Kings Cross Public Square
 

Just arriving to the Station? Enter here and head to the Platform. Be mindful of the muggles and don't linger too long! Don't want to miss the train.

And here he was again. King's Cross Station. It was Zeke's last year in Hogwarts, yet he can't even bring himself to be nostalgic about anything especially since he can't remember his past. To him, this was only his 2nd year at the Wizarding School. His 2nd and final year.

But again, for the second time around, Ezekiel Andrei de Ferreis was alone. And yes, Zeke told me to use his full name to add some dramatic effect. Anyway, he pushed his luggage like a normal Muggle would, trying his best to blend in.

King Cross again. Jory stood watching the usual bustle. He even recognised a few familiar faces from Hogwarts. But none of his actual friends. He looked towards the Wall where he was supposed to be crossing to get over to the platform where he would be taking the Hogwarts Express for the final time.

"I'd better get going,'' the boy thought, looking around again. He pushed his trolley towards the Wall.

Isobel had said goodbye to her mother before she got to the station, since she needed to take Kate to some kind of 'gymnastics for toddlers' thing that she did every week. This left Isobel alone at the station, surrounded by muggles. Lovely.

She wheeled her trolley around with a grunt, beginning to regret all of the extra books she'd bought. Facing the wall between two platforms from a couple of feet away, she stared at it apprehensively. Her mum had taken her through it several times, you walk up to the barrier and you just go straight through it. Even run, if you don't think you can make it. Don't worry, honey, you'll be fine.

Isobel glanced at the barrier one more time, then, with a deep breath, approached it at a swift walk.

that turned out to be longer than I anticipated o.o
 

Once again, Tobias had run on ahead from his grandfather, who was probably still somewhere around St. Pancras train station (which was across the road) where their connecting train had taken them. His grandfather would be apparating home after seeing Tobias on the trains; his grandmother wasn't fond of busy places full of children (she liked Tobias and that was it) and his parents had stayed behind to keep her company. Tobias' grandfather was the best person to keep Tobias in line anyway, though the young man himself would disagree; nobody kept him in line, because he was a perfect little angel who didn't need watching over.

But... he kind of did need his grandfather. This station was confusing and there were loads of muggles here. Tobias stepped up onto the back of the trolley to try and find his destination, but he didn't actually know what he was looking for.

Ah. Well. This way problematic.

Time to just hang out and wait for his grandfather and try not to give off a vibe that he was on his way to wizard school.

'Cause, you know, that was what he was avoiding. And it was obviously the first conclusion that muggles jumped to.

...

After a couple of minutes, Tobias had spied a few students who were pushing trolleys with trunks similar to his, and he had a good idea where he was going, because he'd seen them all disappear in the same general area.

Feeling all grown up, Tobias pushed his trolley confidently towards one of the barriers (he knew that was what he was meant to be doing after quizzing his grandfather relentlessly... it was just the 'where' that had him stumped) and started running.

He was nearly there when he heard a strangled shout from behind him, and he turned to see his grandfather waving his arms wildly and pointing at the next barrier.

Ohhhhhh.

Luckily, Tobias, being a rather hyperactive and fidgety child, was rather agile, so after a brief tussle with his luggage trolley and it's stubbornly wonky wheel, he had re-routed and was now speeding towards the correct barrier.

Taking it at a slightly awkward angle, Tobias finally reached the ticket barrier... and then he was through.

Aaaaanyone? ^_^
 

Kings Cross morning already. Gulp. Last year, huh? Yeah, it came sooner than most thought.

The red headed, seventeen year old, held the hand of her three year old brother as they walked inside the station. It was the first time he was here and Renesmee could see her brother was intrigued with his surroundings as he wandered around with her. He remained quiet and barely spoke a word. That concerned Nessie just a little bit, but she knew he was just upset she'd be leaving him for another year. She had to though, school was school. He'd get it eventually.

Now where was that platform wall? She looked quickly through all the muggles and spotted a few wizard-like looking people, especially a few firsties. Was she meant to go up to them or something? She wasn't sure with this whole Head Gi--Prefect thing. It just was that being Captain was different to this, in her opinion it was a little more home to her. Now she had a bigger role which meant bigger footsteps and harder work.

The Hufflepuff eyed the few firsties, then eyed the platform wall that her eyes now found and pouted. Maybe it was better she only put on the badge once she was behind the wall and at the platform? She nodded to herself. Yep. And right now she wanted to have a last few completely alone moments with Ethan before the rest of the family had caught up to them.

"Ethie?" She paused and bent down for a short moment, still holding the three year old's hands. "You're going to be fine. Pam, Mommy and Daddy will look after you, alright?" She frowned as he shook his head and clung to her beige coloured pants.

Well this was going to be easy then? Heh.

The Charlton family arrived at the King's Cross Station a little early, since Mr. Charlton and Jack wanted to see MORE magic they were Muggles and they had to find their way by asking. Whereas his father got more chatty than ever, Forrest grew very quiet in the last week. The mere idea of leaving his family troubled him even in his dreams (although he knew better than to reveal it to anyone). Magic was all good and exciting, but was it worth leaving his mother's side? She looked the happiest of them all, and she constantly told him she was fine, but Forrest knew better than that. She was as sad as him for seperating from his favourite son (he KNEW he was her favourite). It still wasn't too late to back out of this life chance...

The family started to walk towards where the ninth platform was in complete silence. They didn't get a trolley, because Forrest's luggage was one of those pullable ones with wheels. His father pulled it, head turning in every direction to catch a glimpse of a wizard or witch. He was by far the proudest father on the platform today as his face shone whenever he looked at Forrest. My son's a wizard, you loser Muggles!

Once they arrived at the ninth platform, all the family looked at Forrest as if he was an alien. They expected him to see what they couldn't, of course, like the way he did at Leaky Cauldron. Standing between the ninth and tenth platforms, they waited impatiently for him to speak some fancy magic words--but it was Christina, the mother instead who spoke.

"Are they... disappearing through the wall?" Three pair of eyes turned into the direction she indicated. They had to wait for another two minutes for it to happen, but it was worth it at last as they apparently discovered the entrance to the 3/4 part of ninth platform.

Nobody noticed Forrest's getting even paler as they all went towards that direction and simply went to the other side by walking unlike most of the other students that ran.

Anyoooone. ^_^
 

There was a look to the left followed by a look to the right before another one to the left. Normally she'd be zipping through the train station, leaving her poor father having a hard time keeping up but not today. Today Alexa was hiding. This hiding wasn't from fear though. Nooooo. The lioness feared nothing almost. It was just...she didn't handle disappointed faces very well, OKAY???

Well, correction; she didn't handle them well when they belonged to people she cared about...Alice, she definitely cared about. The girl would probably never talk to her again--

UGH!!

It wasn't even her fault and technically she had done the poor thing a favour--she put him out of his sugar coated misery! If anything, she should have been praised and given another one for her valiant efforts. He was the hardest chocolate frog she'd ever eaten too. Like. There wasn't supposed to be any kind of bad feeling--he was a bloody piece of candy!!! But at the same time, the thought of Alice's disappointed face had the thing stuck at her throat.

Occasionally she glanced up at her father and caught him staring down at her in wonder. He too was wondering why she wasn't running wild. She was glad he didn't ask. It would have only made things worse. As they made their way through the building she clung to his hand, still looking over her shoulders ever now and then. If she could just make it to the train she could hide for the entire ride--

Oh!

Merlin! She forgot about the feast! She'd have to see her. SIIIIIIIGH. Now she was in an even worse mood as they made their way to the barrier.

So, here she was back at King's Cross. After spending the whole month of August basically not visiting any of her favorite places in Muggle London thanks to her aunt who thought it be a good idea for her to stay where wizards could keep an eye on her. Pregnancy was giving that woman nuttier and nuttier ideas. But of course, she didn't want to be THAT person. You know, the one that made the preggo lady's mood even worse. So, she'd begrudgingly stayed mostly in Diagon Alley the entire time she'd been in town. Which meant that Sky felt a mixture of sadness and happiness at the thought of going back to Hogwarts.

