Elven
Dwarfish
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(A/N. These are all the languages that are going to be used in this story.)
Lone Child
Chapter 4: The Hogwarts ExpressThe days leading up to James and Triss's departure to Hogwarts were uneventful. James had quickly learned how to control his newest power and how to turn it off. The colors gave James a major headache and had caused him to collapse the first time he used them.
Dragon, being helpful as always, had given him a list to show what the colors meant. Silver was the most powerful aura and the list went down to in power to Gold, Purple, Green, Blue, Red, Orange, and Yellow. A muggle's aura was a hardly noticeable White and someone with extra powers aura was lined with different shades of Pink, the darker the pink the more powerful the power.
Dragon's aura was Purple with spots of gold and Triss's aura was Gold with some Purple spots, both had pink rings around they're aura's. To the frustration of James he couldn't see his own aura.
It was now the night before James and Triss were to leave and both of them still had a lot of packing to do. "Triss, I need help with the Library," James yelled setting another full bookcase down in one of the expanding compartment inside his trunk.
"What do you need?" asked Triss walking into the library.
"I need you to just stand here and make sure I don't kill my self doing this," said James floating another six thousand pound bookcase into the trunk.
"James, why don't you shrink the bookcases put them where you want in the room then unshrink it?" asked Triss.
James stared at her for a second before saying, "Why the hell did that not occur to me? Triss grab your wand, you're helping."
Triss followed his directions and grabbed her wand from her room. It took the two of them almost two hours to shrink, place, and unshrink almost three hundred 12x15' bookcases.
By the end both were sweating and very tried. "James remind me to kill Dragon. Who had the bright idea of giving James the bookworm every book ever written?" she asked throwing her hands in the air.
"For one thing Triss, I am NOT a bookworm, I just read and retain more information than you do. Plus all those bookcases only show about a third of the books on them, so take all those books we just moved and multiply by three," said James flopping down on the floor.
"How the hell can you even find a book in that mess?" asked Triss laying spread eagle on the floor.
James pulled a small black book out of his back pocket. "This is an order booklet. A write the name, or subject of the book I want and it gives me a list of titles and summaries relating to that topic or the title of the book. I pick the book a want and it is immediately sent to me. The catch is you have to be with in a six mile radius of where the book is," said James putting the book back in his pocket. "Are you ready to start packing the Armory now?" asked James standing up.
"You're kidding, right?" asked Triss from the floor.
"No, but this will be easy. All we have to do is shrink everything and drop it in the trunk," said James pulling Triss off the floor.
"How are we going to practice with a bunch of other kids running around anyway?" asked Triss.
James walked over to his trunk and pulled out the keys. He opened the fifth compartment. "Dragon, brilliant as always, added a training room, take a look," he said motioning to the stair that went down into the room.
Triss walked down the stairs and sure enough inside was a full gym and dueling ring. "Wow, do any of the other compartments turn into rooms?" Triss asked walking around in the large room.
"Yes, I'm going to set up the library appropriately when we get to Hogwarts," said James from the steps.
"Remind me to thank Dragon for this," said Triss climbing up the stairs behind James.
"I thought you wanted me to remind you to kill him," said James shooting a playful look at Triss.
"Brat," said Triss before walking out to the Armory.
Next Morning
'Bounce, Bounce, Bounce, Crash!'
"TRISS!" yelled James jumping up from the floor.
Triss stopped jumping on the bed and looked down at James. "Oops, sorry but you wouldn't wake up and it's 9:30, we have to be at the station in an hour," said Triss exiting the room.
James got up from the floor and went straight to the shower. After his shower James threw on a pair of black jeans and a green t-shirt and walked into the kitchen.
Triss and Dragon had just finished breakfast and were waiting on him. "What is it with you and showers in the morning?" asked Triss as he sat down.
"Showers wake me up in the morning much like sugar does you," said James motioning to the empty pixy stick wrapper on the counter.
"Oh," was a Triss said before digging into the food.
"Are you ready to go?" asked Dragon as soon as they finished eating.
"I think so," said James running over his mental list to make sure they had everything.
"Don't worry Dragon, James packed everything bar the kitchen sink," said Triss leaning back in her chair.
"The sink is in the bathroom in the gym," said James off handedly as he continued going over his list.
"Are you coming home for Christmas?" asked Dragon not giving the two a chance to get into one of their famous arguments.
"Yes, unless some thing comes up," said Triss before wrapping Dragon in a hug.
James wound Jewel around his upper arm and gave Dragon a hug as well. "We'll miss you," said Triss picking up Glacier and putting her in her pet carrier. Sapphire had already left, not wanting to be cooped up the whole ride.
James cast a small wand less feather light charm before grapping Triss's arm and disapperating with a pop. The two reappeared in a small empty ally across from the train station.
