Chapter ELEVEN!!!!!!!!!!!
Sarah and Harry were sitting a train compartment, with Numair spinning in circles on one the seat next to Sarah, trying to get comfortable.
"Hey Harry." Sarah said
He didn't answer for a moment, before suddenly shaking his and looking at her.
"Sorry, what? I just fazed out for a second."
"That's ok." She said, pulling her legs up and sitting Indian style, barefoot, on the chair. "Do you know what's wrong with Hermione? I mean, when I first got here she was great, but she just keeps getting, I don't know, more withdrawn."
"Yeah, I know what you mean" Harry said.
He and Ron had had a similar conversation the night before with Ginny and the twins.
Ron secretly thought Hermione was jealous because he had switched his attentions towards Sarah
Ginny thought it was because Hermione hadn't had a chance to interrogate Sarah about life as an American witch, because she and Remus changed the subject every time she asked
Fred thought it was because George had been pranking her too much with bad pranks
George thought it was because Fred had been pranking her too much with bad pranks
And Harry thought it was because he knew how he really felt about her, but hadn't done anything about it.
Yet.
But he wasn't going to tell Sarah that.
Suddenly the door opened.
"Hello Harry." A boy said. "Who's this? Have you made friends with a first year? Hello first year, my name is Neville Longbottom. And this is my toad, Trevor."
"Hello Neville, I'm Sarah Williams. I'm in fifth year with you." Sarah replied.
"Oh… oh" Neville began stuttering apologies, Sarah laughed
"It's ok, I'm a transfer student from America, I can understand why you'd think I was a first year. Hello Trevor, this is my Fleagle, little Numy."
Trevor croaked, before jumping out of Neville's hands and hopping down the hallway.
"Trevor, come back!" Neville said. He ran after him. They heard girls screaming
"Be careful!" Someone said, "It's the attack of the toads!" More girls screamed and ran past their compartment. Sarah burst out laughing, and Harry joined in too.
"Does that always happen?" Sarah asked.
"Neville losing his toad? Yes. That kind of reaction? No." They laughed again, before they were joined by Ginny.
"Hello!" She said. "I came to make sure that you weren't attacked by toads. Is everyone ok?"
"Ginny, I thought you were afraid of toads?" Sarah replied.
"Who me?" Ginny said, giggling nervously. "Afraid of pills? Have you been taking crazy pills?"
"Look guys! I found Trevor!" Neville said, running back with the toad in his outstretched hands.
Ginny screamed. This caused Sarah and Harry to burst out laughing, again. Ginny glared at them , before returning to her own carriage.
It was then that Hermione and Ron returned.
"Where'd they go?" Sarah asked. The others looked at her, as if to say 'who-the-crap-are-you-talking-to?'
They'd been at a prefect's meeting.
"Righto, gotcha." Sarah replied.
"What the hell…" Ron mumbled.
"So, how was the prefect meeting guys?" Sarah asked brightly
"Umm, it was great." Ron said.
Hermione was silent. She went to sit next to the window, and when Ron attempted to sit next to her, she shuffled over so he couldn't. He shrugged and took the spot next to Sarah. Well, next to Numy who was next to Sarah.
They sat in silence for a while, until the lady with the sweets cart came by.
"Anything from the trolley?" She asked.
"Do you guys want anything? I'm buying!" Immediately Ron and Harry rushed at the trolley, filling their pockets as much as they could.
"Right dear, that will be 7 Galleons."
Sarah pulled out the blue velvet purse and counted out the coins.
"Thankyou!" She said cheerily, waving to the lady as she walked to the next compartment.
"Ok, empty your pockets guys. We have to share, ever heard of that word?" Sarah asked.
Ron and Harry sighed, before pooling their horde on the seat next to Harry.
"Hey Hermione, want some chocolate? They say it can make anything better. God's greatest medicine!" Sarah said, waving a chocolate frog in front of her. Hermione flicked it away with the back of her hand and continued to stare out the window.
Sarah shrugged, but resolved to fix the problem later. She wasn't one to give up easily, if past experiences had shown her anything.
"So, what have we got?" She asked.
Harry and Ron began to explain to her the good and bad points of Wizard candy. For example, Bertie Botts Every Flavour Beans, they taste good, but every flavour means every flavour. Sarah was very disappointed when every brown one she picked up was anything but Cola or Chocolate. Rather the opposite.
She cried in dismay when her chocolate frog jumped out the window, but had an interesting conversation with her Witch trading card, Miss Sybil Edwards, who survived the on witches in the middle ages, and devised the spell for freezing flames.
Soon enough, they heard a voice over the (Invisible) PA system, announcing that they would reach the school in a half hour. Ron and Harry waited in the hallway, while Hermione and Sarah got changed in the compartment.
"Hermione?" Sarah asked as they were changing into their robes.
"What?" The brunette witch asked
"What's wrong? You seem to be a little down lately." Sarah said anxiously
"There's nothing wrong" Hermione said angrily. "What would you know anyway, we only just met you!" Hermione said, walking out the door and slamming it shut behind her.
"I guess it's something I've done." Sarah said downheartedly.
OMGOMGOMG!!! IT'S HOGWARTS! SCHOOL OF WITCHCRAFT AND WIZARDRY!
"Wow." Sarah said. She had just gotten off the Hogwarts Express and was about to make her way up to the school. On the crest of a hill, she could see the stone turrets of her new home.
"We go to school in a castle? This is so cool!" She cried.
"Firs' Years! Fir's years over 'ere to me!" She heard a gruff voice calling.
"That's probably me too" She said. "I'll see you guys up there!" She called, waving to Harry, Ron and Hermione.
"Excuse me" she said to the extremely tall man calling for the first years. "My name is Sarah Williams, I'm new."
"Ah yes, Miss Williams. Dumbledore told me to expect you. This way, with the Firs' years." He led them towards a large group of boats that, when they had gotten into them, began to magically tow themselves towards the school.
Sarah listened to the first years chattering to each other.
"I heard Ravenclaw is for the smart students, that's what my…"
"My family has come from a long line of Slytherins, and I, no doubt, will be in Slytherin too, judging on what my cousin Malfoy has told…"
"My brothers in Hufflepuff, so I want to be in that…"
"I'm going to be in Gryffindor, because it's for brave people, like me…"
Sarah turned back towards the school, her hair being blown in the wind.
"What does this year hold in store for me?" She wondered aloud. "Come on Hogwarts, show me what you got."
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YAY!!!!!!!!!
I like the number eleven. Because it is ElEvEn…
it's a pattern: P
This chapter is for InuLvr7, for making me happy again when I was feeling crappy
But then her story made me sad again…
And you should all go read it!!!!!!!!!!!! Tis called For Keeps