Anyway, after saying bye to her aunt, she started making her way to the wall to the platform, pulling her extra large trunk behind her, when she ran into a little girl who seemed lost. And cue eye roll. Surely someone had told her how to get to the platform, right? Which meant that the silly girl had either forgotten or not believed. Sigh. Wasn't setting these kids straight the job of the prefects? Yet, not a one was in view. "The wall is up that way," she spoke up drily, nodding it's direction. "You walk right through it." There. Fixed that little problem.

open to all...seriously if you just want to gawk at the kiddo do iiit
 

Finn Johanson was glad to take his little sister to the train station since he hadn't seen her all that much recently. What with her constant disappearing acts to go buy new supplies, see her friends who lived near by, and that camping trip. He had heard about that - how she had nearly gotten people sick until they smelled whatever it was she was making. She had never told him.

Finn glanced around carefully scoping out all the crowd. He was looking for his sister as well - since she had been out in London and had no idea he was flooing in just to wish her well.

He just scoffed as he watched some poor kid about a year older than his sister have a fit. He was probably freaking out about how to get to the school - or he was some lunatic muggle. He just kept an eye on the kid in case something happened...like a melt down, or you know running full speed into the wrong wall.

Genevieve reaally wanted Eeka to come. Eeka needed to hug her. HUGs were good. She was sitting in her little stroller, watching with her BIG brown eyes and grabbing at people when they walked by. The blondes mainly. It didn't matter if they were male or female she just reached out to them as if to question if they were her sister.

"EEEEEKA" she chirped rather grouchily and just stared out into the crowd. What were these people. And why did they have rolling-things attached to them.

Anyone <3 And I mean, anyone :3
 

*steals*
 

Anyone or no one, yo.
 

For once in her lifetime as a Hogwarts student, Katrina Hudson was actually feeling a bit weird. She was new to this, being a student leader. Receiving an owl with her badge was something she did not except at all. Her family members were proud of her and she was a hundred percent sure that her father would've been much more proud of her than anyone in the family. Kat missed him a lot, of course, but she kept it in her mind to let go and move on with what life has to offer her. She was pretty excited about knowing she would be a Prefect for her house The Slytherin Prefect (in denial) dragged and pushed her trunk to Kings Cross and looked around.

Gosh it was weird having to wear a Prefect badge.

Kat bid her goodbye to her sister and her nephew, Gale, before setting out to go pass the Platform. By the look on the children's faces in here, Kat knew there were firsties. She watched as one of them went passed the barrier. Who knows, maybe one of them would soon be her minion ickle Slytherin follower. Dismissing the thought, Kat made her way to the wall connecting the Muggle world to the Wizarding world. She wouldn't be seeing this place until June next year.

*claims K2* ^_^
 

For once, Kendall wasn’t entirely looking forward to a new year at Hogwarts. More accurately, it was just the train ride, seeing as she had a feeling that somehow Patrick was going to continue avoiding her even when there weren’t as many places to hide. That and she was still highly frustrated that she wasn’t able to use both wrists at the moment, as that was making it awfully difficult to pull her trunk behind her. She was determined to do it on her own, though, even though Jeremiah had offered to help her until she got on the train. She hadn’t needed her brother’s help before now, and the sixteen-year-old was stubborn enough that she wasn’t about to ask for it now. She might have been hoping that her wayward boyfriend would show up anyway and offer to help, but for now she was going to do it on her own. At least she would be able to get the cast off within a couple days, according to her last healer’s appointment. That was the one bright spot in an otherwise rather not-fun end of her summer, along with the fact she’d finally managed to get her hair to cooperate and had her pink streaks back. Those hadn’t been there for a while.

She still had to figure out how to get herself, her trunk, and Accio through the barrier and onto the platform, anyway. Her cat could dash through on his own, of course, but dragging her trunk with one hand would be the tricky part. Controlling it. As such, she’d decided to pause for a second to think of a plan, and noticed a familiar blonde head nearing the wall. “Hey Katrina!,” she called out, smiling at the Slytherin even as she forgot her annoyance for the time being. Dropping the handle of her trunk had certainly helped with that, but there was still time before she had to get on the train.

Katrina did not know how long she spent just staring at the wall, inches away from it while holding on tight to the handle of her trunk. She did not know if she even wanted to go pass the barrier and face her sixth year of magical education at Hogwarts. It must've been a mistake that Professor Lafay chose her as the female prefect after Sierra. She did not see anything of Prefect material in herself, nothing like what Sierra had who was a true leader and worthy of the badge. If this was some kind of prank sent to her by people who had nothing more to do than waste their lives on these types of shenanigans, one thing was for sure and that Kat would haunt them down until she graduated from school. She'll find out if this was a joke if she sees another person in the Prefects' Compartment with same badge she was wearing now The blonde wouldn't believe it at first but later on it began to sink in that in fact she was the new Slytherin female prefect. She'll grow to like having a badge soon, but for now she can continue to hang onto this thing called denial. Since nobody else could know her thoughts at the moment, then it was probably normal that someone would think she was being an idiot and just looking blankly at a wall.

Only one thing, or person even, snapped the Slytherin prefect out of her thoughts. Turning to her side, Kat gave her friend Kendall a smile in return. "Hi there, Kendall!" she greeted. The Ravenclaw was one of the few friends Kat met just last term, specifically at the Maize Maze. The blonde's eyes then fell onto her friend's hand that was apparently wrapped around with a cast. "Is it better now, your hand?" Kat asked. Everyone knew Kat could be really caring when it came to the condition of her friends so it was not anything to be shocked about if she came up to you and randomly asked about what you're feeling at the moment. "Uhm... do you need help with your things?" It was a rare offer whenever Kat would extend a hand to help someone. Kendall must be lucky today, eh? Besides, you really can't do much with a cast on your hand.

His final Hogwarts year was almost starting and the Slytherin wanted to make the most of it. Most importantly, we wanted to see and hear every detail from Kings Cross station till ...Kings Cross station until he came back. That was why he was pushing his luggage cart absentmindely and looked around him. Taking in the brick wall that was right in front of him, Daichi fought the urge to count the bricks. That would be too time consuming.

This was going to be the last time he went through this wall from this side. And now that he thought this it made him feel a little sad. For seven years he had walked through here and after this year it would be over. No more brick wall, no more Hogwarts Train. No more Hogsmeade..oh wait , he could still visit that.. No more Hogwarts castle..classes..his younger friends , just strolling around over the grounds. And most importantly. He now had to find his own Duck Pond to go to...

But, that wasn't till the end of this year and he was going to make this year count! With a small nod to himself he looked around him. Seeing that a few muggles passed him by and given him a weird look for just staring at a WALL, Daichi simply smiled at them and they continued their walk to their own Muggle Trains. One last check, no muggles looking, and he walked through the barrier.

Aurora couldn't believe that she was going to her fourth year at Hogwarts, nor could her parents as her mother had admitted to her.

Aurora and her family walked through King's Cross train station headed to the magical platform of Platform 9 and 3/4 to see her off for the school year.

Anybody?
 

Fifth year. Where had the time gone?

Five years ago his whole family was here seeing him off. The friends he had made the summer before Alec, Anya and Adeline was there. Well he meet Adeline right here at Kings Cross. And even Carter Anya's brother was there. But now today the fifth year Slytherin was walking into the train station alone. The family was working. His friends were not doubt with their sweethearts. Adeline wasn't coming back.

Asher past by several muggles as he pushed his cart loaded down with his trunk, and owl cage. Avis hooting softly in her sleep. She did that alot hoot in her sleep.

So there he was a fifteen year old alone with an owl in Kings Cross. That wouldn't be so weird if he didn't see a few others with a cart loaded down like his.

Heading in the general direction as they were moving toward the wall between platforms 9 and 10. Platform 9 3/4 was his portal back to Hogwarts, back to school. Back everything he knew.

Anyone
 

Laura had been really busy this summer and now she was heading off for her fifth year at Hogwarts, at the start of the summer things had happened and she had thought about not coming back but in the end she had decided that she should even though she was really sure what to expect from this year, she couldn't wait to see Sophie and Ella though, she hadn't seen them or Carigan for ages and that was the one thing she was looking forwards too.

