Chapter 6 - The Train Ride to Remember
It was the Twins' last month with the Dursleys wasn't fun.
The twins spent the time in there room alone meditating,
with their new owls for company.
Lewis called his James, Harry called his Lilly.
They started reading late into the night together,
James and Lilly swooping in and out of the open window as they pleased. It was lucky that Aunt Petunia didn't come in to vacuum anymore, because they were making a mess,
but after Lewis keep cleaning the mess.
Every night before they went to sleep, Harry ticked off another day on the piece of paper he had pinned to the wall, counting down to September the first.
On the last day of August, they thought he'd better speak to his aunt and uncle about getting to King's Cross station the next day, so he went down to the living room where they were watching a quiz show on television. He cleared his throat to let them know he was there, and Dudley screamed and
ran from the room.
"Uncle Vernon?" Asked Lewis.
Uncle Vernon grunted to show he was listening.
"We need to be at King's Cross tomorrow to go to Hogwarts."
Said Harry. Uncle Vernon grunted again.
"Would it be all right if you gave us a lift?" Asked Lewis.
Grunt. The Twins supposed that meant yes.
"Thank you." They said.
He was about to go back upstairs when Uncle Vernon
actually spoke.
"Funny way to get to a wizards' school, the train. Magic carpets all got punctures, have they?" Asked Vernon.
They didn't say anything.
"Where is this school, anyway?" Asked Vernon.
"I read it in one of the books, The Highlands of Scotland."
Said Lewis, "Which is why the train."
"What time do you get the train?" Asked Vernon.
Then he pulled the tickets Hagrid had given him out of his pocket. "It just take the train from platform nine and three-quarters at eleven o'clock," Harry read.
His aunt and uncle stared.
"Platform what?"
"Nine and three-quarters."
"Don't talk rubbish," said Uncle Vernon. "There is no platform nine and three-quarters."
"It's on our tickets." Said Lewis. "It is also hidden."
"Barking," said Uncle Vernon, "howling mad, the lot of them. You'll see. You just wait. All right, we'll take you to King's Cross. We're going up to London tomorrow anyway,
or I wouldn't bother."
"Why are you going to London?" Harry asked, trying to keep things friendly.
"Taking Dudley to the hospital," growled Uncle Vernon. "Got to have that ruddy tail removed before he goes to Smeltings."
"Will you promise to take us no matter what?" Asked Lewis.
"Sure." Said Vernon.
"Try to be nice to us Duetters." Lewis said,
Then touched his shoulder then the tail disappeared.
"Duetters stand." Then pulled his pants down a little.
"See all gone, no tail."
Then Duetters hugged Lewis, which scared him.
"Thank you Lewis." Said Duetters.
"You hugging me instead of punching me. Am I dying and no one told me?" Asked Lewis.
They went to bed, Lewis hugging Harry. It was Lewis turn to be the one hugging his Harry.
They sleep well it was comforting be next to each other.
They decided together that it was best wear, what did Hagrid call them Muggle Close instead of his wizard's robes we'd change on the train. They checked the Hogwarts list yet again to make sure they had everything they needed,
the owls in their cages, and then paced the room, waiting for the Dursleys to get up. Two hours later, the heavy trunk had been loaded into the Dursleys' car, Aunt Petunia had talked Dudley into sitting next to Harry who Harry and Lewis where hugging each other and they had set off.
They reached King's Cross at half past ten. They helped each other load there stuff on to their own cart and wheeled it into the station. Uncle Vernon stopped dead, facing the platforms with a nasty grin on his face.
"Well, there you are, boy. Platform nine - platform ten. Your platform should be somewhere in the middle, but they don't seem to have built it yet, do they?
Have a good term," said Uncle Vernon with an even nastier smile. They saw without another word. Harry turned and saw the Dursleys drive away. All three of them were laughing. Harry's mouth went rather dry.
Percy and the middle Twins made it through before,
Lewis and Harry could make it to the exact spot where the segment of wall where the Portal was before Ron and Rob could head there. Then they standing there. Weasleys where just watching them.
"So, what are we going do?" Asked Lewis.
"I have no clue." Said Harry.
"We can't exactly walk there, it in Scotland." Said Lewis.
"I know this was too good to be true." Said Harry.
Molly, Ron, and Rob still watching. They hugged each other and started crying, "We are not going back to hell." Said Lewis.
"There is no platform." Said Harry.
"No, we are not going back to number four." Said Lewis.
They were walking past on the other side of the column,
but close enough so Ron could hear.
