I do not own Harry Potter, J. K. Rowling does.
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"Firs' years! Firs' years over here!" a loud voice called out as Albus, Rose, Cynthia, and Scorpius exited the train onto the platform.
"C'mon," Rose said and they all dragged their trunks over to the owner of the voice, a large brisly bearded man who could have been easily 8ft tall and two men wide.
"My name is Hagrid and I am gamekeeper here at Hogwarts as well as the Care of Magical Creatures Professor. Right then, all firs' years follow me!" Hagrid said and he led the mass of 11 year olds towards a lake and a small fleet of rowboats.
"No more than four to a boat!" he called out as they all scrambled to get in a boat with their friends. Albus, Rose, Cynthia, and Scorpius all carefully made their way to an empty boat, but before they got there, another group suddenly bumped into them and got in it!
"Hey! We were about to get into that boat!" Albus yelled at them. They just smirked and pushed off from shore. All the other boats were either full or had already left except one rotting one.
"Well, I guess we'll have to take this one," Cynthia sighed and they all climbed in and pushed off, the last of the fleet. However, Scorpius pushed really hard and they were soon in the middle of the fleet. After much jostling, they somehow ended up at the front near Hagrid and the other boat where the group of kids that had stolen their boat were. Hagrid looked annoyed as the kids laughed at their 'accomplishments'.
"Did you see their faces when we left them on the dock? Wasn't that funny Garwin?" one of the girls said and one of the boys, assumingly Garwin, nodded.
"Oh my gosh, I can just see their faces now!" the other boy said.
"Are they like this Eugene?" Scorpius called out to them, recognizing the pinched but still slightly handsome face of Eugene Zabini. They all immediately stopped laughing and turned to face them.
"Well, well, well, it seems as though you did make it off the shore, though from the looks of your boat, it would seem that you were better off there." The girl who spoke to Garwin said, the rest of them laughed. And it was true, the boat was rotting as they spoke and there was even a tiny leak.
"Shove off!" Rose yelled. Immediately the boys stopped laughing and even tried to look somber; Rose was actually very pretty for her age group. The girls however, didn't register that fact and glared at her.
"Don't tell us what to do! You have no authority over us!" one of the girls screamed.
"Keep yer calm o'er there!" Hagrid suddenly cut in.
"Professor! They're trying to boss us around!" the other girl whined.
"No they're not, yer just whinin'. Now, hush up before ye upset the boats!" he bellowed back, but he had said it too late. The two conflicting boats bumped sterns and Rose went overboard.
"Rose!" Albus yelled and made to dive overboard, but Scorpius beat him to it. Just as Albus was about to dive in after her, Scorpius hurled himself right at the spot where Rose went under. A few nerve wrecking minutes later, Scorpius surfaced, gasping for breath pulling Rose along, unconscious.
"Rose!" Albus said again as they dragged her aboard. Lucky for them all, they had just reached the opposite shore and they quickly hauled Rose up the steps onto dry land.
"I got this," Cynthia said, and whipped out an odd looking beet-like thing. "This will extract all of the Pimplies in her throat." Cynthia said and before anyone could question her tactics, she crumpled up the root into a powder and dropped it into Rose not breathing mouth. They waited a few seconds before Rose suddenly woke up and began to cough up water and some nasty looking green stuff.
"Bleeh, what did you guys try to feed me? It was awful." She said and began to cough up some more, hoping to rid her system of the nasty assaulting stuff, for it was beginning to smell something awful.
"Righty then," Hagrid said and they all went inside, Albus wrapping his jacket around Rose's shoulders.
They were soon faced with two very large oak doors that swung magically open as they approached. Hagrid left them at the base of the marble staircase and left.
"Snot face," the girl who had been doting on Garwin earlier whispered at Rose once Hagrid's large back had disappeared into what seemed to be the dining hall.
"Shut it Hortensia, do you want to get in trouble?" Garwin whispered heatedly to her.
"Yeah, why don't you listen to your boyfriend and leave us alone?" Albus shot back. Rose held onto his arm whispering furiously into his ear as she did so saying, "Don't! He's not worth it!"
"Why don't you listen to your own advice and shut your own mouth?" Eugene snapped back. Immediately Cynthia latched onto Albus as he made a fresh lunge towards Eugene. The other girl quickly came forward and supplied her own contribution to the conversation.
"Yeah, and you know what else you should do with your advice? I think you should stick it up your--" she was immediately cut off by a hand on her shoulder. Another teacher had come.
"Do you really want to finish that sentence Miss Evelyn Montague, isn't it?" the professor asked. Evelyn shook her head no. "Right then, students, I am Professor McGonagall and now, please follow me," and she turned around and threw open the great doors that lead straight into the dinning room, straight into the place where they were to be determined where they would spend the most of the next seven years. They all quickly settled into a line and hurried in after Professor McGonagall.