Chapter 4
School Stats
By Hermione Ann Potter
"Finally the day has come!" I exclaimed as she and Sirus pushed their trunks through the barrier and out onto Platform 9¾.
"We're going to Hogwarts," shouted Lily.
"But you have been there several times already," replied Sirius.
"Yeah, but this is the first time for me to be with the students and have classes with them. By the way, there is Professor McGonagall she invited me to share their compartment with her granddaughter Cathy, and also Professor Ron Weasley and Neville Longbottom."
With that I headed off to meet Professor McGonagall. When I got close enough to talk to her I said, "Hello Professor McGonagall, could we go to our compartment for the train ride to Hogwarts?"
"Sure, I was headed there myself," replied Professor McGonagall.
I can recall that the ride was uneventful. Until it stopped unexpectedly and we started to hear screams and voices yelling out cries and curses and spells all over the place.
About this time the three professors ran out of the compartments to help the students. Most of the younger students hid in their compartments while a few of the older students tried their best to protect them from the intruders. The battle seemed to go on forever.
Cathy and I where so scared that we didn't know what to do. Finally, it became dead silent, so Cathy and I started to head out of our compartment to see what had happened. We worked out way to the front of the train where Professor R. Weasley asked us to help him search for any injured or dead students. Then he said while we did that, he was going to notify her mom and dad.
We started from the front of the train and we headed towards the back. We found most of the students where fine except for a few bruises and cuts. About halfway we started seeing people dead or hurt very badly, we even saw Professor McGonagall hurt really bad and we decided that we needed to find Ron or Neville as soon as possible. So we hurried out of the compartment and started to look for Ron or Neville, and as we were headed to the back of the train we ran into Neville and then we told him about Professor McGonagall. He said, "I will notify St. Mungo's to come and help with the injured."
Then, we headed back up to the front of the train to find you, mom, dad, and Ron. "Thank you Lily, for bringing us up to date on what happened on the train. Let's get everyone to Hogwarts as soon as possible. I would like you, Ron, to go to St. Mungo's to see if they could send over 3 or 4 healers over to Hogwarts to help care for those injured. Then have Madam Pomfrey meet me here to identify and take care of the ones that died. Once they have been identified and taken back to Hogwarts to Professor Snape's extra room. Have her go back to Hogwarts to help with the healers.
"Hermione, I would like you to go to Hogwarts and notify the other professors of what has happened here and give them these assignments. The two professors will meet with the students in the front hall where they are coming by portkey.
"Then the students will be escorted to the great hall. Once you are done with that, come back here. Then you and I will go and tell Dumbledore what happened." With that they went on there way to do the assignments as they were given.
Soon, students began appearing in the front hall where Professor Ginny Weasley and Professor Snape will escort them to the great hall, where Professor Brown and Professor Filtwick were waiting to meet them.
Soon everyone was there in the great hall waiting for the ceremony to begin. Harry and Hermione met up with Ron and Neville as the last group of students arrived in the front hall. Harry asked Ron if they would be able to go and get the first years ready and while he and Hermione got the Sorting Hat and talked to Dumbledore by Floo powder. Once they arrived at their office, Harry went over to the fireplace and grabbed some Floo powder and throw it in the fire as he said, "The Minister of Magic." Soon Dumbledore's head showed up in the fire.
"What can I do for you tonight, Harry?"
"We just wanted to inform you that there as been an attack on the Hogwarts Express and several students have been killed or injured badly."
"Thanks for informing me, but I am in the middle of a important meeting right now."
"Let me contact you in the morning. And if it would be alright with you guys, I would like to send 18 to 20 aurors to the school to guard the grounds."
"That will be okay with us." So with that, Dumbledore's head disappeared from the fire and Harry grabbed the sorting hat while Hermione grabbed the stool and then they headed down to the Great hall for the sorting ceremony.