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The Two Witches of OZ

Chapter Five: Train Ride to Hell, I mean Hogwarts

"Wake-up Louise, Remus said they're gonna pick us up any minute now." Said an annoyed Tori as she tried (and failed miserably) to wake Louise up.

"Five more minutes mummy." Grumble Louise as she snuggled into her sheets even more.

"Fine then," Tori said smugly as she made to leave the room," I'll just go to Hogwarts by myself!" Louise sat upright in her bed and said,

"Well what are you waiting for, hurry up, we have a train to catch!" Louise quickly got dressed and made sure every thing was packed, then went outside to meet Tori.

"Got your bags packed?" Tori asked as she came outside.

"Check."

"Fluffy little kitty cat?"

"Check." She said as she held up Storm.

"Evil looking eagle called Tweety who has it in for Remus?"

"Check-o Tori."

"Right then, we're set, lets roll!" They then headed down stairs where they met a ministry guy (a/n: for lack of a better word). As they got into the Ministry car, Tori asked,

"Um, sir, how long till we get to Kings Cross?"

"About thirty minutes Miss."

After about five minutes in the car waiting, Louise got out her Discman, and started listening to some music.

"Hey what are you listening to?" Tori asked, the boredom finally getting to her.

"Killing Heidi."

"What song?"

"I am."

"Can I listen?"

"Sure." Louise said as she handed Tori an earphone. They listened to 'Killing Heidi' for the rest of the car ride. When they got out the car, the driver said,

"To get into platform nine and three-quarters, just lean on the wall between platforms nine and ten, good-day."

"Riiiight." Tori said as they stood there, luggage on a trolley. "So we lean on a wall, and then we magically appear on this odd numbered platform." Louise wasn't listening however, she was watching the 'wall' that they had to lean on. After she saw a couple of people walk/run/lean through the wall, she pointed this out to Tori. " O.K., maybe we do lean on that wall." She said as she saw an old woman, a red-headed lady, and a boy with a dog walk through the wall.(a/n: guess who!) when they reached the wall, they leaned gracefully against the wall, but all poise was lost when they fell through the wall and landed on their back-sides.

General area surrounding Harry Potter

"Nice dog Harry!' called a tall boy with dreadlocks.

"Thanks, Lee." Said Harry grinning.

"Stupid wall." Some one said near by.

"Yeah, why can't you be like a normal, solid wall?" said another voice. Harry turned around and looked at where the voices were coming from, to find two girls covered in luggage. Being the kind, gentlemanly, person that he is, he went over there, to help them up.

Louise and Tori

"Yeah, that wall can be annoying, three years ago It wouldn't let me in." said a boy, who started to move the luggage off them.

"Wha-, oh thanks." Tori said as a cat carrier was removed from her stomach. When all the luggage was put back on the trolley, this boy said,

"Hi, I'm Harry Potter, pleased to meet you." He expected them to go, 'oh my god it's Harry Potter!' and ogle at his scar, be instead, they said,

"Louise Tait."

Tori Thompson." At that point, Sirus decided to make his grand introduction, by barking, and wagging his tail.

"Awww, it's so adorable." Louise said as she patted the dog.

"Awww, now I want a dog, what's its name, Harry?" Tori asked as she too, patted the dog.

"Siri-Snuffles, Snuffles the dog." With that, Snuffles started panting, which made Louise say darkly,

"Lick me, and I'll neuter you, Snuffles." Snuffles then backed away, whimpering slightly.

"Louise, what did I tell you about scaring off strangers? You're supposed to be friends with them before driving them insane!" said Tori in a mock stern voice. "Sorry about her, she just gets a bit, err, psycho, every once in a while." She said to Harry, then "Don't worry doggie, she's not going to hurt you." Just then, a voice called over to Harry, telling him to come over there.

"Bye, I guess I'll be seeing you on the train."

"Yeah, see youze Harry." Said Tori as they waved good-bye.

Louise and Tori got onto the train (with great difficulty due to their pets), and started to look for a compartment to sit in. After five minutes, they started to get frustrated, because everywhere was either full, or had people who glared at them as they walked past. When they reached the last compartment, Tori said,

"If this one is full, I'm going to kick some people out, cos I'm not sitting in the hall." They opened the door and inside were Harry, another boy, and two other girls.

"Oh hi Tori, Louise, come to join us?" he said as they sat down.

"So, who are these people?" asked Ginny,

"Oh, this is Tori," he pointed to Tori, "and this is Louise." He pointed to Louise." They're the one's Remus was talking about."

"Oh, hi. So, had a good summer, Luna?'

Yes," Luna said without taking her eyes off Harry," It was quite enjoyable, you know. You're Harry Potter." She added, staring at Harry.

