I know what you're all thinking….. finally! And I must apologise for my lateness in posting, myexcuse: end of year exams. Anyway this chapter was the hardest one for me to write so I hope you all enjoy it. And again I must thank everyone who reviewed.
Nathanial- I was about to post I swear, but then they to new chapters being posted. But it don't matter as I'm posting now…..so it's ok.
SANDRA NATHNAL- oh... well if I could stick Daniel Raddcliffe in my story I'm sure you'd stay on this site for three hours, using your mouse-thingy to pick his nose...wasn't the movie excellent I loved it.
Ali- ali thankyou for reminding me to have fun in England. I hope you are having fun to.
didn't you pay attention to my editing!- I swear I did! But it was late.
Theuz- as you asked, I've 'kept it up!'
Now I present… a chapter written by Leisha….. In association with ali's editing (so blame her)…… the sixth chapter of Harry Potter and the Transfers
The trio of Hogwarts and the Transfers of Castells
In Kings Cross Station, the platforms were packed. Muggles everywhere were waiting for their train to arrive. With the mass of people that surrounded the platform, wizards and witches walked through pretty much undetected. Except for four young witches.
Katie couldn't figure out if it was because her group of friends seemed a little different then everyone else, because they came from Australia and were still adjusting to the cultural differences. Or if it was the fact that both Charlie and herself were giving guys a rating out of ten. This had been a game that the two of them had started ever since the two of them met six years ago.
"Come on everyone, we have to hurry" Leisha then announced. Leisha of course didn't like the game.
"Why didn't you tell Charlie that this morning?" Katie asked mockingly, she then turned to Charlie to poke her tongue out at her childishly.
"Oh come on Katie you know I needed to figure out what I was going to wear" Charlie answered Katie back.
"We'll be changing into our school robes soon"
"Tisk tisk Katie, you of all people should know that first impressions last." Charlie said simply and walked a little faster to catch up to Leisha. "So my dear Robbie-poo, where the hell is this platform?"
"Charlie keep your voice down before someone hears you" Leisha told her although she knew that it was already to late for Charlie to simply shut her mouth as the four girls were already winning glances from several groups of male teenagers (to Leisha's dismay, both Charlie and Katie insisted on rating each one of them. The boys in total averaged about a 7).
After careful consideration they had managed to find the hidden portal to platform nine and ¾. Charlie, Katie and Alexia noticed that the portal was close to a family of two teenaged boys and their parents. So the girls then decided to be subtle and accidentally fall into the portal. Leisha of course refused to be a part of this and with a roll of her eyes headed straight for the portal. But with Leisha's luck one of the boys from the nearby family decided to block her path.
"Hey good looking" he said to her with a cocky tone. Leisha didn't even want to know who the person that decided to talk to her was. Instead with a click of her fingers that boy found a new interest.
"I love you" he said to the boy that stood next to him as he wrapped his arms around his new interest.
"Mum, Dan's being annoying again"
And with these words Leisha then went through the portal to catch up with her friends.
Platform Nine and ¾ was completely packed with Hogwarts students. Everywhere there were families saying their goodbyes to their children as they boarded the train. Friends were seeing each other for the first time over the holidays and Leisha couldn't help but smile as she saw the bright scarlet train, with the smoke blowing from the top and swirling around the station.
'If only you could see me now dad' Leisha thought privately to herself.
Then all throughout the station's platform a loud whimper could be heard.
"No way, NO WAY IN HELL! There is no way in friggin' hell that you are getting me on that train, NO FRIGGING WAY!" Charlie screamed as she clung to Snuffles, her pet puppy, for protection.
"Charlie, stop it, you're attracting enough attention with that dog that you really don't need to yell at half the world" Katie told her as she struggled to pull Charlie towards the train. Even with Alexia's help they could not make Charlie move. Leisha sighed deeply before she decided to help out with getting Charlie onto the Hogwarts express.
"You guy's get her bags. I'll deal with her" she told Alexia and Katie. The two of them left Leisha with Charlie
"Lottie," Leisha said in a soothing voice to Charlie, "we have to get on the train soon or it will leave without us"
"As long as I'm not on that train I'm fine with it"
Leisha frowned at Charlie's response. Then she noticed Snuffles barking at the train and passing students. This gave Leisha a wicked idea. She picked up the small puppy.
