Disclaimer: I don't own the characters, Hogwarts Express, Kings Cross
Station, Platform 9 ¾ , or anything else from the books, those belong to
the very talented J.K. Rowling. I do however own the plot. The other
characters not mentioned in the books belong to their rightful owners and I
thank them for letting me use their characters for my story. Hope you all
enjoy this! Here's the third chapter: The train ride.
Who will the girls sit with?
Trees and open fields started to appear in the window as the train progressed slowly, gradually gaining speed. Birds flew next to the train as long as they could and some branches hit the sides of the train as they past. About ten minutes into the train ride, the five girls realized that it was time to find someone to sit with or at least split up so that they could sit down. They forgot about Silvia, she seemed to be enjoying her talk with the boy she was sitting with. They started to walk down the aisle looking from their left to their right trying to find an open compartment. The first one was packed, six people, that's the way it was through most of the compartments. Half way through the train Megan, Abby, and Rosalina found seats in a compartment with the redheaded boy and girl they had met at the station. In that compartment also sat a girl with frizzy hair who was reading a fifth year book as it stated on the front cover and a boy with jet black hair and glasses. As Amber and Madison were about to reach the very front of the train, the conductor's room, they had found a compartment with only three people in it as well. Two of which were the twins from the platform and boy who seemed a bit younger then them. They took a seat on the opposite side of the three boys and gazed out the window wondering how the other three were doing in their little compartment.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Rosalina, Abby, and Megan's compartment *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Megan, Abby and Rosalina sat opposite their three companions for the remainder of the train ride. Megan was looking out the window watching the landscape change as they rolled in and out of countryside, one right after the other. Rosalina was now reading Quidditch: Now and Then which she had taken off of Amber as soon as they had reached London. She was very excited about going to Hogwarts although she didn't show it. She could try out for the Quidditch team and be their next Keeper which made her so happy to just think about it. Abby kept glancing from her schoolbook, Muggles and you, which she had bought at Flourish and Blott's for Muggle studies to the boy sitting right across from her. He seemed a bit familiar to her but she couldn't place her finger on where she had seen him before. He had beautiful green eyes and jet-black hair that was a bit messy but seemed to fit his face just right. He was talking to the boy next to him about this professor they had named Professor Snape. Apparently, they didn't like him and from what they were saying, he didn't like them much either. Behind his hair she noticed something, something hidden by strands of black hair . . . a scar. It hit her just then like being pelted with a hard rock once in the head, she knew where she had seen him, in a book, his picture was placed in a book that she had read last year back at Hamlin.
"I don't mean to sound rude, but . . .are you Harry Potter?" she wondered trying to conceal her excitement.
"Yes I am," He replied smiling slightly.
"The real Harry Potter, The Famous Harry Potter?" Rosalina jumped sending Amber's book flying towards the boy sitting across from her. He caught it before it hit him in the face, he gave a sigh of relief as he handed it back to her.
"Yes that would be me," he blushed slightly, "and who might you be?"
"My name's Abby and this is Rosalina and over there is Megan," Abby introduced her friends to Harry and the others.
"It's nice to meet you all, I'm Hermione Granger, Prefect for Gryffindor," Hermione smiled brightly holding out her prefect badge to show them.
"Don't mind her, she's been a bit big headed since that badge arrived in the mail a few days back, but don't worry we're hoping that once the school year starts it'll deflate a little. The name's Ron, Ron Weasley," Ron replied.
"Ron!" Hermione yelled in anger and hit him with the book she was reading. He recoiled in pain as the book hit his upper left arm.
"I think we sort of met at the station Ron," Rosalina thought as soon as all the 'excitement' ended.
"Yeah, I remember seeing you before I had to get onto the platform. Where are the rest of you? I mean, weren't there more?" Ron wondered. Just then the candy cart pulled up outside the doorway and Harry bought everyone something. Ron ate a chocolate frog, Harry and the rest shared their Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans. Unfortunately Megan got spinach flavor and Harry got earwax, they were most unpleasant. Rosalina held out a bean that was an ugly looking green color with ugly brown spots to match. She was about to put it in her mouth when Ron caught hold of her arm.
