Hogwarts Express, 1997

Harry Potter, a skinny black haired boy, with round glasses that hid his emerald green eyes, walked with his Hogwarts trunk and his owl, Hedwig in her cage to the packed King Cross station. He stopped between platform 9 and 10 and began to run towards the wall between them. Trying not to think.

"Harry!" a girl came running to him, wearing a big smile on her face.

"Hermione," he said and gave her a hug "good to see you".

Hermione stopped dead. She saw that his bright green eyes were brighter than usual. Then she remembered.

"Is everything alright?" she asked in concern "Is it about Sirius?"

"Forget about it Hermione" said Harry.

"Look Harry –"

"Harry! Herms!" a redheaded boy came running towards them. Harry smiled when he saw Ron; he snuck a look to the rest of the Weasleys, his eyes hanging on one in particular before they were snapped again to Ron and Hermione.

"Herms?" said Hermione sharply "Herms!" Harry and Ron began to laugh.

"Relax Herms," he said, "What's wrong Harry?" he said after a moment of silence.

"Nothing Ron, nothing. Listen I'm going to find a compartment you two should be going to the Heads compartment anyway don't you?" Ron nodded and with a worried glance at Hermione she said without words "Don't-push-it-anymore-let's-go-before-he-explodes"

"We're off than," said Hermione.

"What the hell is wrong with him Herms?" said Ron after they separated from Harry, walking towards the heads compartment.

"He's thinking it's his fault again" she said.

"Again? " exclaimed Ron in disbelief.

"Stop being such a tactless insufferable prat Ron! It's his godfather for heaven's sake. Maybe you didn't notice that Ron, but Harry's parents are dead since he was a one-year-old and Sirius was the closest thing to a father and to his father he ever had!"

"I know that Hermione," snapped Ron "but he has been an emotional wreck for the last two years Hermione, he's had to get over that by now."

"I can't believe Dumbledore made you head boy Ron! You are acting like a complete fool!" said Hermione angrily, attracting some glances from the other parents and children on the platform.

"That's a very nice thing to say to your friend Hermione you know that don't you?" Ron snapped again.

"What's all that noise? Weasel King and his perfect Mudblood are fighting? And where is Pot-head?" said the sneering voice of Draco Malfoy.

"SHUT UP!" both Ron and Hermione roared. Malfoy looked taken aback and Ron and Hermione took the chance to walk fast into the Heads compartment.

As they shut the door, they both bellowed at each other simultaneously:

"You don't understand Hermione-"

"You have no tact-"

"What's wrong with you-"

"Look Hermione, let's just focus on the Head boy and girl stuff, I AM NOT IN THE MOOD TO FIGHT WITH YOU!"

Hi

Thanks to anyone who reviewed. I hope that most of the people who read that story in the past will return to me. I didn't start chapter 19 yet, and I don't think I will until I will post all of the story again. I know I promised to post this chapter on March 3rd (my birthday), but my father gave me a birthday present and blocked my computer. Nice of him don't you think?

Lily