Jack

The letter had turned out to be an invitation to attend some school called Hogwarts. From the look of it, this letter was likely a prank by one of the other village kids. His first thought was Aster Bunnymund, another orphaned street bound kid like himself. Aster would have thought that he had been clever to come up with a joke like this one. But something told Jack that Aster didn't write this letter. Maybe it was one of the kids that lived in the village. Maybe Jamie? No, Jamie's handwriting didn't look like this.

Whoever might have written the letter, Jack decided to just play along. He found a loose dirty bit of paper and wrote an 'I accept', then folded it up and, unsure who had given him the letter, he left it where the owl had dropped the letter. He'd ask around and find out who had attempted to prank him. He new a guilty face when he saw one.

Jack, who was really hungry by now, started gathering sticks for his fire. He prepared the flames for the days meal. Oh, how he would savor the roasted steak

…

Jack wandered through the backstreets, first he'd confront Aster, or Bunny. Jack loved nicknames and had one for each of the street kids. Nicholas St. North, was just North to Jack, Toothiana Fairy, was Tooth, and Sanderson Mansnoozie, was Sandy. He stalked through the backstreets carefully, staff first. Jack had been carrying his staff, a weirdly shaped stick, around as long as he could remember. He had probably found it the forest when he was a kid and thought it looked cool, and had started carrying it around with him everywhere ever since.

The first street kid he met was North. 'Oh well...' thought Jack, 'he had to start somewhere.' "Sup, North." He greeted the big seventeen year old. He was probably the most friendly street kid Jack new. Which you would never have thought, due to his sheer size.

"Jack!" North called out warmly, "What's up?"

"I got an interesting letter today." Jack said gaging North's reaction.

North looked genuinely interested. "You got a letter? What was it..." North suddenly chuckled. "Was it a warrant for your arrest?"

"Naw, just a letter inviting me to a school." Jack said with a smirk. "Me, go to school, with rules and regulations, can you picture it?"

North chortled at the idea. "Jack Frost, record holder of the naughty list, goes to school."

Jack laughed along with his friend. "Anyway, see you around North."

Still chuckling North walked away.

'Well. It wasn't North', Jack moved on, and came across another street kid, Toothiana. The only girl on the streets, Tooth was tough, but when she saw Jack she smiled. Jack gave her a sly grin. Tooth, who was three years older than Jack, had always had a soft spot for him. She didn't look at any of the other street kids the same way that she looked at Jack. She fancied him, and he knew it.

"Hey, Tooth..." He greeted smoothly.

"Hi, Jack." Tooth smiled.

"So… Weird thing, I got a letter today." He started, watching her reaction.

Tooth raised and eyebrow. "A letter?"

"Ya, isn't that weird?"

"That is odd, do you have living relatives. Will they get you off the street?"

"Naw, don't get too excited, Tooth. It was an invitation to a school."

"Really! What an opportunity, you should really accept!"

"Tooth… Can you really see me at a school, with rules?"

Tooth stared at him for a few moments, then a slow smile crept across her face. "You're right Jack, you'd never survive."

'Not Tooth either.' "Anyway, see you later, Tooth."

"Yeah, alright Jack."

They parted, Jack moved on. 'There he is, the man himself.' Aster Bunnymund had turned a corner, and was heading toward him. When he saw Jack he paused.

"Jack" He deadpanned.

"Bunny." Jack said warmly, he loved teasing Aster. The guy was just so fun to tease.

"Did you write this." Bunny said. "Because if you did, it's probably the most pathetic prank you've pulled so far."

He was brandishing a note at Jack. A thick parchment envelope, the address scrawled across it was in the same handwriting that Jack's address had been written in.

Merida

Diagon Alley was huge. Full of shops that held things that Merida would need for her first year of Hogwarts school of Witchcraft, and Wizardry. As annoyed as Merida was that her mother, Queen Elinor, had decided to plan out the rest of her life without even consulting her about it. Merida couldn't help but feel excited about the prospect of Hogwarts, she'd be on her own, and away from her family for the first time in her life.

She had already gotten her spell books, potion ingredients, crystal vials, cauldron, scales, and owl. All that was left on her list were her robes, and her wand.

She and her Mum had stopped for lunch. "Your Dad went to Hogwarts. I went to Beauxbatons. I was really hoping you'd go to Beauxbatons, but the kids that live near Beauxbatons get in first, and they didn't have enough room for you. Besides, Hogwarts is closer. You won't be going nearly to far as France. Just to England, which as you saw on the trip here, is not so far away. It will be good for you to learn magic, but remember darling our Subjects are made up of mostly Muggles, you can't go around using magic as you please at home."

Merida listened to her Mum's pep talk without much interest. She ate, enjoying the cottage pie, that she had ordered. Her Mum started on her Haggis. When they had finish eating her Mum said. "Lets get your robes first, then get you a wand."

They headed off to Madame Malkins without another word on the subject. Merida entered the shop and was met by a woman who had her stand on a stool while she fitted robes on her. While she was standing there the door to the shop tinkled. "Ah, come and get up on a stool and I'll be with you in a mo." Said the woman who was pinning up Merida's robes to fit her better.

