Hogwarts Ten Year Reunion
~* Chapter 3 edited. I hope it's better than it was. *~
Chapter 3 ~ Arrival At Hogwarts
The Hogwarts Express jolted to a halt as it reached the station at Hogsmeade. The former Hogwarts students noticed that they would be travelling in the carriages once more, to reach the Hogwarts Castle.
Ron said goodbye to Padma and Parvati, jumping into a carriage with three other people sitting inside. There were two men, and one woman sitting in the carriage Ron had entered. The woman looked tired and overworked, she also looked pregnant. She was wearing a summer dress, and her short, brown hair was tied in a bun, but some strands of hair had fallen out. She had not bothered to fix her hair. The two men looked suspiciously familiar to Ron. One had light brown stringy hair and brown eyes, the other had a pot belly, and was wearing jeans and a t-shirt.
'Ron Weasley?' Said the man with the stringy brown hair. He spoke in a heavy Irish accent. Ron squinted at the man.
'Seamus Finnigan?' He replied.
'Yes! It's me! This is Neville Longbottom, I'm not sure if you'd remember him...' Seamus said.
'I remember you Neville!' Ron said happily, grateful to be in the presence of his friends from Hogwarts. The woman remained silent, she looked as if she was trying to catch up on some well needed sleep.
'Seamus, old friend, what have you been up to these past ten years?' Ron asked.
'Me and Dean Thomas started working for your brothers, I'm surprised you didn't know that. We go door to door advertising for them. It's quite fulfilling really, even though it doesn't seem that way.' Seamus said. 'I came with Dean, but I seem to have lost him somewhere along the line,' Seamus continued.
'Wow, I always wanted to work for Fred and George, but they said they wouldn't hire family.' Ron mused.
'Have you started a family Ron?' Seamus asked.
'No, I haven't found anyone yet.' Ron explained.
'That's a shame.' Seamus said.
'What about you Seamus? Have a wife? Kids?' Ron said.
'I married a lovely muggle called Jessica Gold, but we had a fight when she found out what I was, and we divorced. We didn't have any children together, yet I would have loved to have one or two kids.' Seamus said sadly at the memory of his former wife.
'I'm sorry to hear that.' Ron said sympathetically. 'But on a new, lighter note, have any of you seen Hermione or Harry? It would be great to catch up with my best friends, I haven't spoken to either of them in years,'
'You lost contact with Harry and Hermione? Why?' Neville asked, shocked at this news.
'I moved to Romania with my brother Charlie, and I couldn't write because I didn't have time. During the time I was in Romania, I found out Harry had gone to America, and I tried contacting Hermione, but she never answered my owls.' Ron said.
'I wonder why she didn't answer your owls?' Neville asked, pondering the reason.
'I'm not sure,' Ron said.
'So Neville, what have you been up to?' Seamus asked, changing the subject.
'Well, as you may remember, I owned a toad named Trevor. Trevor died not long after Graduation, and during his life, not once he did anything magical. So I started studying toad behaviours, and how they are linked to the magical world,' Neville said.
'Wow, that's amazing. I never thought you'd get into something scientific like that Neville,' Ron said.
'Have you discovered anything yet?' Seamus asked.
'Yes actually. The blood of toads enables them to be immune to spells of all kinds. They make loyal pets and are protective of their wizard master. Trevor was a dud,' Neville said.
'Why was he a dud?' Ron asked.
'Because he died from a wizard spell. It was quite a shame really. However, most toads are immune to spells. I just don't think Trevor was a Wizarding toad, but just a regular toad,' Neville said.
'Weren't you really stupid back at Hogwarts?' The woman sitting next to Ron had finally decided to speak up. All three men snapped their heads and looked at her.
'And who might you be?' Ron asked, a little nastily.
'I am Cora Black,' She said. 'Former Slytherin,'
'That explains it,' Seamus said. 'We were all Gryffindors,'
'That explains it,' Cora mimicked sarcastically.
'What exactly do you mean by that?' Neville asked, a little hurt at her rude comment.
'Think about it, you study toads, he advertises for the Weasley twins door to door, and god knows what makes you so special,' She said, looking at Ron.
'So where's your husband?' Ron asked harshly.
'You assume I have a husband. What if I don't?' Cora said.
'Then you're a slut with a baby.' Seamus said. Cora gasped.
'I have a boyfriend!' She said, clearly insulted.
'It still means that you're pregnant out of wedlock,' Seamus argued, but for the rest of the carriage ride, the four were silent.
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~* Chapter 3 edited. Not much has changed in this chapter, but it's been edited so that the grammer is better. *~
~Gryffindor Gal~