Harry Potter
Wishes Can Come True
Chapter 2
The Hogwarts Express
By: Sirius **Padfoot
July 2, 2003
It's now the end of summer and Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Ginny are all getting ready for the trip to Kings Crossing.
"Hey Harry what made you decide to go this year? Quidditch?" Ron asked as he packed away his Nimbus two thousand and watched Harry pack away both of his Firebolts. One was Sirius' gift to him and the other was Fred and Gorges' gift to him.
"Marie. She wrote me and told me she had to give some thing to me and explain about it on the train. Cause with Voldemort out there she couldn't. I guess that's why she couldn't." Harry said then looked at Ron. "Quidditch too you know." He said and smiled
"Well Marie is being a little strange isn't she. Well I guess we'll meet her on the train lets hurry." Ron said and smiled back at Harry.
"Yeah." Harry said and closed his trunk then sat on his bed and watched Ron fight with the rest of his stuff.
Almost two hours later they had finally reached Kings Crossing and were now on platform 9 3/4.
"I wonder who the next DADA teacher is? And how Professor Lupin is doing he didn't seem too good when I was escorted out of the Department of Mysteries." Harry wondered out loud.
"Harry keep it down. No one knows who is in the Order." Hermione hissed.
"OH leave him alone Hermione." Ron said looking between her and Harry.
"Guy's always stick up for each other." Ginny said sarcastically.
"And like you girls don't, yeah right. For crying out loud you go to the bathroom in packs it's like bloody murder to get one alone." Ron said then saw Harry sort of flinch at the word murder. "Sorry Harry didn't mean it in a bad way. Just a joke." Ron said in an apologetic tone.
"There is nothing about it that can be a joke Ron." Harry said.
"Sorry Harry." Ron said and looked down at his feet as he walked.
"It's OK!" Harry said sadly and walked a little bit ahead of the others.
"Harry. Hey Harry wait up!" a girl yelled as she ran threw the crowd after him.
"Who's, there you are Marie." Harry said turning around to see a sixth year Gryffindor running up to him she has shoulder length brown hair and beautiful blue eyes. "So what's this surprise for me?" Harry asked looking down at something wrapped up in her hand.
"On the train Harry. Wait till then, then I'll explain." Marie said kind of rushed then slid what ever was wrapped into her pocket.
"Marie, Marie wait up I don't know what I'm doing." A younger girl said running up to Marie.
"Melanie you were walking. Now go find your friends or something." Marie said and frowned slightly.
"Oh but sis." Melanie whined.
"Here make a new friend talk to Ginny Weasley." Marie said pushing her little sister away.
"Little sister huh. Didn't know you had one. Annoying aren't they." Ron said nodding to Ginny.
"I heard that Ronald Weasley." Ginny said angrily.
"I agree with you Ron. That one follows me every where." Marie said pointing to the young girl with brown hair and brown eyes talking to Ginny.
"That one do you mean you have more?" Harry asked.
"No just the one. Thank gosh. I wouldn't be able to stand two of them. She's a first year." Marie said.
"Be nice sis or I'll tell mum what you brought with you for that Potter boy you talk about." Melanie said.
"You wouldn't dare. I'll hex you I swear I will if you tell." Marie said turning an awful shade of red.
"You better be nice to me. Mum can do worse to you." Melanie said.
"You're at Hogwarts now there's nothing mum can do until summer. So watch it you little…" Marie said but cut off when she saw Lucas Malfoy.
"Well hello Marie Willis seems that you've made some bad friends and you're dragging your sister with you." Lucas Malfoy said while Draco sniggered.
"Well no actually I'm not friends with any Slytherin trash at Hogwarts Malfoy. There has always been nothing but trash there from beginning to now." Marie said angering Lucas.
"I'll be telling your parents of your rudeness Marie." Lucas said.
"Go right ahead they don't like you or your no good son anyway so go right ahead. Heck I'll tell them my self." Marie said then glared at Lucas.
"See father I told you she's turned into one of them." Draco said.
"Harry do you hear something?" Marie asked looking over at Harry then winked at him.
"No do you Ron." Harry asked trying not to smile or burst into laughter.
"I don't hear any thing. Let's get our seats on the train." Ron said and got on the train followed by the others.
"Marie you know that you're going to get in a lot of trouble when he tells Mum." Melanie said.