Nigel was ready to start a new term. His summer was terribly boring. He did nothing that was worth even talking about. He could not believe he was going into his fourth year. He could remember his first year like it was yesterday.

He starts to walk across the square looking for people he recognized. He did want to get to the train as fast as he could. But socializing never hurt. He looks around and spotted Laura. He walks over to her because he was not spoken to her in a while. Probably even more than a while.

"Hey Laura, How was your summer."

*claims the both of you* *loves* :3
 

Merlin, Penelope kept losing people. One moment she was deciding whether she actually needed a trolley for her single trunk, the next she was trying to find her boyfriend and her cat. Because Spot too had wandered off for some reason. Merlin's beard. Of all the times to wander off. Looking for people in a big crowd was one of the times being short was not a good thing.

Dragging her trunk behind her, she looked around the station, hoping one of the ones she was looking for would just pop up and make her life easier. Or preferably they'd both be in the same place with other people she knew. That would take out two birds with one stone....

There!

There was her cat, pawing at a girl - Mika was her name right? - her cat was pawing at the girl's shoe. And, conveniently, the girl was talking to Ascanius. Excellent. Two birds, one stone.

"Hey guys," Penelope said as she walked over to them, bending down to scoop up Spot in one arm. "Sorry about that, Mika." It didn't look like Spot had done anything to the girl's foot or shoe at least. Thank Merlin.

Hmm.. another year. Wade thought as he casually leaned against the handle of cart filled with his luggage of school essentials and items. It was his Sixth year, and second term at Hogwarts. He had just said his final goodbyes to his dad earlier when he was dropped off.. now he just had to go through the Platform.

Wade first looked around to see any familiar people. The busy crowd of mainly muggles made this difficult, though. So, he began pushing his cart in the direction of that platform, lowly whistling as he took his time.

The final train ride to Hogwarts.

The final year.

It all sounded very weird to Gwen. Maybe she wasn’t actually ready for this. But she was definitely looking forward to getting back to Hogwarts. Uh. It was just confusing. What was even weirder was the fact that Zeke was back… and he wasn’t as annoying as he used to be. Hmm.

Speaking of which---

Gwen only now managed to spot the Gryffindor, who was just a few steps ahead. She walked a bit faster, until she manage to catch up with him. ‘Hey’.

The sixth year--- now wait—seventh year was making her way to the wall at 9 and 3/4 , already making a plan of going to look for her friends. Well, she was almost sure she would probably not manage to find the people she was looking for around the station- because the place was always crowded. Though, maybe once they got on the train?

Mhm. That sounded like a good plan.

As she thought about it, Gwen only got to take a few more footsteps, when she managed to spot someone.

‘JORY!’

With a grin on her face, the SEVENTH year walked towards the Hufflepuff. Hi!

Continue at the Platform? ^_^
 

He knew that voice far too well. That in itself was not a good sign at all. Zeke turned and shot a smile at her...though his eyes were clearly not expressing the same feeling. Argh, this was way too hard for him to take. If only he had the guts to tell Gwen what's happening.

""Hi." Zeke continued to walk on forward.

Bored and lost. That was what Ascanius was at the moment. These directions that he had been given were PITIFUL at best and now had him just walking in circles. Come out, come out wherever you are platform 9 and 3/4. Ugh, he was never gonna find it at this rate, yeah? It was a rubbish name anyway. Who named a station 9 and 3/4?

And then to make matters worse someone bumped into his trolley and nearly had him falling over-

Oh hey there, gorgeous. Nah, she was good. She could bump into him all she liked. 'Sides, this one was easy on the eyes. So he was all smirks and smiles when she started to stumble out her next sentence, "No harm, no foul, gorgeous," he winked. Oh, she wanted to help him. That was awesome, "Yeah, this platform 9 and 3/4... you know where it is, beautiful?" 'Cuz he was lost.

Jeez, CAT! No wait, it wasn't just a cat. It was a Spot. And if Spot was here a girlfriend was not too far behind. When she popped up, he smirked at her and said, "Lost the cat, Pen?" Poor Spot.

Well. Erm.

This was awkward.

Maybe she shouldn’t have made her presence noticed. Erm. What to do now?! She couldn’t just walk away, could she? No. because they were heading the same way. So Gwendolyn continued walking towards the platform 9 3/4.

‘What’s with all the enthusiasm?’, she said sarcastically. Ehh. She probably was the last person he wanted to see…but…

Mehh.

Huh, so she noticed. It figures. It takes one to know one. And definitely, the Ice Princess was a master of giving the cold shoulder. Or anything related to being indifferent, sarcastic, and rude.

Ever since he got into a relationship with Evie, Zeke couldn't help but notice the difference between her and the Ice Princess. It bothered him a lot. To have been blinded by the girl's obvious hatred towards him. How she tried to get away from him a number of times. How he paid no attention to her snide remarks. Only in that moment did he realize all this. Hm. Love is blind, eh?

Not anymore...

He won't be that guy who forces himself on people. So he decided before going on his final year to Hogwarts to stop bothering Gwen. If she doesn't see Zeke as a normal person she could be friends with, then, why try anymore? It's all pointless... Siiiigh. To think that he had even thought of them ending up together. Psh. It was mere fantasy. A thing that couldn't even exist in dreams or in one's imagination. It was too impossible to think of.

Just don't look at her directly Zeke. It won't be a problem trying to forget about Ice Princ-Gwen. Looking straight ahead, he replied, "I'm just happy as ever." Yeah. Right.

Woah person talking to her. At first she didn't notice, she was too busy figuring out what to yell at Nate whenever she saw him next. As she caught sight of what the woman said, Tanner frowned. She knew that. SHe knew that all along. Okay, so maybe that statement came with an awkward laugh and some neck scratching (i.e false statement) but it's the thought that counts. Hehe.

The helper also seemed a little ticked off at the blond, and though she couldn't figure out why, she decided not to ask. More conversation wouldn't do anything but make the situation harder. So, with a small push of her cart to force it into motion, she was off.

"Thanks." It was only a whisper as she passed the helper, but she really didn't want to yell or anything, and her blush was too big for face to face conversation right now.


Reaching what she assumed was the right way of the platform, Tanner took about eight steps back, digging her sneakers into the cement a couple of times to get a good pull on her cart. Okay. Now just run at the platform full speed. It'd just a brick wall. Nothing major. And you should go through. You're a wizard. Awesome peptalk, she thought, placing her hands into a better position on the cart.

She started at a jog, picking up to a run as she got closer. Before she hit the wall she let out a small yell. She had no idea if she was going to hit the wall and fall or actually make it. Luckily it was the second

Ronnie stared around her, slowly trailing behind her family. It was crazy. This was the last time she'd be going through the barrier to go to Hogwarts. She swallowed hard. She was already feeling emotional about her last year and it was only just starting.

"C'mon, Rons!" Liam called, glancing behind him at Ronnie who was going awfully slow. "We don't wanna miss the train!" he said.

Ronnie gripped her trolley and caught up to her brothers and parents. Liam smiled down at her. She smiled back up at him and then they reached the wall. She then noticed her friend Jory who was about to go through. She smiled and pushed her trolley next to his. "Hey, Jory." she said with a smile. "Would you like to sit with me on the train?" she asked.

Nashville had to say 'Ello. XD
 

Nashville kept looking around, he loved to people watch. If people watching was a sport he would win it every time hands down. Nash was interested in people watching. Why? He didn't know.

He had seen that guy before...but where...Twitter? YES! He was talking to that kid when he was having girlfriend problems....not Nash but Asher yes. Nash didn't have a girlfriend so therefor he had no girlfriend problems.

"ASHER! 'Ello."

Phone. Phone. Texting. PHONE. Gaming. PHONE.

The newly appointed fourth year was not looking away from his gadget for even two seconds because walking was getting in the way of his PHONE TIME. His family were leading the way, because after many years now, they had it pretty much memorized. The only change was that Casper had decided to come to send Theo off. Theo's twin stood with his hands in his pockets, looking sulky but not nearly as sulky as usual.

