Was she super early or something?! Why was the train so deserted? Maddie hesitated. It hadn't taken off to Hogwarts, left her, and already come back had it? That would be terrible! Her very first train ride to Hogwarts, and she'd miss the food trolley altogether! It wasn't until she saw another student or two that she realized that it was all okay. She was still going to Hogwarts, and the train just hadn't left yet. She picked up her step and half-skipped from the luggage compartment to the front of the train. She knew zero people at this school, which meant she had nobody to sit with. Not that she had many choices anyway, since all of two or so people were on the train. Even if she knew a million people going to Hogwarts, she'd still have zero people to sit with.

This meant she had the whole train almost to herself! The world was at her fingertips! She had her pick of whatever carriage she wanted, which was the coolest form of cool she'd encountered all day. She wandered along the corridor, and it took about three seconds before she realized that having the whole train almost to herself was pretty boring. She frowned and opened a random compartment door. This was the chosen one. It would be her seat for the entire ride or until she got bored and ventured somewhere else. Probably the latter one. She couldn't imagine herself staying seated in one place for that long.

She started to close the door behind her but thought maybe somebody else would see her and want to come inside. So with the door wide open and anybody and everybody being able to see inside, Maddie plopped down onto the seat and waited. And waited. And waited. Merlin, train rides could be boringgg.