A week later and it was the day school started. They caught the train today. Yesterday they went to Diagon Alley, Hermione got a new book. Ron laughed when she took it out and showed them. He wasn't helping the tension between them. She came to the sudden realization that she might have to sit next to Ron on the train. Unless Ginny sits with her friends. In which case, she will get away with sitting alone on one side or sitting next to Harry. They arrived at platform nine and three quarters.
"Be careful, all of you" Mrs. Weasley said to each of them, giving each teen a hug.
"Be careful Harry" Mr. Weasley said, "Sirius Black is dangerous. Don't do anything unnecessary. Understand?" he said. Harry nodded and they boarded the train.
"Ginny, can I sit next to you?" Hermione asked.
"I am going to sit with my friends, sorry" Ginny said. She walked off.
"There is bound to be a compartment spare somewhere" Harry said. They walked down the compartments until they found one with only a sleeping person in it.
"Who is that?" Ron asked.
"Remus Lupin" Hermione said.
"How did you know that?" Ron asked. Hermione pointed to the bags above them as the train set off. She got out her book and started reading. She felt too uncomfortable talking to Ron. He was still being a bit rude to her.
"What's up with her?" Ron said to Harry.
"I can hear you Ronald"
"Ok then, what's wrong?" Ron asked.
"Nothing, I would just prefer to read my book than be ignored by you" she said.
"Who said I was ignoring you?"
"If you aren't ignoring me, then your being rude to me. I think that, if you still want me around you should probably be a little bit nicer" Hermione snapped. Ron looked at Harry.
"She has got a point" Harry said, Ron rolled his eyes, "You have been really rude to her lately. Since you tried to commit and stuff" Harry finished. Hermione hated that word. Stuff. It drove her crazy. It was lucky that she managed to contain her anger, very lucky she still had her book.
The train felt cold, lifeless, unhappy. The windows were freezing up, Lupin's drink had frozen over and everybody was shivering.
"What's going on?" Ron said when the train came to a halt. Everything was silent.
"What are they?" Hermione breathed as dark hooded figures passed by. One was at the door, it opened slowly and the creature walked in. It looked at all of the teenagers and went over to Harry, it was taking his soul away. Hermione realized what it was.
"A Dementor" she breathed, "What are they doing here?" she asked herself. Remus Lupin suddenly got up and cast a spell on the Dementor. It was pushed away to continue its search. For what, Hermione didn't know. She leant in front of Harry.
"Harry, are you ok?" she said shaking him softly. He had fainted.
"He will be fine" said Remus.
"How do you know?" Ron said.
"I'm Professor Remus Lupin, I am going to be the new defence against the dark arts teacher at Hogwarts" he finished. Harry's eyes opened slowly.
"What happened?" Harry asked, dazed.
"You fainted" Hermione said.
"Eat this" Professor Lupin said, "I have to go speak to the driver" he started to walk off, "Eat it, it will make you feel better. It's chocolate".
"Could you hear the screaming?" Harry asked.
"No one was screaming Harry" Hermione said cautiously.
"I heard someone scream, it was a girl, but it sounded like someone I met a long time ago" Harry said. The train started to move. Harry was quite scared, he didn't know what was going on, or why the guy gave him chocolate. Hermione sat back in her seat, they would be at Hogwarts soon, she dug herself into her book again.
"She's always got her head in a book!" Ron sighed.
"I can still hear you Ron" she said.
"Good!" he snapped. Hermione was a mixture of emotions now; sad, angry and hurt. She just wanted to punch Ron in the face. She knew better though. That would just make things worse for Harry, and she didn't want that.