A/N: I didn't get any feedback on my Lupin question, so I'm just going to put him in. If you don't like it, don't read it.

Disclaimer: I don't own Teen Titans or Harry Potter.

Chapter 3: Aboard the Hogwarts Express

The next morning the Titans congregated in the living room with their bags. They were all dressed in normal clothes, and Beast Boy and Cyborg had taken potions to make them look normal. Raven teleported them to a deserted alley next to King's Cross Station. To make it appear like they didn't know each other, they would have to go in one at a time. Robin was the first to proceed.

"Wow," said Ginny Weasly walking with her family, Harry, and Hermione. "We actually got here early for once." The odd group approached the barrier between platforms nine and ten where they found a boy with black hair examining the barrier closely. The boy looked to be about sixteen with spiky black hair. He was wearing loose jeans and a tight black t-shirt that showed his muscles. Ginny and Hermione noticed his bright blue eyes.

"Having some trouble, deary?" asked Mrs. Weasly.

"Um, yeah," the boy replied, "I'm looking for platform nine-and-three-quarters." Everyone noticed his American accent.

"Well you're in the right place," said Mr. Weasly stepping forward. "Are you a transfer student?"

"Yeah, I am. I'm Dick Grayson, by the way." The boy extended his hand.

Mr. Weasly shook his hand and said, "Arthur Weasly." He then turned and pointed out the members of his group. "This is my wife Molly, my son Ron, my daughter Ginny, and these fine people are Harry Potter and Hermione Granger."

"It's nice to meet all of you." Harry was a little surprised by Dick making no acknowledgement of his name, but he supposed he wasn't as famous in America.

"I'll help you get through the barrier," said Hermione. "We can do it together. All you have to do is walk straight through."

Dick looked afraid. "Are you sure?"

"Of course! Come on," Hermione said as she grabbed his hand and pulled him through the barrier.

Dick almost dropped his many bags as he was drug through a seemingly solid wall. After he was past the experience, he surveyed his surroundings closely. Before him, sat a large red train, and many teens his age or younger were milling around the platform saying good byes and finding old friends.

A few seconds later the Weaslys and Harry came through the barrier, and Dick noticed Ron looked a little angry.

"Let's go find a compartment," said Ginny heading for the train.

Turning to Dick, Harry said, "You can sit with us."

Starfire or Kori Anders went next and found a nice group of Hufflepuffs that helped her through the barrier, and with whom she sat on the train. The same went for Beast Boy (Garfield Logan). Cyborg (Victor Stone) found a mix of Ravenclaws and Gryffindors to sit with.

Finally it was Raven's turn. As Raven approached the barrier a boy with slicked back blond hair also headed toward platform nine-and-three-quarters.

The spells littering the barrier practically blinded Raven. She could see thousands of remnants of spells. Mostly she saw the markings of a spell to make the barrier a portal. It was fairly bright, as well, for it seemed to have been recently renewed. She also saw the remains of a spell that temporarily disallowed someone to enter the portal. The remains were a few years old so she couldn't tell for whom the spell was intended.

Raven passed through, and the blond boy followed. Raven headed for the train, but the boy stopped her. "Hey, I've never seen you before, and you seem a little old to be a first year. What are you doing here?"

"I'm a transfer student," Raven stated simply and pushed past the rude boy.

"Where's your trunk," he asked.

Raven rolled her eyes and turned back to him. Giving him one of her death glares, she growled, "Do you always ask so many questions?"

The boy seemed to shrink away from her with a scared look on his face. Raven sighed and boarded the train. She found and empty compartment near the rear of the train where she sat and read Hogwarts: A History.

Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, and Dick boarded the train. "Ginny!" a Ravenclaw called from one of the front compartments. She waved her hand and indicated that she and her friends had saved space for Ginny. Ginny started for the compartment. Ron put a hand on her shoulder.

"Hey! Who are they?" Ron asked rudely.

