Heading to Hogwarts- The Hogwarts Express/Arrival
The next day, Harry, Angel and Lee head to Kings Cross station to catch the train to Hogwarts. There's one slight problem, none of them know where their platform is. Harry gives the suggestion to ask someone if they know where Platform 9 and ¾ was. Angel shook her head saying, "That's a good way to get into unnecessary trouble. I think it's best to watch the behaviors of other people and find it that way."
In that moment, a family of gingers walk by, the matriarch saying "Same way every year packed with muggles! Come on, Platform 9 and ¾ this way."
Angel gets a smug expression on her face and starts to follow them. Harry comes up to the matriarch, nervous. "Excuse me, do you…" His eyes immediately go to the wall that two twins ran through not long before.
"Do you mean how to get onto the platform?" The matriarch looks at Harry, Angel and Lee, giving a nice smile. Gesturing to her second youngest, she starts to explain. "It's Ron's first time to Hogwarts as well. What you want to do is run straight towards the wall between platforms 9 and 10. Best to get a running start if you're nervous."
Harry goes between the platforms and makes a run. He disappears, leaving Angel and Lee astonished. Angel then followed to end up right behind Harry who was admiring the locomotive in front of them. Lee came up behind them. "As youthful as this is, shouldn't we go find a seat?" Nodding in agreement they take care of their luggage and find an open compartment. Settling in, Angel pulls out one of the textbooks, specifically potions, and starts reading.
11:00 rolls around and the train pulls off from its platform. The three of them are in a peaceful silence until the door to their compartment opens. Harry and Lee look towards the door whiles Angel's eyes just drift above her book. The boy that was with them earlier was the main thing to catch their attention.
"Do you guys mind if I sit in here. Everywhere else is full."
Harry was welcoming to him saying "Sure."
Upon sitting down next to Angel, he introduces himself. "I'm Ron by the way. Ron Weasley."
"I'm Rock Lee" He gives a nice guy pose like a green spandex wearing jonin.
"My name is Angel. Angel Parker. It's nice to meet you Ron."
"Likewise." Ron looks at her book and gets a look on his face like he wants to ask a question.
"If you're wondering about why I'm reading our potions textbook before we get to the school, I like to read, and it will put me ahead, especially if our professor is a tosser. I've heard some rumors."
Ron shrugs and looks to Harry who finally introduces himself. "I'm Harry. Harry Potter."
Ron went into a stupor for moment before asking some questions. "So, it's true?"
"What?"
"Your scar."
At this moment, Angel's eyes drifted upward from her book, looking disinterested in the conversation, yet is invested. She acts too much like her father for her own good at times.
Harry lifted his unruly hair to reveal a scar that looked like a lightning bolt. Angel and Lee gave each other a look, having a silent conversation while Ron pulled out his pet rat and was talking about a spell to turn it yellow. The compartment door opened again, revealing a girl with bushy, ginger hair.
Looking at the boys unamused and glancing at Angel, whom at this point had put her book down, the girl proceeds to speak. "Has anyone seen a toad? A boy named Neville lost one." She sees the wand in Ron's hand and gets curious. "Are you doing magic? Let's see then."
Ron clears his throat and recites the spell that one of his older twin brothers gave him. "Sunshine, daisies, butter mellow, turn this stupid fat rat yellow." Unfortunately, there was a yellow glow in the box of jelly beans the rat had gotten into, but the rat came out unchanged.
The girl looked unimpressed and pulled out her wand, pointing it at Harry. "I've been practicing a few simple spells myself, for example. Oculus Reparo." There was a piece of tape on the bridge of Harry's glasses that disappeared.
Taking off his glasses, Harry was amazed. The girl took this time to introduce herself. "I'm Hermione Granger," Giving a look at Harry she continues. "Jiminy, you're Harry Potter!" Looking at Lee, Angel, and Ron, who was a little underwhelming to her to say the least. She continued more. "And you three are?"
"Angel Parker. I'm glad to see someone taking their studies seriously." Angel's hand glides across her potions book while Ron and Lee introduced their selves.
"I'm Rock Lee. It's very nice to meet you. Don't mind Angel. She can be judgmental when she wants to be."
"Hey, that's not true in the slightest! I just respect someone who takes pride in their schooling."
"You didn't think that way back at home."
"Back home I was at the top academically…"
Lee knew he hit a sore spot and dropped it while Ron continued to introduce himself.
"Ron Weasley."
"Pleasure, you guys should change into robes. I expect we'll be arriving soon." Looking at Ron one last time, she mentions him having dirt on his nose.
Leaving the compartment to continue helping Neville find his toad, Ron huffed, rubbing his nose. "Who does she think she is?"
Angel shrugged. "Well Ron, she is someone of nonmagical decent."
"How can you tell Angel?"
"I come from a place where you can sense those kinds of things. Rock Lee is the same as Hermione."
Ron looked at Lee and back at Angel. "What about you?"
Lee intervened. "She's half. The quality of her magic shows it for itself."
"Lee!" Angel gave a sharp look that said not to say anymore and turned it on Harry. "Harry is a full-blood wizard with untapped potential if taught properly."
Ron was surprised and wondered if she could figure out what he was. On cue, she said it. "You're full-blood as well, but it seems like you're lacking something for lack of better terms." Ron nodded, wondering how she can figure out something like that from gauging a person's magical background.
Angel grabbed her robes and left the compartment to change. While walking to the lavatory, she bumped into a platinum blonde boy. "Oh, excuse me."
