Chapter 6 - The Train Ride to Remember
After the Potter Twins where missing for four years,
they ended up getting there letter and school stuff.
And they ended up showing at the station.
They were in old used muggle close.
They had had several bruises, and looked extremely underweight. But they got to the station and got up to the platform numbers.
Percy and the middle Twins made it through before,
Lewis and Harry 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 don't know where it is." Said Lewis.
"I know this was too good to be true." Said Harry.
"Not like this changes anything." Said Lewis.
"There is no platform." Said Harry.
"I know what we can do." Said Lewis, wrote a letter.
Then got his owl out and sent it. "This will take a while I think,
we are going miss the train."
"Who did you send him to?" Asked Harry.
"Told us about our Godfather who works in London,
he might be able to help." Said Lewis.
Five minutes later James showed back but flew over to the
red heard lady. Lewis ran over and apologized,
"Sorry Ms. James why did you bother this lady?
Not sure why he went to you."
Lewis walking back to Harry, "It is time for us to go.
Not spending the night in some station."
"Let ask those, got a strange feeling." Said Harry.
"They got the same trunks." Said Lewis. "And there cute."
They walked over. "Do you have a minuet?"
"No, we don't." Said Molly.
"Sorry for bothering you." Said Lewis. "My mirror,
we know this was a pipe dream."
"True." Said Harry.
They moved the trunks next to the column and set on them.
Lewis started writing a letter, while he was doing this the three red heads disappeared into the wall, but they did not notice.
Lewis finished then sent the owl.
Lewis and Harry was sitting next to the column,
"Who did you send him to?" Asked Harry.
"The nearest Hogwarts Professor." Said Lewis.
On platform 9 ¾, Molly saw an owl flew right to Flitwick.
Nearest Person in Charge at Hogwarts, we are at the station in London, we are stuck, need help, we don't know what to do.
If Hogwarts is real. Can you send help. We will wait at this pee smelling station for twenty minutes, then we are heading to the caldron somehow.
Flitwick went up to Molly and asked, "Molly did you see anyone outside the Portal?"
"There was two boys." Said Molly. "Why."
"Can you go check on them?" Asked Flitwick.
"Hold the train." Said Molly.
She went back out and looked around for them,
and saw them heading to the main doors,
and ran for them and caught up to them.
"Did you need help?" Asked Molly.
"Na, we are good." Said Lewis. "We must go, what a joke,
had a trick played on us. Now back to homeless."
"Why?" Said Molly.
"We were told this is where you go to Hogwarts."
Said Lewis, "But we orphans, someone was heartless enough to play tricks on homeless orphans, 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."
They walked back to the portal. "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 a stranger 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. Thinking, 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 me."
"He on the platform." Said Molly, putting him down.
Lewis keeping an eye on her moving away quickly.
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. "That lady grabbed me."
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?"
"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.
They sat down on the train. "Thank you twins there." Said Lewis.
"No problem." Said Fred.
They looked and saw it and left. Walked over to Molly and Flitwick, "What wrong Professor?" Asked Percy.
"Go check on the boys with your youngest twin brother,
I think you can put them off guard and get answers."
Said Flitwick. "Something off. Then tell me what it is."
Lewis and Harry got into the same compartment,
then the train was off then Ron and Rob joined the compartment with raven haired twins.
Then before the young red hared boys could ask,
three more red heads joined them and saw there where next to each other keeping their eyes on the red heads.
"You guys, ok?" Asked Percy.
"Yes." Said Ron.
"Assume you guys are brothers." Said Lewis. "We can move,
if you don't mind our stuff in here, it is heaver then us."
"No, you guys can stay." Said Percy.
The trolly man showed up. "Food anyone." He asked.
They went up and looked, he then asked, "Is this food?"
"Yes." he said.
"Does not matter, we only got a few coins." Said Lewis.
"Do you guys know what any of this is?"
Percy walked up with Ron and Percy asked,
"How much do you have?"
"Not munch, a few of these funny coins." Said Lewis.
"Same here." Asked Harry.
They pulled out the 10 gallons they each had.
"We got this." Said Lewis.
"Can't be a lot." Said Harry.
"20 gallons." Said Percy.
"Is that a lot?" Asked Lewis.
"Yes." Said Percy.
"Can you pick something off the food trolly." Asked Lewis.
"We don't see anything we know." Said Harry.
Grabbing a lots of stuff off the trolly, giving the change back.
