AN: First off, I would like to all of the people that have reviewed, and more thanks to those that have added this story to their favorites and alert. It makes me feel all warm inside. From here on out the chapters should be much longer than the first two, and they will be less descriptive and involve conversations. There will be another authors note at the end.

Disclaimer: I still don't own Harry Potter or Supernatural, no matter how much I may want to. The only things I do own are any characters and plots not involved in either series.

~~Chapter 3: And They're Off~~

For Ellen Harvelle and the other residents of the Roadhouse, the summer of 2002 passed by too quickly. Much sooner than anyone was prepared for, it was time for Harry to head to Palo Alto and begin his first year at Stanford University.

"Harry! Get down here, we have to go!" Ellen called.

"Give me a minute. I have to make sure I'm not forgetting anything," came his reply.

Eye gave an exacerbated sigh at this. She loved the boy to death, but her son was as slow to prepare as his sister. When Harry came down the stairs toting his final suitcase, the reality of the situation finally hit her. She couldn't stop her tears that fell as she recalled the fateful night Harry had come into her life. Her little boy, who stood at six foot tall, wasn't so little anymore, and she was having a hard time wrapping her head around it.

As Harry, Ellen, Jo, and Ash carried all of his bags to the cars, Ash was receiving the responsibility speech from Ellen.

"This place needs to be open in case any hunters come around while I am gone. Jo and I will be back in four or five days, so don't go blowing it up in one of your experiments."

"Yes ma'am," he said, looking at the ground with a sheepish smile on his face.

"I'll see you around Ash. Don't let those two push you around while I'm gone," Harry told him as he hugged him goodbye.

Once Harry's El Camino and Ellen's 1997 Chevy Silverado were fully loaded, Harry and Jo climbed into his car and he pulled away from the Roadhouse with his mother close behind. They had decided to make this into a family road trip since the school was such a long distance from home. Harry had bought a set of two way radios for the trip, so that the three of the would be able to talk throughout the trip.

"Have you decided on a major yet?" Ellen asked him after a while. The only sounds until this point had been Harry's Bon Jovi tape, and she needed something else to distract her.

"I'm thinking either Pre-med or Biology," he replied.

Ellen smiled, thinking of all the science projects he had done throughout his school years. He had always had a flair for the subject, and it was no surprise that he would choose that path for his life.

They drove for five hours before stopping in Laramie, Wyoming, for dinner at Lovejoy's Bar & Grill. After dinner, they continued their journey and arrived in Salt Lake City shortly after midnight. They chose to stay at a Holiday Inn that was just off the interstate, and they would continue on after the two drivers had gotten a few hours of sleep. Their hotel wake-up call sounded at seven o'clock, and they ate the hotels complimentary breakfast before they continued on. Their morning conversations centered around the courses Harry was looking forward to, and what he thought his roommate would be like. Shortly after three o'clock they stopped at BJ's Bar-B-Q in Reno for lunch. Ellen had to forcefully make Harry and Jo get back on the road after this as they wanted to gamble a little. Later that night they had finally arrived in Palo Alto, California, and decided to stay at another hotel before taking Harry to his dorm in the morning.

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Hermione Granger was excited to finally be leaving Dacono, Colorado. She had grown up hearing of the brother that had died in her nursery when she was a baby, and she had always felt that her parents blamed her somehow. Throughout her school years she had strived to be the top of her class, and yet nothing she did could make up for the holes that had been left in her parents lives. When she had received a full pre-med scholarship to Stanford University she was happy to finally have a way out.

She woke up early on the morning of August 30th, making sure not to awaken her parents as she gathered he luggage and called for a cab to take her to Denver International Airport. Once the cab arrived she carried her luggage out and the driver helped her to load it into the back. After thirty minutes of small talk, the cab pulled up to the airport and the two unloaded her bags onto a trolley. She quickly thanked and paid the driver before heading inside to check in her luggage. At ten o'clock her flight started boarding, and by ten thirty she was in the air, leaving her past, and her family, behind her. She spent the two and a half hour flight reading one of her medical journals, and when she landed in San Francisco at one she was ready to begin her new life.

