AN- Again I'm sorry about the last chapter. I REALLY though Hermione would be there, but I promise that she'll be in this one or else that I won't stop typing until she is!
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In perfect unison the twins did a double take at Harry's scar and said 'Oi, what's that?'
' Blimey, are you-?' said Fred (or George).
' He is,' said the other twin. ' aren't you?'
' What?'
' Harry Potter!' the twins said, once more in unison.
' Oh, him.' said Harry. ' I mean, yes, I am.'
The twins gaped. Having nothing to say Harry stood there and waited for some reaction. Just when the silence was starting to get awkward the twins mother called from outside of the train.
' Fred? George? Are you there?'
' Coming mum!'
With a last glance at Harry the twins left to talk to there mother. After getting settled Harry sat down to wait for the train to leave. He realized that he could see and hear the red haired family from where he was sitting. Their mother had just pulled out her handkerchief and was rubbing at an imaginary spot on the youngest boy's nose. Harry thought that this boy's name was Ron from what the mother had said outside the barrier. Eventually though the boy wriggled free with a now very red nose.
The mother sighed and rolled her eyes then glanced around and asked ' Where's Percy?'
Just then the oldest boy came walking up. ' Can't stay long mother,' he said. ' I'm up front, the prefects have got two compartments to themselves and-'
' Oh are you a prefect, Percy?' said one of the twins acting very surprised. ' You should have said something, we had no idea!'
' Hang on, I think I remember him saying something about it,' said the other twin. ' Once-'
' Or twice-'
' A minute-'
' All summer-'
' Oh shut up.' said Percy the Prefect.
Once again the mother seemed, to Harry, to be doing her best to frown at the twins instead of smiling or laughing. ' All right dear, well, have a good term and send me an owl when you get there!' She hugged Percy and then he left. ' As for you two- this year, behave! If I get one more owl this year telling me you've- you've blown up a toilet or some-'
' Blown up a toilet? We've never blown up a toilet!'
' Great idea though! Thanks mom!'
' It's not funny!' said their mother with her lips pressed together. Whether out of anger or to hide her smile Harry wasn't sure. ' And take care of Ron.'
Ron, who was already almost as tall as the twins rolled his eyes. His nose was still a bit pink.
' Hey mom guess what? Guess who we just met on the train? HARRY POTTER!'
Harry quickly turned his head away so he could watch them from the side of his glasses but they wouldn't see his eyes through the mirrored glasses and it would look like he was looking somewhere else. (AN-WAY too long a sentence!)
Harry saw the little girl asking her mum ' Oh can I PLEASE go on the train and see him mum!?'
' You've already seen him, Ginny, and the poor boy isn't some animal in a zoo. Is he really Fred? How do you know?'
' Asked him. Saw his scar and everything. It's really there like lightning. Couldn't see his eyes through those glasses though.' (AN- Most people probably missed it but Harry got mirror plated glasses to hide the black eyes he sometimes got from Duddley. Check the first chapter.)
' Poor dear- no wonder he was alone. I wondered. He was ever so polite when he asked how to get on to the platform.'
' Forget that! Do you think he remembers what You-Know-Who looks like?'
Their mother suddenly became very serious. ' I FORBID you to ask him that, Fred. Don't you DARE. As though he needs reminding of THAT on his first day of school.'
' All right, all right. Keep your hair on.' Said Fred though he looked rather ashamed. Harry was surprised to realize that the boy was ashamed that he might have upset Harry if he asked about Voldemort. Harry was beginning to find out that Most people cared about their relatives but that someone that didn't really even know him would care about his feelings... it gave Harry an odd feeling in his stomach. Like he had eaten too much, only it was a pleasant feeling.
Just then a whistle blew signalling that the train was getting ready to leave and the three boys hurried onto the train after hugging their mother goodbye.
A moment later the youngest boy of the group came into Harry's compartment lugging a trunk that looked rather heavy. ' Mind if I stay in here with you? All the other compartments are full.'
' Sure, no problem.' Harry replied and got up to help the boy get his trunk stowed away under the seats.
Just as they were sitting down Fred and George burst in.
' Hello. We didn't get a chance to introduce ourselves before. I'm George, this is Fred and this is our brother Ron.' said George pointing at Ron. ' And of course we know who you are.. Uh Mr. Potter.'
' Please! Call me "Harry". It's really weird to be called "Mr.". Especially by people older than you. And it's nice to meet you all.'
