Chapter 2: The Hogwarts Express
"Have any of you seen a toad? A boy named Neville's lost one." 11-year-old Harry Potter looked at his newly found friend, Ron Weasley. Both boys had received letters from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and were on the Hogwarts Express, on their way to the school. Ron shook his head of red hair. "No." The girl noticed that he held a wand he held in his hand, and put her hands on her hips. "Oh!" she said. "Are you doing magic?" she joined the two boys on the bench. "Let's see it then!" Ron looked at her, amazed before raising his wand at his pet rat on his lap, Scabbers.
"Sunshine, daisy, butter mellow...turn this stupid fat rat yellow!" he chanted, but only a few weak sparks came out of the wand. The girl scoffed.
"Are you sure that's a real spell?" she asked, cocking an eyebrow. Ron blinked. "Well it isn't a very good one, is it? I have practiced a few spells at home over the summer just for practice...and they've all worked for me. I'm Hermione Granger, by the way..Who are you?"
Hermione Granger spoke so fast that Ron and Harry looked at each other with amazement.
"Ron Weasley."
"Harry Potter..."
Hermione gasped. "Are you really? I've read all about you, of course! You're in quite a few books...Famous Wizards and Witches of the 20th century..." before she could say another word, a flash of light filled their train car.
Thud, Thud
PING
Three very strange-looking girls appeared. Two were lying on their backs and the third stood on one foot. Hermione, Ron and Harry stared as the girls on the floor groaned, struggling to sit up. "Ugh...nice going, Kay." the girl dressed in blue jean shorts and a BRIGHT pink tank top and tan sandals muttered, holding a hand to her head. Kay, the girl beside her, wore a pair of worn blue jeans, a plain white t-shirt and black hiking boots. The third girl wore a pair of black denim shorts and a tight black t- shirt. "I'm still working on it, Erin, chill out!" Kay snapped. "Lex...are you okay?" she looked up and saw Harry, Ron and Hermione staring at her. "Whoa!" Kay hopped up to her feet. Kay looked the young wizards and witch up and down, while glancing back at her own two friends. Ron grabbed his wand and aimed it at Kay's chest, shouting "I'll bust you open if you don't explain yourselves RIGHT NOW."
Kay snorted, cocking an eyebrow. She aimed her pointer finger at Ron's wand and ZAP changed it into a rather large pixie stick. "Oh yeah?" she asked, taking it from him. She opened the tip and poured a bit of the sugar into her mouth. When she swallowed, she continued "How are you going to do that?"
Ron blinked in confusion. Hermione gasped. "Wow! How did you do that without using a spell? That's incredible!"
Kay snorted. "Honey...I'm a mage. I'm more--poweeeerrrrrrfu-ul than you--oo- oo." she sang.
BOINK The girl named Erin whacked Kay over the head with what looked like another wand.
"Ow!" Kay cried. "Damn Baka!" she aimed a finger at Erin and ZAP
In Erin's place now stood a pink walrus with loud make-up on and half a donkey with bright blue hooves. The wand fell into Kay's hand and she stepped back to admire her handiwork. "Mmm. Not bad, love. I think it's nice!" she smirked. Walrus-donkey-Erin "growled". Kay giggled. ZAP and once again Erin stood in their midst. Erin let out a shocking "ARGH!" before diving onto the psi-mage, knocking them both to the ground. Immediately an all out fist and foot fight broke out.
"Stop, stop!" Hermione begged, ducking as a beam of random light shot from Kay's finger. Lexine pulled both girls apart.
"Knock it off, you two!" the wild mage ordered.
Kay glared at Erin. "DON'T mess with me, Erin."
Erin and Kay were a mess--Erin's hair stuck out at odd angles around her head and she had a bruise forming over one eye. Kay's nose was bleeding but other than that, she had escaped with only a knee in the stomach and a small scratch on her right arm.
"Um..." Harry looked at her curiously. "Who are you?"
Kay blinked before her forehead crinkled in deep concentration. "I'm just kidding," she said after a moment of pretending she didn't know who she was. "I'm Kay, that's Lexine and that is Erin." she accepted a tissue from Hermione who said "Your nose is bleeding, KAY. And I am Hermione-- Hermione Granger. This is Harry Potter and Ron Weasley."
Ron looked at Kay fearfully. "Um...can I have my wand back, please?" he asked.
