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Chapter 5

"Come on! We're going to be late!" Mrs Weasley said as she practically pushed her children through King's Cross Station.

I pushed my cart along the way at a fast pace, gaining a few looks from the Muggles in the station because of the owl that was in my cart. I didn't think too much of it though - I wouldn't be here much longer anyway.

As soon as we made it to the wall between platform 9 and 10, Percy ran through the wall and was gone and the rest of the family followed suit. Harry, Ron, and I were the last ones to go and we took off together towards the platform. Just before we got to the platform, however, something happened that we hadn't expected.

We ran straight into the wall, making us fly backwards. All of our luggage flew out of their carts when the fell to the ground.

"What do you think you're doing?" a worker from the station asked us.

We all stood up again and began to gather our things and I noticed the crowd of Muggles that were starting at us, probably thinking that their must be something wrong with us because we had just run directly into a wall.

"Sorry..." I said as I picked up Hoot's cage and placed it back into my cart.

"We just...lost control of the carts..." Harry lied.

When the man left us alone, we realized that the way must have been sealed - we had been too late.

"Great," I said. "Just when we thought we were going to Hogwarts again..."

We tried walking into the platform again, without our carts, just to see if it was really sealed. It was.

"What are we going to do now?" Ron asked us. "Everyone's probably leaving already...it's eleven!"

We pushed our carts out of the way of the oncoming crowd of Muggles just to avoid the glares from them. We probably looked rather odd with the two owls that were in our carts.

"We should probably wait until Mum and Dad get back to the car - " Ron said, but then had a sudden idea. "That's it! The car!"

"What about it?" I asked him.

"It flies! We can drive to Hogwarts with it! All we have to do is follow the train there!"

"Brilliant!" Harry said. "But what about your parents?"

"They can get back to the house with magic, don't worry about them."

We all made our way back to the car in a rush, making sure that we would able to catch up to the train. After we unloaded our carts and got back into the car, Ron started up the engine.

"What if the Muggles see us though?" I asked.

"There's an invisibility button here," Ron pointed to it and pressed it.

Suddenly, the whole car became invisible as Ron drove it into the sky. We drove for a while before we even saw the train. When we caught up to it though, the car became invisible once more. Ron kept pressing on the button, but the car remained visible.

"We'll just drive up in the clouds..." Ron said as he drove up higher..

Every once in a while we got out of the clouds to make sure that we were still following the train. Within a few hours, we finally made it to the castle. We could see it sitting on a hill nearby and Ron prepared to land it. However, we came across a problem: the car wouldn't start.

"What are we going to do?" Harry panicked.

Ron tried to restart the vehicle, without success, but we managed to make a crash landing inside of a tree just outside of the school.

"Lucky this tree was here," I said.

Then, without warning, the tree began to move. It slowly started to swing the car around and crush it. We all began to scream as the car began to crush with us inside of it.

Ron brought out his wand and began to wave it frantically in the air, a sad attempt to stop the tree from attacking us. Then, the car started up again and drove straight out of the tree and landed on the ground.

Once we were out of reach of the tree, the car threw us out of the car and onto the ground. Then, it threw our stuff and drove off into the woods.

"Dad's going to kill me!" Ron said as he stared out into the woods.

We gathered all of our stuff together and made our way into the castle, knowing that everyone was already seated. Hopefully, we wouldn't get caught though.

"Look," Ron said pointing into the Great Hall towards the teacher's table. "Snape isn't here."

"Maybe he left," Harry said.

"Maybe he was sacked!" Ron said happily.

"I highly doubt that," I told him. "He's a good teacher, I don't care what you have to say."

"You only say that because you're good in potions," Ron said as we continued to gaze into the Great Hall. "I think he probably left because he didn't get the job he wanted. That and everyone hates-"

"Or maybe," said a voice behind us. "He's standing right behind you...wondering why the three of you did not arrive with the rest of the students."

All of us spun around at the sound of the voice. Snape stood behind us, looking at Harry and Ron angrily, obviously he had heard what they were talking about.

He glanced over at me and said, "Follow me..."

We walked back a while until we reached his office in the dungeons. There, he stood behind his desk and held up a newspaper. On the front page was a flying car that had three children sitting in it.

"You were seen!" Snape said to us. "By several Muggles!"

We stood in front of his desk, the rest of the school sat in the Great Hall, eating dinner happily and talking about their summer. We were being lectured on how were complete morons that could have exposed magic to the Muggles. In other words, we were in deep trouble.

"What were you thinking?" Snape asked us.

"The platform sealed itself..." I told him.

"We were just trying to get to the school," Harry said.

"All you had to do was send the school a letter, Potter!" Snape snarled at my brother. "Instead, you all had to make a grand entrance and crash into a whomping willow that has been here since before any of you were even born!"

"I think the tree did more damage to us than we did to-" Ron said.

Snape shot Ron a look that shut him up immediately.

"We didn't know that we could send a letter...I guess we didn't think of it, sir," I said to him.

Snape looked over to me and immediately turned away. I also noticed the slight twitch in his face and the saddened look that he now had. I never understood it, but it almost looked like he was always in pain in my presence...maybe I was just imagining things.

"If it were up to me, each one of you would be packing your backs right now and leaving-" Snape said, still avoiding my gaze.

"But they aren't your responsibility Severus," someone said from behind us.

I turned to see Professor McGonagall and Professor Dumbledore standing at the potion master's door. McGonagall looked furious.

"Why would the three of you do such a thing?" she asked us. "This is something that I would expect from your brothers, Mr. Weasley, not you!"

We all stood together and were hanging our heads in shame. We knew what was going to be next. She was going to send us back to our homes. I guess that Dobby won after all.

"We'll go get our things..." Ron mumbled.

We all went to walk out of the room and towards our luggage to make our way out of the castle.

"What are you talking about?" McGonagall asked him.

"You're expelling us, right?" Harry asked.

"Not this time, Potter."

Thanks for reading - I know that it isn't much. With Thanksgiving happening the other day, I haven't been able to write as much as I want to. Everything should be back to normal in a couple days...I hope...

I hope that you've liked my story so far, even though I haven't written all that much. I have also been asked - again - if I will be continuing to the Deathly Hallows. Yes, I do plan on making all of them and I really hope that everyone sticks with me even though I'm not very consistent with putting up chapters. I do try to write at least one every day or every other day.

Anyway, please tell me what you think!