Simon looked at Kurumi. "I live out of the country too, I live on a small Island called Hollian." He smiled. "I've been there all summer, we had this big muggle event happening, can't remember what exactly but they wanted me there to talk to people and so on, it was boring we had loads of formal dances and dinner to go to, sometimes I just wish I was someone else." He hated some of his lifestyle but other parts where good. "I spend most of the summer holiday on my feet either talking or at some formal do, it was boring, the carnival sounded like fun." He then heard Connor's name. "I think I have heard of him." He hadn't seen much of Connor for ages maybe they could talk sometime this term.

"Yeah really." Simon smiled, he wouldn't lie about something this serious, he had only told his great friends like Treyen and a couple of others but he was sure him and Kurumi would become excellent friends, though now he had no idea what to talk about.

"Geez, that's some good magic! Haven't done anything like that before..." Sage said feeling slightly stupid after hearing of the difficult magic Chelsea had done, without even going to Hogwarts! "W-was it hard?

Sage snapped her head around to see a young boy, about her her age, sitting there.

"Oh! Hello, are you a first year?"

"I bet." she said with a grin. "So how is the first year?" she asked curiously. "Are the classes fun are the teachers nice…I'm asking to many questions aren't I"

Evelyn was giving her that look...and Marilyn felt totally stupid. Rafe had managed to make her feel alienated in a compartment she'd inhabited first. More than ever, she wished Carter was there...but that would only make the situation more tense.

Caroline knew, now...There was no hiding it. Not that Marilyn felt she had to. It was just, she didn't like talking about hers and Carter's business with everyone in the world. Leave it to Rafe to open his BIG mouth. Turning to Caroline, putting on the best front she could (which was impressive), she nodded. "Yes, It was the single most wonderful summer of my life..."

Okay, so maybe that was too much...

Hearing Kurumi shouting in the corridor outside the compartment, Marilyn groaned.

Already?!

"Hello!"exclaimed the eager Elina. She had tried so hard at making friends and this time she was determined to this time. She flipped her long blonde hair over her shoulder and looked at all of them with her icy blue eyes. " What's Your name?" she asked with a smile, "Mine's Elina McDonnaldson" she held out her hand for a shake.

"Hollian?" Kurumi repeated, cocking her head to the side like a baby owl. "Where is that? I'm afraid I have never heard of that island before." Not that Kurumi was very good with geography. Growing up, she didn't think she would ever go anywhere outside of Japan, so her studies in the field were seriously lacking. "Who you are sounds like you are amazing," she commenting shaking her head. "If there is one thing I have learned so far since coming to Hogwarts, it's that we shouldn't wish to be anyone else than who we are." Accepting that thought, well, that was an entirely different story.

Kurumi got all caught up in the images swirling around in her head. A grand ballroom where all the ladies looked like Cinderellas and they were dancing with their own Prince Charmings...

"Woooow..." was all Kurumi could muster. She felt like she needed to reveal some deep secret of her own, but she was far from being comfortable enough to do that right now.

Katie got on the train and walked all the way in the back, where she found one last empty compartment. "This is going to be one lonley first year at Hogwarts." she thought sadly.

Sage walked down the train back to her compartment, but stopped suddenly when she noticed a girl. She was about Sage's age, and was sitting alone. Sage quietly entered the compartment.

Hello! Are you a first year? My name's Sage by the way," Sage anounced holding out her hand to the girl...

Simon smiled at Kurumi. "It's a small Island off the coast of Spain." Simon said truthfully. "Not many people have heard of it until this summer when the big event was held there, how we managed to get the event is beyond me but we somehow did and I must admit it was excitting though like I said the offical duties I had to do was sometime very boring."

"Surely you must want to be someone else sometimes, like sometimes I think I would like to be out of the public eye sometimes, like if I go anywhere in Hollian then the press follows me around everywhere and it is so hard to get them to stop." He sighed.

Simon smiled at Kurumi. "What do you want to do?" He realised she was thinking hard after saying wooow and he didn't like her thinking hard. "We could find a compartment and play a game of exploding snap if you want?"

