"Calm down Harry! Geez! It's just school." Harry gave his brother a slight scowl.
"Yeah school. I haven't been to school for years…not one with lots of people anyway." The Hogwarts express hadn't even started moving yet. The three of them had found their compartments quickly though and had sat down together. Dudley was quite content reading through a charms book opposite the twins. Danny was fiddling with his wand and Harry was trying to calm the nerves in his stomach.
"For heavens sake Harry, calm down. We haven't even left the station yet." Dudley chided glancing over his book. Harry groaned lightly.
"When do we leave?"
"In ten minutes."
"Okay, I'll be right back." With that Harry literally jumped out of his seat and dove off the train. He was far too nervous to sit still and the train was alive, literally alive, with magic. As soon as he was off the train he spotted his aunt, uncle, Madeline and Sidonie. Running straight up to them Harry crashed into his uncle and gave the man a hug.
"Harry! What's this?" Harry didn't respond as he continued to hug his uncle. He looked around though when he felt a gently hand on his shoulder.
"Harry honey?" Harry let go of Vernon and cuddled into his aunt's embrace. Petunia smiled and brushed his long hair with her fingers. The boy had lengthened his hair again. It now reached his lower back and was loose. He'd grown it to match Sirius' hair before the man had gotten his hair cut. "Harry, dear, if you aren't careful you'll miss the train."
"But it's school aunty! What if they don't like me! What about my magic? What if the classes are too hard? What if they don't like me? What if I get put in different classes to Danny and Dudley? What if…"
"Darling, nothing bad will happen. Dumbledore will protect you. Don't worry so much, you'll be fine. Besides, what's not to like about you? You are wonderful and incredibly cleaver, all our boys are. Come on now, don't be silly. We'll see you soon anyway." Harry pulled away biting his lip. Petunia just smiled and kissed his forehead. Vernon gave him another hug of reassurance, Harry being the only one of his boys to allow hugs, and the two other women gave Harry kisses on his cheeks before the lot of them pushed him back in the direction of the train.
Harry slowly walked towards the train and looked over his shoulder at his smiling family. He offered a weak smile and found his way through the many students to the compartment he, Dudley and Danny were sharing.
Once there Harry didn't meet the inquisitive eyes of his brother and cousin and sat down. He chewed his lip and fiddled with his cuffs. He was very excited but overly nervous about going to school. It wasn't so bad before when he and Sidonie were just visiting but now he was going to be a student everything was daunting.
"You okay Harry?" Harry nodded his head answering Danny's question. "Okay then, well how about we practice the spell Dud just found?"
"Um…no thanks. You two go ahead. I'm gonna meditate for a while." Dudley and Danny frowned though Harry meditating wasn't exactly uncommon. Harry had found something called occulemency in one of his books and had asked Sidonie to teach him. Sidonie just told him to clear his mind and make sure it was completely clear. Hence, from this instruction, the pair of them practiced meditating frequently and Harry practiced lots on his own.
"But that's boring Harry."
"It's not too bad. Besides, I have to practice putting up my shields." The other boys shook their heads in exasperation and started practicing their spells. Harry closed his eyes and slowly erected his occulemency shields. He'd progressed very well with his shields over the past few weeks.
Slowly Harry felt his body relax though the nerves in his tummy were still bothering him. Slowly Harry pushed his conscious down deeper into his subconscious and sought out his magical core. He found it with ease and watched all the flows of glitter going through the air in his mind's eye. There was a lot more pieces of glitter now. So many different colours and shapes to. Some pieces had sharp edges whilst other pieces of glitter looked soft and more like very short silky strands. The large ball of Harry's magic was very large now too and was steadily growing.
"Uh oh…I give it till this evening before I have a problem." Harry sighed. There was a strange tinkling sound like glass chimes suddenly through the air and Harry smiled. A gold strand, rather thick and ribbon like, slithered through the air towards Harry and Harry reached out a hand. Touching the strange Harry felt his magic once more attach itself to his conscious state. This magic was raw, so much wilder than the magic he used with his wand. Harry grinned again and let gold completely fill his vision as he came back to the train compartment.
"Actually, what spell are we doing?" Harry asked softly and with a smile. Dudley and Danny looked up at him for a few seconds before they broke out into grins. Dudley handed Harry the book and pointed to what they were doing. "Cool."
"Well I thought so. Figured if we had it by the feast we could use it."
"What're you gonna do? Give the vegetables personalities?" Harry asked grinning as he pulled out his wand.
"Yeah! Can you imagine some of their faces when they go to cut their carrots and it squeals 'don't eat me don't eat me'! It will be hilarious!" Harry and Dudley laughed and the trio practiced. Harry was so absorbed in his spells and the magic tingling in his body he didn't even notice the train start to move.
About thirty minutes into the journey the compartment door slid open and a bushy haired girl, Harry recognized to be Hermione, and a red haired boy, Harry remembered to be Ron, stepped in.
"Thank god we found you mate! We've been looking all over!" Ron flopped exasperatedly next to Dudley who frowned and closed the book. Hermione smiled at Danny and reached over to give him a hug.
"It's good to see you Danny. Did you have a good summer?"
"It was brilliant!" Danny then noticed where his two best friend's gazes had turned. "Come on guys you remember my twin Harry don't you?"
"Oh of course, sorry Harry I didn't recognize you. I've only met you once after all and…my gosh, your hair is really long!"
"Um yeah, I lengthened it." Hermione looked shocked at him but was interrupted before she could comment further.
