When Harry arrived at number four his aunt reacted quite the way he expected. She shrieked at him to get inside so the neighbors wouldn't see his freakishness. His Uncle glared at him and then unceremoniously threw both Harry and his things up the stairs into Dudley's second bedroom that was now Harry's. At first Dudley didn't believe Harry could actually do magic. All Dudley knew was that Harry had gone off with some nutter who claimed to teach at a magical school. However when he began to taunt Harry about it and his parents did not back him up at all he realized and quickly shrunk away eyes wide.
Harry spent most of his time reading Once a Muggle, Now a Wizard and learning about the wizarding world. He was saddened slightly to learn that he couldn't use magic on or around muggles, he had been hoping to curse Dudley, but other than that was amazed. He always had his wand on or around his person especially when he went into the living room. Apparently when his mum had been in school they didn't restrict practicing your magic at home just so long as you didn't use it on your muggle relatives. He got this tidbit of information when he heard his aunt start ranting about his mother's freakishness and "turning teacups into rats!" whenever she got home for the holidays. He skimmed over all his schoolbooks and read the first chapter of each but he was continually going back to the Kiddin book. Each word just seemed to speak to him it was amazing. When he was looking through his history book he came across the name Hedwig and when he suggested it to his owl she hooted as if in approval so that is what he named her.
It was two weeks till the end of August and Harry figured he would need to ask his uncle for a ride now or else figure out another way to get to the train station. He walked into the front room where Dudley and his uncle were watching T.V. He coughed to make his presence known and his uncle grunted in response. "Uncle Vernon, I was wondering if you could give me a ride to Kings Cross station on September 1st. I need to take a train to get to school."
Vernon grunted, "Fine, we need to go to London sometime soon anyway. Dudley broke his Smelting stick so we need to buy a new one." Harry nodded and turned to go back upstairs when Vernon continued, "Seems a bit odd to me to have your sort take a train."Harry didn't quite know how to respond to this and simply showed his uncle his ticket. His uncle simply smiled and said, "Oh yes we will take you no problem." Harry found this comment slightly worrying and when he saw his ticket he knew why there was probably not a platform 9 ¾ from the muggle perspective but he would figure it out when he got there.
On the day of September 1st Harry dressed quickly, made sure he had all of his things in his trunk. He wore his muggle cloths not wanting to attract attention by looking odd at the train station. He made sure he had a bit of muggle money and a bid of wizard gold in his pocket. He even made breakfast quickly for everyone in the house, though they nearly refused it because they were sure he used his freakiness to make it look so good. They didn't refuse though because of how great it looked.
Harry hurried into the car and they drove to London. The drive was awkward and slow but Harry didn't much care as he was going to be gone to school away from his family. When they arrived at the station Uncle Vernon hurriedly put all of Harry's things onto a trolley and sped off leaving Harry in a cloud of exhaust.
Harry watched them speed off knowing they believed that they had left him abandoned at a train station. Harry simply smiled and pushed his trolley into the station. He looked up at the clock it read 10:30 so he realized he had some time. He walked around a bit looking for anyone who was around school age with odd items such as… An owl, he had spotted a group of three very blond individuals the youngest of which was pushing a trolley and had an owl. He walked over closer and heard them talking, "…filled with disgusting muggles as always. Oh Lucius I think one of them touched me, we must find a better way to get onto the platform."
When they stopped walking Harry approached them at first they looked disgusted that he was there but when he started talking the look lessened slightly, "Excuse me but I was wondering if you knew how to get onto the platform. It is obviously hidden somehow but I wasn't quite sure no one told me."
The tall man who the woman had called Lucius spoke, "You walk through the barrier, mudblood." He looked as if he had seen something disgusting on his shoe.
Harry recognized this word from the book he had been reading almost religiously as a terrible insult but continued politely, "Thank you, but I am not muggleborn both of my parents were our sort." With that he walked through the barrier onto the platform. Harry's irritation at being insulted in such a way by Lucius dissolved the second he saw the platform. It was bustling with students and parents. Harry quickly got onto the train and went strait to the back hoping to find the last compartment empty, which he did. As he was trying to put his trunk in the rack a second pair of hands started helping him. When he looked over he saw it was the boy whose father insulted him. The boy started talking, "My name is Malfoy, Draco Malfoy I was sent by my parents to apologize for misinterpreting your parentage. Why aren't your parents here with you?"
