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I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO sorry that this was so late! I have an excuse! I was moving house last week… and the week before that… and the… never mind…

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I know that most of this chapter is right out of the book so I apologise. BUT I need to ask you guys something. I have added an OC. I'm not so sure about her yet but I've introduced her to even the group out a bit considering that there is one new boy… so why not? I can take her out if you guys don't like it… Also, I was thinking of keeping the golden trio the same just with a few more people in their circle (that means something has to happen with the troll… SPOILER ALERT!). Feel free to give constructive critisism and tell me what you think about the 'above'

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Previously on Twins:

"What are you guy's talking about?" Ron asked

"He's…" he started

"I'm…" Dick interrupted

"My brother…" Harry finished as Ron looked between the two

"Ok then…" Ron said awkwardly before the carriage dipped into a tense silence.

Chapter 6
Journey to platform 9 ¾ (Part 2)

"Are all your family wizards?" asked Harry, it was obvious he was dying to ask this, Dick didn't know why but he felt Harry's curiosity, as well as the need to remove the attention off of himself.

"Err – yes, I think so," said Ron "I think Mum has a second cousin who's an accountant, but we never talk about him"

"So you must know loads of magic already"

The Wesley's were clearly one of those old wizarding families that he'd heard about in one of the books Alfred had lent him.

"I heard that you went to live with muggles" said Ron "what are they like?"

"Horrible" he started before being interrupted by a cough coming from his brother's direction

"– well, not all of them. My aunt and uncle and cousin are. I wish I had three wizard brothers." Harry said as Dick went over Harry to put his arm around him.

"You have one now!" Dick exclaimed as Harry smiled

"Five" Ron said gloomily.

"Huh?" They asked simultaneously

"Five brothers, I'm the sixth in my family to go to Hogwarts. You could say I have a lot to live up to. Bill was head boy and Charlie was captain of Quidditch. Now Percy's a prefect. Fred and George mess around a lot, but they still get really good marks and everyone thinks they're really funny. Everyone expects me to do as well as the others, but if I do, it's no big deal, because they did it first. You never get anything new, either, with five brothers. I've got Bill's old robes, Charlie's old wand and Percy's old rat."

Ron reached inside his jacket and pulled out a fat grey rat, which was asleep.

"His name's Scabbers and he's useless, he hardly ever wakes up. Percy got an owl for being made a Prefect, but they couldn't aff– I mean, I got Scabbers instead."

Ron's ears went pink. He'd seemed to think that he'd said too much, because he went back to staring out of the window.

Dick didn't think that there was anything wrong with not being able to afford an owl and it looked like Harry had had the same idea.

"I never had any money before I came into the wizarding world, I had to ware hand me down clothes too; I'm sure Dick thinks the same way." Harry explained gesturing to his brother.

"Oh yes..." he said quickly, realising that someone was talking to him

"… and until Hagrid told me I didn't know anything about being a wizard or about my parents or Voldemort –" Harry continued ignoring Dick's comment

Ron gasped and Dick flinched slightly (Even though he had grown up in Gotham, anything that makes Alfred flinch would mean that he had a very good reason to do so as well; Especially after hearing what he had done.)

"What?" Asked Harry

"You said You-Know-Who's name!" said Ron, sounding both shocked and impressed. "I'd have thought you, of all people –"

"I'm not trying to be brave or anything, saying the name," said Harry.

"I've just never knew you shouldn't. See what I mean? I've got loads to learn… I bet," he added, voicing for the first time something that had been worrying him a lot lately, "I bet I'm the worst in the class."

"You won't be. There are loads of people who come from Muggle families and they learn quickly enough."

While they had been talking, the train had carried them out of London. Now they were speeding past fields full of cows and sheep. They were quiet for a time, watching the fields and lanes flick past. At around half twelve there was a giant clattering outside in the corridor and a smiling, dimpled woman slid back their door and said "Anything off the trolley, dears?"

The twins sprang up (That sounds really strange) to look at what she had and on it were nothing either of the boys had ever seen before. Ron had once again gone pink when he said that he had sandwiches. Between them they had brought some of everything and payed eleven sickles and seven Knuts. Ron stared at them with one eyebrow raised as they brought it into the compartment and tipped it into an empty seat.

"Hungry are you?"

"Starving" they said, laughing at each other before tucking into the small amount of savoury food they they had bought. Ron opened the lumpy package, looked in the sandwiches then sighed.

"She always forgets that I don't like corned beef"

"Swap you for one of these," Harry said, holding up a pasty "Go on –"

"You don't want this, it's all dry," said Ron. "She hasn't got much time," he added quickly, "you know, with five of us."

"Go on, have a pasty," said Harry. Ron reluctantly took the pasty and they tucked into the sweets, pasties and cakes (the sandwiches lay forgotten).

"What are these?" Dick asked Ron holding up a pack of Chocolate Frogs. "They're not really frogs, are they?" he was starting to feel that nothing would surprise him.

"No," said Ron. "But see what card it is, I'm missing Agrippa."

"What?"

"Oh, of course, you guys wouldn't know – Chocolate Frogs have cards inside them, you know, to collect – Famous Wizards and Witches. I've got about five hundred, but I haven't got Agrippa or Ptolemy." Dick unwrapped his Chocolate Frog and picked up the card. He had recognised the old man straight away. He wore half-moon glasses, had a long crooked nose and flowing silver hair, beard and moustache. Underneath the picture was the name Albus Dumbledore.