Progress!?

Anyway... zip zap on the phooooone... until it was swooped away suddenly from his grasp.

He just stared at his hands. We hadn't stepped into the wizarding world YET, things weren't allowed to just DISAPPEAR... Oh, it was dad. Theo glared at him as the man tucked it away in his pocket.

"No phones at school."

GROWL. HISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS....

"Whatever. Bye." Theo replied, actually fighting off that hot feeling he got in his cheeks whenever he was about to cry. To distract himself, he looked for friends. Anyone would do, as long as they were a friend. Theo was in no mood to make effort with new kids today.

But he WOULD settle for anyone if he couldn't find a friend, because crossing the barrier alone was scary. Speaking of scary, he could hear his mother sobbing from a way away. No doubt it was because he just completely walked off without a proper goodbye. Uh-oh, hate mail would be arriving later, then.

Ella's eyes were a bit watery, okay? That was only because her little brother had decided to burst into tears outside the station and glue himself to the blonde's leg. It was horrible watching her Dad pry the little guy off her and she was a little shaken by the whole thing. Goodbyes were hard, yeah? The fifteen year old did her best to shake the whole thing off and stood up a little straighter, pushing her trolley towards the barrier. As she passed a sobbing woman who looked oddly familiar, the blonde spotted Theo and blinked.

Sniffle.

She couldn't whine in front of him so she'd need to suck it up. Ahem. "H-hey Theoman!" Half-hearted!Beam. "How are you?" And more importantly, she wasn't crying, okay?

The possibility that she’d made a mistake, that it was some other blonde ahead of her instead of the Slytherin that she’d sort of befriended the previous term, hadn’t occurred to Kendall. She couldn’t remember what had happened to her after the fight with Patrick’s brother had first started, but she hadn’t forgotten anything else. She was still herself, no brain damage or anything. Just a broken wrist, but even that was almost healed. Everything that was annoying could be forgotten soon enough, aside from the wayward boyfriend. She still thought his argument why he’d been staying away was stupid, and she had things to show him. Not her cast. That was going to be going away as soon as possible, but the butterflies on her back weren’t. They were staying, and she’d found herself sidetracked from wondering if Katrina was going to realize she was standing there. There was no other explanation for that. She wasn’t walking, or running toward the barrier like she probably should have been in order to get a good spot on the train. She was just standing there like an idiot, until she’d gotten a response. That meant she had an opening, and she took a few steps closer at the bright greeting, forgetting about the questions that probably were about to come.

First, she had some of her own, as she caught the glint of a badge. “You got prefect? That’s awesome!,” she said. There was the proof, whether or not she’d actually sort of heard about that happening before now. It was actually really true, and therefore the awesome could be repeated. Plus, it deflected the concerned question that she’d been asked a bit. “My wrist,” she automatically corrected, shifting the cast behind her back more. “Almost. The healer said I should leave the cast on for a couple more days and then it can come off. They even showed me how I can do it myself.” If she didn’t want to go see Healer Tillstorm to ask if she’d remove it for her, and part of her didn’t. She’d just have to be careful casting with her left hand. Her left hand which was still wrapped around the handle to her trunk, and she glanced down at it at the offer for assistance. “It’s not heavy. Not really. Jeremiah cast a spell on everything so I could technically get it all to the train by myself,” even though he’d still offered to help her too, “I’m just wondering if I’ll need help getting it on the train, once I get through to the platform,” she replied slowly. She was a determined injured ninja superhero, but now that she’d gotten the offer, she didn’t know if it was worth admitting weakness.

Er....okay? That was rather easy. Easy, yet odd. Sky was torn between being glad that she hadn't suddenly inherited a weird ickle firstie to babysit and feeling bad that she'd obviously upset? embarrassed? the girl. She settled on the former as the girl disappeared through the wall. Wasn't her fault that weird firstie was weird after all. Shrugging it off, the sixth year made her own way through the wall, pulling her trunk behind her.

Operation 'hunt for a friend' was kind of unsuccessful so far. But at least his family had given on on the goodbyes and left. Now he could slip back into his cool school status, right? But anyway, it wasn't too long before he spotted a good friend. Because she was pretty much back into that category now, ever since they shared an Exploding Lemonade together. That was basically kissing since Theo forgot to wipe the glass after she had taken a sip.

...........

:-|

"Hii." He said, immediately forgetting about his lack of phone. But, oh... she looked upset. Was it him? Was it someone else? Was it Alec? Maybe they had split up!! Not that it would change anything since he was very happy with Dora, but it just felt weird.

"I'm ok, but why're you crying?" Hug?? No... no... he just patted her arm.

Ella tilted her head to the side and observed the boy as he seemed to be doing a lot of thinking. Too bad she didn't know Legilimency because she wouldn't mind reading Theo's mind. She was sure there was a lot of interesting stuff going on up there. Probably slightly odd, but interesting none the less.

"Just okay?" Frown. ...Ugh. "Crying? I'm not crying. My eyes are just erm leaking a bit. They do that sometimes." Leaky faucet eyes. YUP. Seemed legit. "I should really get them looked at. Don't want to be like this all term."

Was he buying this? Probably not.

POKER FACE.

Laura smiled at Nigel. "It was interesting." Laura said truthfully, it had been one very long interesting summer, though she didn't really want to talk about it because things had happened she wanted to forget about. "How was your summer?" Laura decided she would change the subject onto his summer, they could forget about hers right.

Penelope raised her arm a bit, so Spot could better climb up onto her shoulder, the cat's usual place on this day. Maybe that was why she'd wandered off before. She'd set her down for a moment, and the cat decided it was her chance to explore. It seemed so big though, and she could have easily gotten lost. Thank Merlin she apparently found Mika's shoes interesting, Penelope might not have found her so quickly.

The little cat stared unblinkingly at the other two humans as her human spoke up again. "Yeah, she wandered off," Penelope replied. "She likes to do that a lot." Though usually not around train stations like King's Cross, but there was a first time for everything, she guessed.

"Have a good summer, Mika?" she asked, returning the girl's smile. Penelope hadn't seen her since the term ended, so she didn't really have any idea of how the Ravenclaw's summer had gone, but hopefully it was good. It was never fun to have a bad summer. Penelope knew very well what that was like. Not this summer though. This holiday had been pretty awesome for once. Possibly mainly thanks to Ascanius, since she'd spent just about all of it with him. Which was why she didn't really have to ask him that question too. Heh.

It wasn't like Kat was trying to imitate a poor statue by standing there as if she could not move a muscle or twitch an eye. She was rather contemplating if she wanted to face what's in store for her. Because, honestly, she wasn't as excited as she was back in the previous terms. It may possibly be just an effect of being a prefect. The pressure that came with the badge seemed to have numbed all the joints in Kat's body. However as much as she wanted to return the prefect badge to Professor Lafay or the Headmistress for reasons, she knew deep inside that she could not. It would be a waste to throw it away. Kat didn't have enough courage to do that anyway. One thing she really appreciated was the fact the school staff trusted her with this badge. That was something that quite sparked Kat in way she didn't know. Like a bus ran over her and hit her hard in the head. All she could do is promise that she would lead the noble house of Slytherin and help them in any way she could, from those life problems to finally maybe the House Cup. That would be very much a lot of work done, but she was a Slytherin for reasons and one of them could be her ambition and determination to get whatever she wanted. Well, with Dylan and Daichi (eh) as her fellow Slytherin leaders their house could do it. Apparently she was thinking too much, but only because the effect of being a student leader was something that hit her hard. She'll have to chill for a moment.

... Okay maybe Kat didn't really hate being a prefect anymore. Her friend Kendall had noticed the badge. Kat liked the attention, but that wasn't the reason why she was sort of starting to soothen up a bit. The prefect smiled at Kendall. "Yeah, I did, and thank you," she said to the Ravenclaw. Kendall must've been the first to really notice her new shiny badge. Perhaps only because she was the first Hogwarts student she talked to for today and didn't really plan on telling the majority that she had school priviledges and duties now. "Right, your wrist..." How could she make a simple mistake? How Puffer. "Sorry." She was still having lots of things in her mind and they were unraveling through her brain like people trying to catch a bus or whatever. "I could help you with carrying your things when we reach the train, I guess," Kat said. Apparently she was trying to act all Prefect-y now, but you know, also because she was friends with Kendall.

