Chloe had been looking forward to everything but transfiguration always sounded very interesting but the subject she was egar to start was Charms and of course she was going to try out for the quiddich team"I cant wait for Charms" she said with a smile "are you nervous? cause I am" she said honestly she was excitted and nervous which made her stomach sick

Josephine looked at Chris gently "Hey, we just have to wait for three more friends and we'll get on the train, okay?" she looked around, waiting for them.

Josephine nodded "Quite a good one! But he gave up magic and became an actor, my mom's a singer and my dad is an auror, I wanna be an auror too! But my mom says it would be a waste of voice" she said "One of these days I shall give a mini-concert for all of you" she giggled.

Maxwell was very impressed. "I would love a mini concert!" then He remembered. "You were in Ollivander's the same time as Me. Did You happen to see what happened when i got My wand?"

Cool wasn't exactly the way she would describe a lot of the members of the Black family, Violet thought. She was glad Sage changed the subject.

"Potions," Violet responded emphatically, becoming excited and happy for the first time since her governess left her on this platform. "I just love to brew! My governess lets me watch her work sometimes. I can't wait to brew in a real laboratory!"

Aurora nodded, "Yeah, Mother spends hours in those muggle clothes shops. People kind of figure the whole not-normal-people thing out quickly with Mother's comments. 'See, that hem could fray but you could always charm it...'" Aurora put on her best upper class posh lady voice to imitate her mother. "Though they can be useful, I sometimes wear muggle clothes to go through the woods at the back of the manor, and to get down to the beach to go surfing." She shrugged.

"Yeah, I don't see why we have to do these lessons anyway. I get enough dance tuition back home. I bet they don't even hire a proper teacher, and what can any of the current professors teach me that a dance tutor can't?" Aurora said, pulling a spoilt-brat-who-doesn't-want-to-do-something face. "Yeah, Jonathan. I think he travels a lot. He's starting at Hogwarts this year, he'll be in third." Aurora said, pulling her jelly babies from her pocket and offering one to Mordred. "He's Aaron Anderson's cousin apparently, but he seems... crazy. I was talking to him for about a minute before he started going on about robot penguins..." she said.

"Yeah, I guess. Maybe we should take it to the new DADA professor, see if they're up to scratch." she suggested. "Or, of course, if we find a worthy victim..." she added quietly, smirking a little.

Aurora suddenly sat up straight, staring straight at Mordred; a thought had just come to her. "What if it's Lola Jones..? We're DOOMED!" Not that Lola wasn't good at Quidditch, she was just too insane to make important decisions, like picking the people for the team... "Of course we'll win. We may not be as good as last year but we're still better than everyone else." she said confidently, picking her coat from the top of her trolley and putting it on, revealing her eagle owl who began to hoot quietly. "Oh shut up Sage, I'm cold." she directed at the owl, then turned to Mordred, "Is it cold here?" She buttoned up her coat.

"Or we could cover them in glitter, I have a spell for that. I'll show you later." she said. "I know, they're tiny. They could use something to help them grow a little." she winked and jumped down from her trunk again, unlocking it and searching for a moment. "And this year I brought... this." she produced a tiny wooden box and showed it to him. "Powdered blue-moonstone, managed to get hold of some in Cologne over the summer." she said, grinning wickedly.

Boon stared at the train, then looked around at the families saying their goodbyes. Many of the children had animals with them. A mix of loneliness and weary hope washed over her. It had been a near sleepless night and she was exhausted. She boarded the train, shuffled toward the back, slipped into a seat, and promptly fell asleep.

Faina laughed, noticing a slight blush creeping up on him too. "See? I told you! My kisses are magical!" Faina laughed and grinned wildly at him, her eyes glinting.

