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Chapter Three
"Thanks Ron! I don't think we could have ever figured out how to get here without your help!" Ron turned almost as red as his hair when he heard Melissa say this.
"Yeah, thanks Ron!" Mariela added.
"No Problem..." he mumbled.
The corridor was very narrow, and there were compartments on both sides. Ron was looking through the small windows in the compartment doors, but it seemed like they were too full to admit three more, either that, or the people inside them looked nasty.
Mariela saw a boy with white blonde hair and very pale skin sneer at them as they passed.
"That'll teach him!" she thought as she made a rude gesture with her hand, forever imprinting this gesture in the boy's mind. She had made an "acquaintance".
"Hey look! Fred and George are in here!" Ron exclaimed to the girls, and in just a few moments, they had settled themselves in that same compartment. The people in it were a little strange, but they seemed pleasant. Mariela was sitting next to a boy who seemed to have his twin at his other side. Melissa chose to sit next to Mariela, and Ron quickly sat next to Melissa. Across from them sat a boy with an odd scar on his forehead, and a girl with frizzy, mouse-brown hair.
Silence. No one seemed to want to say the first word. After what seemed hours, but it was only about ten seconds, Mariela looked around. "Hi," she said to the boy next to her, "I'm Mariela..."
"Uh, hey, I'm Fred...and, uh, this is George..." he pointed to the boy at his side.
"You're Ron's brothers right?" Mariela added. Hearing their names had confirmed the suspicion that their red hair started.
"You met the runt already did you?" George leaned to look at Ron as he spoke this. Ron blushed again, got up and exited the compartment mumbling, "I need some air..."
Melissa decided to join the conversation at this point, "Yeah, we met him. I'm Melissa. You're brother helped us get to the platform."
"What a gentleman!" George laughed.
Mariela just smiled and thought, "Well, nice enough..."
Melissa then turned to look more closely at the girl sitting across from her, and concluded that she was pretty enough to get a boy's attention, but not drop dead gorgeous. She also saw the cat in her lap. "I used to have a cat... What's it's name?"
The other girl turned and said, "Oh, this is Crookshanks! I'm Hermione, by the way."
"I'm Melissa, it's nice to meet you!"
That was all she said before she heard the voice. Mariela and Melissa turned and looked at each other. They quickly turned to the people in their compartment.
"Hide us!" They exclaimed in unison.
Fred turned to see a look of terror on Mariela's face. "There's room up there." He pointed to the luggage compartment above them. After Mariela and Melissa were crammed into the small space, Hermione took off her coat and placed it over them. Mariela could see a petite Asian girl with short black hair through a small hole in the coat.
"Can I sit with you guys?" the girl asked.
Fred, who was directly below Mariela and Melissa, started to say, "Su-" before Mariela hissed,
"NO!"
"What was that?" the girl asked stupidly.
Hermione reacted quicker than anyone and replied "Oh, that was my cat."
"Ew!" the stupid Asian proclaimed, "Cats are icky!" Before she could do any more damage, George was able to communicate with the imbecile, saying, "These seats are taken."
"Thank goodness! I hate cats!" exclaimed the girl as she turned and exited the compartment. Hermione slammed the door behind her.
She asked, "Who was that b itch!" as Melissa and Mariela tumbled out of the luggage compartment and onto the floor.
The fall made Hermione laugh, and pretty soon, everyone was laughing. That is, they were, until they were abruptly stopped when they heard the door scrape open once again.
Everyone turned to face the newcomer.
At first, they saw only Ron, but he was soon followed by the person with the biggest ego in the universe.
"Samantha!" Mariela and Melissa exclaimed.
"Mariela? Melissa? What are you guys doing here?" Samantha exclaimed, smiling broadly.
"We're going to Hogwarts... what are you doing here?" Melissa asked.
"I'm going to Hogwarts too! Ms. Nakathing invited me!" Samantha said as she sat down across from Melissa.
"Ms. Nakathing invited you? Personally?" Fred asked in amazement.
"Yes... what about it?" Samantha inquired, looking puzzled.
"Whoa," Fred and George said simultaneously. Fred continued, "Ms. Nakathing is the Headmistress of Hogwarts! It must be quite an honor to be specially invited."
"Well, my family has lived in our town for centuries, and we are quite rich living off an inheritance."
Fred and George looked at each other. They were definitely not rich, in fact, they were the opposite. They secretly wondered how this girl would react.
"That's... err... nice..." Ron said softly. He was sitting back down next to Melissa.
"Samantha, no one cares about financial dealings in this compartment," Mariela said, giving Samantha a cold look, "It's not like it really matters."
"Oh, I suppose it doesn't..." Samantha muttered, looking at Hermione's cat. "So, who are all of you people?"
After the introductions, there was silence. It was content silence this time, and not an awkward one. Then, suddenly, the compartment door was slid open so forcefully, Ron jumped in his seat. There stood the Asian girl, once again, and this time Mariela and Melissa had no escape.
"Oh! Hi, Melissa and Mariela! It's cool to see you here," Brigitte said, smiling dumbly, "I was just looking for Samantha... and here she is!"
"Yes?" Samantha asked, a small smile darting across her face.
Brigitte's eyelashes fluttered for a second before she said, "I was just wondering if you wanted to sit in the compartment with me and this cute boy I met named Draco."
"Oh... well... Maybe for a minute," Samantha said as she got up. When the two girls had left the compartment, there erupted a unanimous sigh of relief.
"That was awful," Hermione whispered, peering out the compartment door window.
"Agreed," Harry said, fumbling as he propped his glasses back onto the bridge of his nose.
"Well, now that's over and done with," George said, laughing, "Who wants a chocolate frog?"
"Ooh! I do! I do!" Ron said, looking hopefully at George's backpack.
"No problem, little Ronniekins!" George said as he tossed the chocolate frog at Ron. He missed, and Melissa caught it. She handed it to him. "Here you are," she said, smiling.
"Err... thank you..." Ron said, his ears bright red once again. He took the candy from Melissa, and opened the package. Fred and George had huge smiles across their faces.
The frog leapt up into the air, and attached itself to the compartment window. Ron grabbed it and quickly stuffed it in his mouth.
"Well, I'm bored," Mariela said, looking around the compartment, "What are we supposed to do? How long will it take to get there? When will-"
"So many questions, so little brain power," Fred said, smiling.
Suddenly, the train came to a halt.
"What?" George said, peering out the window, "We're not even close to Hogwarts!"
They quickly found out the reason for their premature stop. The engine of the train was engulfed in flames!
They heard an odd noise as loudspeakers magically appeared in all of the compartments. They then heard a noise that was even odder. It was Ms Nakathing, and she sounded frantic, "Students! Due to the terrible circumstances that the engine is on fire, I urge you not to panic! First years, find a student with a broom, it seems that we will be flying to Hogwarts this year!"
George turned to the group, grinned, and merely said, "Well, that was hysterical…but it sounds like we should be getting out of this train."
No one needed to be told twice; they calmly opened the compartment door, and started walking. Strangely, there was no one else in the narrow corridor; it seemed that the rest of the school was still in a stupor.
"Talk about slow reactions." Mariela said under her breath. Fred, who was in front of her, turned and laughed, and Mariela smiled.
They got outside in time to see the flames at the front of the train. All the wizards were dousing it with water from their wands, and the fire quickly died out, but the damage to the engine was done.
When Melissa turned, she saw that Harry, Fred and George now had brooms in their hands.
"Let's go!" Harry said.
The arrangements were made, and the group was soon flying off to Hogwarts; Melissa and Ron with Harry (Harry had the newer broom), Mariela with Fred, and Hermione with George.
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