AN: My computer was broken again, and now it's fixed! Well, for the most part anyway. It was actually fixed a little while ago, but I was busy. So I am going to try to get the chapters up more quickly from now on. Hey, it might actually happen, that depends on if I get a job or not, we'll see.
Back to my story, I hope that everyone will like what will be going on in the story from now on, and REVIEW! I'm a tad bit disappointed that I only got a few reviews during all the time that I have been gone…
And YAY! The Red Sox are going to the world series!! Yay! Haha, sorry, but that's for my beta-reader, she is obsessed with the Red Sox! For all of those Red Sox fans out there, I hope you enjoy this chapter because I added a little bit of Red Sox pride for you guys!
Chapter 16:The Train Ride
On their way to Hogwarts, a few people stopped by their compartment to say hello. Laurali met Neville again, and was introduced to Lavender and Parvati, two of her roommates.
"So what's Hogwarts like?" Laurali asked when only she, Harry, Ron, and Hermione remained.
"It's the greatest place I've ever been to, and I've been to a lot of places," Hermione answered. "It's the best place in the world!"
"Yeah, you'll love it Laur," Harry said.
"Plus, it's huge so you almost never have to deal with the idiots," Ron said. "But, you get lost a lot, and that's a downer."
"That should be fun. I am the worst person ever with directions." Laur said. " But I like the part of not having to deal with the idiots. And I'll take the castles' size as an advantage- I'll need plenty of time to myself," she added as an after thought.
Silence commenced between the group of four. Hermione left the room, claiming to have a Prefect meeting to go to. A few minutes after Hermione left, Laurali sprung excitedly, and said," You have to teach my some wizarding games, cause I will dominate."
"You wish," Harry said, slowly, " I will totally beat all of your arses."
"Well, me and my arse will just have to make it up to you by whooping your ass."
"Oh, its on now," Harry said.
"Just wait until we play chess Harry, then I'll beat your arse." Ron said, playing along. Harry looked down, as if realizing this was true or not, but when he looked up he had red and yellow and war paint under each eye.
"Bring it," Harry said, using a deep voice.
"So teach me how to play the game that I'll whoop your ass at," Laurali said, and the three of them laughed.
In about an hour, Laurali mastered Exploding Snap, and was infact, whooping Harry and Ron's asses.
"So what now?" Laurali asked, still playing the tough girl.
"I beat Harry's arse at chess," Ron said.
"Cool."
"Do I get a say in this?" Harry grumbled. He obviously didn't like not winning.
"No. Have fun," Laurali said cheerfully. Then she pulled out her cd/mp3 player, and a book. "Oh, and by the way," She said, pulling off one ear phone," I'm going to teach you how to play "Spit" sometime, don't let me forget."
Harry and Ron both had confused looks on their faces on what this game could possibly be, but began to play chess none the less.
During the train ride, while Harry and Ron were playing chess, Laurali fell asleep.
Ron and Harry hissed at each other about the game, the snack-cart lady came in, followed soon by Malfoy and his cronies, and she still didn't wake up, even after Malfoy and Ron got into a shouting match. Harry was starting to get worried whether or not there was something wrong with her. It was like she had passed out or something. Or worse, been given some kind of potion that could put her in a coma. He had tried to wake her up several times, but to no avail, Laurali still slept.
Laurali's Dream
She, Harry, and Ron were in their compartment, just sitting and talking. Then suddenly, the compartment door slammed open and Hermione came in, pissed.
"Chill chica, what's wrong?" Laurali asked after being thoroughly startled.
"What's up Hermione?" Ron asked.
"Malfoy," she answered.
"What about that—" Harry started, but was rudely interrupted by the door opening once again.
Being startled once more, she sat and looked up immediately. A boy with straight, blond hair entered with two ugly, large brutes behind him. Harry, Ron, and Hermione were all standing with their wands drawn. She simply hadn't a clue on what to do, should she stand up and fight with her friends over something that she had no idea on? Or should she just sit there quietly?
'Those two look like goons, Laur thought, but the blond one is kind of cute, all he needs to do is smile!' She just couldn't help noticing these things.
"So Potter," the cute one sneered, " have a nice summer? Kill anyone else?"
Harry was held back by Hermione and Ron, but she was free. Her previous question on what to do was answered.
