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"Athene. It's a variation for the name of the Greek Goddess of Music and Wisdom. It suits her, don't you think Harry?" Lucy looked up at her brother as she fed her new pet a piece of her sandwich.
Harry shrugged. "I don't know. I prefer a name like Hedwig. I think I read it somewhere in one of your books." He grinned.
Lucy gave him a shove. "Oh really?"
Hagrid smiled amusedly at their bantering. Soon though, the Twins became quiet again, lost in thought over everything they'd experienced through the day.
Lucy only looked up from her lunch again when she heard a child, pestering his Mom to have a look at them. (Yes! Look at them. As if they were specimans in a zoo.)
"The Potters Mum!...It's Harry and Lucy Potter!...Can't I see them Mum? Can't I please?..."
Lucy sighed and rolled her eyes.
It's not going to stop, is it? She wondered and she knew Harry was wondering the same thing.
A woman in pale yellow robes paused next to stare at them as she hurried by, a couple of feathers falling from her hat as she whipped her head in their direction.
Harry clenched his jaw. I suppose not. He thought back with a frown.
Hagrid frowned when he noticed the looks on the Potters' faces. "Yeh two all right? Yeh both look like something's botherin yeh."
Lucy sighed. "Oh..it's not that it's just...well..." She looked at her brother.
"Everyone here seems to know us." Harry picked up from where Lucy left off. "And everyone...seems to think we're special. Mr. Ollivander, Tom the bartender, even that little boy just now..."
Lucy chewed her lip. "I guess...it's just overwhelming...I mean we're famous, and we don't even know how Voldemo-...sorry I mean You-Know-Who killed our parents. It's kind of infuriating..being so behind." She finished with tears welled up in her eyes.
Athene, sensing her mistress's distress mewed and batted her tiny little paws against the front of Lucy's sweater.
Hagrid sighed and leaned across the table. Behind the beard and the bushman eyebrows, Harry and Lucy could see he was wearing a very kind smile.
"Don't yeh two worry about a thing. Yeh'll catch on soon enough. Everyone starts at the beginning at Hogwarts, even those so called Purebloods who've had magic in thier families their whole lives. Yeh'll be just fine. Right?" He patted Lucy on the hand and she smiled just as a tear slipped down her cheek.
Harry grabbed her other hand.
"I know it's hard. Yeh've been singled out already and that's always hard. But yeh'll have a great time at Hogwarts. Trust me. I did. I still do, as a matter of fact." Hagrid gave a hearty chuckle.
Harry and Lucy both managed a half believable smile. Hagrid then reached into his pocket. "Here...yer tickets back to home. And here are yer tickets for Hogwarts. Make sure you don't lose em and stick by them until yeh get to Hogwarts. If yer relatives try to stop yeh, just send a message to me with Hedwig. She'll know how to find me."
Harry nodded his head as he grabbed the envelope Hagrid gave to him. "Thanks for everything, Hagrid. I don't think there's ever going to be a way we can ever repay you." He smiled as he exchanged a look with Lucy.
Hagrid shook his head. "Oh come now, none of that. Let's get a move on before yeh miss yer train. Can't have that, now can we?" He winked.
Lucy smiled back. "Thanks for today, Hagrid." She cuddled Athene closer to her chest as she got up to help Harry pick up their things.
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Harry and Lucy's last month with the Dursleys wasn't very fun, but it wasn't all that horrible either.
Dudley was now so terrified of the Twins that he refused to stay in the same room as as them and he never brought Pierrs Polkiss back to torture them again.
Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon never shut them back in their cupboard. They didn't hit them or shout or make them do anything at all as the last days of summer crept by.
In fact they pretended like Harry and Lucy weren't even there.
It was lonely, but not all that lonely because Harry and Lucy had Hedwig and Athene to keep them company.
Athene had become quite fond of playing with the strings on Harry and Lucy's shoes and Hedwig got let out every night after the Dursleys had gone to bed through the window to hunt and stretch out her wings.
Every morning she'd return with a present of a dead mouse or a bird. The Twins didn't appreciate it much, but Athene always did.
It was the night before the first of September that Harry and Lucy finally got up the courage to ask Uncle Vernon for a lift to Kings Cross.
"Er...Uncle Vernon? Might we have a word?" Harry asked, always the bolder between him and his sister.
Uncle Vernon grunted without looking away from the portrait he was hanging on the wall.