"I know I am." He said, with a hint of humour in his voice.

"Really?" said Louise, finding Luna an extremely weird person.

"And here I was thinking he was Drew Fuller, damn." Said Tori jokingly as she pulled out Hogwarts, a History.

"Who's Drew Fuller?" asked Ginny, not having much knowledge of muggle actors.

"Oh, you wouldn't know him, he's a mortal actor." Replied Louise, knowing more about him than Tori.

"Don't you mean 'muggle' actor?" asked Harry; they really needed to learn about the wizarding world.

"Yeah, that's what I mean, but mortal sounds so much cooler." Answered Louise as she to, pulled out a book.

"Guess what I got for my birthday?" said Neville, wanting to a part of the conversation.

"Another Remembrall? Asked Harry as he remembered last time Neville had owned one.

"No, not this time. Here, hold Trevor for me." He gave Trevor to Harry as he searched for something in his bag. After a while, he pulled out a small pot plant thing, which looked like a cactus.

"Mimbulus Mimbletonia." he said proudly as he stroked the cactus like being, which made and odd, crooning noise.

"Err, does it do anything?" asked Tori, slightly repulsed at the thing.

"Yeah, loads of things! It's got a great defence system, look." He pulled out a quill and jabbed the plant.

Liquid squirted from the boils of the plant; slimey, thick, stinking dark jets of it. The slime spared nothing and no-one, covering the compartment with the sticky substance. Ginny managed to fling her arms over her face so she was partly saved, and Luna's magazine was covering her face, but everyone else was covered it the disgusting slime.

"S-sorry," Neville splutter out, "I haven't tried that before. I didn't realise that it was that... Don't worry though, Stinksap's not poisonous." He said as Louise, Harry and Tori spat some out and wiped it from their faces.

At that precise moment, the door of their compartment slide open.

"Oh... hello Harry," Cho Chang said in a nervous voice, "Um... bad time?"

"Oh...um hi Cho." Harry said blankly.

"Um...I guess this is a bad time," she said, looking around at the slime covered compartment, "well, um, bye Harry." She then closed the door and left, which made Harry slump back in h is chair. He really wanted to talk to her.

Harry, Neville, Ginny, Luna, Tori and Louise spent the next hour talking about random stuff and other things. Tori and Louise where also asking questions about Hogwarts, like what kind of things do you do in classes and Harry and Neville were warning them about the trick stairs (Neville told them to try and avoid them as much as possible, having the most experience in stepping on them) and other things and people that should be avoided, like the Slytherins' and Snape, and Peeves. A while later, they were shown the joys of wizarding food, and had taken a liking to the chocolate frogs, trying to make them fight each other in a make-shift ring made from pens.

Later on, Ron and Hermione entered the compartment. It took Ron two and a half chocolate frogs to realise that there was two new people in the compartment,

"Who are these people?" Ron asked, gesturing to Louise and Tori.

"Well Ron, if you happened to be listening to Remus when he was explaining to us, instead of droning your self butterbeer, you would know that these people are the new exchange students. Hi, I'm Hermione Granger, nice to meet you." Hermione said, shaking their hands.

"Hey Hermione, how was the meeting?" asked Ginny, to which Ron let out a noise of disgust; he obviously didn't enjoy it.

"Oh it was alright, I suppose." Hermione said.

"Why, what was wrong with it?" Harry asked.

"It might've been ok if it wasn't for some of the people inside." Ron said, as he continued scoffing down chocolate frogs. Hermione, seeing the look on the occupants' faces, said

"Well there are two prefects in fifth year for each house, and guess who the Slytherin's are."

"Hmm, let me see," Harry said in mock thought, "Draco Malfoy, I suppose?"

"Bingo." Said Ron, with his total lack of enthusiasm obvious.

"Draco? I read somewhere that some Ancient Greek or Roman guy (I forgot which one), was Called Draco and he made up some pretty important rules, apparently. Till one day when he walked into a room and the large crowd threw their hats and coats on him to show how much they liked him, but by the time they pulled him from underneath, he'd suffocated."1 Louise said; she just loved spilling out random facts at random times.

"Death by coats, ooh, I like it!" Ron said, half eaten chocolate frog slush coming from his mouth.

"Honestly Ron, you'd think by now you'd have learnt not to eat with your mouth full!" The Hermione whished out a hanker-chief and whipped his mouth.

"As I was saying, there are two fifth year prefects from each house, the Slytherins are, as stated before, Draco Malfoy and that utter cow Pansy Parkinson."

"Yeah, and the Hufflepuff's are Ernie Macmillan and Hannah Abbot." Said Ron thickly.

