The Unnamed Story

Chapter Three

     It was a day before term started. Tiff was extremely excited. She would dance around the house in her robes, hat and cloak while her owl, whom she had named Marc, hooted excitedly. Once, the neighbors from downstairs had angrily yelled at them and told Tiff how stupid it was to wear a Halloween costume in August. She quieted down after that, but didn't stop being insanely excited. She studied some spells in her books, which calmed her down. She amazed her parents by performing the simple spell, lumos, and making light come out of the tip of her wand. She swelled with pride as they told her she'd be top of the class at Hogwarts.

     When the day finally arrived she was shaking with excitement. Allegra and Ronda apparated into her family's apartment at eight in the morning. Tiff was dressed and ready to go. Marc hooted happily in his cage, while she lugged her trunk down the hall to the elevator. She received more strange looks from the muggles, but Allegra and Ronda hadn't dressed in their absurd outfits that day, so they received less.  They were wearing dress robes.

     It took almost two hours to get to Kings Cross Station where she would catch the train. She raced out of the car the moment they got there. Her parents stood next to Ronda and Allegra nervously looking at the ticket. "Ronda! Allegra! This says platform 9 ¾! That doesn't exist!"

"Oh yes it does!" exclaimed Ronda. And she ran into the barrier and disappeared. "Now go with your mum," said Allegra. "Just run!"

     Her mother helped her push the cart into the platform- and bam! They were in Platform 9 ¾! A large scarlet steam engine was billowing out smoke before them. Seconds later Allegra and Tiff's father came through the barrier. The train looked on the verge of leaving. Tiff quickly hugged her parents. "I'll miss you guys!" she exclaimed. Then, she lugged her trunk onto the train with help from Allegra. She opened a compartment in the front where two girls were talking. One of them had long blonde hair and the other one she recognized from the broom shop! The girl had jet-black hair and huge glasses that made her eyes seem twice their normal size. "Hi!" she said, waving.

"Hi," replied Tiff, "Can I sit here?"

"Sure!" said the girl, "What's your name?"

"Tiff,"

"Oh! I'm Athena, Athena Brody."

     Tiff gasped. "I'm Tiff Brody!"

"We can't be related- can we?" said the girl uncertainly. 
"Erm… Well I'm muggle born. Are you?"

"Nope!" said the girl proudly, "I'm a pure blood!" They both laughed nervously. Tiff sat down across from Athena. "Oh, by the way, this is Hestia," Athena told Tiff, pointing at the blonde girl. "Hi!" she said. They sat and talked for a while when two other girls came in. One of them was Keety, the girl she had met at Flourish and Blotts. The other had blonde hair and hazel eyes. "Hi Tiff!" said Keety, "This is Tawny," The girl waved. "Can we sit here?" asked Keety.

"Sure!" said Hestia. Tawny and Keety sat down on one of the soft bench seats. With all five of us in the compartment we were very squashed. Soon a lady pushing a cart came by. "Anything from the cart, girls?" she asked us. Athena jumped up. "I'll take fifty of everything!" she exclaimed, "Plus a gallon of pumpkin juice!" The woman dumped the candy on the table, handed us cups and a large container of pumpkin juice. "Dig in!" said Athena. Tiff reached for a chocolate frog, which she ate. It was delicious. "Oooh!" exclaimed Athena, noticing the card, "Can I have that? My sister collects them," Tiff handed her the card. "So…" began Hestia, "What house do you think we're all going to be in?"

     "Well, Hestia's my sister, so we'll probably be in the same house," said Tawny.

"Really?" asked Athena.

"Yeah… We're sisters."

"But anyway," said Tawny, "I think I'll be a Gryfindor- or maybe a Hufflepuff.

"For me, either Ravenclaw or Hufflepuff," said Hestia.

Athena smiled. "I know I'll be a Ravenclaw. My whole family's been in that house."

"Cool!" said Tiff, "I think I'll be in Ravenclaw or Slyther-" she began, but was cut off.

"You'll never be a Slytherin. You're a muggleborn. They don't go there. People would bully them terribly," said Keety.

"Oh…" said Tiff, "I suppose I'll be in Ravenclaw then."

"Well you can cross your fingers and hope for the best- all of you," said a girl in the doorway. She looked about seventeen with short blonde hair, blue eyes and freckles. "I'm Audrey Jane Kingsley. Call me A.J. though. I'm a Hogwarts head girl and I'm in Ravenclaw. I was just checkin' in on you. Bye!" she said as she left.

"Well, back to our regularly scheduled conversation!" said Tiff, imitating a muggle television host. None of them got the humor.

"Erm… Yeah. What you said," said Athena.

"I'll probably be in Ravenclaw along with you Athena," said Keety, "That's where my parents were." Athena nodded.

          After about five hours the train came to an abrupt halt and the excited first years raced off towards a huge man who was calling them. Their seven-year adventure had just begun.