"Erm...Lucy and I need a ride to Kings Cross Station tomorrow to catch our train to school...Would it be all right if you gave us a lift?"
Another grunt. Harry supposed that meant yes. He looked at Lucy for help, but she only shrugged at him.
"Well uh..thank you, Uncle Vernon." Harry turned to lead Lucy back up the stairs.
"Funny way to get to a magic school." Uncle Vernon finally spoke up. "Magic carpets all got holes in em I suppose?" He grinned.
Lucy figured he was trying to make a bad joke.
"I suppose so." She muttered quietly.
"Where is this school anyway? Up in the clouds somewhere on a rainbow?" Uncle Vernon seemed full of it today.
"Uh I don't know. It says on our tickets to take the train from Platform Nine and Three-Quarters." Harry pulled his ticket from his pocket.
Uncle Vernon nearly dropped the portrait he was holding.
"Platform what?"
"Erm..Nine and Three Quarters?" Harry repeated himself.
"Don't talk rubbish!" Aunt Petunia snapped suddenly coming out from the kitchen. "There's no such platform as that!" She gave Lucy a severe look.
"Barking...howling mad the lot of them!" Uncle Vernon spluttered, spraying only a little bit of spit with his words.
"Oh you'll see. Just you wait. Got get to London tomorrow anyway so we'll drop the two of you off then. You'll see..you'll see." Uncle Vernon sneered as he went to (as delicately as he could manage) set the portrait on the nail on the wall.
Harry and Lucy exchanged glances. "Why are you going to London?" asked Harry, in an attempt to keep things friendly.
"Taking Dudley to the hospital!" Uncle Vernon barked as Aunt Petunia retreated quietly back to the kitchen. "Got to have that ruddy tail removed before he starts at Smeltings."
And so it was. Bright and early at six o clock the next morning, the Potter Twins found themselves loaded up in the Dursleys' family car. Their trunks and Hedwig and Athene's cage and carrying basket safely locked in the trunk driving off to Kings Cross Station.
When they got there, the Dursleys got out (except for Dudley of course) and helped the Twins load their trunks and pet carriers into a cart.
It was only when they were about to reach Platform Nine that Uncle Vernon stopped and faced the Twins with a nasty grin plastered to his face.
"Well there you are! Platform Nine and Platform Ten. Your Platform should be somewhere in between, but...they dont' seem to have built it yet do they?"
Lucy gulped when she realized he was right. Platform Nine and Platform Ten was divided by a tall stone wall with no room for an extra platform between.
She looked to Harry worriedly as Uncle Vernon fixed them with an even nastier smile. "Well then...have a good term. Do hesitate to call us while you're away."
Harry tried to pretend not to hear them laughing as they walked away leaving the Twins to their own devices.
He looked at at his sister and realized that Lucy was starting to wig out. And why shouldn't she?
They were already getting a lot of funny looks because of Hedwig. They'd have to ask someone and hope that someone in this bloody train station would be able to help them find their way.
They tried a guard, but he kept insisting that no such station existed and the ticket seller wasn't much help either.
After awhile, Harry looked up at the giant clock positioned over the ticket seller's booth. He and Lucy had exactly ten minutes to get on then train before it left them for Hogwarts, but how in the bloody hell were they supposed to find a train if it was on a platform that didn't exist?
Lucy was about propose trying some of the customers next when she heard a woman's voice speaking just barely over the noise of the general populace.
"...and packed with muggles of course!..Come along!..." A pleasantly plump woman with a head of flaming red hair led a group of four boys and one little girl all of them bearing the same fiery shade of red hair.
Each of the boys was pushing a cart like Harry and Lucy's. Not wasting any time, the Potters quickly took up their carts and hurried through the crowd to get to the little red-headed brood.
They got close enough just as the red headed woman, (whom Lucy cleverly assumed was the Mother of the four boys and the girl) began speaking again.
"Now!..What was the Platform number again boys? Loud and clear please for Ron." She motioned to the smallest of the boys.
"Mu-um!" The boy grumbled, turning pink with embarrassment.
"Nine and Three Quarters!" His older brothers chorused with glee. The little girl who was clinging tightly to her Mother also chorused it.
"Oh Mum!..Mum can't I go in too? I want to see-." "No Ginny, you're not old enough Dear." Her Mother cut her off gently. "All right Percy! You first." She nodded at the oldest of the four boys present there.
