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Amelia pushed her cart through the brick wall in between Platform 9 and Platform 10. As she got to the other side of the wall, she was overwhelmed by how loud it was. It is not as if that was new. It was if anything exciting. She turned around to wait for her father. Her mother pasted away when she was three. Since then she had been very close with her father. He was the only other person besides her friends she could count on to always be there.

"Are you ready?" he asked

"There's not any turning back at this point." she replied with a laugh. They walked towards the train together. She put her trunk with a pile of other trunks.

"Five minutes!" called the conductor. With that, Amelia's father turned to her.

"I guess its time for me to go." he said. He pulled her into a hug "I am very proud of you sweetheart. Straight O's on your OWL'S no one in our family has ever done that." He kissed her forehead.

"Thanks Dad. I-I'm really going to miss you." she said as she hugged her father tighter. Then she pulled away from him and wiped a tear from her face. "Bye"

"Goodbye Amelia."

With that said, Amelia turned and walked onto the train. She ran straight into Nate Bradley the other sixth year Ravenclaw prefect.

"Well, Well, Well if it isn't Amelia Wildsmith. And how was your holiday?" he asked.

"Pretty boring" she said as they walked in the direction of the prefect cabin. "I mostly read. I did some research wand cores for extra credit in Charms."

"It's the first day of school. Why would you need extra credit?"

"So that I can be top of the class before you can!" she said with a giggle. At this time, they reached the compartment.

After about thirty minutes, their meeting got out.

"I forgot to ask you how your summer was Nate." Amelia asked.

"Do you really want to know?"

"I guess."

"My parents and I went to Romania for two weeks. My dad works with the dragons over there. My mom and I went to visit him. They found a new breed of dragons and they've been doing research on them so he couldn't come home for summer." he explained

"That's amazing! You're really lucky." she said.

They walked in the towards the regular compartments attempting to find their usual group of friends who were all sixth year Ravenclaw's.

"Amy!" a girl called.

Amelia turned around to see one of her best friends Sophia.

"Fia!" she said as they hugged. "I missed you! Did you get my letter about my research?"

"Yes little miss over achiever!" Sophia said with a smile. "I haven't found Lydia yet. You want to go look for her?"

"Yes. Where are the boys? Have you seen them?" she said trying to hide the excitement in her voice.

"Well Bradley is right there. I just saw Davies and my brother. They were near the back. You want to go catch up with them?"

"Yeah let's go." They headed to the back of train.

Amelia had missed this. Writing letters was not the same. She was ready to talk to her friends whenever she wanted to. She was ready to stay up all night doing homework. She was ready to laugh until her sides hurt. She was ready to go back to where she belonged. She was ready to go home. She was ready for Hogwarts.