' We're going to go see what animal Lee brought this year. Either of you wanna come?' Asked Fred.
' No thanks. Think I'll just stay here and relax.' Answered Harry.
' Yeah. Me too.' Ron said.
' Alright see ya later.'
' Yeah, see ya Ron. Bye Harry!' and then the twins left.
' Are you really Harry Potter?' Ron blurted out.
' Yes I am.'
' Do you really have a...' Ron trailed off as his eyes traveled to Harry's forehead.
Harry took off his glasses so Ron could see his eyes, his eyesight wasn't TOO bad, and brushed his hair off his forehead.
' Wow! So that's where You-Know-Who...?'
' Yep, but I really can't remember anything other than a bright green light.'
Ron looked a little disappointed at this but at the same time relieved. He sat and stared at Harry for a while before realizing what he was doing and he quickly looked away out the window.
' So is everyone in your family a wizard?' Harry asked as interested in Ron as Ron was in Harry.
' I think so. We might have a cousin that's an accountant but I don't know because we don't really talk about him much. I heard that you had to live with muggles. What were they like?'
' Well I can't really describe them because I've always lived with them. Because of that I haven't experienced anything else to compare them with. People keep telling me how horrible they are though. The Dursleys I mean, not muggles. 'Harry explained. ' I wish I'd had three wizard brothers.'
' Five.' said Ron suddenly looking depressed. ' I'm the sixth Weasley to go to Hogwarts. I guess you could say I've got a lot to live up to. Bill and Charlie have already left. Bill was Head Boy and Charlie was the captain of the quidditch team. Now Percy's a prefect, Fred and George mess around a lot but get really good marks and everyone thinks they're really funny. Everyone will expect me to do well also but if I do it won't be a big deal because they'll have done it first. And with five brothers you don't get much new stuff. I've got Bill's old robes, Charlie's old wand and Percy's old rat.'
Ron pulled a sleeping fat rat out of his jacket.
' His name's Scabbers and he's completely useless. The only reason I got Scabbers is because Dad got Percy an owl for being made a prefect and they couldn't affor... I mean, I got Scabbers instead.' Ron stopped talking seeming to think that he had said too much.
Harry was wondering why Ron would be embarrassed by not having enough money for something. After all he had never had any money to speak of and everything he had other than the absolute necessities was from generous people like Mr. Osakawa. He told Ron all this and it seemed to make him feel better. So Harry continued on to tell Ron about having to wear Duddley's old clothes, which Ron seemed to find hilarious, and never having a birthday party (Harry usually had to look at his birth certificate to remember when his B-Day was) at which Ron got quiet and sort of angry.
'...and until Hagrid told me about it I had no idea I was even a wizard! I didn't even believe in magic! I didn't know about my parents or Voldemort or-'
Ron gasped.
' What?' Harry asked.
' You said You-Know-Who's name!' Ron said sounding shocked and impressed. ' Although I guess it makes sense that YOU'RE not afraid of him.'
' I'm not trying to be brave or something saying is name. I just never knew I shouldn't. You see what I mean? I've got loads to learn that will be common sense to most other people at Hogwarts. I bet...' Harry said, with a sort of self-depreciating smirk. '...I'm the worst in the class.'
' Naw, you won't be. There's loads of muggle born kids and they learn quick enough.'
After that they were quiet for a while, letting the scenery speed by. At about half past twelve a dimple woman with curly hair opened their door and asked ' Would you like anything from the trolley dears?'
Harry jumped up and ran to the door not having had breakfast. Ron on the other hand just mumbled something about having brought sandwiches. Harry was ready to buy as many chocolate bars as he could carry as it was the first time he had ever had extra money to buy them with. However, the woman didn't have chocolate bars. In fact the closest thing Harry found to chocolate bars were called chocolate frogs. Not knowing what to get Harry got a few of everything and did his best to carry them back into the compartment without dropping any.
' Hungry are you?' Ron asked with a bemused expression on his face.
' Yeah. I missed having breakfast.'
Ron had taken out a lumpy package and unwrapped it. It contained four sandwiches.
' She always forgets that I don't like corned beef.' Ron sighed.
' Swap ya one for a pasty?' Harry said.
Ron looked uncertain.
' Go on, have a pasty. I'm not gonna eat them all myself!' Harry encouraged.