The Twins watched as the boy expertly turned his cart towards the center of the wall between Platforms Nine and Ten.
Lucy sucked in a breath, but instead of crashing (painfully) into the wall as she and Harry expected, the boy disappeared as if through a door in the middle of the wall.
The red headed woman merely nodded. "All right now Fred! You next!" She waved the next boy up. Lucy quickly realized that he was a twin. The boy standing to his left looked almost exactly like him. She smiled and looked towards her brother upon realizing this.
"He's not Fred! I am!" The boy the woman did not address earlier spoke up with almost an indignant tone to his voice. His brother matched his tone with a mischevious smirk.
"Honestly Woman and you call yourself our Mother?" He winked. Lucy had to turn around and press her mouth into the sleeve of her old sweater to keep from laughing out loud.
Harry gave her a strange look as the red headed Mother made a face then that was both halfway apologetic and halfway exasperated.
"Oh!..Sorry George! Go on!" She waved the boy forward with a wry smile. The boy started to head towards the wall when he stopped suddenly and turned to throw his Mother a provoking smile.
"I'm only joking! I am Fred!" He said before disappearing into the wall. His twin, (George, Lucy presumed) was quick to follow him.
Now the fourth brother was lining up at the wall, but before he could make run for it like his older brothers did, the Twins stepped forward.
"Uh excuse me!" Harry spoke up clumsily pushing his cart out in front of him. Lucy was quick to follow though she was not as strong as Harry was so she ended up bumping the front of her cart into Harry's.
"Oops sorry." She muttered sheepishly to him. Harry just shook it off. The plump red headed woman turned to address them then.
"Why hello there Dears! Hogwarts too? Don't worry it's Ron's first time too." She motioned to her youngest son who had paused to look at them.
Lucy offered him a slightly shy smile in return then took a quick peek into her cat basket to make sure that Athene was all right.
Ron was a pale gangly sort of boy with big feet and freckles dotted all over his cheeks. His eyes were a stunning green though and they stuck out against the bright hue of his hair.
Lucy thought he looked like a rather nice boy though she couldn't be exactly sure because she didn't know many nice people besides Hagrid.
"Er...yes." Harry stammered once he had found his voice. "See the thing is, my sister and I..we don't know how to-."
"Oh! How to get on the platform!" The woman interrupted kindly. "Not to worry Dearie, it's very simple. All you have to do is walk straight into the barrier between Platform Nine and Platform Ten. Don't be scared and don't stop once you're moving. That's very important." She instructed them.
Harry nodded his head. "Thank you uh..." He turned to gaze warily at the wall in front of him. It looked solid, but those boys from earlier had passed through it as easily as if it were a fold of curtains.
He clenched his jaw. The red headed woman seemed to notice that he was hesitant so she tried to encourage him.
"Go on, it's not that bad. Best to do it at a run if you're nervous. Go along now before Ron goes." She put out her arm to stop her son from moving his cart.
"Er...okay." Harry slowly turned his cart to face the wall.
Lucy bit her lip. Nervous as Harry took a deep breath started at a run towards the wall. People bustled to and fro around Harry as he ran closer and closer to the wall dividing the Platforms.
The closer he got, the more nervous Lucy became.
She didn't realize she was chewing on her fingernails until the little girl (Who look really no more than a year or so younger than her) patted her on the arm.
"It's okay. You don't have to worry. He won't get hurt." She smiled reassuringly. Lucy hesitantly smiled back. This girl had the same green eyes that her brother did and she seemed so sure.
Of course she is. She's from a wizarding family and she's watched three of her brothers run through the barrier. If anyone would know she would right? Lucy argued with herself.
Soon enough Harry disappeared, just like the twins and the other boy did earlier before. Lucy felt her stomach twist unnaturally as the plumpy looking woman motioned for her to go next.
The girl (Ginny, Lucy finally remembered her name was.) offered her another smile as Lucy nervously stepped up in front of the wall. "Good luck." She spoke shyly.
Lucy nodded back at her. "Thank you. You too."
Taking a firm grip on the handle of her cart, Lucy took off at a brisk run towards the wall. The closer she got, the more nervous she got, and the more nervous she got the faster she started to run till finally she had hit the wall.
Lucy shut her eyes, readying herself for the crash and the painful impact, but it never came. Instead she heard a train whistle and the sound of many people hurrying back and forth across the platform.
