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"Eriol-kun's language spell is like a miracle," Sakura stated, as she and Tomoyo settled in their room, next to Hermione and Ginny's. "I can understand everything, I can say everything, I even think everything in English!"
"I'm more surprised at how an apartment could've been so big," Tomoyo looked at their huge room which consisted of moving objects and many destroyed portraits. They were assured that their king-sized bed had been demagicked and decontaminated for their use. "It's almost as big as our house!"
"I wonder why they told you not to unpack your items until the end of tomorrow?" Sakura wondered as she plopped onto the bed, which turned out to be so comfortable she sank into it.
"You don't have to worry about that, Sakura. What you have to worry about is catching up in all those years. You're supposed to be in the fifth year, right?"
"Eriol-ku, I mean, Eriol said that we'll be fine, because they normally don't need stuff from before, except for the final exams," Sakura explained to Tomoyo, who had been left out on everything about Hogwarts. "And besides, me and Syaoran-ku-Syaoran and Meilin studied to second-years...I just hope...Syaoran and I..." She left off at a worried tone. Tomoyo looked at her, and smiled.
"Remember your unbeatable phrase, Sakura. No matter what," Tomoyo waited as Sakura shook herself out of her daze.
"... Everything will surely be alright!" She replied with certainty. Tomoyo smiled.
~*~
Syaoran was pouring over old spellbooks. Fred and George looked at him in awed surprise.
"Lumos!" And let there be light by the ten inch dragon heartstring oak wand.
"Hey, you see that Fred? He's already on third year in two hours!"
"Hey, look! He's switched books again!"
"Accio The Standard Book of Spells, Grade 4!" And the fourth year spellbook whished over, hitting Fred in the back of the head as it made its way to Syaoran.
"Ouch! Hey, watch how you do that thing!" George laughed, leaning his back to the door-which opened abruptly and smashed his head into the bed. Syaoran looked up to see Meilin, grasping the wand Eriol bought for her yesterday in triumph.
"Syaoran! Syaoran!! Look, I can do hexes now!" Meilin casted a hex, giving Syaoran's book a few extra legs. Syaoran blinked as the book scuttled away.
"Um, that's great, Meilin, but could you stop that book?" Syaoran suggested with a certain Tone as he watched it run out of the room.
"Ack!" The two exited the room, leaving the twins behind rubbing their bruises while wondering what kind of people they were.
~*~
The chase for the book was amazing (and ridiculous). For such small stubby legs, it ran fast. They were a blur as the two Chinese magicians followed it behind. Meilin tripped over a desk that it crawled under at one point, causing Syaoran to crash behind her. They toppled and Syaoran tumbled down the stairs, stopped by a Lupin almost up the stairs, who caught Syaoran and fell back himself. Sirius saw what was going on and left the biting cookie cutter alone to cushion their fall. Meilin, however, didn't notice this all and chased after the book, that fell down through the dusty, cobweb balcony. Impulsively, she jumped off the balcony, which Mrs. Weasley noticed so she used magic to put her back behind the balcony. However, there was a gnome hiding in the cracks of the balcony where Meilin had placed her hand on and it latched onto Meilin's arm. Meilin, as most people do when they're bitten by a creepy ugly thing with brown teeth, screamed and shook it around until it went splat on the other side of the house, then continued to chase the book into the bathroom, which had a sign: 'OCCUPIED' on it since the lock had a poisonous newt in it. Harry dived back into the water he had been washing in and yelled in distress. Meilin's eyes locked on the book that dived into the bathwater.
Then she noticed the bathwater's other occupant.
Syaoran recovered from his fall, then trampled over Lupin's back and Sirius's arm after saying an abrupt 'thanks' and raced after Meilin. He, unlike her, noticed the occupied sign and had the sense to drag the petrified Meilin out of the bathroom. The book ran out of the bathwater and onto Sirius with such force he made an 'oomph' like he did when he caught Lupin and Syaoran, but he had the sense to grab it while Lupin did an anti-hex. Sirius, Lupin, and Harry(who abruptly dressed after his disturbance) all stared at Syaoran and Meilin funnily.
"But...the important thing is that I did a hex, right?" Meilin asked Syaoran, who sighed.
~*~
Next day
~*~
Tomoyo sighed, and looked up at the cracked, aged, and dusty ceiling. She woke up to find out that Sakura had already left with the others to their school, and it left her vaguely depressed.
'I didn't even get to say goodbye...' She thought, a hint of misery creeping into the regret. She hoisted herself from the bed and was about to put her feet in her slippers when she noticed a body from underneath the bed.
