CHAPTER 6

On platform 9 and 3/4, Mrs. Weasley gave each of her children, plus Harry and Hermione kisses and watched them board the Hogwarts Express. After Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Ginny found a compartment, they sat down. After about 15 minutes, the felt the train begin to move.

"I wonder who's teaching Defense Against The Dark Arts this year..." Hermione wondered out loud.

"No clue." said Ron.

"Wouldn't it be awful if they finally gave it to Snape?" Harry said, thinking about what Snape would be like if he had the position. After they had been going for about an hour and a half. Their compartment door slid open, and the people that Harry, Ron, and Hermione least wanted to see, appeared.

It was Draco Malfoy, with his usual flunkies, Crabb and Goyle. But there was someone new with them.

"These morons are a real piece of work..." Draco said to the boy Harry, Ron,

Hermione, and Ginny didn't know.

"Shut up, Malfoy! How's your jaw, by the way?" sneered Ron, menacingly.

"Oh shove it, Weasel... I want you idiots to meet a friend of mine. This is my cousin, Ramses. But we all call him Ram. He's in our year. He just trasferred from Durmstrang. Seems him mother and father don't like the new headmaster, since Karkaroff left..."

"Great Malfoy, but why are you telling us? You make it seem as though we care..." said Hermione, uninterested.

"Lets go, Draco..." said Ram, pulling his cousin out of the compartment, Crabb and Goyle following close behind.

"Well Ram's not bad looking..." said Ginny, looking at Hermione.

"GINNY! Don't even kid about something like that!" said Ron in disgust.

"Oh come on, Ron. Hermione, didn't you think that he was cute?" Ginny asked.

"I don't, well, you see..." Hermione tried to make a point, to no avail.

"Oh nevermind!" said Ginny, rolling her eyes.

After a short while, Fred and George entered the compartment.

"Look what we've invernted! Couldn't show you at the house... Mum would have gone mad at us!" Fred said, holding up a candy colored in bright green paper.

"We're not eating that thing...are you mad?!" said Ron, exasperated. "We haven't forgotten Dudley and the Ton-Tounge Toffee..."

"Fine, we'll try it out on Draco or that git of a cousins hes got lurking around with him...it'll be great!"

"Make sure you let us know when you do it," said Ron, "we want to see what happens!"

"Okay, see you guys later!" and Fred and George.