On the rails, a shiny little red engine puffed at its station waiting patiently at its berth as the last remaining students quickly boarded the carriages.
Bloody Hell!...Lucy gasped when she saw it all. This was by far the most wickedest thing she'd ever seen so far.
"Hey!..Lucy!" Lucy looked up when she heard Harry's voice. He was already at one of the cars waiting to hand his ticket to the ticket master. Lucy hurried to join him.
Once on the train, the Potters walked together with Hedwig's cage and Athene's basket to find an empty compartment for themselves in the carriage.
Lucy couldn't help peeking into some of the compartments as they passed them by. In one compartment, a boy with some mild acne was leaning out the window to recieve something small and concealable from his grandmother that he had apparently forgotten.
In another compartment, a boy with his hair in dreadlocks showed off a gigantic tarantulla he was holding in a basket. The girls in the compartment he was sharing shrieked and tried to scramble away from him as a hairy leg poked out from beneath the lid.
Finally they were able to find a compartment that was empty. Harry opened the door and let Lucy go in first, then he tried to get his trunk up on the cargo hold above the seats.
Unfortunately, Harry had forgotten how heavy his trunk was.
Lucy tried to help him. "Ow!" Harry let out a yelp when the trunk slipped from Lucy's grip and fell on his toe.
Lucy winced. "Sorry..." Harry started to shake his head when one of the red headed twins from earlier poked his head into their compartment.
"Need some help?" He asked helpfully with a goofy smile on his face. Harry sorely eased the trunk off his foot.
"Yes please." He grunted as he painfully tried to move his toes. The twin grinned at him then turned to holler over his shoulder. "Oi! Fred! Get in here and help you lug!"
Lucy let out a soft titter at that. The boy heard her and turned to meet Lucy's gaze as he reached to pick up one end Harry's trunk.
"You have a name to go with that pretty laugh, Love?" He asked inclining one of his eyebrows. Lucy blushed.
Before she could answer him, the other boy Fred entered the compartment and bent over to pick up the other end of Harry's trunk.
"Oi!..Whatcha got in here, Mate? Giant's Heads?" He joked as he and George carelessly heaved Harry's trunk up into the luggage carrier.
"Or Boulders?" George smirked. "Giant Boulders."
Harry shrugged not knowing how he was to answer as Lucy covered her mouth to stifle her laughter.
George grinned at her again and Harry thought he could see him blushing a bit as he and Fred went to retrieve Lucy's trunk next.
"Ah!..Hers is a lot lighter." He commented, winking at Lucy as he used his knees to lift his end of the trunk. Fred nodded in agreement.
"Much lighter." He stood up on the seat of the carriage straining as he tried to slide Lucy's trunk in right next to Harry's. "You think hers would be heavier though, since she's a girl and all."
Harry rolled his eyes at that as Lucy started turning a nice rosy shade of pink in the cheeks. "Aw! She's blushing!" Fred pointed at her.
Harry pursed his lips together. He knew the boys were only poking fun, but he always felt a little uncomfortable whenever someone poked fun at Lucy.
"She's just a bit shy." He retorted, sounding a bit more tense then he intended.
"Whoa whoa! Kill the motor, Mate. We were only kidding." George grinned as he hopped down from the carriage seat he was standing on to heave Lucy's trunk up.
"Right, Fred?"
"Right George!" His twin chimed in.
"She knew that, didn't you Sweet cheeks?" George turned to nod at Lucy.
Harry sighed and absently started to brush his bangs from his forehead.
"Holy Cricket!..Are you-?" Fred's eyes started to pop when he saw Harry's scar.
"He is!..Aren't you? That must mean that you're...!" George turned to eye Lucy with more interest than before.
The Potter Twins exchanged glances.
"What?" Harry inquired.
"Harry and Lucy Potter!" The Twins chorused simultaneously.
Harry released a breath he hadn't realized he was holding. "Oh them." He muttered carelessly. "Oh I mean yes! Yes, we are! I'm Harry and that's my sister Lucy." He quickly introduced himself and Lucy formally to the redheaded twins.
"Blimey!..." Fred seemed to be in shock.
"So..do you have a scar like that too then?" George inquired, his attention firmly set on Lucy.
With a soft sigh, Lucy nodded and reluctantly pulled back her hair to reveal the small lightening bolt shaped cut right above her left temple.
Fred grinned. "Wicked!..."
