Hi again! Wow I'm really tired... I was going to write more but... oh well. This chapter is a lot longer then the last one and I hope you like it.
This chapter starts at King's Cross and like on the last one, everything that happened in between, happened more or less the same. And there are bits and pieces take directly from the book so if it starts to sound really good all the sudden, you know why .
Disclaimer: I own Harry Potter. No really I do. I own a copy of book 1-5. yepyep. Oh! You mean do I own the rights to it? Well no... but... :Sigh:
Chapter 2
They reached King's Cross at half past ten. Uncle Vernon dumped Harry's trunk onto a cart and wheeled it into the station for him. Harry thought this was strangely kind until 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 don't seem to have built it yet, do 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 one next to it, and in the middle, nothing at all.
"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. He was starting to attract a lot of funny looks, because Hedwig had begun hooting.
Harry was about to try and to quite her when he herd a returning hoot form another owl. He turned to see a large eagle owl setting in a cage on top of a trunk on a cart being pushed by a tall, thin, blond woman who would have been pretty but for the look of disgust on her face. She was followed by the blond boy Harry had met in Madam Malkins. Harry over herd the woman complaining about muggles as he made his way over to them.
"Excuse me. I'm sorry, I don't know your name."
"Oh, hi. I hoped to see you here," said the boy.
"I'm really lost, the muggles I live with just left me here and I don't know where the platform is or anything" Harry said, starting to sound desperate as he pushed back the hair in his face, reviling his scar.
"Hay! Your..."
"Harry Potter." The woman said, cutting off her son and holding out her hand. Harry shook it nervously as she said.
"I'm Narcissa Malfoy, and this is my son Draco. I'm pleased to meet you - as I'm sure most people tell you."
"Nice to meet you to, and yes I do get that a lot."
"Why didn't you tell me you were Harry Potter before?" Draco asked. Harry smiled.
"Well you didn't ask. But anyway, where is platform 9 3/4 anyway."
"it's a through a fake wall, not unlike the one at Diagon Alley, a wall muggles can't get though. All you have to do is walk into the wall between platforms nine and ten." Said Mrs. Malfoy. "Draco dear, why don't you go first and show him how its done?"
Draco nodded and took a hold of the cart.
"See you on the other side" Draco said, and walked strait at the wall and just disappeared through it.
"Its very easy see. Just walk right through." Said Mrs. Malfoy.
Harry stared at the very sold looking wall as he began to slowly walk towards it. He closed his eyes when he looked like he was about to crash. But the crash never came.
When he opened his eyes saw a scarlet steam engine next to a platform filled with witches and wizards of all ages. Harry looked back at where he had come though at a wrought-iron archway with the words platform nine and three quarters on it.
"Harry, hurry up the trains about to leave. And we don't want to get stuck in a compartment with a bunch of Weasleys or anything." Said Draco as he started walked along the train, looking for an empty compartment.
"What's a Weasleys?" Harry asked
"Hay, here's an empty one." Draco said and stopped in front of a compartment.
"The Weasleys are a wizarding family" Draco answered as they tried to get there trunks onto the train. Which was a lot easier said then done. In took both of them, one on the platform, one on the train, to haul each trunk up the step before they went back for there owls. By the time they were done and had closed the door the trains whistle blew and they were off.
As they sat down Draco continued what he was saying, a little out of breath.
"As I was saying the Weasleys are a rather disgraceful wizarding family with more children then they can afford and no proper wizard pride to speak of. You can recognize them easily because they all have red hair, wear old, tatty robes and there all in Gryffindor."
"What's wrong with being a Gryffindor?" Said Harry.
"Well if you ask anyone other then a Slythrin they'd say that Gryffindor is the house you want to be in. But us Slyth's see them for what they really are, a bunch of goody two-shoe, showoffs who would probably run away at the sight of a flobberworm."
"Flobberworm?" Harry asked, confused.
"A small worm like thing that eats lettuce and have no teeth." Said Draco. Harry laughed when the Image came into his head of Hagrid running away form a little green inch worm.
Harry told Draco of this and they were soon laughing like old friends as Draco continued to tell Harry about all the other houses, Quiditch, The Ministry of Magic, and anything else that came up.
