Rebecca arrives at the train station and puts all of her things on a cart.
She had never been to Hogwarts before so everything was unfamiliar to her
and she had no clue how to get to the platform.
Wadsworth, her family's butler who had been her guardian since her parents died, had died himself at the beginning of the summer so Rebecca had no one left to show her the way and no instructions to follow.
All the changes in her life were making her feel like a nervous wreck, but she had been able to get herself through it all. However not knowing how to get to the train was about enough to send her over the edge.
Rebecca looked for Ryan hoping that he would show soon and help her out. Soon Rebecca found herself desperate for any one that might know about the platform.
She was about to give up hope when she sees the family from Diagon Alley. She first saw the boy that helped her in the bookstore and then the rest of the family.
Her heart leaped for joy to see someone that she recognized even if she really did not know the people. Rebecca was a very shy person, but her desperation was going to push her to get over it for a short while.
She gathered up her courage and walked up to the family. Her eyes meet with the red headed boy who looked about her age and they exchanged shy smiles.
"Excuse me, but I saw you at Diagon Alley. I am new to Hogwarts and I was wondering if you could tell me how to get to Platform 9 3/4." Rebecca asked timidly as her stomach did a flip-flop.
She scanned the family to see how they were responding to her question. Relieved to see the family was sweetly smiling at her when she finished she smiled back and felt her anxiety subside.
The father of the red haired clan responded to Rebecca, "Of course, my dear. All you do is walk into the column between the platforms 9 and 10. Here Bill will go first and show you."
With that the boy, who helped her in the bookstore, took his cart and headed straight into the brick. After Bill made it through the father turned to Rebecca.
"Now you can go before Charlie," he said pointing to the boy Rebecca's age.
"Thank you very much," Rebecca said with a big smile and went through the column. When she stopped walking she found herself on the platform and she saw the train for the first time.
She was turning around to wait for the rest of the red-haired family to come through to the platform so that she could really thank them properly when Ryan came running up to her.
"Hey about time you made it here, come on let's get on the train."
"Ryan, I'll be right there, I just need to."
Before she could finish Ryan took her and pulled her towards the train telling, "We need to get on the train now so that we get seats."
And with that Rebecca found herself on the train on the way to Hogwarts.
She could feel the anxiety building up inside of her.
Rebecca followed Ryan into a compartment where his friends are already. She recognizes all but one from the previous day.
"Hey Malfoy," the unfamilar boy said as Ryan walked in and greeted his friends.
"Russel, where have you been? You missed a great day at Diagon Alley" Ryan said to the guy.
"So I heard," the dark haired boy responded. "And who is this?" he asked looking at Rebecca.
She gave a weak smile as Ryan answered, "Oh this is Rebecca. If you had been at Diagon Alley you would have meet her there."
"Well, now I am sorry I missed that" Russel said smiling at Rebecca in a way that made her a little uncomfortable. However, she got a feeling that he wasn't a lackey like the rest of Ryan's friends, so Rebecca just chalked her uncomfortable feeling as nervousness.
Everyone took a seat as the train started rolling. All the guy's broad shoulders made it very crowded in the compartment. Rebecca was sitting in the middle of Ryan and Russel and had a little bit more room then the rest of the guys, but it didn't make her feel any more at ease. As they sat there the guys talked about their summers. Rebecca didn't say that much, partly because she didn't really want to talk and partly because she was thinking about the red-haired family and how much more comfortable she had been with them then she was now. Russel asked a few questions trying to get her to talk, but Rebecca could answer almost every question with a yes or a no answer. Russel gave up on asking question and started to talk about what happens at Hogwarts.
He told her that he was the seeker for the Slytherin house and then looked at her and said, "You know you look like you're an athlete. You could be good at quidditch. Maybe we should practice sometime."
It was true Rebecca had an athletic built, but she wasn't sure what Russel was truly getting at so she just flashed a smile and looked at her feet.
As the trip progressed, girls stopped in to say 'Hi, Ryan or Russel' and give Rebecca a dirty look. Final one of the girls actually came into the compartment.
"Hi Guys" the girl said with a smile. The girl looked around the compartment and saw Rebecca.
"Oh, hi. You must be new. I'm Cassie."