"Who the hell are you to come in and say some fucked up bullshit like that?" She yelled. Despite the fact that she was a new kid, she wasn't going to sit back and let some stupid kid talk shit to her new friends like that. That comment that the cute kid made was just not necessary.
Malfoy had obviously not have noticed Laur before, or forgot all about her somehow because he almost jumped when she first started yelling. Somehow, though, he actually managed to keep his cool.
"What do you want Malfoy?" Hermione asked rather coldly, walking towards him and pointed her wand in his face. He cowered slightly at this.
"Y'know, I do remember being here before, Malfoy," Hermione said.
"I almost forgot all about that," Ron said, "Malfoy, don't you just love running away with fear?"
"At least I don't sleep in a card board box, Weasley," He said.
'Man was this kid a jackass.'
Hermione still had her wand in his face and he was still trying to talk shit.
"Give me a reason to," Hermione said. "One good reason is all I need."
"What do you want, jack ass?" she asked him. "Because, your tryin' to talk shit and it ain't working for ya, so I'd suggest leaving, or turning into a ferret, once again." Laurali let out her American gangster accent to intimidate the kid. "Pick one."
Harry was actually quiet through all of this. 'Why is Harry so quiet?' she thought.
"Well," Malfoy started, " I heard that there was a new kid in this compartment, and so I decided to check it out."
"Yeah, well if you haven't noticed jackass, there's a lot of other new kids here, lookaround." Laurali said.
Taking a look outside the door, he noticed a group of people, most likely new first years, trying to look on at the fight.
"Or wait, do you want a lovely tail?" Ron asked.
"To go with your white fur and pink eyes?" Hermione asked.
"'Cause it can be arranged," Harry said, speaking for the first time.
"Hermione, you know any lovely little charms?" Laur asked.
"I believe I do."
"Don't forget, mudblood, I'm a prefect," Malfoy said, straightening his robes and standing up taller.
"What a fantastic role model you are," Laurali said, and started clapping. Some kids actually joined her.
"How dare you mock me," Malfoy said.
"Yea, I am daring, aren't I?" Laurali said, grinning. "But, you see, I have this problem, and it's you.. So unless you want to turn into a ferret again, get the fuck out." Then she lightly pushed him out the door and slammed it in his face. Turning around, she saw Harry, Hermione, and Ron staring at her, extremely surprised at her actions.
"What?"
"Remind me not to get you mad at me," Harry said.
End dream
Laurali woke up to Harry, Hermione and Ron dressed in their uniforms. The three of them were on one side of the compartment, because, somehow, during her sleep, Laurali sprawled out all over the seats on one side.
"Hey," Laur said groggily. " How long have I been asleep?"
"About 3 hours," Harry said, we tried waking you up, but you wouldn't. So we were a tad bit worried that someone might have poisoned you." To Harry's surprise, Laur laughed.
"I forgot to mention that I'm a heavy sleeper. How much did I miss? And when did I take over this side of the compartment?"
"Well, you missed a ton, and you kind of 'took over' that side of the compartment about 5 minutes after you fell asleep," Ron said. "It was hilarious!" he said, cracking up. " You ended up laying against Harry's shoulder, it was priceless!"
"Oh, sorry Harry." Laur apologized.
" You know he liked it!" Ron said, still laughing.
"Ron?" Harry asked.
"yep?" he managed between snorts.
"Shut up."
"Fine. But you know that you liked it."
"You might want to change Laur, the train stops in about 7 minutes," Hermione said, looking at her watch.
"Oh, thanks," Laur said, standing up and stretching. Her back cracked atleast four times, Harry, Ron and Hermione all winced. "That felt good." Laur said, not noticing their reactions. "Now," she said getting out her uniform. "Where can I change?"
"Right here, don't let us keep you," Ron said smugly. Laur walked up to him and put her right hand on his face and smiled.
"Oh, that's sweet Ron," she said innocently, her hand still on his face, then she him in the back of the head quickly with her other hand. "But get out."
"That hurt!" he whined.
"Can't blame us for trying." Harry said.
"Good for you," Hermione said, pushing the boys out of the compartment before leaving herself.
As she opened the door to let the boys and Hermione back in, there was no one there. Curious as to where the boys and Hermione would be, she walked into a nearby whose door was open. Timidly, she asked,
"Hi, umm, have you seen Harry, Ron or Hermione?" There was a bunch of girls her age there, with robes of red, blue and yellow. The ones with red Laurali had met from before, but had no clue of what there names were. 'No green at least,' she thought.
