Chapter 5 Platform 9 3/4

The rest of the week, in the Black house, was spent getting ready for Camillo's departure. She had to pack her things, making sure she forget nothing, and she had to tackle the dubious task of getting all her favourite books in her trunk. It wasn't easy but she manged it.
The thought had just occured to Camillo, the day before she was to leave, that she had, in fact, no clue how she was going to get there. She asked her father about it that night at dinner. 'Er...father? How am I...to..er...get to Hogwarts?' She felt quite stupid asking her father this but she had to know. 'Well we will take muggle transportation, I.E. the underground, then you will take the train there.'
She had know clue that a train from london went to Hogwarts. Wouldn't the muggles be suspicous? But never the less she did not feel the need to question her father further. So she went off to bed to have a good night read before she left the next morning. She was going to miss this house. Little did she know it was going to be a lot longer than she thought it would be before she saw it again.

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Camillo was woken up quite early on September the first by her father. She looked at her wristwatch and groaned. It was to early to be up, 6:00 am! But she was to eager to feel tired. She grabbed all her belongings, let Caspian slither up her leg and on to her shoulder, and ran downstairs. Sirius and Camillo ate breakfast rather quickly, as they did not want to miss the underground train.
The station was not very far from their house but they did look quite peculiar carrying a trunk and a large blue and black snake. They got to the station on time and Camillo handeled the money, as Sirius had no clue about how much to pay the cashier. They borded the train and were at King's Cross in no time flat.
They strode down to the platforms. Camillo looked up at her father and asked questioningly 'So, I am taking a magical train right? One that no muggle can see?' Sirius nodded 'Then why are we at a muggle train station? Won't they see us?' Sirius replied 'It is a secret platform as well! The train is on platform 9 3/4. I know what you are thinking. There is no platform 9 3/4. But there is! All you have to do is run straight at the wall between platform 9 and 10.'
So, Camillo, quite nervously as she was not sure if she could really get through a solid brick wall, closed her eyes and ran at the wall. When she opened them she was looking at a large steam engine with the name Hogwarts Express on the front.
Sirius followed directly after her. But she didn't notice she was watching all the kids bording the train. The younger looking ones looked quite nervous but the older ones looked so very excited to be going back. Good sign. Camillo thought.
She said her goodbyes to her father gave him a hug and stepped onto the train. She walked to the very back and slide open the compartment door. Their were four people already sitting in the compartment. They were all first years by the look of it. She knew one of them was Eleanora Gallaway. They had met at Diagon Alley.
'Oh hi, Camillo! Whaddya like to sit with me?' Camillo nodded and sat down beside her. She turned to everyone else and said 'Hi, my name's Camillo Black.' The compartment was full of girls. Not a single boy.
'Hi, Camillo, my name is Temira. Temira Snape. My father works at Hogwarts, he is the potion master.' Said a girl with short black hair and funky pink lipstick. 'And I am Katrina Caster.' Said the second girl with long silky red hair. Camillo turned to the last girl who had long brown, quite thick, wavy hair and beautiful green eyes. 'Er...hello. My name is Hermoine Granger. Are you here for your first year too?' Camillo nodded.
The girls hit it off immediately. They talked mostly of magic and things of that sort. They talked a great deal about what house they would be in. Eleanora seemed very confident she would be in Gryffindor but Temira seemed equaly confident she was going to be in Ravenclaw.
A trolley came by with sweets and Camillo bought everybody two choclate frogs each. Choclate frogs were choclates shaped like frogs but the real reason everybody bought them were for the cards. Each card had a famous witch or wizard on it. 'I got Nicholas Flamel' said Camillo 'I got Albus Dumbledore' said Eleanora 'Aw man! I got Cornelius Fudge! I have like 50 of him!' said Temira in a rather annoyed voice. Camillo also bought a box of Bertie Botts Every Flavour Jelly Beans. When they say every flavour they mean every flavour.
It was getting dark outside and both Camillo and Hermoine thought it time to change into their new robes. When they returned everybody had left to change into their robes as well. 'Have you tried any spells before you came?' asked Hermoine 'Because most everybody else hasn't and I feel quite out of place.' Camillo felt exactly the same way. 'Oh yes! I have tried plenty! But I seem to be the best at the Defence Against the Dark Arts spells.
They spent the rest of the train ride talking about the various spells they had tried and the different effects they got. Camillo was happy to know that she had made life long friends, or so she hoped.