Everything Changes: Turn Back the Pages Chapter 6: The Train Ride Begins, a harry potter fanfic

The day has ended and another begins. These students may think that the adventure would begin only at Hogwarts but it had already started from the very moment they opened the letter.

Friendships were made, bonds were created between the most unlikely people and things were set in motion that may not come into play for years to come.

Now we will see if these new found friendships will last and if they will grow or diminish once they are sorted into their houses. But first comes the journey to Hogwarts which everyone has to make, they will enter Kings Cross everyone of them thinking about Hogwarts and what it would have in store for them and maybe the individual who wouldn't think about Hogwarts at all.

But they don't know that some of the friendships made in Diagon Alley could grow or diminish as soon as they set foot on platform 9 3/4's. There however was a higher possibility that the friendships would diminish during the sorting or become stronger.

Charlette woke up this morning too excited to be going to Hogwarts finally that by the time she got there she was half an hour early and was one the first few people on the train. She wondered around aimlessly for a while then found a middle compartment to sit and read in, hoping she would find one of the people she had met at Diagon Alley sometime soon.

Remus usually woke up early and was rarely late to anything so when his parents had dropped him off at the station it was 10 minutes till take off. It was already bustling with people and he barely made his way to the train. Once he had reached the train he started walking down the hall, he continually was dropping and misplacing a few items that hadn't fit in his bag on the way but he finally found an empty compartment.

Rebecca dragged her sister along everywhere once they had woke up not wanting to be late at all.

Melinda just let herself be dragged along until they where on the platform where she yanked herself free and walked off while her darling sister said goodbye to their 'perfect' parents. However once she got past a crowd she froze in awe looking at the magnificent train that would take her to her new home.

Blinking a few times she calmed her breathing then made her way onto the train trying to find a compartment however it was harder than it looked people much older than her kept bumping into her without even saying sorry.

She just decided if they where going to be that way then she could do the same so she pushed past people not noticing when she knocked over a lad her own age who seemed to be in a daze.

Jon had been in awe since the moment he found the way to enter platform 9 and 3/4's then he got on the train after hugging his mother goodbye. On the train he got pushed around but he didn't notice since he was in a daze that was until he got knocked to the ground by a brown haired girl who seemed rather annoyed herself at getting pushed around.

Once he had managed to get up he noticed a compartment with a girl in it and blushed slightly only just realising people had probably made friends already in Diagon Alley and he hadn't made one.

Opening the compartment he stepped inside and asked "Do you mind if I sit in here please?"

Melinda finally paused for a breath and leant against an apparent open compartment and it slipped open and she fell to the floor her hair turning a bright shade of pink which went brighter when she noticed Remus Lupin sat in the compartment.

Rebecca searched for her sister not liking that she promised her parents she would stay with her until Hogwarts that was until she found her on the floor of a compartment with bright pink hair and looking in complete embarrassment at the lad sat in the compartment. Laughing she glared at her sister "You can't do anything right can you?"

Melinda looked at Rebecca and she hated to admit that what her sister had said hurt but it did and that was why a tear glided down her cheek.

Scarlett was woken up by the bright sunlight flooding in through her window. She jumped up in happiness and performed a crazy dance around her bedroom till her aunt found her and chastised her for almost ruining her nightdress.

"Sorry," she said meekly.

Her aunt simply shook her head and led Scarlett downstairs to eat breakfast. Scarlett ate it in record time, causing another lecture about eating her food too fast.

"Now go upstairs and get ready. You packed last night like I told you to?" she asked the younger person.

Scarlett nodded happily. She ran up to her room and opened her window. She was about to shout something out but thought better of it and whispered it to herself instead. "I'm going to Hogwarts!"

Peter stared at the red train in delight. Every muscle in his body seemed to have frozen - which was rather weird because his mother was moving forward and pushing him, so he had to be moving, right?

"Come on, Peter," said his father, in a gruff, bored voice.

"Sure!" He smiled happily and followed his dad to one of the empty compartments.

"Here, boy," said his father, calling him like a dog.

Peter didn't notice because he was so close to the train. And everyone was pushing him. And everybody was shouting by to their parents. And he was sure that there was a prefect nearby, showing off his shiny badge.

His dad pushed the trunk into the compartment and then shut the door. He and his wife stood back to wave goodbye.

