DannyMay 2019. Day Two

"Farewell"

Looks like I don't really have clear the difference between "good bye" and "farewell". So here is this.

"Do we really have to go to school in another country? Why can't we go somewhere back home?" Danny whined as he loosened his tie for the nth time that day.

"I already told you that's a grown-ups thing." His sister scolded him, gently slapping his hands away so she could fix his tie for the nth time. "We will know when we are grown-ups." Jazz smiled and patter his hair, making him grunt in discontent. Her smile faltered just slightly.

Of course, being technically a grown-up herself, Jazz had been present in the conversation two years ago, even if no one else knew it, and she knew just how prejudiced and paranoid the magical community back home could be.

It was okay for the descendants of a quick-to-go Dark Lord to be part of their magical world, as long as they weren't dark themselves. It was fine for the magic child of a witch-hunting clan to be integrated in their magical world (and extracted from their family, if their life seemed in danger), as long as they were magical.

It was a completely different thing to allow these cases to be part of the community when they were one and the same person, and so Jazz and Danny weren't even allowed to study with the other children in Amity Park. Something about many parents being concerned about what 'tendencies' they might carry.

"Ouch!" Danny complained when deep in her thoughts, Jazz had tightened his plain black tie a bit too much.

"Sorry, little brother." She said with a smile, not thinking about how not a single magical school would accept them in the United States nor Canada.

After that, it had been a choice between taking an international portkey a few times a year, or learning fluent spanish (and maybe nahuatl) really fast.

Jazz looked at her parents nearby, chatting amiably with Cho's parents, the other girl being in the same class as her.

People were miling about the station, none of them really sparing the halfbloods a second glance except for students that seemed to recognize Jazz but didn't approach, or the casual kids that would giggle at Danny for being already on his uniform.

"But why do I have to wear this thing when no one else does?!"

Jazz sighed. "Because it will take you too long to put it on in the train and you mustn't be late on your first day!" She put her hands on her hips, but then smiled as an idea came to her. "But if you mind it so much, I could just go with you and help you get dressed! Just like when you were a little baby!"

Danny paled at that, and quickly fumbled to flatten the wrinkles on his robes (which he still didn't get the hang of how to put them on), straighten his shirt and tie, and attempt to tame the mop he had for hair.

Soon, the train's whistle was heard, and the students boarded it almost in hoards.

When it finally started moving, several students leaned out of their windows to wave goodbye to family and friends alike, the Fenton kids among them.

Danny waved like his sister, if somewhat dejectedly for first having to leave Sam and Tucker behind back home and go to a different school, and now his parents because, unlike Amity's small magic school, Hogwarts was a boarding school.

And as he stopped waving his parents good-bye, a bushy-haired girl approached his compartment.

"Sorry, can I sit with you? I can't find my friends…"