"To think a place like that could be real." Said Harry.
"Even the name sounds fake, Hogwarts." Said Lewis.
"Wonder where the nearest overpass is."
Ron then said to them, "Hogwarts is real."
Molly was talking to Rob.
Lewis looked at him. "Platform 9 ¾ someone played a trick on us." Said Lewis. "Um, no it got to be fake. Your cute through."
Then Ms. Weasley came around.
As Lewis and Harry started walking away.
"Boys do you need help." Said Molly.
"Na, we are good." Said Lewis. "We must go, what a joke,
had a trick played on us. Now off to be homeless."
"Why?" Said Molly.
"No bloody way we are going back there." Said Lewis.
"They don't think Hogwarts is real." Said Ron.
"We were told this is where you go to Hogwarts."
Said Lewis, "But we orphans, and the big man who got us supplies who said he works for Hogwarts gave us tickets saying here."
She moved closer to Lewis, when he flinched and moved away. She noticed this. Then she saw all the injuries.
"Yes," said Harry. "The thing is the thing is…"
"How to get onto the platform?" she said kindly,
and Harry nodded. Then she noticed bruising on hands and face and a black eye. "Not to worry," she said. "All you have to do is walk straight at the barrier between platforms nine and ten. Don't stop and don't be scared you'll crash into it, that's very important. Best do it at a bit of a run if you're nervous. Go on,
go now before my two here."
"Er - okay," said Harry.
Harry started pushing his trolley around and stared at the barrier. It looked very solid. He started to walk toward it.
People jostled him on their way to platforms nine and ten.
Harry walked more quickly. He was going to smash right into that barrier and then he'd be in trouble - leaning forward on his cart, he broke into a heavy run - the barrier was coming nearer and nearer - he wouldn't be able to stop - the cart was out of control - he was a foot away - he closed his eyes ready for the crash - It didn't come... he kept on running... he opened his eyes then he was gone.
Lewis went from calm to full panic attack, "No, no, no."
Starting to hyperventilate. "First time I trusted an outsider and lost my twin. W-h-e-e-e-e-r-r-r-e-e is h-h-h-e-e?"
Then he passed out.
Molly picked him up. "Dam he light. He was starved."
Lewis came to a few minuets' latter. Then saw this female holding him. "Put me down and Bro help."
"He on the platform." Said Molly, putting him down.
Lewis keeping an eye on her.
Then Lewis tried the same thang. And there was Harry he pushed his cart up to Harry.
A sign overhead said Hogwarts Express, eleven O'clock.
Harry looked behind him and saw a wrought-iron archway where the barrier had been, with the words Platform Nine and Three-Quarters on it, they had done it.
Lewis then forgot his stuff and hugged Harry who asked,
"Are you ok?"
"I think so." Said Lewis.
Smoke from the engine drifted over the heads of the chattering crowd, while cats of every color wound here and there between their legs. Owls hooted to one another in a disgruntled sort of way over the babble and the scraping of heavy trunks. The first few carriages were already packed with students, some hanging out of the window to talk to their families, some fighting over seats.
Then started down the platform in search of an empty seat. They pushed on through the crowd until he found an empty compartment near the end of the train.
Lewis got in first they got the two owls in first,
and then started to struggle to get the trunks toward
the train door. They tried to lift it up the steps but could hardly raise one end and twice he dropped it painfully
on his foot. "You ok bro?"
Then Lewis to dropped it, his hand now at a weird angle.
Then collapsed off the train. Fred then yelled to his Mom.
"Come here quick. Oy, Fred! C'mere and help!"
The twins' get Lewis and Harry stuff on the train,
then Harry's and Lewis' trunk was at last tucked away in a corner of the compartment. Molly now healing Lewis' wrist.
She helped him up, and Harry said, "Thank you for healing his hand, that the closest we ever been to a doctor."
"Where have you been living." Asked Molly.
"We don't want to talk about it, but we are not going back ever."
Said Lewis. She was now concerned. She tried to get him on the train, but Harry and Lewis now back up a little then got on the train, Ron and Rob followed.
"Percy! Here." Said Molly.
"Mom is something wrong?" Asked Percy.
"Are there any teacher up front, grab one and also make sure the train is held." Molly Said.
Then she shut the door. Flitwick then showed up and said,
"The train is being held, Molly what wrong."
"Shut the door and come in." Said Molly.
"Boys not sure who you been living with but what did they do to you. Whoever it was looks like they abused you."