Jory had given up looking for any of his friends and was now waving at the clue car which was taking his parents and his sulking sister back home. He was in a bad mood because his sister had gotten him angry when she poked and prodded Furball. He had actually yelled at her, something he could not remember doing before.

Grace puzzled poor Jory sometimes. She would be nice to him one moment and then she'd be mean another. He supposed that she forced herself to be nice to him especially when their parents were around.He had put up with her behavior over the summer not saying anything to his parents though he suspected they noticed what was going on because he heard his mom questioning Grace on why she was being different around him. Just because she didn't have magical abilities... But poking Furball repeatedly was enough. Jory lost it and really, he didn't care right now about what he had done.

As the car disappeared, Jory heard someone practically yelling his name. He looked around. He was not in the mood for company. "Oh, hi, Gwen,'' he said locating the person, plastering a smile on his face. He needed to put all this behind him. For now, anyway. He needed to enjoy his final year. "How are you?''



Jory was about to go through the Wall but had suddenly paused. He was entering here for the last time. It seemed just like the other day, a confused and nervous eleven year old turned up at King's Cross pushing a trolley containing his trunk and owl cage. Where had the years gone?

He was so lost in his world of thoughts that he failed to noticed the persons standing right next to him. That is, until a familiar voice spoke. He looked around. "Hello, Ronnie,'' the boy said with a huge goofy grin. He had missed his friend since they last met in Diagon Alley. "Of course I would.'' He looked at the others who accompanied her. This must be her family. The Rockstars.

Gwendolyn made her way around the public area at the train station, still waiting for Zeke to reply something. Well… truth be told, she had never actually seen him this- disappointed? Sad? Gwen just thought about this as she twirled the copy of the newspaper in her left hand. Eh. Nervousness. She was trying not to think about everything that happened lately- But that didn’t work. She remembered the time when they met at the fountain this summer. Huh. She really had been rude… Ugh. And then the bowling alley. Zeke’s mood swings. Everything seemed to have changed since she mentioned it was great hanging out with him. Ughhh.

Happy as ever? Riiiight. ‘I know that you probably hate me’, she started saying. Uh. Probably?, Gwen then thought. No. Surely. He surely hated her now. And she could see why.

‘But can you at least talk to me?’ NORMALLY? Have a normal conversation? Not just ‘Hi’ and ‘I’m fine’?


‘I’m good… happy to be going back’, she replied. Yes, she decided NOT to worry about this being her final year and just be glad to be going back to Hogwarts. So far, it was working.

GRIN.

Gwen was happy to see Jory again. She really was. Though… the Huflepuff didn’t seem to feel the same way. Erm. Gwendolyn didn’t generally notice these things- when people were upset or something. Not really. She usually tended to ignore these things. But now it was impossible to overlook the fact that Jory wasn’t fine. He, who was always cheerful and all. ‘What’s wrong?’ Because she cared, alright?

Oddly enough, now that she’d really gotten a good look at both of them, Kendall realized that she hadn’t been the only one just standing there staring at the wall as if she expected it to just open up and let her through without having to actually run through it. That would have been way easier at the moment, as she was still a bit worried that she wasn’t going to be able to control her trunk with one hand while she was passing through. Since she still wasn’t quite able to trust it to go at it at a walk. It was going to have to be a run, and that meant she had to get up the courage to try it. Of course, the worst case scenario was that she’d crash and hurt herself, and that really wasn’t a problem right now. She was already injured as it was, and maybe that would mean she’d have to find a different way to get to Hogwarts. She wouldn’t have to sit by herself on the train and wonder where Patrick was hiding at, or where anyone else was. She probably wouldn’t be doing too much wandering, just because she didn’t feel like explaining why she had a cast on her wrist seven million times. She already knew that Beezus would have been in the prefect compartment, along with Katrina. Most everyone else she didn’t know if they’d understand, or if they’d have dozens of questions as to why she’d tried to fight her boyfriend’s brother anyway.

People didn’t need to understand that. She knew what she had wanted to do, and while it certainly hadn’t gone the way she’d wanted, it had made a point. Either way, she figured she’d made her point. As far as she knew, he wasn’t about to listen to the evil opinions of his family anymore and believe he was worthless, so a broken wrist was nothing. Just an annoyance that was pushed away by the conversation with Katrina about her sparkly badge. “You’re welcome,” she replied, looking at the blonde Slytherin a bit curiously. It almost seemed like she hadn’t entirely been as excited about it as Kendall had been. That wasn’t really important. Katrina could deal with the honor however she wanted, and she’d just have the knowledge that she had more than one friend who was a prefect. Even though she still had that plan to finally manage to put into action, hopefully this term. Nothing was happening until she got her cast off. “It’s okay. You don’t need to apologize,” she replied. The cast did cover most of her hand too, after all, so that could confuse people. “You can if you want to. I don’t want you to think you have to stick around just to help me if you have other places you want to be, or you need to be.” The Slytherin was going to have to be all prefect-y and stuff, as far as she knew. She wasn’t about to turn down help if it was offered, but she wouldn’t be all selfish either.

Well, Nigel thought. It seemed that Laura at least had a tad more exciting summer than him. Even if she did not want to talk about it.

" I basically did nothing interesting this summer. Read some books while helping my uncle at the ministry."

His uncle's job was interesting. But not really exciting. Nigel might as well start some research of his own while waiting in the receiving area.

"But i did see some awesome movies. Just can't remember their names. You ready to start a new year?"

She smiled. "Good!" she was afraid of sitting alone on the train and wanted to find someone to sit with early. She then noticed him looking at her family behind her. "Oh, this is my family. That's Liam, my father. Heather, my mother... and my brothers: Danny, Alex, and Chris." she introduced them all, pointing at each as she said their names.

"And everyone, this is my friend Jory." she said, gesturing to Jory. Everyone smiled at him and took turns shaking his hand.

"So, you ready to go through?" she asked him, glancing at the barrier and then back at Jory.

He shrugged, not thinking anything of answering 'just okay'. "I mean, I am great, not just okay." Of course he was happy, he got to leave his annoying family behind for a whole term.

WAHOOOOOOP.

Theo narrowed his eyes until he was looking Ella STRAIGHT in the eyes. Something he hadn't been able to do in a long time. She was definitely lying. Oooooh, not a trait we knew Ella had! "It looks like you got some dust in there, or something. Want me to get it out?" Theo already had his hand about an inch away from her eyeball, ready to fish whatever it "was" out.

Just to clarify, he wasn't totally sure if he physically could touch a human being's eyeball but oh well.

Minerva had walked back into Kings Crossing. She had already been in there once, but when Ethan went to check on a few things since he was now prefect and it was his job, it had given Min a moment to check her bags and what she was missing gave her a mini heart attack. She was hoping she had dropped it some where, that's why she ended up back outside looking around. Her Ipod was important to her, very, even though she couldn't use it once at school, she didn't want to loose it either. She liked having her phone and the Ipod in her bag, just to feel close to that side of her even if they weren't in use.

With her head down she scanned the floor as she walked. Where was it.. how could she have lost it. Maybe it was still at Ethan's house. Hopefully that is where it was. Maybe she would check her trunk again. BUMP Looking up confused and then with a bit of a blush she saw that she ran into someone, well at least it was someone and now one of the walls. Then recognition jumped in and she smiled, "Hey Nash, haven't seen you since I gave you that tour." She was glad that she was getting to see him again. She always liked gaining new friends and the fact that he seemed very nice made it that much better.

Nashville looked around. Did he really have to do that? Like run into the wall? Wouldn't that hurt? DUUUUH! Nashville jumped about ten feet in the air. What was that? Now he was becoming jumpy because he has to run into a wall to get to the other side of the platform. Someone was bumping into him. MINNIEMOO!!! That was new? He had to be like the nickname king, for sure.