Scarlett was checking every compartment but they all seemed to be full - or at least occupied by someone older who looked at her, recognised her as a first year and told her forcefully to find somewhere else.

In one compartment, however, was a single first-year, looking rather small and scared. And the compartment was blissfully empty...-ish.

She opened the door, worriedly, while Thorn seemed to sense that horrid fear and beat his wings.

"Shush!" she berated the animal. Then she turned to the occupant. "Erm... Can I sit here?"

Remus looked at the two girls who literally had fallen into his compartment and was barley able to conceal the slight harshness of his tone when he responded. He hated this time of the month "Hello ladies would you like to sit here, oh Melinda how are you?"

Ann half woke up, listening as her mother walked into her room but too lazy to open her eyes.

"Ann, we're late." Her mother said. Ann's eyes opened up immediately and she sat straight up, completely awake; a creepy habit she had had since she was small.

"Alright Mum." She yawned silently and flipped back the blankets and stared blearily at the alarm clock at her side. Fuzzy red squiggles straightened until it showed 10:30.

'Half an hour. That gives me 10 minutes to get ready.' She yawned again and stood up, shuffling over to her closet. 'I wonder if pyjama's are suitable train riding attire...?'

Rebecca turned to Remus and glared at the tone he used "Well if you don't mind."

Melinda glared at her sister for the sarcastic comment and couldn't help but feel hurt at the tone Remus used thinking he was starting to think like everyone else about her standing up her hair went black which only happened when she was angry. However this time she was angry at herself no one else because she believed she could make a friend who wouldn't judge her which she just thought Remus started doing.

Rebecca looked at her sister asking "What's got you in a mood?"

Melinda turned to her sister and said in a harsh whisper "Can't you just leave me be for once in my life." Her eyes where slowly changing to the colour black, turning to Remus she said "I'm alright Remus how are you?" Even though it hurt her she wasn't about to leave the compartment and search for another one and just maybe she was reading the situation wrong.

Rebecca rolled her eyes and turned back to Remus "Don't mind my sister she isn't exactly someone who you want as a friend due to her lack of social skills."

Melinda placed her suitcase on the shelf and let her hair change back to its original colour but now with a blue strand framing her face. She then sat across from Remus and tensed when her sister sat next to her.

Ann speed walked into the train station, dragging her trunk behind her. After she had left her parents at the platform to find the train, she had gotten hopelessly lost.

'Why must there be an invisible wall? It makes no sense!' Ann thought, trying to place the blame on other people rather than her own ditzyness. She climbed aboard the big red train and walked down one of the corridors, watching as other children entered different apartments. She saw one girl request to sit with a single first year and drifted up behind her, peering over her shoulder, trying to remain silent as possible to spook her. She couldn't help shocking someone.....

Remus realized that his tone had hurt her "I apologize for being rude I have no excuse." He couldn't tell them why he was so snappish right now but he tried to let her know in every way possible that he was sorry for hurting her. "I'm just not in the best of moods right now." He then turned to the other girl and couldn't keep his wolf side from getting a little protective, showing a lighter sheen of amber to his brown eyes. "I'm sure your sister is a wonderful person and you shouldn't say things about a family member like that. Why don't you let me make my own assessment of her?"

Charlette looked up from her book and smiled at the boy "Of course. My names Charlette and you?" She put her book mark in her book to show the boy he had her full attention.

Rebecca glared lightly at the lad not believing he was sticking up for her sister "Well it's been a pleasure to meet you." Standing up she grabbed her stuff and left the compartment saying "Sorry I don't want to be in the same compartment as my sister." Then she left finding an empty compartment at the very end of the train and sat down.

Melinda watched her sister go then turned to Remus not believing he stood up for her "It's alright everyone has those days. I'm sorry for acting stupid."

Melinda sighed "I'm really sorry its just you are the first person who even talks to me so..." She closed her eyes and looked out the window at the people on the platform. Deciding to change topic she asked "What house do you think you'll be in?"

Jon smiled at Charlette "Thanks. I'm Jonathan Heights pleasure to meet you." He sat opposite from her then asked "So what blood are you?" He couldn't help but ask it wondering what she was since he was a muggle-born.

Peter looked up, startled.

Oh, great, thought Scarlett.

"Urm..." He nodded quickly, so fast his head looked like it would fall off.

Do I really want to? thought Scar. The train suddenly juddered slightly. She sighed and sat down near the door after putting her trunk up and her owl by her feet.

