Chapter 11: The Train Ride

Draco's POV

I made my way through the crowded station. As I remembered the morning's events, I walked through the entry in between platform 9 and 10.

That Morning

I woke up at around five' o'clock and couldn't go back to sleep. At around six, I got up and took a shower, my mind empty from being so tired. As soon as I got out of the shower, I remembered that I had to arrive at the station early so I could find a good compartment. I put on my uniform and grabbed a small carry-on bag, which had my instruments (which the house-elves shrank), a book, and some other items along with a lot of money. As I passed my closet, I noticed that there was almost no clothes on it, and my muggle clothes were not any of them!

"DIPSY!" I called (Dipsy is my house-elf)

"Yes master Draco?" she said in a squeaky voice.

"Did you look in the drawer in the back of my closet?"

"Y-yes master Draco"

"Did you pack up what was in the drawer?"

She small house-elf slowly nodded her head. I was about to punish her, like Lucius would do, but then stopped for some reason and dismissed the house elf from my room.

I looked at myself in the mirror. I was no longer a clone of my father. My hair wasn't platinum blond (but it was still blond). I had a small tan from being outside more often. I wasn't a wiry as I was at the end of fifth year.

'You are free' I told myself 'No more Lucius to cower behind. No more Lucius to protect you. No more Lucius.' I was my own protector now, and I could now explore the world as someone I never knew, but first I had to meet him.

End Flashback

I looked around me and saw filthy muggles before I went through the entrance. As I stepped onto Platform 9 ¾. I noticed that I wasn't the only person there. There were two girls. Both of them looked petite, but they both still had amazing bodies, though there was something familiar about them. They stepped into the last compartment. I walked over and put my stuff in the compartment before theirs and tried to peek through the window. I couldn't believe what I saw!

Hermione's POV

Nina slept over for the rest of the week. We had a blast, until it was time to go back. We woke up early that morning. Throughout the week, we had been working on a 'Shrinking Solution' so it would be easier to bring some of our stuff. We shrank my car, our instruments, and a lot of other stuff. On our last night, Jared, Chad, Pierre, Joel, Nikki and Judy took me and Nina out to dinner. They then went to our favorite dance club. We all wanted to get something to remember the summer by (it was a tradition to get something to remember a summer. One year we all got necklaces, and one year we all got our ears pierced, and etc.). This year we decided to get tattoos of our favorite animals.

Nina got a small Red-bellied Black Snake (a Pseudechis Porphyriacus) under her left collarbone. I didn't want to get a real tattoo, so my friends convinced my to got a henna tattoo in between my left hip and her naval, but Nina told me that when we got to school she was going to make it permanent. It was an outline of a lion with some lines and details. Jared got an albatross head on his ankle. Judy got an Eastern Swallowtail (a butterfly) on her left butt cheek. Nikki got a Cahiuta-Monkey on her lower back. Derek got a dragon on his ankle, but was planning on hiding it when he wasn't around his friends. Chad got the head of a bald eagle on his right shoulder. Joel got a black panther right below the back of his neck. Pierre got a bat on his shoulder. We all got back home at around one in the morning.

Nina and I woke up around seven thirty. I wore a deep red bra-strap belly shirt camisole thing, dark blue jeans that were tight, my black platform sandals and a silver belly-ring and a silver anklet. Nina had straightened my hair and put on clear lip-gloss and a little blush and eye shadow. She wore the same thing as me, but her top was black with what looked like green splatter art. Her jeans were a pale blue. They also had green splatter art. She had on freen flip flops and wore a silver toe ring, hoop earrings, a silver bell-ring and a bracelet. She let her hair dry naturally (which was a reddish-brown with blond streaks) and only wore clear lip-gloss. We got to the station at ten o'clock and decided to sit in the back compartment. When we got into the compartment, we looked at each other's tattoos and then started to talk until we were interrupted by none other than Draco Malfoy (A/N at around 10:15, nobody comes until 10:30 in my story...SO DEAL!)

"What do you want ferret?" Hermione said.

"'Mione, why are you being so rude?" Nina slowly got up and walked to Draco. "I was wondering when I'd see you again" she began.

"Excuse me?" he asked.

"I'm hurt. Remember, from the muggle beach?" she gave him a flirtatious

smirk. He smiled.

"Ah, yes. Nina, is it?" she slowly nodded her head once. "I was hoping to run into you too. So, here I thought I was the only person who came here at this time. Would you care to keep me company in my cart?"

Hermione just sat there, dumbstruck. Draco Malfoy was inviting a girl that he met at a muggle beach who was friends with her, Hermione Granger, into his cart!

NOBODY'S POV

"Well, how about you sit with us?" she brought him to the seats in the back, winking at Hermione. Hermione knew what was coming, she saw Nina do it so many times before. Whenever there was a guy who pissed her or her friends off she would do what she called 'the flirt'n'ditch'.

"Sure" Malfoy said in a smooth voice. As they passed Hermione, he looked at her with a smug look and sneered "by the way, nice tattoos."

Five minutes later, people began to arrive at the station. At around 10:50, Harry, Ron and Ginny came into the copartment. Before they could say anything, Hermione motioned to Malfoy and Nina with a satisfied smirk. The three were confused until Harry recognized Nina and whispered to Ron

"That's Hermione's friend from the beach who was flirting with the git,

remember?"

Ginny was confused, but sat down across from Hermione. Ron and Harry sat next to her. The train started to move. After about ten minutes later, the three heard a disappointed moan come from Draco as Nina sat up and walked over to Hermione with a smile.

"Hello Malfoy" Harry said, guessing what had just happened.

"Shove it Potter!" Draco irritably said before he stormed into the next

compartment.

"Haha! Good job Nina. I don't think a girl ever did that to him" Hermione said as she gave Nina a high-five. "You remember my friends Harry and Ron, right?" Nina nodded her head and smiled at the two boys. "And this is Ron's sister, Ginny" Nina shook Ginny's hand and said hello.

The four old friends then greeted each other as they should have before Hermione stopped the other three (Ron, Harry and Ginny). The five talked for about an hour, but then Harry and Ron began to discuss Quidditch, Ginny left to find some of her fellow fifth years and Hermione and Nina talked in the back of the compartment.

"So, did you get a letter from the Dumbledore telling you how you'll find out what house you're going to be in?" Hermione asked as she took a bite out of a chocolate bar.

"He said that he knows that we're friends so I'm going to sit with you until I'm called up and then I'm going to sit with my new house for the rest of the feast, but what are the chances that we're not going to be in the same house? I mean, from my research, Gryffindor is the only house that I come close to. And besides, Dumbledore, or whatever, made sure that you and I are in as many classes together as possible to make this easier. You want a bean? I think this one is cotton candy. Nope! Pepto bismol!" The girls laughed as the train came to a halt (they had changed).

A lot of people were looking at them as they made their way to a carriage with Ron and Harry.

A/N I don't care if it was pointless, it was fun.