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For the remainder of the summer they stayed inside the house, occasionally going into the garden when Remus or another member of the Order came to visit. Mrs. Weasley went to Diagon Alley one day and bought all their supplies for school.
It felt like no time at all that they were standing at the King's Cross between Platforms 9 and 10, with their trunks on carts and their hair blowing in the wind. Fred and George had come with them to say goodbye; Remus, Kingsley, Moody, Tonks, and Mr. And Mrs. Weasley had transported them there just minutes before with cars they had borrowed from the Ministry, who had reluctantly let them.
Harry and Ginny leaned casually on the barrier, in seconds they were standing before the scarlet Hogwarts Express. After them came Ron and Hermione, then Fred and George, then Mr. and Mrs. Weasley, then Tonks and Remus, finally Moody and Kingsley.
Suddenly there was a loud shout.
"HARRY! RON! GINNY! HERMIONE!"
The called ones whipped around and saw Alex hurrying toward them, Melanie following.
"Hey Alex, Melanie!" said Harry when Alex and Melanie reached them.
"Nope, sorry, don't have any hay. Might find some in a barn though." Joked Alex. Harry grinned and ruffled Alex's hair.
"Don't mess with the hair!" he mumbled, smoothing it.
"How've you been, Alex?" asked Ron, looking at him. "Grown quite a bit, have you?"
Alex had become taller and more muscular.
"Yup, I've been practicing Quidditch and jogging." He said. "You two have grown quite a bit too, and Ginny! Hermione!" he said, noticing them. Ginny and Hermione had gotten more curves, and Ron and Harry had become taller and more masculine.
"Hey you three." Said Parvati in a husky voice when she came by. The three boys stared at her, the girls glared at her. "Uhhhh…" was all the boys could say before they turned back to their girlfriends.
"Well, I think we better say goodbye to them," said Hermione, gesturing toward the group of grownups who were chatting with each other, "And get on the train."
Mr. Weasley came to them. "The train leaves in five minutes."
They nodded and started to push their trolleys toward the train; Kingsley, Remus and Mr. Weasley, Fred, George and Tonks helped them put them on the train.
"Well, good-bye, then." Said Tonks, waving, while Moody nodded at them, his blue eyes fixed upon them, and Kingsley winked at them.
"Bye!" they chorused and Tonks, Moody and Kingsley stepped back onto the platform.
Mrs. Weasley engulfed them all into a huge hug. Even Melanie, who she didn't know.
"Good-bye, have a nice year." She cried, also stepping out of the train. Mr. Weasley said a small goodbye and went after his wife.
"Bye, you all, I expect you'll be good at school now." Said George looking down at them.
"You'll have a good year now," said Fred sternly.
"With detentions…"
"And T's…"
"And pranks…."
"And Filch…"
"Ahhhh…I already feel like jumping on the train and coming with you." Said George dramatically.
Ginny looked at him. "You're already on the train, George."
George sighed. "yes, but it makes more of an impression if you jump on first." He answered, smiling innocently at her.
Ron rolled his eyes. "So you would go back on the platform, and at the last minute you'd jump back on?"
"Exactly!" the twins cried together.
"Okay," the whistle blew, "Well, you better get off, otherwise you won't be able to jump back on!" said Ginny, pushing Fred and George off the train.
"Good-bye, Fred and George! Good luck with the shop!" Harry called after them.
Remus was still standing there. "Well, I better go too, goodbye, have a nice year, and behave yourselves!" he added as he stepped off the train, looking at their innocently smiling faces.
The train started moving and they waved. They waved until the others on the platform was out of sight.
"Hey! Fred and George didn't jump on!" cried Alex, laughing.
"Ah, they'll just have to fly a car over to Hogwarts." Said Ginny, her eyes twinkling.
Harry and Ron burst out laughing and Hermione and Melanie smiled.
Alex frowned. "Am I missing something?" he asked.
Melanie looked at him.
"In our second year Harry and Ron here flew a car to Hogwarts, and they landed in the Whomping Willow. Everybody was talking about it for weeks." She explained.
"Yeah, well, the gateway was sealed!" protested Ron.
"And the car was just standing there, asking us to drive it." Added Harry.
"And we weren't exactly planning to drive it into that crazy tree, we were picturing ourselves landing gracefully on the grass in front of the school." Said Ron defiantly.
"Yes, but that isn't how it worked out, is it!" said Hermione. "We better find a compartment." She added.
They all set off to find a compartment, they found one with only Neville and Luna in it.
"Hello, Neville, Luna!" said Ginny, closing the door behind her.
"Mind if we sit here?" asked Ron, sitting down.
"Well, we obviously have no choice." Replied Neville, smiling. Luna laughed.
They all started describing their summers, and they got to know Melanie better, who they didn't know so well.
"So where are you from?" asked Hermione.
"Well, I'm originally from America, but then we moved here when I was 10." Replied Melanie.
"Ahh, that's why you have the accent." Said Harry.
"Yes, and my parents are a witch and a Muggle." She said. "I have one sister, Jen. She's 19 years old, she's already graduated at Hogwarts."
"So what does she do now?" asked Ginny.
"She had a shop in Paris. That's where she lives now."
"Cool." Said Neville.
"So describe yourself for us." Said Luna, her eyes staring at Melanie.
"Well, okay, I'm American, my favorite color is green (Mine too! Exclaimed Ginny), I love Quidditch, but I don't play it, I love reading and watching movies (they're played on televisions, those screen things in Muggles's living rooms, explained Hermione to the purebloods in the group), I do dancing in the summers, my best subject is Transfiguration, and I don't really have a best friends, just friends in Ravenclaw." She said.
"Well, we're your friends now." Said Ginny.
"I'm in Ravenclaw." Said Luna to Melanie. "But I'm a 6th year now."
"Oh, well, I'm a 7th year this year, but I can still sit with you at the Ravenclaw table." Said Melanie excitedly.
"yes, that would be nice." Said Luna, smiling.
Well, it looks like I will be updating every day again, hahaha mom!
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