"No, don't eat that one! It's vomit flavored!" Ron warned as he let her arm go from his grasp.
"How would you know?" Megan wondered.
"Fred got one over the summer break. He complained about it for a week, so of course Ron would remember that flavor," Harry answered.
"So . . .do u have the . . you know . . .scar?" Rosalina inquired raising an eyebrow. Harry smiled slightly, he was used to being asked about his scar after all he'd been going to Hogwarts for five years now. He lifted his bangs up and revealed his lightening shaped scar on his forehead and let it go once she'd seen it.
"Well, we should be there in about twenty minutes time," Hermione said trying to get their attention which wasn't working very well.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Amber and Madison's Compartment*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Amber and Madison had been sitting there for fifteen minutes with no sign of a conversation for them to get into. Madison sat closest to the window across from one of the twins and Amber sat across from the twins' friend in the middle next to Madison. Amber was now reading a book for school, Deciphering Runes, for Study of Ancient Runes since Rosalina took her Quidditch book once they got to London. Madison was watching everything pass them by as they sped up towards Hogwarts. She glanced down at her watch, only ten minutes to go and their new school year would begin. She swallowed hard thinking about school and what happened to her old school. It was like a nightmare that was just too true to bare, she now had nightmares will she slept about it, but refused to tell the others about them. She closed her eyes but a green light flashed and she saw a face, it had bright yellow eyes and snake-like slits for a nose. She jolted her eyes open and sat there not moving a muscle until one of the twins spoke.
"I've never seen either of you two before, are you new?" the one across from Madison.
"Yes, just got to London yesterday," Amber answered.
"Well, who might you all be?" Madison questioned.
"The name's Fred, this is my brother George and this is our friend Lee Jordan," Fred replied.
"Nice to meet you three, I'm Amber and this is Madison," Amber smiled politely. She shut her book hoping that their conversation would continue.
"That's a nice accent you have Madison, where is it from?" Lee inquired with a raised eyebrow. Fred and George had noticed that she didn't speak with an English accent but didn't mention it until now.
"It's Australian, my mum moved her from Australia as soon as she found out my dad was a wizard," Madison said as she turned her attention back to the window.
"Australia huh? What year are you girls going into?" George asked with a slight sly smile.
"7th year. We were transferred from," Amber stopped noticing a glare coming from Madison, "we were just transferred this year."
"Have either of you heard of Quidditch?" Fred asked excitedly.
"Have we heard of it?! Of coarse we have! I used to play Keeper and Madi here played Chaser," Amber squealed. Fred nearly jumped with excitement and grabbed a hold of George's sleeve to get his attention, but George was looking at Madison. Something about her intrigued him, whether it was her looks or her seeming mysterious, he couldn't place his finger on it, but whatever it was, he wanted to know more about her. Fred noticed this and sighed heavily. Madison didn't notice of coarse for she was staring out the window, her head resting on her hand, her elbow resting on the windowpane. The train started to slow down and finally came to a stop. They stood up and started to grab their trunks. Madison tried to reach her trunk but George got it and carried it to a carriage waiting for them just outside the station. George placed both his and Madison's trunk in the back of the same carriage.
"Would you like to ride up with us?" he asked, taking her hand and bowing slightly.
"Sure," she smiled and stepped into the carriage followed by George, Fred, Lee, and Amber.
They were on their way up a long a winding hill towards Hogwarts, in a matter of minutes the carriage would stop and they would get out and they'd be at their new school ready for a new school year. They talked all the way up the hill about Quidditch and other such things. Finally the carriage stopped and everyone piled out and grabbed their belongings. They walked into the vast entrance of the castle-like school, George, Fred, and Lee made their way into the Great Hall while Amber and Madison awaited their friends. Once they were together, they were led, by an older looking women who's hair was pulled into a tight bun on the top of her head, up to a large pair of wooden doors which led into the Great hall for the sorting. They were mixed in with all the new first years so they stuck out quiet a bit. The doors swung open revealing a thousand students sitting at four different tables. They were led to the middle of the room and so the ceremony began.
