Down Under, Down Under
The Train Ride to Rimutaka Castle
Harry, Ron and Hermione walked through the Ferry ports where all the big boats were. They were constantly dragging their trunks behind them, Rons Owl making one heck of a racket and attracting looks from muggles who had never seen owls before. They finally got to the train after following a numerous amount of people around and managed to walk through an invisible barrier that was hidden behind the ticket booth in the Ports.
The trio got onto the train and put their luggage with the rest of the student's luggage, then headed down the corridor to look for a compartment to sit in. Suddenly they heard a loud explosion of noises, shouting, screaming, and then a person ran past them followed by another two. A compartment door slid open, then closed with a loud bang, curses and swearing could be heard by some of the compartments next to it. Harry, Ron and Hermione continued down the corridor and narrowly missed getting hit on the head by a paper ball.
They opened a compartment door and found it mostly empty; many people had in fact chosen to bypass this compartment although they could not see why. There were three girls sat quietly staring up at the new students with surprise in their eyes. Two of the girls had ginger hair but one had brown eyes and the other a disturbing shade of silver that gave her a mischievous look to her. The third girl was reading, A History of Rimutaka Academy trying very hard to ignore the other two sat across from her. She had brown hair and blue eyes which slid quickly down the pages of her book.
"Mind if we join you" Ron asked staring at the girl with silver eyes. It freaked him out somewhat but he couldn't take his eyes off them.
"No we don't mind," The ginger haired girls said in one voice.
"Great!" Ron replied happily then ushered Harry and Hermione in to take a seat, "I'm Ron, this is Hermione and that's Harry," Ron said introducing themselves.
"Absolutely brilliant," the silver eyed girl replied, "I'm Jay Black and that's Zeta Curtis, the one reading is Head Girl and known as Faye Barraclough."
"Okay then," Ron replied shrugging, then looked at his two friends.
"So what's the Academy like," Hermione asked making the mistake of asking these two girls that question.
Jay's eyes lit up and launched into a story about the school, "Oh our school's really, really cool cause we have a glass elevator that takes us all the way up to our school that floats above the mountain, and the first years have to climb up the mountain."
The trio began to look worried as she continued her story, "and then it usually takes a couple of weeks to reach the top of the mountain so the sorting ceremony takes place a week into the term. Once you get there you're sorted by smelly sorting socks which aren't cared for by the teachers because they get worn by so many students with smelly feet." Jay paused to take a breath.
"No, no, that's not what happens," Zeta interrupted rolling her eyes, "the school doesn't have a glass elevator at all. It has amazing flying elephants that take us up to the Qudditch Pitch where we cloud hop into the school grounds and then we bounce all the way into the Great Hall. The first years have to fly their own hot air balloons up the mountains."
"and the Sorting Socks once they're on you're feet start eating away at you're feet, and the teachers have to struggle to take them off and by that time half your feet are gone and you have to go to the hospital wing to get you're feet reattached which is why we have our feet now." Jay explained all in one breathe.
"That's not what I read," Hermione whispered frightened.
Harry and Ron proceeded to look worried when Faye spoke up, "There is no glass elevator and no flying elephants and definitely no feet eating smelly sorting socks. Instead we take Pegasus' up to the floating castle and the first years have to fly up in hot air balloons. They just like scaring newcomers."
Once again the compartment door slid open and Draco Malfoy, appeared. Once again the story was repeated to Malfoy who showed not even the slightest amount of worry about what could happen to him when he reached the school.
"What're you doing here Malfoy?" Harry snarled.
"None of your business Potter," Malfoy countered, "I unlike you know all about this school and have been sent here for reasons beyond your comprehension."
An argument of mammoth proportions happened directly after that was exchanged when Jay decided she'd had enough of their fighting and chained them to herself, using magical handcuffs. Jay then proceeded to explain all of her deeds about how she'd managed to turn the school into a three ring circus. All due to the fact because she and Zeta had got bored one day and decided they needed extra entertainment.
Meanwhile, Zeta had her wand out and was apparently charming the compartment door. Faye approaching looked worried when Orian walked through the closed door after the charm had obviously been completed.
"We're about to arrive in Rimutaka," He announced readily, "So you might want to let them go before Mr Granger decides to deduct points from Rata House."
"But school hasn't started yet!" Jay whined at Orian. Meanwhile Faye was busy unlocking the two boys while a frustrated Hermione watched.
After the two boys were released from their hold they immediately went to opposite sides of the compartment, then the train came to a halt and they had finally arrived at the Wizarding Village where they would be getting into their carriages and floating up to the school.
All about the train. Lovely. I had so much fun writing the second chapter in just as much minutes as the first one!