Harry Potter, A Slytherin?
To Hogwarts
Harry's last month with the Dursleys wasn't fun. True, now Dudley knew he was a wizard he wouldn't stay in the same room with him for more than two seconds, and it was fun to watch him bolt out of the room at alarming speed whenever Harry muttered something under his breath. Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia didn't shut Harry in his room, or the cupboard, force him to do anything or shout at him. They acted as if he was not there.
And even Harry had to admit, it was getting quite depressing after a while. On the last day of August he thought he better ask Uncle Vernon about geting to Kings Cross station the next day, so he went down in to the living-room where they were watching a quiz show. He cleared his throat to say he was there and Dudley let out a scream and ran right out of the room.
"Er - Uncle Vernon?" Harry started.
Uncle Vernon grunted to show he was listing.
"Er - I need to be at King's Cross tomorrow to - to go to Hogwarts.
Uncle Vernon grunted again.
"Would it be all right if you gave me a lift?"
Grunt. Harry supposed this meant yes.
"Thank you".
He was about to leave the room to go upstairs to pack his things when Uncle Vernon actually spoke.
"Funny way to get to a wizards' school, the train, Magic carpets all got punctures, have they?"
Harry didn't say anything.
"Where is this ruddy school anyway?"
"I don't know" said Harry, just realising this for the first time. He pulled out the ticket Hagrid had given him out of his pocket.
"I just take the train from platform nine and three-quarters at eleven o'clock" he read.
His aunt and uncle stared
"Platform what?".
"Nine and three-quarters".
"Barking," said Uncle Vernon, "howling mad, the lot of them. You'll see. You just wait. All right, we'll take you to King Cross, we're going to London tomorrow anyway, or I wouldn't bother".
"Why are you going to London?" Harry asked, trying to keep things friendly.
"Taking Dudley to the hospital." Growled Uncle Vernon "Got to get rid of that ruddy tail before he goes to Smeltings".
The next morning Harry woke at five o'clock and was to excited and nervous to go back to sleep. He got up and got dressed and went downstairs with his case and read one of the of his school books for a while. Afterwards, after hearing sounds of the Dursleys waking up Harry started to pace the room waiting for them to get down stairs. Two hours later, Harry's huge trunk had been loaded into the Dursleys' car. Aunt Petunia had talked Dudley into sitting next to Harry and they had set off.
They reached Kings Cross at half past ten. Uncle Vernon dumped Harry's trunk and Hedwig on a trolley and wheeled through the station Harry thought this was strangely kind until they arrived at the barrier separating platforms nine and ten, Uncle Vernon stopped dead, facing the platforms with a nasty grin on his face.
"Well there you are, boy. Platform nine - platform ten. Your platform should be somewhere in the middle, but they must not have built it yet have they?" He was quite right, of course. There was a big plastic number nine over one platform, and a big plastic number ten over the other, and in the middle nothing.
"Have a good term," said Uncle Vernon with an even nastier smile. He left without another word. Harry turned and saw the Dursleys drive away. All three of them were laughing. Harry' mouth went dry, what was he going to do. But just at that moment he heard a familiar voice.
"Chris, Crabbe, Goyle hurry up my mother is waiting for us!" The voice said. Harry spun round, he knew it was Draco so he headed to where he heard the voice and called
"Draco, hey Draco wait for me"
He heard him and spun round and saw him, his face cracked into a grin. "Hey Harry, I was wondering when I would see you here," the other boys had come to see who Draco was talking to "Harry, this is Christopher Arecain, Gregory Goyle and Vincent Crabbe" He pointed to them as he said there names.
Christopher has a medium sized boy with black hair like Harry's and hazel eyes, where as Crabbe and Goyle where big and thick built and stood like body guards around the other two boys. "Pleased to meet you if Draco hasn't already told you, I'm Harry Potter" Harry said putting his hand out for them to shake. Only Chris shook his hand, Harry was glad of this because Crabbe and Goyle looked like they had vice-grips. After that they followed Draco to his Mother who was waiting for them, "Oh Draco, where have you been, the train will be leaving soon you don't want to miss it do you?".
"Sorry mother, I was just introducing Harry to my friends" Draco replied. The moment he had said 'Harry Potter' his mothers eyes and flicked up to Harry's forehead. "My goodness, Harry Potter pleased to meet you, I'm Draco's mother, it's a pleasure for my son to be your friend, I can't talk any more or you will all miss the train, now lets get going".