Almost a hour and a half had past as the train rushed past field after field when a smiling, dimpled woman slid back their door and said, "Anything of the cart, dears?"
Harry, who hadn't had any breakfast, leapt to his feet and went out into the corridor, followed by Draco.
Harry had never had any money for candy with the Dursleys, and now that he had pockets rattling with gold and silver, he was ready to buy as many Mars Bars as he could carry - but the woman didn't have Mars Bar. What she did have were Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans, Drooble's Best Blowing Gum, Chocolate Frogs, Pumpkin Pasties, Cauldron Cakes, Licorice Wands, and a number of other strange things Harry had never see in his life. Not wanting to miss anything, he got some of everything.
Draco, on the other hand, only bought five Chocolate Frogs, three Pumpkin Pasties and a pack of Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans.
As they got back into there compartment Harry dumped his load onto the seat next to him.
"hungry?" Draco asked, staring at all the candy Harry had bought.
"Starving. Plus I've never had any wizard candy, I didn't want to miss anything. They aren't really frogs are they?" Harry asked, picking up a box of Chocolate Frogs.
"No. They just have a spell put on them to make them jump around a bit. But it's a good thing to ask because with some stuff - you never know." Draco said, opening one of his own Chocolate Frogs.
"Bloody hell, why do I keep getting Dumbledore?" Draco said as he pulled out a card from the box he just opened.
"Here you can have it Harry, start your own collection. Every Chocolate Frog box has a card with a famous witch or wizard on it. Just about everyone collects them. I've got all the rare ones, I'm just missing a few of the more common cards but I keep getting Dumbledore for some reason - here." Draco passed the card over to Harry.
One side of the card had a picture of a man with half-moon glasses, a long crooked nose, and flowing silver hair, beard and mustache. Underneath the picture was the name Albus Dumbledore. Harry turned over his card and read:
ALBUS DUMBLEDORE
CURRENTLY HEADMASTER OF HOGWARTS
Considered by many the greatest wizard of modern times, Dumbledore is particularly famous for his defeat of the dark wizard Grindelwald in 1945, for the discovery of the twelve uses of dragon's blood, and his work on alchemy with his partner, Nicolas Flamel. Professor Dumbledore enjoys chamber music and tenpin bowling.
Harry turned the card back over and saw, to his astonishment, that Dumbledore's face had disappeared.
"He's gone!"
"Good. Now you don't have to look at him anymore." Draco said as he started in on one of his Pumpkin pasties.
"Wizard pictures move?"
"Yah, don't muggle pictures move too?"
"Not photos, no."
"humfh, Stupid muggles - can't they get anything right?" Draco said.
They continued eating there candy and talking.
Harry soon learned the dangers of Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans when he strait away bit right into a wax flavored one.
After Draco was done laughing at him Draco informed him that every flavor means, every flavor.
All of Draco's Chocolate Frogs where a bust - after he had opened up three more Dumbledores he gave the last one to Harry to open, it was Merlin who Draco had six of.
The countryside now flying past the window was becoming wilder. The neat fields had gone. Now there were woods, twisting rivers, and dark green hills.
There was a knock on the door of their compartment and a round-faced boy came in looking tearfull.
"Sorry," he said, "but have you seen a toad at all?"
When they shook their heads, he wailed, "I've lost him! He keeps getting away from me!"
"He'll turn up," said Harry.
"And if he doesn't look on the bright... er... only side, you don't have to be stuck having a toad as a pet" said Draco.
"My Gran gave him to me. She'll be so mad if she knows I've lost him," Said the boy miserably. "Well, if you see him..."
He left
Harry turned to Draco and said,
"That wasn't a very nice thing to say."
"Well its true. And why should I be nice to someone who brings a toad to school? It's a disgrace to us more stylish wizards." Draco said with a cheesy grin as he smoothed his hair with one hand. Harry couldn't help but laugh at this.
"And besides, I bet he'll be a Hufflepuff."
Just then the door the there compartment opened again. The toadless boy was back, but this time he had a girl with him. She was already wearing her new Hogwarts robes.
"Has anyone seen a toad? Neville's lost one," she said. She had a bossy sort of voice, lots of bushy brown hair, and rather large front teeth.
