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oh its Erik ok 
Where were the umbrellas when you needed them. The one thing Igor forgot to bring. He was glad the only train ride was over but now. He would rather be back in the dry compartment again.
He looked around in well as much amazement as he could while ignoring the rain and the coldness. He heard the Groundskeeper and thought it best to follow instructions and go with the flow, so to speak.
"..........."
This boats didn't look that safe and secure to Igor and the one he was closest to well one guy was not looking too forward to getting into it. At this point the first year had to trust the groundskeeper again and took a deep breath before slowly and carefully getting into the boat with the nervous guy.
"Hey, you think these boats are safe?"
Maybe magic fixed it all but still.
“N-no.” Maxie said, unthinking. Had he been more himself, he might have tried to reassure the younger boy, but he was panic-stricken and pale and had very little in the way of kindness in him. Maxie swallowed audibly, his face wet with rain despite the poncho he’d hastily thrown on. There were no oars, no rudder.. not even a set of instructions to follow to get the boat moving, and had Maxie been calmer he might have wondered if this wasn’t - perhaps - a test.
But he was not calm. or thoughtful.
The twelve-year-old huddled in his seat, arms wrapped tight around his gangly legs. He stared hard at the other boy, expecting a word or.. something- anything to get them going, really. “Do you know how to... m-make this t-thing go?” Others had already moved on without help and he was beginning to worry they’d be stuck forever in this awful rain.
Except-
Except maybe if he got really and truly sick he’d be sent home and never have to go to hogwarts at all-
Maybe.
Okay, he was well aware it was a long shot but a boy could dream.