Thank you all for your support. I hadn't even been planning on writing any of this, but it all suddenly came to me. So… without further ado here is the second installment.
The weeks till the first day of school could not pass any slower than they did. By the time September 1st Hermione had already read through all of her books twice and Hogwarts: A History at least four times. Though, the weeks did happen to have a few incidents like breaking a few things when her temper got the best of her.
The day finally came and Hermione was exited and ready to go when her mother and father decided they did not want her to go. They reasoned this with the classic excuse of, "magic isn't real they are just trying to get you to go to an expensive private school," upon hearing this Hermione burst in to tears and ran to her room. A few minutes later she came down and asked how they explain all the things she's done when she gets upset or angry. They continued arguing like this for several minutes till her father decided that if she wanted to go so bad that Hermione would have to figure out her own way there.
"Fine I will," and with that she ran upstairs to grab her trunk full of school supplies and headed out the door. She made her way to the bus station a few blocks down the street and bought a bus ticket to Kings Cross Station. The bus would get her there an hour before the Hogwarts Express was due to leave.
When the bus arrived she gave the driver her ticket and took her seat at the front of the bus when a boy about her age sat down next to her who introduced himself as Seamus.
"Where are you going with such a large trunk," she asked noticing his luggage. She secretly hoped he was going to Hogwarts; he seemed like a nice boy.
"I'm on my way to Kings Cross Station to ride the train to school, my parents are not able to take me," he said the last part a little downcast. Hermione perked up a bit at hearing where he was going.
"I'm going there too. What school are you attending?" She asked maybe to exited.
"I'm going to a private school called Hogwarts," he stated without hesitation just as his parents taught him in order to prevent muggles from finding out about the Wizarding School.
"So am I! Maybe we'll have a few classes together," she stated happy to know someone she would be at school with.
The two continued to talk about school and get to know eachother the rest of the bus ride. The bus pulled up to the station and they climbed off with their trucks and walked into the building. It was packed inside with people running around trying to get to their platforms before they missed their train.
Hermione was soon separated from Seamus because of the overflow of people. She started looking for him when she looked at the clock and saw it was 10:30 and started heading to Platform 9 ¾ . When she reached platform 9 she walked by expecting to see platform 9 ¾, but all she saw was a mass of people and platform 10. She was completely confused it should be between platforms 9 and 10 but it was not there.
"Excuse me sir, but where is Platform 9 ¾?"
The man looked at her with a confused and irritated look. He had clearly been asked this before and did not find it funny. Hermione walked away and asked a few more people before she asked a kind looking, red headed woman. This time she was met with an understanding look.
"Excuse me miss, my name is Hermione."
"Hello, I'm Mrs. Weasley," the red headed lady replied with a kind look.
"Do you know how to get to Platform 9 ¾ ."
"It's right this way honey. You must be a first year my son is a first year to," she said motioning to the youngest red head boy, who waved at her.
"Hi, I'm Ron Weasley," he introduced himself.
"Hi, I'm Hermione."
At that moment a young, jet black haired boy walked up and asked the same question Hermione had just a few moments ago.
"Okay you two, all you have to do is run right through that barrier," she said pointing at the barrier between platforms 9 and 10. With the uneasy looks she received from the two she further explained, "All you have to do is get a running start at it. Watch Percy," she motioned to one of the boys and a tall boy ran at the barrier and disappeared through with all his stuff.
"All right Fred, George your turn," and two boys who must have been twin, also with red hair, ran through one right after the other. "Alright your turn," she motioned to Harry.
"M-me," Harry asked pointing to himself.
"Yes you, come on. That's right line yourself up with the wall," she said while he lined himself up and got ready to go. "Now all you have to do is run strait at the wall," a moment later Harry was gone through the wall.
Hermione could not believe that four people had just disappeared through a brick barrier, and she was wondering how they did it. She had read all her school books multiple times over but she never came across anything about it. It must be in a later school book; maybe she can research it in the library. She was soon pulled out of her thoughts though.
"Your turn, Hermione," the kind lady said motioning to her.
"O-okay," she said a bit uneasily, as she lined herself up with the barrier as she had seen the previous four people do.
"That good now all you need to do is run strait at the wall just like the others did," she instructed.
Hermione proceeded to take a deep breath and took off at a run hoping she would go through and not crash into a solid brick wall. She reached the wall and flinched as she reached it but continued to run until she made it through, having a strange cold feeling and proceeded to run into someone.
She and a boy then untangled their limbs from eachother and he helped her up.
"Hello, I'm Remus Lupin," he introduced himself.
"Hi, I'm Hermione Granger. Sorry for running into," she shyly said.
"It's ok I shouldn't have been standing that close to the barrier. You want to go bored the train."
"Sure," and with that they walked to the train pulling their trunks with them.
Hermione had no clue what had just happened.
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