The threesome sat down in a booth with a very antisocial looking girl. She had dyed black hair and purple eyes, engrossed in a book titled "The Fellowship of the Ring."
"Hi," said Ron, in a bit of a scared tone. "I'm Ron, this is Hermione and this is Harry."
Raven looked up from her book and raised her eybrows. Was this the Harry she was looking for? The scar on his forehead told her everything. Wonderful. He had come to her. This made things much easier. Now she just had to make friends with him. The difficult part. As she mumbled "Raven" as a short introduction, she looked over the three. Ron was a bit gangly with red hair and freckles. Hermione, an excited but yet collected and intelligent looking girl with brown hair, and Harry. Harry... He was absolutely gorgeous. To her, anyway. He had jet black hair and deep green eyes. Funny glasses, but she didn't care. It was very confusing that none of the other girls around him seemed to care about liking him for his looks or sense of humour, only liking him for his fame. Disgusting. She suddenly realized she was staring, something VERY unlike her. She immediately turned bright red and smothered her face into her world of hobbits and elves. How embarrassing.
Harry looked at Raven as she spoke her name. Wow. She didn't look normal, more exotic actually. She was extremely pretty though no other boys seemed to notice. It was strange, he had a feeling that she was someone who shared the same pain and internal problems as he, someone who could understand. Especially after Cho. Blubbering idiotic girl. He really wanted to get to know her. And he didn't know it but she did too.
Starfire and Robin wandered down the aisle of the car, then came across a compartment with only 3 people. Introducing themselves they were Draco Malfoy, then simply only Crabbe and Goyle. Robin quickly got to like Malfoy, for despite his evil aura, he was very interesting. Starfire could talk to Crabbe and Goyle and not feel like a total alien idiot because at least they didn't LOOK confused.
Beast Boy and Cyborg had found a group of gamer type Hufflepuffs. They spent the entire trip engaged in conversation arguing over which was better, xbox or gamestation. They were all getting along quite nicely.
Raven had quite grown to like the three wizards she shared the compartment with. Hermione was the only person who could match her wit and sarcasm. And she was a complete bookworm. They had spent at least half the trip discussing the finer parts of JRR Tolkien's work.
Harry had been talking to Ron.
"Ron, do you think Raven will be in Slytherin? She looks like a Slytherin. I hope she gets in Gryffindor."
"Wow. You really rate her, don't you, Harry?"
Harry decided not to reply to this, and suddenly a meandering river outside the window was extremely interesting.
Malfoy, making his usual visit, opened the compartment to make fun of the three. He started to flirt with Raven, and to his surprise and Harry's delight, she shot him a glare that could kill a small dog. Malfoy staggered out of the compartment, dumbfounded that this girl who looked so Slytherin could be so... negatively responding to his advances.
By the middle of the trip Ron and Hermione were arguing again and Harry had retreated to Raven's side of the compartment. They spoke now and then, both getting to know the other just barely. Raven found herself not being as much of a gated fortress of a person as usual. Although dangerous, she liked it. She wasn't quite as rude, not as cynical. And for some reason they kept getting closer. Centimeter by centimeter. By the end of the trip from being on opposite sides Harry and Raven were 1 and 1/2 feet from each other...
The reason Raven had given for her being there in her 5th year was as a transfer student from America. She made it look like she was a wealthy orphan and she was being transferred due to the quality of schools- Hogwarts was well known for its high standards. Luckily the others fell for it, and she was welcomed in, just as planned.