Hello :)

Chapter 3 is already here yay! It's going to be much more interesting from now, you'll see :)

so i give you

Chapter 3-The battle of the train

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Two days had past and Holly was still pondering about what she should write about. She was starting to give up. Why should I even write a story? She thought. Maybe she shouldn't. However, the story was completely driven out of her mind on Tuesday morning when a brown barn owl landed on her windowsill with a letter she recognised from four years ago. A letter with a purple seal wax bearing the coat of arms of Hogwarts. She opened the letter, hoping that her dream will come true. It did. She read the letter hastily and burst with screams of delight. She is the captain of the Gryffindor quiddich team.

"Why are you shouting?" asked Bethany. She probably walked into Holly's room while she was busy with shouting.

"I'm captain of Gryffindors' quiddich team!" She squealed

"What is quiddich?" asked Bethany, only mildly interested.

"Quiddich is the best wizarding sport ever! It's as popular as football"

"I don't like football so I guess I won't like quiddich either"

"Quiddich is nothing like football!" Holly said defensively "Quiddich is played on brooms and there are seven positions. Two beaters, they are throwing a ball called a 'Bludger' at players of their opponent team, a keeper that guards six goalposts from the quaffle which the three chasers from the opponent team are trying to shoot at them, and a seeker, like myself, that needs to find the snitch"

"I still don't like it" Bethany said coldly

"Nobody's perfect" Holly teased her and took a piece of parchment and a quill out of her school trunk. She decided she should write to Lee immediately. As she sat down at her desk to write, guessing Bethany should be out of her room by now, her sister walked to sit beside her.

"I don't understand why you write on a parchment with a-a feather" Bethany said, looking in a disgusted manner at the quill Holly held.

"It's not a feather, it's a quill. This is what wizards use"

"Why can't you lot just send emails or something?"

"Because computers and emails are muggle things"

"Are what?"

"How many times do I have to explain to you what muggles are?" Holly sighed

"I'm sorry that it doesn't interest me" Bethany replied sarcastically

"Then why did you ask now?"

Bethany groaned and got up from the chair she was sitting on. Holly kept her eyes on the parchment, ignoring her sister, and a few seconds later she heard the door slam shut.

The week had passed quickly with Holly's enthusiasm and the long talks with her father about quiddich that felt like they were talking for just a couple of minutes. Even though her father was a muggle, he was very interested in quiddich. Holly decided she would take him to see the quiddich world cup in the future. She would work it out with the ministry somehow. When she voiced her decision to her father his face lit up like a child's face on Christmas.

Holly had forgotten all about the story she intended on writing.

Finally, the first of September came and with it, a very stressful morning.

"Holly, hurry up! You don't want to be late" Rose shouted at Holly. She was getting ready as quickly as she could. Putting some black eyeliner and mascara. She wore her favorite muggle outfit. A leopard patterned skirt and a white long-sleeved shirt with a red and gold bird drawn on it. She wore her favorite shoes too, cream colored sneakers. She rushed downstairs with a huge, eager smile on her face.

"You have enough money, darling?" Her father asked her when she walked into the living room.

"Yes. I have enough money for the whole semester"

"That's great. You are sure you didn't forget anything?"

"Yes. I double checked" she added at the doubtful look on her father's face. She always forgot something.

After they loaded everything into the car they went off and two hours later they were hurrying down King's Cross station toward the barrier between platform 9 and 10. Holly parted with her parents and slid through the barrier, the entrance to platform 9¾. She looked around the platform and saw parents and their children hugging, students waving at their parents from the train. She wished her parents could get onto the platform so they could see her on the train. So she could wave at them before the train started moving.

"Holly" she heard a distant shout of excitement. She turned to the direction of the voice and saw her best friend, Lee, running towards her. When she reached her she squeezed her into a tight hug. When she let go she laughed, her cheeks pink and a shy smile was spread on her face. Lysandra Wood looked a great deal like her father, the same round face, fair skin, brown eyes and shy smile. But her hair was dirty blond like her mother's. She had her perfectly shaped nose and feminine figure as well, but except this she was all her father.

"How are you?" Holly asked while putting her light brown hair out of her face.

"I'm alright…had a row with my mum today" she said, looking uncomfortable.

"Why?" Holly asked, concern leaking into her voice and features. Lee and her mother were always on good terms, they were like best friends more than a mother and daughter.

"She didn't want me to go back to school…"

"What?" Holly was absolutely dumbstruck. Why would Mrs. Wood not want Lee to go back to school? "Why?" Holly asked again

"You know…because of the breakout from Azkaban"

"Because of the WHAT?" Holly stared at her friend with her mouth hanging open. She hasn't heard about any breakout from Azkaban and she was subscribed to the Daily Prophet.

