"Mother! MOTHER! Get down here! I have to leave! NOW!" Sirius Black shouted to his mother, who was currently upstairs trying to make herself look as vastly superior to everyone else as possible. Sirius looked at his watch and groaned. 10:47. The Hogwarts Express left at 11. He was never going to make it in time. He had all his things ready, it was waiting on his mother that was the problem. "Mother! No one cares how you look! I need to GO!" He yelled again. "I mean it Mother! I will leave without you!" He turned to gather his things. The door behind him opened. "Final - oh no. Kreacher! What do you want?"

Their extremely ugly house-elf sunk into a rather disrespectful bow and said, "Mistress sent Kreacher down to tell Young Master not to yell and that she is getting ready."

"Yeah, well you can hurry back up the stairs and tell your prissy Mistress that Young Master has to be at Kings Cross in less than 10 minutes." Sirius snapped.

Instead of obeying, Kreacher looked at Sirius. "Why is Young Master so willing to go to school? Mistress tells Kreacher that school is full of scum: nasty, filthy half-breeds and Mudbloods. No self-respecting wizard would willingly set foot in such a place."

"Kreacher! Just get out!" Sirius yelled. Kreacher ignored him.

"But Young Master, he is a bad boy. He's not like us."

"I've had enough of this." Sirius muttered angrily. He gathered his things and headed for the front door.

"Young Master must not take another step! He shall-"

"Oh shut up you horrible wretch or I'll give you a sock." Sirius said irritably. He slammed the door behind him as he dragged his stuff outside. He held out his brand new wand with his right hand. With a loud BANG a purple bus appeared: The Knight Bus.

As the door opened, Sirius nearly ran the conductor over as he said quite loudly, "Kings Cross! Step on it!"