"'Ello MinnieMoo!"

Great, huh? That was good to hear and Ella's smile widened a little as she nodded her head. "I'm glad." Sincerely.

The direct eye contact was a bit of a surprise, mostly because Theo seemed to look down or away up until very recently when they were together. She figured this was some sort of test, though, so she locked her eyes with his and raised an eyebrow. STARE. "Dust?" Her eyes widened a bit at the proximity of his finger and she chewed on her lip. Oh Merlin, she couldn't let him go fishing around for dust on her eyeball.

SIGH.

"Fine, I was crying." Mellow. "I'm no good with goodbyes."

And also...

"You weren't really going to touch my eyeball, were you?"

Minerva smiled, "Hey Nash, you excited to be finally headed to school?" She chuckled at the nickname, she had been called so many different things, that no name could really bother her. Looking around "Are you here alone?" She noticed an older couple behind him, maybe that was his grandparents he talked to her about at the pizza place.

Looking to the floor again, she decided to give up on the Ipod, she would have to ask Ethan to Owl his parents to see if it showed up at their house or maybe she would just owl Mrs. McCarthy herself. Anyway that could wait until school, smiling back up at Nash, "You do know how to get on the platform, right?"

Nash smiled. Excited and nervous. But it was like the good nerves not the bad ones. It was like he was so excited that he was nervous. "I have been waiting for this moment my whole life, I am so excited about finally going to Hogwarts." Nashville couldn't fight the smile off his face, he tried so hard because he probably looked like a freak but he couldn't help it. "My grandparents are here with me." he pointed to the cute little elderly couple behind him.

Well he did and he believed his grandfather but did he really have to run into a wall? Was that what he had to do? "Well...er...my grandfather told me that I have to run into that wall there." he point at the wall. "Do I? I mean do I really have to run into it? what if it wants to be like? No I don want to let you in kind of thing?" Seriously? What if the wall cool feel his nervousness.

Wow he really was excited about going to Hogwarts. Min smiled at him, that was so great to be that excited about school. She was scared to death her first time, but unlike Nash she had never even knew the school was real until her letter. "Well that's great your so excited. I hope it is as good as you hope, but I think it will be." She grinned at the elderly couple and waved a bit. "Now you said one of them went to Hogwarts?"

Chuckling she looked to the wall, [b] "Its normal to be nervous and running.. Well for your first time it might not be a bad idea to do it quick so you don't freak out. I don't know if full run, that might attract attention from the other people walking around." Laughing more she shook her head, "No.. no its not going to tell you that you can't go through. You will be fine, I promise. If you want I can go right before you so you can see how I go through first."

He had one beautiful girl to his right and the other to his left. If ALL of Hogwarts was like this, jeez, he was going to MAYBE enjoy school. Eh, okay, not that crazy. But he would enjoy parts of it. Namely how beautiful all of the ladies were. Wink. Of course, his girlfriend's face was his favorite of all of the faces.

Mika? Hmm... her name was Mika. Well, that was a beautiful name. A beautiful name for a beautiful girl. 'Sides, he was pretty sure he had heard her name before in passing. Maybe he had met her before. It was so hard to keep track. His girlfriend knew SO many people.

"Mika, is it?" Smirky smirk, "Beautiful name, gorgeous." Heh.

So anyway... where was this stupidly named station. 9 and 3/4? Psh. What WAS that?

was short...i know but peeves has been stopping me constantly so here you go!
 

His eyebrows met at the instant he heard her say that he probably hated her. HAH. He could just burst into sarcastic chuckles at that absurd statement. He was far from hating her, as much as he wanted to. As some saying goes from an old song or some book maybe, "I hate that I love you." Dang, he loved her? Zeke remained quiet and bit his lip, as he finally stopped walking as he reached the platform. He let go of his luggage and turned back to face her.

"First of all, I do not hate you," he said with a restraint voice. 'Honestly Zeke, how weak can you possibly get?' It was only a matter of time until he'd start seeing water in fill his eyes and his voice betraying him. 'NO, ZEKE. You will not, I repeat you will NOT confess to Gwen. Selfish stupid Ezekiel.' He simply cannot. He shouldn't, either. How on earth did he get himself into this mess? Taking a deep breath, he maintained that stern expression on his face. "And second, I am talking to you." He knew what Gwen meant. But he decided to play dumb.

"Have a nice day, Gwen." He smiled at her...rather coldly, looked away, held on to his luggages, then proceeded to cross the hidden platform.

She was in a decent bright-less outfit today. But she did wear her favorite brown coat which made her oh so warm inside during a cold day such as this. Hihi! Her mother and father were right behind her while little Mina was beside her brother's cart. Ohh, wow! A lot of tall people! She was both excited yet scared because after 2 years, she was going to be part of this. Many many many people! Maybe they were students in Hogwarts... Oh gosh, she wondered how she'll be able to fit in. Wait... how was she going to get to the platform though? Oh, dear...

Suddenly little Mina eyed a three-year-old boy. How cute! But wait... the little boy's hand was being held by a taller person...maybe her older sister? Or mother? She doesn't know. The tall, red-head girl looked more like a lady. While Mina's mother and father were talking to some friend, Mina approached the red-headed lady from her behind.

Mina poked the lady a bit and asked with a child-like voice, "Excuse me, uhm, how do we get to the train going to Hogwarts?"

Walking into King Cross was a exciting time. Go off to school and hopefully meeting new friends. Isabella had said good bye to her family and was walking towards the entence to the platform. Looking around she saw lot of kids and their parents. Wondering if they were all Hogwart students or not. Looking towards the platform she started to walk. maybe i should run through? she thought. "No, I should walk." talking to herself looking to see if anyone was listening.

"Here it goes." and Isabella walked forward, she didnt want to be late for the train after all.

Don't double post !
 

Clearly waiting at Kings' Cross for a quarter hour wasn't her thing. She was starting to get frustrated. Her twin was the last thing to being fast. Amara looked around, seeing what others did, to keep herself amused. Then she spotted a rather excited looking little girl. Why not talk? And she was getting bored too.

She walked towards the girl. "Hey there, I'm Amara Kaul" she said, as she neared her. "Is that your brother?" she asked as she extended her hand. Given her frame, she musn't be first year yet. But she really looked tiny. Very tiny.

Nashville nodded, his grandparents had bother gone to Hogwarts, they met there and it was pretty much a love story...kind of. "My grandparents met there when they were eleven and they were best friends for a bit and then my grandpa had shown his feelings for my grandmother in their sixth year but she was dating someone else and my grandfather got beat up and stuff but he managed to win her heart at the end of their sixth year and they have been together ever since." Nashville was a hopeless romantic, he loved to listen in about his grandparents when they were at Hogwarts and how they met.

"I have been watching people run into the wall and disappearing but I just think that it might close on me because it might not like me."

Leaving his grandfather behind, Kaiden pushed the cart thingy that had has his trunk on it. He was constantly on the look out for a certain blonde girl. That, and trying to not look to conspicuous with all the muggles around. Which was fairly difficult, what with all the critters, who were not currently in their cages.

Zara was easy. The purple little puff seemed to like hiding in dark places, and had found her way into one of the larger cargo pockets of his shorts. And Toad, well, there wasn’t anything too unusual about him, except that he was a toad, on his shoulder. No, the problem was Kilo, the incredibly pink pygmy puff who kept insisting on sitting on his head. That was his favorite place to be, and Kaiden had to keep picking him back up and putting him in the pocket opposite Zara. “Buddy, you’ve gotta stay in here, just for a little bit.”

Buttoning the pocket, in an attempt to keep the puff still, he saw Mika up ahead. Errr… yeah, how was this supposed to go? He needed to give the puffs back to her, and tell her things, but well, that actually involved seeing her, and talking to her. Pushing his cart thing up to the Blonde, and the those standing near her, he stopped. “Er… Hi,” he said rubbing the back of his neck. “We need to er,…” He said, motioning with his head that they should talk, not here.