"Boys!...Fred! George! I'd like to have a word with you two before the train leaves!" The voice of the redheaded Mother from before piped up through the entrance of the train.
Reluctantly the redheaded twins turned to leave. "Coming Mum!"
"We'll see ya later, Love." George added, patting Lucy on the arm and winking as he shuffled by Harry to follow his Twin out the door.
Harry could barely contain his grin as he turned to shut the door after the Twins. "You like him." He teased his sister who had begun to turn a light shade of pink again.
Lucy whipped her head up at him. "I do not!...I just think he's funny, that's all." She snapped while indignantly plopping down in a seat and opening Athene's basket to let her out for some air.
Harry sat down across from her and set Hedwig's cage next to him. "Really? Then how do you explain the way you blushed every time he looked at you or said something funny?" He arched an eyebrow.
Lucy crossed her arms across her chest. "I do not like him!" She repeated insistently blushing as she fixed her brother with an intense stare.
Harry was about to say something when the train whistle blew and they suddenly began moving.
He and Lucy leaned against the window watching as all the parents and siblings who came to see their relatives off disappeared quickly from view.
Lucy waved when the redheaded girl and her Mother waved to them from the platform running until the train rounded a corner and they were out in the open air.
"Um..excuse me? Mind if I join you? Everywhere else is full." The youngest redheaded boy, Harry remembered was called Ron poked his head into the doorway as soon as the train had settled into a smooth rhythmic gait.
Harry shook his head. "Uh no." He quickly moved Hedwig's cage so that Ron could sit. Lucy stared at him for a minute curiously.
"My name's Ron Weasley." Ron introduced himself with a grin. Harry smiled back. "I'm Harry. Harry Potter. That's my sister, Lucy." He nodded at Lucy.
Just as expected, Ron's eyes bulged right out of their sockets. He looked a great deal like Fred then.
"Then..then it's true! You guys really have the...?" Ron trailed off running his fingers over the front of his forehead.
Harry nodded his head. "Yep."
Ron grinned. "Wicked! So You-Know-Who really-?"
"Yeah." Harry nodded again. "But we don't really remember a thing about how it happened." He averted his eyes as Lucy began to squirm a little in her seat.
"Nothing?" Ron seemed fascinated. Harry shook his head.
"Wow..." Ron sank into his seat and clutched something small and furry close to his chest. Lucy stared at it for a moment curiously until it wriggled.
Ron looked up when she let out a soft gasp and upon meeting his eyes Lucy quickly turned and averted her eyes to the window.
"So...are all your family members wizards Ron?" Harry asked suddenly, trying to start up a conversation with their new traveling companion.
Ron shrugged. "Er...I think so. Though Mum's got a cousin who's an accountant or something though. He's a Squib."
Harry furrowed his brow at unfamiliar word. "Squib?" Ron just nodded his head. "Yeah so he doesn't really stay in touch with us much. What about you? I heard you two went to live with muggles. What's that like?"
Lucy frowned out at the scenary passing at rapid speed out the window. "It's awful." She said without thinking speaking up for the first time since Ron joined them.
Harry noticed the look on Ron's face at her answer and quickly compensated. "Well they're not all bad. Just our Aunt, Uncle and Cousin. Lucy used to have this friend Emma who was really nice." He eyed his sister carefully as she sighed at the mention of her old friend whom she hadn't seen since she moved away with her family to Ireland when her Father got a job promotion.
"Oh." Ron nodded his head.
Lucy finally turned away from the window. "It must be nice to have three wizard brothers in the family though." She smiled slightly.
Ron shook his head. "Five actually...and one sister. I'm the sixth in the family to go to Hogwarts. You could say I've got a lot to live up to." He shrugged. "My brother Bill was Head Boy back in the day and Charlie was Quidditch Captain. They're both graduated of course, but Percy's made Prefect this year and Fred and George have pretty good marks even though they like to mess around a lot."
Harry widened his eyes. "Wow! Five brothers...and here I thought having one sibling was tough." He joked.
Lucy narrowed her eyes at him. "Shut up!" Harry smirked back at her knowingly.
"Course...you never get anything new with five brothers. These are Bill's old robes and I've got Charlie's old wand too." Ron held up a thin battered looking stick he had in his hand.
"Plus Scabbers here was Percy's old rat." Ron held up the furry little animal he had been shielding in his arms earlier.
Lucy felt a slight smile light her face when she saw the creature. He wasn't very pretty, but Lucy had always adored little furry animals.
