It was a hot summer's day and Stephanie Bagnall and Sophie Wooton were waiting for their best friend Hermione Granger at Kings Cross station. Soon they were greeted by a girl with straight, shoulder length dark brown hair with deep brown eyes. "Hey! Hermione! Over here!" Sophie yelled.
"Oh my God!" Hermione squealed as she heard her friends voice. She instantly kissed her parents goodbye and ran towards the two screaming girls that were her friends. She hugged them both tightly when she reached them. When the three girls broke apart, Hermione heard yet another voice calling her. She turned around to find her other best friends Harry Potter and Ron Weasley running towards her. "NO! RON BE CAREFUL........ "She was cut off however because the trolley that Ron was pushing (with his Hogwarts things on) lost control and slid out of his grasp. Harry stopped pushing his cart and ran to Hermione to get her out of the way. He pushed her in the opposite direction but the trolley just barely missed her ankle. Just a minute later, a petite figure with vigorous red hair got to the cart before it hit a small girl.
"Thanks, Gin." said Ron, sighing in relief.
"No problem. I only did it to save that little girl over there!" Ginny said, pointing to the little girl who was trying to attempt to climb up the mountain of things that was on Ron's cart.
"Well, well, well. What do we have here? The two Weasels, Potter and the Mudblood." sneered a voice that they all hated to hear.
Ginny turned around and came face-to-face with Draco Malfoy.
"Woah! Weasel, don't get so close. I don't want to catch anything bad from you!" Draco drawled.
"Oh for God's sake! You are the git Hermione keeps telling us about!" Sophie exclaimed, making Draco turn and walk towards her.
"And who are you?" Draco asked seductively.
"Are you trying to seduce us?" Stephanie and Sophie asked suspiciously.
"Maybe. Now are you going to tell me your names or am I going to have to threaten your Mudblood friend to tell me?"
"Shut! Up! Malfoy!" Harry said through gritted teeth.
"Awwwwwwwwww! How sweet! Potter is sticking up for his Mudblood girlfriend." Malfoy sneered.
Stephanie and Hermione pulled Harry back by his sweater to restrain him from hurting Malfoy in any way possible.
Soon enough, Mrs Weasley came towards them saying, "Come on you lot. You're going to miss the train."
"Ok. We'll be there in a minute Mrs Weasley!" Hermione shouted.
"No! We have to go now! It's almost time to go. You have ten minutes left to get on to platform 9 3/4 and to get onto the Hogwarts Express. Now Hurry up!"
Ron, Harry, Hermione, Stephanie, Sophie and Ginny all went to where Mrs Weasley was standing.
" Who are these two girls?" asked Mrs Weasley as they approached her.
"They're my friends. I only found out during the summer that they were witches. They're attending Hogwarts for our 6th year." Hermione explained.
"Right. Ok, Harry, Ron. You two will go first so the girls know what to do." Mrs Weasley told them.
Ron and Harry nodded and ran through the barrier to platform 9 3/4.
" Have you got the idea now girls?" Mrs Weasley asked Stephanie and Sophie.
They nodded and did the same as Ron and Harry and ran.
Soon, Hermione and Ginny followed them through.
"Harry, Ron. Me and the girls are going to sit in our own compartment on the train ok"
Ron looked disappointed and calm at the same time. "Yeah, sure. Whatever you want to do girls that's alright with us." he said finally.
Ten minutes later, The girls were in their compartment while the boys were in the one next door to them playing wizards chess.
Suddenly, the boys were disturbed from their game when they heard singing coming from the girls' compartment. "Just ignore it Ron, it's probably the girls singing. and if they don't shut up in a minute, I'll go in there and tell them or they'll break the windows." laughed Harry.
Ron laughed too. Then without warming, the compartment door slid open to reveal
their old Defence against the Dark Arts teacher, Remus Lupin.
"Is anything alright, boys? Where's Hermione." Remus said in a hoarse voice.
"Yeah, everything's ok. Hermione's in the compartment next to us with the other girls" Harry told him.
"AND IF THEY DON'T SHUT THAT BLOODY SINGING UP, WE'LL SHUT THEM UP OURSELVES!" Ron added, yelling.
The singing from the next compartment stopped abruptly and the compartment door slid open again to reveal four furious looking girls.
"What did you say Weasley?!" Ginny growled.
"I said- OW!" Ron started but Harry had elbowed him in the ribs to stop him from saying anymore.
"He didn't say anything girls. If he did, he didn't mean to." Harry lied.
