Sup people? Long time no see! I have an excuse! I went to the caravan and like the idiot I am, I forgot my laptop so I could write so I was delayed. Hey don't be mad, we all make mistakes... Anyway, cupcakes to all and enjoy!
The next day, after Jack had quickly said goodbye to Jamie with a snow day and a promise that they would write to each other, the Guardians had arrived in London and were walking towards King's Cross Station with Jack pushing a huge trolley with all of his stuff in cases. Jack had somehow talked Tooth into letting him take Baby Tooth with him as he didn't fancy getting a pet because frankly, he didn't like any of the choices. North had talked to Dumbledore about Jack bringing Baby Tooth and he said that was fine.
He didn't like seeing Baby Tooth sitting in a cage like that since she was better free but that was one rule he had to obey.
Jack had actually woken up about four in the morning and had to wait for another three hours for the others to wake up. They had all agreed to see him off, even Bunny, which Jack found touching and had teased him all the way to London. Bunny had merely said he was glad that Jack would be away for the year but the others were completely emotional. Tooth didn't stop hugging him all the way down, North keep rambling on to him about Christmas gifts as he would have to stay in school for Christmas. Sandy keep smiling at him and making images and Jack could see that he was trying to say that he would send him sweet dreams every night.
What Jack found really funny was that everyone apart from North, had to take a potion to make them look like humans but their eye colours and heights stayed the same.
Bunny was wearing a green shirt with brown knee length shorts and he had tanned skin and had black boots on his feet. His hair was short and brown and he had a red bandanna tied around it.
Tooth was wearing a purple and green summer dress with matching sandals. She had long black hair and golden bangles all over her wrists with matching earrings. Her skin was fairly tanned like Bunny's only hers was slightly darker.
Sandy was dressed just like a pilot, even with the goggles. Jack found his human form the coolest and Bunny had to disagree, even though he didn't like the feeling of being human, he thought his form was pretty cool.
Finally, they had arrived at Platform Nine – Platform Ten and Jack pulled the ticket from his hoodie pocket, seeing which train he had to take. He was just dumbfounded that even what his friends looked like, he was getting all the stares! He wasn't sure what for, his white hair or that he was still barefoot. He had actually thrown a tantrum about the shoes and had actually threatened to throw another blizzard next Easter which had caused Bunny to go mental until North finally agreed to let him go without shoes.
Looking at his ticket, he was very confused since his ticket said Platform Nine and Three-Quarters. His train was supposed to be in the middle of Nine and Tem but it didn't seem to be here. North was a bit confused too as Dumbledore hadn't told him about this. Bunny scoffed and folded his arms, "Now what mate? Did Albus give ya a dodgy ticket?" he asked.
North was about to argue until Tooth raised her hand to silence them, "Zip it a minute" she said. The others followed her gaze to see a plump woman walking past with six kids, near Jack's age and two were girls. Four had flaming red hair, one had messy hair like Jack's only black and one of the girls had wavy brown hair.
"Come on you lot, you know where your train is. Past the Muggles like every year" the woman said.
"Ah! They are on same train as you Jack!" North said, giving Jack a push to follow them. Jack wasn't as keen as North probably wanted him to make friends. The group then walked to nine and ten and to the Guardians surprise, each of the kids, ran in single file and vanished! He had ran right into the wall! That was just… weird!
Finally, once all the kids had come through, Jack watched the woman run and disappear after them. "Our turn!" Tooth said, taking a hold of Jack trolley and pushing it forward. Jack wanted to wait a second but then the others grabbed onto his trolley and gave it a push too. Jack felt his feet running forward and as he came closer into contact with the brick wall, he closed his eyes just in case it didn't work.
He waited for the crash but it didn't come. He then found his trolley stopping so he opened his eyes to find himself looking at a scarlet steam engine. The platform was packed with people with all different animals in cages and Jack even saw some paper birds flying around! Looking up at a sign he saw that this was Platform Nine and Three-Quarters. Jack saw some people lifting the student's luggage onto the train as did North.
"Take fairy Jack and I will take your things to be loaded on" North said and Jack quickly took Baby Tooth as North took full hold of the trolley and pushed it away. Looking back at the others, he found Tooth hugging him again as he had to board in a few minutes.
"Now don't forget to floss every day and you are to write every day too!" she said quickly until Bunny pulled her away.
