Chapter Ten
Ron and Hermione
(The Hogwarts Express is on it's way to Hogwarts. Coming around a corner, steam billowing from it. We see Harry, sitting in a compartment, looking out the window. The frolicking dirt child is at the door.)
Ron:
Excuse me. Do you mind? Everywhere else is full.
(Harry is still looking out the window.)
Harry:
Uh-huh...
(Ron is very happy and sits down across from Harry.)
Ron:
I'm Ron, by the way. Ron Weasley.
Harry:
I'm Harry. Harry Potter.
(Ron stares at him like he is growing another head.)
Ron:
So it's true?
Harry:
That I'm Harry Potter, a walking, living, breathing mortal? Yes.
(Ron looks a little embarrassed, but how can you tell? There is so much dirt on his face that you can barely see him turn red.)
Ron:
Do you really have the...
(He starts pointing at his head like he's going to put his eye out. Harry stares at him blankly.)
Harry:
Yes, I have a head.
Ron:
I mean...
(looks around as if someone is listening)
the...scar...scar...scar...
(Harry is still trying to get understand why people here echo themselves.)
Harry:
Oh yeah!
(He lifts up all of the hair on his forehead only to show that the scar is way way on the right side.)
Ron:
Wicked.
(Harry laughs. He thinks that he and Ron could be good friends. Just at that moment a lady with a trolley and many, many goodies on the trolley appears.)
Trolley Lady:
Anything off the trolley, dears?
Ron:
No thanks. I'm set.
(He holds up a plastic baggie with about 5 sandwiches crammed into it and fakes a smile. He looks very disappointed.)
Harry:
We'll take the lot.
(He reaches in his pocket and pulls out about 7 coins.)
Ron:
Whoa.
(Harry and Ron are sitting next to each other now, both of them surrounded by candies and candy wrappers. Somehow, Ron magically got the dirt of his face, none left...hmmm.
Harry:
Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Bean?
(Harry picks up a bean and begins to eat it...chew chew chew...)
Ron:
The MEAN every flavor. Let's see, there's plastic, dog food, metal, and sand. Also...
Harry:
Ok, that's good.
(Harry takes the one he was chewing out of his mouth and throws it away.)
Harry:
These aren't real chocolate frogs, are they?
(He picks up a pentagon box that says: Chocolate Frogs on it.)
Ron:
It's just a spell. Besides it's the cards you want!
(He looks like he's reciting something from memory.)
Ron:
Each pack's got a famous witch or wizard. I've got about 500 meself.
(Harry opens the box and a frog covered in chocolate pops out. It jumps on the chair next to him, jumps all around. Finally, a girl walks in the room, looks around, and sighs and walks away. Five seconds later she comes back and sees the frog jumping all around, not performing it's spell.
Girl:
I'm looking for a toad...
(watches the frog)
...a boy named Neville's lost one...
(The frog won't stop hopping around and it is very distracting. Finally the frog jumps up. but he never comes back down...)
Girl:
Pity. Too bad that's a dud spell. I know a lot of spells.
Ron:
Uh-huh...and what year are you in?
Girl:
I'm a first year. Isn't this exciting? I can't believe I'm finally going to go to Hogwarts. I've read much about it, in "Hogwarts: A History."
Ron:
So you really think you're good, eh? Well, let's see something.
(The girl walks over to sit next to Harry who is sitting like he is a pretty lady.)
Girl:
If you must.
(She points her wand at Harry's head.)
Girl:
Oculus Reparo.
(The tape on his glasses macigally disappear. He takes off his glasses and stares at them. He looks at Ron and Ron gives him a look.)
Girl:
(gasp)
You're Harry Potter!
(How she would have known it was him without his glasses on is a mystery to me.)
Girl:
I'm the Mighty Ranger and you are?
(The Mighty Ranger looks at Ron. He has a mouthful of food.)
Ron:
Um...Ron Weasley.
(The Mighty Ranger gives him a strange look.)
Ron:
What's your real name?
The Mighty Ranger:
(sighs and mumbles)
Hermione...
Ron:
Uh-huh!
Hermione:
Pleasure to meet you both. You two better change into your robes. I expect we'll be arriving soon.
(She gets up a leaves, she almost gone when she stops herself and turns around.)
Hermione:
You've got dirt on your nose, did you know? Just there.
(Ron rubs his nose, but the dirt is already gone. It was there earlier, it would have helped earlier, the Mighty Ranger. She rubs her nose and showing where, turns and flips he hair and walks away.)
A/N: Chapter Ten: Ron and Hermione is done. Is it just me or is there a little spark between them? Hmm...anyway...Chapter Eleven: Welcome to Hogwarts coming soon!!!!