"My friends!" Ginny answered back exasperatedly. "I do have friends of my own, you know." With that, Ginny entered the compartment and shut the door a little too forcefully.

"Whatever," Ron said and continued down the aisle. Once the small group had found an empty compartment, they loaded their trunks and bags on the shelves above the seats and sat.

"So, where did you transfer from?" Hermione inquired turning to Dick.

"Um," Dick uttered thinking quickly. "I had a private tutor. My dad's kind of weird about things like that," Dick said. He smiled as he remembered how Bruce (Batman) had insisted on sending Dick to the best private school in Gotham.

"Oh."

"Well, you'll like Hogwarts," Harry put in.

"Yeah," added Ron obviously warming up to Dick. "It's great."

"Do you know what house you want to be in?" Hermione asked.

"What do you mean by 'house'?" Dick wanted to know.

Ron began to explain, "There are four houses: Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin. Gryffindor's the best, Slytherin is the evil house, Hufflepuff is for the idiots-"

"Ron!" Hermione gasped.

"What?" asked Ron with an innocent expression on his freckled face.

"If that were true, Ron, you would have been put in Hufflepuff!" Hermione snapped.

Harry tried to better explain, "According to the sorting hat-"

"The what?" asked Dick, even more confused.

"The sorting hat," Hermione repeated. "They place it on your head, and it looks into your mind. It sees how you are and decides which house is best for you."

"Oh," said Dick, inwardly chuckling at what Raven's reaction will be to a hat that can look into your mind.

"Right," Harry continued, "according to the sorting hat, Gryffindor is for the brave, Slytherin is for the determined, Hufflepuff is for the loyal, and Ravenclaw is for the clever. In reality though, Slytherin is the evil house. The Death Eaters' children that attend Hogwarts are all in Slytherin. Gryffindor probably is the best house, though."

Dick, knowing about Death Eaters from Hagrid, snickered. "I guess you're all in Gryffindor, huh."

Hermione blushed. "Yep," Ron said proudly.

Raven was deep into her book when there was a knock on the door. In stepped a tall thin man in tattered clothes. His hair was almost completely gray, even though he seemed to be only in his early forties. His face was gaunt, yet smiling. The man looked worn and extremely tired. There was something else about him that Raven could sense. It was a kind of hidden aura, a kind of wild repressed evil that he kept inside of him. Raven sighed. He was a werewolf. Of course, she of all people would have to share a compartment with a werewolf. "Mind if I join you?" he asked. "Everywhere else is full."

"I suppose I have no choice then," Raven answered coldly.

"I guess you don't," he replied still smiling and lifted his trunk up to the rack above the seats opposite Raven. Sitting down, the man extended his hand.

"I am Professor Lupin, the new defense against the dark arts teacher!" Raven simply stared at his outstretched hand over the pages of her book. Lupin gave a small sigh and retracted his hand. "You must be a transfer student," he said, once again trying to strike up conversation.

"Yep," Raven replied simply. Lupin frowned and gave up. The girl remained emotionless as her eyes scanned the pages before her. Lupin couldn't tell what it was, but he felt a connection with this girl. (A/N: Don't worry, this is not a Raven/Lupin pairing. That would be just gross.) It seemed as if the wolf in him wanted to reach out to this girl and bite her, agitate her, try to bring out her dark side. Lupin's dark side did seem stronger now that he sat across from her, but he couldn't tell why.

After a few minutes of awkward silence, Lupin laid his head against the window and fell asleep.

"'WHAT'S QUIDDITCH?'!" Ron yelled at Dick. "What kind of a question is that? Have you been living in a cave?"

Dick wanted to say, "No, actually a giant T," but he restrained this urge.

"I'm muggle born. My father got me a tutor instead of sending me off to school, and my tutor never mentioned Qudditch." Dick hoped his story sounded plausible, for he had invented it in the past two seconds.