"And the Ravenclaw's are Anthony Goldstein and Padma Patil." Hermione added. Louise and Tori looked at each other then had a small private conversation;

"They finish each others sentences like a married couple!" Tori whispered behind her hand.

"Tell me about it!" Louise said, also whispering.

"What did you say?" Hermione asked suspiciously.

"Oh, nothing that concerns you." Louise said innocently. Ron and Hermione looked dumbfounded, but Harry, who had herd the conversation, said,

"So true, so very, very true." The dumbfounded people stayed dumfounded for a while, then Ron checked his watch.

"We're supposed to patrol the corridors every one and a while, you know, give out punishments to people who are misbehaving and stuff. I can't wait to get Crabbe and Goyle for something, the look on their faces." Ron then got a dreamy look on his face. (and no, I am not implying any slash here; that's just wrong)

"Ron! You were given the responsibility of being a prefect so you can up hold justice, not to punish people just because you feel like it!" said Hermione angrily.

"Up hold justice? I think you've been reading to much Superman there 'Mione." Ron said.

"I am not even going to dignify that with a response Ron."

"But you just responded, therefore dignifying it." Ron said, with an amused look on his face. Hermione opened her mouth to retort, but couldn't think of anything to say, so she crossed her arms and looked out the window.

Harry, after watching the bickering of his two best friends, turned to Luna, to see that she was reading her magazine upside down. After staring at the cover for a moment, he asked Luna,

"Hey, can I have a look at that for a sec?"

"Sure." Luna said as she lazily handed the magazine to Harry, and then started playing with her hair. He opened the magazine (which was called the quibbler) and started reading an article. After a while, Tori leaned over and asked,

"Whatcha reading Harry?"

"Oh, just this article about the guy called Sirius Black, you want to read?" he said as he handed over the Quibbler.

"Thanks. Sirius- Black as he's painted? Notorious mass murderer or innocent singing sensation? Oh, I can tell this is going to be good." Tori said, reading the heading of the article out loud. When she had finished reading, Tori looked like she was about to burst out in a fit of giggles.

"Stubby? What person would name their kid Stubby?" Wanting to know what was so funny, Louise took the magazine from Tori and read it for herself.

"Hobgoblins, is this Sirius Back guy a Hobbit?" Louise asked, with an amused expression on her face.

"Huh?" Ron asked.

"A Hobbit, you know, from Lord of the Rings." Ginny said, "Haven't you herd of the books before?" to that, Ginny just got a shake of the head from Ron.

After about a minute of silence (save the random giggles from Tori and Louise) the compartment door slid open again.

"Well, well, well, what do we have here? Scarhead, Weasel, Mudblood, Toad boy, Scarhead's girlfriend, the Loony freak and to new mudbloods. What a party." Said an annoying look boy by the name of Draco Malfoy.

"What do you want now, ferret boy?" asked Harry coldly.

"Where are your manners Potter? I should give you a detention for that." Said Malfoy, but before Harry could open his mouth, he continued and said,

"Because you see, I, unlike, you, am a prefect, so I, unlike you, have the power to hand out punishments."

"Yeah but you, unlike Harry here, are an asshole, so get out before I get bitchy." Said Tori, which was quite unlike her character; it was usually Louise who back-chats.

'Well looky here boys," Malfoy said in mock surprise, "the new mudblood is defending Scarface, look's like Weasel girl has competition." Then Malfoy started laughing, which prompted his two 'bodyguards' to laugh stupidly too.

"I wouldn't laugh if I were you, Draco Malfoy." Tori said, standing up, putting on a dark, evil and down right scary voice on.

"Yes, you don't know who we are," Louise continued, also standing up, and putting on that voice.

"Or where we come from."

"We could have power unimaginable to the wizarding world,"

"or the knowledge to destroy it."

"So I'd watch your back, Draco Malfoy."

"And just because the lights are turned off, doesn't mean we're not watching."

"And remember, Draco Malfoy, never underestimate the power of things you don't understand."

Being extremely freaked out by the two girls display of scariness, Malfoy and his cronies got out of there as quick as humanly possible.

"What, is god's name was that?!" Harry asked, looking quite scared himself.

"Oh, it was nothing much really." Louise said with a huge smile on her face.

"Yeah, all we had to do is put on a dark and scary voice, look really, really, evil, threaten him, make him think we know more than he does, and follow each others lead."

"That was wicked!" Ron exclaimed happily, "I haven seen him that scared since Moody turned him into a ferret!"

"Yeah, he does kinda look like a ferret doesn't he?" Tori said, pleased with the outcome of there little 'performance'.

"So does my cousin." Louise murmured.

"What'd you say?" Neville asked, looking pale.