Merida looked around at the boy that had entered, he was about her age with brown hair, and brown eyes. 'He was a rather handsome boy' Merida observed. He turned and flashed her a grin. 'He had all his first teeth' was Merida's second observation.

"Hi, what's your name?" The boy asked her.

"Merida."

"Good name, my names Peter, Peter Pan." The boy said proudly.

"That is a good name too." Merida told him, so as not to be rude.

"First year going?" Peter asked her.

"Yep, and your's too, I reckon."

"Yeah."

Before they could talk much more the woman interrupted them. "Alright, you're done dear."

Merida hopped off the stool. "Well, I guess I'll see you at Hogwarts then."

"I suppose." The boy said, and Merida left.

She met her Mum outside and they headed towards Ollivanders. They went in and a wizened old man was stand behind a counter of a dusty old shop, greeted them. "You're here for your first wand." He said squinting down at Merida.

"Yeah." She said, looking him straight in the eye.

"Hold out your wand arm."

And the measuring began, from shoulder to finger, then wrist to elbow, shoulder to floor, around her head. Mr. Ollivander walked away to look through dusty boxes, but he tape measure was still moving. It measured from eyes to hair, then from nose to chin.

When Mr Ollivander looked back at her the tape measure was measuring between her nostrils. "That will do," Ollivander told it. The tape measure went limp and crumpled into a heap on the floor.

They went through wands, so many that Merida lost count until they came across her wand. Almost as soon as she saw it she knew it was hers. 9 inches, Willow, with a Dragon Heartstring core. She was set to go to Hogwarts. She would be the best Witch she could possibly be.

Hiccup

The train station was full of people. Hiccup's dad, Stoick the Vast, had dropped him off, with a "Goodluck." and a wave. Stoick had spent the entire trip to Diagon Alley talking about his days at Hogwarts. He had been a Gryffindor, and hoped that Hiccup would be in that house also. He talked of the good old days, when he had been at Hogwarts. "I met your Mother there you know." He told Hiccup on the way to the train station.

Now they were here. What was he supposed to do next. Where was platform 93/4. He had found a platform 9 and a platform 10, but no 93/4. Then he saw a familiar head of hair. Well, more like a floor of hair. The girl he had met in the bookshop at Diagon Alley was standing next to a brick wall between platforms 9 and 10. She seemed to be studying it, she reached out a hand and touched it, but her hand fell right through the wall. Hiccup hurried over to her.

"Rapunzel." He called.

She gave a little start, then turned around, saw Hiccup, smiled at him and waved. "Hi, Hiccup." She said when he was close enough that she wouldn't need to raise her voice.

"Have you found the platform?" He asked her. "Because I'm entirely lost, and confused."

Rapunzel turned back to the wall. "According to what I've read about Hogwarts. This is the entrance to the platform." Without waiting for Hiccup to respond she stepped forward and walked right through the wall, dragging her luggage behind her.

Hiccup quickly followed her. He found himself in a much dirtier platform than any of the others he had seen so far in Kings Cross Station. He spotted a sign not to far away that had the number 93/4 on it. Rapunzel was easy to find, he just followed her hair. Which led him toward the train.

Suddenly Hiccuped forgot about finding Rapunzel as a commotion sounded behind him. "DON'T YOU DARE!" came a clear and angry voice from somewhere near the middle of the platform.

"What's wrong, Ginger." Came a mocking voice. In comparison to the roar Hiccup had heard earlier, this new voice was quiet, but it was confident, almost lazy.

"MY NAME ISN'T GINGER!"

"What ever you say, Ginger."

"SHUSH UP, YOU POMPOUS LITTLE PUKE! OH, AND NEXT TIME TRY WATCHING WHERE YOU PUT THAT STAFF!"

By now Hiccup had found the location of the yelling. A red haired girl was just about ready to give a silver haired boy a beating. Hiccup made his way through the crowd, and grabbed hold of the silver haired boys wrist. "C'mon" He whispered, "Lets find a compartment in the train before they all fill up."

The boys smirk changed to surprise when he turned his attention on Hiccup. Hiccup prayed to the Gods that he hadn't made this worse for the fight, or for himself. The boy with silver hair seemed to be considering him, then with a shrug he let Hiccup lead him away from the Dragon lady who was still glaring daggers at the silver haired boy.

As they left the ginger girl behind, Hiccup finally spoke to the boy normally. "My names Hiccup." He said introducing himself.

The boy smirked at him. "Hiccup? Funny name. My name is Jack." He glanced over his shoulder, then turned back to Hiccup. "I'm sorry you had to see that, but I think I pushed Ginger a little over the edge today. She got pretty upset."

"I saw." Hiccup replied simply.

"So Hic, is this going to be your first year at this Hogwarts school."

"Yeah."

"Oh, so you can't tell me what it's like there..."

"No, All I know is that it's a School of Magic, but we can discover more about it together."