Ron seemed to accept this answer and settled down while Harry explained Quidditch. Suddenly, the door to there compartment flew open. A clumsy looking boy about Dick's age stood in the doorway.

"Hey, Neville," said Harry addressing the boy. "What's up?"

"Haven't you guys heard?" Neville asked.

"Heard what?"

"Professor Lupin's back! He's the new defense against the dark arts teacher!" Neville nearly exploded with excitement. "It's all over the train."

"Really?" asked Hermione.

"Yeah!" Neville nearly squealed. "He's on the train, too, in one of the back compartments. Katie Bell saw him through the glass."

"Come on guys," Harry said jumping up. "Let's go see him."

"Who's Professor Lupin?" Everyone turned to see Dick looking very confused.

"Only the best teacher ever!" yelled Harry. "Come with us. You can meet him."

"I think I'll stay here. You guys can visit memory lane, and I'll put on my robe." Dick stood and reached for his trunk. Truthfully, Dick didn't want to meet any of his team members on the train, especially Starfire or Beast Boy. It would be very odd.

"Suit yourself." The trio plus Neville exited the compartment and slid the door closed.

Raven didn't look up from her book when she heard a knock on the compartment door. The knocks persisted, and finally Lupin awoke. He gave Raven a stern expression which she didn't notice and opened the door. Wiping the sleep from his eyes, he noticed who his guests were. "Harry, Ron, Hermione, Neville! What a wonderful surprise!"

"Hello, Professor," Hermione exclaimed. "I can't believe they're letting you teach!"

"Well," Lupin started, "I guess people don't mind that a werewolf teaches their children as long as that werewolf is openly and forcefully against Voldemort." Ron and Neville flinched at the name.

"I'm so happy you're back, Professor." Lupin smiled at Harry's comment.

"Excuse me, Professor." The small group turned to the other occupant of the compartment. The students looked at her with surprise. She had deep indigo eyes and purple hair with gray skin. A red gemstone was embedded in her forehead. She wore loosely fitting black jeans with a gold belt. Her shirt was dark blue, and she wore a long-sleeved fishnet shirt over it. "May I?" she asked as she set her book aside and pulled out a dark wand. The girl muttered something indecipherable, and a large black wall of energy divided the compartment. Behind the wall, the girl resumed her reading.

Hermione examined the wall. "What an interesting spell," she muttered to herself.

"Anyway, Professor," Ron continued the conversation, "what have you been doing?"

"Well-" Lupin began until the compartment door slid open again. Draco Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle stood in the hallway.

"I can't believe it. Dumbledore let the werewolf come back," Malfoy snarled.

"Mr. Malfoy," Lupin warned, "must I remind you that I am a teacher?"

"You can't do anything to me. If you do, all the parents will get very angry with dear old Dumbledore."

"Malfoy," Harry said coldly. The boys' eyes turned to slits as they glared at each other.

Neville jumped as the wall of energy next to him deteriorated. The goth girl stepped forward and faced Malfoy. Giving him another death glare, she asked, "Is there a problem here?"

Fear flashed in Malfoy's eyes as the girl said this. Attempting to regain his composure, he said lamely, "Whatever. Let's go." Malfoy and his cronies left as the goth closed the compartment door behind them.

"That- that was amazing!" Harry said, extremely impressed.

The girl ignored him and retreated back to her seat. She was hidden behind the book once more when Ron asked, "What's your name?"

"Raven." With a flick of her dark wand, the energy wall reappeared, indicating the conversation was over.

Harry, Ron, and Neville looked at her dark form through the barrier with awe. Hermione gazed upon Raven with a look of mistrust, but even Hermione had to admit the show was impressive. Lupin, though, looked at the girl with sadness. He could tell what the connection was now. She had a dark side, too. She also had to hide it. Lupin alone could see through her emotionless façade to the sadness hidden in her dark eyes.

A/N: What did you think? Please review! Sorry there was nothing about Starfire, Beast Boy, and Cyborg, but this fic is Raven-centric.