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Harmony started counting down the days until she left for Hogwarts. There was a calendar in her room she had found somewhere and was stroking out a day on the calendar at the end of every day. Darren's side comments didn't bother her so much anymore since she now knew that she would escape them, and hopefully, Darren might get adopted when she was gone. The chances of that were slim though, he was to much of a jerk. Still, it doesn't hurt to dream.

Finally the day came, the day that Harmony would be heading off to Hogwarts. She was ecstatic and Mr. Hemming was happy for her. He was giving her stream of reminders. "Now remember to always keep your dorm clean, and to clean up after Harold. Study hard for your tests and make sure that you don't let any one bully you there."

Harmony smiled at him, he really did care. "Don't worry Mr. Hemming; I'll do what you say."

He gave me a hug. "Better get going Harmony; you don't want to miss the train."

She returned the hug and walked out the front door to the train station. Harmony was pushing her trolley and in about ten twenty minutes she was at King's cross. Looking at her ticket she saw that it said Platform 9 ¾. 9 3/4? Was there really such a place? She should have asked the Potters when she was with them. Harmony could see Platform number nine, and Platform number ten, but there was no Platform 9 ¾ , there was only a brick divider thing.

She saw a family approach it though, they all had red hair, except for the mother who had bushy brown hair. The family walked towards the barrier, and disappeared right through it! Harmony rubbed her eyes, trying to see if she had been hullicianting, but she wasn't. More people disappeared through the barrier. Convinced that that was what you were supposed to do, she walked right up to the barrier, she didn't run because what if it realy was solid and she wasn't hallucinating?

She tentively stuck her hand to the barrier, and it sunck right through! She took a deep breath and now knowing that she wouldn't smash into it she walked right through it.

What Harmony saw made her jaw drop. There was a train that was so long she couldn't see where it ended. It was billowing scarlet smoke and people were buscling around it. She heard voices all around her, but of course she couldn't see who they belonged to. Harmony felt Harold curl closer to her, he didn't like all the noise. Harmony had to admit that she wasn't used to this much noise, the orphanage was normally a quiet place, and she had the urge to cover her ears.

"Harmony!" Sounded a familiar voice. She turned to look at who had called her.

She scanned the crowds and saw Al waving at her, he was with a family of red headed people, well the mom was a brunette but the rest were red heads. "Al." She said relieved, at least there was someone here that she knew and who would know what to do. She walked over to him her trolley. "I'm so glad to see you, I have no clue what to do now."

He beamed at her. "How did you know to get through the barrier?" he asked curiously.

"I saw some people disappear through it and tried it myself. I was so scared that I was going to crash into it and look like an idiot." She admitted truthfully.

Al laughed and then told her, "Come on. Mum and Dad are over there and so are my cousins. You can be with people who actually know what to do."

Harmony rolled her eyes at Al and followed him. She found it so odd the small gestures such as rolling her eyes seemed to be coming naturally to her. As well as the fact that Al laughed at what she was saying, not at what she was doing, and that he wasn't laughing at her, it was more like he was laughing with her. She found it so foeirgn and strange, she had never experienced something like this.

She followed Al to his family and felt really shy when she approached them. Sure she kinda knew the Potter's, but after learning about how Mr. Potter was absolutely famous for defeating the most powerful wizard of all time she felt really shy around him. Then there was the totally new family who she had no clue who the heck they were.

When Al and her reached them only a small red headed girl with extremely bushy hair seemed to notice. She was dressed in robes, which was wizard standard and the uniform for Hogwarts. She seems to look at Harmony with a scrutinizing gaze, why Harmony was unsure. "Who are you?" She piped.

"Harmony Lee." The response sounded slightly nervous, then she remembered that here she wasn't a freak and she wouldn't be bullied, and if she was…she might actually just run for it. She had no clue what she would do if anyone actually bullied her.

"Well then Harmony, I'm Rose. Rose Weaseley." She had a brisk tone.

"Rose stop acting like a prat." A boy with wavy red hair told her. He had blue eyes and looked remarkably like the man who Harmony assumed was his father.

"Stop arguing both of you." A woman with bushy brown hair said, Harmony assumed that she was their mother because Rose looked almost identical to her except that her hair was red instead of brown and that she had blue eyes instead of brown.

"Yes mum." They both said in unision.

"It's good to see you again Harmony." Mrs. Potter said kindly.

"You too Mrs. Potter."

"Al, what house do you think that we'll end up in? I hope that we end up in the same house." Rose spoke and then looked at Harmony, "Hopefully Harmony will be in our house as well because she seems really nice."

Harmony tilted her head to the side in confusion. "Houses?"

The red headed father looked at her in disbelief. "You don't know what the houses are?"

Mrs. Weaseley smacked Mr. Weaseley. "Ronald!"

"Sorry Hermione, you didn't need to hit me." He grumbled while rubbing the back of his head.

"When you get to Hogwarts you're sorted into different houses." Rose began excitedly. "There's Huffelpuff, Ravenclaw, Slytherin." She made a face then. "And Gryffindor."

"The best house there is." Her little brother said.

Mr. Weaseley looked at Rose and Al seriously. "If you guys don't get into Gryffindor we'll dininheirit you, but no pressure."

"Ron!"

Harmony tried not to laugh. Lily and Roses little brother were laughing, but Rose ad Al had serious expressions on their faces. It was really hard, but kept herself from laughing out loud. If Al didn't laugh at her then she shouldn't laugh at him.

"He doesn't mean it." Mrs. Potter and Mrs. Weaseley said together., trying to reassure Al and Rose. Mrs. Weaseley shot a glare at her husband, but he didn't see it. Mr. Potter and him were looking at something through the scarlet steam. Harmony craned her neck to try and see, but the steam became thicker and whatever they had been looking at was lost.