"Hi, I'm Rebecca. It's very nice to meet you" Rebecca faded off at the end because Cassie turned her attention to Ryan and squeezed herself on to the bench they were sitting on. Rebecca had to slide into Russel as Ryan slide into her making the seating arrangements even tighter. She had been claustrophobic since she could remember and Rebecca passed out ever time she got into tight spots.
"Are you okay?" Russel asked looking at her as the color drained from her face.
"Yeah, I just need some air" Rebecca answered placing her hand on Russel's leg to help herself up.
Russel gently took a hold her hand and asked, "Do you need anyone to go with you?"
"No, I will be fine." She slipped her hand out of Russel's grasp and walked out of the door.
As Rebecca walked away, she heard Ryan say, "Oh don't worry about her. She is claustrophobic and she'll be fine when she gets some air."
'Well at least he remembered that about me,' Rebecca thought as she went in search for a new place to sit.
As she walked up the corridor looking in the compartments, she saw Charlie with his friends in another crowded compartment. He looked up to see her walking by. They exchanged smiles and Rebecca continued her search. Towards the end of the train, she found an empty compartment and settled herself in for the rest of the trip. Rebecca was thankful to be by herself. She had a lot on her mind and Ryan and his friends were not the most comfortable people to be around at the time. She needed to be around people like Charlie and his family. 'He is kind of cute,' Rebecca thought to herself. She eventually convinced herself that a guy like him had to have a girlfriend and that she would be better off thinking of other things than of how cute he was. Rebecca turned and looked at the landscape beside the train. As she stared out the window, Rebecca found herself reminiscing about her old school, Beauxbatons, and her old friends. She missed them so. Though, she had kept in touch with them over the summer and when Wadsworth died they came to the funeral, there was a feeling that she wouldn't get to keep their friendship forever. 'I need to get a handle on these feeling. I'll make new friends. I just need to try,' she thought as she watched the scenery pass.
Rebecca was still gazing out the window when a figure appeared in the doorway. She looked up to see Ryan standing there.
"Hey what's up?"
"Well, not much. Russel got up and Cassie immediately dragged him to go see Kirsta and the rest of my friends are asleep so I decided to come see how you were doing?"
They smiled at each other and Ryan took a seat so that he was directly looking at Rebecca.
"I can't tell you how happy I am that we are going to be in the same school. It will be so great being in the same house." Ryan said.
"Do you really think that we will be in the same house?" Rebecca questioned with doubt in her voice.
Ryan responded with more confidence, "Why of course we will be in the same house. There is no other possibility. It will be just like the old times before we had to go to different school. Just you wait. You'll be a Slytherin before you know it.."
As Ryan finished, Rebecca couldn't help but notice that there was something different about Ryan. She hadn't spent much time with him on a constant basis like when they were little, but even now and at Diagon Alley she could tell there were differences.
"Who knows you might be right," Rebecca said when Ryan was final done telling her to trust him with which house she will be in.
"Don't worry about anything. I'll help you through the transition." Ryan said trying to reassure her everything would be okay. All of a sudden another figure appeared before Rebecca could say another word to Ryan.
It was Cassie.
"Hi!" she said in her falsetto voice. "How are you guys doing? I just came into to find out more about you cousin, Ryan. So Rebecca, where did you go to school before this?"
At the word cousin Rebecca looked at Ryan with a confused look. In a split second Rebecca decided to go along with it. She really didn't care if everyone thought that she was his cousin.
'Maybe I won't have girls give me dirty looks when I am with him then,' Rebecca thought.
"I went to Beauxbatons, before I was informed that I was transferring to Hogwarts." Rebecca responded to Cassie's first question not aware that she would be subjected to a million peculiar questions from Cassie that had nothing to do with Rebecca.
When Ryan grew tired of Cassie's chattering, he pondered out loud, "I wonder where Russel is?"
"He's with Kirsta, of course," Cassie retorted.
Rebecca finally had a question to throw at question Cassie's way, so she asked, "Who's Kirsta?"
This sent Cassie into a monologue about Kirsta, her best friend, and all of the times they spent together.
Finally, the train stopped and they were going to get off of the train. Cassie grabbed Ryan by the hand and they left the compartment with Rebecca behind them. They got off the train altogether, but in the confusion of all the students getting off the train Rebecca was separated from Ryan and Cassie and left to fend for herself.
