BLYTHE VI
Trains were cool, Blythe had always thought. He didn't have much train experience, but despite the objective coolness of trains, Blythe decided that magic trains were cooler. He had originally got into a train compartment with Colin, Brittany, and Ben. But, only Ben remained in the car, as Colin and Brittany had dashed off. The trolley had already come to their train compartment, and as such, Ben was nibbling at a liquorice wand, while Blythe had a terrade of wizarding sweets stockpiled around him. He wasn't making a mess or anything, but with so many strange foods, well, why wouldn't you eat all of them?
"You do know Phillis said to eat kind of light, right?" Ben called up from his wand, very intent not to talk whilst chewing. Blythe looked down from a box of cauldron cakes he had been funneling into his mouth above his head.
"Yeah, but there's gonna be regular food at the feast, not just wizard food." Blythe said, smacking his lips together periodically to the tune of his chewing. "We won't get another chance to go crazy on wizard candy until a trip to Hogsmeade, we'll have a feast everyday!"
Ben nodded, noting that, although he didn't seem to agree. Blythe didn't care, as he proceeded to pick up a box of Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans.
"What are THESE!?" Blythe asked excitedly, looking over the box.
"They're the..second most popular candy, from what I've heard," Ben chimed, "while chocolate frogs are really cool for their cards, those are apparently a bit of a gamble. They have beans for literally every flavor, and each box is random."
Blythe looked over the box carefully, and then opened it gingerly.
"You'll want to be careful. They get really creative with bad flavors." Ben said, apprehensively. Blythe looked inside the opened box, where inside sat a multitude of differently colored and decorated jelly beans. Blythe paused for just a moment, and then placed one into his mouth. He began to chew thoughtfully, as Ben eyed him.
Then, Blythe turned the box upside down, and let all of the beans fall into his mouth.
"What are you doing?" Ben shouted, nearly standing up. As soon as Blythe closed his mouth, trapping all of the beans inside, he began flailing about, nearly crying as he tried to chew. "Spit them out!' Ben said, chuckling at the hilarity of Blythe's flailing, but still a little nervous.
Blythe held up a finger, as he coughed and chewed, holding them inside. And then, he let out a resounding gulp, and exhaled. Ben looked at him expectantly.
"That was actually really cool." Blythe said, picking up another box. Ben gave him a look of disbelief, but there he went, chugging down even more beans. As he began dancing about again, seemingly in terrible pain, Ben leaned across to Blythe's candy pile, and picked up a Chocolate Frog. He cracked open the violet and gold pentagon of a box, and inside was a completely featureless brown frog. It began jumping about, which Ben hadn't expected, and he stood from his seat in a panic.
Two second years passed by their train compartment, and saw Blythe leaping around in a frenzy as he tried to contain the conflicting flavors of dozens of jelly beans, and Ben trying to catch the chocolate frog as it hopped around the compartment, all three knocking about candy wrappers and boxes.
The two second years continued walking.