Chapter 4
Mayflower Johns
She spent the rest of her time before she had to go to Hogwarts walking around Diagon Alley, gazing into all the shops. She also soaked her brain into the all of the textbooks; she had read them all cover-to-cover well before September the 1st.
On the morning of September 1st, she was woken at eight o'clock in order to have time to get ready and to get to King's cross-station in time for the train. She quickly got dressed, excitement pulsing through every inch of her body. Finally, after a week of waiting, she was going to school. Wizards' school. Sweet.
She found Professor McGonagall sitting downstairs at a table waiting for Valentine, already eating her breakfast, Valentine's sitting next to her. Valentine sat down next to her, picking up her fork and began eating. They ate in an uncomfortable silence, until Valentine broke it.
" How am I getting to the school?"
" You are gong to ride the train, like the rest of the students."
" Oh, ok." Valentine replied. Somehow, she was expecting something much more exciting and magical.
They walked to Kings Cross station, seeing as it wasn't a very far walk. As they entered the station, Val looked at her ticket.
"Platform 9 ¾? How are we going to get there? Plus, the train leaves at 11. Its only 10 o clock."
"Oh, well," Replied Professor McGonagall, " I needed to get you here early, because I need to get back early enough to meet the first years and get re-settled. You just walk right through a barrier to get to the platform."
"Yeah, right."
They walked a little farther on and suddenly Professor McGonagall stopped right in front of a barrier, and Valentine walked right into her.
"Sorry dear." Said Professor McGonagall as she picked Valentine up off the ground. " What you have to do now, is walk straight through the wall, and you will get right onto the platform. I'll do it with you."
Professor McGonagall firmly grabbed Valentines arm and steered her at the barrier. Valentine gasped as they walked straight through and suddenly, sitting before them, was a gleaming train.
Valentine gathered up her things and said goodbye to Professor McGonagall.
"Thanks for all you help. Goodbye."
"Goodbye. And don't worry; we will see each other soon."
Valentine boarded the train to get a compartment. It wasn't very hard; there was practically no one else even on the station. She chose one about half way down from the front, she put her stuff into the luggage rack, and she pulled on her robes, pulled out a book, and started reading. Soon the train started filling up, but Val didn't notice; she was much too engrossed in her reading. In her mind no one seemed to notice her either, until she sneezed and looked up to see two very small girls sitting on the other side of the compartment.
"Oh, sorry, didn't see you there. I'm Valentine Porter. Are you new? This is my first year." Said Valentine.
" This is only your first year? Wow, we thought you were at least a fourth year, didn't we Nicole? Well, I'm Mayflower Johns, but you can call me May. And this is," May pointed to her friend, " Nicole Sampson." May said very fast and didn't take one breath the whole time while she was talking.
To that Val replied, "Oh. Well, that's nice." She hastily looked back down to her reading, for she was reading a very interesting article on dragons.