"So that's Dumbledore!" Harry exclaimed as he looked at the man over his brother's shoulder

"Don't tell me you've never heard of Dumbledore!" said Ron "Can I have a Frog? I might get Agrippa – Thanks –"

Dick turned over his card and they both read:

Albus Dumbledore, currently headmaster of Hogwarts.
Considered by many the greatest wizard of modern
times Professor Dumbledore is particularly famous for
his defeat of the dark wizard Grindelwald in1945,
for the discovery of the twelve uses of dragon's
blood and his work on alchemy with his partner,
Nicolas Flamel. Professor Dumbledore enjoys
chamber music and ten pin bowling.

Dick turned the card over and saw, to his astonishment, that Dumbledore's face had disappeared.

"He's gone!" Harry shouted

"Well, you can't expect him to hang around all day," said Ron.

"He'll be back. No, I've got Morgana again and I've got about six of her… do you want it? You can start collecting."

Ron's eyes strayed to the pile of Chocolate Frogs waiting to be unwrapped.

"Help yourself," said Dick. "But in, you know, the Muggle world, people just stay put in photos."

"Do they? What, they don't move at all?" Ron sounded amazed.

"Weird!"

Dick handed Harry Dumbledore's card so he could stare at it while Dick looked to open another Frog. Ron was more interested in eating the frogs than looking at the Famous Witches and Wizards cards but Harry couldn't keep his eyes off them. Soon he had not only Dumbledore and Morgana, but Hengist of Woodcroft, Circe, Merlin and many more. After deciding that he was fed up of watching the person who was scratching her nose (Dick had failed to see what what was so interesting about the pictures) Harry had reached over to pick up a bag of Bertie Bott's Every-Flavour Beans.

"You want to be careful with those," Ron warned him. "When they say ever flavour, they mean every flavour – you know, you get all the ordinary ones like Chocolate, Peppermint and marmalade, but then you can get spinach, liver and tripe. George reckons he had a bogey-flavoured one once."

Ron picked up a green bean, looked at it carefully and bit into a corner.

"Bleaaarg – see? Sprouts."

They had a good time eating the Every-Flavour Beans. Dick got toast, coconut, baked bean, bacon, curry, grass, coffee and sardine. Harry had decided to eat a bean that Dick or Ron wouldn't touch (Stupid idiot), that turned out to be pepper.

The country side that was now flying past the window was becoming wilder. The neat fields had gone. Now there were woods, twisting rivers and dark green hills. There was a knock on the door of their compartment and a round faced tearful looking boy came in.

"Sorry," he said, "but have you seen a toad at all?"

When they shook their heads, he wailed, "I've lost him, he keeps getting away from me!"

"He'll turn up," said Harry

"Yes," said the boy miserably "Well, if you see him…"

He left

"Don't know why he's so bothered," said Ron "If id brought a toad I'd lose it as quick as I could. Mind you, I brought Scabbers, so I can't talk."

"Looks like it's dead…" Dick stated absentmindedly

"I probably wouldn't notice if he did either…" Ron said in disgust "I tried to turn him yellow yesterday to make him more interesting, but the spell didn't work…"

Ron had been interrupted by the compartment door being opened and the toadless boy came in with two girls behind him by the side of him.

"Has anyone seen a toad? Nevil's lost him" The blond girl asked

"We've already –" Ron stated before being interrupted by Dick who had jumped under the seat.

"Mate, what are you doing?" He asked before Dick got to his feet and in his hands was a speckled green toad

"Oh…"

"TREVOR!"

"There you go," Dick said "the names Grayson, Richard Grayson, But call me Dick" he stated, looking over at Harry who was stifling his laughter with his hands

Both the girl's mouths dropped to the floor the instant they had processed what he had said.

"That's Harry Potter and this gormless idiot is Ron Weasley" He continued as if nothing had happened "You?"

The bushy haired brunette suddenly jumped out of her daydream to introduce herself

"Hermione… Hermione Granger. This is Elizabella Andrews and Neville Longbottom."

– xXx-HP & YJ-xXx –

"My family have all been in Gryffindor, I suppose it would be alright to go in Hufflepuff but… not Slytherin…"Elizabella explained, shivering slightly

"Hey Bella, you don't suppose Malfoys in our year do you?" said Ron, characteristically stuffing his face full of chocolate frogs.

"Lucius' son? I think so, at least I recall my mother saying that he was acting very smug at the Ministry,"

"Your Mum works for the Ministry?" asked Hermione

"Yeh, in the Department of Mysteries, She can't tell me about it though…" She added, anticipating her new friend's question (Guess who that would be)

"I suppose I might be in Ravenclaw, but Gryffindor sounds like the best by far. I heard that Dumbledore himself was sorted into it."

"Well, the whole of my family's in Gryffindor, but Slytherin… I don't know if I would cope, never mind my family…" He also shivered and the whole room was enveloped in a plethora of laughter.

The group was undisturbed despite the 'Snobby blood purity obsessed (Que Hermione's "Ronald!")' as Ron had called him shortly after he had left the compartment after insulting all of Harry's new friends and asking them if they would WANT to be friends with HIM. Of all people. Draco Malfoy. Asking Harry Potter to be friends with HIM. They didn't know what to think!

Finally, the train stopped and the six ran out of the train with their robes on to meet the largest man Dick had ever seen.


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