"They have, that not the first time Lewis wrist has been broken, we been hit, kicked, and more." Said Harry.
"Why did you just come out with that, that was supposed to stay private, don't tell outsiders, beside you know what Tuney and Dudley call us, we lucky to even have a place to stay."
Said Lewis.
Then she heard Lewis' stomach very loud grumble and she pulled his shirt up and saw ribs sticking out. He imminently put his shirt back looking mad jumping back moving his twin behind him. Then she quickly stood up and picked him up for a second felling how underweight he is.
"See told you females are dangerous, this is why you don't get close to them, they are dangerous you know she did,
not again." Said Lewis. Now in the corner pointing his wand at Molly then said, "Stay back."
His wand pointed at her did not seem to affect her at all.
"What have you two eaten today?" Asked Molly.
They looked at each other trying to decide what to tell her,
while keeping their eyes on her.
Then Flitwick said, "Come sit with me."
They relaxed at his voice it sounded calming, then they sat next to him now calm.
"This morning." Said Lewis.
"What was it." Asked Molly.
"Nothing." Said Harry.
"Harry stop she dangerous, it is us and only us." Said Lewis.
"Although this man seems familiar."
Fred and George popped in. "Boys go get the person with the food trolly now." Said Molly.
Then she showed up, but no trolley. Flitwick said,
"Bring the trolly early, this boys have been starved by their families, they need food."
She was then back with the trolly,
"We don't understand what these coins are worth,
when our letter came it came with gold for our school stuff.
But here it is." Said Lewis dropping coins in Flitwick's hands.
Grabbing a lots of stuff off the trolly, then she realized how munch gold the boy gave her.
"That can't be munch but might get a Sneaker, or Hershey Bar,
or a corned beef sandwich would be grand." Said Lewis.
She then handed the gold back, then said,
"Was it enough?"
Paid for it, and put the food between the two boys.
then Lewis and Harry looked a little confused, "Is this food?"
"Yes." Said Ron.
"Never seen any of this." Said Lewis.
"I got a corned beef sandwich." Said Ron.
Lewis then said, "Do you see something you like,
don't have a clue what most of this is, but will trade you."
Ron handed the sandwich over. Lewis took half and give Harry the other. "Grab whatever you two, if you want to,
this stuff looks strange and not sure it is food."
Then Lewis and Harry ate it up like it was a steak.
Then started looking though the other strange food,
then Flitwick when Lewis look at Flitwick he saw into the deep emerald eyes and saw the face even with the bruises,
realized who they were. Then Flitwick said, "Her emerald eyes, his raven hair, you can only be there sons."
"Who's?" Said Molly.
The conductor came back looking for the trouble,
then said, "Flitwick what the hold up?"
"Let's just go we can handle in on route." Said Flitwick.
"Molly you can come with us." Then closed the door.
"Fine." Said Molly. The train started moving.
"Who are you parents?" Asked Flitwick.
"We don't know who our Parents are, just that they died in a car crash. Eleven year ago." Said Lewis.
Then Flitwick started noting the extensive damage to the boys, and that one was looking at Ron.
"Molly you do know who they are right?" Asked Flitwick.
"No, just know they needed help is all." Said Molly.
"Molly you know who they are. Arthur and YOU are there godparents. Ron and Rob are there god brothers." Said Flitwick.
"Now you know our names what yours." Asked Ron.
"We are no ones, just a couple freaks." Said Lewis.
Ron and Rob looked at each other then back at the boys with the wonderful eyes.
"So, I assume the two in the hall are yours and as is Percy?"
Asked Lewis. "You got a cute bunch there Ron and Rob."
"I got two more Charley who studies dragons,
Bill is doing something in Egypt, what he doing Mom."
Asked Ron. "Know it is for the bank."
"He a curse breaker, you know that, Ron." Said Molly.
Then they noted they Lewis and Harry seem to now slightly be communicating but now also looking envious of Ron and Rob.
Fred and George came in and joined them.
"Are you two hungry?" Asked Lewis.
"We could eat." Said Fred.
"So, all your brothers are Wizards?" Asked Lewis.
"Yes." Said Ron.
"Your Mom and Dad, magic to?" Asked Lewis.
"Yes." Said Ron.
"Guessing several generations back?" Asked Lewis.
"Yes." Said Molly.
Lewis was now looking at Harry. Then Lewis said.
"From what that boy said in the robs shop,
will threaten us, we best keep to our own,
he said he was from an old pure blood family.
