Chapter 3
Ron bounds into the room, his arms full of sweets. He flings some in Ginny's direction, as he sits down between Harry and Hermione.
Hermione turns her head away from Ron, looking out the compartment's glass door. Harry watches Ron stuff chocolate frog after chocolate frog, amused and disgusted.
"Oo know oo kin take sum?" Ron says through a mouthful of chocolate frog.
"What?" Harry asks. Ron gulps down his mouthful and tries again.
"You know you can take some?"
"Erm…no thank-you. I've lost my appetite." Ron shrugs.
"More for me." Ron begins stuffing chocolate frogs into his mouth again.
"Ron that's disgusting!" Hermione exclaims. Ron looks at Hermione, his cheeks bulging with chocolate frogs. Ron gulps down his mouthful of chocolate frogs and chokes. Harry thumps him hard on the back three times.
"Harry! Stop!"
"What? It's supposed to work!" Ron spits out a chuck of chocolate which lands on Ginny's lap.
"Ew! Ron! This is my best uniform!" Ginny shrieks.
"You mean that WAS your best uniform." Ron chuckles.
Ginny glares at him, and stomps out of the room muttering something about boys and stupidity. Harry watches her leave, his face dreamy and not seeing.
"I hate it when she leaves…but I love to watch her go!" He thinks.
"What was that Harry?" Hermione asks.
"Oh shoot! Did I say that out loud?" he thinks. "Erm…nothing."
"Ok Harry…RON! DO YOU HAVE TO STUFF YOUR MOUTH WITH FOOD? DID YOU NOT LEARN YOUR LESSON?"
Ron looks at Hermione, is cheeks yet again stuffed with food. He gulps down his food in one gulp.
"What lesson?"
Hermione screams out in frustration, causing both Harry and Ron to jump.
"I'm not even going to bother!" Hermione crosses her arms across her chest in slouches into the seat.
Ron frowns, his blue eyes concerned. Then he grins. He slowly reaches for Hermione, his index finger extended.
"Bother! Bother! Bother!" He pokes Hermione softly in the arm with each word.
Hermione slaps his hand away, but not before a giggle escapes from her lips. Encouraged, Ron continues to 'bother' Hermione.
"Ron, stop it!" She shrieks with laughter as he starts to furiously tickle her sides until she falls to the floor.
"Sorry to interrupt this…touching moment…but we should really finish dressing into out school uniforms." Harry says, watching Hermione and Ron with amusement.
"Harry…all we have to do is pull on out cloaks…"
"I know that! We're almost there!"
"WHAT!" Hermione shrieks, excitedly. She scrambles off the floor and runs to her trunk, and pulls it off of the shelf. She frantically opens her trunk and rips out her cloak and pulls it on. She hastily searches the compartment for things she and the others left behind.
Harry and Ron roll their eyes and pull down their trunks and pull their cloaks on.
"Ok! I think I've found everything." Hermione says, "Do you have everything you need?"
"Yes." Ron and Harry say at the same time.
"Well excuse me for caring if either of you forgets something on the train!"
The train screeches to a halt in Hogsmeade's Station. Harry, Ron, and Hermione stumble out of their compartment; Harry dragging Ginny's trunk along with his own and Hermione dragging Luna's trunk as well as her own.
Outside their compartment, they run into Malfoy and his buddies from his compartment. Malfoy steps forward after motioning to his two buddies to stay against the wall.
"Let me help you Grange…Hermione." Malfoy requests as he holds out his hand for Luna's trunk.
"Par-pardon?" Hermione asks weakly.
"Let me help you carry those trunks. It…it looked like you were having difficulty…that's all."
"Well…I…thank-you Mal…Draco." Hermione smiles weakly at Malfoy.
Malfoy says nothing, but gently takes Luna's trunk out of Hermione's hands. He motions for Hermione to walk along, and grasps both Luna's and his own trunk.
Hermione glances back at Harry and Ron. Ron has his mouth hanging open and his eye's wide with shock. Harry merely smiles at Hermione and waves her on.
Hermione turns around and walks down the hall with Malfoy at her heels. Ron and Harry follow, with Malfoy's buddies behind them.
Hermione jumps out of the train at the first door she sees and pulls her trunk after her. Malfoy hands her Luna's trunk and when she's not in his way, he leaps down. He turns around to pull down his trunk to find it already down by his feet; and Harry pulling his own down.
Harry turns and smiles at Malfoy before turning to take Ginny's trunk down. When both Malfoy and Harry are out of the way, Ron jumps down with his trunk and runs to Hermione.
The black haired young woman jumps down and struts over to Malfoy and clings onto his arm. The stupid looking young man stumbles out of the train and lift's his and the young woman's trunk.
Malfoy turns to Hermione and asks,
"Will you be ok from here?"
Hermione nods her head yes.
"Good. Well…we'll see you at school then." Malfoy and his buddies walk down a path and towards the carriages that will take them to Hogwarts.
"How can you believe he's changed? It's obvious that he's just playing us." Ron whispers.
"Well he is the one who helped me carry TWO trunks, unlike someone I know!"
"Yeah Harry! What were you thinking? Making Hermione carry two trunks?"
"I was talking about you." Hermione says, coolly. Hermione sashays down the pathway, pulling Luna and her own trunk.
"I don't get her." Ron mutters, and runs after her calling her name.
Harry rolls his eyes and follows them, every once in a while looking behind him, looking for Ginny or Luna.
Please Review. like i said at the top i'm going to give the man his credit. As some of you may know (if you watch potter puppet pals) one or two of the lines in my story refers to it. So i'de like to recognize the man who's behind the potter puppet pals.
p.s. i am so sorry but i didn't want to post his name incase i made a mistake...