Thomas nodded and a small smile which looked almost cheeky on his face, even if it wasn't intended to be, curled up his lips. Yes, it was VERY exciting.. even if nerves were getting the better of him right now. “You're offerin' to 'elp me out?” He asked, pleased by this. He had no idea how he was going to catch up to the other third years otherwise. “Fanks, Lexi.” He smiled a little more. Lexi was a good friend to have around. She'd helped him out on a few occasions now and Thomas owed her.

Oh well that woz nice weren't it? Maybe one day Tom would have a propah holiday. Trixie, his brother's girlfriend, had promised to take the Broadmoors away somewhere exotic.. but only Tom behaved and stuck to a load of strict and ridged ground rules.

It never happened.

“Are they maagical pitchahs?” He asked curiously. “I 'eard maagic pitchahs all move.” Which was both weird, slightly scary, cool and fascinating all at the same time.. like most things magical. He nodded his head to the invite to share a compartment, grateful for the company. “..If yer dun' mind.” He replied, glancing also at Salander as this affected him too. “I dun' wannah be a burden or noffin.”

But something else caught his attention and he looked away from the couple down towards Lexi's leg. What the!?

O_______O

“Wot's that?” He pointed at the creature who was also pointing at him. He let out a chuckle and crouched down. It was a TINY monkey! Tom had never seen anything so cute aside from that Millah chick in his whole 'fur-een' years of life.

"Wot's 'is name?"

Josephine smiled "Yep! I remember! It was pretty cool, I liked the music!" she swished hers "I did something like this" pink sparkles came out of her wand and then a blue rose materialized in the air, she took it and handed it to Maxwell "The first one was red... dunno why this one came out blue"

Maxwell raised his wand like He did the first time he held it and the same magical tune played while the same, exotic colors shown in the air. He took the blue rose with a smile. "Whatever reason it's blue i love it!" Maxwell too the rose and put it in a pocket in His robes so everyone could see it.

Josephine giggled at the tune "It's so beautiful! You need to teach me how to do that" she looked at him as he placed the rose in his robes and blushed "I like color blue too! Demo, my favorite color is green, reminds me of the nature" she grinned.

"Josephine!" Rosalind cried out to her as soon as she saw her and waved frantically. She was relieved to see other people that she knew. However, she did not know the person she was talking to. "How are you? And who is this?" she asked, smiling at the other person.

Cael stiffened in shock as he felt a pair of slim arms encircle him comfortingly, trapping him in place.

"Wha-!" he stuttered as she introduced herself, subtly trying to wiggle free, but to no avail. Didn't this...Faina know better than to sneak up on others? And a Slytherin... hmm. Surely this girl was a Pureblood?

A glance over his shoulder confirmed it. The girl was slim, almost delicate, with long blonde hair and features that screamed aristocracy. Cael felt himself relax slightly within her embrace. This was one of his own kind and in the past Purebloods had been dear friends. Well... most of them. It wasn't unheard of for there to be the occasional bloodfeud from time to time, but as far as Cael knew the Ashdown line had remained neutral throughout the years.

"Thank you for your concern, but I can assure you I am alright," Cael smiled winningly as he gently disentangled her arms from around his torso. Bowing slightly at the waist, he used just the barest touch of his fingertips to bring the back of the girl's hand to his mouth, kissing it chastely in greeting.

"I am Caelius Ashdown, a first year Ravenclaw. It is a pleasure to make your acquaintance Miss Faina. Would you care to join me in a compartment near the back of the train? I'm afraid I don't yet know anyone," Cael smiled.

Maxwell saw her blush and tried very hard not to do the same. it didn't work. "I would teach you but i'm not sure how i do it myself. and it's a perfect blue." he said with a big cooked smile.

Cael flinched slightly when Jupiter dug his claws into the sensitive skin at the base of his neck from the girl's scream. Clearly this one was too excited to be worried about decorum at the moment. Reaching up he soothed Jupiter's ebony fur from the ferret's hiding place beneath the collar of his robes.

