A/N:

Sorry for not Updating for a while! I had to sort out some issues and get my assignments done!

For those that seem to see a slight difference with the past chapters, yes, I changed a bit of it since there were slight errors and places where it would not work.

Thanks again to my friend, and beta reader Kat (aka: winrykatbell) with helping me correcting mistakes and encouraging me! I really appreciate it!

Once again, Review please! They can help me out with the story a lot!

-KamaUzu, the Scythe of Whirlwinds

Disclamer: I don't own Harry potter

Poll: Which house should Willow go to?

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Chapter 6: Hogwarts Express

Harry's P.O.V:

Remus brought us to Dursley's door the next morning after a spot of breakfast, teaching us a spell or two that might help us, and getting a new wig (Willow's request). Before making us wait outside before he went inside to talk with the Dursley`s about our treatment. After he finished talking to them, he came out with a 'OK' sign before giving us two tickets and said that we had to be at King's Cross Station on September 1 and that the train would leave at eleven o' clock. When I saw the ticket, Willow and I immediately noticed that something was wrong.

"Er...Remus?" Willow said. "This ticket says to go to Platform 9 and 3/4… There's no such thing rig... Huh? Where did he go?" She asked before I noticed that Remus had already disappeared.

"What are we going to do now?" I asked as I turned my eyes to meet Willow's. "Like you mentioned, I'm pretty sure there is no such thing as Platform 9 and 3/4... Or is there?"

==Time-skip==

Our last month with the Dursley's wasn't really fun. While it was true that the Dursley's treated us better in some parts since Remus`s talk with them (and Willow's inhuman punch out of rage which she still apologized), we still had the same rituals like making breakfast, Willow putting the wig and bandages on(at least she doesn't need to cover the eye entirely now), and so on.

For our owls, I decided to call mine Hedwig after reading Hogwarts, a History, while it took Willow was torn between naming her's Aegis, or Valor. It took her a week before she finally decided to name her owl Aegis; Aegis Valor or A.V for short. Why she decided to give him a last name was beyond my imagination, but according to her, it sounded better since it's like he's a family now. However, letting them out to fly was a bit of problem since Uncle Vernon didn't like them flying around, so we had to secretly let them out during night time and tell them to please not make a sound (which much to our surprise, they obeyed as if they understood).

While we couldn't use spells since it was forbidden to perform it in front of muggles, we could at least read the books we got. While Willow decided to start with the Healing book, I decided to dive into the Potions since I have already finished a tenth of the Transfiguration book yesterday. While I find that my uncle's work was very fascinating, I did find it quite hard to compare Willow with him. The picture of the man looked as if he never smiled before, and while it is true Willow's sometimes like that in the past, at least she's smiling more often lately.

However, that thought went flying out the window after Hedwig and Aegis delivered 2 small box that contained pictures of our parents, because in a group shot of them together, I saw smiling alongside my parents and aunt. Making Willow deduct that the stern photo's were probably just for the book, even through the others 'stern' looks looked more like smiles to the both of us.

After August finally ended and September came, Uncle Vernon brought us to Kings Cross station, but only because it would make us leave them for a whole school year. After Uncle Vernon loaded our trunks onto a trolley before mocking us about our tickets before he left.

Checking the clock, I noticed that there was only half an hour left, but had a slight problem...where are we going to go? We had no idea where Platform 9 and 3/4 was!

"Maybe we can start with platform 9 and platform 10?" Willow suggested as she checked her ticket before I sighed and nodded.

==20 minutes later==

I sighed with irritation as I took a seat on the bench between Platform 9 and 10 while Willow sat beside me with her eyes closed, trying to 'sense' in which I can still not grasp how she does it.

"I think it's nearby." Willow said as she looked around Platform 9 and Platform 10. "There is definitely something fishy about this place, something about this place is making me feel that it's hiding something from plain view."

"Yeah, but WHERE?!" I stressed that word before I leaned back on the bench with my hand rubbing my forehead. "I can't sense like you can, and if we don't hurry we'll miss the train!"

"I know! But do you have any other suggestions?" Willow reasoned as she tugged on her black wig a bit. "I believe that the conductor here doesn't know about it since he's a muggle, but if we think in a wizards way, they might have hidden it. I would wish to hide myself if there were people after me."

