Chapter 7
I'm Being Smacked
Mr. Weasley drove for a whole hour, in the fastest speed he could drive in. They endured all the shaking and bumping until finally they arrived at the station. There were muggles in there, some of them still heading towards their jobs. "Come on everyone" Mr.Weasley called above the noise, "let's go". Harry was just thinking 'to where?' when he saw Mr. Weasley pointing at the barrier between eight and nine. "Why are we going that way, dad?" asked Ginny, who looked awake more than before. But Mr.Weasley didn't answer, he just ushered them to the barrier, he then said something to Hermione and Ginny, who were ahead of Ron and Harry, and next second they were running towards the barrier, and they easily slipped in-between the barrier. Harry saw that just like platform nine and three quarters, muggles didn't notice the disappearance of them, Ron did the same as Hermione and Ginny, and ran towards the barrier, he slipped the same way. Mr. Weasley ushered Harry, who was the last, Harry felt awkward running into a different platform, but he did anyway, and he didn't hit the barrier, he went to other side and found Ron, Ginny and Hermione standing and looking around. The area was empty from a steamy-train, students or even people. "Come on, Hurry up" Mr. Weasley said as soon as he appeared next to Harry. They walked in the empty place and then sat on benches at either side of the place. Harry sat there with the others for about twenty minutes; Mr. Weasley was pacing up and down, and looking at the far end of the hall from time to time. Nothing happened, Harry lost track of time, the others were looking tiredly around, and Ginny was actually sleeping on Harry's shoulder. Suddenly, when Harry's eyes were closing slowly on Ron's shoulder, Mr. Weasley called to them, "come on, the car came at last". They all woke up from there daze and stood looking at where Mr. Weasley was looking. There, at the far space, a light came, car lights. And then a dark blue car stood just right in front of them, it looked like a rocket, but there's gas instead of fire. They all got in (it was very tight and they were all crammed inside), and Harry saw the driver, who was wearing dark blue, from top to down, was talking to Mr. Weasley. The car door snapped shut by itself, and Harry saw Mr. Weasley waving at them. "Your dad is not coming with us?" Harry asked Ron, frowning. "Oh no…he told me that the…er…driver will take us there and go straight to the ministry afterwards" Ron was waving back at his father and talking. "But…" Harry said, "When did he tell you that?" Ron waved the last time and then turned to Harry, "when you were a sleep on my shoulder," he said, smiling. Before Harry could wonder when did he have time to sleep, the car started in motion. Harry felt as if he was in a rocket, the speed was unbelievable, they were almost flying. Harry's face was smacked by the air that was coming from nowhere. He turned his head with difficulty, and the air slapped him on the cheeks, craning his neck behind. He heard screaming and shouting all around him, he looked and saw Ron and Ginny talking normally (shouting is more like it) about something. "RON" Harry screamed, as the air entered his mouth and his voice was gone, because he tried to speak to Ron with no success. It was as if he was being slapped once, twice, three times, none stop. "ROOOON" he shouted again, his lungs were filled with air, and his eyes were wide open from it. Ron turned and shouted at Harry, "DON'T WORRY, IT'S A MAGICAL CAR THAT GOES AT A VERY HUGE SPEED…", "YEAH, I NOTICED" Harry shouted over to Ron, he looked at Harry, his head was hitting the window behind him. There was no space to breath; yet, there was too much air to breath. Ron wanted to continue chatting with Harry, but as soon as he opened his mouth, he coughed loudly, the air must have entered his lungs too, thought Harry, as he turned his head on the other side (with difficulty again) and looked at Ginny. "HI HARRY" she shouted at him, smiling wide, she was just extending her hand to him, but the force of the air changed its destination, and soon Harry was smacked yet again, this time for real. "I'M SORRY HARRY…I'M SORRY" she was shouting, as everyone was trying to crane their necks with all their strength to look at what happened, Hermione, who was on the other side of the seat, had no chance to see anything. "WHAT'S GOIND ON?" the driver shouted above all the noise, it sounded like he was annoyed. "NOTHING" they all said together, as they whacked their necks in an attempt to look at the driver. The rest of the journey went 'safe' as they all hold their hands down, and their heads at one direction. Until, to their surprise, they noticed that the car was slowing down, and that meant something. When at last it stopped, they looked outside and they were all happy, as they got out of the car. They all stood, as the car drove off to the distance, they watched a wonderful thing in front of their eyes, they thought they were never going tom make it out of the car safe, but here they are, looking happily and in relief at the huge gates and turrets of Hogwarts.