"We've already told him we haven't see it," Harry said, sounding slightly annoyed. The girl nodded and sat down in an empty seet.
"I'm Hermione Granger, by the way. Nobody in my family's magic at all, it was ever such a surprise when I got my letter, but I was ever so pleased, of course, I mean, it's the very best school of witchcraft there is, I've heard - I've learned all our course books by heart, of course, I just hope it will be enough - Oh I should have let you introduce your selves, I probably cut you off, I do tend to babble on when I'm excited..."
She said this all very fast.
"I'm Draco Malfoy," Draco said, more to stop her from getting started again then to introduce himself.
"I'm Harry Potter," Harry said, unfortunately.
"Are you really?" said Hermione - Harry had got her going again.
"I know all about you, of course - I got a few extra books for background reading, and you're in Modern Magical History and The Rise and Fall of the Dark Arts and Great Wizarding Events of the Twentieth Century.
"Am I?" said Harry, felling dazed.
"Goodness, didn't you know, I'd have found out everything I could if it was me," said Hermione. "Do either of you know what house you'll be in? I've been asking around, and I hope I'm in Gryffindor, it sounds by far the best; I hear Dumbledore himself was in it, but I suppose Ravenclaw wouldn't be too bad...Anyway, we'd better go and look for Neville's toad. You two had better change, you know, I expect we'll be there soon"
And she left, taking the toadless boy with her.
"God I hope she's in Gryffindor, I want to keep as much of Hogwarts as possible between me and her," Said Draco.
"Do you think she says that same thing to everyone she meets?" Harry asked.
"If she does then I feel sorry for that boy with the toad - he's stuck with a toad for his pet and has that Granger following him around."
"Can you believe that she's got all our school books down by hart? That's insane!" Said Harry, hoping that Draco didn't have them memorized too and that it wasn't some wizard thing that you had to learn everything by hart that he hadn't herd about.
"Yah, I know!" Harry was relieved to hear Draco say, "I mean I've probably got some of the Magical Drafts and Potions memorized because I've been reading it a lot but, no where near all of it. Potions will be the best class by the way." Draco Said
"Why?
"Besides how interesting the subject is and, its taught by the head of Slytherin house, Severus Snape, he always favors his own house - so I've heard at least" Draco said.
Harry though Draco always sounded very proud whenever he talked about anything to do with Slytherin. It also puzzled Harry that Draco seemed so sure that he would be in Slytherin. But, form what Harry had herd, it sounded like know one knew what house they would be in until they got the Hogwarts. So Harry asked Draco;
"What if your not in Slytherin? I mean there's no way to know before you get there right?"
"No, but- " Draco was cut of by the door to there compartment opening and twin red heads came in followed by a younger boy, holding a rat, who could only be there brother and the voice of someone still in the hall.
"I told you not to go in there! He's not just something to be gawked at!" They could now see the speaker; another, form what Harry had herd of them, Weasley. This last one was the oldest and wore a silver badge with the letter P on it.
"Is it true that Harry Potters in here?" Said one of the twins
"Ummmm..." Harry said, a little embarrass at all the attention he was getting.
"Wicked! You really do have the scar!" Said rat boy.
"I'm sorry about them, I really did try to stop them form coming in," said the older one.
"Awww Your no fun Percy!" Said one twin
"I'm Fred Wesley," said the other twin. "This is my twin brother Gorge," Gorge bowed over his hand when Fred introduced him. "And this is my great prat of a brother Percy and my little brother Ron, he's new this year too."
Percy shook Harry's had when his brother said his name and Ron just shyly waved, all the time staring at Harry's scar.
"Anyway we were just passing though and heard you were here. If you want to come we were on our way down to see our friends giant tarantula." Said Gorge.
"Maybe latter." Said Harry who was feeling very overwhelmed by the twin's energy and all the red hair.
"Ok, see you at school!" Said Fred as he left the compartment.
"I hope you become a Gryffindor!" Said Gorge as he followed his brother out.
"See ya," Said Ron, as he smiled at Harry and waved. Ron left and was soon fallowed by Percy who apologized for his brothers again before sliding the door shut behind him.
Harry just sat there and blinked a few times.
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