Harry and Tom and Jerry spent the rest of the summer at the Weasley's studying and playing Quidditch and eating all the food Molly kept forcing down them. Ginny then showed them how to play Exploading Snap. Just like her wizard chess set, the Exploading Snap set was also warn out for it belonged to her grandfather. Dispite the exploading, Harry and Tom and Jerry found the game much better than Solitaire. After the game is done, the cards will return.
After that and some more studying, Ginny then showed Harry and Tom and Jerry a game similer to marbles called Gobstones. And because this set belongd to her grandfather as well, it was also old and warn out.
Until September 1st came. Harry and Tom and Jerry and Ginny reunited with Neville and Luna at Kings Cross. This time, Ginny let Percy go first. And then Fred and George followed with Molly and Arthur behind and then Ron.
"Alright. Ready?" Harry asked.
The four of them ran to the barrier and,
CRASH! They didn't go through but crashed on the wall and fall down.
"Oi! What are you kids doing!" A guard shouted.
"Sorry. Lost control of the carts." Said Harry.
"Oh. Alright. Carry on." The guard said as he walked away.
"Why can't we get through?" Luna asked.
DING! It was now eleven.
"The train leaves exactly at 11:00 AM. We missed it." Said Neville.
"How come we couldn't get through anyway?" Tom asked.
"Something might have stopped us from getting through." Said Jerry.
Until, they turned to Ginny who was looking odd.
"Are you feeling sick Ginny?" Luna asked.
"Nope. Just getting a crazy bad idea."
And crazy bad it was. The six of them had their stuff in the Ford Anglia as Tom let Hedwig out to fly ahead and meet them at the school.
"See you Hedwig." Harry said as she flew away.
Neville sat in the drivers seat as he started the car up. Harry sat in the pasenger seat. Ginny and Luna sat behind them with Tom and Jerry.
Soon, Neville got the car going and into the air.
"Uh Neville." Said Luna. "You should know, most muggles aren't a custom to seeing a flying car."
"Right." Said Neville. "How do we make it invisible?"
"Use the booster over there." Ginny said as she pointed to the booster.
Neville then pushed it and the car vanished.
"Well, here we go." Said Tom.
"Hi ho. Hi ho. Fly to school we go." Jerry sang.
And off they went. They flew away from London and all the way to Hogwarts. Soon as they were far away from the muggles, the car suddonly was no longer invisible as the six had found out. Neville tried the booster again but it didn't work.
"Uh oh. The Invisibility Booster must be bolted." Said Neville.
"Never mind now. We need to find the train." Said Jerry.
"Look. There's the bridge." Said Luna.
"Alright. We're going in." Neville said as he took the car over the tracks and followed them.
Just as they did, they can hear the train.
"We must be getting closer now." Said Harry.
"But I don't see it anywhere." Said Tom. "Unless,"
The sounds got louder. And then, they turned around and saw the train behind them. They screamed as Neville tried to pull away but made the car spin out of control as they went under the bridge and then back up. Until, Tom fell as he grabbed the door on Harry's side.
"Tom!" Harry shouted.
He was outside the car holding on for life as they were moving alongside the train.
Neville then leaned over and held his hand out for the cat. "Take my hand Tom!"
Tom managed to grab it but slipped off of his grip.
"Hold on!" Neville shouted again.
"I'm trying! Your hands all sweaty!"
After a couple more tries, Tom managed to get hold of Neville's hand as he pulled him back in and closed the door.
"Well, at least we found the train." Said Tom.
With that said, the six continued to fly beside it until they reach Hogsmade.
As night came, the six had finally reached Hogwarts as they flew over the black lake to the school.
"Welcome home Harry." Said Ginny.
Just then, the car started to shake.
"Neville what's happening?" Jerry asked.
"I don't know. I think I'm losing control."
And he did indeed. The car flew to the school and was about to hit the wall but Neville got it away in time.
"Mind that tree!" Harry shouted as they were heading for a tree in the grounds.
"I've lost control!" Neville shouted as he pulled out his wand and waved it shouted "STOP STOP STOP!"
However, only a green light came from not the front but the side of the wand. After a while, the light vanished as the part of the wand the light was on had snapped it with the part hanging.
"Uh oh."
And then,
CRASH!
The hit the tree and stopped.
"Gran's not gonna be happy about this." Neville said as he showed the others his broken wand.
WHAM!
"What was that?" Tom asked.
"Uh, I think this tree is a," Luna said before the car shook again.
"Whomping Willow!" Harry shouted.
The tree was attacking them as it tried to knock the car off of it. Until it hit the car from under and sent them flying into the black lake. But, just when it seemed that they were about to drawn, they were pushed back up.
Behind them were merpeople and they pushed the car to the solid earth until they were back on the ground and the merpeople swam away.
"Merpeople. I didn't know Hogwarts had merpeople in the lake." Said Ginny.
Just as the car got farther away from the lake, it stopped and the doors opened by themselves and shot them out. Harry and Ginny and Tom and Jerry on one side and Neville and Luna on the other. Then the trunk opened up and shot out their lugedge.
And then Hedwig's empty cage flew out and onto Tom's hands as Trevor was shot out and landed on Neville's arms.
"Trevor. Are you alright?" Neville asked.
Trevor croked and nuzlled him as he forgived him for what happened.
Just then, the doors closed and the car drove away on its own.
"No! Come back!" Ginny shouted as the six followed the car to the edge of the Forbidden Forest. But it was too fast and it drove away. "Dad's gonna kill me."
Soon, the six set their stuff where the house elves set them before the end of the start of turm feast as they walked in.
"So a house elf shows up in our room." Said Jerry. "We couldn't get through the barrior to Platform 9 3/4. A tree knocks us into the lake only for us to be rescued by merpeople."
"And we don't know how the barrior was sealed up." Said Tom.
"I'm quite serprised about this."
The six looked up the staircase. Professor Snape was there.
"You didn't arrive on the train because something sealed up the barrior if I'm right."
"Yes sir." Said Neville.
"And what made you do that had you spotted by no less than 11 muggles." Snape said as he showed them a copy of the Daily Prophet. And the Ford Anglia taking off and turning invisible was on the front page. "In my consern, somebody wants to keep Harry away from the school."
"Is that right?"
"Professor Dumbledore. Professor McGonagall." Ginny said as she saw the headmaster and Transfiguation teacher next to Professor Snape.
"You know you could have owled us." Said McGonagall.
"We sent Hedwig ahead of us." Said Tom.
"And you didn't let us know what you were doing. And you risked the exposer of our world."
"Then we'll go and get our stuff." Said Luna.
"Why's that Luna?" Dumbledore asked.
"We're expelled right?" Harry asked
"Of course not Mr. Potter." Said McGonagall. "But I am very disapointed about your actions tonight. I will be writing to your families. And tomorrow evening, all of you will reseave detention."
The six nodded as Dumbledore and McGonagall left. As they did, Harry saw a letter on the floor and picked it up. It said Kwikspell on it and he turned it over to show that it was adressed to Filch.
"Mr. Filch. You dropped this." Harry said as he gave the letter back to him.
Filch remained silent as they walked away.
Authors note:
Another draft I found was that the car was gonna land in the lake and the merpeople show up. But then how else would we know the Whomping Willow is there once at the third book? So here we go. Both sides used together.
