It is me, Funny Cat, and I am still alive, thank you for asking.

Listening To- Marukaite Chikyuu: Holy Roman Empire (Piano) and Jack's Lament.

"That Sounds Like a Foot Disease."

London

September 1st, 1991

Benevolio Ross St. Claire had been waiting for this day his entire life.

He had planned this very day out in his head. He knew exactly what to do, where to go, and how to act. He knew what house he was going to be in, he knew exactly where to sit on the train, and he knew exactly who he needed to make friends with, and who to hate.

"Now remember Ben," his Father told him on the drive to King's Cross. "You are a pureblood wizard. I expect the very best from you."

"Yes Father."

"You must be the best in your class, and you must not associate with any of those Mudbloods-" Ben flinched. Mother always hated that word... "And, the most important thing is to always look your best. Understood?"

"Yes, Father."

"Good." Father gave him a smile.

While Ben was waiting, he polished his wand. Cedar with a dragon heartstring, exactly eleven inches. Springy. He couldn't wait to learn spells to cast on people and learn how to charm items. His Mother had some books about charms in the library, but he had never read them. Perhaps I should read them sometime...

"We're here now, Ben."

Ben's heart started to race. Were they actually at King's Cross? Was he actually going to go to Platform 9 3\4 and go to Hogwarts?!

He was.

There it was, Platform Nine and Platform Ten. Right between there, he would run through the wall and then he would get on the train and go to Hogwarts. Then he would be sorted into Gryffindor just like his Father and Mother, and then Father would be proud of him.

Yes, he would be so proud of him. Very proud.

Ben got his trunks from the back of the car. He went back to get his owl, a tawny owl he decided to name Toris, a name he found in one of his Muggle books Mother had given him.

It must have looked very weird to see an eleven year-old boy carrying an owl with him and two trunks, with a man in a very long cloak followed behind. People gave Ben strange looks, but he didn't care. He was used to them.

Soon, he was facing the wall.

"You know how to get in, right?" Father asked. "You just run through the-"

"I know how to go through the wall!" Ben snapped, which earned a strange look from a guard nearby. "I'm not a stupid three year-old!"

As soon as he said that, he felt guilty.

Father sighed.

"I know, Ben."

"Well act like it!" without a second glance, Ben backed up, closed his eyes, and ran straight into the wall.

When he opened his eyes, he standing in Platform 9 3\4.

The scarlet train The Hogwarts Express was right in front of his eyes. Friends greeted each other and asked how their summers went. He checked to see if his Father followed him, but he didn't. As he made his way to the train, he saw a bespectacled boy talking to a tall boy with red hair. The bespectacled boy seemed oddly familiar, but he couldn't remember where he saw him.

Ben found a compartment in the back of the train that was unoccupied. "Good." he didn't really like other people. He put his trunks and Toris down, and sat down near the windows. Children were being hugged by their parents, and he saw some parents crying.

The train began to move, and soon, he found himself getting quite bored. So, he started talking to Toris.

"So... heard anything interesting in the station?" no reply.

"Want something to eat?" again, no reply.

"Do you even like me?" Toris hooted.

"What does that mean? Are you back talking me Mister?!" Ben swore the owl yawned.

"Don't look at me like that!"

"Are you talking to an owl?" Ben turned around and saw someone standing outside his compartment.

It was a girl, just about his age. She had short dirty blonde hair, dark gray eyes, and was carrying a calico cat.

"Why are you talking to the owl?" the girl asked.

"I had no one to talk to..."

"Why don't you have anyone to talk to?"

"Because I don't want to talk to anyone."

"Why don't you want to talk to anyone?" Ben sighed.

"Listen, whoever you are-"

"It's Fiona!" she said loudly, attracting a few looks from people outside. "Fiona Harper."

"Okay, Fiona. Now listen, I really don't want to talk to anyone now, so if you could please leave-"

"No. I'm not leaving." Fiona dropped the cat on the floor and sat next to Ben. He sighed.

"Fine, you can stay... I guess..."

"Thank you! No one else let me stay with them! I wonder why?"

"Maybe it's because you're so annoying..." Ben muttered.

"What did you say?!" Fiona snapped.

"Nothing..."

She gave him a suspicious look, and hugged the cat.

Ben sighed and looked out the window. Sheep and horses where grazing in fields, and he saw a red barn in the distance. His Mother wanted a horse, but Father hated horses. "They're vile animals." he said to her. They spent the next couple of minutes in awkward silence.

He was about to ask Fiona if she wanted to talk, when a girl with bushy brown hair and a crying boy opened the compartment door. He frowned. He didn't like crying people.

"Have you two seen a toad anywhere? This boy has lost his." she pointed to the boy.

Ben opened his mouth to see, but Fiona cut him off.