Joaquin woke up hearing people talking about expansion charms and classes and decided to check where the talking was coming from.
When he reached that compartment he saw two young women talking about potions and a rather weird subject. He decided to ask , "What are potions and what you call the DADA , I'm really sorry , I really don't know much about this because I'm a muggleborn". he said

"It took me about three tries to make a successful expansion charm and as for potions I got it right the first time. My aunt says potions just come natural to me my parents were very skilled in potion making. I've also practiced the Lumos charm that one took me about 7 tries. It gets easier though" Chelsea explained



Chelsea looked around to see who was talking to her. She noticed a boy standing in the doorway of the compartment. "Hi I'm Chelsea Charm. I've done an expansion charm and I started practicing potions already. Have you practiced using magic yet?"

Now...it looked and mostly felt like things were going more and more awkward in this compartment as time went by. Still insisting on looking nowhere but outside from the window, Josh just listened to the voices and tried not to scowl and get more annoyed. It was just a stupid name and a quick wink anyway. Those were harmless, right? Right.

Yet...harmless or not, NO ONE could...oooh well...the boy finally moved his gaze and looked back to the door when he heard another voice greeting them. Well...it was another blonde girl. ''Hi, Caroline.'' Josh greeted back neither cheerfully nor in a bothered way. How annoyed he was right now had nothing to do with the girl anyway.

And see...he, Rafe, was telling him to calm down. He wondered what would the other lion boy do if he happened to approach Marilyn, whom he currently seemed to be trying to flirt, with kind of a...flirty attitude like that. Or maybe it was not flirting anyway and he was just exeggerating things. Josh could not be sure. ''Yea. That means i can go into my supposed cardial arrest once we are safely at school, right?'' And OF COURSE she was in good hands!!! It was his own hands!!

Then all in a sudden a bottle of butterbeer was in his hands. Well...he could not complain about that...even though the drink was not cold yet what was going on?

Raising his eyebrows, Josh, now directly staring at the other Gryffindor, blinked at him a couple of times as he spoke. To be honest, he did agree with most of the parts of what he was saying and actually laughed a bit at the 'bubble' part. Aaaaaaaand he was drinking to him and Evelyn? Well...that was new as no one had suggested that before. So, smiling some he raised his bottle too right before opening it and taking a sip. ''Eh...thank you, mate.''

Then...somebody, who was Caroline, asking for everyone's summer. Eh. Josh's was quite simple actually.....work but he was not sure if he should mention it so instead he just preferred to listen to others' answers to the question. Marilyn had a happy summer. Yes, he had heard that before. And he had to raise his eyebrows when he heard about Rafe's summer. Wow. People, which was people other than him, were so lucky to be able to visit so many different places and countries....very unlike himself. He just had to got stuck in a farm and work under the summer heat. Eh? He knew the reason why though and it was that he lacked an essential element, which he never wanted to bring up, to enjoy that kind of a summer.

Then there was all this talk about Carter and the tension between Marilyn and Rafe. Weird. It was weird. But what was Rafe doing anyway? It was obvious that the girl was annoyed so why not leaving her alone? So, in order to point that out and maybe to ask Rafe to have a little talk about it, Josh opened his mouth yet...then closed it since Rafe was apparently leaving. Alright. Whatever.

What mostly mattered to him right now was Evelyn's presence anyway, therefore he focused all his attention on her instead and right after smiling a bit he put the bottle of butterbeer away, wrapped her again. Then just leaning his head against hers, he could not help but laugh some at her sarcastic comment about Marilyn and Rafe getting along fine. That was sarcastic, right? Eh. It sounded funny to him anyway. ''What a smart evaluation of events!'' he murmured and placed a kiss on her neck.

Yet the kiss had to be a quick one apparently, as Josh realised someone else whose voice was not so familiar entered the compartment as well. Wow. The place now was like a seventh year headquarters. Looking up, he eyed the Gryffindor boy, Jai. Well? ''Hey.'' so he greeted back before leaning back to his girlfriend. Oh? Had he seen a prefect badge? He was not going to bother to look back to make sure though since he was busy with his beloved girlfriend. The prefects could give him all the detentions they wanted for that. He did not really care.

But then there was the chocolate frog!!!! Yeaa...he totally remembered it. Looking back towards where the kitty was supposed to be sleeping, Josh's eyes were all widened again when he saw that the kitty was there no more and the chocolate was open to everyone's sight. Nooooooooo! Now that was something that needed immediate intervention. As a result, not really knowing what he was doing or considering the possible consequences, the Gryffindor freed Evelyn from his grip and kind of...attacked to the chocolate frog to hide it again.