"Come on snuffles you're not afraid of a little train are you?" the puppy barked in response. "I didn't think so" Leisha mumbled as she carried her friend's pet off towards the train.
"NO, Leisha give me back my puppy, it's dangerous near that thing" ignoring Charlie, Leisha continued to walk with Snuffles towards the train. She then turned back to her friend "Charlie, will you be joining us on the train"
Stubbornly Charlie sat cross-legged on the floor and shook her head.
"Not even for chocolate?" Leisha asked Charlie as she held up the chocolate bar she had in her pocket. She then used it to lure Charlie on to the train. Snuffles started barking loudly again. Leisha smiled again and walked onto the train with Snuffles still in her arms while waving the chocolate bar over her shoulder.
Once Leisha was aboard, she heard Charlie bolt on after her. Charlie snatched the chocolate out of Leisha's hand. Of course, it was at this moment that the train's doors closed on Charlie and the scarlet train started to pull out of the platform. Charlie was mortified and slowly she turned to face Leisha.
"Leisha," she started as calmly as she could, "you're a vile, evil….."
"What's that?" Leisha said while pretending to hear her name being called "oh, ok I'm coming." Leisha ran down several carriages to escape Charlie's rant.
"I'm sorry are you a prefect, you seem a bit lost" a girl with bushy brown hair asked Leisha as she saw the small prefect badge
"Prefect? What the? ….. oh 'prefect', yeah… sorry I'm new"
"That's ok, Hermione Granger by the way"
"Leisha"
"Let me show you where the compartment is Leisha"
"Well I am now officially, totally, completely and utterly lost. So can you both stop asking me" Katie yelled out in frustration as she searched for a free compartment for them to sit in.
"If only Leisha was here but no, she had to run away" Charlie whinged under her breath as she stroked Snuffles' fur lightly to calm him down.
"Oh stop your whining you two or we'll never find a compartment if you two keep-" at this moment alexia's words were cut off by the pain signals that her brain received once her toe and accidentally rammed into the side of a compartment door. Instead they were replaced by the words
"- holy Fuck!"
That is what Harry potter heard from inside the compartment. He stood to see what was going on. As Harry made his way to open the compartment door, it seemed that the door opened itself. And in that split second that the door opened, Harry found that his chin had collided with Charlie's forehead causing an immense amount of pain for both him and Charlie (Charlie, of course, was just more verbal about it).
"OWWWW! Merlin you have a pointy chin" Charlie shrieked at Harry.
"I'm so sorry,"
"Yeah, sure you are…." Charlie muttered under her breath
Meanwhile, Katie and Alexia were following Snuffles, who they had instructed to find Charlie after she continued to find a compartment for them. They followed him into the compartment where Harry and Charlie were in.
"He hit me in the head!" Charlie yelled as her friends entered.
"You'll get over it" the two of them said in unison.
Not happy with their answer, Charlie sat down on the empty seat.
"Yeah well, just you till my other friend gets here then you'll be sorry" Charlie told Harry in a childish voice as she stared daggers through him. Nervous by this Harry started to pat his hair down in hope that it covered his scar.
"Have we met you before?" Katie asked Harry, "Because you look very familiar. Charlie doesn't he look familiar?"
"He looks like a ferret! That's what he looks like" Charlie said spitefully as she was still very upset about her head.
"Um, Leisha I think I found your friends"
Harry was pleased to hear Ron's voice at the compartment door. He stared past the girls that were in the compartment to find Ron and Hermione escorting a girl that seemed very familiar to Harry.
"Now you're in trouble," Charlie said with a huge grin on her face, "Leisha, this guy hit me in the head! Do something!" Charlie whined to Leisha.
"Nice to see you to Charlie," Leisha then turned to Harry, "I hope my friends weren't a problem"
"Oh no, I enjoyed the company really" Harry muttered with a hint of sarcasm in his voice.
"Then I guess asking if we can stay is out of the question"
"I would never say that"
"Thanks Harry,"
"No problem Leisha,"
Hermione stared between both Harry and Leisha, confused as she hadn't introduced the two of them before. Ron was just plain confused.
"Do you two know each other?" she asked puzzled.
They told Hermione and Ron about the first time Harry met Alexia, Katie, Charlie and Leisha and by the end of it everyone was in fits of laughter. The trolley lady came past not long after.
"Anything off the trolley this year?" she asked everyone in the compartment.
