Chapter two: platform 9 3/4

"So shall we make our way to the platform?" Erinne said as she picked up her bags.

"Sure, let's find some trolleys." Chris said. They headed toward the quick moving crowd of business people, and mothers trying to get their crying children on the train in time before the train left. Erinne told Chris she was going to find someone who knew were the platform was. As Erinne went of into the large crowed Chris noticed a man in a raggedy robe and cap standing in the middle of the fast moving crowed. Chris couldn't help but stare at the man, his robe bared a crest with a centaur embroidered into it. The man's cap hid his eyes and made him look very mysterious. Chris noticed that the whole crowed had come to a complete stop and there was no noise but Chris' fast beating heart pounding against his chest. The silence broke with the man's cold dark voice.

"The door has been opened, prepare for their return." The man's voice echoed through Chris' body. He felt like he should ask who, and what door but something wouldn't let him talk. He couldn't move either it was like something was holding him in place, then his name was being whispered into his ear and when he blinked the crowed was moving again and Erinne was snapping her fingers at him .

"Oh, what?" Chris said trying to focus.

"Ok, weird...well that damn man was no help. He said I was the tenth hooligan who asked him about the platform" Erinne said angrily.

"So, now what are we going to do?" Chris said with a look of confusion

"I don't know we should try to find Lauren, Mackenzie, and Kyle." Erinne said with a look of grief. They thought it would be almost impossible to find them because there were so many people. All Chris could think about was the fact that they might miss the train.

"Erinne, Chris!" yelled a familiar voice "over here!" They headed over to the voice and found Lauren and Kyle standing in front of platform ten. Lauren was a girl with sapphire blue eyes, and dark blond hair her fair complexion made her almost look like a veela. Kyle was a skinny kid with dark brown hair, and light brown eyes, he looked as if he had gotten every once of fat sucked out of him. Nothing but skin and bone. Both Erinne and Chris walked over to them and asked were Mackenzie was. Mackenzie was Irish like Chris and had shoulder length red curly hair, she to had a deep sapphire blue color to her eyes like Lauren.

"She's on the train keeping a compartment open for us, and I don't think it will take long before someone will want to take our seats. So go on." Kyle said quickly.

"Ok, then where is platform nine and three quarters?" Chris said eagerly

"Through that wall between platforms nine and ten." Lauren said while edging toward a wall made of brick.

"Us...through that...but how?" Erinne said loudly "I mean come on...its made of solid brick!"

"Shhhhh don't draw attention to it! It is a portal, you walk through it. But do it casually you don't want any muggles to see." Lauren said in a whisper

"Walk casually through a wall...how dose one accomplish that?" Chris said while scratching his head.

"Oh come on lets just do what she says" Erinne replied. Both Erinne and Chris headed for the wall, took a deep breath and stepped through. In the blink of an eye they were on the other side were there were many children and their parents hugging and saying good bye to each other. Others were already on the buss and waving out the compartment window to their relatives. When chris looked up he saw wooden sign with golden letters engraved into it that read:

HOGWARTS EXPRESS PLATFORM

9 ¾

"Excuse me sir may I have your bags? I need to load the train we leave in four minutes." Said an old man wearing a red suit like a bell hop at a hotel.

"Sure...thanks" Chris said as the man walked off with Erinne and his bags. Just then Lauren and Kyle came through the portal and suggested that they boarded the train.