WITCHCRAFT AND WIZARDRY: FRIENDS AND PLATFORM 9 3/4

Usagi woke up from Ino banging her cage and from the knock at her bedroom door.

"Usagi, darling, Ron has come to see you," Her aunt's voice came from the other side of the door.

"OK!" Usagi shouted.

Ron Weasley was Usagi's neighbor, they've been best friends since babies. Ron would get Rei off of her back and she'll get Fred and George off of his back by telling them that she'll tell Percy that they were bugging her. Percy would usually get rid of the boys because she was a damsel in distress.

Usagi got up and opened the cage to let Ino go out to stretch her wings. She then went into the bathroom to get ready.

Once Usagi was finished in the bathroom she fast walked down the stairs and into the living room where Ron was sitting on the couch.

"Morning sleepy head," teased Ron

Usagi rolled her eyes, "Anyways have you been excepted to Hogwarts?"

"Yeah, I got my supplies two days ago," Ron said while Usagi sat beside him on the couch.

"I got my supplies yesterday," she said with a smile.

Ron blinked in confusion, "Interesting since Rei haven't gotten her supplies yet," He said while narrowing his eyes at her in suspicion.

Usagi widened her eyes and backed away slowly, "Well you see..." Usagi told him everything, from Rei ripping the letter to McGonagall showing up, from teleporting to Gringotts, and then from shopping to Ino.

"Oh," Ron was in pure shick but he believed it all because he knew Usagi would never lie, at least not to him, "Well you and Hotaru could come over to my house while Rei and your aunt are in Diagon Alley."

Usagi smiled. Hotaru always liked playing with Ron's little sister, Ginny. She nodded, "Ok,"

After a few minutes Hotaru was playing house with Ginny and Usagi was playing wizard's chess with Ron.

"Checkmate," Ron said proudly.

Usagi pouted. Why she played this game? She'll never know because she'll always lose to Ron.

All of the sudden the Weasley twin's, Fred and George, appeared.

"So Usagi lost again, typical," said Fred.

Usagi's pout quickly turned into a scowl.

"Yep, as usual, Usagi will never get good in wizard's chess," George added in.

"You two leave her alone," ordered Percy the prefect.

Fred and George backed away from the game between Usagi and Ron. They played for some time and each time Usagi lost. Until Usagi's aunt, Christina, came to pick them up.

Before Usagi left she told him, "Meet us at platform 9 and 3/4 in two weeks, k?"

"Sure," replied Ron as Scabbers, Ron's pet rat, scurried through the hallway.

Usagi was holding in her laughter as Scabbers bit George in the butt! George let out a squeal as Usagi walked out of Ron's house just to find Ino soaring high above.

When August the 30th Christina drove them to the King's Crossroad. Usagi's aunt has already bought the tickets. Mrs. Weasley complained about too many Muggles. They walked until they were in between platform 9 and 10. There was a wall you had to go through in order to get onto platform 9 3/4.

Everyone has gone except for Ron and Usagi when a boy with glasses came up and said, "Excuse me."

"Hullo dear, first year at Hogwats?" asked Mrs. Weasley.

The boy nodded, "Well you see-I don't---,"

"You don't know how to get to the platform right?" Christina asked, "It's alright. It's Ron's and Usagi's first time too."

The boy looked at the red haired, freckled face boy around his age and a girl with sapphire eyes and sunny blond hair. The boy with glasses and black ruffled hair could only smile. Usagi and Ron smiled back as well.

Mrs. Weasley smiled and instructed the boy that he had to run straight into the wall to get to platform 9 3/4.

The boy smiled great fully and went disappearing in the wall. Usagi was next.

"Bye Usagi," Hotaru said as Ginny wished her luck.

Usagi positioned herself and her things a couple of meters away from the wall. After a minute or two she ran full speed into the wall. Once she gone through the wall she was shoved into a crowd of people and collided into a girl around her age with curly brown hair.

"Sorry, I wasn't looking," apologized Usagi.

"No, I should be apologizing. I wasn't looking as all," the girl said sincerely.

Usagi smiled, "My name's Usagi Tsukino," then Ino hooted for attention, "Oh, and this is Ino, my pet owl."

The girl smiled back, "My name is Hermone Granger."

"Nice to meet you," Usagi beamed at Hermone.

"Same here," she replied. Then one-plum women from the Hogwarts Express called everyone to get on, "Come on! I'll sit near you."

"K," Usagi nodded as they climbed onto the train together and sat across from each other in the same compartment and shut the door.

"So, are you pure blood or Muggle born?" Hermione asked.

"I'm a pure blood, but my parents died when I was just a baby. You?" Usagi asked.

