Title: That Kid Who Blew Up the Food Cart

Author: x-iNNi3 AUTTi

Disclaimer: it's all JKR

Chapter One

Sometimes the real hero can be the person you over looked. The one you didn't pay much attention to could be the one to save the rest of the world from impending doom. But, this is Seamus Finnegan's story and though he does play his own role in Hogwarts and all related wars he's not the savior. He's merely trying to get through school in one piece…

"Seamus Finnegan. Up, up, up!" A few more minutes of banging on the door and a muttered alohamora spell allowed Mrs. Finnegan to enter her son's messy room. She stepped over a pile of clothes and some books. "Seamus, get up. We have to catch the train in two hours and you're still in bed!"

Seamus merely rolled over and grunted. Mrs. Finnegan busied herself with seeing to Seamus' trunk. "Dear Merlin, Seamus, did you make your clothes invisible or something? Because it seems to me that your trunk is empty." This resulted in another grunt from Seamus.

"You do know you're going to be gone until Christmas, right? Have you done any packing?" There were some muffled words from Seamus' bed.

"You did pack… where exactly is this?" Seamus' mum said as she looked about his room.

Another mumble and Seamus' hand emerged from his blankets as he pointed to the pile of clothes and books that Mrs. Finnegan had stepped over entering his room. She laughed and with another attempt to get Seamus out of bed she started gathering up her son's books putting them in the trunk.

After Seamus was up and all of his things packed the Finnegan family gathered around for breakfast.

"So son, are you excited about your big day?" Mr. Finnegan said reading a newspaper.

"Excited? Try scared I'm going to like burn the whole school down or something…" Seamus muttered to his toast. It was his first day at Hogwarts School of Witch Craft and Wizardry and how he was dreading it.

"Come on, Seamus. You're not going to burn the whole school down. It's quite big," Seamus' father said reassuringly.

"That's really believable coming from a muggle," Seamus said through a mouthful of toast, "How have you even seen it?"

"Well your mother did show me some fabulous photos." Seamus just shook his head.

About a half hour after that the Finnegan family was at King's Cross. Mr. and Mrs. Finnegan were conversing behind Seamus as he pushed his cart towards the platform.

"You have to run into a brick wall? That's horrible!" his father was saying.

"It won't hurt you, dear. Stop complaining. Seamus, sweetie, just push your cart through and we'll be there in a sec."

Seamus pushed his cart towards the wall and looked around to see if any muggles were watching. He then took a deep breath and made his way through to the platform.

He was immediately greeted with a roar of voices and noise. Parents bidding their kids good bye, friends searching for a familiar face…

"See, I told you, you weren't going to die." Seamus turned to find his mother and father coming through.

"Well what would you expect when running through a wall at top speeds?" His father said.

"You are SUCH a muggle." Seamus' mum said rolling her eyes.

"Mum? I need to get on the train now… it's leaving now," Seamus said as his parents caught up with him. Mrs. Finnegan had tears in her eye and she pulled her son into a hug.

"Oh dear, please, please, PLEASE be careful, write me regularly… preferably daily but I doubt that'll happen. I'll miss you, sweetie…"

"Mum, I'm just gone until Christmas…" But he hugged his mother nonetheless. Letting of her he turned to face his dad.

"Good bye, Seamus… make us proud. Which shouldn't be hard to do… anything you learn will be better than what I can do," he said winking at his son.

"Bye dad" Seamus said shaking his hand, they picked up his trunk and put it in the train. Seamus followed in afterwards and waved to his parents.

"Bye Mum… dad. I'll write. I promise…" He said through the door. His parents waved back.

Seamus went to go find an empty compartment; he tried one that looked empty. He took a step in and was hit in the face with an unknown object.

"Bloody hell…" he said as he took a step back he looked at what hit him. Dungbomb… great.

"False alarm, Fred."

"Holy crap, you think?"

Seamus looked up to see two redheads looking at him and frowning. One went over to examine Seamus…

"How did you think this was Percy?" said the one called Fred.