I just sighed as Willow scratched around her bandaged eye before she continued to 'focus' while I watched as the time passed by. Crowds of people passed by us, staring at our owls in our carts. Hedwig, looked around at the people while Aegis slept silently in his cage.

"Why in the world did Remus have to leave us before explaining to us where Platform 9 and 3/4 is?!" I grumbled as I looked at the clock. "If we don't hurry the tr..."

"Looking for me?" A voice jolted the both of us out of our thoughts with shock as we both looked up to see Remus smiling at us with a grin on his face. "Hello again you two!"

"Remus!" Willow gasped. "What...?"

"Helping you two find the platform of course!" he answered. "Sorry I'm a bit late, but I thought that you two needed a lead on where to go!"

"That`ll be great!" I said before Remus pointed at the wall between Platform 9 and Platform 10.

"All you two need to do is walk straight at the wall between Platforms Nine and Ten. Best do it at a bit of a run if you're nervous." Remus said as we gave him a doubtful look, he just shook him head before he turned to the wall. "Fine then, I shall show you how, now... Observe!"

Just as he finished that, he walked towards the wall, and then much to our surprise, he disappeared! After a few minutes of gasping with shock, I offered to go first. As I walked in front of it, I took a deep breath before I charged towards the wall, and closed my eyes as I was about to reach the walls, but I continued to run. When I opened my eyes, my jaw dropped.

There was a huge sign labeled Platform 9 ¾ hanging from the ceiling and an enormous black and scarlet train that was sitting on the tracks. There was a large crowd of people, all varying in age, saying goodbye to one another as they began to board the train. It was amazing how many people there was.

"Amazing is it?" Remus asked.

I just stayed silent, my mouth hanging straight open as I continued to stare. I was so caught up staring, I forgot that Willow was still behind me. It was a good thing that Remus pulled me out of the way just in time, but the cart didn't. Resulting her to crash into it, sending the luggage, including Hedwig`s cage to go flying. Luckily the luggage didn't hit anyone, and only landed a few inches away from the cart.

"I'm sorry! I'm Sorry! I'm so Sorry! I didn't mean it!" Willow repeated quickly as she quickly ran over to try and get the luggage back on the trunk while Remus pushed her cart to the side before he and I also went to help get my stuff back on the trolley.

"Willow... Calm down already!" I sighed as I got Hedwig's cage back on the trolley before I continued "Anyways, look around first. Isn't it amazing?"

After that, Willow gazed at her surroundings before she gasped. "It... It really is..."

5 minutes later, On the Train, Random Corridor:

After Remus helped us get our things on the train, he bid us goodbye before disappearing into the crowd. After the both of us found a corridor at the end of the train, we placed our trunks away... Well... We tried anyways...

THUMP!

"OW! THAT HURT!" I yelled as I let go of the trunk, which was a bad idea.

CRASH!

"Yelp! Don't let the trunk go like that!" Willow yelled as she pulled her foot from under my trunk and tried to ease the pain. Frustrated with the fact we were going to have a bruise at this rate. I remembered a spell that Remus had taught us before I pulled my wand out and chanted the incantation.

"Wingardium Leviosa!" I cried out before both trunks lifted into the air and was stored away before I also rubbed my hip where the trunk hit me pretty hard.

"It's a simple spell," I muttered as the pain finally eased away. "Simple, but useful."

"I agree with you on that one." Willow agreed as she pulled her wig off and pointed her wand at it before chanting out a spell. " Colovaria!"

Just as she finished the spell, he white hair then changed to the same colour as her wig before she did the same to eyes and changed them into the same emerald green eyes like I had.

"Let me guess, you found that in the charm book and asked Remus to teach you it?" I asked in a matter-of-fact tone before I pulled the Transfiguration's book out of my backpack. "Willow, you don't have to hide it any more. If my guess is correct, then..."

"I just don't feel comfortable showing that me okay?" Willow interrupted me before apologizing. "Sorry, but that's the truth. I don't like the attention they gave me back then, and I really don't feel ready yet to show an entire school of students 'me'. I have been hiding it for my whole life back there remember?"