Luckily, a very tall, huge man directed her to a carriage that would take the students the rest of the way to Hogwarts.
Wadsworth, her family's butler who had been her guardian since her parents died, had died himself at the beginning of the summer so Rebecca had no one left to show her the way and no instructions to follow.
All the changes in her life were making her feel like a nervous wreck, but she had been able to get herself through it all. However not knowing how to get to the train was about enough to send her over the edge.
Rebecca looked for Ryan hoping that he would show soon and help her out. Soon Rebecca found herself desperate for any one that might know about the platform.
She was about to give up hope when she sees the family from Diagon Alley. She first saw the boy that helped her in the bookstore and then the rest of the family.
Her heart leaped for joy to see someone that she recognized even if she really did not know the people. Rebecca was a very shy person, but her desperation was going to push her to get over it for a short while.
She gathered up her courage and walked up to the family. Her eyes meet with the red headed boy who looked about her age and they exchanged shy smiles.
"Excuse me, but I saw you at Diagon Alley. I am new to Hogwarts and I was wondering if you could tell me how to get to Platform 9 3/4." Rebecca asked timidly as her stomach did a flip-flop.
She scanned the family to see how they were responding to her question. Relieved to see the family was sweetly smiling at her when she finished she smiled back and felt her anxiety subside.
The father of the red haired clan responded to Rebecca, "Of course, my dear. All you do is walk into the column between the platforms 9 and 10. Here Bill will go first and show you."
With that the boy, who helped her in the bookstore, took his cart and headed straight into the brick. After Bill made it through the father turned to Rebecca.
"Now you can go before Charlie," he said pointing to the boy Rebecca's age.
"Thank you very much," Rebecca said with a big smile and went through the column. When she stopped walking she found herself on the platform and she saw the train for the first time.
She was turning around to wait for the rest of the red-haired family to come through to the platform so that she could really thank them properly when Ryan came running up to her.
"Hey about time you made it here, come on let's get on the train."
"Ryan, I'll be right there, I just need to."
Before she could finish Ryan took her and pulled her towards the train telling, "We need to get on the train now so that we get seats."
And with that Rebecca found herself on the train on the way to Hogwarts.
She could feel the anxiety building up inside of her.
Rebecca followed Ryan into a compartment where his friends are already. She recognizes all but one from the previous day.
"Hey Malfoy," the unfamilar boy said as Ryan walked in and greeted his friends.
"Russel, where have you been? You missed a great day at Diagon Alley" Ryan said to the guy.
"So I heard," the dark haired boy responded. "And who is this?" he asked looking at Rebecca.
She gave a weak smile as Ryan answered, "Oh this is Rebecca. If you had been at Diagon Alley you would have meet her there."
"Well, now I am sorry I missed that" Russel said smiling at Rebecca in a way that made her a little uncomfortable. However, she got a feeling that he wasn't a lackey like the rest of Ryan's friends, so Rebecca just chalked her uncomfortable feeling as nervousness.
Everyone took a seat as the train started rolling. All the guy's broad shoulders made it very crowded in the compartment. Rebecca was sitting in the middle of Ryan and Russel and had a little bit more room then the rest of the guys, but it didn't make her feel any more at ease. As they sat there the guys talked about their summers. Rebecca didn't say that much, partly because she didn't really want to talk and partly because she was thinking about the red-haired family and how much more comfortable she had been with them then she was now. Russel asked a few questions trying to get her to talk, but Rebecca could answer almost every question with a yes or a no answer. Russel gave up on asking question and started to talk about what happens at Hogwarts.
He told her that he was the seeker for the Slytherin house and then looked at her and said, "You know you look like you're an athlete. You could be good at quidditch. Maybe we should practice sometime."
It was true Rebecca had an athletic built, but she wasn't sure what Russel was truly getting at so she just flashed a smile and looked at her feet.
As the trip progressed, girls stopped in to say 'Hi, Ryan or Russel' and give Rebecca a dirty look. Final one of the girls actually came into the compartment.
"Hi Guys" the girl said with a smile. The girl looked around the compartment and saw Rebecca.
"Oh, hi. You must be new. I'm Cassie."