He put the food between the two boys. then Lewis and Harry looked a little confused, "No Hershey Bar, No Ressie,
No M&Ms, hell I give a few of these funny coins for a
Corned Beef?"
"Yes." Said Ron. "Ressie? M&Ms?"
"Candy made by the Americans Muggles." Said Lewis,
"Never seen any of this."
"I got a corned beef sandwich." Said Ron.
They looked at the sandwich. "Would you rather have some of this, we would be happy for the sandwich." Said Harry.
"That smells so good." Said Lewis. "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 food."
Then Lewis and Harry ate it up like it was a steak.
Then started looking though the other strange food.
"Who are you boys?" Asked Percy.
"Who are you?" Asked Lewis.
"I am Percy, those two are Fred and George, and the other two are Ron and Rob." Said Percy.
"Why are you two alone in the station?" Asked Ron.
"We are orphans, we got no one at all. So, your all brothers with a Mom and a home?" Asked Lewis.
"Yes. These four are mine, we have one more set of twins."
Said Percy. "They already finished school and a Dad."
"Must be nice." Said Lewis, then he realized something,
"You think my mirror?"
"They must be the sort that boy in the alley told us about,
before he told us to keep to our own." Said Harry.
"If that is important, best otherwise we might be in trouble,
there protection might be wise." Said Lewis.
"We don't know this world after all, allies would be good."
Said Harry. "Especial if we are what did he call us,
and what would happen to our kind."
"We would love to be your friends." Said Ron.
"You sure you want to?" Asked Harry. "We don't know much about your world yet, but we felt we should be honest,
He said he was a pure blood family, one of the old families.
The way you talk your family is to. We are not,
can we be friends still. We don't understand munch.
We like you guys, but not sure we can be friends.
But from what he said it sounds like it is not normal for old pure blood family to mix with, what did he call us,"
Said Lewis who through for a few minutes.
"He was nice till he learned one thang,
I think the phrase he called our type was, 'Mudbloods',
then Nothing but said 'We are nothing more than a Filthy Mud Blood filth.' See our parents are what did he call it Muggles.
From what he said it sounds like a taboo to mix.
He also made it sound like our kind are hated."
"But he did say we would be beat for it," Said Harry.
"Who are your parents?" Asked Ron.
"We don't know who our Parents are, just that they died in a car crash. Eleven year ago." Said Lewis.
"You know that not important." Asked Ron.
"You sure he made it sound very important." Said Lewis.
Then Draco walked in and said, "So you came."
Lewis and Harry now cowering in the corner and did not talk. "Mudblood filth talk, now explain why you came.
Or you will get the beating you need."
"We figured Hogwarts would be better than homeless."
Said Lewis. Lewis and Harry where now in the corner.
"So, are you bunch friends?" Asked Harry.
"We can leave, we don't want trouble." Said Lewis.
They stand up. "Please we know our place.
Just don't hurt him. He is important to me."
"I not friends with them." Said Draco.
"You're a Mudbloods, but there blood traitors."
Lewis and Harry looked confused, then Lewis said,
"They sounded like one of those old pure blood families you talked about being important, the same as you."
But Percy said, "Leave them be, it is a big train."
Then they noted, Lewis and Harry to now looking at Percy with happiness. Fred and George where looking at the food after Draco left. "Are you two hungry?" Asked Lewis.
"We could eat." Said Fred.
"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.
Then they through they saw a scar.
"Can you tell us something about your world?" Asked Lewis.
"Any thang we should know."
"What was that on your head?" Asked Ron.
"Nothing." Said Lewis, moving his hear. "Just a scar."
"We want to figure out how to keep our heads down."
Said Harry. "Apparently we are in a hated group."
"You guys are lucky, family that loves you." Said Lewis.
"We are orphans, we been homeless for years now."
"Who been beating on you." Asked Percy.
"We are freaks after all and kids are mean." Said Lewis.
"No matter where we go seems we get the short end.
Most kids beat us when they saw how small we are."
"What happened to you parents?" Asked Ron.
"We don't know." Said Harry.
"We are just two underage Mudbloods." Said Lewis,
"Through we do seem to make a good punching bags.
We were told by our foster family that we were in a car crash,
before we ran off four years ago."
"Really." Asked Ron.
"Is your whole family like this?" asked Lewis.
"Er - Yes, I think so," said Ron.
"Think a hole family that love each other," Said Lewis.
"Told you it was possible." Said Harry.
"Oh, I though you where meaning magical." Said Ron.
"Yes we all are nice and love each other."