"This isn't there any more Willow." I sighed. "I don't think the school will discriminate you for the looks, the adults back in Diagon Alley certainly had no issues. " I shook my head. "And if my guess is correct, then it should have already been spread that you have white hair and miss-matched eyes."

"But it's... Ha?" She said before I noticed that on her lap there was a brown toad croaking at her. She lifted her head up to face me before I just gave her a shrug.

"I wonder who's toad is that?" I asked as Willow just took the toad into her hands. "And how did it get on your lap? It's quite a distance between the floor and your lap."

"I have a feeling I don't want to know." Willow sighed as she brushed her bangs over her left eye and stood up. "I'll go see if I can find the owner... Kay?"

"Sure." I nodded, knowing that it may be the best course for now. "But please think about what I had talked about earlier, I'm positive that it'll be okay..."

"...I'll think about it..." Willow answered before she opened the door and left.

Willow's P.O.V:

Finding the toads lost owner was pretty easy considering the fact he was looking all over the place for it. Luckily I sneaked away the moment I shoved it in his hands or he might have found out who I was. I just sighed at my own behaviour. A part of me just wanted to meet new people, while the other wanted to be alone. However, with what happened the last time I tried, it turned out horribly... No, don't think about it, it's already bad enough...

Noticing a girl in front of me, I immediately lowered my face, not wanting her to notice me. As she left, I raised my head back up a bit and thought about what Harry had said. True, the wizarding world might not judge me by that, but I didn't have the courage to do it. It was already bad enough in the muggle world, and I definitely did not want it to happen again in the...

"Oof!" I grunted as I bumped into someone while I was so concentrated in my thoughts. Lifting my head up, I was met face to face with the very person I saw a month ago: Cedric Diggory.

"C-C-Cedric?" I asked as he stared into my eyes before recognizing me.

"Willow?" he asked as he pointing at the left side of his face "What happened to your face? The last time I saw you, you didn't have those bandages on!"

"I...I..." I stammered as my mind was running about yelling 'Oh dear, Oh dear, What am I going to tell him?'

"The Truth of Course!" I heard my rational （or was it my brave?）mind yell in my mind.

"What?!" I yelled back in my mind. "Are you nuts?! What if..."

"Do you think him as a friend or not?!" It yelled back. "If you think him as a friend tell him the truth!"

"I...I..." I continued to say before I finally sighed and hoped that honesty will be the best policy at the moment. "... When we met last time, I was under a spell to hide it... It covered a portion of the truth and... Well... I think it's better off if you see it yourself... But please don't hate me for this!"

"Why in the world would I hate you for?" Cedric asked with total confusion.

"Well..."

"Willow!" Harry's voice called out from behind that made me turn to see him run up to me. "Are you okay? You've been gone for a while and... Who's this?"

Cedric gave me a curious look before I introduced them. "Harry, this is Cedric Diggory, a friend of mine, Cedric, this is Harry, my brother. Harry, Cedric"

"It's nice to meet you Harry," Cedric said as he gave out his hand to shake before Harry gladly took it. However, it was also at that point he noticed Harry's scar, and his eyes widened. "That scar... Are you by chance Harry Potter?"

"That's me," Harry said before lifting his hair to reveal his scar before I became the centre of attention. Sighing, I removed my bandages to reveal my burn and scars. The look on Cedric's face was... What should I say? Yikes?

"Whoa..." was all that he got out after I finished re-bandaging my face using the reflection on the window nearby. "I really didn't expect... Oh my..."

"...Shall we talk about this at our corridors?" I suggested before the boys nodded.

Harry's P.O.V:

When we arrived at the corridors Willow sat beside me while Cedric sat in front of us. Silence literally rang through the air before I finally decided to break it with a question.

"So... How did you two meet?"

"I crashed/bumped into her at the bookshop." They said at the same time before Willow lowered her head while Cedric rubbed the back of his head.

"To tell the truth, I never expected you to be a Nova, Willow." Cedric said meekly. "At least I can see why you choose to hide yourself back in the book-shop, you would be recognized almost everywhere... And one more thing, it's only from rumors, but aren't you two cousins?"

"Well..."

Knock Knock Knock

A knock suddenly came from the door made us turn our head to see the freckle-faced, red haired boy.