"He's...a lovely rat." She said nicely while petting Athene on her lap. The kitten purred contentedly in response.
Ron pulled a face.
"Eh, he's useless really. Never wakes up or anything." Ron frowned as he stared at the sleeping rodent in his hand with distaste before setting him down on his lap.
"Fred gave me a spell though what turns him yellow. Want to see it?" Ron inquired. Lucy beamed at him eagerly. Harry nodded his head.
"Great!" Ron pulled out his wand again and cleared his throat. "Now let me see Sunsh-."
"Has anyone seen a toad?...A boy named Neville's lost one." A girl with long bushy hair suddenly barged into the compartment. The twins were startled by her appearance while Ron looked taken aback by her upfrontness.
She seemed to be at about the same age as the three of them, but Lucy could tell that she felt very sure of herself unlike her and Harry.
"Uh...no actually." Harry was forced to shake his head at her. The girl frowned a bit at that.
"Oh well if you see it, be sure to let me know. We've been searching the whole train for it since it left the platform. Poor Neville's in hysterics." She rolled her eyes.
Lucy frowned as the girl turned to leave. She was about to offer to help her find the toad, when the girl spotted Ron's wand.
"Oh! Are you about to do some magic? Well let's see it then!" The girl smiled, entering the compartment with her arms folded across her chest. She plopped down into the empty seat next to Lucy.
Ron's cheeks started taking on a slightly pink color, but he regained his compure and cleared his throat again before raising his wand. "Er...right then! *ahrem!*...Sunshine, daisies, butter mellow. Turn this stupid fat rat yellow!"
He waved his wand, but nothing happened. Scabbers remained grey and ugly and he didn't even twitch a whisker in his sleep.
Hermione gave him an incredulous look. "Are you sure that's a real spell?...Well it's not a very good one then is it? I've tried a few spells on my own of course from the book. They've all worked for me so far." She boasted.
Lucy pursed her lips at that. She couldn't help feeling just a little bit intimidated by this girl. She seemed so...on top of the wizarding world and its ways. Like she was born knowing it.
It made Lucy feel dumb and a quite inferior.
Could she be one from one of those old wizarding families the pale boy talked about in the robes shop? She wondered.
"Um...How many spells do you know?" Lucy asked aloud, a little afraid of the answer.
The girl just shrugged. "Only a few from the first several chapters of the charms book. I learned all our books by heart of course over the summer. I only hope it will be enough. I'm Hermione Granger by the way. First year!" She introduced herself with a toothy grin.
Lucy blushed feeling a bit overwhelmed by what she heard. She knows all the books by heart?... "Um, I'm Lucy. Lucy Potter." She said in a soft squeaky voice.
"Are you really?" Hermione's eyes widened with interest. "Then you must be her brother, Harry!" She whipped her head in Harry's direction then so fast that Lucy thought her head might pop off.
"I've read all about you two of course in Modern Magical History, and The Rise and Fall of the Dark Arts! Background reading you know." Hermione shrugged as if it were nothing.
Harry and Lucy exchanged another look while Athene hopped down from Lucy's lap to do a bit of exploring in the compartment.
"Really?" asked Harry feeling as dazed as Lucy did. Hermione nodded. "Oh yes, you didn't know? Blimey I would have tried to find out everything I could if it had been me!" She exclaimed getting up from her seat.
"I really must be going! In all the excitment I forgot what I was supposed to be doing." Hermione shook her head with a bit of annoyance at herself. Lucy stifled her snickers.
"You know you two should probably get into your robes right about now." Hermione turned to point a finger at the Potter Twins. "I suspect that we'll be arriving soon!"
She then turned to take a look at Ron.
"You've got dirt on your nose. Did you know?...Right there?" She pointed to her nose.
Ron turned pink again and hunched over to rub at his rather large pudgy nose as Hermione slammed the compartment door after herself.
Lucy exhaled deeply. "Intimidating." She shuddered.
Ron scowled at his nose. "She's a nightmare! Honestly who did she think she was, showing off all her book smarts at us? I mean who really cares how many books she read this summer anyway?"
Lucy shrugged stifling a laugh. "I don't know." She turned to look out the window again.
She made up her mind that she was going to make friends with Hermione, even if she was a bit of a show off and intimidating to be around.
It wouldn't hurt to have someone that knowledgable as a friend.
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