Although Claire was sad to leave all her friends at her old school, she was eagerly anticipating going to Hogwarts, she wanted to meet the famous Harry Potter, and looked forward to making some new friends. The day soon came for Claire to board the Hogwarts express from platform 9¾. Her parents took her to the London train station, and they started trying to figure out how to get onto platform 9¾.
Just then, Claire spotted girl who looked not much younger than her, with flaming red hair. The girl was with a boy of Claire's own age, two older twin boys, a plump woman in her late 40's and a tall, lanky man of the same age, all with the same red hair. Claire guessed the older people were the parents of the other four. Something about these people's look gave Claire the impression that they weren't muggles. Her suspicion was confirmed when the mother started talking about Hogwarts.
"This is my chance." Claire thought. She ran over to the girl
"Hi! Um, I'm new at Hogwarts and I was wondering if you could tell me how to get to Platform 9¾." She addressed the whole family in general. It took her a moment to notice the boys were staring at her. She blushed.
"Oh sorry! My name is Claire. Claire Almer." She said, embarrassed that she had forgotten to introduce herself properly. The red haired girl smiled at her.
"Hi! You're going to love Hogwarts. I'm Ginny Weasley, and these are my brothers Ron, Fred and George. I'm a 5th year, Ron's a 6th year and Fred and George both finished last year. These are my parents." Claire smiled broadly.
"How do you do Mr. And Mrs. Weasley?" she said politely.
"Hello dear." Mrs Weasley said. Her husband smiled and nodded at her then went over to introduce himself to her parents.
"To get to the platform, all you have to do is walk through the wall between platforms 9 and 10." Mrs Weasley said to her kindly.
"Thankyou so much!" Claire said to her. Then she turned to Ginny and her brothers.
"I'm going to be a 6th year aswell." She said, smiling at Ron.
Mrs Weasley motioned for Fred and George to go first. Claire watched them disappear through the wall, then watched Ron go through aswell. Ginny motioned for Claire to follow her, and they went through the barrier together, and their parents followed them, talking to each other. Claire stopped in amazement. There was a big red steam train, like the ones she used to play with when she was little. It had a sign on the front that read "Hogwarts Express."
"Wow." Claire breathed, impressed. She glanced at a clock nearby. It read 10.55. Her train was leaving in five minutes.
Ginny helped Claire load her things onto the train, then Claire went to say goodbye to her parents. After all goodbyes were done, the girls got onto the train and found a compartment with Ron, and his two friends, Hermione Granger, and none other than Harry Potter himself.
"Hello!" she said to them both cheerfully, smiling. She noticed both Harry and Ron were staring at her again, and blushed. She saw Hermione and Ginny roll their eyes at the boys, and sat down between them, giggling to herself.