"And this is our cousin Dudley." Danny then spent a while explaining why Dudley could now attend Hogwarts. He skillfully didn't mention Harry's special ability and merely said that for some reason Dudley's magic had been unlocked and he could now practice it all. After a while Dudley and Harry were part of the group happily chatting away.
After a it Harry said he was going to try and get some sleep. Danny nodded his understanding and allowed Harry to switch paces with him so he could rest his head against the window. Harry closed his eyes and relaxed his body. He found his core once again and asked his magic for its help in finding the magic from Ron and Hermione.
Harry eventually found them and discovered that Ron's pieces of glitter were an apple green colour whilst Hermione's were strand like and were the colour of honey. Harry briefly wondered whether Hermione had strand like glitter because she was muggleborn but then wouldn't Dudley have that being the magical son of a squib and a muggle? Harry shook his head, it didn't matter anyway. Who their parents were wasn't important at all.
Idly Harry noticed that some silver pieces of glitter were steadily becoming a stronger stream like how Danny's and everyone else in the compartment with Harry was. Harry had already worked out that the closer a person was the more the flow of their magic to him was. Quickly Harry tried to stir and offered only a loving smile to his core as he left.
The compartment door slid open and a platinum blonde haired youth walked in with a sneer.
"Well, if it isn't Potter and his lap dogs."
"You are sadly mistaken Malfoy if you think your words have any effect on me. Besides, where are your gorillas? Social grooming?" Harry noticed Dudley, Hermione and Ron look disgusted but he frowned his confusion. The blonde sneered.
"So who are your newest pets Potter?" Danny glared angrily.
"They aren't pets. They're my cousin and twin, if you must know."
"Danny, just ignore him, he isn't worth it."
"That's right Potter, listen to the filthy mudblood." Suddenly Danny was on his feet and had his wand leveled at Malfoy before anyone knew what had happened. Harry jumped and stood gracefully and swiftly moving between his brother's outstretched wand and the blonde fourteen year old. Harry felt suddenly rather short since both his twin and the new comer were taller than him.
"Dan, calm down." Danny spared Harry a brief look before lowering his wand but he didn't drop his stance that Harry noticed was one poised for action. Harry turned to frown at the new comer. "I'm sorry, who are you?"
"You don't know who I am?" Malfoy half sneered and half frowned. Harry cocked his head to the side. "I'm Draco Malfoy, pureblood."
"Oh, nice to meet you. I'm Harry." Harry offered.
"Harry. What's your last name? We are hardly on first term bases." Malfoy sneered. Harry mentally reached for his magic and felt it zing in response.
"Harry Potter. I'm his twin." Malfoy sneered once more.
"You look like a girl." Harry grinned at him despite the sneer.
"So I've been told. You however look and sound arrogant and aristocratic. I'm not completely sure whether those qualities are good or bad. Still, my brother and you don't get along and I don't know how long he's going to last with you here. So, if you'd excuse us Draco." Harry leaned forwards and reached a hand out to the door. Malfoy frowned at him in confusion and also in anger. Harry closed the door though and went back to his seat.
"Harry, you should have just let me curse the prat!" Danny raged. Harry smiled at him and pulled him into his seat. Not answering Harry put his head on his brother's shoulder and closed his eyes. His magic was still thrumming through his veins.
"Harry, don't go to sleep." Harry opened his eyes and had to blink rather rapidly as his vision was filled with lots of different colours. People and walls were coloured in so many different colours. Harry's stomach lurched but as Harry blinked the colours went away and his vision was normal though Harry thought he felt his magic nearly reaching breaking point.
"Oh no….Dan." Harry whispered gripping Danny's shirt. Danny turned to him as did Dudley. Harry offered them a very weak smile. "I don't think I'm gonna last till tonight…"
"Shit!" Dudley cried. He threw his wand and book onto the seat and stood up. "Ron, Hermione get out and give us a minute. We have a problem."
"Wha-?" Hermione didn't manage to finish her question though as Dudley pushed her and Ron out the door and shut and locked it behind them. Danny and Dudley shared a glance as Harry's breathing increased.
Acting quickly Danny and Dudley maneuvered Harry to the floor and Danny knelt down putting Harry's head on his lap whilst Dudley held Harry's feet just in case. Harry's breathing had sped up and his eyes were closed. His face was very pale.
Inside Harry his magical core had expanded too far with all the magic on the train. Since Harry had called fro his magic his magic had responded by giving Harry access to it but Harry's wants for more magic to help him meant more magic was drawn from the environment and wasn't used up. The large ball of magic was so big it had sent tendrils of magic along Harry's veins, into his muscles and into every organ in his body. His magic repaired any damage but since there was none it needed another outlet. It found it.
After forty five minutes Harry's core size was the size of a tennis ball and Harry was currently dozing on Dudley's shoulder with Dudley reading a book. Hermione and Ron had come back but kept shooting Dudley angry glances and Harry suspicious ones whilst Danny kept receiving betrayed looks. Danny shrugged and told them he couldn't tell them whilst Harry ignored all questions. There were only a few more hours left before they reached Hogwarts.
Ne, ne! Look, I updatedd it! Took me bloody ages too scowls! The blasted thing wouldn't upload for anything. Had to put it into Notepad and I don't like using notepad cries. Never mind. Sorry it's short. I'm tackling the sorting in the next chapter. Houses have been decided, can you guess from the chapters?
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