Twilight walked slowly down the platform next to a very tall slender man with waist length light brown hair with a darkest green bowler hat and a traveling cloak, who was pulling a large wooden trunk. Some other students and their parents turned to watch them, looking slightly puzzled.

"Dad I think I will be okay. Thank you so much for taking time out to bring me to the Platform. I know you have a lot of work piling up at work." Most people thought her dad was a pure-blood wizard because he worked at the Ministry, Department for Magical Cooperation.

"Now Twilight, you couldn't have managed all of this without some help. I am just sorry that your mother couldn't be her to help you on such an important day." His face clouded over for a moment." Now here, sweets, here ar two little surprises for you to keep you busy in your free time at school."

With that he put the trunk down and brought out from under his cloak a small cage with the cutest tiny owl and a brown and darkest green velvet gilded box. "This is Eveningstar, she may be small but she is very magical. And don't open the box until you have settled in."

Twilight took the cage and gilded box from her father. She already had a male cat hanging over her left arm like a scarf, purring contently, obviously this was his way to travel. "O Father you shouldn't have!" she murmured, tears were welling up in her eyes.

Her father picked up her trunk and herded her into the front compartments. He started walking hr down the hall stopping when he noticed a compartment with two girls in them.

"I am sorry," he said, "Is it possible for my daughter to sit with you. Would you mind?" Twilight thought she was going to die in embarrassment.