Kay looked at the half-empty pixie stick at her feet. "Oops. Yeah." she pointed a finger at it and ZAP she handed Ron the wand. "Soooooo! Mind if we hang out in here for a while?"
Hermione shook her head. "I have to go back to my own car soon anyhow." she looked at Ron and Harry as the three strangers took their seats. "So--" Ron began, twiddling his thumbs. "Did you guys miss the train?"
Kay shook her head. "Uh uh. We just ZAPPED ourselves here for fun." Lexine opened the window of their car and grinned at Erin and Kay.
"Hey guys!" she called and leaned her head against the windowsill, letting the wind catch her hair. Kay clapped her hands. "Ahhh!" she said and hurried to join Lex. "Boosh! Boosh! Boosh!" Hermione raised an eyebrow.
"WELL. I need to get back to my car...I suppose I'll see you later, then." she left the car leaving Kay, Lexine and Erin alone with the boys.
"You really aren't Hogwarts students are you?" asked Ron.
Kay rolled her eyes. "Good call, genius." she cleared her throat and leaned back against the window. Harry frowned.
"But--"
"I'm a mage, hon. It's what I do."
Lexine nudged Kay's arm. "Excuse me, but it's what WE do. I'm a mage too, remember?"
"Not like me!" Kay snapped. "You have all of these crazy powers and such that..."
"Guys!" Erin warned as Ron shook his head.
"So, what are you going to do then? You won't be allowed inside the school unless you got a letter saying you were."
Lexine lifted her head up at that point, her hair a mess from the wind. "Whooooo!" she cried, blinking. Erin burst out laughing, ignoring her injured eye for the present. "You look ridiculous, Lex-chan."
Lexine grinned. "So?"
Kay shook her head at her two friends. POKE
"Eeep!" Lexine jumped and glared at the sniggering psi-mage. Kay turned back to Ron.
"Well, until I get some more chalk dust and more energy, we're stuck here." she shrugged. "Guess we'll make the best of it." an evil grin spread across her face. Lex and Erin scooted away, fearful of what the psi-mage was planning.
"Kay? What are you thinking?" Erin asked apprehensively. Kay shook her head, her expression returning to ALMOST normal.
"Nothin'...just thinkin' of how much fun I'm gonna have with all the wizards and witches and wanna-be's around." she burst into giggles. Lex shook her head.
"What does she mean?" asked Harry. Lexine turned to him with a dark expression on her face.
"I'm not exactly sure, but be afraid...be VERY afraid." she said with possessed look.
The group sat talking for a while afterwards, until they heard a knock on the door to their car. Suddenly, three figures entered. The one boy, blonde and pale with a long face, folded his arms. "I heard that Harry Potter was in this car," he announced in a drawling type of voice. Kay cocked an eyebrow at him.
"Reeeeeaaaaalllly. Who told you that? There's nobody in here but us chickens!" she made a clucking sound. Ron sniggered at Kay's comment. The pale boy ignored her and turned to Harry.
"It's you, isn't it?"
Harry nodded slowly.
"I see. I'm Malfoy--Draco Malfoy. And these two goons are Crabbe and Goyle."
Kay let out a "Pft."
"Do you think our names are FUNNY?" Malfoy asked, his pale face turning suddenly a marvelous shade of pink. Kay shook her head.
"No...I don't think they're funny," she replied. "I think they're hilarious."
Malfoy folded his arms and looked at her angrily. "I don't remember asking you for your opinion."
Kay looked at Lexine with another snigger. "I don't care whether you ask or not, plastic hair. I state MY opinions when I feel like it." she stood up, grinning at the shocked looks on the faces of Crabbe and Goyle's faces as she was much taller than they were. Ron, meanwhile, was turning blue with surpressed laughter.
"Scared of me, eh?" Kay asked, patting Malfoy on the head. "You have plastic hair!" she began to do a little dance and sang "Plastic hair, plastic hair, plastic hair..." POKE she poked each of them in the side before waving "Bye bye!" The bullies then left the car and it was at that point that Ron burst out laughing. "That was bloody brilliant!" he said.
Kay bowed. "I am a God. Worship me!" she put an arm around each of the boys' shoulders and sighed calmly. "Stick with me boys..I know how to deal with pond scum like that."
Harry and Ron gave each other frightened looks, not knowing what to expect.
