Icarus let out a particularly loud snore waking Caractacus up with a jolt, glancing round the cabin he could see both Icarus and Nyx were asleep, well Nyx was probably asleep, standing Caractacus stretched his legs, then, realising he was stood up and not magnetised to the chair woke Icarus up,

"Icarus, oi! Sleepy, we're not stuck to the chairs any more!"

This had no effect, he shrugged and turned to find Nyx inches from him,

"Excuse me", she breathed as she squeezed passed him.

She then proceeded to clamp down her thumb and forefinger on Icarus' nose and closed his mouth with the other, with a loud cough and splutter Icarus awoke and Nyx stepped back quickly to get out of arms reach before he came round.

"You really need to stop doing that!" Icarus gasped, "One of these days your going to choke me",

"One can surely hope" Nyx quipped back.

"Wait a minute!", Icarus look at Nyx and Caractacus, "you're both stood up!", he jumped up and proceeded to do some overly enthusiastic stretches, like someone preparing for Gymnastics.

"I hope you two weren't up to anything whilst I was sleeping" Icarus winked at Caractacus and looked at the scruffiness of Nyx's Robes.

"We most certainly were not! The very idea!" Nyx exclaimed, straightening her dress out and dropping back down into her seat, Caractacus was sure he saw a faint blush enter her cheeks, but he was probably seeing things in the semi-darkness of the cabin.

"Only joking mate, no one would want to do anything with my sister, she looks too much like me!" he winked again and then proceeded to try and look out of the window high on the cabin wall.

"Looks to me" he said straining "that it must be about six or seven o'clock at night, with the light outside, we must be nearly there by now".

"It is exactly fourteen minutes past six" Nyx stated from the corner, "If you actually wore the watch Mum gave us you would know the time and not have to guess".

"Nag, nag, nag, anyone would think we were married",

Suddenly a load booming voice could be heard throughout the cabin, reverberating off the walls, "Students! This is your conductor speaking be silent and pay attention, in precisely fifteen minutes we will be arriving at Hogsmeade station and departing towards Hogwarts, first years please make your way towards the left of the platform and wait for further instruction, second years and up please head to the right and follow the usual protocol for approaching the school, that is all".

As the echoing subsided the three first years shared a look, then started to speculate on what they would have to do to get to the school.

"My dad told me you had to row across the Lake when he was a kid, the old Game Keeper, some half-giant used to lead you across and then you had the sorting" Caractacus said remembering the fond stories his Dad had told him of Hogwarts before the Fall.

"I heard they make you talk to Him" whispered Icarus, "and that he can see into your soul and decides whether you are worthy or not".

"Don't be stupid" Nyx snapped, "Do you really think He would come all the way to Hogwarts just to say whether we can come to school or not, we are all Pure-bloods and that was the only qualification he cares about!".

"I hope they don't expect us to do magic, we haven't even been assigned our wands yet",

"I know imagine if they just throw a wand at you and chuck you somewhere really dangerous!".

"They wouldn't do that, they would be more dead students than living ones by the end of it!".

That was the final word on the subject, they felt the stopping of the train, gradually slowing to a stop, again the booming voice came out of nowhere "Students welcome to Hogsmeade, Hogwarts awaits you!".