All Harry could do was watch as Crabbe and Goyle went straight through the brick wall between platforms nine and ten, followed by Chris and then Draco's mother turned to him. "It's your turn Harry" She said "Best do it at a run if your nervous". As he started to run Draco called from behind him "See you on the other side!".
As he heard that Harry went straight through the wall dividing the platforms, and on the other side there was a scarlet steam engine was waiting next to the platform packed with people. He stood there for awhile waiting for Draco to appear, and sure enough a few seconds after Harry came through Draco followed. They proceeded to put their trunks in the luggage compartment, with help from Crabbe and Goyle along with Hedwig and Draco's eagle owl Orpheus. While doing this they heard a voice saying something along the line's of. "Don't worry, ickle Ronniekins is safe with us."
When they were on the train they walked past the compartments looking for Chris, when they found him the whistle blew and the train was off, they sat down and Harry started asking them both about Hogwarts. "First what is Slytherin?" He asked. "Well, Slytherin is one of the four houses at Hogwarts," Draco explained "the other three are Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff and Gryffindor. When we get to Hogwarts your sorted in to your house, but I don't know who they do it". "What about Quidditch then, you said you would tell me at Hogwarts". Draco sighed "All right then there are four balls. The first one is called the Quaffle it's about as big as one of those Muggle footballs. Then two more, there called Bludgers and the final ball is the Golden Snitch".
It went on like this Draco and Chris each taking turns describing the balls, the players, rules and so on. They were in the middle of telling Harry about the match where all 700 fouls were committed, when a short fat witch came to there door with a food trolley. "Any thing from the trolley boys?". They all shared there money and bought something, Harry got Cauldron Cakes and Bertie Bott's every flavour beans, Draco decided on Droobles Best Blowing Gum and the Chocolate frogs and finally Chris got Liquorice Wands and some Pumpkin Pasties.
For the rest of the journey all that could be heard was the sound of content chewing, and muffled laughter as some of the bubble gum blew up on their faces. At about half past five the train stopped and a Prefect came through the train telling people to get off because the train had arrived at a place called Hogsmeade. As they got off Harry heard Hagrid's voice shouting. "Firs years this way" he said waving his arm towards a fleet of small boats. Harry, Draco and Chris all got in to the same boat and they started to move by them selves (by magic Harry guessed) as they rounded the corner of the river they saw it, Hogwarts!
To Hogwarts
Harry's last month with the Dursleys wasn't fun. True, now Dudley knew he was a wizard he wouldn't stay in the same room with him for more than two seconds, and it was fun to watch him bolt out of the room at alarming speed whenever Harry muttered something under his breath. Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia didn't shut Harry in his room, or the cupboard, force him to do anything or shout at him. They acted as if he was not there.
And even Harry had to admit, it was getting quite depressing after a while. On the last day of August he thought he better ask Uncle Vernon about geting to Kings Cross station the next day, so he went down in to the living-room where they were watching a quiz show. He cleared his throat to say he was there and Dudley let out a scream and ran right out of the room.
"Er - Uncle Vernon?" Harry started.
Uncle Vernon grunted to show he was listing.
"Er - I need to be at King's Cross tomorrow to - to go to Hogwarts.
Uncle Vernon grunted again.
"Would it be all right if you gave me a lift?"
Grunt. Harry supposed this meant yes.
"Thank you".
He was about to leave the room to go upstairs to pack his things when Uncle Vernon actually spoke.
"Funny way to get to a wizards' school, the train, Magic carpets all got punctures, have they?"
Harry didn't say anything.
"Where is this ruddy school anyway?"
"I don't know" said Harry, just realising this for the first time. He pulled out the ticket Hagrid had given him out of his pocket.
"I just take the train from platform nine and three-quarters at eleven o'clock" he read.
His aunt and uncle stared
"Platform what?".
"Nine and three-quarters".
"Barking," said Uncle Vernon, "howling mad, the lot of them. You'll see. You just wait. All right, we'll take you to King Cross, we're going to London tomorrow anyway, or I wouldn't bother".
"Why are you going to London?" Harry asked, trying to keep things friendly.
"Taking Dudley to the hospital." Growled Uncle Vernon "Got to get rid of that ruddy tail before he goes to Smeltings".
The next morning Harry woke at five o'clock and was to excited and nervous to go back to sleep. He got up and got dressed and went downstairs with his case and read one of the of his school books for a while. Afterwards, after hearing sounds of the Dursleys waking up Harry started to pace the room waiting for them to get down stairs. Two hours later, Harry's huge trunk had been loaded into the Dursleys' car. Aunt Petunia had talked Dudley into sitting next to Harry and they had set off.