When he learned what we were, will he punched me in the nose,
then he said, 'Mudblood keep to you own.' So, you don't care to be seen with a 'Mudblood'?" Asked Lewis.
They all looked at him with open mouths.
"What? So, it is true? Sorry we leave." Said Lewis.
"It is not that, you should not use that word." Said Flitwick.
"What?" Said The Twins.
Then the boy from Diagon Alley came in.
"I warned you not to come Mudblood."
Then they noticed Lewis went on guard. "And if you try for my brother, I may figure out if my cousin favorite game is fun."
Then he made a move toward the boy twin,
then Lewis moved so quickly, then the blond boy was on the ground clutching his nuts.
"You kicked me in the balls." Said Draco.
"I warned you last time what would happen if you tried anything toward my twin and you did not believe me." Said Lewis.
"You can call us whatever but touching him is off limits."
"Mudblood, you regret this." Said Draco.
"Right now, it seems very munch like your regretting it pureblood, but if these are you friends, we leave you with them." Said Lewis. "But you're not to touch him."
"Who are you?" Asked Molly.
"He one of your pure bloods, he said his name Draco."
Said Lewis, "We the outsider here, the Mudbloods."
Then Draco made a run for it.
"If you Parents are both Muggles your Mugleborn."
Said Ron, "The other word is a bad word."
Then Fred and George walked back in
"Dig in." Said Lewis. "If you want to explain some of this food would be useful to, Wizard Stuff is new. Would you mind if I opened the window? It is hot."
"Fine with me." Said Ron.
Lewis opened the window, and in unison they both wiped their heads and there scars showed. "Your them." Said Ron.
"We who, we are no one." Said Lewis. "Sorry."
"For what?" Asked Ron.
"Was envious of you two. Hope you know how lucky you are."
Said Lewis. "How much you guys have."
"What you mean?" Asked Rob.
"A nice big family, Mom and Dad, a home, a safe home."
Said Lewis, then just went silent.
"Our names are Fred and George." Said Fred. "You."
"What your name, swear you two look familiar." Said George.
"We no one, you could not possible know us.
He Harry, I am Lewis." Said Lewis.
The two boys gawked at him and Harry. They then looked
at the boys. "Fred? George? Don't stare."
"Are you really Harry and Lewis?" Fred said.
"Yes, but does it matter." Harry said.
"We are just two underage wizards." Said Lewis,
"Through we do seem to make a good punching bag."
"And you really got - you know..." Asked Rob.
Then pointing at their forehead.
"You mean from the car crash?" Asked Harry.
"We still can't explain why after all this time it did not heal."
Said Lewis.
"So that's where You-Know-Who." Said Ron.
"What, who?" Asked Lewis.
"Do you really not remember." Asked Molly.
"We were told by our uncle that we were in a car crash,
and then told that all we need know, and freaks like us are lucky to have a place at all." Said Lewis.
"Really." Asked Molly.
"Is your whole family like this?" asked Lewis, who found Ron just as interesting as Ron found him. "Are they all this nice?"
"Yes, all my brothers are nice." Said Ron
"So, you must know loads of magic already."
"I heard you went to live with Muggles," said Ron.
"What are they like?"
Then they noticed them starting to cry a little,
"We at least have each other, that all that matters.
You family looks great. They love you."
"Five," said Ron. For some reason, he was looking gloomy.
"I'm the sixth in our family to go to Hogwarts. You could say I've got a lot to live up to. Bill and Charlie have already left - Bill was head boy and Charlie was captain of Quidditch. Now Percy's a prefect. Fred and George mess around a lot, but they still get really good marks and everyone thinks they're really funny. Everyone expects me to do as well as the others,
but if I do, it's no big deal, because they did it first."
"You never get anything new, either, with five brothers. I've got Bill's old robes, Charlie's old wand, and Percy's old rat." Ron reached inside his jacket and pulled out a fat gray rat,
which was asleep.
Then Rob and Ron noticed the boys' envious looks.
Ron's ears went pink. He seemed to think he'd said too much, because he went back to staring out of the window.
"Do you know how lucky you are?" Said Lewis.
"You two have so much." Said Harry.
"We just have each other." Said Lewis.
Then they explain how they lived, he'd never had any money in his life, and they told Ron so, all about having to wear Dudley's old clothes and never getting any birthday presents,
nor Christmas either.
Then Lewis sneezed and dislodging his nose.
Then Lewis passed out. Molly used spells to fix his nose, and stop the bleeding. Cleaning the mess up. He then got the very skinny boy onto the seat, where his twin got next to him and hugged him. They then noticed that the other was no longer paying attention to any of them. Lewis now coming to.