"I'm Scarlett," she said.

The boy nodded again.

"You are?"

"Peter," he whispered.

"Nice to meet you," she said warily. Then she grabbed a muggle book from her bag and began to read.

Remus was glad that the girl wasn't mad at him or herself anymore and answered her question "I honestly don't know but I hope that I'll be in Gryffindor how about you?" He still had the underlined harsh tone that wouldn't go away for a week along with his pounding headache.

Charlette responded to the question "I'm a half-blood, my father is a wizard but my mother is a muggle what about you?"

Ann watched the girl enter the compartment and gave shrug. 'I guess she wasnt too observant...'

She turned and walked down the corridor, and slipped into a nearby empty compartment.

Jon nodded barely containing some excitement "I'm a muggle-born. I actually am use to a lot of hard work so I think it may be hard for me the first few months since I usually get up at the crack of dawn."

Melinda smiled now deciding to ignore his tone of voice as he didn't mean anything by it "I don't know what house I am going to be in." Probably Slytherin after that book I bought "I think you will get into Grythindor you have the Grythindor spirit, so I hope you get in the house you want to."

Her voice had a hint of sadness since she knew Slytherin's and Grythindor's where never friends and if she was correct and she got into Slytherin and he Grythindor would they still be friends. If that was what they where.

Charlette told the boy her thoughts "I usually get up pretty early too usually because I want to read before I get too distracted with a lot of people around. So as long as your quiet or use a silence spell I'm sure it won't bother anyone. Just remember that your not allowed out of your dormitory until 5:30 am. My dad hopes I don't get into trouble with me and my midnight snacks."

He tried to actually put some warmth behind his voice when he answered her this time as she seemed to be calming his wolf down. Oddly enough he felt almost hyper where as just moments before he was pissed at everything, usually people made moony kinda antsy "Thanks, I hope your right and their has to be a house that you want to be in." his thoughts where beginning to get slightly out of order.

Jon smiled "I'm sure I'll be alright anyway. So what house do you think you will be in?"

Melinda smiled "Well I don't really mind what house I am in as long as I am not in the same one as my sister which will sadly be Grythindor. However I think I may end up in Slytherin since my whole family thinks the same."

Melinda glanced out the window to see still quite a few people stood around. Looking back at Remus she added "I know my sister will be a Grythindor because both our parents where in Grythindor and she acts near enough exactly like them. I have nothing against Grythindor's I just don't like my family much."

James woke up that morning with a lot of energy and it showed when he finally entered the train and pushed his way through everyone eventually he found a compartment he wanted to go in. Opening the door he grinned seeing two people one a lad with brown hair and a girl who had blue in her hair.

The way she looked at him said he may have interrupted a conversation. Going to the girl he kissed her hand then went to the lad and shook his saying "James Potter nice to meet you." Sitting next to the girl he added "So you are?"

Melinda blushed when the lad kissed her hand and mumbled "Melinda Collins."

James smiled "Well nice to meet you Melinda." Turning to the lad he waited for him to introduce himself.

Liam pretty much looked the same as he did during the night since he didn't get much sleep. So when he entered the train he noticed people pointing at him and whispering and he just glared at them not liking them one bit.

Slamming a door open he entered and noticed Peter and a girl sat in it. Putting his trunk away he placed his owl cage on a seat then sat next to it after closing the door. Luna nibbled at his finger gently when he put his finger in the cage.

Looking up he spoke for the first time that day "Hey Peter right?" He then looked at the girl who was reading and seemed to not want to be in the presence of Peter and he really couldn't blame her "I'm Liam Peterson if you don't me by name I am from the house of Black."

His eyes where still lifeless and the lack of sleep and pain he had been put through from the Cruciatus Curse he was not the most social person that day.

Liam looked out of the window waiting for their answers trying to see if he could see his cousin. His hand wandered to his black rose necklace wondering if making those new friends was indeed worth it.

Charlette smirked knowing exactly what house she would end up in Ravenclaw though I would be a Slytherin if it weren't for my affinity with books. I suppose you could say I'm just a little obsessed."

"Hmm I know what you mean about family." He had the strained tone to his voice again but visibly calmed as he continued "See I knew you had a house you wanted to be in, I hoped I get there." he tried to smile but it came out as a smirk as the wolf was relaxing around her.