"Melanie I don't care I'm not marrying that dweeb Draco Malfoy I absolutely refuse to. And Mum agrees with me but she can't really stand up to a death eater now can she. Now go play with your friends and leave me alone." Marie said.
"I'm telling mum." Melanie said.
"Go right ahead. Now go some where else before I make you leave." Marie said and pulled out her wand out of her light jacket as her prof that she'd do it.
"Fine." Melanie said and turned to walk back the way they had came.
"Hey you've got an idea. Go with her Ginny." Ron said.
"All right I like her more then you anyway." Ginny said and Ron turned a nice shade of red as Ginny walked away.
"Ron you left your self wide open for that. You can't leave yourself open for comebacks like that." Marie said laughing at the color of Ron's cheeks. "Here we go this one is empty." She said and slid a door back then walked in. she sat down next to window and placed her stuff up on the rack. Ron, Hermione, and Harry did the same.
"All right we're on the train Marie." Harry said turning to her and sat down on the other side of the compartment next to the window.
"Well all right look at this." Marie said and took the wrapped thing out of her pocked then unwrapped it. It was a small statue of a dragon with seven orange balls around its feet. "It's call the Eternal Dragon. They say you can make a wish on this and it will come true. But it can't kill that's the only thing it can't do according to legend. Mum said it could bring up to five people back at one time if the wish is made properly. I thought maybe you could use it. But it only works in a magical place. I guess the train will count but mum said the best place for it to work would be Hogwarts. Mum'll kill me if she finds out I took it with out asking." Marie explained and smiled at Harry.
"Oy Harry you can get your family back." Ron said transfixed by the little statue.
"Impossible. You can't bring people back to life." Hermione said.
"Impossible for a wizard or a witch but not for a dragon. They are the most powerful creatures alive. But none are tame enough to be taught how to use their powers." Marie said and smiled at Harry after glaring at Hermione for a moment.
"I think you've spent too much time with Luna Lovegood." Hermione said in a matter of fact tone.
"Look I don't care if you believe it or not so shut up will you. You shot every thing down that can't be proved by a stupid book." Marie said.
"She has a point Hermione you do, do that." Ron said shrugging at her.
"I believe it when I see it." Hermione said then looked at Harry.
"Why hello Harry, Ron, Hermione, I'm afraid I don't know your name miss." A man said sliding the door back and standing there. He had light brown hair with some gray in it. He has tired worn out amber eyes.
"Professor Lupin I've been worried about you." Harry said standing up and walking over to him.
"Marie Willis Professor." Marie said wrapping the little statue of a dragon and placing it back in her pocked.
"Well hello Marie." Professor Lupin said and smiled at her. "Well Harry can I join you and your friends." Lupin asked.
"Of course Professor." Harry said and walked back to Ron and Ron scooted over so Professor Lupin could sit by the window. Harry sat down where Ron was and then Lupin sat down beside Harry.
"Harry I'm sorry I didn't stay in contact with you but it was hard." Lupin said looking sadly at Harry as the train started moving.
"It's OK! Professor I understand, I didn't try to keep in contact either. Though I'm glad Marie wrote me when she did or she would have missed me." Harry said.
"What do you mean Harry?" Lupin asked.
"I…I…I was on my way out of the Dursleys house to go find Voldemort." Harry said then looked down at the floor of the compartment ashamed of himself.
"Oh Harry I was afraid you'd want to do that. But Sirius wouldn't of like to see you so soon. He wanted you to live for a long time." Lupin said with hurt in is voice. "The big idiot he just had to make her mad. He never changed from school to Azkaban then a criminal on the run and he never changed." Lupin said sadly then looked out the window to the passing scenery. "I guess I owe you a thank you Marie." Lupin said then looked at her and smiled and she could see all the hurt and pain in his eyes.
"For what?" Marie asked filling sorry for the Professor.
"For making Harry stay at home and not go looking for Voldemort." Lupin said.
"I didn't know he was going to do that until just now. But he seemed as hurt and pain filled last year as you do now." Marie said in a sympathetic tone. "Sorry Professor but I thought you resigned three years ago due to your status." Marie said.
"Oh you remember that do you. Well yes I did resign but the Minister appointed me to be the DADA teacher this year since no one else will take the job afraid of Voldemort I guess." Lupin said.
"Plus the job is cursed." Ron added.
"Well the job and I should get along quite fine then shouldn't we." Lupin said and smiled.