"Depends, got any chocolate?" Charlie asked eagerly. The trolley lady smiled and handed Charlie two chocolate frogs.
"I'll get them for you, it's the least I can do after I bumped into you earlier," Harry said as he pulled out a few coins to pay for Charlie's chocolate.
"I'm starting to like this guy now" Charlie said as she took a bite out of the chocolate, not at all discouraged at the fact that the legs of the half eaten frog still kicked about.
"I'd be careful Harry, she'd only break your heart" alexia informed him.
"As if I'm interested" Charlie muttered,
"I'm sorry to interrupt again, but you four wouldn't be new, would you?" the trolley lady asked again.
"Yep"
"What year"
"Sixth…..is that right?" alexia asked Leisha, who nodded. "Merlin I'm old" she finally concluded. Each one of the transfers was given a small sweet that was wrapped in clear plastic.
"Weasley's Instant Sorting Sweet, Do Not Discard Wrapper until sweet has been eaten." Leisha read, "step one: open wrapper, Do Not Throw Out Wrapper. Step two: eat lolly, Do Not Eat Wrapper. Step three: check wrapper for new house, you may now throw out wrapper although some like to eat it"
One by one the lollies were eaten by each of the girls. Charlie then looked down at her wrapper and read the new writing on the bottom.
"Sly-the-rin?"
"It's Slytherin Charlie," Leisha told her. Charlie then poked her tongue at Leisha in response. Katie was the first to notice that it was Green, she poked out her own to find that her own was green as well.
"Leisha, poke out your tongue, you too Alexia" following Katie's demand, both Leisha and Alexia stuck out their tongues only to find that it was a darker red, noting that odd.
"They must change your tongue to match your house colour," Hermione started to explain, "Alexia and Leisha are probably in Gryffindor, hence their tongues are red, and meanwhile because Katie and Charlie's tongues are green they're in Slytherin"
"How did you guess?" Alexia asked. Leisha rolled her eyes at Alexia as she could quite clearly see how Hermione guesses that both Alexia and she were in Gryffindor while Katie and Charlie were in Slytherin as now their robes were changing to become match to their new house.
So as the train continued to speed its way towards Hogwarts, all along the carriages the new student's of Hogwarts were getting to know the original students. Once the night had descended, the train pulled into the station in Hogsmeade. Again all the students crowded the station. Katie and Charlie were the first to exit the train all dressed in their new Slytherin robes, Charlie held Snuffles closely in her arms in hope that he wouldn't run away. They stood there and waited for Ron, Harry, Hermione and Alexia, who had troubles with adjusting the scarlet and gold tie. Leisha was the last of the new group to exit the train.
"Beat you inside" she heard someone whisper from behind. She turned her head just in time to see both Rob and Lloyd walking ahead of her.
"Who's the boy that Malfoy's walking with? And where are Crabb and Goyle" Harry asked out loud.
"You mean that boy?" Charlie asked, as she pointed at Rob as he walked away, "well, technically it's Leisha's step-brother, although I think that they have agreed to drop the 'step' thing as it takes to long to say, so long story short, it's Leisha's brother."
"Wow, confusing" Ron muttered.
The trio of Hogwarts and the transfers of Castells walked over to the carriages. They claimed one and got in. the carriage then started to move towards Hogwarts.
"Wow, Leisha we need to get one of these. Look the carriages are being pulled by magic"
"Actually, they're being pulled by Thestrals" Hermione corrected,
"If these carriages were being pulled by something, I think I'd know," Charlie argued.
"Thestrals are invisible to any one that hasn't seen death. Harry can see them, can't you?"
"Yeah"
"Can any of you girls see them?"
"I can." Leisha muttered sadly as she stared at the empty white eyes of the Threstral that pulled the carriage they were all in. Hermione was about to ask about who Leisha had seen pass on when Charlie, who obviously knew that Hermione was going to bring up the subject of death, changed the subject.
"Oooo, would you look at that tree. It's a very nice tree don't you think?" she asked as she pointed at the Whomping Willow. Hermione then started explaining everything she could about the Whomping Willow and anything else along the way towards Hogwarts castle.
And that's the end. I now won't bug you with a long ending asking you to review, by now you all should have guessed that I like them….. and if not (hinthint).
Next chpter coming soon, promise.
Written from the heart of one Leisha Robinson, whose brother is called Robert Robinson….hehe. sorry