Now, Tomoyo was not Sakura. She didn't go 'HOOOEEEEEEEEEE~!!' or automatically assume somebody died underneath the bed and rush to help the person. With all her adventures, she, unlike Sakura, got used to the weird and the unbelievable. However, she was rather surprised.
"Kero-chan!!" She yelled, putting her feet back into the sheets. The body underneath her bed was obviously startled and tried to raise itself from below. Unfortunately, the person's head met the bottom of the bed with a loud 'THUMP' and then cursed.
"Tomoyo, are you alright?!" Kero flew into the bedroom at top speed, and noticed the cursing man stuck between the bed. "Oh, hey Sirius, did you get that boggart?"
"Goddam-yeah, I did!" A muffled voice growled.
"S-Sirius?" Tomoyo put a hand to her mouth and went 'O'. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to scare you like that-"
"It's fine, fine," Sirius mumbled as he slowly got himself out from underneath. "My fault. I knew I shouldn't have cleaned your room while you were sleeping..." Tomoyo took a look around the room. It looked exactly the same as before, except for a huge pile of relics in the corner, with a peculiar creature taking random items away. Kero noticed this too.
"If you mean by cleaning emptying out the room, yeah, you're doing a good job..." Kero snorted, brushing up a huge cloud of dust. Sirius had taken out his head from underneath and looked offended (not to mention dusty).
"Hey, you don't know exactly how many cos-goblins I cleared out of here! There was even a Blast-Ended Screwt underneath the pillow-"
"You searched Tomoyo's bed with her still SLEEPING on it?!!" Kero hollered in disbelieving outrage.
"Well, have you ever been stung by one of those things?! Believe me, that is not fun-"
"Well, it'd be less fun for YOU if Tomoyo's mom were here-"
"No, no, it's fine, Kero-chan," Tomoyo smiled. "It was for my safety anyway."
"Yeah, but still..."
"Imagine, Kero-chan, if I were Sakura-chan and Syaoran-kun or Touya-san found out," Tomoyo said matter-of-factly. "There's no point in stirring more trouble." Kero thought about this for a moment, blanching. Sirius stared at them with a look.
"Carohchaan? Wasn't your name Cerberus?" He asked, now struggling with a mantle. The other two looked at each other, and smiled with that 'hah! foreigners' smile.
"We all call him 'Kero' and '-chan', '-kun', and 'san' are all suffixes," Tomoyo explained. Sirius said a 'Rrggh...Japanese, I just don't understand why.' in a low voice, now tearing apart the mantle. The interesting creature noticed this, and rushed over.
"M-MASTER! You can't tear that mantle apart! That was your MOTHER'S!!" It now began crying furiously. Sirius scoffed at it.
"Kreacher, by now I don't care." He growled angrily, and continued to dismantle the cloak.
"Master can't!" Kreacher then said in a smaller voice. "Master doesn't even deserve to touch his mother's mantle, poor Mistress, how could he leave her alone-" Sirius, grinding his teeth, was even more vigorously tearing apart the fighting cloak. Tomoyo looked at the sad, furious animal, and felt sympathy rising in her.
"Sirius, leave the mantle alone."
And everyone turned to stare at her.
"Look, Tomoyo, you don't understand the situation. First of all, it's all a bunch of rubbish, and second of all, it's trying to kill people," Sirius glared at her with a glare he often gave to Hermione. Tomoyo, for the first time in her life, felt a small anger bubble up in her.
"Sirius, it has sentimental value to the poor creature," Tomoyo stated, slowly. "Leave it alone."
"And THAT'S why I said you don't understand!" Sirius, however, did throw the mantle away from him, which grabbed onto the desk it hit. Tomoyo felt the anger cease in her and turn into amusement. This man worked a bit like Syaoran-kun. She swung herself off the bed, and said,
"Then why don't you tell me."
~*~
The huge group had squeezed into the last carriage. Or, at least, most of them. Yue and Nakuru found themselves some room in another compartment. Syaoran, Sakura, and Meilin all spoke in rapid Japanese, while the others inspected Neville's interesting plant.
"Did you see Yue and Nakuru?" Meilin said. "They look OUR age!" The other two nodded.
"Hoee...it's so hard to imagine Yue-san as my age," Sakura stated. "Yue-san always seemed a bit like my mentor, to me."
"He always seemed a bit cold to me," Syaoran grumbled blandly.
"Syaoran-kun!" Sakura looked vaguely offended.