"I was wondering when they'd bring you back Professor. You were the best DADA Teacher we've ever had. We learnt the most from you." Marie said.
"Wonder why dumb werewolf. He's a dark creature him self." Draco said as he opened the door the their compartment flanked but Crabb and Goyal as usual.
"Back off Malfoy. You're dad should be able to give a lot of insight on the dark arts being a no good death eater." Marie said standing up and taking out her wand and pointing it at Malfoy. "Now get out." She said angrily.
"You wouldn't want to lose points for Slytherin before you even get to the school now would you. Do as the lady said." Lupin said and stared at Malfoy a second before the door shut and he saw their shadows walk down the hall.
"Sorry about him Professor he's just a no good Slytherin punk just like his dad." Marie said sitting back down and putting her wand in her lap keeping a hand on it.
"You act like an Auror." Lupin said and smiled. "And like Sirius would have sort of. He would have tried to beat the pulp out of that boy." Lupin said and smiled.
"Well I want to be an Auror and I hate people who judge other with out getting to know them. The whole lot of the Malfoy's has been the same way. Judge first then torture." Marie said then smiled at Lupin.
"You sound so much like a girl I used to know. Who is your mother." Lupin asked.
"Anna Marie Kings was her maiden name now her name is Willis of course." Marie said.
"Gryffindor got out of Hogwarts in 1978. Same time I did. I thought you sounded awful familiar when you spoke. You sound the same as your mother did then. How is she." Lupin asked.
"Oh she's fine. She's widowed though. Dad died a couple of years ago some kind of heart disease. Mum talks about you very highly except when she talks about the Marauders and there torturing of Slytherin's course she thought it was hilarious at the time. And still thinks most of it is. Like when you guy's turned the in tire Slytherin's house's student's hair the Gryffindor colors cause that's who played that day Slytherin vs. Gryffindor." Marie said ands smiled at Lupin.
"I wonder how come I don't remember you in my classes." Lupin said.
"Oh don't worry you're not going nuts no one remembers me from third year back I was very quiet." Marie said and smiled.
"Then you met up with the Weasley boys and Harry here." Lupin said and smiled back at her.
"Well mainly Fred and George Weasley. I'm the one that gave them some of their ideas course some of the ideas had been done in the Marauders time at Hogwarts. The teachers didn't like it too well said it reminded them of the three most troublesome students ever to attend Hogwarts. James Potter, Remus Lupin and Sirius Black, course we liked be compared to you three. That just made us worst redoing some of your little pranks." Marie said happily.
"Little I really can't think of one that was little." Lupin said and smiled.
"Figure of speech Professor." Marie said.
"Oh of course." And the two just started laughing. "I'll have to give you detailed pranks we did that ought to get old Snape and McGonagall. Just don't do them around me." Lupin said and laughed slightly then looked over to Hermione who was giving him a very sever look. "Oh come now you look like Molly. What did I do?" Lupin asked.
"Oh honastly." Hermione said standing up and walking out of the compartment.
"You know she did look like me mum." Ron said and the whole compartment burst into laughter when Ron shuttered at the thought.
"Well at least you know what your mum was like during school." Lupin said and smiled at Ron.
"Yeah it's scary." Harry said. "I hope she doesn't start acting like your mother Ron. I don't think I can stand getting hugged by two Mrs. Weasley's. No offense though." Harry said and looked over to Ron.
"None taken I don't think I can take getting yelled at by two of 'em." Ron said.
"She'll be back in a few minutes I think you should get changed into your robes. We'll be at Hogsmeade station in about five minutes." Lupin said and smiled at the three remaining students. "You four can ride up to the castle with me if you wish. If not I'll be on my own." Lupin said.
"Yeah sure we'll ride with you and you can tell us some of the things you did at the beginning of term feast." Marie said and smiled.
"Defiantly. Be nice to know all the things my dad did." Harry said.
"Yeah." Ron chimed in.
"Good when the train stops stay close to me and well be up at the castle before you know it." Lupin said as Harry, Ron, and Marie put on their robs on over their cloths. Hermione came in two minutes later and changed into her robes.
"We're going up to the castle with Professor Lupin. You coming with us?" Harry asked Hermione.
"Of course." Hermione said and smiled at them.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Authors Note: Hey hope you liked the second chapter. They are at Hogwarts but when will they use the statue? Tell me what you think of this so far by leaving a review please.
THANKS,
Sirius **Padfoot