Hermionie pitied her but answered, "Muggle born."

Usagi nodded. They were getting closer so they decided to get into their Hogwart's uniform. After that they saw three students move down the train as if wanting to see someone.

The girls blinked as the heard them talking even if the door with shut.

"Harry Potter is on board this very train," said a big boy.

"Then we're going to find him," ordered a boy with blond hair as they walked away.

The girls locked eyes in shock.

"Harry Potter...here?" Hermione whispered.

"I don't believe it," Usagi whispered back while shaking heer head.

Hermione nodded when someone knocked on the compartment's door. Usagi got up and slid the door open to reveal a boy.

"Umm... my name is Neville Longbottom, and I wanted to know if any of you have seen my toad, Trevor?" the boy, Neville, asked.

Usagi stared at Hermionie, and Hermione stared back.

"We'll help you find him," suggested Usagi while Hermione nodded.

Neville smiled gratefully as they spread out to look for Trevor. Usagi and Hermione went searching towards the same direction as the other boys who were talking about Harry Potter.

They traveled towards that direction for some time until Hermione slid open a compartment's door without knocking and asked, "Has anyone seen a toad?"

The two boys looked up.

"Ron!" Usagi exclaimed with a smile as she saw Ron holding Scabbers with his wand ready to cast a spell.

Ron grinned, "Hey Usagi. Come in."

Hermione and Usagi sat on the opposite seat.

Usagi looked up and stared at the boy who was asking her aunt and Mrs. Weasley about platform 9 3/4, "Hey, I'm Usagi Tsukino." She said while holding her hand towards the boy.

The boy smiled, "I'm Harry Potter," he replied as he took her hand and shook it.

Hermione gasped and told Usagi to trade places with her. So after the moving Usagi was sitting in front of Ron and Hermione was sitting across from Harry.

"Hermione, it's a pleasure," she said while smiling at Harry.

Ron coughed while waving his wand, "Ron Weasley."

Hermione nodded and gasped, "Are you doing magic?"

Ron nodded.

"Let's see," Hermione said.

"Ok," Ron took a breathe while hovering his wand over his pet rat.

Usagi watched quietly while Harry smiled at her. She couldn't help but return a smile.

Then Ron spoke which caught her full attention again. He said, " Sunshine, daises, butter mellow. Turn this stupid fat rat yellow." Nothing happened. Scabbers was still lying on Ron's lap sleeping.

"Is that really a spell," Hermione took a breath and continued, " Well, it's not really good is it?"

Ron frowned while Usagi stared at Hermione in shock. There was an uncomfortable silence in the air. Then three boys and Rei interrupted the silence.

"So, you're Harry Potter," the boy with the blond hair said, obviously indicating Harry.

"Yes," Harry answered while nodding.

"Well looks like you joined the dork group," Rei commented while staring at Usagi. All Usagi could do was glare hatred at Rei.

The blond boy smirked, "I'm Draco Malfoy and this is Crabbe, Goyle and Rei."

Ron was holding his laughter.

"Think my name is funny?" Malfoy snapped back, "My father said you were a Weasley. You have red hair and freckles, defiantly a Weasley. They have more children than they could afford."

Ron's ears turned red which gave Malfoy and his companions the pleasure to smirk for their success in embarrassing a fellow comrade.

Usagi frowned, 'I can't let Rei get away with this,' she thought.

"You got a problem with that?!" Usagi snapped back coolly.

Malfoy's eyes narrowed and were about to make another comment when the plump lady who was strolling the cart of food around told them to sit down because they were arriving.

They sat down as Malfoy and his snobby crew walked away.

Ron mouthed a silent 'thank you' to Usagi. Usagi smiled and nodded.

After a minute or so they got off the train and heard some one yell, "Firs' years! Firs' years! Come with me!"

So off they went with the Gamekeeper, which Usagi later found that his name was Hagrid. He seemed to know her because of her parents.

Later, they got onto a boat, Usagi, Harry, Ron and Hermione got into one boat. After everyone was comfortable they glided onto the smooth, icy surface of the water. The reflection of the stars and the moon showed clearly on the water.

Usagi first glimpse of Hogwarts was amazing. The castle like school was lit up with lights and candles, which gave a comfortable feeling of belonging to the place.

When they reached land they followed Hagrid up to the front door when, "Trevor!!!" exclaimed Neville as he dove for his toad.

Hagrid coughed slightly, then said, "Ok, we will move along now. Do you still got yer toad? Good."

Hagrid then turned around to face the door, held up his fist and knocked three times.

END OF CHAPTER 4!!! PLEASE R/R!

TENSHI CAT