"Let him breathe Sheila! He will have other things to do besides writing and flossing" Bunny said grinning. He then let go of her and looked at Jack.
"You know you'll miss me Kangaroo" Jack said with snigger and Bunny punched him lightly on the shoulder.
"I gotta admit, it'll be different having no snowman around to entertain us" Bunny said with a wide grin.
"You said it" Jack said with a laugh. He didn't want to hug Bunny as it would be a little weird and Bunny felt the same. Now looking down at Sandy and since this wasn't unusual, he floated up to Jack's height and gave him a hug which the frost child happily accepted.
"I'll miss ya too Sandy" Jack said. Once he let go of the little man, he found myself in a tight embrace as the huge Russian was now hugging him.
"Ah my boy, I will miss you!" North said. Jack was going to reply but his lungs were being crushed so he couldn't speak, let alone breathe. Thankfully Tooth noticed.
"North you're crushing his bones" Tooth said and North let go apologetically.
"Sorry!" he said and Jack grinned.
"No problem" he said with a wheeze. The whistling of the train was then heard and Jack knew it was time to go. Quickly, he hopped in through the doorway just in time before it closed. He then ran through the train, looking for an empty compartment, completely forgetting Baby Tooth was being tossed around in her cage. Finally he found one so he slid inside, put Baby Tooth down and looked out the window.
He couldn't see his friends for a moment or two but then he caught the familiar sight of North's large body with the others standing beside him. He then waved rapidly out the window hoping they would see and thankfully they did before the train started to move. They eagerly waved back even when the train kept moving and Jack could still see Tooth crying. He didn't stop waving until they were out of sight completely and then he flopped down onto his seat by the window. He preferred being near the window as it was closer to the open. Sort of.
Baby Tooth squeaked to be let out but Jack shook his head. "No way Baby Tooth, I don't want you getting lost or getting turned into an owl" Jack said and Baby Tooth rolled her eyes as she knew he was right and she didn't really want to be turned into an owl.
He then had the urge to pull out his wand which was in his hoodie pocket to make the window frosty but then remembered that he could do it without his wand. Shaking his head as he knew that magic was getting to his brain!
There was a knock on his compartment door and when he looked at it, he saw that it was three of the kids from the station that he had seen with the plump woman. "do you mind kid? Everywhere else is full" the kid who was one of the flaming haired boys. The girl which was the brown haired one, shoved him in the ribs.
"Manners Ronald" she scolded. The final kid, which was the one with messy black hair and also had round shaped glasses on which Jack had just noticed, rolled his eyes.
"Can we sit here please?" he asked and Jack nodded, not minding the red head's attitude.
"Sure" he said, gesturing to the seats. The three smiled gratefully as they came in and sat down. The red head and brunette sat opposite Jack and the black haired one sat next to him.
it was silent for a few minutes until the girl spoke up, "Sorry about my friend's rudeness, I'm Hermione Granger" she said, holding out a hand which Jack shook. As soon as he let go of her hand, she rubbed it. "Wow, you're hands are so cold" she said.
Jack felt like grinning and wanting to tell her why but North had said that Dumbledore had said not to under any condition. "Yeah, my hands are like that" he said sheepishly.
the red head grinned to, "Nice to meet you, I'm Ron Weasley" Ron said, not sticking out a hand but Jack didn't mind. Looking at the black haired boy next to him, it took a while for him to talk.
"I'm Harry. Harry Potter" Harry said blankly. That name struck a memory in Jack's brain.
"As in the Harry Potter from the paper?" he asked and Harry groaned.
"Yeah the one and only" he said sarcastically.
Hermione sighed, "Harry, please try to cheer up" she said but Harry sighed in exasperation.
"How can I when people and pampers are telling me that I'm a liar? Even then Ministry wouldn't believe me!" he said. Jack was surprised.
"Well why wouldn't they believe you? You don't seem like the kind of guy who would tell lies about a death would you? Only a total jerk would do that. I believe you" he said and Harry smiled.
"Finally someone else believes me!" he said and Jack grinned. This was a good start. "So who are you?" Harry asked.
"The name is Jack Frost" he said and Hermione frowned curiously.
"That sounds like a name from a Muggle story I heard before" she said.
"Yeah it's about a guy who spreads snow right?" Ron asks and Jack nodded.