"Can I look at the frogs?"
"What?" Said the twins.
"Oh, of course, you wouldn't know - Chocolate Frogs have cards, inside them, you know, to collect - famous witches and wizards. I've got about five hundred, but I haven't got
Agrippa or Ptolemy."
Then they both had a look on their faces.
"I head of chocked covered crickets and ants,
but would not think chocolate covered Frogs, gross.
Is all magic food this gross." Asked Lewis. "Figured that was just muggle movies, but wizards eat frogs?"
They then laughed, "There not real frogs."
Harry unwrapped his Chocolate Frog Lewis grabbed the frog,
looking at then ate it. "He right there just chocolate."
Harry picked up the card. It showed a man's face.
He wore half- moon glasses, had a long, crooked nose, and flowing silver hair, beard, and mustache. Underneath the picture was the name Albus Dumbledore.
"Who?" said the twins.
"Don't tell me you'd never heard of Dumbledore!" said Percy.
"How could we." Said Lewis.
"We have no contact with the magical world." Said Harry.
"We lost our Parents when we were one."
"They died in a car crash." Said Lewis. "We were in the car,
the drunks could have killed us, dam losers. They did get what they deserved, risk killing their sons."
"What?" Said Ron and Rob.
"That not how they died." Said Ron.
"We don't want to talk about it." Said Lewis.
"You Parents were Murdered." Said Rob.
"Yaa by Jack Daniels." Said Lewis.
"They are the most famous wizard and witch on the planet." Said Rob, looking at the twins.
"Their parents where the last murdered by You-know in Godric's Hollow, you two survived, he vanished." Said Ron.
"Why do you look never heard this."
"We did not." Said Lewis. "Harry this explains these scars."
"Are they still there?" Asked Ron.
They through together, trying to decide. "We decided that
we want you as friends, and not sure we want you to see it yet." Said Harry.
"Everyone who see it views us as defective." Said Lewis,
"We really want you as a friend."
"Can I have a frog? I might get Agrippa." Asked Ron.
"Ron if the food is sitting there then you can eat it don't ask.
They forgot to put a picture on this one." Said Lewis.
"He'll be back. No, I've got Morgana again and I've got about six of her... do you want it? You can start collecting."
Ron's eyes strayed to the pile of Chocolate Frogs waiting to be
unwrapped. "Help yourself," said Harry. "But in, you know,
the other world, people just stay put in photos."
"Do they? What, they don't move at all?" Ron sounded amazed. "Weird!"
"They move on tv, that like a moving picture but it talks."
Harry stared as Dumbledore sidled back into the picture on his card and gave him a small smile. Ron was more interested in eating the frogs than looking at the Famous Witches and Wizards cards, but the twins couldn't keep his eyes off them.
"Don't know who he is but his eye, we seen them before."
Said Lewis. "But not sure where."
Soon he had not only Dumbledore and Morgana,
but Hengist of Woodcroft, Alberic Grunnion, Circe, Paracelsus, and Merlin. He finally tore his eyes away from the druidess Cliodna, who was scratching her nose.
They were now open a bag of Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans.
"You want to be careful with those," Ron warned Harry.
"When they say every flavor, they mean every flavor - you know, you get all the ordinary ones like chocolate and peppermint and mar- malade, but then you can get spinach and liver and tripe. George reckons he had a
booger flavored one once." Ron picked up a green bean, looked at it carefully, and bit into a corner.
"Bleaaargh - see? Sprouts."
They had a good time eating the Every Flavor Beans.
The Twins got toast, coconut, baked bean, strawberry, curry,
grass, coffee, sardine, and was even brave enough to nibble the end off a funny gray one Ron wouldn't touch,
which turned out to be pepper.
Then Lewis had this look on his face, popped open the window and barfed out it several times.
The countryside now flying past the window was becoming wilder. The neat fields had gone. Now there were woods, twisting rivers, and dark green hills.
There was a knock on the door of their compartment and the round-faced boy Harry had passed on platform nine and threequarters came in. He looked tearful.
"Sorry," he said, "but have you seen a toad at all?"
When they shook their heads, he wailed, "I've lost him! He keeps getting away from me!"
"He'll turn up," said Harry.
"Yes," said the boy miserably. "Well, if you see him..." He left.
"Don't know why he's so bothered," said Ron. "If I'd brought a toad, I'd lose it as quick as I could. Mind you, I brought Scabbers, so I can't talk."