Harry held in a scowl, he didn't much care for this boy but he had just apologized and helped him even though his voice was very condescending and reminded him very much of Dudley. "They're dead."
"Oh sorry." He was quite obviously not sorry. "Well I need to go tell my parents that I have apologized." He left without waiting for a response. Well thought Harry that was slightly odd. Harry wasn't quite sure how he felt about this Draco Malfoy just yet. Harry waited to see what he did first. However Harry knew that if Draco tried to turn him into one of his little puppets the way Dudley did with his friends then Draco would have himself an enemy whether he knew it or not.
After Harry had settled down into his seat and was looking out the window, wishing he had bought some food at the station before he got onto the platform, Draco Malfoy made a reappearance. This time he was flanked by two near identical looking boys who were quite broad in appearance. He made a brief introduction, "This is Crabbe and this is Goyle." Harry was most definitely reminded of Dudley, "I was wondering what is your surname anyway you said your parents were our sort but I don't recognize you."
Harry smiled and said, "My name is Harry Potter."
There was a deafening silence in the room for a few seconds. Until Malfoy broke it by saying, "Prove it." Harry simply lifted up his bangs. Crabbe and Goyle's jaws dropped and Malfoy smirked. He held out his hand saying, "Nice to meet you Potter." Harry looked at it for a second he remembered quite clearly not having any friends before simply because Dudley wouldn't allow it. Harry shook his hand with the thought of, this doesn't make us friends it makes us associates. Malfoy nodded and walked off.
A few minutes later a fairly tall girl with sandy blond hair and olive green eyes walked in. She had thin wire glasses. Her hair was in a messy bun with tendrils that fell out and seemed to perfectly frame her face. She nodded to Harry and asked, "Mind if I sit in here too?" Harry nodded his head to say yes. "Thanks my name is Sally-Anne Perks, call me Sally."
Harry nodded, "I am Harry Potter nice to meet you."
She looked slightly pleased with her choice of seats but Harry didn't notice. "The Harry potter?" Harry nodded. "Well let me say welcome back and it's very nice to be meeting you."
Harry agreed and asked, "So are you a first year too or…?"
She smiled, "Yup and I can't wait to get to Hogwarts mum says its beautiful." With that they began to talk animatedly of what they expected the school to be like.
They were discussing classes, "…I heard that History of Magic is taught by a ghost." "Really? Weird!" When the food trolley came by. Sally jumped up and ran over to the trolley buying lots of Cauldron Cakes and Chocolate Frogs. Harry had never heard of any of the candies that were for sell but that didn't curb his enthusiasm. He bought a bit of everything and a bit more of the things that had familiar such as, Chocolate Frogs (if it has chocolate it has to be good) and Pumpkin Pasties (Pasties are good and so is Pumpkin Pie).
Harry was delighted to find that the Chocolate Frogs tasted nothing like frog and everything like chocolate and even had a nifty card for collecting. He knew from his books that wizard pictures moved but it was still a shock to see the pictures of famous wizards waving at him. Soon Harry was having more fun than he could remember having in a very long time. Harry had shown Sally his new Morgana card and she had countered with a smile wide on her face, "Yeah well I have Circe and Circe could sooooo completely and totally beat Morgana."
It took Harry a few moments to realize what Sally was talking about but then smiled searched through his cards and held up Merlin. "Pshaw with Merlin and Morgana how could I loose?" They continued on like this for a very long time laughing and smiling.
Authors Note: This is the full version of this chapter and I feel some thanks need to be made. Thanks to all my reviewers simply for reviewing I honestly was in shock to get so many in such a short time. The second is my thanks for having the fact that this chapter was cut off brought to my attention. I really wasn't sure at first if I planned to continue this story at all, but now I am sure that I will.