"Yep that's the guy" Jack said, dying to say that the one and only Jack Frost was sitting right in front of them.
"Well, you seem like a cool guy Frost" Ron said and Jack grinned.
"Thanks Ron" he said.
"So are you going into First Year?" Hermione asked and Jack shook his head, memorising what North told him to say if anyone asked him this question.
"No I'm only coming here for the year For Year Five. I'm homeschooled and my mother wrote to Dumbledore if I could come to Hogwarts for the year. I'm new to magic see? My dad is a muggle and my mum is a witch. I have learnt a little bit of magic but my mum wants the school to teach me some things that she can't" Jack explained, please with himself for remembering all that.
Hermione nodded understandably and Harry grinned, "Hopefully you'll be in our house and in the same classes as us since we are in Year Five too" Harry said a bit more cheerfully. Jack was about to ask more questions about the Houses until the sound of the compartment door opening made him look up.
"There was a pale haired bog with matching pale skin standing there with two other pudgy looking boys standing there on either wide of him. They were all dressed in black and green robes which Jack took was Slytherin, since there was a snake on the front of the uniform and he also took a wild guess that they were in that house because of the snarls on their faces. When he was in the station he had heard a few kids talking about Slytherin being a mean house and these guys didn't look exactly friendly.
"Ah Harry Potter, the boy who lies" the pale haired boys said with a snigger. Harry scowled at him.
"Shove off Malfoy" he said and Ron scowled too.
"Yeah go away. Even better, leave the school" Ron said and now, Jack was also guessing that Malfoy was the school bully. Come on, every school has a bully!
Malfoy sneered at him, "Me leave? Ha! You're more likely to leave with the way you're dressed? Does your mummy have to knit your cloth instead of buying nice ones like mine? Oh I forgot, you're poor aren't you? You live in a shack" Malfoy said and he and his friends started to laugh.
Ron's eyes flashed with hurt but Hermione glared at him with anger. "Get lost creep" she said and Malfoy looked disgusted.
"Shut your mouth Mud Blood" he said and Hermione's eyes threatened spill tears. okay, Jack wasn't sure what a Mud Blood was but he was sure it was offensive so he stood up and went right up to Malfoy's face.
"Okay why don't you leave us alone now in peace?" Jack said calmly. Malfoy studied him.
"Who are you?" he asked sharply.
"Jack Frost" the albino replied.
Malfoy laughed, "Wow, what a freaky name. Your mother pick that out for you?" he asked and Jack nodded.
"Yes she did" he said plainly, not liking where this was going.
"Huh, did she have freaky white hair like you then?" Malfoy asked and Jack felt his anger spark.
"No, a spell went wrong. My mother's hair and mine was naturally brown" Jack said, stepping forward so now they were out in the hallway and now some kids from other compartments were watching them. "Now if you please, leave us alone" he said again, walking back into the compartment. But them Malfoy said something else then made his temper go through the roof.
"I feel sorry for any siblings you had for lots of things. One of them being having to be related to you because they must be even freakier than you" he said. Several mutters came from around as Jack stunned around with a face like thunder.
"Okay... I am going to ask you to leave me and my friends alone one more time and don't ever talk about my family likes that" Jack said darkly. Malfoy grinned.
"Or what freak?" he asked. Big mistake. An icicle shot up from the floor out of nowhere and stopped inches from the tip of Malfoy's chin. The boys shrieked in alarm as they almost toppled over backwards. But even then, more icicles kept coming up from the floor so they had to keep moving back to avoid getting spiked. Finally, their shrieking came to an end as they left the part of the train and back into their own.
A few claps came from compartments as Jack sat back down before checking all the icicles were gone. Ron gaped at him, "That was bloody brilliant!" he said and Jack smiled.
"I may not know as much about magic as you guys but I know a bit about Winter magic" he said and Hermione laughed.
"Well thanks for sticking up for us Jack" she said and Harry smiled too,
"Yeah Jack, I hope you're in our house and classes" he said. Jack beamed, hardly believing that he had made friends already. This would be great for the others to hear in his first letter.
So they all meet! I really enjoyed writing the Malfoy scene! I know what house I am putting Jack in so that will be announced in the next chapter :) Hope you enjoyed and ten reviews for more chapters and cupcakes! Bye for now!
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