"Platform nine and three quarters?" Levy muttered examining the train ticket in her hand "Lu-chan don't you think it's a bit strange? No other platforms have fractions on the end."

Lucy, who was walking next to Levy nodded and examined her own ticket "It is... but I think Dumbledore-san mentioned it briefly... something about a special wizarding platform?"

Levy sighed "This really is a completely different world..."

Lucy nodded but before she could reply she hit something very hard in front of her. She rubbed her head and looked, bewildered, at what she had bumped into which happened to be Natsu's back "Natsu! Why did you stop so suddenly?!" She demanded.

"Hum?" Natsu questioned, only half paying attention.

Lucy clenched her teeth "Hey! Natsu! Why did you stop?!"

Natsu seemed to come back to reality and he pointed at a brick divider of platform 9 and 10 "Someone just walked right through that wall."

Lucy peered around Natsu and looked in the direction he was pointing in "Oh! That's how they do it!" She looked over at Levy who nodded.

"Well then dears!" Mrs Weasleys voice came from the front of the group "I'm afraid we have attracted a lot of unwanted attention…" Everyone looked around to see that sure enough everyone who walked by was looking at them, maybe because of the weird hair colours or because Erza was pulling her huge waggon of luggage after refusing to allow any member of the order to touch it or alter it in any way, who could tell? "so this will be a little harder than expected but we will just have to make the best of a bad situation! We'll go through in pairs with the transfer students first!"

"Go through where exactly?" Gray asked.

"Well the wall of course dear!" Mrs Weasley pointed at the divider "Perhaps you should show them Fred." Mrs Weasley looked at her son "George you follow behind."

The twins nodded and ran through Fred first and George right behind him.

"There! Easily done, see?" Mrs Weasley declared with a nod "Your turn dears! It's best done at a bit of a run!"

The Mages all ran through two at a time and when every pair entered the Hogwarts platform there new sets of eyes focusing on them.

"Who are they?" One of the 4th years asked his friend.

"No idea! They look too old to be first years and I would defiantly remember seeing them before!"

The mages all looked around at the crowds of watching students and parents. Lucy decided to keep her eyes on the large scarlet steam train that was pulled up on the platform instead however.

"We best go find a carriage" Harry stated after appearing through the wall behind the mages with Hermione and Ron.

"Uh… sorry Harry but Ron and I have to go to the prefect carriages." Hermione muttered "But we'll be back before we get to Hogwarts!" She assured.

"O-oh right. Yeah okay, see you later then…" Harry trailed off before slowly making his way towards the train.

"I wonder if we'll all be able to fit in one carriage." Wendy asked in an attempt to change the subject.

"You should be fine…" Hermione answered whilst never taking her eyes off Harry who had pulled his trunk onto the train and was holding Hedwig's cage in his spare hand.

Once Harry was on the train Hermione looked at Ron "We should go."

Ron nodded and Hermione hurried off down the platform but before he left Ron turned to Gray and Natsu who were closest to him "Keep an eye on Harry for us… he's been a bit… off lately." And he hurried off after Hermione.

"That's our job." Gray said once Ron was out of earshot.

After an annoyed Erza was convince to put her stuff on a luggage carriage at the back of the train, since it wouldn't fit in the passenger carriages, they boarded the train at last.

"All these compartments look like they'll be a tight fit." Lucy complained as they wandered up the carriages in search for Harry.

Levy laughed "Don't worry Lu-chan I'm sure we'll fit!"

"That's not what I'm worried about…" Lucy shot a glance at Natsu who was clearly muttering curses under his breath about having to ride a train to get there.

Wendy smiled "I'll take care of his motion sickness don't worry Lucy-san!"

"You're a life saver Wendy!" Natsu cheered.

"Ahh here he is." Erza's voice came from the front of the group. She slid open a compartment door and the mages all squeezed in.

"It's a bit… tight." Harry pointed out. He was squeezed with the wall on one side and Natsu on the other.

"Aye sir!" Happy chimed from his place on Natsu's lap.

"You're not squeezed in like us you damn cat." Lucy shot.

The train gave a jump forward and almost instantly the pink haired dragon slayer turned a pail shade of green.

"What's wrong with him?" Harry asked.

"Geehe! Travel sickness, happens on any type of transport." Gajeel laughed.

"It's not… funny!" Natsu hissed.

"Would you like me to knock you out?" Erza asked kindly.

Natsu's eyes widened and he shot a pleading look at Wendy who giggled.

"It's fine Erza-san I'll take care of it!" She held her hands out towards Natsu and she started using her magic.

It was only a matter of seconds before the green colour vanished from Natsu's face and he jumped to his feet causing Happy to quickly take to the air "TAKE THAT TRANSPORTATION! YOU WON'T BEAT ME THIS TIME!" he yelled before grinning at Wendy "Thanks!"

Wendy smiled back "No problem Natsu-san!"

"What exactly did you just do?" Harry asked curiously whilst staring in wonder at Natsu who sat back down.

"Healing magic." Wendy replied "It comes with being a sky dragon slayer! I can heal almost anything!"

"That's really cool!"

Just then the compartment door slid open to reveal a girl that looked to be about a year younger then Harry with light blond hair, clutching a magazine to her chest "Hello Harry." She greeted in a cheery, yet distant voice.

"Uh hi Luna." Harry greeted back with a nod.

"Room for one more?" the newly named Luna asked, not even seeming to notice the many new faces around her.

"Um, well not really but I guess you can sit here… but what about Nevil and Ginny? Aren't you going to sit with them?" Harry replied as Lucy, who was sat at the end of the row, squeezed up closer to Gajeel who glared at her.

Luna took the newly created place with a nod of thanks to Lucy "I was but them Ginny told me about the new transfer students and about how they have strange magic and I thought I would come find you so I could meet them."

"Ahh alright then… everyone, this is Luna Lovegood, Luna this is everybody." Harry introduced.

The mages, not including Happy, Carla and Lilly, did their round of introductions and Luna smiled happily the entire way through saying hello to each one after they introduced themselves.

"Is it true your cats can talk?" Luna asked the three dragon slayers.

"Exactly how much did Ginny tell you?" Harry questioned.

Luna shrugged "Not much, just that you had strange magic and talking cats."

Harry sighed and the exceeds also introduced themselves.

"It's nice to meet you." Luna said with a small smile "I'm sure my father would love to do an article on you, he works for the quibbler you know!" Luna held out the magazine she had been holding to her chest.

"We would rather not I'm afraid." Carla stated and Happy and Lilly nodded their agreement.

"Oh, well that's a shame." Luna muttered "But I understand. So… if you don't mind me asking… what type of magic have you got?"