"No, we haven't seen a toad anywhere. Who would want one? Toads are disgusting." the boy started to cry harder.

"That's not a very nice thing to say!" the brown-haired girl snapped.

"Who cares?! Now leave this compartment, you have no business being here. What happened to your hair? It looks like a bird's nest in there."

"That wasn't a very polite thing to do, Fiona." Ben said when the girl and boy left the compartment.

"Like I said, I don't care. I didn't like that girl. She seemed snotty."

"Still, you shouldn't have done that." Fiona didn't reply.

"Anything from the trolley, dears?" Ben looked outside to see the Trolley Lady.

"Oh God yes! Come on, Ben!" he grabbed his coin purse, and went outside with Fiona.

A large assortment of sweets were on the trolley. Licorice Wands, Drooble's Best Blowing Gum, cauldron cakes, Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans, basically everything you can imagine. Fiona was drooling slightly.

"I'll have one of everything please!" the Lady raised an eyebrow, but handed over the sweets to her. Then she turned to Ben.

"What would you like?"

"One cauldron cake, please." he handed the Lady the money, and grabbed his cauldron cake.

"Thank you."

When he went back inside the compartment, he found Fiona stuffing her face with Chocolate Frogs.

"Ben!" she grinned. Her face was smeared with chocolate. "You should try these Chocolate Frog things! They're delicious, and they have a card inside of them!" she shoved a frog in Ben's hand. "Try it!"

Carefully, he opened the package and took out the card inside.

"Oh, Dumbledore. I have tons of him." he threw the card on the floor, and took a bite out of the frog's head.

"Who's Dumbledore?" Fiona asked.

"Headmaster of Hogwarts."

"Sounds like a foot disease." he gave her a look.

"What? It does." she laughed. "Say it! It really does sound like a foot disease!"

"Hogwarts does not sound like a foot disease!"

"Yes it does!"

They spent the next hours arguing about it. By the time they finished, the train was going through a forest, and it was getting very dark.

"Have I introduced you to my cat yet?" she asked. "His name is Nicholas."

"That's a nice name." he replied politely. He actually didn't like the name because it was his Father's name, but he didn't want to offend the girl.

"What's your owl's name?"

"Toris. It's from a book my Mother gave me."

"I like it!"

Fiona smiled, and started to hum "Mary Had a Little Lamb". She stroked the Nicholas's fur, and didn't remove her hand when the cat bit it.

For the first time in a long time, Ben smiled.

When they arrived at Hogwarts, it was around seven at night.

"You may leave all your trunks in the train. They will be brought to the school separately." when Fiona heard this, she frowned.

"What about Nicholas? Won't he get cold?"

"No, just leave him here. Toris will keep him company." Fiona gave Nicholas one last glance before shutting the compartment door.

Outside it was very crowded. Children of ages were running around. Ben spotted Hagrid, the Gamekeeper, yelling "Firs' years this way! Firs' years this way!"

He grabbed Fiona (Who was tying her shoes), and made his way to Hagrid. Hagrid had a black beard, and tiny beatle-like eyes. He spotted the bespectacled boy and red-haired boy again. Hagrid waved to the bespectacled boy, and the boy grinned. Why was that boy so familiar?

Hagrid then led them to a group of boats, and explained that there were only supposed to be three in a boat. Ben got on a boat were another girl was already sitting in. She had her face buried in a book, so Ben couldn't really see her face, but he could tell her hair was red. But were was Fiona?

He turned around and saw Fiona, biting her nails and shaking nervously.

"Fiona, get on the boat!" he shouted. "It's just a boat!" she shook her head, and backed away.

"Come on, what are you, afraid of boats?" she nodded. The red-haired girl looked up from her book.

"Come on!" other first years were starting to stare. Fiona looked around at the other first years, took a breath, and got on the boat.

As soon as she got on the boat, they started to move. Fiona shrieked and grabbed Ben's arm, not letting go. The sky was amazing; stars were sprinkled all over the sky, like glitter. "You don't see stars like this in London..." he heard the red-haired girl mutter.

Children gasped as the castle came into view. Fiona nearly fell of the boat. "I've never seen anything like this..." Fiona whispered.

"Duck!" Ben ducked his head to avoid the wall of ivy, but Fiona was not so lucky. She got a faceful of the plant. The other girl tried to hide her laughter.

The boats docked in an underground harbour. When Fiona got out, she kissed the ground and shouted "I've never been so happy to see you!" which attracted some looks. The boy from earlier also found his toad.

Hagrid led the first years to two giant oak doors. Then, he knocked on the door.

Hello, I'm back. I finished this chapter today because it guilted me to do it. I'm sorry that most of this chapter sucks ass, it's 4:30 in the morning. I apologize if you want to burn your eyes out.

Funny Cat