"You didn't know about that?" Lee asked, surprised. "It was all over the prophet yesterday"

Now that Holly thought about it, she hadn't read the prophet all week. A big mistake she would never do again. "But you're going, right?" she needed to be reassured. She couldn't imagine going back to Hogwarts without her best friend.

"Of course. My father convinced her that Hogwarts was the safest place for me now and I'm sure he is right"

"Yes, he is" Holly answered and then looked around again as she saw a blue haired boy walking towards them along with a beautiful blond haired girl that looked about 11. Holly recognised the boy at once, Teddy Lupin, a Gryffindor boy who was also Harry Potter's godson. Holly liked him very much; she hung out with him and a bunch of other friends in the Gryffindor common room a couple of times. He was a very nice boy and quite funny too. He was a metamorphmagus so he could change his appearance whenever he wanted to. As Teddy and the girl came closer, Holly noticed that the girl was almost perfect. She had long, silky blond hair, heart shaped face and wide blue eyes. She had natural red lips and fair, soft looking skin. They passed right next to them, Holly and Lee waved at Teddy and he waved back and then he and the girl kept walking.

Just then, the whistle blew. Lee and Holly hurried toward Lee's family. Mr. Wood helped them heave their things to the train and they waved goodbye to him and to Mrs. Wood.

"Be careful okay? Write to me everyday Lee! You to Holly" Mrs. Wood shouted to them before the train turned a corner and the platform disappeared out of sight.

"I need to go to the prefects' carriage" Lee said, an uncomfortable smile upon her face

"Its okay" Holly answered and Lee's smile turned to an enthusiastic one for just a second and then she hurried off, leaving Holly alone.

"Oi! Holly" she heard someone shout her name from across the hall. She turned around and saw Charlie Lynch and his twin sister Lucy Lynch wave at her from an entrance to a compartment. She hurried towards them and slid to the compartment with them. Charlie and Lucy were good friends of hers. They were identical twins; Lucy was the female version of Charlie and vice versa. They both had black hair though Charlie's was short and messy and Lucy's was long and pulled into a ponytail. They had oval shaped faces and dark blue eyes that looked like deep pools.

"Have you heard about the breakout?" Charlie asked her as they sat down

"Yes. I heard of it a couple of minutes ago"

"A couple of death eaters broke out. They got hold of wands and they stunned the guards but then came more guards and they tried to get hold of them but the death eaters started to do more than stunning. A lot of people died"

"I haven't heard of this" Holly said, astonished.

"And dementors helped them too"

"But-but i thought dementors were destroyed after the second wizarding war" Holly mumbled. She remembered very well that their Defense Against the Dark Arts professor had told them that the ministry got rid of the horrible creatures.

"They destroyed most of them but not all of them" Lucy mentioned "They seek revenge on the ministry now, so they sided with the death eaters"

"Well that's not a good thing" Holly mumbled.

There was silence for a few minutes but it was interrupted by a loud thud that came from the hall. The three students jumped In surprise and Holly got up and stuck her head out of the compartment to look what had happened. She saw other students sticking their heads out to, looking as confused as she felt. Then, she heard another thud, louder than the first one and she jumped again. She drew her wand to her instinctively and kept looking. As suddenly as the noises before, five people in hooded cloaks rushed out of a compartment to her left, cackling madly and shooting red and green sparks around the hall. People ducked and closed the doors to avoid getting hit and Holly wondered who they were and what that was all about. Her first instinct was to think it was a prank but then she figured it couldn't be because no prankster would shoot killing curses at students. She pointed her wand at a hooded figure that was about to curse a frightened first year and yelled "expelliarmus". The figure's wand fell out of its hand. Another hooded figure turned towards Holly, shooting a red spark toward her but she dodged the spell and said "stupefy". The hooded figure dodged it and she shot another spell at it but she missed again. Then, she noticed most of the students were getting out of their compartments to fight, Charlie and Lucy with them, helping her as one of the figures in the hooded cloaks shot a disarming charm at her. Where did they come from? Why are they here and are they death eaters? Holly's mind raced as she blocked curses that were shot towards her. She saw the prefects and head boy and girl coming out of the prefects' carriage, looking baffled but joining the fight and ordering everyone to get inside their compartments but nobody listened. Everyone were in on this fight and nobody was going to give up for five wizards in hooded cloaks. But then, there were several loud cracks and more hooded figures appeared in the battle scene.

"Holly watch out!" she heard Lee scream.

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