The rat was still snoozing on Ron's lap.
"Has anyone seen a toad? Neville's lost one," she said.
She had a bossy sort of voice, lots of bushy brown hair, and rather large front teeth.
"We've already told him we haven't seen it," said Ron,
but the girl wasn't listening, she was looking at the wand
in his hand.
"Good-by." Said Lewis, standing up and getting her to leave.
"What house are your brothers in?" asked Harry.
"Gryffindor," said Ron. Gloom seemed to be settling on him again. "Mom and Dad were in it, too. I don't know what they'll say if I'm not. I don't suppose Ravenclaw would be too bad, but imagine if they put me in Slytherin."
"I don't care as long as we are together." Said Lewis.
They wondering what a wizard did once he'd finished school.
"What's your Quidditch team?" Ron asked.
"What is that?" Harry confessed.
"Is it a game." Asked Harry.
"What!" Ron looked dumbfounded. "Oh, you wait, it's the best game in the world -" And he was off, explaining all about the four balls and the positions of the seven players, describing famous games he'd been to with his brothers and the broomstick he'd like to get if he had the money.
He was just taking Harry through the finer points of the game
when the compartment door slid open yet again, but it wasn't Neville the toadless boy, or Hermione Granger this time.
Three boys entered, and He was looking at Harry with a lot more interest. This made Lewis nervous.
Lewis now moved in between this boy and his twin.
"Is it true?" he said. "They're saying all down the train that Potter's in this compartment. So, it's you, is it?"
"No, who that," said The Twins. He was looking at the other boys. Both of them were thickset and looked extremely mean. Standing on either side of the pale boy,
they looked like bodyguards.
"Oh, this is Crabbe and this is Goyle," said the pale boy carelessly, noticing where Harry was looking.
"And my name's Malfoy, Draco Malfoy."
Ron gave a slight cough, which might have been hiding a snigger. Draco Malfoy looked at him.
"Think my name's funny, do you? No need to ask who you are. My father told me all the Weasleys have red hair, freckles, and more children than they can afford."
He turned back to Harry. "You'll soon find out some wizarding families are much better than others, Potter. You don't want to go making friends with the wrong sort. I can help you there."
"To late we meet the best, why do we want to know you,
LEAVE!" Ordered Lewis steaming with rage.
Draco Malfoy didn't go red, but a pink tinge appeared in his pale
cheeks.
"I'd be careful if I were you, Potter," he said slowly.
"Unless you're a bit politer you'll go the same way as your parents. They didn't know what was good for them, either. You hang around with riffraff like the Weasleys…"
Lewis said it again, "Leave now." Then they noticed air in the room starting to slowly circle around the center.
"Oh, you're going to fight us, are you?" Malfoy sneered.
"LEAVE!" Said Lewis.
Molly then stood up, to stop the fight, but she was too late.
"But we don't feel like leaving, do we, boys?
We've eaten all our food and you still seem to have some."
"There our friends." Then Lewis went to shove them when they flew into the wall, a lot faster than the eleven-year owl should be able to, especial since he did not touch them.
They got up and ran for it.
"I've heard of his family," said Ron darkly. "They were some of the first to come back to our side after You-Know-Who disappeared. Said they'd been bewitched. My dad doesn't believe it. He says Malfoy's father didn't need an excuse to go over to the Dark Side." He turned to Hermione.
"Can we help you with something?"
A voice echoed through the train: "We will be reaching Hogwarts in five minutes' time. Please leave your luggage on the train, it will be taken to the school separately."
Lewis had already decided he loved this cute boy.
They crammed their pockets with the last of the sweets and
joined the crowd thronging the corridor.
The train slowed right down and finally stopped.
People pushed their way toward the door and out on to a tiny, dark platform. Then a lamp came bobbing over the heads of the
students, and Harry heard a familiar voice: "Firs' years! Firs' years over here! All right there, Harry?"
Hagrid's big hairy face beamed over the sea of heads.
"C'mon, follow me - any more firs' years? Mind yer step, now! Firs' years follow me!"
Molly got out and followed by her boys and the Potter twins.
"Ms. Weasley that him. The big harry man with the nice eye."
Said Lewis, then grabbed his ribs again.
"You two are doing sorting then off to the Hospital wing."
Said Molly. "Ron and Rob, you are to stay with them on the
boat ok."
"You think that had to be an order we like these two."
Said Ron. "You two are light."
They got across the lake and up the stairs.
Hagrid raised a gigantic fist and knocked three times on the castle door.
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