Where?

*blink*

"Hi, my name is Katie Black" said Katie and she shook Sages hand.
"How's it going?"

Sage giggled.

"Oh I've tried the Lumos charm before," Sage began to explain,"Me and my little sister snuck into my older brothers room and took his wand last year and spent the night getting it to work! I can't remember how many tries it took, but it took a little longer using a wand that isn't yours if you get what I mean!"

Sage remembered that night very well, Sage and her sister swore to each other never to mention it out loud near family members, so they wouldn't get in trouble...

"Black? Not related to the Black Family are you?" Sage knew of the family, who didn't! They weren't exactly a quiet bunch. Sage remember hearing stories of the man Sirius Black and his younger brother.

First year was wicked! The classes were interesting, especially potions. Other than that it was an awesome year Lysandra answered the soon to be first year. And don't worry about asking to many questions, I'm completely fine with it. I'd probably do the same thing too she chuckled.

"Nope , I actually have this habit of waking up in the middle of the night." said Joaquin with a puzzled look.

Chelsea laughed "Nice. Have you tried any other spells?" she asked. "I've also tried the Incendio charm to light the fireplace"

Sage looked over to see boy about her age...

"Hello! First year too?" Sage asked,"Oh, your muggleborn! Cool! You see Potions and DADA are classes at Hogwarts. Potions is pretty self explanatory, you just brew stuff by following the directions. DADA stands for Defence Against the Dark Arts, we basicly learn about Dark Magic and how to protect ourselves from it!"

Sage paused beofre realising she hadn't introduced herself! "My name is Sage!"

"Well, my brother did show me how to do the Tickling Charm," Sage giggled again,"We had lots of fun with that one! So, do you like fire or something? You seem to have a lot to do with it!"

"Yes, Sirius was my cousin, but I'm not supposed to tell anyone because my dad and his mum got into an arguement when she wanted to marry my mum because shes a half-blood and not "pure". They never spoke and he didn't go to her funeral. I've always wanted to meet Sirius though." Katie said. She remembered the pictures she found in a box in the attic of a moving picture of her dad holding a baby the wasn't her, on the back it said "Sirius", she kept that photo and it was in her trunk right now.

"Oh yes introductions! I almost forgot! My name is Joaquin by the way.Not so much Muggleborns here are there?" asked Joaquin.

"Not really I still don't know how I did the spell I used in ollivander's but I do know what it was I researched it. And I was reading my charms book and trying all the first year charms and that one happened to be a fire spell" she said.

"OH, no, I am not pure-blood. My mother's parents were both muggles, it's just that she did end up being a witch you see." Jesifur hadn't meant to interrupt the words just came pouring out. She just didn't want people thinking she was a true pure blood because really it has all been mixed through the family. " My mom and dad did meet in Hogwarts though. So I have seen a lot of both muggle and wizard worlds." Turning a bit red embarrassed by her forwardness she turned to James, "I'm sorry, do tell your story James." she said with a tiny smile, "What is it like living in your home?"

Joaquin was busy introducing himself until he heard two people talking about charms. "Charms"? He asked himself mentally. He then decided to ask girl that was talking about the fire spell. "What are the differences between charms and all the other spells and can you show me a charm? I hope I'm not bugging you" said Joaquin.

"Very cool! So are you looking forward for Hogwarts, we should be arriving soon, or at least I hope!" Sage said looking out the window, if only this train could move a bit faster! "What house do you hope to be sorted into?"

Sage smiled

"Joaquin," Sage said, letting it roll of her tongue,"What origin is that name from? I havn't met than many muggleborns no, but I'm sure it's fine! So do you know much about Hogwarts? What house you want to be sorted into?"

That was always a good questiont to ask to get a conversation going...

"Spanish actually" exclaimed Joaquin. "Are you a half and half or a pureblood?" asked Joaquin. "I actually don't know very much about Hogwarts , All I know is that it's a wizarding school and where platform 9 3/4 is". he said. "I want to be sorted in either Ravenclaw or Gryffindor" he exclaimed