It was a nice feeling sitting there with Ron eating their way through all Harry's cauldron cakes and pumpkin pasties. Harry had never had anything to share with anyone before and if he had he wouldn't have had anyone to share it with.
' These aren't REALLY frogs are they?' asked Harry holding up a "Chocolate Frog".
' No, but check out what the card is. I'm missing Agrippa.'
' What?'
' Oh yeah. I guess you wouldn't know about that. There are cards of famous witches and wizards inside to collect. I've got about five hundred but I'm missing Agrippa and Ptolemy.'
Harry opened the package and looked at the card while eating the chocolate frog. It was Dumbledore.
' So this is Dumbledore.'
' Don't tell me you've never heard of Dumbledore!? Oh sorry, I guess you wouldn't have.'
Harry and Ron spent a while eating all the things Harry had bought and were almost half way through when a round faced boy that Harry had passed on the platform open their door.
' Excuse me but have you seen a toad at all? Only I've lost mine.' he asked tearfully.
' Sorry no, but here. Have a chocolate frog. We can't eat them all ourselves and I'm sure your toad will turn up.' Harry said passing the boy a frog.
' Thanks.' the boy said looking rather surprised then turned and left.
Ron sort of smiled and shook his head at Harry thinking that the great Harry Potter was much different then he had expected.
' Huh. Well I guess there's no danger of me losing Scabbers is there? He could die and you would never know the difference!' Ron said and Harry and him had a good laugh about it.
' I tried a spell my brothers told me about yesterday to turn him yellow but it didn't work. Here, I'll show you.' and Ron started rummaging around in his trunk then pulled out and old and battered looking wand.
He had just raised his wand over the rat n question when the door slid open again. The boy that had lost his toad was back, but this time he had a girl with him. She had curly chestnut hair and cinnamon eyes. For some reason Harry thought she looked familiar and he found himself feeling very warm all of a sudden. Harry realized that he was staring at her and shook his head and focused on what she was saying. Fortunately she hadn't noticed him staring. In fact the girls hadn't really even noticed him at all yet.
' Has anyone seen a toad? Neville's lost one.' she was saying. She had a bossy sort of voice and Harry could see that her front teeth were a little large.
' We've already told him we haven't seen it.' But the girl wasn't listening. She was looking at the wand in Ron's hand.
' Oh are you doing magic? Let's see it then.' she said sitting next to Ron who looked taken aback.
' Er- alright, but it didn't work LAST time so...' Ron muttered then cleared his throat.
' Sunshine, Daises, Butter mellow,
Turn this stupid, fat rat yellow.'
Nothing happened.
' Are you sure that's a real spell?' the girls asked. ' It didn't work very well.'
' Well I guess it was probably just a joke my brothers were playing on me.'
' Hmm. Well I've tried a few simple spells just for practice and it's all worked for me. Nobody in my family's magic at all, it was ever such a surprise when I got the letter. I'm very pleased though of course. I mean it's the very best school of witchcraft there is, I've heard. I've learnt all our set books off by heart of course. I just hope it's enough- I'm Hermione Granger by the way.' the girl said all in one breath. ' Who are you?'
Harry had memorized most of the books as well, though not on purpose, and certainly not ALL of EVERY book. However from the look on Ron's face he hadn't read any of the books at all.
Well maybe I WILL have a small advantage after all. Harry thought.
' I'm Ron Weasley.' Ron muttered.
' Harry.' Harry said.
' Harry who?' Hermione started to say until she saw his scar. For a moment Harry thought she was starting to blush while she looked at him but it was only a moment. Harry decided it was his imagination. Maybe she would be excited to meet THE Harry Potter but she wasn't blushing.
' Are you really?' Said Hermione. ' I know all about you of course- I got a few extra books for background reading and you're in most every one published in the last eleven years!'
' Am I?' asked Harry feeling dazed.
' You didn't know? I'd have found out everything I could if it was me!' Hermione exclaimed. ' Do either of you know what house you'll be in? I've been asking around and I hope I'll be in Gryffindor. It sounds the best by far, in fact I heard that Dumbledore himself was a Griffindor, but I suppose that Ravenclaw would be alright to. We'd better go get looking for Neville's toad again.' she said standing to leave. ' You two better get changed into your robes you know. I expect we'll be there soon.'
And with that she left.
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AN- I figured that was a good place to leave off until next time. More Malfoy in the next chapter I think.....
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