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Yes I know. It's a miracle! They've finally made it even though it took them four chapters! The golden trio have gotten here!
Chapter 4: A train conversation about odd people.
I looked around King's Cross hoping to spot some sign of Ron or Hermione or any of the Weasley's really. It was half past ten and we were meant to meet here before going on to platform 9 ¾ for our fifth year at Hogwarts. Finally, ten minutes later, they turned up.
"What took you so long?" I asked as we walked through the barrier onto the platform.
"Oh, Ginny forgot her cauldron and Fred and George got caught trying to smuggle out Weasley's wizard Wheezes," Hermione said.
"Did they bring any? I saw what they did to Dudley which was pretty funny," I said. Although Ron's family had come to get me Uncle Vernon had kind of locked me out of the living room after Dudley's 'accident' with the sweets. I'd barely gotten away with not being locked in my room for the rest of summer.
"Hell yeah! And guess what dad heard at the Ministry!" Ron yelled as he tried to shove his trunk onto the train.
"What?" I asked as I tried to pull my trunk into our compartment.
"There's going to be a vampire at Hogwarts and the new professor of Defence against the Dark Arts is a mage!" he said excitedly as he helped me with my trunk.
Hermione gasped and said, "They can't do that! Vampires are meant to be really dangerous and no-one's heard of a mage for hundreds of years!"
"Yeah that's why Dad was so worried last night. He said that mages only taught when we were at war with someone. You don't think that they've come about Voldemort do you?" Ron said as we finally heaved Hermione's trunk into the compartment.
I flopped down on to the seat by the window. "I don't know," I said, looking at the students who hadn't got on the train yet. I didn't like the sound of this. If these people were coming back then what had happened last year was worse than we had first thought.
"What's a mage anyway?" Ron asked. "I know that they're meant to be really rare but what are they really?"
"Their wizards or witches who aren't fully human so they are born with the knowledge of how to use magic. That's why they don't use wands because they don't need one. That's why they're so rare," Hermione replied.
"How many of them of them are there in the world? And how can they not be fully human?" Ron frowned. He looked as confused as I was.
"No-one knows how many there are but one of their parents are normally something like a dragon or such. I'm not sure, but most of them are only half-human." Hermione seemed to be having a hard time answering all of Ron's questions.
"Who would have a kid with a dragon? And-"
"Ron! I don't know everything all right! No-one really knows much about mages cos their so secretive!" Hermione yelled, throwing up her hands. She looked pretty annoyed. Suddenly a whistle blew and the train started to move. We all waved at Mr and Mrs Weasley as the train passed them.
Sitting back down I frowned and said, "So how comes Hagrid's not a mage? He is only half-human. His mum was a giant."
"I think it's because giants are basically very big humans so it doesn't make much difference other than him being taller than us," Hermione said helpfully.
"Oh." I thought about that. It seemed kind of wrong that they would discriminate giants like that. It wasn't as if everyone had a giant as their next door neighbour. But it was kind of true that they were only large humans.
"So are mages friendly with vampires or something?" Ron said, "Or is it just coincidence that they're at school at the same time?"
"I'm not sure but why would they even let a vampire in? They drink human blood for goodness sake!" Hermione said.
"Oh I forgot to mention that the vampire is a prince," Ron said.
"What?" I asked, staring at him.
"Yeah, he's the prince of all vampires apparently. I think that's why Dad was so worried cos there's been talk in the ministry that their at war too but no-one knows who with," Ron answered. At that moment Luna, Ginny and Neville walked in.
"What are you talking about?" Neville asked.
"Probably the vampire who's coming to Hogwarts," Ginny said as she sat next to Hermione.
"V-vampire?" Neville said, going pale. I and Hermione sat in silence as Ginny and Ron explained what Mr Weasley had found out about our guest this year.
"Well if fang face tries to bite any of us we'll teach him a lesson won't we?" Ginny said to finish probably to calm down Neville who had now turned green with fear.
Oddly enough I didn't think that they would get very far in teaching him a lesson. It looked as if this was going to be an interesting year.