"Oh, it's just that I noticed that that Malfoy guy looks a hell of a lot like my cousin, Riley." Said Louise, looking disgusted.

"Wow, it's hard imagining getting along with someone that looks like him." Ron said, shocked.

"Oh, I don't get along with him. All my cousins that are my age are total idiots, and all the rest are twenty-two years plus so they have to be nice to me, my family bites." Her sentence was left hanging; no one was really in the mood to discuss their family, especially not Harry. It stayed silent for a while, until Hermione said,

"We better get our things ready; we should be getting there soon."

"Hey," Ginny said, trying to make conversation, 'I didn't notice you had pets."

"Yeah, me and Louise, both have a cat, but Louise also has a bird." Tori said, getting Moet from his carrier. Louise also got Storm from her carrier to show every one.

"Louise, can I see what kind of owl you have?" Ron asked, as he saw the cage (which had a cover over it) rustle.

"Yeah, sure, but I don't exactly have an-"

"What is that?!"

"Owl. It's a wedge tailed eagle." Louise explained

"It doesn't look very friendly." Said Hermione timidly, peer at the bird.

"I reckon that's just because Tweety was woken up, don't worry, it doesn't like Remus either." Tori said, petting Moet who was purring loudly.

"Remus, as in Professor Lupin?" Neville asked, still keeping one eye on Tweety.

"Yeah, he mentioned he was a teacher didn't he?" Tori said.

"Yeah, I think he did." Louise replied

For the rest of the trip, they talked about what Professor Lupin taught, and how he was the best DADA (defence against the dark arts) teacher they'd had, and all the other teachers, and wondering who their teacher would be this year and if they would be any good. As the train slowed down, everyone (except Tori and Louise) made their way to the door, leaving their luggage and pets behind.

"What about all our stuff?" Louise asked.

"It gets sent up to your room for you." Replied Hermione

"Well that's convenient." Tori said, putting down her trunk.

"Oh, yeah, you two have to go to Hagrid, you can't miss him, he's a really, and I mean really, tall guy with a beard. He has to take you across the lake." Harry said, walking out of the train and into the cold night air.

"Wait, across the lake? As in a boat?" Louise asked with a slightly pained look on her face.

"Yeah, why, what's wrong with that?" Harry asked.

"Oh, nothing really, just that when I was three I dropped my favourite Teddy-bear into the water at the front of the boat. I've never really liked boats since." Louise said, slightly blushing.

"Well, the boat trip's not that long." Harry said, trying to make her feel a little better.

"Yeah, I guess so." Louise said, then turning around to try and find this 'Hagrid' Harry was talking about.

"I'll see you both at the feast." He said as he headed off towards the 'horseless' carriages'.

"OK, we have to find this Hagrid guy, who's taking all the little kiddies to Hogwarts by boat." Louise repeated.

"Well, I can't see this Hagrid guy, but all the short kids are going that way, so I reckon we should follow them." Tori said, pointing to a couple of (comparatively) short kids.

"First years, over here please, hurry along now children." Said a female voice. Lost, Tori went over to the woman and asked,

"Um, excuse me, but, um, we're looking for a guy called Hagrid, do you, um, know where he is?"

"You must be the two new students to be starting in year five, this way." She said then started leading them and all the first years off the platform. After a couple of minutes of walking, they reached the edge of a massive lake that had about 20 little boats, bobbing up and down with the tide. "Alright children, four to a boat, no pushing now." She said as she got in a boat by herself. All the little kids quickly jumped into boats, so Louise and Tori were left to join to other boys. As they got in, the to boys laughed then started whispering behind their hands.

"If they even think about pushing us in, they've got another thing coming to them." Said Louise through gritted teeth.

"If they do, which I'm betting they are, make sure you pull them in with us, cos there's no way I'm going to let them get away with that." Tori said, her voice hardly being heard. For about five minutes, they all sat in silence, the two boys grinning like the cat who at the Canary. Then when Hogwarts came into view, the two boys reached out and pushed Tori and Louise into the icy water. But the girls were ready, as soon as they started going over, Louise grabbed one boys are and yanked him in, and Tori pulled the other one in by his collar.

"Stick that in your pipe and smoke it!" yelled Louise as she repeatedly dunked the boys head under water. The woman, who had seen everything, fished the four out of the water, then put the two boys into her boat, to keep watch on them. After trying (and failing) to get them selves dry, the girls took there first look at Hogwarts.

"Wow, this place is massive!" Tori exclaimed.

"Yeah, and we'll be staying here for the next year." Louise said. When the boats got to the edge of the water, they got up and made their way to the front of the castle, where the woman knocked on the large wood door's three times.

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