"Hello," he said. "Do you mind? Everywhere else is full."

"Not at all." We all said at the same time before Cedric moved over to make room for him.

"I'm Ron by the way, Ron Weasly." The red-haired boy introduced as he sat down.

"I'm Cedric Diggory" Cedric said before he pointed at us. "And they're my friend Willow Nova, and her... brother, Harry Potter"

Ron's eyes widened and stared at my forehead before asking "Do you really... Wait, brother? I thought you were...?"

"Cousins? Well... Yes, we are. However sometimes 2 people doesn't really have to be totally blood related to become brothers and sisters. We think each other as brothers and sisters, and that is enough reason to give each other the rights to that title." Willow answered before she looked down as I showed Ron my scar. Few moments later, she took a deep breath and removed the bandages again to show Ron her's, which made Ron go a bit pale at the sight of the burn.

"S-Sorry?" Ron asked hesitantly.

"On the bright side, at least my face isn't deformed, only a darker shade for a burn." Willow sighed before she quickly bandaged the burn before an elderly women came with a cart full of candy and treats. "Anything off the trolley, dears?"

Cedric and Ron declined, having brought some food, but Willow and I took out some money and brought a bit of everything. After declining Cedric's idea of paying a portion of the bill, we all feasted on candy and sweets.

"Careful of the Every Flavor Beans now. It means every flav..." Cedric warned Willow just as she took a greenish-yellow bean, in which she spat out after a split second of shock before yelling "Ack! Vomit! It tastes like Vomit!"

The whole group including me burst into laughter as she drowned a glass of water that Cedric passed her, drowning the vomit flavor away before she grabbed a chocolate frog the same time I did.

"Are these real frogs?" she asked.

"Nope, it's just a spell, and it's the cards you want. Each of them have famous witch or wizards on it." Ron answered as we opened it. My frog jumped out of the window and escaped, and Willow's... Let's just say it first jumped onto her face first before it jumped out the window, leaving a chocolate stain on her face. A full minute ticked by before we burst out laughing again.

"Anyone have a napkin?" Willow asked with embarrassment as we finally calmed down from laughing. After getting a tissue, she quickly wiped the chocolate away, as I pulled out the card.

"I got Albus Dumbledore..." I said as Willow pulled her's out.

"I got 6 of them," Ron said before he turned to Willow "What did you get Will?"

"Let's see...Mine says..." she trailed off. "Ptolemy."

"EEHHH?!" Ron said as he bent over to see it. "How did you get that on a go?!"

"Ha...?" Willow asked before Cedric laughed.

"Don't mind Ron," he laughed trying to calm down. "That's one of the only cards he has yet to collect."

"You can have it then," she said as she handed the card to a stunned Ron. "I can always get it again in the future."

Willow's P.O.V:

After Ron thanked me times for helping him take another step into his collection, and gave him his extra combo of the Hogwarts Founders cards (Despite my attempts to convince him that one was enough). We continued to feast, and talk about random parts of our lives. Harry and I learned that Ron was the youngest son of 7 brothers, and that he and Cedric's father worked at the Ministry of Magic. At first I thought that maybe they knew more of our parents rather then the obviously exaggerated ones on the books, but sadly they didn't know anything about our parents since they're parents never mentioned anything about them before. While Harry and I find their life very fascinating, they didn't take our story too well and threatened to jinx the Dursley's for a whole year, and it took me about 10 minutes before I finally convinced them not to. The last thing I want to have is for someone to get injured, thrown into prison or worse!

After sorting out that issue, we moved on to talk about the school of Hogwarts, and what events happen there, but as we talked, Ron mentioned a topic that made my blood run cold.

"I guess one should never listen to rumors now." Ron said as Harry took a chomp into another chocolate frog. "While the scars were true, it seems they were wrong when they said you had white hair and mismatched eyes. "

I nearly dropped the Cauldron Cake I was eating the very moment Ron finished saying that, I turned to look at Harry for a moment with a look that said 'is that part public knowledge'? Before I turned back to face them and asked. "Uh... Um... If I had what the... 'Rumors'...say, will it make any difference?"

Ron went red as I finished asking, obviously mistaking my question with an insult. "No! That's not what I meant! It doesn't make any difference at all! While it is true I might find it a bit weird, but judging people by they're looks is just like comparing a... a..."

