Chapter 4

The next morning Albus awoke too, "JAMES SIRIUS POTTER I TOLD YOU TO PACK YOUR TRUNK LAST NIGHT!" It was the voice of his mother.

Albus rolled out of bed and went downstairs for breakfast. His father sat at the table reading the Daily Prophet. "Good morning Al" he said looking up from the paper. Al sat down at the table and gulped down his cereal.

Lily came stomping down the stairs, "I WANT TO GO TOO!!!!" she screamed. "I don't want to stay here and go to stupid tutoring! I want to go to HOGWARTS!!!!!"

Aunt Hermione tutored Lily, Hugo and Roxy so that they would be fully prepared when it was time to go to Hogwarts. This had been going on for weeks and Albus was tired of it. "Shut up already Lily!" he said angrily, "You're not going" and at that he rose from his seat and went up to his room to get dressed. His mother was still yelling at James, "YOU TOLD ME YOU PACKED IT LAST NIGHT!" she yelled

Albus pulled on a shirt and trousers and checked his trunk one last time to make sure he had everything. His father knocked on his door and opened it. "You ready Al?" he asked. Albus nodded.

Harry grabbed Albus' trunk and headed out of the bedroom. Albus took one last look around his room and picked up Hedwig's cage and headed down the stairs after his father.

Soon after, his mother came down the stairs, red faced with James hauling his trunk and owl behind him.

"Let's go." Said his Mother,

"But what about breakfast?" James asked

"Well there's no time now, should of thought of that last night when you told me your trunk was packed" said Ginny as they left the door.

They took a car to the station, which they barely ever did which put Lily in a better mood until they got there.

They made their way through the train station to platforms 9 and 10. Harry went through first, James followed and then Albus, pushing his trolley charged at the barrier. He appeared on platform 9 ¾ where the Hogwarts Express sat. His mother and Lily appeared and they went to find Rose and her family. When they spotted them they went over and James disappeared.

They stood and talked to them for awhile when Ron spotted someone across the platform; "Well look who it is" he said staring at a man across the platform with slick blonde hair, beside him stood a woman with long dark hair and in front of him was a miniature version of him. "So that must be little Scorpius Malfoy" said Ron sneering, "Beat him in everything Rosie!" Albus' Aunt Hermione gave Ron a stare.

Harry changed the subject, "Hey! Look who it is!" he said a smile spreading across his face, "It's Cormac!" Albus saw his mother giggle and his Aunt turn a deep shade of pink and his Uncle had a look of fury cross his face.

His mother, giggling said, "Oh and look who's with him, it's Lavender!" Now Ron turned Red and Hermione looked a bit angry. "They are married you know" his mother continued.

Albus turned to where the adults were looking. There, stood a tall broad man and a petit blonde woman. With them, was a boy, older than Albus who looked like his father and a girl, who Albus thought was probably his age, dressed head to toe in pink. Albus did not understand what his parents thought was so funny and why his Aunt and Uncle looked so uncomfortable. "Oh well" he thought.

The trains whistle blew and people started to board the train. He said goodbye to his mother who hugged him and gave him a kiss on the cheek. He said goodbye to Lily who was still angry and then turned to his father.

"Don't listen to James teasing you. If you really don't want to be in Slytherin the Sorting hat will put you in Gryffindor. It listened to me"

And with that he helped Albus get his trunk onto the train and Albus went to find a compartment with Rose.

They found an empty compartment and slid in. Moments later Frank showed up and sat inside as well. The train began to pull away and the three of them stuck their heads out the window and waved goodbye to their families. Albus waved until the platform was out of sight and then sat back down.

"So," he said, "Here we go"

"Here we go" said Frank. Rose just nodded. Albus knew how worried she still was.

They chatted about their parents adventures at Hogwarts and all the trouble they got in.

A tall girl with long chestnut brown hair and tanned skin showed up at their compartment door. "Hello!" she said cheerily, "May I sit here?" Albus nodded and she entered, "I'm Sadie, Sadie Wood" she said. The other three introduced themselves.

"I think our parents went to school together" Sadie said, "My parents are Oliver Wood and Alicia Spinnet"

"Yeah," Albus said thinking, "I've heard of them, wasn't your dad captain of the Quidditch team?"

"Yeah he was!" said Sadie, "What houses do you all want to be in?" Everyone said Gryffindor.

Another girl approached their compartment; she had blue eyes and medium length dirty blonde hair. She was very small, "Would it be all right if I sat with you?" she asked. They all nodded, "My compartment weren't kind when they found out my parents are muggles, as you call them, my names Alyssa by the way, Alyssa Zettler"

The trolley came around and everyone bought a lot of candy. They went through all of their chocolate frog cards. Albus had most of them already, he collected them. His dad was on them, so were his Aunt Hermione and Uncle Ron. Uncle Ron loved to talk about it.

"Who's Harry Potter?" Alyssa asked staring at her card. They explained about Harry and the Final Battle to Alyssa who was amazed by it.

"Wow! So your dad killed Voldemort when he was 17!" she said gaping, "Wow"

"We should get changed into our robes" said Rose quietly looking out the window, "It's getting dark, we should be there soon" She stood, as did Sadie and Alyssa and they left the compartment to change in the washroom while Frank and Albus changed in the compartment.

Once they had their robes on the girls returned to the compartment. The train was approaching the castle. It was huge and eerie looking at night, but it was beautiful. The train got closer and closer and the five of them got their trunks ready to get off.

"Is that it?" Alyssa asked open mouthed, "It's huge" Albus gaped at the huge castle, he had never seen it this close before.

The train stopped at Hogsmeade station. This was the beginning, thought Albus as he prepared to step off the train to go to Hogwarts.