Jon nodded "I have no clue what house I will be in but after being told about them I think I may end up in Hufflepuff."

Melinda smiled when Remus said that and glanced at James to see what he would say to Remus carrying on their conversation.

James smiled "So I did interrupt a conversation, sorry." He then waited for the lad to introduce himself again and wondered what the lad thought about him kissing Melinda's hand when he introduced himself.

Melinda looked at Remus and smiled waiting for him to introduce himself to James.

Severus Snape, beneath the black hair curtain covering his eyes, was smiling in delight because he knew he was only hours away from the place of his deepest dreams. Other than that, he was looking for an empty compartment where he could sit in peace.

He sighed deeply as he passed the crowded compartments and almost hit the sweets chariot. He mumbled an excuse and moved forward, looking for Slytherin's, and most particularly for a certain blond Slytherin.

Charlette saw the black head pass by the compartment and was momentarily distracted from her conversation with Jon "Excuse me." She opened the door and called to him down the hallway "Severus."

Remus yipped as he hadn't noticed James come into the compartment "I'm sorry I didn't notice you-" the wolf saw red and his voice got a scratchy growl to it as he momentarily paused and had to control him self from charging at the boy who just sat down "-you come in. I met you in the alley right?" he couldn't even feign his smile at the end of his sentence.

Jon smiled when Charlette got up obviously having seen someone she knows.

James put his hand to his chin thinking "Now that you mention it I do recognise you from Diagon Alley, I tried introducing myself to you then but you went and bought your gloves then left without introducing yourself after I shook your hand then too." He slumped slightly "Seems like you don't like me much." Shrugging he laughed "Well I can't blame you for walking away I did have a bit too much energy that day."

Looking outside he added "I think you left when the Nimbus 1001 was bought and taken from the window."

Melinda blushed "Sorry."

James turned to her "What are you sorry about?"

Melinda smiled taking out a small bag that had written on the front of it Nimbus 1001. As she bought a charmed bag that had the name of the broom on it, the charm was the bag would grow to hold a broom by saying a word she chose "Credendo."

Before their eyes the bag grew opening it she showed them the broom then shrunk it by saying "Vides." Then the bag shrunk and she put it back in her pocket.

James eyes widened "I thought I was the only one with enough guts to try and sneak one in." He then revealed a similar looking bag "However my words are different and are not Latin.

Melinda looked at him shocked and grinned widely "You knew it was Latin."

James nodded "My mum use to read to me a story when I was younger with the words Credendo Vides in it." Thinking for a second he said "If I remember correctly it means by believing one sees."

Melinda nodded in awe "Yeah it does, it is my favourite thing because I believe it."

"I use too." Turning to the other lad who still needed to introduce himself he asked "So mister I don't know the name of what do you think of Credendo Vides." While he put his bag away into his own pocket.

Melinda looked at Remus really wanting to know his opinion.

Remus had to keep himself from whining when Melinda's attention wasn't on him anymore. Then he randomly got happy when she looked at him he officially hated the full moon, his voice seemed to go back to normal when he spoke "I personally don't think people should always believe everything that is seen to the normal eye." He couldn't help the slight flash of gold in his eyes and the underlined tone it was said with.

Melinda noticed the slight flash of gold in Remus's eye and couldn't help but frown. Realising that he may not be introducing himself any time soon she turned to James "James Potter I want you to meet Remus Lupin."

James laughed "Thanks." Smiling at Remus he said "So Remus what lovely house do you think you are going to be in?" Smirking "I myself think I am going to end up in Grythindor and when I am in that brilliant house I am going to annoy those Slytherin gits until they... they..."

Melinda tensed when James started talking about Slytherin like that and couldn't help it when her hair got green and silver in it. Glaring at him she stood up "How can you judge everyone in that house when you don't even know them?"

James was shocked for a second before he realised what she said and that her hair now had the Slytherin colours in it "They're all the same my father told me and everyone in Slytherin I have had the pleasure of meeting has been the same slimy little gits." His voice was rising and he wasn't surprised if people outside the compartment could hear them argue.

"My whole family thinks I will be one of those slimy little gits and I swear when I get in that house if I see you trying to hurt anyone in Slytherin I will hex you before you can cry like the little girl that you are." To say Melinda was now pissed off was an understatement.

James fists clenched "You are lucky you are a girl or I would have hit you."

