CHAPTER 2
A whistle sounded.
Olivia and I clambered on to the train. The train began to move while we were searching for a seat.
"Come on, let's just get in here", Olivia had found a compartment with only one boy already sitting in it. Olivia smiled at the boy and took the seat opposite him. I sat down next to Olivia. The train drove faster and faster and suddenly rounded the corner. All children who were hanging out of the windows waving their family goodbye now pulled their heads back inside. Two other kids joined our compartment and suddenly everyone started talking to each other.
"I'm Ivy", said the girl next to me.
"Robert", a boy said.
"I am Olivia", said Olivia, "and this is my sister, Emily", pointing to me. I smiled. Olivia and I weren't really sisters though she liked to tell everyone we were. I didn't really care about it. Olivia and I had a close bond and it felt good when she called me her sister, as if I really meant something to her. Now we were all looking to the red-haired boy at the window who hadn't introduced himself yet.
"Percy Weasley", he finally spoke. Something in his voice made my heart go wild.
"I think I will be in Slytherin", Robert said. I glanced at Olivia. We had heard a lot about Slytherin. That only the bad guys were in there.
"My whole family was in Gryffindor", said the red-haired Percy, "so I think I will be a Gryffindor too."
"Still better than Hufflepuff," said Robert with a slight cough.
"What's wrong with Hufflepuff?" said Ivy. While they were all discussing about which house they would be placed in a great clattering sounded from the corridor. A dimpled woman slid back the door and asked: "Anything off the trolley, dears?" They all stopped the discussion and pulled out their money. I went out into the corridor and bought some Cauldron Cakes and Chocolate Frogs. I got back into the compartment and started with the Chocolate Frogs. I unwrapped one and picked up the card in it.
"Olivia, I've got Morgana!"
"That makes it to one hundred fifteen," she said smiling.
"You've got only one hundred fifteen of them?" said Robert amazed, "I've got about three hundred." I was now sure, I didn't like that Robert, but Olivia didn't pay much attention on his stupid remarks.
"Merlin again", she said, "We've got already ten of him."
"Do you?" Ivy joined the conversation, "Can I have him? I don't have him yet."
"Yeah, sure", said Olivia and she gave her the card. I had a good time eating Chocolate Frogs and collecting cards. Our collection now counted almost two hundred when Percy told us the train would be arriving soon and that we better got changed into robes.
A voice echoed through the train telling us we would be reaching Hogwarts in five minutes' time. We left our luggage on the train and pushed our ways on to a dark platform. A giant of a man with a lot of long, tangled hair beamed over the heads of the students.
"Firs'-years! Firs'-years over here! C'mon, follow me." The giant let us down over a steep, narrow path on to the edge of a great black lake. He pointed to a fleet of little boats by the shore and all first-years got in. I shared a boat with Olivia, Percy and another girl.
"Everyone in?" shouted the giant, "FORWARD!" The fleet of little boats moved off all at once, gliding to the castle called Hogwarts.
Just telling you guys that none of the stereo types that might be used in this chapter, and the further story, are the way I see it. Not at all tbh
