Chapter 16 : School Bus Express
For Tom, summer could not end fast enough. Dumbledore had dropped by for a second time after his initial visit to take him to a place called Diagon Alley so Tom could get his school supplies. Tom walked down the streets, looking at everything with masked fascination. There were so many possibilities of things he could achieve with magic, and the trip had only made Tom more obsessed with learning more magic.
Now, he stood on the brick sidewalk with people rushing around him to their various destinations as he looked for platform nine and three quarters. As he looked around, he noticed a group of strangely dressed people lingering between platform nine and ten. He silently observed each person walking a few paces from the main group before rushing at a brick wall. He was mildly surprised when the person seemed to vanish into the wall, but magic was magic, and he concluded that there were going to be many more strange occurrences. Picking up his small suitcase, which had an extension charm and shrinking charm applied to it, he calmly walked through the wall.
He gave a quick look at the train titled "Hogwart's Express" with its glaringly red paint before turning his attention to his surroundings. There were wizarding families all around him, most were wearing robes, though a few were wearing regular clothes. Muggles, his textbook had called them, though he cringed his nose at the very term. Quickly, and discretely, Tom dodged into a nearby loo to change into his school robes. As he walked out and turned the corner, he was hit by another moving form and a head of platinum hair crowded his vision.
A/N: And we are finally on the Hogwarts Arc!