"Nice to meet you, ehm, Ella was it?" Cael enquired with a small look at the group of people that began quickly amassing around them. "And I assure you, I am not in need of a hug, or any form of physical comforting at the moment," he grumbled with a small frown.

Draco? Ah... that explained the hair then. Faina must be one of the Malfoys. Not a bad first acquaintance at all, Cael thought with a small smirk.

Cael blinked. That was... amazing. A metamorphmagus, really? Cael just had to introduce himself to this boy.

Hello, Caelius Ashdown," Cael held his hand out for the other boy to shake. Perhaps they could all sit together on the train.

"It is up to you," Kurumi smiled. "Just be sure to make the most out of each experience. You really will be surprised at just how quickly the time flies."

Kurumi nodded as she listened to Jonathan speak, but she frowned a bit when he spoke about his parents. "You've been gone all year and your parents went abroad when you went back home?" That just didn't seem right. "They didn't offer to take you with them?" Even Kurumi's mother would have dragged her along. As much as her mother hated everything that Kurumi represented, namely magic, she was still a mother first and wanted to spend as much time with her children as possible. Kurumi began to suspect that Jonathan might lead a very lonely life.

Until he talked about being taught how to cook and bake. "Well, it is hard to beat the house elves cooking," she winked.

"Hey Josephine and Rosaline!" Fiona was excited to see her friends again. She looked to the stranger in the group. "I'm Fiona, what's you're name?" she asked with her usual grin.

"Of course I am offering to help you out! I quite enjoy practicing magic with people. I helped Alice here out a good bit last term. I can't promise that I am phenomenal at it, but every little bit counts if you ask me. I had to catch up the past few terms, to be honest, I kind of... lost my knack for maic for a while," Lexi explained with a sweet smile. She then waved off his thanks... There was no need for all of that. Helping people made Lexi happy, even if people thought she was wretched most of the time. Heh.

"Oh yes most of them are magical pictures. They are really awesome!" WOOT for wizarding pictures. Hehe. Lexi was always unsure of pictures that DIDN'T move. It just seemed unnatural to her. "Oh poo! You are no burden at all. You can share our compartment... well you can share my compartment actually. Sal has to ride up front in the prefects compartment. It'll just be Rufus, Wasabi, and me," she said with a nod. Yep, yep... her boyfriend person- The Head Boy.

"This is Rufus. He's a pygmy marmoset. He was a gift from a friend who graduated last term. He wants all the attention in the world. Such a ham, this one. Go on then, silly monkey. Go see Tom," she said as she gently shook her leg to pry Rufus off. Hehe.

Rufus stuck his tongue out at Lexi for a moment and then chattered happily as he made his way over to the boy who was crouching down.

See? Cute little monkey.

Rufus held his arms out for the boy to pick him up... and then decided that that was not enough. With a little jump he landed himself on the boy's shoulder and clung to his head. Hehe.

Before Sage could repley. the train let out a long whistle!

"Oh Geez!" Sage said,"Come on Violet, Violet, and Beezus! We had better get on the train!"

"Thanks," Sage muttered before giving Kurumi a smile before getting up, grabbing her stuff, and headed off to make some friends of her own and start her new adventure...

Suddenly Violet heard a noise and a train whistle, and the next thing she knew the bright red Hogwarts Express engine was chugging down the tracks and pulling up to the platform.

"Look," she cried out, turning to Sage and the others, "let's hurry and get a good seat on the train!"

"The trains coming!" Hugo called to Ronnie. "Right, bye dad!" Ronnie said hugging him, then she went to Ron and squezed him tight. "Bye Grandpa Ron!" she said. She then walked up to Hermione. "By grandma Hermione!" she said, making sure not to squeze her to death "Bye sweetheart!" she said, running a hand through Ronnie's bright orange hair. Ronnie then walked up to her eldest brother. "Bye Rupert!" she said hugging him tightly. She held on to him for a long time, she didn't wanna let go. She loved him a lot, she was her favorite brother (don't tell the other six!) "Ronnie, the trains gonna leave!" he said. "Right...sorry. Bye!" she said to everyone and she dashed off to the train. She turned and called: "OI! Rupert! Make sure to write to me!"