"Have any of you seen a toad? A boy named Neville's lost one." 11-year-old Harry Potter looked at his newly found friend, Ron Weasley. Both boys had received letters from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and were on the Hogwarts Express, on their way to the school. Ron shook his head of red hair. "No." The girl noticed that he held a wand he held in his hand, and put her hands on her hips. "Oh!" she said. "Are you doing magic?" she joined the two boys on the bench. "Let's see it then!" Ron looked at her, amazed before raising his wand at his pet rat on his lap, Scabbers.
"Sunshine, daisy, butter mellow...turn this stupid fat rat yellow!" he chanted, but only a few weak sparks came out of the wand. The girl scoffed.
"Are you sure that's a real spell?" she asked, cocking an eyebrow. Ron blinked. "Well it isn't a very good one, is it? I have practiced a few spells at home over the summer just for practice...and they've all worked for me. I'm Hermione Granger, by the way..Who are you?"
Hermione Granger spoke so fast that Ron and Harry looked at each other with amazement.
"Ron Weasley."
"Harry Potter..."
Hermione gasped. "Are you really? I've read all about you, of course! You're in quite a few books...Famous Wizards and Witches of the 20th century..." before she could say another word, a flash of light filled their train car.
Thud, Thud
PING
Three very strange-looking girls appeared. Two were lying on their backs and the third stood on one foot. Hermione, Ron and Harry stared as the girls on the floor groaned, struggling to sit up. "Ugh...nice going, Kay." the girl dressed in blue jean shorts and a BRIGHT pink tank top and tan sandals muttered, holding a hand to her head. Kay, the girl beside her, wore a pair of worn blue jeans, a plain white t-shirt and black hiking boots. The third girl wore a pair of black denim shorts and a tight black t- shirt. "I'm still working on it, Erin, chill out!" Kay snapped. "Lex...are you okay?" she looked up and saw Harry, Ron and Hermione staring at her. "Whoa!" Kay hopped up to her feet. Kay looked the young wizards and witch up and down, while glancing back at her own two friends. Ron grabbed his wand and aimed it at Kay's chest, shouting "I'll bust you open if you don't explain yourselves RIGHT NOW."
Kay snorted, cocking an eyebrow. She aimed her pointer finger at Ron's wand and ZAP changed it into a rather large pixie stick. "Oh yeah?" she asked, taking it from him. She opened the tip and poured a bit of the sugar into her mouth. When she swallowed, she continued "How are you going to do that?"
Ron blinked in confusion. Hermione gasped. "Wow! How did you do that without using a spell? That's incredible!"
Kay snorted. "Honey...I'm a mage. I'm more--poweeeerrrrrrfu-ul than you--oo- oo." she sang.
BOINK The girl named Erin whacked Kay over the head with what looked like another wand.
"Ow!" Kay cried. "Damn Baka!" she aimed a finger at Erin and ZAP
In Erin's place now stood a pink walrus with loud make-up on and half a donkey with bright blue hooves. The wand fell into Kay's hand and she stepped back to admire her handiwork. "Mmm. Not bad, love. I think it's nice!" she smirked. Walrus-donkey-Erin "growled". Kay giggled. ZAP and once again Erin stood in their midst. Erin let out a shocking "ARGH!" before diving onto the psi-mage, knocking them both to the ground. Immediately an all out fist and foot fight broke out.
"Stop, stop!" Hermione begged, ducking as a beam of random light shot from Kay's finger. Lexine pulled both girls apart.
"Knock it off, you two!" the wild mage ordered.
Kay glared at Erin. "DON'T mess with me, Erin."
Erin and Kay were a mess--Erin's hair stuck out at odd angles around her head and she had a bruise forming over one eye. Kay's nose was bleeding but other than that, she had escaped with only a knee in the stomach and a small scratch on her right arm.
"Um..." Harry looked at her curiously. "Who are you?"
Kay blinked before her forehead crinkled in deep concentration. "I'm just kidding," she said after a moment of pretending she didn't know who she was. "I'm Kay, that's Lexine and that is Erin." she accepted a tissue from Hermione who said "Your nose is bleeding, KAY. And I am Hermione-- Hermione Granger. This is Harry Potter and Ron Weasley."
Ron looked at Kay fearfully. "Um...can I have my wand back, please?" he asked.