Jack grinned at him, "alright." The two of them had found an empty compartment near the back of the train. The two of them loaded their luggage on the luggage rack and settled down. This was it, he was on the train, he was on his way to Hogwarts.

Rapunzel

Where was Hiccup, he had been right behind her. Rapunzel felt lost without a friend. "Hiccup?" She called again. She had flattened herself against a compartment door so as not to be in the way of any possible ruffian, thugs, or man with pointy teeth. "Hiccup?!" She called again.

"Who's Hiccup? Your toad?"

"Toad?" Rapunzel was confused. "Hiccup is a boy?..." She turned to see a face surrounded by thick tangles of red hair. "Who are you." She asked the girl tentatively…

"I am Merida, who are you?"

Rapunzel smiled, this girl seemed nice, maybe she'd be her friend. "Rapunzel"

"Rapelzle?"

"Rapunzel." Rapunzel corrected her.

"Do you need some help with your hair. We're leaving in five minutes and some of your hair is still out on the platform, I followed it to you."

"I could use a friends help." Rapunzel responded hopefully.

The girl, Merida, was now gathering bunches of Rapunzels hair in her arms. "Lets find a compartment."

The two girls went down the isle of compartments. "Full, full, full.." Merida muttered as they past.

"Full, full, full."

"This one has room." Rapunzel said brightly, looking into a compartment with just two boys in it.

Merida glanced in the compartment. "No. Lets find an empty one." She said quickly.

Then Rapunzel saw Hiccup. "No, wait. That Hiccup! This compartments perfect."

Merida gave Rapunzel a deadpan look, but Rapunzel thought nothing of it. She slid the door open and called out a greeting to Hiccup. "Hi, Hiccup."

"Hey, pretty girl." The other boy answered her before Hiccup could respond.

Rapunzel felt herself blush slightly, he thought she was pretty. She focused her attention on the boy. He had silver colored hair, and crystal clear blue eyes. She felt herself blush deeper. 'He was a pretty boy...'

Merida stepped in front of Rapunzel. "Don't talk to her, you twit!"

"Oh, Ginger." The boy said. "It's you. I didn't see you there."

"Are you saying you didn't notice me!"

"Well, yeah I guess that's what I'm saying." Silver head smirked.

"Hey guys can you not fight in the compartment. I really don't want to die,and you'll bring Rapunzel into this. She doesn't deserve that."

Silver head and Merida glanced at Rapunzel, and she watched as Silver head sat back down, and Merida huffed away her anger. Rapunzel took a seat across from Hiccup, Merida sat beside the window seat across from Silver head and turned pointedly toward the window.

The silver haired boy on the other hand leaned forward. "So.. Your names Rapunzel?"

Rapunzel nodded shyly.

"I'm Jack, Jack Frost." The boy said confidently. He smiled at her, and she found herself smiling back. Just out of her tower, and she had already made three friends.

Hiccup nudged Jack. "Quite flirting." He muttered.

Rapunzel looked at Hiccup. 'What's flirting' she wondered.

"So, Punzie." Jack said after a few moments silence. "Where are you from?"

Suddenly Rapunzel felt uncomfortable. 'Where was she from. The tower? Her life had never truly begun until now.' She thought of her departure from The Tower. Her mother would be coming back from her trip to find an empty tower, and her letter explaining what she had done.

Her silence seemed to have answered Jack question for him. "Never mind." He said. "If you don't want to tell me, I understand."

"I'm from Berk." Hiccup said to break the awkward silence.

"Where's that?" Jack asked.

"In the Netherlands." Hiccup answered.

"I from America. It was pretty cool hearing that I'd be going to Europe for my education." Jack told them.

There was another silence. "Hey, Ginger! Where are you from?" Jack asked Merida.

Merida ignored him. "Aw. Come on, you're not still brooding are you."

"I'm not brooding!" She snapped at him. "It just so happens that I'm from Scotland. My parents are the King and Queen of …"

"Oh." Jack smirked. "So you're a princess."

"Yeah, so watch your back, American boy."

"If you keep making me feel so welcome. I might start to think you like me." Jack teased.

Merida and Jack made identical grossed out faces. "In your dreams, Yanky." Merida said.

"What house do you think you'll be in?" Hiccup asked the compartment at large.

"Gryffindor, definitely, Gryffindor." Merida said at once.

"I'm not sure what the houses are…" Rapunzel told them honestly.

"Yeah." Jack said looking from Hiccup to Merida. "What were the houses again?"

"Gryffindor and Slytherin." Merida started.

"And Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw." Hiccup finished for her.

"How are we sorted?" Rapunzel asked them.

The rest of the train ride was spent explaining the houses, and trying to guess which house each of them would be put into. Merida was convinced Jack would be in Slytherin, Hiccup on the other hand said that Jack would probably be in Gryffindor. Rapunzel thought Hiccup would be a Gryffindor. Jack was sure Rapunzel would be a Hufflepuff. Hiccup said that Rapunzel was more of a Ravenclaw. This conversation entertained all of them until they arrived at Hogwarts. Rapunzel felt the warmth of friendship deep in her heart, she was so glad she left her tower.