Chapter 3

King's Cross

The day of Jacks departure came too quickly. For all of them.

Right now Jack was at King's Cross. He was alone because the others had no time. They said goodbye at North's. But there was an incident in the warren and the elves were going crazy so North nor Bunny could accompany Jack to the train. And Tooth and Sandy couldn't because like always they had just too much of work that needed to be done.

Jack knew that they all had a good reason to not be there, but that didn't make him feel better, or less lost.

He had a ticket for the 'Hogwarts Express' at the platform 93/4. But he couldn't see any train with such a name nor could he see the platform. And if that all wasn't enough he felt just too eyed. He felt like all the eyes were on him. What was kind of ironic when you think about how his biggest need in the past centuries was to be seen and now that was exactly what made him uneasy. He hoped it would get better with a while.

The comets from the passers did not help at all his nervousness. He could hear people calling him 'albino' or saying something about his feet's, most possibly because he didn't wear any shoes. He had had some when he got out of the portal but he didn't bother wearing them when no guardian was near to scold him about that. He almost regretted that he was visible to nonbelievers as much as to believers. But just almost.

He tried to ask few peoples about the platform where he had to come but the most gave him a strange look, laughed at him or just thought that he was joking with them.

He had almost given up when he saw an odd looking family with a boy who had a big carriage not much different as Jacks own. So Jack tried his luck once more and approached the oldest of the blondes.

"Excuse me. Sir?" Normally Jack wasn't so polite but he needed help and that men seemed pretty stern so he figured to be as polite as he could.

"How can I help you?" Asked the man coldly with a risen eyebrow.

"Could you tell me where I can find the platform 93/4?"

"Aren't you too old to be a first year?" he asked with a sneer. The boy chuckled. Jack hated them more by every passing moment. He went one more time trough his cover story in his head before he answered in a polite but at the same time challenging tone.

"I was homeschooled until now. But I came to a level where my family can't teach me by their own so they figured to send me to school. Of course if you can't help me I don't see why I should bother you anymore." He already turned around to go away when the women spoke up.

"The platform is in the opposite direction boy. You just have to go through the wall between the numbers 9 and 10." She said, her face seemed like she had bit in a lemon, Jack could also see a gentle spark in her eyes. He smiled in thanks and turned around to follow the instruction given. The most people would be bothered by passing a stone wall, but Jack had seen so much crazier things that he just closed his eyes and run. He tough about that that action could bring the other boys grin from his face who had most likely believed that Jack would be too scared to do it, but Jack was brave as much as he was mischievous. As he got out of the wall all thoughts about the blond boy and his parents were forgotten. He stared at the train. It was beautiful. But his thoughts were once more cut when something ran into him from behind and fell to the ground pulling Jack with. It was a girl. A Quite nice looking girl, with curly brown hair and a face that was as red as a tomato. Most possibly because she had just ran someone over.

"Oh God! I'm so sorry. I-I didn't think someone would be on the other side... I'm so, so, so, so, sorry... oh god..." She would have continued to speak nonsense if Jack didn't stop her.

"It's quite alright. It is anyways my fault I shouldn't have stayed there like an idiot but I was just impressed by the sight of all this." He said while standing up and helping the girl to her feet.

"Oh and by the way I'm Jack." He said with a large grin.

"I-I'm..."

"Hermione what happened to you?" Exclaimed a redhead what came through the wall. So her name was Hermione, Jack thought, he smiled.

"And who are you?" Asked the boy now referring to Jack. Hermione answered instead of him.

"HE, is the boy I run over when I passed the barrier."
"My name is Jack." He added.

At that moment came another firehead trough the wall and then another identical, and then a girl with the same hair colour, and then a woman. Jack was getting confused. And then finally was a non redhead coming through, with a dog, oookey ... and tan guess that, right a redhead man. Jack was starting to think that there would be more redheads but he was disappointed, no more fireheads.

The woman noticed him first. "And who are you dear?" in that moment Jack knew that he was going to really like her. He smiled and answered "Jack. Jack Frost. I'm a new student at Hogwarts."

"Really? There never were new students that joined after the first class?"

"What can I say?" Jack shrugged. "I was kind of homeschooled but my family can't teach me at this rate anymore so they decided to send me to school." Jack grinned and added. "And they were getting nerved because of my constant pranking when I'm bored." At that he could see a mischievous looks by the, what he thought twins. And the woman confirmed his speculations.

"Then you will surely get along whit these two little devils of sons of mine."

Jack had to grin at that again. And this time the twins grinned two.

One of them spoke up.

"It would be us a pleasure to take you in on our plans if you are interested." Jack was to say yes when the women spoke up.

"Don't you dare to drag this boy into your plans. You should not encourage younger students to follow your bad example. And by the way Jack, my name is Molly Weasely, Those too hooligans are Fred and George" she pointed at the twins "my youngest son Ron" the boy that was rude to him "my daughter Ginny" the redhead girl "my husband Arthur" the man greeted him with a nod "Hermione you know, and Harry" she pointed at the boy with black hair and glasses. The first thing Jack thought that Harry's hair was almost as messy as his. He grinned too all of them in greeting.

The dog barked. "Oh and this is Snuffles." Said the woman.

If Jack didn't know better he would have said that the dog had an too human look in his eyes. But he didn't had time to think about it because he and the rest were showed into the train what was going to leave.

And so Jack was on the way to Hogwarts. He felt a little better about the idea of school now that he had met the twins. He grinned from ear to ear as he looked how they got out of train station and he moved to find a free seat.