I'm a muggle born, but Tiffany's mum is a witch. Me and my brother live with Tiffany and her mum while my parents are on tour, which is most of the time, so we basically grew up together." Harmony responded.
"I guess you just got lucky then," Elenore responded.
"What do you mean by tour?" Lily asked sitting down next to Severus, who was clearly wanting to be anywhere but here.
"Oh my mum is the leader of an American band while my dad is the manager."
"That's amazing! What band? I love American music." Lily asked, Harmony noticed that Severus looked mildly interested now.
"Freda and the Shimmers."
"Wow! Really? That's one of my favorite bands! My and I sister wore out our 8-tracks by them! Well nice to meet you two, but we'd better be getting back to our compartment," Lily said getting up with Severus. "Hope to see you in Gryffindor!"
"Bye! Thanks again!"
"No problem," Lily responded as she and Severus walked out. They could then hear her saying, "See Sev? This is why you should be nice to people! You never know who you could meet!"
"Well I've never heard of your mum's band, but that's not surprising since I'm a pureblood!" Elenore said smiling.
"I can understand that," Tiffany said. "So where are your siblings?"
"I don't know, oh here they are." Elenore said standing up as two identical looking girls walked in with a boy trailing behind them who was a few inches taller than them and had brown hair instead of blond like all three of his sisters.
"Cass, Patsy, and Erik, this is Tiffany and Harmony. Tiffany and Harmony, these are my siblings."
"Nice to meet you" Harmony said smiling.
"You too," said Cass and Patsy.
"Hi," said Erik looking at Tiffany.
"Hey," Tiffany said smiling at him shyly.
Thanks for reading! Sorry it took so long to get this chapter out, but school started and I'm swamped! Oh and I know not all of the references to the 60s and 70s things are completely right, but I'm doing my best so please bare with me!
