Between Worlds - Chapter 2
At 7:00 A.M. Polly Pettigrew made breakfast for her large family. There were 4 children heading off to Hogwarts this morning, and two others joining in the trip. At 7:10 Thirteen-year old Steven Pettigrew lugged his trunk down the stairs with the help of Fifteen-year old Jana. The siblings devoured bacon, eggs, and toast while 9-year old Andrew and 6-year old Penny scurried down with smaller parcels. The instant Steven and Jana were done she cast a quick scrougify and their places were taken by the two youngest children. At 7:40 A.M. there was a slight commotion upstairs. Seventeen year-old Zachary solved the problem of a very crowded hallway by apparating, trunk in hand, to the front door where Mrs. Pettigrew chuckled to let him in. Her husband, Glen peered over the railing with a startled expression, when he realized that all was well, Mr. Pettigrew returned to managing the chaos upstairs while his wife orchestrated breakfast below. Steven and Jana had returned to clearing the backlog of luggage until they finally unearthed her trunk and dragged it down the stairs. Eleven-year old Peter▓s trunk was last. It had taken the longest to pack because it was his first year and could not simply be updated from the needs and desires of previous years.
At long last all six children were fed and every possible parcel was sitting on the foyer floor, neatly labeled for each student. Six children and two adults donned muggle clothing for the excursion. Zachary apparated over to the KCWAP (Kings Cross Wizarding Apparation Point.), any excuse to apparate at his age, walked over to the kiosk with muggle luggage carts and secured floo station 103 for his family▓s use in precisely 14 minutes time. Throwing a handful of green power into the applicable grate he informed the family and started catching family members, owls cages, suitcases, trunks and cauldrons.
At 10:25 A.M. The Pettigrew family de-keyed their floo gate and joined the muggle foot traffic entering Kings Cross Station. The closer they got to Platform 9 ╬ the more Hogwarts students the older children recognized though greetings were mostly left for the train. They were running late and still passing through the muggle world. Their parents, on the other hand, would socialize after all the children were situated and on their way to school.
Andrew begged and pleaded to be allowed to go first, with a tolerant Zachary mere steps behind. Penny decided to hold Peter's hand, as they walked through the barrier. Her big brother was nervous about his first time away from home, and she wasn't quite ready to lose him for a whole year either.
Jana and Steven decided to race for the barrier, nearly barreling over a well-to-do older couple and their messy-haired son, who looked about eleven.
