Shinso Hitoshi continued to lose at some card game to Tokoyami (for the fifth time in a row) while the others in their compartment; Dark Shadow, Shoji and Jiro were talking about their favourite bands. Dark Shadow was practically chugging the candy from that old lady with the trolley that'd come around earlier.
"Is Dark Shadow even meant to eat stuff?" he asked Tokoyami.
"He's able to, yes."
"Yeah, but is he meant to?"
"Probably not."
"Can he even taste it?"
"Not that I know of."
"Wait... can you taste it?"
"...Yes."
"I'll have you know that I can taste it, thank you very much!" Dark Shadow said, momentarily stopping his conversation with Shoji and Jiro.
"Are you sure we're tasting the same thing? All that candy's making me sick." Tokoyami replied, yet again beating Hitoshi at the card game.
"Hey, what're you guys playing?" Jiro asked, popping a chocolate cauldron in her mouth and completely ignoring their conversation.
"Poker."
"Crazy Eights."
The other three looked at them weirdly.
"I thought you were playing Uno." Dark Shadow piped in after a whole minute of silently starring at each other.
"Dark Shadow, those aren't even Uno cards." Shoji pointed out.
"...Oh."
Over the next few hours, practically the whole class had visited their compartment at one point or another. Some people only dropping in for a moment or two, others staying much longer. At one point Jiro had left the compartment for an hour after Hagakure and Ashido had appeared out of nowhere.
A little while after she'd gotten back to the so-called 'emo compartment' (surprisingly it had been Uraraka to call them that first), Aizawa had come around, and told them all they'd need to change into their new school uniform before they arrived at the platform, which would apparently be in around half an hour. After grabbing her uniform out of her suitcase, Jiro had left again to go to the bathroom to change.
Once they'd all changed and she'd returned, there was only twenty minutes until they'd supposedly arrive (supposedly, Hitoshi thought, because with their class's track record of getting in trouble, it was more likely something would happen in those twenty minutes, rather than not). Fortunately, twenty-three minutes later they found themselves on the, incredibly cold, platform, safe and sound, with nothing bad happening other than Hitoshi almost dropping his suitcase on Tokoyami's head, though Shoji had caught it just in time.
After everyone else had gotten off the train, and been reassured that they were meant to leave their bags where they were, they all followed Hagrid (who hadn't gone on the train with them but had somehow gotten there before them?) down a steep, narrow dirt path surrounded by thick, tall trees that blocked the sky above them. Eventually, they reached the end of the path, and found themselves at a dock at the edge of a huge, semi-frozen lake, where you could easily see a large castle on the other side.
"Is that Hogwarts?!"
"No way!"
"Are you sure this is safe? 'Cause those boats look really old."
"Four teh a boat, please." Hagrid said, getting in a boat at the front. He was so large that no one else was able to get on that one.
Hitoshi ended up in a boat with Tokoyami, Shoji and Kaminari. This proved to be a huge mistake when Kaminari and Dark Shadow continued to (unintentionally) rock the boat, trying to catch a glimpse of a giant squid after Hagrid told them about it.
"Dark Shadow, stop."
"Kaminari, please, stop rocking the boat."
"Uhhh, guys...?"
"What?"
"Look at that." Shoji pointed to a large tentacle pushing their boat towards the castle ahead of them.
"Woah!" Kaminari and Dark Shadow both said at once, the boat rocking dangerously from them trying to get a closer look at the squid.
Unfortunately, they both ended up overboard, pulling Tokoyami with them, much to the bird-headed teen's chagrin. Fortunately, neither Hitoshi nor Shoji had fallen in, and the giant squid had stopped pushing their boat and lifted Kaminari, Tokoyami and Dark Shadow back onboard, though the three were sopping wet (or was it two? he couldn't tell if Dark Shadow was actually wet or not, being a shadow/quirk and whatnot).
Because of the slight delay of the three falling out, their boat was the last to arrive at an underground boathouse concealed by hanging ivy on the other side of the lake.
Once everyone was on the docks, Hagrid led them up a long, winding, narrow staircase, built into the ground underneath the castle (Hitoshi ignored when the others tripped over their new uniform), the only lights coming from a lamp Hagrid was holding, and his classmate's quirks, such as Todoroki's fire and the sparks of electricity bouncing between Kaminari's fingers. Eventually the staircase ended (after several complaints such as "my feet hurt", "this is too much walking!" and "Dark Shadow, please, stop messing with my feathers."), and they found themselves on snow covered grass right next to the front steps of the castle.
Hitoshi followed his classmates up the steps, where they all crowded around the huge oak front door.
"Everyone here?" Hagrid turned around and asked them, getting a bunch of nods, and a few grunts from the more tired ones (looking at you, Bakugo), in response. "Righ' then." Hagrid raised a gigantic fist, and knocked three times on the door.
As soon as he'd finished knocking, a lady with her hair tucked into a tight bun opened the door. Hitoshi spotted a couple of students running behind her, through the large arch on the other side of the room.
"The UA students, Professor McGonagall."
"Thank you Hagrid, I'll take them from here."
Hagrid nodded, pushing the door wider so he could get past, going through the same archway the students had run through.
McGonagall lead them to a small room, right next to the archway. Even though the room was so small, somehow Hitoshi succeeded in not getting squished by his classmates.
AN:
I'd say sorry it took so long to get this chapter out, but like I said back in chapter one, I write when I want to. I think I mentioned this before, but we're in the middle of season 4 in My Hero Academia, which is roughly November. Luckily, that's not too far into the Hogwarts school year, only being the third month. ALSO, WHY THE HELL IS NOVEMBER LITERALLY HALFWAY THROUGH THE BOOK?! I HAD TO READ FOUR HUNDRED (400!) PAGES JUST TO GET UP TO NOVEMBER WTF. A couple of lines from this chapter were taken straight from the first book, I just thought, "Hey, this works, and I'm too lazy to think of anything else! Perfect!" (Yes, not only did I read at least half of the fifth book, I also read some of the first, just to write this chapter.)
I'm so fucking glad it's school holidays rn.
