HERE is Chapter 5 Tell me what you think?
CHAPTER 5
As Sarah walked down the corridor, she heard excited chattering of other students. Much of it was about the great "Harry Potter" and Sarah had no idea who it was. "I'll just ask Scorpius or Rose about it when I get back."
Sarah walked down the long corridor, and finally reached her compartment. There Rose and Scorpius didn't seem to be speaking, in fact, it looked like they were having an awkward moment. Sarah opened the door, "oh good you're back!" Rose said cheerily.
Sarah just nodded and sat down. "Who is Harry Potter?" Sarah questioned.
Scorpius and Rose just started laughing, Rose was rolling over on the seat, and Sarah started getting embarrassed. Her face turned red as scarlet.
"What, what's so funny?" a frustrated Sarah asked.
"Oh, I'm sorry Sarah; it's just funny you don't know who "Harry Potter" is. Well, anyways, he's my uncle." Rose giggled.
"Do you have any cousins?" questioned Sarah.
"Yup, three of them there's my older cousin James, my cousin Albus, he's in the same year as us. Then there's little Lily, she'll be joining us in two years." Rose answered.
The name Albus wrung in Sarah's head. So Albus was her cousin. It looked like Sarah and the Potters were going to be good friends. Sarah smiled to herself, and she stroked her sandy blonde hair.
"Have you met Albus yet? He's a really nice person; he'd love to be friends with you Sarah." Rose smiled at Sarah, interrupting her daydream.
"Hmm, oh, what? Oh yes I have actually. I've had a couple of encounters with him." Sarah smiled back.
"Really, Where?"
"Oh, I met him at Madam Malkin's Robe shop, back in August. I also just met him again back in the corridor over there." Sarah pointed towards the back of the train car.
"Oh yes, he was telling me about that, he told me he ran into a girl. We live in the same house you see, because it's a rather large house. He told me that he met a girl with nice blonde hair like yours, and green eyes. He told me he couldn't stop staring into them." Rose elbowed Sarah, winking a little.
Sarah blushed, "Oh stop it, it's not funny." She said, trying not to laugh.
Sarah looked towards Scorpius. He started laughing at her, and Sarah was sure he had seen her blush a little. He thought it was just hilarious that Albus might've fallen for her.
"So did you get anything from the trolley?" Rose changed the subject.
"Oh no, they didn't have anything good. Or at least I don't know what the food is exactly…." Sarah paused, wrinkling her nose, remembering the shapes, and moving candy.
Rose's jaw dropped in awe. "Are you kidding? They have just about EVERYTHING good. Come with me, I'll show you." Rose grabbed Sarah's hand and together they marched down the corridor, getting knocked over a couple times by the movement of the train.
"Anything from the trolley dear?" the old witch asked.
"Yes, I'll have two chocolate frogs, um, a bag of every flavor beans, and a bag of peppermint toads."
"Will that be all?" the old witch asked Rose.
"Yes thank you." Rose gave the witch her money, and took the sweets with her. Sarah followed.
They got back to their compartment, and Rose handed Sarah a chocolate frog container. Sarah looked into the package, and looked at Rose.
"Go on, try it." Rose encouraged her.
Sarah opened the container, and took a bite of the chocolate frog. It was delicious; Sarah finished it all in a couple more bites.
"Good isn't it?" Rose nodded. Sarah nodded back, and she tried the rest of the sweets. Each of them was just as good as the chocolate frog. Pretty soon, Sarah, Scorpius and Rose fell asleep.
Hours later, Sarah awoke to the sound of tapping on the compartment door. She looked out the window, it was nearly dark outside. Sarah tapped Rose on the shoulder, and she woke with a start. "Where am I?" Rose looked around, and then she fell back into her seat.
Rose got up and opened the compartment door; Albus was the one making the tapping sounds. "Yes Albus, what is it?" Rose said impatiently.
"I just came around to tell you that we all need to change into our school robes, wake up Malfoy and get changed." Albus answered, he looked at Sarah and left.
"Well, let's get changed into our robes first, and then wake up Scorpius." Rose suggested, Sarah nodded in agreement, and with that they went off to go change.
Minutes later, the two girls returned to their compartment, in their Hogwarts uniforms and their robes, which would soon have their house crests soon on them. The excitement was definitely filling the train, Sarah could feel it. Rose and Sarah just smiled at each other.
"Wake up Scorpius, wake up!" Sarah smiled at Scorpius, poking him awake.
"What? Oh, I guess I should go get changed?" He said, he looked completely dazed, and Sarah started laughing. She just nodded, and he got up and left.
Sarah and Rose chatted excitedly about Hogwarts while Scorpius left. Once he returned they were sitting together, waiting the remainder of the trip looking out the window, counting down the minutes until they would reach their final destination, Hogwarts.
Once the train came to a stop, Sarah and Rose squealed with excitement. Scorpius just smiled with them, and the picked up their trunks, and headed off the train. Outside the train waited a tall man, who kept shouting orders. "First years, put your trunks over there, and follow me!" the man pointed at the spot to put the trunks, and made a "follow me" gesture.
Sarah, Scorpius, and Rose put their trunks in a pile at the spot, and Albus joined up with them. "Oh hello there Albus, come to join us then?" Rose smiled at him, he just nodded his head.
All the first years got into canoes, Sarah was unsure about it at first, but Albus was encouraging her. He could see that she was worried, and he just nodded his head. "It's okay," he smiled encouragingly at her.
Sarah stepped into the canoe, and the others followed. They moved slowly across the large lake, the only light they had was a fire-lit lantern. It led the way, and allowed the first-years to look around in awe. Sarah looked up at the beautiful moon, it was a full one.
"LOOK!" someone in the crowd shouted, and everyone looked above them.
Sarah looked in amazement; there on top of the cliff was the beautiful castle. So called Hogwarts, it looked so beautiful in the moonlight. Almost like it was out of a photograph, Sarah thought she was dreaming. But she realized now that now was not a dream. It was actually happening, she was a witch.
Once they hit the shore, all the students hustled to get out of the canoes. They all began winding up the path to get to the entrance to Hogwarts. Sarah and Rose looked at each other, "Aren't you excited?" Rose could not contain the excitement in her voice.
Sarah was just as equally excited, and they finally reached the gate to Hogwarts. "Two lines please!" the rather large man shouted, and the students shuffled into two lines. They began up the steps, into the giant castle. They castle was surrounded with shrubs, trees, and flowers. Even some kinds that Sarah didn't recognize, it was beautiful.
They walked inside the castle, Sarah looked around in awe. Staircases moved above them, the paintings seemed to be moving. Sarah thought she was going insane, but Rose leaned over and whispered, "Is it just me or are those paintings moving?" Sarah nodded back. Everyone was speechless. They waited in front of two doors, getting ready to walk into them. Sarah could not wait to see what house she would be sorted in.
