Chapter 6: On the Way
Harry, Ron, Hermonie, Fred, George, Ginny, and Bill walked along the train station. They reached their destination of platform 9 3/4.
"All right," started Bill. "Who wants to go first?"
"I'll go," said Ron stepping forward.
"Don't crash this time," joked George and Fred laughed.
Ron gave a dirty look recalling when he and Harry crashed into the entrance in their second year.
Ron gave off a run and went through the entrance. He was followed by Hermonie, Fred, Ginny, George and then Harry. As Harry approached the train feeling good about going to Hogwarts again. As Harry walked onto the train with his friends, they went to find themselves a seat in the corridors.
They found an empty one to their luck and got comfortable in it.
"How do you reckon the other students will get to Hogwarts?" asked Ron while sitting down.
"By plane," said a voice.
All three of them turned to the entrance to see Lee Jordan, with both of the Weasley twins behind him.
"By plane?" asked Hermonie. "What makes you so sure?"
"I have sources," said Lee Jordan. "Can't wait for these new students."
"Lee's helping with our sales," cut in Fred. "He can be very convincing sometimes."
The train began movement, which almost knocked Lee and the twins off of their feet. Harry, Hermonie, and Ron laughed at the sight and the other three trailed off to find a seat.
"Where's your sister?" asked Hermonie, adding on another question.
Ron shrugged his shoulders and said,
"Who knows? Probably with her year students."
"How many fourth years do you think there will be?" asked Harry.
"I'm hoping a couple around our age," said Ron.
"Wonder what they're teaching methods are like over there. They might be ahead of us."
"Ahead of us?" asked Harry.
"They may have a faster way of teaching over there. They might know spells that we haven't even heard of yet."
"You told me that last time," pointed out Ron.
"But I hadn't told Harry. And I wasn't speaking to you."
Ron grumbled something and nodded his head back. He started looking out the window.
"What are you looking for?" asked Harry.
"The plane."
"What makes you think they are taking a plane? Lee didn't have any way of proving it."
"Then what's that out there?"
Both Harry and Hermonie scooted over to the window, and sure enough, there was a plane soaring through the clouds. Heading in the same direction as the train. It was bound to be the new students.