"He could be in disguise… are you a to-smart-for-your-own-good redheaded brother of mine?" said the other as he poked Seamus.

"Uh… last time I check. No." Seamus said slightly concerned for the two.

"Yeah if he was he would have told on us by now… you may leave now," Fred said. "Wait, George can you clean him off a bit?"

"Sure thing," George said and with a flick of his wand Seamus was good as new. "Sorry 'bout that."

"Er… don't mention it," Seamus said backing out of the compartment. He went to look for an actual empty compartment this time… thoroughly checking through the small windows this time. He found one that contained only a boy about his age. Seamus opened the door and peered in.

"Can I sit here?" He asked.

"Sure."

Seamus sat opposite him. "I'm Seamus Finnegan… first year, by the way."

"I'm Dean Thomas, first year as well," Dean replied. Seamus grinned.

"Wanna play some Exploding Snap? I'm sure I brought my cards with me…" Seamus said looking in his pockets for his pack of cards.

"Exploding Snap?" Dean said confused.

"Oh! Are you a muggle born?" Seamus asked.

"If by muggle born you mean my parents don't have a drop of magical blood in them, then yeah," Dean said grinning, "So your parents are wizards then?"

Seamus laughed, "Half of them."

"What? Your mum's legs are magical but her arms aren't?" Dean asked.

"Heh, nope. My mum's a witch but dad's a muggle," Seamus said shuffling the cards, "Here I'll teach you how to play."

During their second game the compartment door opened and out came Fred and George. Seamus gulped when he saw them.

"Fred would you look at that, it's the dung man… why didn't you tell us you were a firstie?" George said coming to sit next to Seamus.

"Uh…"

"What's your name?" Fred asked sitting on his other side.

"Seamus Finnegan," Seamus said suspiciously.

"Want to do us a favor, Seamus?"

"It's nothing dangerous or rule breaking or anything… well it might be. But you won't get in trouble."

"Why won't I get in trouble?" Seamus asked.

"Because you're a first year! Its only rule breaking enough to get points taken away and you're not sorted… so no points. But if my brother or I do it… well we might get in a bit of trouble."

"Not that we mind getting in to trouble… but we'd rather not start the year off with negative points… again. So are you in?"

"What exactly do I have to do?" Seamus asked narrow-eyed.

"You know that lady that comes by with the food cart? Well you just have to distract her a bit while we put some uh… new products on to her cart." Fred said.

"Wait, are you going to poison us?"

"No, of course not… well not you at least. And it's nothing toxic…"

"If you help us, we'll promise not to put anything in your food," George said his arm around Seamus' shoulders.

"Believe us, that's a big thing," Fred said standing up. George pulled Seamus up as he stood as well, "Now let's go." George pushed Seamus throw the door and into the cart right outside the door.

"Perfect timing," George whispered into Seamus' ear as he and Fred snuck away.

The food cart lady turned around to ask Seamus what he wanted to buy.

"Um… well I… want some," He looked behind the Food cart lady's back to see Fred motioning at him to step up his distraction. Fred pointed to his wand. Seamus pulled his out of his pocket.

"Um…" Seamus was about to say something when the door behind him opened and he was pushed forward. And sparks flew from his wand landing on to the candy. The food lady was trying to put them out and there was an explosion.

Seamus was thrown to the ground and he looked up to see the food cart on fire. The lady was frantic now… "Oh dear… we need to put this out the pumpkin pasties are…" then there was another explosion and Seamus looked to see a mangled mess in front of him. "…Flammable" the lady finished.

Seamus looked up in horror, "I am so sorry" he said but the food lady just put a hand up.

"I can fix this… somehow," she said, "You just go back to your compartment."

Great, Seamus thought, just great, I'm not even at school yet and I managed to blow up the food cart. This is going to be a fabulous year.

A/N: Well, there's the first chapter. I know its not that good… but hopefully it will be okay enough to attract some attention… maybe. There's no where near enough Seamus stories.

P L E A S E-R E V I E W… please?