"Oh, hi Laurali. And no, sorry, we haven't seen them, but you can stay with us," one girl that Laur recognized said. She was wearing red; she was a Gryffindor.
"Thanks a lot. You're Lavender, right?"
"Yeah."
"Sorry, I am awful with names."
"Oh, don't worry about. So these are my friends, they're all from our year too.
"Oh great! Hi!" Laur said.
"Hi," they all said in response. Then they took turns introducing themselves.
"Hannah, from Hufflepuff."
"Susan, from Hufflepuff too."
"Mandy, from Ravenclaw."
"Sally-Anne, also from Ravenclaw."
"Lisa, from Hufflepuff."
"I'm Anne, from Ravenclaw."
"Padma, from Ravenclaw."
"Wow, I'm never going to remember them all," Laur muttered. "So umm, I'm Laur."
"So where are you from?" the one named Anne asked.
"The states. Massachusetts actually," Laur said, rather proudly.
"Cool. So tell me," Mandy said, " the Red Sox or Yankees?"
"What kind of question is that?" Laur asked, almost defended. "The Sox kick ass man."
"Red Sox? Yankees?" Mandy asked.
"Oh, yea, Boston Red Sox," she said excitedly, "and the New York Yankees," she said quietly. " The Sox all the way, no question about it!" Laur added, smiling.
"Right," Anne said, drawing the "ight" part out long. "And what are they?"
"Baseball teams," Laur started, but couldn't finish because the train had stopped. They were at Hogwarts! She needed to find Harry and Ron.
"This was great fun, let's hang out together sometime!" Laur said standing up and leaving.
Walking out of the room and down the hall a little ways, she heard Harry say, "There you are. C'mon, the train's stopped."
"Oh! So that's what its doing?" Laur asked sarcastically. "I never would have guessed!" Smiling, she allowed Harry to lead her outside where she was looking up at a castle. Of course, it was dark now, and she couldn't see much, but by the looks of it, the castle, Hogwarts, was beautiful.
Laurali was led to carriages that had no horses, and then up to the main doors. They were at Hogwarts. She was at Hogwarts, she was actually there, and she was going to study magic all the time. That was good, and though she was happy to be there, she was extremely nervous about it at the same time. She was thinking of how life at Hogwarts would actually be when Ron exclaimed, "I can't wait to eat! I'm starving!"
"Oh shut it Ron, you're always hungry," Laurali said, still in awe of all of the beauty around her. But then she noticed something. Hermione wasn't there.
"Where's Hermione?" she asked.
"She went ahead with Neville to get good seats," Harry explained.
' I want to meet all of the first years' Ron said, mimicking Hermione. "She's always doing things like that, she has to do everything right," Ron said, acting annoyed.
Silence pursued, until once again, Ron broke the silence.
"Hey guys?" he asked.
"Yep?" Laur said, still in awe, but now she had to watch where she walking because there was a lot of people around them.
"I'm hungry," he answered. And this time, Laur laughed and patted his arm lightly.
"Oh my god!" Laurali said, looking upward once they entered the Great Hall. "Is that the real outdoors?"
"Naw, it's bewitched to look like the sky outside," Hermione answered. They were now all seated together, towards the front of the Great Hall, close to the professors.
"Wouldn't it be so cool to have a slumber party in here?" Laur asked.
"Depends on the circumstances," Harry said. "We had to do it once, on a Halloween night."
"Must have been fun." Laur said. What she didn't notice that Hermione, Ron and Harry were all stiff. "So did you have lots of food and stuff?"
"No, there was an emergency in the castle, so all of the students slept in here for the night," Ron said.
"My guess is that this story is part of the long story you promised to tell me sometime."
"You'll learn all about us Laur," Harry said.
"Us and our adventures," Ron said.
Right then, all of the first years started to walk in, led by a stern looking woman with a floppy looking hat, and all of the students began to quiet down, except for the Weasley twins of course.
"I hope that this doesn't last forever!" Ron complained quietly, "I want to eat!" this last part he said a little bit too loudly, for many people around them shushed him.
AN: Another chapter done! I hope you enjoyed it! If you did, REVIEW! If you didn't, REVIEW! And an explanation of why would be lovely! And then, REVIEW! So, what I'm trying to say is, REVIEW! Have fun everyone! J
