Disclaimer: No matter how often I write the wish on my wish list, Harry Potter will never be mine.

6. Chapter Six

Harry arrived punctual at Kings Cross just to be confronted with the next problem.

"Platform 9 ¾? That is so illogical." He shouldn't have expected anything different. They were wizards after all.

"It has to be a misprint," he said bemused, or rather, hoping against all odds.

An announcement interrupted his thoughts.

"The train from platform 9 ¾ leaves in ten minutes. The destination is Hogwarts."

How was it possible that he had never before noticed the Wizarding World? It practically proclaimed its existence directly into his face. It was a wonder that they hadn't been detected by now.

"Watch out! On platform 9 is a blackamoor on a killing spree", was the next announcement.

Harry froze. He was on platform 9. Holy shit. He should better hurry. No need to die before he even boarded the train. Determined he approached an officer.

"Excuse me! Where is platform 9 ¾?"

Harry looked hopeful at the officer, waiting anxiously for a reply so that he could make an escape before the panic took over. How could the officer keep his calm with a blackamoor on a killing spree running around?

"Platform 9 ¾? As if I would tell you, conceited ape!"

Not so calm now, eh, Harry thought smug. If that was all non-wizards were willing to do for him, Harry was more than happy to leave this from prejudice ruled world behind. Wizards may lack in logical thinking but at least they weren't outright rude.

The officer turned away and Harry got a look at a family full of redheads. And even better, most of them carried a trunk like him! Perhaps he would find the right platform after all.

Harry followed them.

He had never seen so many red heads in his life. Okay, maybe that argument wasn't that strong coming from him with his previous life. He may have never seen so many people at all, just some kids at school as privileges like watching TV were out of his reach. But! This was definitely a huge bunch of redheads.

Leading the way was a round, busy woman with a little girl at her hand. A red head too, what did you expect?

"Over here! Come, follow me." She threw her free hand through the air and motioned for the tallest of the boys to walk past her.

"Percy, you're first." And then the idiot ran head forward into a wall. No, through a wall.

THROUGH A WALL?

Why didn't they move the bricks like with the entrance to Diagon Alley?

This. Was. Weird.

Harry wondered if he had to know some super special trick to pass. He himself knew of none he could use to walk through stone.

"Fred. George. You're next."

The two identical looking red heads stared accusingly at their mother.

"We aren't Fred and George", said the one on the right.

"Right, we are Tintin and Snowy now", exclaimed his twin.

Harry decided then and there that he liked them.

"Seriously? The names are bonkers. Now leave already", the mother reprimanded them.

Grumping the twins stormed past the fierce woman before shouting back at her.

"Only a joke. We are Thorsten and Thorben."

And laughing heavily they vanished through the wall just like this Percy fellow before.

Harry decided that it was his cue to make an appearance. Better now before the woman became too agitated. There were still some kids left. He had the feeling that he wanted to avoid the woman's wrath at all costs and his gut instincts had yet to fail.

"Excuse me, please."

He pushed his carriage with the big trunk next to the one of the remaining red head. The guy looked his age.

"Err, I want also to platform 9 ¾… so I want through this."

Harry waved at the solid brick wall with his hand.

"Oh, you want to run against the wall, too?"

Hey, that was his joke! Still, he bopped his head up and down in approval.

Let the show begin: He was a normal, stupid wizard. Harry, just Harry.

"Nope, I want through it."

"Ron is going to ran against the wall the first time today, too. He is the smiley-face over there."

Ron the smiley-face obviously earned that name as he was grinning stupidly at him.

Okay Harry, act natural. You're a normal simple-minded wizard.

He grinned back at smiley-face just as stupidly.

"All right. It's easier as you think. You just ran towards the wall and then you are already through it."

Wow, there went his speculation about a super special trick.

"Don't worry. You'll manage."

Harry comprehended her words absentmindedly, his whole attention on the little red headed girl that stood next to her mother. She hadn't stopped staring at him since his entrance.

He was feeling slightly like his relatives. But hey! He wasn't an animal at the zoo she could ogle. It was creepy!

Help, she opened her mouth!

"I have a vagina."

Harry was through the wall faster than a lightning bolt.

What a brave, strong boy, thought the red headed woman on the other side as she watched the scrawny kid hasten through the barrier.

In her mind she padded herself on the back for her brilliant coaching. She had a talent for kids, knew how to handle them, you could say. Nothing was better than a light joke and some instructions mixed with reassuring words and the child would flourish.

She had done well.