Chapter 6:

Train ride.

After getting on the platform Harry still had the trouble of finding an empty booth to sit in. She didn't know anyone who would want to sit with her. After three times of trying to lift the trunk on her own it fell and landed right on her left foot. "Ow!" No matter how hard she tried to lift it, it wouldn't budge. "Great… get off me you stubborn trunk or I'll use you for fire wood." However it seemed that this trunk hated to be both insulted and threatened. Because it didn't suddenly sprout legs and walk itself off her foot.

"Here let us help you." It was one of the twins from the other platforms. With the help of both the twins she finally got her trunk inside. "Well no that, that's taken care of it's nice to help a lovely girl such as yourself."

Harriet nodded and smiled. "Thanks so much. I never knew that these trunks could get so heavy…" She brushed the sweat off her forehead taking her bangs along with it. That's when they saw it. "What is it?"

They both tried to answer for each other but it didn't work. "Your him!"

"Her!"

"Oh yeah, right."

"I can't believe it…"

Harriet blinked at them. "Can't believe what?"

They looked at each other and nodded. "That we are finally getting to meet you. You are Harry Potter right?"

"Oh that… I mean yes I am." She blushed and each twin took a hand and kissed it.

"I am Fred Weasley, and this is my ruggedly handsome brother George." They were still holding her hands when their mother called for them outside of that train. "Got to run, but I hope to see you later Ms. Potter."

"Charming dear but we got to run. Cheerio." She was standing there dazed for a shot time. She took the seat by the window and could see the red haired family. The twins were just getting there. "Mum, you know who that girl was who asked for help onto the platform was?"

"Harry Potter, scar and all. I wonder if she remembers what you-know-who looks like?"

"Oh poor dear. Fred George, I forbid you to ask her. She doesn't need the two of you bringing that up on her fist day at Hogwarts. I was wondering why she was all alone. Poor thing." She turned to her eldest son. "Percy, no matter what house she is in you make sure she doesn't get into trouble. You understand me?"

He puffed out his chest and answered proudly. "Of course mother, but I have to go the Prefects have a compartment to themselves." He kissed her good by and left quickly.

She then turned to the little girl who was whining. "Oh mother, can I please go on and see her. I want to see Harry Potter."

"Virginia I am shocked. I though you'd understand better. She isn't an animal in a zoo for you to gawk at, she is a normal student alright." Then she turned to her twin sons. "I don't want any letters saying you blew up another toilet seat."

'They blew up a toilet seat?' Harriet thought.

"Mum you know we've never blown up a toilet seat…" Fred said smiling.

"But thanks for the idea." George finished.

They also ran off to their mother yelling at them. That left you youngest who was tall and gangly looking. His face was covered with freckles and had chocolate colored eyes. He might have been cute if he didn't have a dirt stain on his nose. He was trying to escape his mother as she tried to clean it off. "Mum, the train is leaving, I got to go." He quickly ran off leaving his mother and sister. Suddenly the train started to move, and the little girl ran after it.

"Don't worry Ginny we'll send you a Hogwarts toilet seat. And plenty of owls." Then they rounded a bend and Ginny Weasley was out of sight. For half an hour Harriet was alone, much the way she liked it. Then there was a knock on the door. She lifted her head to see a lovely blond girl standing there.

"Sorry to disturb you, but you wouldn't happen to be an upperclassmen would you?"

"No, I'm sorry."

"Thanks anyway." Harriet thought she had seen this girl before, but it couldn't be. Her silverish hair perfectly pulled back and her silvery eyes the perfect color of the sea after a storm. She looked like an angel. When the girl left she was alone for a short time before the door opened again.

"Excuse me, is that seat taken? Everywhere else was full." It was the youngest of the red heads. Harriet smiled and motioned for him to take the seat across from her. He smiled and watched her. She had shinny black hair and bright green eyes that looked like the clearest emeralds. Her black hair cascaded down her black like a waterfall of onyx. Her skin was a light almond coloring, as if she didn't get too much light. She was short for an eleven-year-old. "I'm Ron by the way. Ron Weasley." He smiled.

"I'm Harry, Harriet Potter." She smiled as he gawked.

"So it's true then… I thought Fred and George made it up. Do you really have the…" He stopped.

"The what?" She asked confused.

"The scar?" Ron asked innocently. Harriet smiled again and pulled back her bangs. "Wicked!"

A plump witch pushing a trolley interrupted them. "Any sweats today dears?" Harriet jumped up and out of the compartment to get some candy but Ron stayed behind. When she returned she threw something at his head.

"If I am to try wizard candy then you are going to tell me what is the best." She pretended not to notice that he hid a pack of sandwiches. He opened his bad and choked. "What isn't any of it good?"

"It's all good… it's just there is a lot of it."

"Excuse me have either of you seen a toad?" A boy asked. They shook their heads and he cried before going off.

"Odd." Ron said. "Defiantly odd." They sat and ate their candies. Harry choked on a pepper-flavored bean. "I told you Bertie Bott's every flavor bean had every flavor."

"Ewwww." She coughed and finally noticed that Ron was holding a fat lump of something fuzzy. "What's that?"

"This is Scabbers. Fred gave me a spell to turn him yellow want to see?"

"Yeah!" She shifted so all her concentration was on Ron.

'Have either of you seen a toad?" The interruption startled Harry so much that she jumped and slipped off the seat. "Are you doing magic? Go on lets see."

Ron looked at the bushy haired girl who was intruding on their private conversation. Harriet was also looking at the girl. He hair was very bushy, as were her eyebrows. Her front two teeth were a bit too large and her honey colored eyes held a know it all glint. She could be very pretty if she tried. Then Ron cleared his throat bringing Harry's attention back to him. "Sunshine Daises Butter mellow, turn this stupid fat rat yellow!" However nothing happened. The bushy haired girl was laughing to herself.

"I don't think that was a real spell at all. Then again I haven't tried to do anything hard…" She looked at Harry before kneeling in front of her. "For example." She flicked out her wand and pointed it at Harry's face. "Visionar Repar." Harry was confused as her eyesight blurred as if she wasn't wearing her glasses.

She quickly took them off to see what had been done to them, when she understood. The girl had just fixed her eyesight. "Thank you."

"I thought that would be better… Besides your eyes are much to pretty to be hiding behind those glasses." She smiled. "I'm Hermione Granger… and who might you be?" She didn't even include Ron.

"I'm Harry Potter." She said in a shy manner.

"Really?" The girl was beside herself with joy. "I have read all about you. You are in three of the books I have already read on the train ride."

"This is my friend Ron Weasley." Harry smiled at the boy who had been very bored by the new girl. She nodded her head at him before standing up.

"I must be going… Ta." She didn't even look back as she left.

"Man… what a bossy person. Whatever house I am in…. I hope she isn't."

"I wonder what house I'll be in."

They spent the rest of the time eating Harry's candies… Harriet was rather scared to try the Chocolate frogs. "Oh come on… their great… Just be careful the frog doesn't get away.

T.B.C.