About an hour had past. The outside world had changed from the cities to the countryside and apparently, the four cars in the back had broke free from the rest of the train and went a different way. They were no longer heading to Boston.

After a while, Lucy had fallen asleep which allowed Rebecca to walk out of the compartment and go check on Isabelle next door. Isabelle was currently telling Hugo and Lily a story about something. Rebecca was glad that they were able to get along so well. Rebecca wished she could say the same with Albus, Scorpius, and Rose. Things might have worked out if Lucy hadn't shown up. Rebecca was completely confused as to why Lucy and her mother had fled Britain. They were not in the slightest bit of rich or powerful. They were nothing to anyone back home.

But now with her being here, Rebecca only hoped that Lucy would find someone else to take advantage of, but that was certainly doubtful.

Rebecca opened the door. All three of them looked up at her with smiles and hellos.

"Becky, I was just about to tell them about how you saved me when those bad men came to our house." Isabelle said.

Rebecca remembered this one quite clearly. During the raid, Rebecca was told by her father to block her and Isabelle inside Rebecca's room. Rebecca had done so, leading Isabelle upstairs, but Rebecca watched through the window of the confrontation.

"Anthony Warren, you are hereby declared an enemy of the Magical Community of Britain. Under the authorization of Mathaius Burgess, Minister of Magic, you and your family are under arrest."

"That won't be happening."

Rebecca then remembered the duel between Anthony, Valèrie, Ray, and Bella, against the Ministry.

Rebecca couldn't stand to watch her family get hurt. She probably done the stupidest thing ever and ran downstairs with her sister and wand in hand. Just as they reached the landing, a wizard came from the backdoor to sneak up on the Warrens. Rebecca had seen him just in time to send him flying into the ceiling with a knock back charm.

Isabelle believed that the man was about to hurt her and Rebecca stopped him and Rebecca decided to let her keep with that story to win some points for coolest sister ever.

Isabelle finished talking about it and both Lily and Hugo were amazed by the story.

"That's incredible!" Hugo said.

"The most my brothers ever done was one pranked a lot and the other got in trouble for time turning." Lily said.

"Time turning?" Rebecca asked.

"Oh yes. Albus was in serious trouble with the Ministry before Mathaius took over." Lily said.

Rebecca had not heard anything about this, but she didn't keep up with the news. She had never cared about it up until her father told her how dangerous Mathaius was.

"He and Scorpius and that Delphi girl got into trouble." Hugo said. "Delphi was actually Voldemort's daughter. Now she's in Azkaban for it."

Rebecca did remember hearing about Voldemort's daughter being arrested. Mathaius brought it up in one of his speeches.

The intercom on the train came alive with a click. The conductor, though Rebecca was sure there wasn't one physically on the train, began to speak.

"Welcome students of Ilvermorny to Mount Greylock. We'll be pulling into the station soon, so please have all of your belongings together and remember to change into your robes before we arrive. Thank you."

Rebecca and the others looked out their window. They were rounding the base of a mountain that had a misty cloud sitting atop it. Beside the tracks were buildings, probably made by muggles. It was already becoming nightfall, but the sun was being blocked out by the mountain so it looked extremely dark.

After everyone had changed, they finally stopped at a station in a town called Adams.

The conductor intercom clicked on again and said, please exit the train and follow the instructions of the wizard outside. First years and transfer students will need to exit first.

Rebecca, Isabelle, and the rest grabbed their luggage and headed out of the train. They exited to a dark platform that was only lit by lightning bugs that were brighter than normal.

Lily and Hugo headed off to find Albus and Rose. Isabelle stayed behind with Rebecca which made her happy. Rebecca could see the change in Isabelle's personality. She went from friendly to quiet. She didn't like being in close proximity of other people. There was quite a bit of first years. Rebecca glanced around. She could easily see the so-called transfer students. Rose was telling Lily and Hugo something while Albus and Scorpius were talking to each other quietly. She also seen Lucy about ten feet away. Rebecca looked away to not make eye contact. And that was all of the transfers it seemed to Rebecca. Not many had fled Britain- at least to America.

