On Platform 9 ¾

A 6' 2", muscular young man with spiky vibrant red hair & deep blue eyes had just said good bye to his mom and was looking for his friends, one of which he found almost immediately, a young man of 6'0" with messy jet black hair and forest green eyes. This young man also has a peculiar shaped scar on his forehead; it was shaped like a lightening bolt.

"Hey Harry!" The red-haired boy said to the black-haired boy, who was obviously Harry.

"Hi Ron," Harry said back, "where's Ginny?"

"Oh, she spent the last couple of weeks of vacation with a friend. A 6th year Ravenclaw by the name of Soula Venger."

"Oh, ok. By any chance have you seen Hermione yet?"

"Nope, if she isn't here now she'll be here soon. She's the Head Girl you know."

"Yeah, I know. Who's the Head Boy this year?"

"Roger Davis is."

"I see. Did you tell her yet?"

"Yeah, and it seems she had a crush on me, too. We're now 'officially' going out."

"GREAT!!"

All the while they have been walking through the train trying to find an empty compartment, or at least one where they like all the people in it, when they came across a locked compartment.

"That's strange." Ron commented. "Do you remember the compartments being lockable?" He asked his companion.

Harry shook his head. "Come on; let's just find a different one."

"Ok." While they were walking Ron thought that he heard giggling coming from the locked compartment, but when Harry started talking about Quidditch he forgot all about it.

Inside the locked compartment

"So, how we gonna make our grand entrance?" Kat asked Pat while gesturing wildly with her hands.

"Well, last time I was at Esther's house she showed me how to make fake rain, wind, lightenin, and thunda. I was thinkin bout usin dat." Pat replied.

"Oooooo. How interesting. But donchu think dis is a bit TOO much?"

Pat thought about this. "Yeah, you may be right .... NOT!!!! We wanna scare the livin daylights outta your cuz, right?" Kat nodded. "And we wanna make a good first impression on everyone when we get there, right?" Again Kat nodded. "So we needa do alla dis."

"Ok." Kat finally agreed. "So, how we gonna do it?" They started planning their "Grand Entrance" which led to a lot of giggling, which eventually lead to all out laughter.

At school (before the students arrived) in a back room

Snape paced around the room. "Why isn't the Mythology professor here yet?!?!" He asked, exasperated.

"Because they will be coming in after the new students are sorted." Dumbledore explained.

"WHAT?!?! WHY?!?!" Snape blinked. "Did you say 'they'?"

"Because that's what they asked for and yes, I did say 'they'."

"Why two professors?" The man in the back of the room asked.

"SHUT UP LUPIN!!" Snape snapped. "Why ARE there going to be two professors?" He asked Dumbledore.

"Mostly because we couldn't get one without the other but also because Mythology is too big a subject for just one professor to handle."

"FINE!!" Snape said with his famous scowl.

Dumbledore looked at his watch, which at the time said 'Hurry up, slowpoke.' "Well," said Dumbledore, "we'd better get going if we want to get to the feast on time." And with that Dumbledore walked out of the room, leaving the two other men by themselves.

"Come on; we need to go." Lupin kindly said to Snape, but Snape just gave him cold stares the whole way to the feast.

A/N: I don't own Esther b/c she would NOT stand for it. Nor do I own Soula Venger, though she probably wouldn't mind as much.