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The traffic wasn't a problem, they arrived at kings cross station in twenty seven minutes. Maggie timed it. After they had parked, two girls went to get trolleys while their parents waited with the luggage. As they went, they noticed some witches and wizards that hadn't quite worked out how to dress like a muggle, at least, a normal one. All the moonbeams were wearing ordinary muggle clothing as they did whenever they were in muggle company.
When they came back with the trolley and loaded the bags and cages onto them, the headed for platform 9 ¾. It wasn't the first time for either girl. Although Maggie had never actually taken the Hogwarts express, she had been to platform 9 ¾ before to say goodbye to her sister. She had always felt so jealous of Millicent on those days, it excited her that she needn't be jealous anymore.
Millicent went first, she grabbed her trolley and ran as fast as she could, going straight through the brick barrier. Maggie went next and William and Melinda followed, carrying the animal cages as the animals didn't like riding on the trolley. When all of the Moonbeams had arrived on the platform, they began to look for friends Which is exactly what Millicent did. Escaping her family in search for her friends. They had ten minutes until the train left and most of the wizarding families found this to be a good time to catch up with people they hadn't seen for a while.
"Will!" A voice cried out. William Moonbeam turned to see a tall figure with dark hair and glasses walking towards him.
"Harry!" he said shaking hands with him. "It's good to see you, where's Ginny? And the kids?"
"Ginny's chatting with Ron and Hermione, Al and James are messing around with their friends and Lily's following her mother everywhere. Although she doesn't admit it, she very nervous, I don't she why, she has her brothers to look after her." He laughed at that thought. "She will also have Maggie too, how's she feeling. Excited?"
"Very, it will be good for her to know someone though, especially the daughter of the famous Harry Potter!" Both the men laughed.
Ginny came over with Lily following close behind. Ginny joined the men's conversation and told Lily to go and talk to Maggie who was standing close to her mother clutching her tawny owl to her chest. Lily walked up to her and said a shy hello. Maggie did the same. In truth, Maggie didn't really like Lily Potter. She found her strange and very arrogant, and incredibly boring. When her family visited the Potters, Millicent would hang out with James (although she was closer in age to Albus) and the would talk or listen to music and teach each other cool spells meanwhile Maggie would normally play with Albus, although he was 2 years older, they were instant friends.
She and Albus would look around for something to throw or kick around and would be off for hours. Maggie loved sport, and was excited to learn how to play quidditch, Albus had explained all the rules to her after making the Gryffindor team as a seeker in his first year, just as his father had done. James wasn't interested in quidditch, he had instead became interested in using magic not for sport, but for laughs. He was so much like his namesake, Harry's father, and loved being the school prankster.
As it was lily's first year as well, she wasn't sure what she would be like around others, she would probably make a few girly friends and spend there time whispering and giggling. Maggie didn't want to be like that. But she did try, to be polite, to make conversation with Lily many times within that ten minutes but Lily would reply with one syllable answers and seemed to be off in her own world. Maggie didn't know if she was being intentionally nasty or if she was just a bit mental.
Suddenly everyone was called to get on the train, she muttered goodbye to Lily and went to her parents. Melinda began to cry and hugged her youngest daughter to her chest. She called out to Millicent but she had already boarded the train with her friends, she waved at her mother and disappeared in the sea of students hurrying to get a seat on the train.
"You better get going then." Maggie's mother said tearfully. "Write a letter every day! And be good!"
Maggie's father hugged her and said goodbye and led her to the train, she got on and looked out at her parents and, although she would miss them, she was excited. She was going to Hogwarts!
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Estee
