Chapter 60

Hogwart's Express

The rest of the summer went quite well, they decided that Lightning would be traveling by herself this year, for they decided to take the train this year. They said their good byes to the family, and Lightning. Lightning went off without much of a fuss with Hagrid, who had come to pick her up to go back to Hogwart's with him. He had to arrive and leave while it was still dark, as so the muggles wouldn't see him. He being a half-giant made it hard to make people who weren't knowing of their world, look at him strangely.

Harry, having gotten his stuff packed up quickly last night, spent the night with Lightning, making sure she was ready for the trip. When Hagrid showed up that next morning, he found that Harry had fallen asleep next to the young Unicorn. He smiled as he picked Harry up and went back to the house where he laid him down on the couch in the living room. He went back outside to the barn to get the unicorn, and be on their way. When Hagrid looked back at the Burrow, he saw Harry waving good bye to them and then go back into the house. Hagrid had a smile on his face as he faced Lightning. "He loves you so much. They all do. You were lucky that he found you that night two years ago. I have a feeling that you will be a vital part in this war if it comes down to it. Well let's get going girl, we are going to be going via a special port key, that was made just for this kind of situation." With that Hagrid put a hand on her shoulder, and they disappeared.

Harry had gone back up to his room and decided that it was still early. He decided to try to get some more sleep before he had to get up in a couple of hours. He smiled at what it looked like when Hagrid and Lightning were standing out there just outside of the barn. He smiled as he fell off to dreamland, and dreamed of both the beautiful young Unicorn, and of the beautiful young brown haired young lady who had taken his heart also. He was dreaming of their time in Paris when he was awoken by Ron pounding on his door saying that it was time to get up. Harry was still smiling when he came downstairs for breakfast.

"Good morning everyone. How did everyone sleep last night?" Harry said this after giving his girlfriend a good morning kiss as he sat down next to her.

"Good morning Harry. It seems that you had a good night's sleep last night. What or should I ask who were you dreaming about last night?" George was giving him some ribbing about it, but was glad that his adopted younger brother had found someone so special to him.

From the look on Harry's face at that time, they knew that George was right in his assumption. They didn't dare say anything tho, for they knew that Mr. and Mrs. Weasley were extremely protective of their children's private lives, well when it came to their girl and boy friends. Harry was thankful for this at the time, for he was blushing a bit at Georges question. How was he to tell them that he was dreaming about Hermoine, especially with her sitting there right next to him. He smiled at Hermoine, and kissed her again. "Good morning Moine, did you sleep well last night?"

"Yes I slept quite well, thank you Harry. I'm glad that you also slept well. Did lightning get off well with Hagrid this morning?"

Harry was relieved for the change of subject, and went with it. "Yah, he picked her up early this morning. I saw them go, and they were happy together. I can't wait to get back to school to let her know that I got there all right. Well how are we getting to King's Cross today Mum?" Harry and the rest of them were excited to learn how they were going to be doing this, for they had such a big group this year.

"Well we will be going by way of Floo. It should be rather quick that way, and we won't have to leave til almost 10:30 this morning. That way we shouldn't be all trying to rush around so much. Now is everyone ready to go, it's almost 10 now, so we should be getting everyone's stuff down here so we can get going." She looked out over the gathered teenagers, and was glad to see them all nod.

Harry looked over at his adopted parents, and was happy that they were going to be all right. He finished up his breakfast and went up to get his trunk and Hedwig's cage to get going. He made sure that she was ready to go, and put a cover over her cage so she would sleep on the way there. "We're getting ready to go girl, you sleep and I will look in on you when we get on the train." He scratched her behind the head before putting the cloth over the cage.

The flooing experience for the group went quite well actually, for they found that they were the only ones that were going to be getting there that way this year. They all boarded the train after saying good bye and thank you to the Weasley's for having them this summer. They all went in and got three separate cars for their travels. They were met by Crabbe and Goyle, who weren't able to stay that summer, but met them on the train without any problems. They ended up spending time in the different cars, but were all switching back and forth all the time. They ran into Remus Lupin, Sirius Black, and Dawn Lupin in one of the other train compartments and invited Dawn to join them in their car. She declined saying that she wanted to spend some more time with her father before she started at the new school. They were invited to come to their car at anytime during the trip that they wanted tho.

The trip went by rather uneventfully, except that they thought they had seen some strange figures flying around outside the train, but when they looked, they found that they were seeing things. When they got to Hogwart's they found that it was getting dark, and they were going to be getting into the Great Hall rather cold. They were looking forward to the opening feast, and seeing the rest of their friends again.

A/N: Ok that is the 60th chapter to this story, I hope that you're enjoying it as much as I am enjoying writing it. I am sorry that I am a little late on my usual for putting out this chapter, but my computer was messing up, and not really letting me into Work Perfect to write. Well as usual, please read and review. —Donald