"Hey, you can't blame me for th-" Everyone stopped talking as they all immediately got covered in slime. There was a pause.
"S-sorry," Neville gasped, shocked. "I haven't tried that before...Didn't realize it would be quite so...Don't worry, though, Stinksap's not poisonous," he added nervously, as everyone watched Harry spit a mouthful of it onto the ground. Then they looked at what made the 'ching' noise before. It fell on Syaoran, as he wiped the dark sap off his blade.
"Hooeee...Syaoran, you didn't need to..." Sakura trailed off her English, wiping her eyes, the only place which was soaked by the defense water thanks to Syaoran's blade. He didn't bother to sheathe it, since it was too dirty to do that anyway, and resorted to sitting down with it, sticking it into the ground.
"Automatic reaction, sorry," Syaoran apologized to the rather surprised group of newcomers(of course, Meilin wasn't complaining since she didn't want any of that stuff on her in the first place). Ginny stared at the sword that was used to deflect a jet of Stinksap to the ceiling, which then dripped onto an already screeching Hedwig.
"Are you allowed to carry that thing around?" She asked. Syaoran nodded, and said he was given special permission. No one had the time to ask as the door slid open. A pretty girl stood there, her smile twitching, as if not knowing if it should be there. Harry noticably deflated even more.
"...Harry's this?" Syaoran, reverting to Japanese, stuck up his pinky finger, indicating 'girlfriend'.
"Yeah, I bet," Meilin agreed. Sakura didn't understand. They all watched the girl retreat sheepishly.
~
Harry would have liked Cho to discover him sitting with a group of very cool people laughing their heads off at a joke he had just told; he would not have chosen to be sitting with Neville and Loony Lovegood, clutching a toad and dripping in Stinksap. Well...Syaoran, Sakura, and Meilin were pretty cool, and they weren't drenched in Stinksap...but then, Harry thought, what if she falls for Syaoran instead? He's got looks, strength, ability, posture...now that he thought about it, Cho did give Syaoran a second look...come on, he did look pretty cool, the way he sat lazily with a (permanent) stern look and this humongous sword...
Harry shook these thoughts out of his head, while Ginny did a 'Scourgify'. The new students watched as all the grime disappeared, and Syaoran then sheathed his blade and put it back in his pack.. Meilin noted the spell for future reference.
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The next hour passed eventlessly, until Harry bought a bag of Every Flavor Beans for the transfer students. Sakura poked at a greenish purple colored bean.
"Eh...demo, Harry, is this edible...?" Harry looked over.
"Oh yeah. It's probably eggplant...or under ripe grape," He judged, and stopped as Syaoran started hacking madly.
"A battery flavored bean?!" Syaoran coughed out. Sakura looked at Harry, and then at her greenish purple bean.
"When they say all flavors, they do mean 'all' flavors..." Harry explained, selecting a brown bean and popping it in his mouth. He immediately spit it into the garbage can nearby. "Hell...I was sure that'd be chocolate..."
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"Yeah, and beware of Snape, even without taking his classes with the Slytherins...he's the Potions teacher. He's like Sirius's mum...you miss a drop of salamander spit in your potion and then BAM he freaks out and gives you detention. Well, something like that. And-"
The compartment door slid open, shaking Syaoran and Harry out of their conversation about the teachers. Everyone looked up to see Ron and Hermione, who both made themselves at home in the crowded compartment.
"I'm starving," said Ron, stowing Pigwidgeon next to Hedwig, grabbing a Chocolate Frog from Harry and throwing himself into the seat next to him. He ripped open the wrapper, bit off the frog's head, and leaned back with his eyes closed as though he had had a very exhausting morning.
"Well, there are two fifth-year prefects from each House," said Hermione, looking thoroughly disgruntled as she took her seat. "Boy and girl from each."
"And guess who's a Slytherin prefect?" Said Ron, still with his eyes closed.
"Malfoy," Said Harry, with a certain tone of expected dread in his voice.
"'Course," Said Ron bitterly, stuffing the rest of the frong into his mouth and taking another.
"And that complete cow Pansy Parkinson," said Hermione viciously. "How she got to be a prefect when she's thicker than a concussed troll..." The original Hogwarts students started talking about this year's prefects, when the transfer students began talking, again, in their rapid Japanese.
"Malfoy and Parkinson Pansy?" Sakura 'hoed'.