The boy gave her a look that looked like a threat. "Watch where you're going."
Her eyes darkened, and her voice went icy. "Or what?"
The boy immediately choked on his own words while Angel continued. "I said excuse me and was being polite and you go on to be rude? What, did your parents raise you on a farm?"
Two more boys come up, looking like they were guarding him. They saw how stunned their so-called leader was and tried to look intimidating.
Angel scoffed, walked past them to the bathroom and changed. Coming out, her black hair blended right into her uniform, and her bangs framed her face, coming down to her shirt collar. Getting back to the compartment she was sitting in, the boys looked at her, wondering what took so long. All they got was, "I hate bullies…"
Lee left it there, knowing the history behind it. The compartment felt a few degrees colder since Angel sat down and read her potions book, making notes in pencil to ask about certain things as they got to them in the curriculum.
Harry didn't want to ask, seeing how cold she said the words, but couldn't resist asking what happened.
Einjeru's eyes came from the book and she was relatively calm. "I was going to change, and I bumped into this boy. He had an air of superiority around him and tried to threaten me using body language. I didn't take it laying down and gave him a tongue-lashing sort of speak. Then two other boys came up trying to look intimidating. I pushed right by them and continued on my way. If I see him before we get to school it'll be too soon."
Ron spoke up at this point. "What'd he look like?"
Giving a shrug, Angel gave as accurate of a description as she could. "He was a platinum blond, hair almost looked white from a certain angle, his eyes looked to be about a bluish-green. His wand is 10 inches long made of Hawthorn wood and Unicorn hair. Was slightly shorter than Harry. Already in uniform. Now you guys should go get changed."
Ron paled hearing that description. "That almost sounds like a boy related to someone my dad works with at the ministry. Did he give his name?"
"No. He was one of the rudest people I've had the displeasure of meeting."
"Ok. I'm heading out to change. See you guys in a few minutes." Ron got three head nods in return. Heading to the changing room, Ron was lucky enough to pass by the aforementioned boy unnoticed.
Hours passed, and all of them were in uniform and ready to get off the train. Lee, Angel and Harry were sitting there until they heard a friendly, yet gruff voice calling out the first years.
"Come on guys! Hagrid's calling us."
They get off the train and walk up to Hagrid who has a welcoming smile on his face.
"Hi Hagrid."
Ron looks amazed at the person. "Whoa."
"This way to the boats." Hagrid walks them to the boats.
The boat ride was relatively uneventful, but everyone got excited upon seeing the school in all of its glory. Even Angel and Lee couldn't help but be awed.
"It's so beautiful Lee. It makes me think of the Hidden Leaf after dark."
"I know what you mean Angel. It feels so warm and inviting."
"I miss home…"
"Same here. I wish our dads were here to give us something, so we won't be so homesick."
"We can't go home for almost three months." She looks down at her hands, imagining a bokken in them. "I miss my dad, and I want a pack of pocky so much."
"I don't think it's very youthful to be moping like this when we're about to start an amazing new chapter in our lives."
"I know… I can't help but to wonder what's going on at home. I wonder if dad put those undeserving genin through the wringer yet."
"Knowing how half our class behaved, I wouldn't be shocked if Kakashi sensei failed them."
Angel had to suppress a snicker for that one. "Me either. My dad is brutal with his exam. Most genin are stupid and don't bother looking for the answer that my dad so blatantly gave them."
Lee shrugs nonchalantly. "Yup."
Upon getting to the dock the first years were led into a hallway to be greeted by professor McGonagall. She gives a ginger smile and gives a glance over everyone. "Welcome to Hogwarts. Now, in a few moments you will pass through these doors and join your classmates, but before you can take your seats, you must be sorted into your houses. They are Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw and Slytherin. Now while you're here, your house will be like your family. Your triumphs will earn you points, any rule breaking, and you will lose points. At the end of the year, the house with the most points will earn the house cup—"
"Trevor!" A slightly chubby boy runs up and collects a toad that had been happily sitting at the top of the stairs during McGonagall's spiel, all the while hearing giggles from his fellow first years. "Sorry…"
"Sorting ceremony will begin momentarily." After McGonagall walks away the boy from the train pipes up.
"So, it's true then. What they're saying on the train. Harry Potter's come to Hogwarts." He gestures to the two boys that were beside him. "This is Crabbe and Goyle. And I'm Malfoy, Draco Malfoy."
Angel took everything she had to not roll her eyes at the display of supposed superiority, while Ron did exactly what she wanted to do, snicker.
Draco immediately turned to Ron. "Think my name is funny, do you? Well no need to ask your name. Red hair, and a hand me down robe, you must be a Weasley."
Angel huffed saying, "Your families must know each other well to be able to determine someone's family name as you did. Malfoy is it? You really must have been raised in a barn for how rude you've been acting. Judging by the way you were trying to cozy up to Harry, it's obvious you're looking to be one of the popular people. Sorry to break it to you, but he's already has friends that treat him as a person and not as a celebrity or commodity. As I said on the train in not so direct words quit being rude."
"Who are you?"
"Angel Parker, the girl you tried to intimidate on the train."
"Parker…" He turned back to Harry. "You'll soon find that some wizarding families are better than others. You don't want to go making friends with the wrong sort." He glared at Angel and Ron, seeing Lee gripping Angel's hand. Harry shook his head.
"I think I can figure out the wrong sort for myself thanks."
Draco was ready to taunt Lee and Angel when McGonagall came back tapping him on the shoulder with a roll of parchment. "We're ready for you now. Follow me."