A wizard was standing in front of them. He was a large rounded man with a conductor's cap on. He also had MACUSA pinned on his shirt pocket. Also pinned on was a crest which might have been Ilvermorny. Another pin was a ball with rings around it. It sort of looked like the planet Saturn.

"Quiet please. All of you listen over here please." He called out to the students. "Welcome to Ilvermorny. Now, I won't bore you with long speeches. That will be the headmaster's job later on. You all will follow me on a path of which every student before you has traveled upon. It is tradition since the early concept of this school, that all new students will arrive at the school by foot, traveling up the Appalachian Trail, or as us wizard folk will say, the Trail of Terror."

There was a few gasps among the first years. Isabelle wasn't too fond of the name of the trail either. She had grabbed for Rebecca's hand and got closer to her. However, the wizard laughed.

"I'm joking. We call it the Appalachian Trail just as the no-maj call it." There were a few chuckles, but Isabelle was not buying it.

Rebecca then had to do what she needed to do to calm Isabelle and called out among the students, "Do you promise you're joking?"

There were a few more laughters popping up, thinking Rebecca was the one who was scared. It certainly did not help Isabelle's cause.

The wizard smiled a cheeky grin and said, "Of course. Nothing off the trail will bother us. Just don't stray away and let that be a serious warning to all of you. Now let's get going. We need to clear this platform. The train from South Dakota and Georgia will be here in a few minutes. Luckily we got California coming later."

About thirty minutes later, three more trains had arrived. It made sense to Rebecca that there were multiple trains now. America was bigger than Britain and wizards were more spread out. Soon enough their pack of first years had grown. The older students had taken school buses to the school, which was odd to Rebecca. A road led straight up to the top of the misty clouds.

Rebecca looked around once more to find other Hogwarts students. There weren't any. Suddenly, she felt alone.

"Hey Becks." Lucy came up from behind. "I think it was pretty easy to tell which train came from the south. Wizard rednecks. Who knew?" She jerked her head towards a group of them. Rebecca didn't bother to look but she could hear their conversation.

"I told mama we ain't got to have no fancy education. We live in the swamp. Ain't no fancy jobs for us here. But she said naw. Ya'll gotta go and make me and Daddy proud."

"My pa said if I pass all my classes, he would take me troll huntin' in Tennessee."

"Morons." Lucy said. "I mean, do we have to put up with that being here? At least they keep to themselves... so far."

"Come on." Rebecca said. The crowd began to move up the trail. On either side were the lightning bugs leading them up. The trees on both sides were hanging over them like it would be able to cover them up from any muggles in the sky looking down.

The walk was long and painful for some. Rebecca was feeling her legs burning from the climb up. Whatever sort of tradition it was for a bunch of students to climb a mountain before dinner, Rebecca hated it. Isabelle didn't seem to mind the walking, but was worried about things jumping out at her from the trees.

Some students complained, demanding the adult wizard to conjure them a fast transport. Some threatened to turn around and go back, but everyone stuck it out, perhaps because of the fact if anyone had turn around they would go home. Rebecca had high hopes this would cause Lucy to turn around so she could have a valid excuse to go back to her mother.

"My mum would know it was on purpose and she would be very disappointed in me."

"How much longer do we have?" Asked Rose to the adult wizard.
"Just a few more steps." He said without any sign of fatigue. Rebecca figured that he must take this walk every year with the first years.

While Rebecca was keeping close by Isabelle, Albus had approached them from behind.

"Hey." he simply said.

"Hi." Rebecca said, scratching her ear.

"How is she doing?" Albus looked at Isabelle with concern. Her eyes were fixed on the trees.

"I hate that bloke up there, scaring her like this." Rebecca jerked her head at the adult wizard.

"Yeah, I also don't like this walking. The staircases at Hogwarts are easy compared to this rock." Albus winced.

He looked around for a minute before asking Rebecca, "You're not really friends with Lucy, are you?"

But before Rebecca could answer with a no, the wizard called out and said, "Here we are, kids. Ilvermorny." Both Rebecca and Albus' jaws dropped. Isabelle made an "Ooooh." sound.