CHAPTER-3 TRAIN RIDE AND HOGWARTS

Gohan checked out of his room in leaky cauldron and went to buy a owl as tom has told him electronic items don't work in Hogwarts. He named his owl pidgeon a name he read in a book . gohan now knew everything he needed to know about the wizarding world . he read about the Hogwarts , its houses and he even tried to do magic with a wand he found lying on the floor . it worked and wondered how can this happen . he as ked dende about it

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'dende , are you there ' said gohan. ' woah , gohan where were you piccolo is not even telling anyone about what you said to him . 'dende I have found a world… (gohan told everything he discovered to dende) . but I am wondereing how could I do magic'. ' I think when our blood was mixed when we were on namek and you saved me from frieza then my magical abilities must have transferred from you' .

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He took a cab to king cross station and went through the barrier between platform 9 and 10 reaching the platform . A scarlet steam engine was waiting next to a platform packed with people. A sign overhead said Hogwarts Express, eleven O'clock. gohan looked behind him and saw a wrought-iron archway where the barrier had been, with the words Platform Nine and Three-Quarters on it, He had done it. Smoke from the engine drifted over the heads of the chattering crowd, while cats of every color wound here and there between their legs. Owls hooted to one another in a disgruntled sort of way over the babble and the scraping of heavy trunks. The first few carriages were already packed with students, some hanging out of the window to talk to their families, some fighting over seats. gohan pushed his cart off down the platform in search of an empty seat. He passed a round-faced boy who was saying, "Gran, I've lost my toad again."

"Oh, Neville," he heard the old woman sigh.

A boy with dreadlocks was surrounded by a small crowd ." Give us a look, Lee, go on."

The boy lifted the lid of a box in his arms, and the people around him shrieked and yelled as something inside poked out a long, hairy leg.

Gohan thought if I could do magic then they may allow me to stay in school . he got on the train and found a boy in a empty comapartment . the boy had black hair and green eyes. Gohan opened the door of the compartment.

"Anyone sitting there?" he asked, pointing at the seat opposite the boy.

"Everywhere else is full."

No its empty'boy replied. Gohan sat on the seat and said' I am gohan son and you?'

'I am harry potter'

While they had been talking, the train had carried them out of London. Now they were speeding past fields full of cows and sheep. They were quiet for a time, watching the fields and lanes flick past. Around half past twelve there was a great clattering outside in the corridor and a smiling, dimpled woman slid back their door and said, "Anything off the cart, dears?"

In a second harry leaped to the floor. Gohan asked why?

Harry told' I hadn't eaten anything from morning today'

Gohan was about to ask but got busy in eating as the snacks looked very different.

Three boys entered, and Harry recognized the middle one at once: it was the pale boy from Madam Malkin's robe shop. He was looking at Harry with a lot more interest than he'd shown back in Diagon Alley. "Is it true?" he said. "They're saying all down the train that Harry Potter's in this compartment. So it's you, is it?" "Yes," said Harry. He was looking at the other boys. Both of them were thickset and looked extremely mean. Standing on either side of the pale boy, they looked like bodyguards.

"Oh, this is Crabbe and this is Goyle," said the pale boy carelessly, noticing where Harry was looking. "And my name's Malfoy, Draco Malfoy."gohan gave a slight cough, which might have been hiding a snigger. Draco Malfoy looked at him.

'Do you think my name is funny' replied draco while eyeing gohan . 'never seen you around, and by the clothes I can tell you are a mudblood , I don not need to associate myself with filth'.

Gohan looked murderous at that but controlled himself as he wanted to stay in hogwarts but fighting with another student can put a negative impression of him.

He turned back to Harry. "You'll soon find out some wizarding families are much better than others, Potter. You don't want to go making friends with the wrong sort. I can help you there."

He held out his hand to shake Harry's, but Harry didn't take it. "I think I can tell who the wrong sort are for myself, thanks," he said coolly. Draco Malfoy didn't go red, but a pink tinge appeared in his pale

cheeks. "I'd be careful if I were you, Potter," he said slowly. "Unless you're a bit politer you'll go the same way as your parents. They didn't know what was good for them, either. You hang around with riffraff like the these mudblood and it'll rub off on you." Both Harry and gohan stood up at this.

"Say that again," gohan with murderous look.

"Oh, you're going to fight us, are you?" Malfoy sneered. "Unless you get out now," said Harry, more bravely than he felt, because Crabbe and Goyle were a lot bigger than him or gohan.

"But we don't feet like leaving, do we, boys? We've eaten all our food and you still seem to have some."

Goyle reached toward the Chocolate Frogs next to gohan - gohan leapt forward, but before goyle could reach the food , he gave a horrible yell.

Gohan had hit him with all his might in his stomach. This knocked out all the wind out od goyle's body and he fell unconscious now.

Draco raised his wand and shouted 'stupe..' but gohan hit him in his stomach . crabbe pissed in his pants and all three ran leaving gohan and harry laughing.

A voice echoed through the train: "We will be reaching Hogwarts in five minutes' time. Please leave your luggage on the train, it will be taken to the school separately."

'I will come in a minute from loo I will change there and you changer here' said harry and went out.

Before harry came gohan changed his clothes and capsuled his belongings.

They met ron and Hermione before getting off the train . they became good friends with ron.

The train slowed right down and finally stopped. People pushed their way toward the door and out on to a tiny, dark platform. Harry shivered in the cold night air. Then a lamp came bobbing over the heads of the students, and Harry heard a familiar voice: "Firs' years! Firs' years

over here! All right there, Harry?"

Hagrid's big hairy face beamed over the sea of heads.

"C'mon, follow me - any more firs' years? Mind yer step, now! Firs'

years follow me!"

Slipping and stumbling, they followed Hagrid down what seemed to be a steep, narrow path. It was so dark on either side of them that Harry thought there must be thick trees there. Nobody spoke much. Neville, the boy who kept losing his toad, sniffed once or twice.

"Ye' all get yer firs' sight o' Hogwarts in a sec," Hagrid called over his shoulder, "jus' round this bend here."

There was a loud "Oooooh!"

The narrow path had opened suddenly onto the edge of a great black take. Perched atop a high mountain on the other side, its windows sparkling in the starry sky, was a vast castle with many turrets and towers.

"No more'n four to a boat!" Hagrid called, pointing to a fleet of little boats sitting in the water by the shore. Harry, Ron and gohan were followed into their boat by Neville and Hermione. "Everyone in?" shouted Hagrid, who had a boat to himself. "Right then - FORWARD!"

And the fleet of little boats moved off all at once, gliding across the lake, which was as smooth as glass. Everyone was silent, staring up at the great castle overhead. It towered over them as they sailed nearer and nearer to the cliff on which it stood.

"Heads down!" yelled Hagrid as the first boats reached the cliff; they all bent their heads and the little boats carried them through a curtain of ivy that hid a wide opening in the cliff face. They were carried along a dark tunnel, which seemed to be taking them right underneath the castle, until they reached a kind of underground harbor, where they clambered out onto rocks and pebbles.

"Oy, you there! Is this your toad?" said Hagrid, who was checking the boats as people climbed out of them.

"Trevor!" cried Neville blissfully, holding out his hands. Then they clambered up a passageway in the rock after Hagrid's lamp, coming out at last onto smooth, damp grass right in the shadow of the castle.

They walked up a flight of stone steps and crowded around the huge, Oak

front door.

"Everyone here? You there, still got yer toad?" Hagrid raised a gigantic fist and knocked three times on the castle door.

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