"Hi, I'm Rebecca. It's very nice to meet you" Rebecca faded off at the end because Cassie turned her attention to Ryan and squeezed herself on to the bench they were sitting on. Rebecca had to slide into Russel as Ryan slide into her making the seating arrangements even tighter. She had been claustrophobic since she could remember and Rebecca passed out ever time she got into tight spots.
"Are you okay?" Russel asked looking at her as the color drained from her face.
"Yeah, I just need some air" Rebecca answered placing her hand on Russel's leg to help herself up.
Russel gently took a hold her hand and asked, "Do you need anyone to go with you?"
"No, I will be fine." She slipped her hand out of Russel's grasp and walked out of the door.
As Rebecca walked away, she heard Ryan say, "Oh don't worry about her. She is claustrophobic and she'll be fine when she gets some air."
'Well at least he remembered that about me,' Rebecca thought as she went in search for a new place to sit.
As she walked up the corridor looking in the compartments, she saw Charlie with his friends in another crowded compartment. He looked up to see her walking by. They exchanged smiles and Rebecca continued her search. Towards the end of the train, she found an empty compartment and settled herself in for the rest of the trip. Rebecca was thankful to be by herself. She had a lot on her mind and Ryan and his friends were not the most comfortable people to be around at the time. She needed to be around people like Charlie and his family. 'He is kind of cute,' Rebecca thought to herself. She eventually convinced herself that a guy like him had to have a girlfriend and that she would be better off thinking of other things than of how cute he was. Rebecca turned and looked at the landscape beside the train. As she stared out the window, Rebecca found herself reminiscing about her old school, Beauxbatons, and her old friends. She missed them so. Though, she had kept in touch with them over the summer and when Wadsworth died they came to the funeral, there was a feeling that she wouldn't get to keep their friendship forever. 'I need to get a handle on these feeling. I'll make new friends. I just need to try,' she thought as she watched the scenery pass.
Rebecca was still gazing out the window when a figure appeared in the doorway. She looked up to see Ryan standing there.
"Hey what's up?"
"Well, not much. Russel got up and Cassie immediately dragged him to go see Kirsta and the rest of my friends are asleep so I decided to come see how you were doing?"
They smiled at each other and Ryan took a seat so that he was directly looking at Rebecca.
"I can't tell you how happy I am that we are going to be in the same school. It will be so great being in the same house." Ryan said.
"Do you really think that we will be in the same house?" Rebecca questioned with doubt in her voice.
Ryan responded with more confidence, "Why of course we will be in the same house. There is no other possibility. It will be just like the old times before we had to go to different school. Just you wait. You'll be a Slytherin before you know it.."
As Ryan finished, Rebecca couldn't help but notice that there was something different about Ryan. She hadn't spent much time with him on a constant basis like when they were little, but even now and at Diagon Alley she could tell there were differences.
"Who knows you might be right," Rebecca said when Ryan was final done telling her to trust him with which house she will be in.
"Don't worry about anything. I'll help you through the transition." Ryan said trying to reassure her everything would be okay. All of a sudden another figure appeared before Rebecca could say another word to Ryan.
It was Cassie.
"Hi!" she said in her falsetto voice. "How are you guys doing? I just came into to find out more about you cousin, Ryan. So Rebecca, where did you go to school before this?"
At the word cousin Rebecca looked at Ryan with a confused look. In a split second Rebecca decided to go along with it. She really didn't care if everyone thought that she was his cousin.
'Maybe I won't have girls give me dirty looks when I am with him then,' Rebecca thought.
"I went to Beauxbatons, before I was informed that I was transferring to Hogwarts." Rebecca responded to Cassie's first question not aware that she would be subjected to a million peculiar questions from Cassie that had nothing to do with Rebecca.
When Ryan grew tired of Cassie's chattering, he pondered out loud, "I wonder where Russel is?"
"He's with Kirsta, of course," Cassie retorted.
Rebecca finally had a question to throw at question Cassie's way, so she asked, "Who's Kirsta?"
This sent Cassie into a monologue about Kirsta, her best friend, and all of the times they spent together.
Finally, the train stopped and they were going to get off of the train. Cassie grabbed Ryan by the hand and they left the compartment with Rebecca behind them. They got off the train altogether, but in the confusion of all the students getting off the train Rebecca was separated from Ryan and Cassie and left to fend for herself.
Luckily, a very tall, huge man directed her to a carriage that would take the students the rest of the way to Hogwarts.