They reached Kings Cross at half past ten. Uncle Vernon dumped Harry's trunk and Hedwig on a trolley and wheeled through the station Harry thought this was strangely kind until they arrived at the barrier separating platforms nine and ten, Uncle Vernon stopped dead, facing the platforms with a nasty grin on his face.
"Well there you are, boy. Platform nine - platform ten. Your platform should be somewhere in the middle, but they must not have built it yet have they?" He was quite right, of course. There was a big plastic number nine over one platform, and a big plastic number ten over the other, and in the middle nothing.
"Have a good term," said Uncle Vernon with an even nastier smile. He left without another word. Harry turned and saw the Dursleys drive away. All three of them were laughing. Harry' mouth went dry, what was he going to do. But just at that moment he heard a familiar voice.
"Chris, Crabbe, Goyle hurry up my mother is waiting for us!" The voice said. Harry spun round, he knew it was Draco so he headed to where he heard the voice and called
"Draco, hey Draco wait for me"
He heard him and spun round and saw him, his face cracked into a grin. "Hey Harry, I was wondering when I would see you here," the other boys had come to see who Draco was talking to "Harry, this is Christopher Arecain, Gregory Goyle and Vincent Crabbe" He pointed to them as he said there names.
Christopher has a medium sized boy with black hair like Harry's and hazel eyes, where as Crabbe and Goyle where big and thick built and stood like body guards around the other two boys. "Pleased to meet you if Draco hasn't already told you, I'm Harry Potter" Harry said putting his hand out for them to shake. Only Chris shook his hand, Harry was glad of this because Crabbe and Goyle looked like they had vice-grips. After that they followed Draco to his Mother who was waiting for them, "Oh Draco, where have you been, the train will be leaving soon you don't want to miss it do you?".
"Sorry mother, I was just introducing Harry to my friends" Draco replied. The moment he had said 'Harry Potter' his mothers eyes and flicked up to Harry's forehead. "My goodness, Harry Potter pleased to meet you, I'm Draco's mother, it's a pleasure for my son to be your friend, I can't talk any more or you will all miss the train, now lets get going".
All Harry could do was watch as Crabbe and Goyle went straight through the brick wall between platforms nine and ten, followed by Chris and then Draco's mother turned to him. "It's your turn Harry" She said "Best do it at a run if your nervous". As he started to run Draco called from behind him "See you on the other side!".
As he heard that Harry went straight through the wall dividing the platforms, and on the other side there was a scarlet steam engine was waiting next to the platform packed with people. He stood there for awhile waiting for Draco to appear, and sure enough a few seconds after Harry came through Draco followed. They proceeded to put their trunks in the luggage compartment, with help from Crabbe and Goyle along with Hedwig and Draco's eagle owl Orpheus. While doing this they heard a voice saying something along the line's of. "Don't worry, ickle Ronniekins is safe with us."
When they were on the train they walked past the compartments looking for Chris, when they found him the whistle blew and the train was off, they sat down and Harry started asking them both about Hogwarts. "First what is Slytherin?" He asked. "Well, Slytherin is one of the four houses at Hogwarts," Draco explained "the other three are Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff and Gryffindor. When we get to Hogwarts your sorted in to your house, but I don't know who they do it". "What about Quidditch then, you said you would tell me at Hogwarts". Draco sighed "All right then there are four balls. The first one is called the Quaffle it's about as big as one of those Muggle footballs. Then two more, there called Bludgers and the final ball is the Golden Snitch".
It went on like this Draco and Chris each taking turns describing the balls, the players, rules and so on. They were in the middle of telling Harry about the match where all 700 fouls were committed, when a short fat witch came to there door with a food trolley. "Any thing from the trolley boys?". They all shared there money and bought something, Harry got Cauldron Cakes and Bertie Bott's every flavour beans, Draco decided on Droobles Best Blowing Gum and the Chocolate frogs and finally Chris got Liquorice Wands and some Pumpkin Pasties.
For the rest of the journey all that could be heard was the sound of content chewing, and muffled laughter as some of the bubble gum blew up on their faces. At about half past five the train stopped and a Prefect came through the train telling people to get off because the train had arrived at a place called Hogsmeade. As they got off Harry heard Hagrid's voice shouting. "Firs years this way" he said waving his arm towards a fleet of small boats. Harry, Draco and Chris all got in to the same boat and they started to move by them selves (by magic Harry guessed) as they rounded the corner of the river they saw it, Hogwarts!