Oh good, Mika did have a good summer. Certainly sounded like it. Penelope grinned. "That's cool." Traveling was always fun, and hanging with friends was too. And camping? That was cool too. Maybe Penelope should add that to her to-do list for next summer. It could be fun to do that again. "What kinda food did you make?" And was it really THAT bad? Penelope was suddenly considering asking Mika to make her something to eat, just so she could find out herself. And she was about to when...

...another boy arrived. He was familiar too. Penelope remembered him as being on the Hufflepuff Quidditch team, though she hadn't talked much to him before. "Hey," she greeted him, though it seemed he was most interested in talking to Mika. Should she and Ascanius leave them alone and just go on to the platform or...? Hmm...

The Baltazar family gathered out into Kings Cross. Xavier had DROVE the family to the train station. DROVE a MUGGLE CAR. Impressive, no?

As he strutted down the station with a proud look on his face, Xavier pushed Peyton's cart forward, making a silly face at Cornelius, who sat on top of his daughter's trunks. It seemed like she had packed more this term around. His eyed her carefully as she walked ahead of them, his wife at her side. His three eldest daughters always packed extra because of...boys.

Now one of them was married with twins, and the other two had boyfriends. Peyton was absolutely NOT ALLOWED to have a boyfriend yet. Or until she was 50. She was fourteen, still a baby in his eyes. But, he wasn't daft. He'd seen her change over the summer and he just hoped a boy wasn't responsible for it. For majority, anyway. SIIIIIIIIIGH.

"We'll see you off, okay, darling," he said in case she had forgotten. They'd gone over it at home. He wasn't leaving until he made sure the train was safe. Anything for his little munchkin...even if she wasn't too happy about it.

Ursulla walked along Peyton, her eyes ahead of her while she clutched on to her purse, tightly. Merlin. Oh Merlin, indeed. Was she the only one who'd seen what their youngest daughter was wearing? Sure, she hadn't been there to teach Peyton much about style and...this was all Xavier's fault. Taking her to Quidditch practices when she was young. It must of have had some kind of influence on the girl.

Pity. Maybe she could get Yvonne, Yvette and Yvanna to help Peyton with her wardrobe choices. This just wouldn't do. Sigh. Peyton was such a father's girl. But, she loved the girl too much to complain about her clothing choices. Well, up front, anyway. They butted heads too much, that, whatever improvement they've made --which was almost non-existent-- she didn't want to ruin.

.....

"Okay, daddy," Peyton replied, turning only just to send him a tight smile. Why her parents still treated her like a child was beyond her. Even her mother, she was acting like her bodyguard or something. If it was because of the Seth thing, it was over, and they didn't have to worry about it.

She side-glanced at her mother and wrinkled her nose. Peyton couldn't wait until she was at Hogwarts so she wouldn't have to deal with the woman. If she thought that following her around would erase years of hurt, Ursulla Baltazar was completely wrong.

"I'm going to go ahead. See you in a bit," she said, once again, turning to her father and waving at Cornelius, and ignoring her mother. Peyton then proceeded to skipping ahead of them and walking through the wall.

Finally she'd be free from all the smothering. :3

Rearanging the order
 

Ascanius was all smirks as he spoke to the two lovely ladies. This was just perfect for him. He was attractive, they were attractive. Good looking people just tended to bring about attractive people and from what he had seen of Hogwarts girls he was going to have plenty of company. Smirk. Wink.

So it was no shock to him that their conversation was going just splendidly. 'Sides, Mika had a cute little blush that was OBVIOUSLY brought about by him so he was keen on her sticking around. Also, Spot was there too so he was in good company. Although, any company was good when Pen was there. Yeah, yeah. Ruddy boyfriend sap. Whatever.

And then someone ELSE showed up and ruined their fun. Jeez, and he was rubbing the back of his neck and starting a sentence with er? Where was the confidence? Was this guy some kind of ninny? Ugh, he dealt with beautiful girls enough to not have to deal with some half-hearted girly!man. Honestly. Bugger off, guy. No one wants you here.

Smirking at the new guy who was literally like worms meat in this little conversation they were having, Ascanius said, "I'm sorry. I don't know if that was a hi or an er. You have to me more specific." Smirks all around. "And sorry mate. But we're in the middle of a chat, yeah?" Yeah, they were.

But he was being rude. He decided to be a little bit more tactful, "By the way, I'm Ascanius." And no, he wasn't joking. It was a name, okay?

Minerva listened to his story about his grandparents and she let a "Awww slip out. Smiling towards his grandparents she couldn't help but wonder if that couldn't be here some day, but that was way, way, waaaaaayyyyy to future for her. She just started thinking about a few years from now.. No need to think that long term. Looking back to Nash she blushed, knowing it had to have been obvious that her mind wondered away from their conversation. She really had to get a grip this term when it came to her focus. "That was an amazing story and it's so nice to know that happens. I bet they are super excited to see you go to their school then." Grinning she glanced back at them, "What houses were they in? She couldn't help but wonder. She always liked to know the match up between houses or even the same house.

Minerva giggled at his nervousness, not that she was being mean, but she just remembered her own fear. "Yes, I remember being terrified, my mom had to literally throw me into it." Her mind slipping again she thought about her mom and that first trip here, moments like this she really missed her parents. "It will not close on you unless you miss the time. You have plenty of time at the moment, so just take a deep breath and go through it. Like I said, I can do it first if you like."

"We have to make sure all your things were carry over, dear," said Mother as she helped Aphrodite to bring down entire luggage. "C'mon honey, I know you are very happy, but we should still be careful on Muggles. Never let them see us through walls," Father said, winking toward Aphrodite. Accompanied by Father and Mother, five children are with their each trolley slowly entering King's Cross Station and Aphrodite's first year is about to begin. "You ready?" asked Father while embracing and smiling at her. "Of course, Father! Come on!" she said, pushing her cart with Father's help.

Amara watched as a girl came through the walls with her father and mother. They were all hugging and smiling. She was reminded of Zyanya and her parents. Same show again. She was the last person who would like to have all these public, or private for that matter, display of affections. One could argue that she was allergic to affection. Does that make sense?

Well the girl did look like a first year, deciding to make a small talk while she waited for her twin, she walked briskly towards the girl. She waited patiently for her to get over with parents. "Hey" she called, a bit loudly. "Are you a first year too?" she asked.

Aphrodite's attention distracted by the call of a little girl who she thought has same age as her. Removing Father's embrace, she moved toward the little girl who called her just now. "Hello! Yes, I am also a first year student. My name is Aphrodite Dragongrass, you can call me Fro or Aphrodite. Pleased to meet you!" she said, holding out her hand to the little girl. Maybe she'll meet a friend before starting a new school year at Hogwarts.

Laura looked at Nigel and smiled. "Well it seems cool, reading can be awesome." Laura giggled. "I lost a bet so had to read this summer and I must admit this book I read was awesome." Laura wouldn't normally have read it if she hadn't been forced to.

"Hey movies can be awesome." Laura giggled at Nigel's next sentence. "I can't believe you can call a movie awesome if you don't know the name." Laura had no idea how someone can say that a movie was awesome if they hadn't seen it.

*bounces* *bounces*

Laura was jumping up and down like crazy. "I'm not sure because I don't like sitting still and I have owls this term and it's going to be hard to sit still and do them." Laura smiled she couldn't wait to see what would happen when she tried to stay still for that long.

"Yes, so we're both firsties" she said, grinning as she shook her hand. New friends. She loved making friends, ofcourse. "I'm Amara. Amara Kaul" she introduced herself. She looked at the blond girl, her eyes were literally sparkling. "Wait...Aphrodite..." she thought, she did hear that somewhere. "Hey, isn't that the Greek goddess of beauty?" she asked. Mum had once read some parts from Know Your Greek book. Must ask Zyanya. She looked at the girl again, and she did look pretty. Fitting name.

Nigel shrugged. " It pretty early in the summer when i saw it. All i remember are the action scenes and who knows maybe for some of your owls you wont have to be still" Nigel did forget that he had his owls next year. Time really does fly.

