Hi. This is Ravenclaw person. I don't own Harry Potter, but I did write nearly this whole thing. Also, Year2Hufflepuff doesn't own Harry Potter either.

Chapter 7: Train Ride

We got up early the morning of September 1st so we would have enough time to head down to King's Cross Station. I was confused by my ticket, which said "platform 9 ¾, but Jane assured me it was not a typo. A lot of people stared at us as we made our way to the barrier, because we had gotten owls and a scrawny black cat, which looked very strange on top of our carriages. As we arrived at the barrier between platforms 9 and 10, I decided not to make any remarks, seeing as they had gotten me nowhere in the past. As Emma and I sat there in confusion, Jane's mom patiently explained that only witches and wizards could get to platform 9 ¾. This was common knowledge, to Jane who sat there rolling her eyes. We move inconspicuously towards the barrier and were enveloped in a brick wall. I don't see how Jane's cat made it through seeing as it was not a magical creature. (I hate cats by the way.) We waved good bye to Jane's mom and dragged our luggage onto the train. There was only one compartment left and it already had a boy with aqua hair in it. Jane went to sit with him and Emma and I left to find Lila and Emmick, as they were on their way to Hogwarts too.

I found them quickly. Emmick was scrambling around to find her last galleon to get a Pumpkin Pasty. Lila was curled up in the corner of the compartment, deep inside her copy of The Standard Book of Spells.

Emmick looked up.

"Jennifer! Uh… Your nose, uh, um," she pulled out a small mirror and held it up to my face. My nose had morphed into a blue dog nose.

My hands went up to my face and I turned bright red, along with my hair.

"It's okay," she said, pulling me inside. The windows darkened so that no one could see.

"Whoa!" I said. "How did you do that?"

"Smoke charm. Technically it's not allowed, but I think this is an exception."

Using Emmick's mirror, I concentrated on turning my face back to normal. My hair, though, was being stubborn, so I left it streaked in black and yellow.

"Would you believe that I got the wrong wand? About ten minutes after I met you, it went haywire and turned my eyes red. It took fifteen minutes for them to go back to normal," Emmick said. "I went back and traded it in for this one."

She held up a black wand.

"It's ebony, with phoenix tail feather core. It works much better than that walnut one. Also, it's thirteen inches.

Suddenly, Jane and a boy with striped hair burst into the compartment. I freaked out and my hair turned neon orange with purple stripes.

"Teddy! This is Jennifer! Jennifer! This is Teddy!" Jane introduced.

"Hi," Teddy said. Teddy Lupin was absolutely totally completely exceptionally THE hottest boy I had ever seen. However, he seemed to like Emmick a lot. He blushed when he saw her and looked away. "So you're the other metamorphimagus? Cool!"

My hair turned red, embarrassing me further. I looked down. "Uh… Yeah," It was really awkward.

"So, uh, what house do you think you'll be in?" I asked, trying to make conversation.

"Well, I hope I'll be in Gryffindor. Like my dad and godfather." he said. "He's famous, my godfather."

Jane cleared her throat loudly. "Hey, guys?"

Emma and I turned toward her. "Yeah?" I asked.

"You've know me for three years. And that whole time, you've been doing this. It's really annoying, but I've never called you on it."

"What?" I said, curious.

"You pronounce my name wrong. It's not Jane, it's Jean."

"Ooooooh. Oops." said Emma.

Emmick started laughing really hysterically. My hair turned an even brighter shade of red.

"Hey, it's not that funny!" I protested, trying to cover my hair.

"yes it is" she replied, coughing into her hand at the same time.

"Well, well, your NAME is funny! It sounds like a boy's name. Emmick. Emmick. Emmick. Definitely masculine. Like Emmett, from Twilight."

"I am slain!" Emmick cried, throwing herself on the ground.

"Even the slightest mention of Twilight makes Emmick go crazy," explained Lila. "She really hates it. To go so far as to compare her to one of the characters—"

"Well, her name sounds like Emmett!"

"—might cause severe brain damage."

"Don't worry, I'm alive you guys! I won't be killed by bad writers yet!" Emmick announced.

"You need to go to a hospital for special people," Jean commented sarcastically.

"Hey!"

The compartment door slid open. A fifth year poked his head in. He looked disapprovingly at the smoke charm Emmick had cast, and Emmick sitting on the floor. He stuck in bony nose in the air and told us to put on our robes, because we were almost there.

"Make sure your hair is normal when you arrive," he added as he left.

My hair, as if on cue, turned a deep shade of lavender. The boy left with his head in his hands, muttering to himself about crazy first year attempts at charms.

"How do you control this thing?" I asked Teddy frantically.

"I dunno," he said. I wailed and stuffed my face into the seat cushion. "But uh, you could try focusing on keeping your appearance at a chosen one that's not your normal appearance. I think your powers want to escape from your ugliness."

"Hey!"

"That's not what I meant!"

No more crush. I tried his advice anyway. So on the first day of school at Hogwarts, before I was Sorted, my hair was shocking red.