James loaded their trunks up on to a trolley and continued on to platform 9 ¾. The Hogwarts platform was crowded with students as well as parents. A pack of red heads stood out from every one else in the group though. The blonde forms of Lucius and Draco Malfoy also stood out from the rest of the group.
Draco had apparently spotted Triss and James and was making his way over. "Hello again," said Draco with Lucius in toe.
"Hello Draco, Lucius," said James shaking Lucius's hand.
"You should board the train now, have a good year Draco," said Lucius before walking away.
The trio boarded the train and entered the compartment that Draco had reserved. "What house do you think you'll be in?" Draco asked when they had settled.
"Slytherin," stated James reaching in his trunk for a book.
"Slytherin, what about you," asked Triss.
"Probably Slytherin," said Draco.
The three of them sat in silence reading for about two hours when a brown haired girl rushed in a locked the door behind her, obviously not seeing the other three people in the compartment.
"Umm… can I help you?" asked James.
The girl jumped about a foot in the air when she heard James voice. "Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't know anyone was in here. Do you think I could stay here for a little while?" she asked.
"I don't see a problem with that but could you unlock the door please?" Triss asked.
The girl reluctantly opened the door and sat down. "What's your name?" asked Draco.
"Hermione Katharine Granger. What are yours?" she asked motioning to James, Triss, and Draco.
"James Shadow Cage," James said from behind his book.
"Trisstesa Tigress Summers. Call me Triss or you die," Triss said very seriously.
"Draco Dragonis Malfoy, I prefer Dray," Draco said looking at Hermione.
Hermione nodded and pulled a medium sized book from her robes and started to read. The four of them sat in silence reading when again the door slammed open. A boy about 14 or 15 stood in the doorway looking at Hermione.
"So the filthy mudblood has decided to hide with snakes. Should have known," the boy said his eyes still locked on Hermione.
James started to get fed up with the boy very fast. "I'm going to have to insist you leave," James said standing up.
"Are you going to make me, runt?" the boy asked trying to look intimidating.
"Only if I have to," said James standing at his full height of 5'8", about an inch taller than the other boy.
The boy took out his wand but couldn't get it more than a few inches before he felt James's wand pressed against his neck. "Get out," said James in a deadly low voice. The boy didn't need to be to be told twice before he bolted.
"Who was that?" James asked Draco knowing he would know the answer.
"His name is Randal Black, a Gryffindor. He is the son of Regulus Black, not Sirius Black. I, personally, never thought Sirius was guilty of what he was accused with though," said Dray.
"What was he accused of?" asked James truly curious.
"Sirius was accused of murdering Peter Pittigrew and 12 other muggles in rage after Peter found out he was a Death Eater. I don't think he did it because I know he wasn't stupid enough to blow up a street full of Witnesses, even in a rage," said Dray.
"You knew him?" James asked.
"Yeah, he is my Godfather and third or fourth cousin. Sadly that means
I'm also related to Randal as well. But Sirius was thrown in Azkaban about 5 years ago after Voldemort disappeared," said Dray.
"You say his name!" said Triss extremely surprised.
"I was taught not to be afraid of his name." Said Dray simply
"Sorry if I'm being rude but what are you talking about?" Hermione asked.
James reached into his pocket and pulled out his order book. He wrote a few words in it and a large leather book appeared in his hand. "This is about the Wizarding world, what ever you want to know you'll find in here," said James turning to the front page. "This is the Index, write what you're looking for in this and it will flip to the page it's on," James continued.
He handed the book to a very awed Hermione. "Wow!" she said flipping threw the book.
A thought suddenly occurred to James. "Hermione, where is your trunk?" he asked.
Hermione paled a few shades. "I left it in the compartment when I had to run from Black," she said.
"Come on, let's go get it," said James standing up.
Hermione reluctantly followed James out of the compartment. Hermione lead him to a compartment in the middle of the train. James pulled the door open and looked in side. Randal was sitting in the corner reading a book and two other teenagers with Ravenclaw badges.
Randal looked up when the door opened and reached for his wand when he saw James. James, never being slow, had his wand trained on the boy before he even had his wand out of his pocket.
"Where is Hermione's stuff?" asked James.
"Burned," said Randal.
James heard Hermione gasp but he could here the bluff in Randal's voice. "Accio Hermione's stuff," commanded James. A small trunk flew from Randal's pocket and into James's hand. "Thank you," said James sarcastically.
He walked out of the compartment with Hermione slightly in front of him. The rest of the ride was peaceful. No one, bar a two third twins years looking for their friend and the trolley lady, came in to they're compartment. Finally after a several hour ride the train conductor announced that they would be arriving at Hogsmeade station.