Now Laura was bouncing up and down like crazy and Nigel could not concentrate on what she was saying. Nigel raised one of his eyebrows and asked "Um, Did you eat anything before you got here Laura?"

It was worth asking why she was bouncing like crazy.

Laura looked at Nigel.

*bounces* *bounces*

"Oh you know nothing much just the usual, I had chocolate, I had ice-cream, I had hot chocolate and things like that." Laura giggled. "I wasn't supposed to but everyone was busy and so I just went to the shop and brought some." Laura giggled. "What about you?" Laura had no idea why they were talking about this but she didn't want to be rude so she decided to ask Nigel.

Aphrodite just want to ask something to Amara, but when she asked the origin of her name happy she replied, "I see you also like to read books like Theo and me. Absolutely, Amara. My name comes from the Greek goddess of beauty, but my parents also gave this name because me and my brothers were born in Greece. My brothers also have their name comes from the Greek Gods," she said with her glowing eyes. "Oh yes Amara, I almost forgot. It seems I've been seeing someone who looks like you around here. Hmm .. do you have a sister?" she asked, trying to find someone who she meant.

"Theo? Is he your brother?" she asked. "Yes ofcourse, my mum read some parts of those to me long back" she said. Well, proves one thing, I've got a perfect memory. Smirk.

And she asked about someone looking like her....Aaah yeshh! "So you did see my twin?" she asked, smiling. Ofcourse, she must have..she might have been standing somewhere two foot close, hugging mum and dad. "It's Zyanya, my twin sissy" she said. "You wanna meet her?" she asked and looked around for the girl.

This little girl is very great, not everyone managed to guess who Theo or any of her brother is. "Yeah right, Amara! Theo is the name of my brother, I still have three older brothers," Aphrodite said with a cheerful, he likes to tell about his family. Amara said that the girl she saw was her twin sister, Aphrodite remembered about Aidan and Alex, "Of course I want to meet her. Did you know, that I also want you to meet my brothers later, they're with Mother right now and I have brothers who is also a twin; by the way, how do you feel has a twin sister, Amara? "she added.

"Oh cool... more siblings, more the fun" she said, "Are they younger or elder than you?" she asked. Atleast one of them must be at Hogwarts? And she grinned mischievously at the twin effect. "Yeaaaah.. about my twin. It's cool really. We connect a LOT! We do bicker sometimes, she does mainly." she said. "I stay silent and that irritates her a lot!" she added. "And ofcourse, I have an alibi when I'm in trouble" she said, winking. "Uhm..she's around here somewhere..." she trailed, "I bring her to you as soon as I set my eyes on her" First, I should. Where the devil was she?

Aphrodite found that talking with Amara is really fun. "They're all older than me, and they all go to school at Hogwarts," Aphrodite said with a smile in the direction of Amara and looked in the direction where her brother was. Pointing toward the two young men that both were wearing red and blue jumpers and said, "You saw two young men in there, Amara? They're both my oldest brother. Their names are Aidan and Alex. They were in school year their last, "then she proceed to two teenage boys who only have blond hair and the other brown," for the two boys over there, they are also my brothers and I would introduce them later when we will leave, "she added with a smile, "I think I wanna to introduce you to Mother and Father."

Gwen just continued walking, not looking at the Gryffindor anymore. But she waited for some reply from him. Wait--- he didn’t hate her? Didn’t?

Why not?

Duh. Genius, Gwen. Upon finally hearing some good news, her first reaction was to wonder WHY things were actually not going that bad. So… he really didn’t hate her? Her thoughts were then interrupted by something else he said.

Have a nice day?

Really, Zeke?

Gwen tried not to roll her eyes. Could that day be nice? It already started awfully. Really. The one person she actually liked hated her. Or not. He didn’t even hate her. He was just indifferent. Which was probably even worse. How great was that?! ‘Yeah, you too’, she eventually mumbled, drawing her attention away from Zeke.

"Right" she said, as she looked at the boys Fro pointed out. "The elder are the twins, huh" she mumbled at the pair called Aidan and Alex. Aidan. Nice name. "What houses were they in?" she asked, curiosity getting the better of her. Introduce later. Okay. Mother and Father. Oh, okay. Wait, what? "Oh" she said, surprised. "I'm fine with it" she said, smiling. Ofcourse, meeting parents was her thing, wasn't it? Until I don't get into any trouble. Behave. She looked towards Fro's parents. They did look like the 'calm' kind.

And she spotted yet another little girl. Another firstie? The whole castle is going to be filled with us. MUTINY! She watched as the girls elder siblings vanished in a second. Puff. And yeah, I didn't miss the sigh. "Hey" she called out to the girl. She smiled genuinely and waved to the girl, motioning her to join them.

Aphrodite directing gaze toward Aidan who was smiling at her as she said to Amara, "Aidan was in Ravenclaw and Alexandre was in Gryffindor. Both my brother the other, Leonidas was in Slytherin and Theo was in Ravenclaw," he says as he eagerly, "Did your family mind if I take you there? "continued Aphrodite again.

"Slytherin, eh?" she asked, suddenly interested. "That's where my father was, and that's where I wish to be" she said, with a grin. Perfect, perfect. "Yeah.. I would like to meet them" she nodded, "Let's make it fast.." she trailed, "I think I can see the train coming" she said, looking at something that had appeared on the track, far away.

Oh, That other girl was saying hello… “Hi.” He said giving her a nod, and feeling Toad shift slightly on his shoulder. “You’re… Quidditch right?” He was pretty sure she was.

And then that other person. Kaiden narrowed his eyes at him, and crossed his arms. “Wasn’t talking to you, and I can talk to who ever I like.” As he spoke, he felt a slight pressure change on his shoulder, and quickly put his hand up to stop the toad from jumping at Whats-his-face. “Stop it” he said, grabbing hold of him.

And see, Miks was telling them to go away. She didn’t want to talk to him anymore. “Not the rain boots.” He said frowning. Following the girl he shook his head at her designated spot… “I think we should talk… not here. We should got to the platform, at least.”

Taking a drive to the station was kind of the least magical thing that Jayden had experienced for the past few days. From the leaky cauldron, to Diagon Alley and then Ollivanders; all these were definitely far beyond Jayden's dreams.

After that wonderful experience, He simply could not wait to get on to the platform.

Getting out of the car, the Campbell family brisk walked through the busy station to the gateway of platform 9 & 3/4.

Petra stood by the entrance and hugged her Mom and Dad for the last time, she was still upset with them for hidding the fact that they to attended Hogwarts but she understood why they kept that secret from her, and why they decided to livein the muggle community.

So with a final wave I turned the cart around and entered my way onto platform 9 3/4 and started walking toward the train. It was the first time in her life that Petra felt alone..but maybe just maybe she would meet some more first years like herself and she wouldn't feel so alone.

Trains from Brighton didn't go straight to Kings Cross, so instead Tobias and both of his grandparents to the train station literally right across the road, which also housed international train lines. Only minutes after leaving that train, Tobias and the two old people were at the public square of Kings Cross.

It was a good job they didn't have to stop and check the departures board or anything, because the curious outline of Tobias' new broom in its paper wrapping was drawing the attention from a good few muggles. Also, the energetic kitten in its temporary carrying basket was doing the same job.

They still had ages, but Tobias' grandfather suggested it would be a good idea to get on the platform and load up his heavy trunk as soon as they could, and get out of sight of muggles. Toby agreed and nodded at the man, before grinning at him and his grandmother, before the three of them headed in the general direction of the barrier between platforms 9 and 10.

It took some convincing, but here Anya Phillips was, returning to Hogwarts for her 6th year. She'd already said goodbye to her family. It was probably because they knew that once she saw Jake again there was really no getting away from him.

And they were right.

Speaking of Jake. Where was that boyfriend of hers? He had all her things. Why? Because. Pfft. Anya wasn't going to carry things if Jake volunteered to. Or... was going to be there. Really, his existence made her lazy. But that was okay. He probably didn't even notice that she volunteered him to bring her trunk before it was too late.

She readjusted her bag on her shoulder before she spotted him. With a wide grin on her face, she ran over to him and threw herself into his arms.

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