The adults turned back to us and Mr. Weasley turned to Rose. "So that's little Scorpius. Make sure you beat him in every test, Rosie. Thank god you inherited your mother's brain."

"Ron, for heaven's sake," Mrs. Weasley said, half stern half amused, "Don't try to turn them against each other before they've even started school!"

"You're right, sorry." Mr. Weasley told her, but he didn't sound like he meant it. After a couple of seconds he spoke again. "Don't get to friendly with him, though, Rosie. Granddad Weasley will never forgive you if you marry a pureblood."

Pureblood? What did that mean? Harmony wondered. Was it another wizarding term like muggle-born? She assumed that it was, but what did it mean? Was it meant to describe someone bad, or along that context?

Harmony was dragged out of her thoughts when someone yelled at them. "Hey!" James appeared from no where, without his trunk, owl, and trolley. He seemed to be dying to share something with them. "Teddy's back there," He said slight out of breath, pointing over his shoulder into the billowing cloud of steam. "Just seen him. And guess what he's doing? Snogging Victoire!" (For everyone who is unfamiliar with this British term, it means making out.) He looked at everyone and seemed to be slightly frustrated with the lack of reaction. Harmony was wondering who Teddy and Victoire were. "I asked Teddy what he was doing-"

"You interrupted them?" Mrs. Weasley said disapprovingly. "You are so like Ron-"

"Hey!" Mr. Weasley said

"-and he said that he'd come to see her off! And then he told me to go away. He's snogging her!" James added as though worried that we weren't able to comprehend what he had been saying.

"Oh it would be lovely if they got married!" Whispered Lily ecstatically. "Teddy would really be part of the family then."

"He already comes round for dinner about four times a week." Mr. Potter said. "Why don't we just invite him to live with us and have it done with?"

Harmony was confused and Al saw this. "Harry is Teddy's godfather." He explained to Harmony. "His parents died so Harry took him in. He lives with his grandma, but eats with us a lot. Victoire is our cousin."

Harmony nodded her thanks to Al for explaining.

"Yeah! Let's have Teddy move in!" James said excitedly. "I don't mind sharing with Al-Teddy could have my room."

Al looked absolutely horrified at the idea and was about to protest, Mr. Potter beat him to it though. "No, absolutely not." He said firmly. "You and Al will share a room when I want the house demolished." Harmony wondered what their house life was like. "It's nearly eleven; you'd better get on board."

"Don't forget to give Neville our love." Mrs. Potter told James as she hugged him. Harmony recognized the first name of the professor who told her that she was a witch. She would never be able to say how grateful she was to him.

"Mum! I can't give a professor love!"

"But you know Neville-"

James rolled his eyes and Harmony stifled another giggle. "Outside, yeah, but at school he's Professor Longbottom isn't he? I can't walk into Herbology and give him love…" He shook his head and then turned to Al with a wicked grin on his face. "See you later, Al. Watch out for Thestrals."

What are threstrals?

"I thought they were invisible! You said they were invisible!"

James laughed and then gave his mother a kiss and his father a hug. Once again Harmony couldn't help but feel jealousy at the family. James had parents who he could give hugs and kisses to. He could go to them or advice, and they would give him advice. Harmony had none of that.

Mr. Potter was giving Al advice and Harmony left them and followed Rose to the train. She wouldn't interrupt their moment together, a moment that she would never experience. The closest moment thing to that that she had was Mr. Hemming telling her good-bye.

"Are you excited Harmony?" Rose asked her brightly when they were on the train, hanging out the window waiting for Al.

"Ya, I really am." It was true; she was finally going to a place where she wouldn't be considered a freak. People would be like her, and maybe someone would have a pet snake as well.

"What's that on your arm!" Rose shrieked, attracting some stares from people.

Harmony sighed, maybe it was a far stretch to assume that other people would have snakes and wouldn't consider her a freak. People might still consider her a freak because she had a snake on her arm she actually wondered if she would be allowed to have Harold with her. "This is Harold Rose, my pet snake."

Rose looked at Harold, and then at Harmony. Then back at Harold and then back at her. She did that about four times and then finally stopped and just shrugged. "Snakes are cool."

Harmony smile, that had to be the most rational response to having Harold on her arm that she had seen so far.

Al joined them on the train and they all waved at their parents, except for Harmony. She didn't have any parents to wave to. There was no one that would be missing her when she was at Hogwarts, that kids at the orphanage were probably celebrating the fact that she wasn't there anymore.

Don't think about that Harmony, it's all behind you now. She chanted that inside of her head, wiling herself to believe that it was true. But how could she know that? For all she knew she would still be a freak in people eyes, still the girl that no one wanted to be with. The ugly girl with a snake around her arm. She shuddered at the thought.

"Come on, let's go find a compartment. I can't stand the thought of having to sit with James." Al said while rolling his eyes.

"He would probably kick you out anyways Al." Rose said rationally. "He has his friends and you have us, he probably wouldn't want us there anyways. We would ruin his cool image." She rolled her eyes at the last comment.

Harmony's face brightened when they said this. She was their friend; to them she wasn't a freak or the ugly girl. She was Harmony Lee, their friend. She focused on that one thought and everything else seemed to be better.

"Let's go guys, I don't want to be stuck wandering the train for long, Imagine would James would say to me." Al said.

"He would probably disown you."

"You need to stop freaking out Al, really." Harmony said, the words feeling slightly foreign in her mouth. She had never told anyone to stop freaking out.

Al rolled his eyes at her and together the three of them set off to find a compartment.


So it's really just the epilouge with some changess, but I think that it was a good chapter. :) Review to tell me if you thought it was good or not, please.

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