"To keep it simple, it doesn't matter." Cedric answered for him. "The same goes for me, I don't see a reason why anyone should look down on another because they have different appearances, besides it's what we do that should be the main point to be judged, not our looks."

I was... Stunned... At what they're answers were to that question. While I felt that they were not lying, I had a hard time accepting they're answers, especially what happened 4 years... No, stop thinking about it! It's been a long time and it's time to move on...

Just as I thought that, I felt Harry gently nudge me in the arm to try and convey a message I knew too well, but I just shook my head at him conveying my own message before our topic was once again shifted, and this time on Ron's pet rat Scabbers, who was eating up the all flavor beans.

"Fred and George gave me a spell to turn him yellow, want to see?"

"Sure!" The rest of us said at the same time.

Ron cleared his throat and was about to perform the spell, when a girl in school robes came in. She had bushy brown hair, large front teeth, nice features and brown eyes. "Has anyone seen a toad? A boy named Neville's lost one."

"No," Ron said before the girl noticed Ron with his wand out.

"Oh, are you doing magic?" she asked. "Let's see then."

Ron cleared his throat as he began to chant:

"Sunshine, daisies, butter mellow

Turn this stupid fat rat yellow."

However, much to our disappointment all the spell did was make a yellow light lightly burn Scabber's girl did not look impressed and I felt bad for him before I told him the real spell, and made him try again.

"Colovaria!" Ron said again before this time the spell worked and Scabbers was now a sunshine yellow color. The girl now looked impressed.

"Your pretty skilled you know?" She said unknown if she was referring to Ron or me. "I've only tried few simple ones myself, but they've all worked for me" She added as she sat down in front of Harry and aimed her wand at the taped area of his glasses. "For example, Oculus Reparo."

Before I knew what was happening, my jaw lightly dropped as the tape burned away and the glasses were mended back as good as new.

"That's better isn't it?" she asked.

"Much, thank you," Harry said.

"Where did you find that spell?" I asked Hermione "I didn't find a fixing spell in a spell book"

"It's in..." she answered before she noticed the bandages on my face, and the scar on Harry's head. "Are you... By chance... Willow Nova and Harry Potter?"

"That's us." Harry answered.

Hermione looked thoughtful for a moment before she just shook her head. "I'm Hermione Granger, and who are you two?"

"Cedric Diggory."

"Ron Weasley."

"Pleasure. Well, I'd best be off and help Neville." She said before standing back up.

"I can help," I volunteered before I also stood up.

"Me too!" Cedric said before also standing up.

"Thanks! Oh, by the way Ron," She said as she turned to Ron. You've got dirt on your nose, just there."

Ron glared at Hermione while Cedric and I exchanged soft chuckles before leaving the room to find the toad.

During the search, it turned out Nevile was the owner of the very same toad I shoved into his hands back then. However, now that I knew that, it seemed impossible to find the toad now because no matter how hard we looked it was no where to be seen. Jeez, I should have taken note what the toad's Aura felt like! That would have saved a lot of trouble!

==Few Hours Later==

The three of us searched for hours, looking for that toad, but even as we we arrived at Hogwarts, we still couldn't find it anywhere.

Because Cedric was in third year, we split up. He went to where the carriages were while me, Harry, and the rest of the first year students gathered over to a HUGE man who was yelling "First years over here, first years!"

After all the First years got together, the man told us we'll be going to the castle by boat. I got onto the boat with Harry and Ron, while Hermione took the boat with a depressed-looking Nevile and a boy I don't know before the boat started to move by magic as we slowly moved into the center of the lake.

When I got the first glimpse of Hogwarts Castle, I had no words to describe the what I saw. Cedric was wrong that it was great, it was Magnificent! Looking at Harry I saw that he had the same look in his eyes, along with his aura singing with joy and happiness. This was where we belonged.

"Welcome to Hogwarts!" the huge man yelled out.

A/N:

That's all for now, but for the next chapter, I need to confirm which house which house Willow will go to. I plan to close the poll in a few weeks time, so if there's a house you want Will to go to, please tell me or forever hold your voice.

Cheers!

Scythe of Whirlwinds