"Harry was talking about them...apparently the whole lot in Slytherin seem to be extremely bad..." Syaoran nodded. "Sakura-chan, Meilin, remember not to get too mixed in with them...they seem to be favored by their head, and will use every opportunity to destroy us and Harry and his friends."
"But...Syaoran-kun, what if one of us gets into Slytherin...then what?" Meilin whispered. Syaoran thought about this, and shook his head.
"Certainly none of us want to be in Slytherin, even if we die...so, I'm sure we won't be Sorted into that house," Syaoran confirmed for them. "In fac-" They were interrupted by scream of laughter from Luna Lovegood, and very obviously startled. She laughed so hard that her magazine slipped out of her grasp, slid down her legs, and onto the floor.
"That was funny!"
Everyone else began laughing at the expression on Ron's face and at the ludicrously prolonged laughter of Luna Lovegood, who was rocking backward and forward, clutching her sides.
"Hoee," Said Sakura.
"Are you taking the mickey?" said Ron, frowning at her.
"Baboon's...backside!" she choked, holding her ribs. Sakura looked utterly confused. Syaoran, who also seemed rather disconcerted, noticed Harry flipping eagerly through the pages of the dropped magazine.
"What you looking for?" Syaoran asked, and when Harry answered him and flipped to the page, they both began reading.
And then sweatdropped.
"...A joke?" Harry said vaguely in disbelief. He began flipping through more pages and read the article about Fudge. The two boys' faces turned into two completely confused ones as they read even further.
"Anything good in there?" asked Ron as Harry closed the magazine, with Syaoran looking over his shoulder.
"Of course not," said Hermione scathingly, before Harry could answer, "The Quibber's rubbish, everyone knows that."
"Excuse me," said Luna; her voice had suddenly lost its dreamy quality. "My father's the editor."
"I --oh," said Hermione, looking embarrassed. "Well...it's got some interesting...I mean, it's quite..."
"I'll have it back, thank you," said Luna coldly, and leaning forward she snatched it out of Harry's hands. Rifling through it to page fifty-seven, she turned it resolutely upside down again and disappeared behind it, just as the compartment door opened for the third time.
Meilin noticed the anger Harry immediately took on from his face and the way he went 'What?' with the most aggressive voice she'd heard from him yet.
"Manners, Potter, or I'll have to give you a detention," drawled the newcomer, whose sleek blond hair and pointed chin had an evilish quality to it. "You see, I, unlike you, have been made a prefect, which means that I, unlike you, have the power to hand out punishments." Ron whispered, 'And that's Malfoy and his two cronies' to Meilin and the rest.
"Yeah," said Harry, "but you, unlike me, are a git, so get out and leave us alone."
Ron, Hermion, Ginny, and Neville laughed. The boy's lip curled.
"Tell me how does it feel being second-best to Weaslely, Potter?" he asked, retaliating.
"Shut up, Malfoy," said Hermione sharply.
"I seem to have touched a nerve," said Malfoy smirking.
At this moment Meilin fumed with all her fuming energy. How dare this random guy just come in, start throwing insults at her friends for no apparent reason other than to be stupid! These kinds of people just made her blood boil...
"Hey, you freak of nature, watch what your damned mouth says!" Meilin stepped forward, cutting between everyone to face Malfoy. She gave him a dirty look. Malfoy looked surprised for a moment, and then quickly recovered in a split second. Sakura and Syaoran wondered about how she learned that word.
"I see we have some new friends here?" He smirked, looking around. His eyes passed the girl behind the magazine, passed a slightly mad Sakura, passed a Syaoran who seemed ready to throw him out of the window, and settled back on the composed yet extremely angry Meilin. "Why...haven't we caught some big fish here?"
"Fish?!" Meilin's veinpopped. "Hey, just because you're goodlooking doesn't mean you can look at everyone as something you can just choose!" This statement brought the entire compartment down into shock. Because of Malfoy's impossible personality, no one ever mention his looks, which were quite above average. Most of Harry's friends have completely forgotten this, and now looked at Meilin with a 'SHE'S CRAZY!' look. Another split second of blush acrossed Malfoy's face and he wiped it away. Crabbe and Goyle looked at her with a bigger shock. Meilin used this time to shove all three of them out of the compartment with an angry growl and slammed the door shut.
"Mei-Mei-Meilin...." Ron was still looking at her with a funny look. Everyone spent the rest of the time telling Meilin never, ever to say that ever again. But the Chinese girl's temper was not diffused.
'Stupid, stupid guy...I'LL show him who's boss!" She crushed the onion flavored bean in her hand and firmly decided to enter Slytherin just for that.