Thanx 2 all those who've review so far, onto the sorting!!!! You'll all appear slowly but surely, this was kinda a long chapter, so I'm proud yet again, hope you like it. REVIEW!!!!!!!Please?
Who will the girls sit with?
Trees and open fields started to appear in the window as the train progressed slowly, gradually gaining speed. Birds flew next to the train as long as they could and some branches hit the sides of the train as they past. About ten minutes into the train ride, the five girls realized that it was time to find someone to sit with or at least split up so that they could sit down. They forgot about Silvia, she seemed to be enjoying her talk with the boy she was sitting with. They started to walk down the aisle looking from their left to their right trying to find an open compartment. The first one was packed, six people, that's the way it was through most of the compartments. Half way through the train Megan, Abby, and Rosalina found seats in a compartment with the redheaded boy and girl they had met at the station. In that compartment also sat a girl with frizzy hair who was reading a fifth year book as it stated on the front cover and a boy with jet black hair and glasses. As Amber and Madison were about to reach the very front of the train, the conductor's room, they had found a compartment with only three people in it as well. Two of which were the twins from the platform and boy who seemed a bit younger then them. They took a seat on the opposite side of the three boys and gazed out the window wondering how the other three were doing in their little compartment.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Rosalina, Abby, and Megan's compartment *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Megan, Abby and Rosalina sat opposite their three companions for the remainder of the train ride. Megan was looking out the window watching the landscape change as they rolled in and out of countryside, one right after the other. Rosalina was now reading Quidditch: Now and Then which she had taken off of Amber as soon as they had reached London. She was very excited about going to Hogwarts although she didn't show it. She could try out for the Quidditch team and be their next Keeper which made her so happy to just think about it. Abby kept glancing from her schoolbook, Muggles and you, which she had bought at Flourish and Blott's for Muggle studies to the boy sitting right across from her. He seemed a bit familiar to her but she couldn't place her finger on where she had seen him before. He had beautiful green eyes and jet-black hair that was a bit messy but seemed to fit his face just right. He was talking to the boy next to him about this professor they had named Professor Snape. Apparently, they didn't like him and from what they were saying, he didn't like them much either. Behind his hair she noticed something, something hidden by strands of black hair . . . a scar. It hit her just then like being pelted with a hard rock once in the head, she knew where she had seen him, in a book, his picture was placed in a book that she had read last year back at Hamlin.
"I don't mean to sound rude, but . . .are you Harry Potter?" she wondered trying to conceal her excitement.
"Yes I am," He replied smiling slightly.
"The real Harry Potter, The Famous Harry Potter?" Rosalina jumped sending Amber's book flying towards the boy sitting across from her. He caught it before it hit him in the face, he gave a sigh of relief as he handed it back to her.
"Yes that would be me," he blushed slightly, "and who might you be?"
"My name's Abby and this is Rosalina and over there is Megan," Abby introduced her friends to Harry and the others.
"It's nice to meet you all, I'm Hermione Granger, Prefect for Gryffindor," Hermione smiled brightly holding out her prefect badge to show them.
"Don't mind her, she's been a bit big headed since that badge arrived in the mail a few days back, but don't worry we're hoping that once the school year starts it'll deflate a little. The name's Ron, Ron Weasley," Ron replied.
"Ron!" Hermione yelled in anger and hit him with the book she was reading. He recoiled in pain as the book hit his upper left arm.
"I think we sort of met at the station Ron," Rosalina thought as soon as all the 'excitement' ended.
"Yeah, I remember seeing you before I had to get onto the platform. Where are the rest of you? I mean, weren't there more?" Ron wondered. Just then the candy cart pulled up outside the doorway and Harry bought everyone something. Ron ate a chocolate frog, Harry and the rest shared their Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans. Unfortunately Megan got spinach flavor and Harry got earwax, they were most unpleasant. Rosalina held out a bean that was an ugly looking green color with ugly brown spots to match. She was about to put it in her mouth when Ron caught hold of her arm.
"No, don't eat that one! It's vomit flavored!" Ron warned as he let her arm go from his grasp.
"How would you know?" Megan wondered.