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Sam Winchester had finally had enough. He had never wanted to be a hunter. His father had pushed him into it, and now that he could start college he was ready to get out. Neither his father, nor his brother, could understand why he would want to go to school, and so the last thing his father said to him was that if he left he couldn't come back. They had been on a hunt in Carlin, Nevada, at the time and he had packed what little possessions he owned, and boarded the first bus to Palo Alto.

During the eight hour ride, he recalled the messed up childhood he had lived through. He had heard all about the demon that killed his mother when he was a baby. It was the whole reason his father had gotten into hunting, and why he had forced it onto his children as well. When he was eight years old, his brother Dean had been forced to inform him of the monsters that lived out in the world. Dean had said that their father was a superhero, but that moment was what started the dissention between Sam and John Winchester. Since that day the two had fought about everything. Their most common fight was about Sam not wanting to be a hunter. John had made him learn the skills necessary for a hunter to survive, and by the age of ten he had been able to shoot a gun. He was twelve when he joined his father on his first hunt, and that had been one of the few times Sam felt that his dad had been proud of him. By the time the bus pulled into the Palo Alto station he was relieved to start his new adventure.

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When Harry arrived at the dorm he went to the front desk to find his room assignment.

"Hi, I'm Harry Harvelle. I'm here to pickup my room key," he told the man behind the desk.

"Harvelle? That is room 214, your roommate has already arrived."

"Thanks."

Harry, Jo, and Ellen got all of his belongings to his room within a half hour, and when he opened the door he saw that his roommate wasn't in at the moment. The left side of the room was still open, so the three of them started unloading his items. They had just finished placing the last of his books on the shelf when the other boy entered the room. Harry Walked over to introduce himself, "Hi, I'm Harry Harvelle. This is my mother, Ellen, and my sister, Jo."

"I'm Sam Winchester. Nice to meet you."

Harry looked over at his mother to see her giving Sam an inquiring look. He was about to question her on it when she shook her head and said, "Nice to meet you Sam. Jo and I were just leaving, so we'll let you two get acquainted. Harry, we will be headed home, so I'll call you when you stop for the night."

"Bye mom, Jo. Love you both," Harry said as he hugged them both goodbye.

"Where are they headed?" Sam asked once they had closed the door behind them.

Back home to Kearney, Nebraska," Harry replied. "They wanted to come with me out here since this is the first time I have left home for any length of time."

"Wow, that must have been quite a trip. What are you going to study? I'm here for Pre-law," Sam said.

"Leaning towards Pre-med, but I might decide to go into Biology instead," came Harry's reply.

"Cool. There is a campus tour starting in about ten minutes. Care to go?" inquired Sam?

"Sure, lets go."

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When Hermione got out of her cab, the driver helped her carry her bags to her dorm. Once inside she asked him if he would help her get to her room once she found out where it was. He agreed, so she went to the desk.

"My name is Hermione Granger. I'm here to find out about my dorm room?"

The woman behind the desk looked up as she was spoken too, "Granger you say? That is room 118, just down the right hallway. You roommate arrived just a few minutes ago, so she should still be in."

"Thank you very much," Hermione replied.

Once she and the driver had all of her bags outside the door, she paid and tipped him, and he left her in the hallway alone. Just as she was about to open the door it swung open, and a pretty brunette girl smiled at her.

"You must be my roommate. I'm Jessica Moore. Would you like some help with your bags?"

"I'm Hermione Granger, and yes that would be great."

The two girls carried Hermione's bags into the room, and together they unloaded her things on the right side of the room. As she was unloading some of Hermione's books, Jessica came across the medical journals and inquired about them. "I take it from these that you are studying pre-med?"

"Absolutely. I have always been intrigued by human anatomy, and being able to save lives is my passion. What are you here for?"

Jessica smiled at the girls exuberance. "Pre-Law. Both of my parents are lawyers and it is their dream, and mine, to join them in the family business."

Hermione smiled, thinking of how different their families are. "I heard that there is a campus tour going to be starting soon. Care to go with me?"

"That would be great. This campus is huge." And with that the two girls went to explore their new home.

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AN: Would like to thank everyone again for following this, and just say that the more reviews I get the happier I am. And if I am kept happy I might be able to continue with daily chapters. Just a hint.

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