Chapter 3

Hello, again!

Today is a day!

Okay, that sounded odd. I mean, today is actually morning (I can see the sun), not night or morning or whatever. Still, no one's up yet, though, so I was bored and I decided to finish my story of yesterday.

The Continued Story of Yesterday

While Remus and Sirius continued bickering, James, Peter, and I were busy trying to find a way to get on the train, as whatever was going on inside the station didn't appear to be ending anytime soon. And when I say "James, Peter, and I", I really mean me. James had begun to run around the station screaming like a maniac, and Peter seemed to be trying to…. Well, actually I have absolutely no idea what Peter was trying to do. He was sitting on the floor with his legs crossed, his arms outstretched, and his eyes squeezed tightly shut, and he was muttering under his breath something that sounded like "Fly away, potato salad….. potato salad, fly, fly!"

I decided that I would figure out a way to get us to Hogwarts, even if no one was going to help me.

It was actually pretty simple. In a train station like King's Cross, there are lots of ladders and ropes and other things that I needed, so I figured out a plan pretty quickly.

The room we were in was big and square, with low-hanging rectangular lights, like the kind you sometimes see in schools, and the bricks were not perfectly lined up with one another. I grabbed a thick rope that lay coiled in a corner, attached it to my belt, and began to climb up one of the walls, using the bricks that jutted out.

Strangely, no one really seemed to notice me.

Remus and Sirius were still arguing. James was still screaming. Peter was still…. meditating? And my parents seemed to have disappeared. Everyone else in the station was watching the front, to try and see what was going on inside the room where the trains were.

I was easily able to climb up to one of the tall windows in the station and, from there, jump onto one of the large hanging lights. I tied the rope I was carrying to a rod next to me.

I whistled loudly. "Hey ReRe!" I called down to my dear brother.

He looked up, completely unsurprised to see me there, as I did this kind of thing a lot. "I said don't call me that!" he shouted back, annoyed.

I ignored him. "Get your friends and climb up!" I said, lowering the rope.

I saw him tap Sirius and James on the shoulder. Peter required vigorous shaking to get him to snap out of his "meditation". Remus said something to the three.

They looked up at me.

"Hey! How come you get to be up there!" Sirius asked me, annoyed.

I motioned to the rope.

"Oh," he said. And began to very calmly climb up it, as did James. They seemed to be used to this type of thing. Peter followed them a little more hesitantly.

"Hey, Remus! What's wrong? You afraid of heights or something?" James asked loudly.

"No," answered Remus, unconvincingly, and he too began to climb.

Sirius and James reached the light where I was waiting pretty quickly, and we sat there for a while until eventually Peter finished his climb up the rope as well.

My brother dearest, however, had still only climbed a few feet up.

"Hurry up, Remus! You're taking FOREVER!" yelled James, annoyed.

"Am…not," said Remus in a scared voice. "I'm… just… being….. careful."

"Uh-huh, sure," I said to myself. I grabbed the end of the rope and looked at James and Sirius. Understanding crossed their faces and they did the same.

"On the count of three," I said quietly. "One, two, THREE!"

We tugged hard on the rope. I was planning to have us safely reel my brother up onto the light fixture with us, but I must have misjudged Sirius and James's strength because when we pulled the rope, Remus and the rope came flying up and almost hit the ceiling, then landed extremely hard on the light that we were carefully balancing on, causing it to start swinging violently. We clutched on for dear life.

"Hold….. on," I said between swings. Peter and Remus squeezed their eyes shut.

When the swinging finally stopped (or at least slowed down), I looked warily down at the crowd below us, but, still, no one seemed to have seen us. Seeing this, I got to my feet once more and reached up to a handle sticking out of the ceiling. I tugged hard and a trapdoor fell open.

"Come on," I said to the boys, climbing up and out of the hole in the ceiling. One by one, they followed me.

I stood up and looked around. We were on the roof of King's Cross. It was really windy up there, and there was nothing really to hold on to, but it didn't matter.

I checked my watch. "It's 11:00! The train's going to be leaving any minute! We have to get back down and into the station before…." I stopped talking as I heard a loud train whistle and a call of "All Aboard!". In front of us, a large red steam engine was coming out of the station. On the side were letters spelling out "Hogwarts Express".

"We missed it! It's leaving!" Sirius shouted.

Immediately, the five of us began running to the spot where the roof met the open air. We just barely made it.

I pushed Remus off the roof before me, in case he got cold feet and didn't jump, and then I leaped after him. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Sirius do the same with Peter.

We landed with a thud on the top of the train. The five of us lay there for a second trying to catch our breath. The air was rushing by us, making it hard to get up. As I watched, the station disappeared completely from view, as did roads and houses. Eventually, I said, "We've got to find a way into the Express."

"Couldn't we…. Couldn't we just ride to Hogwarts like this?" asked Peter, hopefully. I gave him a look.

"Just asking!" he said, defensively.

I decided that if anything was going to get done, I had to do it myself.

"Give me your wand," I said to my brother.

"Why?" he asked confused.

"Just give me it!"

"Fine. Here," Remus said, handing me it. He knew better than to argue with me; I always won.

I, very heroically I would add (I could've sworn epic music was playing in the background) cast a shield charm over the roof of the train to protect us from the wind.

"How do you know how to do that?" asked Remus, in a slow motioned awe. "You're not supposed to know any magic yet!"

"Superhero school" I replied, as I flew of the roof into the sunset.

And, that concludes our Story of Yesterday!

I don't know what your deal is, writing booklet, because that last part of the story was completely, 100% true.

I've got to put this writing booklet away now. People are starting to wake up, and soon it'll be time to go down for breakfast.

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