"Fred got one over the summer break. He complained about it for a week, so of course Ron would remember that flavor," Harry answered.
"So . . .do u have the . . you know . . .scar?" Rosalina inquired raising an eyebrow. Harry smiled slightly, he was used to being asked about his scar after all he'd been going to Hogwarts for five years now. He lifted his bangs up and revealed his lightening shaped scar on his forehead and let it go once she'd seen it.
"Well, we should be there in about twenty minutes time," Hermione said trying to get their attention which wasn't working very well.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Amber and Madison's Compartment*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Amber and Madison had been sitting there for fifteen minutes with no sign of a conversation for them to get into. Madison sat closest to the window across from one of the twins and Amber sat across from the twins' friend in the middle next to Madison. Amber was now reading a book for school, Deciphering Runes, for Study of Ancient Runes since Rosalina took her Quidditch book once they got to London. Madison was watching everything pass them by as they sped up towards Hogwarts. She glanced down at her watch, only ten minutes to go and their new school year would begin. She swallowed hard thinking about school and what happened to her old school. It was like a nightmare that was just too true to bare, she now had nightmares will she slept about it, but refused to tell the others about them. She closed her eyes but a green light flashed and she saw a face, it had bright yellow eyes and snake-like slits for a nose. She jolted her eyes open and sat there not moving a muscle until one of the twins spoke.
"I've never seen either of you two before, are you new?" the one across from Madison.
"Yes, just got to London yesterday," Amber answered.
"Well, who might you all be?" Madison questioned.
"The name's Fred, this is my brother George and this is our friend Lee Jordan," Fred replied.
"Nice to meet you three, I'm Amber and this is Madison," Amber smiled politely. She shut her book hoping that their conversation would continue.
"That's a nice accent you have Madison, where is it from?" Lee inquired with a raised eyebrow. Fred and George had noticed that she didn't speak with an English accent but didn't mention it until now.
"It's Australian, my mum moved her from Australia as soon as she found out my dad was a wizard," Madison said as she turned her attention back to the window.
"Australia huh? What year are you girls going into?" George asked with a slight sly smile.
"7th year. We were transferred from," Amber stopped noticing a glare coming from Madison, "we were just transferred this year."
"Have either of you heard of Quidditch?" Fred asked excitedly.
"Have we heard of it?! Of coarse we have! I used to play Keeper and Madi here played Chaser," Amber squealed. Fred nearly jumped with excitement and grabbed a hold of George's sleeve to get his attention, but George was looking at Madison. Something about her intrigued him, whether it was her looks or her seeming mysterious, he couldn't place his finger on it, but whatever it was, he wanted to know more about her. Fred noticed this and sighed heavily. Madison didn't notice of coarse for she was staring out the window, her head resting on her hand, her elbow resting on the windowpane. The train started to slow down and finally came to a stop. They stood up and started to grab their trunks. Madison tried to reach her trunk but George got it and carried it to a carriage waiting for them just outside the station. George placed both his and Madison's trunk in the back of the same carriage.
"Would you like to ride up with us?" he asked, taking her hand and bowing slightly.
"Sure," she smiled and stepped into the carriage followed by George, Fred, Lee, and Amber.
They were on their way up a long a winding hill towards Hogwarts, in a matter of minutes the carriage would stop and they would get out and they'd be at their new school ready for a new school year. They talked all the way up the hill about Quidditch and other such things. Finally the carriage stopped and everyone piled out and grabbed their belongings. They walked into the vast entrance of the castle-like school, George, Fred, and Lee made their way into the Great Hall while Amber and Madison awaited their friends. Once they were together, they were led, by an older looking women who's hair was pulled into a tight bun on the top of her head, up to a large pair of wooden doors which led into the Great hall for the sorting. They were mixed in with all the new first years so they stuck out quiet a bit. The doors swung open revealing a thousand students sitting at four different tables. They were led to the middle of the room and so the ceremony began.
Thanx 2 all those who've review so far, onto the sorting!!!! You'll all appear slowly but surely, this was kinda a long chapter, so I'm proud yet again, hope you like it. REVIEW!!!!!!!Please?