And so Natalie and the gang set off to find a compartment near the back of the train. They were still missing Rebecca, but figured they could go along without her. After all, half the time she was already there waiting for them. So it was again.

They were strolling the isles when they came across a familiar brunette face in a compartment towards the front part of the Hogwarts Express. It was the other member of their quintet, Becca Lawrence.

Rebecca was wearing sneakers that looked like they had been dipped in a vat of jewels, which they probably had been seeing as Becca was, well, Becca. Her legs were covered by skinny black jeans and a slashed-through t-shirt layered over a shocking pink tank-top was thrown over her torso. Her shoulders peeked through at the top to reveal a tattoo she had gotten over the summer of a hippogriff.

Scorpius rapped sharply on the glass. Since Rebecca was wearing her headphones and obviously listening to her iPod, which she had smuggled in every year since they had started at Hogwarts, she probably wouldn't hear him anyway. Scorp often missed slight details like this.

But surprisingly, Rebecca did notice and she turned away from her head bobbing and mini dance moves to smile at them. Without taking off the headphones, she gracefully got up to let them in. She waved.

"Why can't you just talk to us?" Rosie questioned. Rebecca motioned towards her headphones with her index fingers. After everyone had seated themselves, James got up and started to mock her, dancing randomly and idiotically. Everyone walking down the isles turned to stare with wide eyes. The quintet, other than Rebecca who still couldn't hear, began to laugh.

So then, Nat got up and decided to be even bolder as to tap Becca's amazingly hot temper. Natalie gracefully rose from her seat and walked over to where Rebecca was sitting. She bent down and yanked the headphones out of her ears.

"Hey! What'd you do that for?!" Rebecca screamed. "I decided it was time for some…er…quality time with your friends," Nat replied. She could hear the boys snickering and Rose attempting to hold back her giggles. Natalie walked back to her seat next to James and sat down.

"What were you listening to anyways?" Rosie asked intently, leaning forward in her seat and resting her chin in her hand whilst her elbow was balanced upon her thigh. "Oh, nothing, it was just the American Idol podcast. I get it streamed to my iPod touch," she replied looking smugly at Natalie. Nat squirmed in her seat just thinking about how she could have access to her favorite show. She seized the iPod and fitted the headphones in her ears.

James heard it when Rebecca mumbled "So much for quality time…." And so he seized his one and only chance to make Nat laugh so far. James leaned over to her and took each headphone out of her ears. "Remember? I thought we were having QUALITY TIME!" James shouted.

"Has anyone ever told you that you're exceedingly annoying?" Nat asked mockingly. "Yes, I get it all the time from your dad. He says it reminds me of how he and my grandfather were in their 6th year," he replied coolly. Natalie smiled and sat back in her seat.

"So," Scorpius said, speaking for the first time of the entire train ride, "Did you bring the Purple Book of Wonder?" Nat grinned and pulled it out of Scooter's cage. Speaking of Scooter…where was he? Natalie glanced around to discover that he was asleep on top of James' feet.

"Shall we see what is first on this year's 'get in trouble' agenda?" Becca asked slyly. Approving nods from the rest of the quartet followed, so Nat took the key out of her back pocket and unlocked the journal. "Okay, in the middle, everyone!" Natalie said. The group leaned inward so that they were all facing the middle of a circle. Even Scooter woke up and sat in the center of their formation.

"First on the agenda," Nat read in a loud-ish whisper, "Is to hold a movie night on the Quidditch pitch." Everyone was shocked.

"But my mother has told me a billion times that…" Rosie started, but was interrupted by James in a mocking tone of his Aunt Hermione's voice. "Muggle technology doesn't work on Hogwarts grounds!" he squealed. Everyone laughed except for Rose, who smacked him in the back of the head. "Yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever. If Rebecca can find a way how, we can definitely find a way how as a group," Scorpius said. It was usual of him to be optimistic. "But how?" Rose asked.

"Well," Nat began, "It would be against nearly every rule, but I brought my laptop, and if we hook Becca's iPod up to it with a USB cable, we could plug the laptop into a projector and project it onto a huge sheet of cloth, which we could probably get from the house elves, and then we could…." James interrupted her. "I have no idea what you're talking about, but I'm pretty sure it's impossible!" "Nothing," she began in response, "is impossible when you're a witch."

"So how are we getting the word out about this? And what the bloody hell are we going to watch?" Rose asked. "I thought we could probably have a lame chick-flick marathon," Natalie said, "because Rebecca has plenty of those." Rebecca blushed. "Couples will come to see them, and girls will flood in!" Scorp added.

"Exactly, and after we find a way to make the technology work, we can hang up posters in the common rooms. The prefects will be against it, but since Scorpius is a prefect for Slytherin, Rose is a prefect for Gryffindor, and Rebecca is one for Ravenclaw, they can make sure that we don't get told off," Natalie said. "But what about Hufflepuff?" Rosie asked. "Aaron was made prefect this year, too, and he'll do anything for a couple Galleons," she replied. Applause filled the compartment. "You're a genius Nat!" James said.

She stood up and curtsied mockingly. "Thank you, thank you all," she said blandly. "Now, Rebecca, please elaborate on how you managed to get your iPod to work on school grounds," Natalie said. Rebecca tossed her ponytail and got to work drawing a messy diagram.

"There's a painting on the third floor of a horse. If you pet the horse seventeen times without touching it's tail," she was interrupted. "People will think you're insane," James declared. "No!" Becca said, "The painting will swing out kind of like with the Fat Lady's portrait for the common room and you have to go down a stairwell and then you get access to this big panel thing where you can lift the 'Muggle technology' lever and then your electronics will work. Just make sure you set it back when you're done or the caretaker will have a cow!"

"Wow. So, where can we get a projector?" Rosie said. "There's something in the restricted section about conjuring crap like that," Scorpius said, "I've read it." "Brilliant! Now we just need to make flyers and it'll all be GREAT!" Natalie exclaimed.

The quintet sat the rest of the train ride with the only sound being quills scratching against their parchment. Finally, when it was time to change into their robes, they had twenty-four messy handwritten flyers finished. They all said the same thing:

ROMANCE MOVIE MARATHON

Hosted by the Quintet

Stuck on a date idea? Need to have a night with your friends? Look no further, just meet us on the Quidditch pitch at midnight for a 5-hour event.

Admission fee: 7 Sickles

After looking over their handiwork carefully, the five friends slipped their robes over their heads and prepared to leave the train. "Oh God, another school year…" Nat said. "Hey, it won't be so bad. And we have the movie tomorrow!" Scorp said. "Yeah, I guess…" "And there' s always James to brighten up your day!" Rose said teasingly. Nat blushed and sat back in her seat, thinking about how great it was to be back with her friends again.