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~Hogwarts Express~

n. that red train that goes "chug-a-chug-a-chu-chu!"

Rose remembered her father talking and pointing something out to her right before she got onto the train.

"Remember…mother's brains…defeat…Malfoy…"

She had been too preoccupied trying to stifle the feeling of foreboding in her gut.

What if I don't make it into Gryffindor? Will mum and dad still love me? What about everyone else? What if the headmaster accidentally sent me an invitation to Hogwarts? What if I get kicked off the Express?

Horrible possibilities loomed dangerously at the edges of her mind as she stood nervously at Albus's side. The train rumbled to life and suddenly the motion causes all the cars on the rails to shudder. The walkways were looking awfully ominous as of right then. Albus shuffled awkwardly and scratched his head. Then he looked back to check on his trunk and owl and turned to Rose.

"I'm going to look for an empty car, alright? Rose?"

"Yeah…sure…go on. I'll go that way and you can go that way." Rose was feeling a little homesick already and she had only just left Platform 3 3/4. Giving herself a good mental shake she bit her lip.

"If we find one will meet back here."

"Sure." Rose murmured as she lugged her trunk behind her in her search for that empty train compartment.

Opening each door cautiously, she peered in each one, meek as a mouse. She didn't want to be causing trouble on the train and being prohibited from coming back to Hogwarts next year. Rose wanted to learn everything and be the top of all her classes. Mum had called her ambitious. She liked that.

Walking to the end of what Rose assumed to be the train, she peeked in. Nope, all full, a bunch of third years looked like they were trying to levitate a chocolate frog out a window.

Slowly walking back to the spot where she and Albus had picked to meet up she double-checked all the cars by peeking in through the window of each door. Seeing an empty compartment two sections down from where she and Albus were supposed to meet she tugged her trunk along happily.

"Found one." Rose chirped, pleased she had done something right before she had even gone to Hogwarts.

"Good, I got kicked out of one car because James didn't want to play 'big brother'." Albus rubbed his sore left arm ruefully as he smiled crookedly. "More like punched out really."

With that said, Rose and Albus traipsed along and into the car Rose had seen.

The two lugged their trunks onto a shelf above their seats. Albus picked a seat near the door. Rose wanted to look around so she wandered a bit.

When she got toward the back of the train compartment she saw a boy sitting near a window.

She thought he looked like an angel. So she carved his features into her mind. She was looking carefully. She thought that he was rather good looking for a snobby nose boy and she wanted to remember him, that's all. Her memory came in handy sometimes.

Surely this is what Mum had said an angel should look like. She had seen pictures in Muggle books but this boy was much prettier. Except he didn't have wings and he wore the same Hogwarts uniform as she did. He wasn't fat like the pictures of Cupid. He didn't carry a bow-and-arrow. He was quiet instead of boastful about all the good deeds he's done, if he's done any, and he didn't wear a diaper (referring to the Hogwarts uniform).

He had fair hair and pale skin with eyes like steel. Ornamental etched steel with silver leaf placed delicately at the edges. Thin lips and a straight nose made his features angular though he couldn't be any older than she was. He had to be an angel.

He looked up at her and his aristocratic nose twitched, just a bit.

"You must be a Weasley."

A/N: It was a little rushed because I wanted to get this all down before my brainwave ran away but I hadn't thought as far as to what Rose would answer. So there are going to be two parts to this 'place' (this being the first part :D).

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