Kay looked at the half-empty pixie stick at her feet. "Oops. Yeah." she pointed a finger at it and ZAP she handed Ron the wand. "Soooooo! Mind if we hang out in here for a while?"
Hermione shook her head. "I have to go back to my own car soon anyhow." she looked at Ron and Harry as the three strangers took their seats. "So--" Ron began, twiddling his thumbs. "Did you guys miss the train?"
Kay shook her head. "Uh uh. We just ZAPPED ourselves here for fun." Lexine opened the window of their car and grinned at Erin and Kay.
"Hey guys!" she called and leaned her head against the windowsill, letting the wind catch her hair. Kay clapped her hands. "Ahhh!" she said and hurried to join Lex. "Boosh! Boosh! Boosh!" Hermione raised an eyebrow.
"WELL. I need to get back to my car...I suppose I'll see you later, then." she left the car leaving Kay, Lexine and Erin alone with the boys.
"You really aren't Hogwarts students are you?" asked Ron.
Kay rolled her eyes. "Good call, genius." she cleared her throat and leaned back against the window. Harry frowned.
"But--"
"I'm a mage, hon. It's what I do."
Lexine nudged Kay's arm. "Excuse me, but it's what WE do. I'm a mage too, remember?"
"Not like me!" Kay snapped. "You have all of these crazy powers and such that..."
"Guys!" Erin warned as Ron shook his head.
"So, what are you going to do then? You won't be allowed inside the school unless you got a letter saying you were."
Lexine lifted her head up at that point, her hair a mess from the wind. "Whooooo!" she cried, blinking. Erin burst out laughing, ignoring her injured eye for the present. "You look ridiculous, Lex-chan."
Lexine grinned. "So?"
Kay shook her head at her two friends. POKE
"Eeep!" Lexine jumped and glared at the sniggering psi-mage. Kay turned back to Ron.
"Well, until I get some more chalk dust and more energy, we're stuck here." she shrugged. "Guess we'll make the best of it." an evil grin spread across her face. Lex and Erin scooted away, fearful of what the psi-mage was planning.
"Kay? What are you thinking?" Erin asked apprehensively. Kay shook her head, her expression returning to ALMOST normal.
"Nothin'...just thinkin' of how much fun I'm gonna have with all the wizards and witches and wanna-be's around." she burst into giggles. Lex shook her head.
"What does she mean?" asked Harry. Lexine turned to him with a dark expression on her face.
"I'm not exactly sure, but be afraid...be VERY afraid." she said with possessed look.
The group sat talking for a while afterwards, until they heard a knock on the door to their car. Suddenly, three figures entered. The one boy, blonde and pale with a long face, folded his arms. "I heard that Harry Potter was in this car," he announced in a drawling type of voice. Kay cocked an eyebrow at him.
"Reeeeeaaaaalllly. Who told you that? There's nobody in here but us chickens!" she made a clucking sound. Ron sniggered at Kay's comment. The pale boy ignored her and turned to Harry.
"It's you, isn't it?"
Harry nodded slowly.
"I see. I'm Malfoy--Draco Malfoy. And these two goons are Crabbe and Goyle."
Kay let out a "Pft."
"Do you think our names are FUNNY?" Malfoy asked, his pale face turning suddenly a marvelous shade of pink. Kay shook her head.
"No...I don't think they're funny," she replied. "I think they're hilarious."
Malfoy folded his arms and looked at her angrily. "I don't remember asking you for your opinion."
Kay looked at Lexine with another snigger. "I don't care whether you ask or not, plastic hair. I state MY opinions when I feel like it." she stood up, grinning at the shocked looks on the faces of Crabbe and Goyle's faces as she was much taller than they were. Ron, meanwhile, was turning blue with surpressed laughter.
"Scared of me, eh?" Kay asked, patting Malfoy on the head. "You have plastic hair!" she began to do a little dance and sang "Plastic hair, plastic hair, plastic hair..." POKE she poked each of them in the side before waving "Bye bye!" The bullies then left the car and it was at that point that Ron burst out laughing. "That was bloody brilliant!" he said.
Kay bowed. "I am a God. Worship me!" she put an arm around each of the boys' shoulders and sighed calmly. "Stick with me boys..I know how to deal with pond scum like that."
Harry and Ron gave each other frightened looks, not knowing what to expect.