"I am tied of homeless, but not ricking being a punching bag ever again." Said Lewis. "That female was a sicko."
"What are the Muggles," said Ron. "What are they like?"
"We ran off, that should say it all." Said Lewis.
"Five," said Ron. For some reason, he was looking gloomy.
"Me and my twin are the last two in our family to go to Hogwarts. You could say we 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.
"Please stop bragging." Said Lewis.
"What." Said Ron and Rob.
"I don't want to hear about all the nice thangs you got."
Said Lewis. "Does not impress us. You starting to sound
like that boy who left."
"See those two trunks and the owls." Said Harry.
"Yes." Said Ron.
"That all we own." Said Harry.
"Ron shut up." Said Rob, "There not hearing it as complaining,
they think your bragging?"
"Wait you were complaining because you have stuff?"
Said Lewis. "Now he sounding more like that muggle that beat the shit out of us because we ate his porkchop.
Do you know how lucky you are?"
"You two have so much." Said Harry.
"Your so rich." Said Lewis.
"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 the only close was what was on their backs, no house for the past four years,
most of the time no food.
"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.
"Chocolate covered Frogs, gross. Is all magic food this gross."
Asked Lewis. "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.
"You got Dumbledore." Said Ron.
"He famous." Said Rob.
"Who?" said the twins.
"Don't tell me you'd never heard of Dumbledore!" said Percy.
"How could we." Said Lewis.
"We are Mudbloods after all." Said Lewis.
"Why are we Mudbloods outcaste? He even said would beat us."
"Think I should fix this now." Said Percy.
"Fix what?" Said Lewis, looking confused.
"Because he mislead you. The Proper term is either Mugleborn if both parents are muggles or half-bloods if one is a magic and one Mugleborn, or quarter born if one is a pure blood and one is a half blood. Using that term will get you beaten by most."
"Mugleborn sounds so much better, so not all pure bloods hate those with muggle parents?" Said Lewis.
"No." Said Percy.
"So, we want be outcaste." Said Lewis. "You lot would not mind knowing or be seen with us? We can be friends?"
"No, your two are no different than us, in fact there are lots of Mugleborn." Said Percy. "And I think those two already like you two." Then the two boys looked so much happier.
"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 looking at the Famous Witches and Wizards cards, eating the frogs than. But the twins couldn't keep his eyes off them.
"If you don't want the frogs, I like those." Said Lewis.
"Just don't waste 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.
"Not use to eating so much." Said Lewis.
"You did not." Said Ron.
"Ate a whole sandwich in one sitting." Said Lewis.
"That about the same he eaten all week." Said Harry.
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.
"Holy crap, your famous." Said Hermione.
"Ron you lot is famous?" Asked Lewis. "What you famous for?"
"Not that I know of. Percy?" Asked Ron.
"Not you red heads. Those two the raven-haired twins,
emerald eye ones." Said Hermione.
The Weasley where now looking at them.
"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 Lewis.
"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.
Draco came back, with two other boys,
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 Potter's are in this compartment. So, it's you two, is it?"
"So, what if we are, we are outcast," said Lewis.
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 and Lewis. "You'll soon find out some wizarding families are much better than others, Potters.
You don't want to go making friends with the wrong sort.
I can help you there."
"To late we meet the best, they don't think we are trash because of our blood. 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," 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.
"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?"
"Emerald eye, Raven hear, scar on the head,
twins, your Lewis and James Potter. You guys disappeared four years ago. Why?" Asked Percy.
They looked at each other. Then Lewis said, "How do you know who we are. We are Mugleborn."
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."
"It is time to get off the train." Said Lewis.
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 Lewis and Harry heard a familiar voice:
"Firs' years! Firs' years over here! All right there?"
Hagrid's big hairy face beamed over the sea of heads.
"C'mon, follow me - any more firs' years? Mind your step, now! Firs' years follow me!"
"Ron and Rob stay with those two." Ordered Percy.
"You think that had to be an order we like these two."
Said Ron. "You two are light."
Then Hagrid saw Lewis and Harry, just staring at them.
Walked up and said, "Your alive! We were told you died."
Lewis and Harry stopped behind there Weasleys.
Lewis looked into his eyes. "It you, your real." Said Harry.
"You know him." Said Ron.
"It him the monster that drop us off in a never-ending nightmare, for us to get beaten and hated." Said Lewis.
"So that means the other two men are real. Just hope I don't see them here. Ron lets go." Said Lewis, whispering in his ear.
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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