The thing was, Mr. Port was far from the kind of father that would beat up a young lad for being the wrong choice for his daughter. In fact, he entrusted Alfie entirely with her own choice in boyfriends, whether because he thought she was independent or simply didn't care all that much. More likely, it was the latter. Not that he didn't care, necessarily, but his daughter's social life was the last thing the busy business man had time to worry about. His last comment to Theo, was only truly said for the fun of making the poor boy squirm, an opportunity that was rather difficult for the man to resist. He did have his own sense of humor, in a way. Alfie, of course, knew that her father didn't mean his mock-threatening nature, rather that this was the business man's form of amusement for the moment.

So as Theo still seemed a bit affected by her father's words, the blonde at his side flashed him the warmest of reassuring smiles, "I assure you, he was kidding," she promised him softly, leaning up to place a sweet kiss on his cheek. But she didn't want the poor boy to be completely freaked out just because her father was poking fun at him cruelly! "He gets his amusement in strange places, I promise, he couldn't care less who I date," Alfie explained before being completely distracted by Emma who had grabbed her by the shoulders and was playfully shaking her. As she asked why she hadn't mentioned that her father was into Quidditch, the little blonde Ravenclaw let out a soft string of chiming chuckles, more amused than anything else.

"I didn't think you'd care!" she announced through her grin, shaking her head with a soft chuckle. "Trust me, once you've heard one of his Quidditch stories, you've heard them all. And they're not that exciting, I promise," Alfie explained before turning to the both of them and flashing a grin. "Should we board?" she asked with a grin, absentmindedly grabbing her suitcase. And then, pursing her lips together delicately, she let out a soft whistle tune, successfully calling out the little bluebird, Jay, who had been flying around the heads of the students, excited for the new year. "C'mon Jay, let's go." Jay sat on her shoulder as she began to roll her suitcase with one hand, the other entwined with Theo's as she walked between both him and Emma towards the train.

"You need to loosen up Oh great and mighty Caelius! And you should come and join my friends! We are sitting near the back." Faina giggled, he was so formal it was almost... attractive. No, she couldn't be thinking those things. She was too young, right?

Jordan smiled, "obviously very magical to take all that pain away!" He put a blue tinge to his hair, "a new era deserves a new colour!" he explained, still grinning.

Jordan tried to stifle his laughter, Faina had turned quite girly around Caelius. He shook Caelius' hand saying, "hi I;m jordan, anyway you guys we've got to get on now i think!" he said to them all.

Jonathan saw Kurumi frowned after mentioning about his parents going abroad. It's the first time they actually done it and they even took Nobi with them. Jonathan is always dependent to Nobi and a summer without him was just sad.

Jonathan nodded "Yes, my father had business to do there. But mum was bloody worried." he smiled. Everyday while he was still at Hogwarts, Victoria wrote more than an owl mail a day. Quite embarrassing for a 15 year old kid. "They went back 5 days ago. Mum wanted to see me before i leave for Hogwarts" True, Victoria couldn't stop nagging about it according to Jonathan's father.

But the fact that they were away this summer made Jonathan felt at ease. It was nice not to hear any complains from both his parents. If it wasn't for them leaving Jonathan could have not been enjoying the carnival as well. All worked out for the better.

Jonathan looked around to see if Kurumi's parents were their. Or if she had any siblings around eyeing on her. But before Jonathan could ask...

*Choo Choo*

Hogwarts express finally came. "It's here." he mumbled. OH IT'S HERE! He better go back to where his parents are or they'll be freaking out, well, Victoria will freak out the most.

Jonathan stood up and looked at Kurumi "See you around the train.... prefect" adding a smile.

Jonathan ran to the north side of the platform to say goodbye to his parents. Hogwarts, here he comes.