A harsh laugh left her lips "The way I see it it wouldn't have hurt much if you did hit me." Grabbing her stuff she went to the door and looked at Remus "I hope if you get into Grythindor like you want to you don't end up like that." Pointing at James she continued "Obnoxious little git."

With that she opened the compartment door went out of the compartment slammed the door and began trying to find another compartment but ended up bumping into what seemed to be a first year like her who had black hair and black eyes.

However what she didn't notice was that during her shouting match her hair went black apart from the green and silver side fringe and her eyes had gone pitch black.

James glared at the door for a few more seconds then turned to Remus "So you want to be in Grythindor then. Good on you mate, but you do know if you do it wouldn't be right being friends with that girl although I wouldn't stop you if you wanted to be friends with her."

Sighing he sat down slouching "But every Slytherin has turned out the same. Evil pure bloody evil." Looking up he said "So Remus I'm sorry if she was a potential friend of yours at Hogwarts."

Remus didn't even try to stop himself from growling "Get out." His eyes were a bright and had started glowing gold. He stood up and continues speaking "I will be coming back and you had better not still be here when I return." He left in search of Melinda and found her by her smell, he wasn't even aware of anything around him other than her, he tried to calm his voice down and take out the growl before tapping her shoulder to get her attention "Melinda please don't leave, I told James to not be there by the time I got back, so please don't be upset." His voice got a kind of whine pitch to it as he spoke, like a begging dog.

Melinda turned around and couldn't help but think that James was a good person who Remus needed as a friend. She had over reacted she knew that "Remus look James Potter is as good as friend you can get you should go back and make friends with him."

Shrugging her shoulders she smiled "Lets face it now that if I end up in Slytherin and you Grythindor that this..." she waved between them "friendship won't be able to happen." She then muttered not expecting him to hear "Even if I do want this friendship."

Making eye contact she smiled her hair and eyes going back to normal except for the green and silver "I would have the whole of Slytherin hating me and you... you would have Grythindor's wondering why the hell are you friends with a Slytherin."

"I'm sorry but until we find out what house we are in its for the best that I go somewhere else and if we get into the houses we want to be in then maybe eventually we could be friends." A tear glided down her cheek followed by a few more then she turned her mind agreeing with her decision but her heart saying that she should still be his friend no matter the house.

Walking past the boy she had bumped into she found a compartment that had someone in it who had blue hair. Opening the door she brushed her tears away angrily then asked in a near whisper "Can I sit in here?"

James was shocked to say the least but he stubbornly followed Remus and saw the whole thing that Melinda said and somewhere deep down he began to think not all people who wanted to be in Slytherin where bad. Its a shame that one person wouldn't change his opinion completely.

He waited a moment after she left so it would all sink in with Remus then hesitantly put his hand on Remus's shoulder "Hey look for what its worth I'm sorry but I can say if she's willing to give up your friendship to protect you in a way then she isn't bad at all."

Sighing he added "I really don't like admitting I am wrong but maybe not all Slytherin wannabes are bad well at least not her." Through his glasses you could see in his eyes sympathy and the start of a leadership quality which means protect your friends even if they are potential friends.

"I know I am going have to do a lot to get your friendship but I hope that one day soon I can be your friend because what you did back there was something I look for in a friend. Stick up for someone even if others wouldn't normally well stick up for friends anyway. I would be really confused if you stuck up for her if you didn't know her." James really did talk a lot sometimes and he realised that but if it got his point across who cares.

'I wonder if Liam is going to be there already...' Sirius thought as he dragged his trunk down the stairs, the wheels making sharp bangs every time they went down a step. As he rolled into the kitchen, he ignored his mother sitting at the table sipping a cup of tea, eyeing him to make sure he actually went to the train station. Sirius stepped up to the fireplace and threw the floo powder in. Looking around, he didn't notice Regulus anywhere.

Maybe he already went to school? 'That would be just like the nerd...' Sirius grouched in his mind, stepping into the fireplace and shouting "Kings Cross Station!"

He appeared in the busy floo room, stumbling a little on his exit. He brushed off his robes and walked onto the platform and boarding the train. He walked down the corridor, glancing in each of the compartments as he passed. Finding Liam in one of the compartments with another girl, at this Sirius resisted the urge to sigh, and a boy who looked twitchy.

"Hey cuz." Sirius greeted, plopping down on the seat, making the contemplative family member bounce.