"He better not've meant it either 'cause you know what I'll do don't you Ronald?" Hermione threatened.
"I didn't, I didn't!" Ron whined.
And with that, the girls went back to their compartment and within seconds of their door being slammed shut, the singing started once again.
Ron sighed in frustration.
"If they're trying to become a girl band, they'll be really good." Harry said silently, but not silent enough, for Ron had heard him.
"Oh sure, side with the girl why don't ya!" Ron said, laughing.
"Ok, I will....... Not!" Harry shot back in a joking manner.
"Now, now boys. Try to be more mature." a feminine voice came from the doorway, making both boys jump about ten feet in the air.
"Oh my God Hermione! Don't do that!" Harry said, trying to get his breath back.
"Awwww! You're such a spoil sport you are." Hermione replied, pouting.
"OH no! Don't give us that look." Harry warned her.
"What look?" Hermione asked innocently, continuing to pout.
"That 'If - I - Can - Get Harry - And - Ron - To - Do - What - Ever - I - want - Then - Maybe - I - Can - Wrap - Them - Around - My - Little - Finger' look." Ron said, instantly.
"Oh, that look." Hermione said, pretending to have finally got the idea of what they were talking about.
"Yeah, that look." Harry and Ron said, sarcastically.
"I don't know what look you're talking about." Hermione said in yet again an innocent voice and still pouting.
"Forget it 'Mione." Harry said, stopping the argument between her and Ron.
Hermione's heart fluttered at the nickname Harry had given her. Soon after, she was out of the boys' compartment and into her own.
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Two hours later, they had arrived in Hogsmeade Station. When Sophie, Harry, Hermione, Ron, Stephanie and Ginny departed from the train, the Dream Trio (Harry, Ron and Hermione) tried looking for their giant of a friend Hagrid. But he was nowhere to be found.
"Where do you think Hagrid is?" Hermione asked curiously, looking around.
"Don't know." Harry replied.
Soon, a roaring voice met their ears.
"There he is!" Hermione exclaimed, pointing over where the terrified first years were.
Sure enough, he was.
"HAGRID!" the three of them yelled at the same time.
"'Ello you three!" Hagrid greeted them when he looked up at them. "Listen. I don't wan' any of yer to get into any trouble this year. Voldemort's on the loose again and he's got Malfoy's dad with 'im." Hagrid said, shuddering as he said the Dark Lord's name.
"Hagrid. Are you forgetting that we've defeated V- I mean He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named for 5 years running. It's only a matter of time before he really goes weak, weak enough for us to kill him that is." said Harry.
"Yeh, bu' yeh've never defeated Lucius Malfoy though 'ave yer, eh"
"No......... But we've confronted him." Hermione said slowly.
"Well. Yeh'd best be off. Yeh don' wan' to miss the sorting now, would yeh?" he told them
"Oh God! Yes of course! I've just remembered, I was supposed to go with the girls to our carraigeride up to Hogwarts!" Hermione gasped and rushed off.
" 'MIONE! WHAT THE HELL........!" Ron trailed off, muttering curses under his breath at his friend's retreating figure.
When Hermione finally got to the girls, Malfoy appeared from the darkness.
"Shove off Malfoy! No one here loves you or even want you in their faces 24/7." Sophie and Ginny sneered at the carriage doorway.
"Well, Weasley. I'm impressed. Finally coming out of your shell to defend your Mudblood friend for once." Draco said in a silky tone.
"Yeah, I have Malfoy. And unlike you, I have friends." Ginny retorted back.
" Ooooooooooooooo! Go Ginny! You go girl!" the other three girls chanted behind her.
"Now Malfoy, you know these three girls behind me?" she asked in a deadly whisper.
"What, the three Mudbloods? I know one of them but not the other two." Malfoy cockily shot back, maliciously.
Ginny abruptly pulled out her wand and pointed it threateningly at Malfoy's heart.
"If you say that about one of my closest friends again, Malfoy, and you will be sorry you was even born!" Ginny threatened.
Malfoy just simply nodded, muttered "Sorry." and walked away, regretting on the way he had reacted.
"Well. I think that went pretty good, don't you Gin?" Stephanie said after their long silence.
"Yeah." Ginny said, sounding rather guilty.
"What's the matter Ginny?" Sophie asked, sympathetically.
"I can't tell you here Soph, it's kinda personal." Ginny replied in a hushed whisper.
"Oh, alright then." Sophie answered, her voice levelled with Ginny's.