snake in the lions den|| WTM

twelve

The Ford Anglia is parked at King's Cross Station as numerous people walk past it. In the station, Ada, Ron, Ginny, Percy, Fred, George, Mr. and Mrs. Weasley are desperate to catch the Hogwarts Express before it leaves. "10:58. Come on, come on!" Molly rushes.

"Train will be leaving any moment!"

"Fred, George, Percy, you first!" Fred pushes his cart through the barrier to Platform 9¾, followed by Percy and George. Molly pats Ginny on the back "Okay." Ginny pushes her cart and runs through the wall; Mr. and Mrs. Weasley follow "After you, dear." Mrs. Weasley disappears through the wall; Mr. Weasley goes in immediately after her.

Mrs. Weasley meets up with Ginny as she stands by the Hogwarts Express, which is just about ready to go. "Come on, Ginny. We'll get you a seat. Hurry!" The three run for the train; outside, only Ada and Ron are left.

"Let's go."

Ron nods; then the two push their carts directly for the wall. However, instead of going through the wall, Ada inexplicably crashes into it and falls over; Ron loses control of his cart, and falls over as well. A station agent, the same man Ada saw a year ago, notices while speaking to a woman, and approaches Ada and Ron as they get to their feet, groaning from their slight injuries.

Some people cringed watching the two kids run into the wall, that must of hurt. "What just happened?" Remus askes in compete confusion, never in his life has he heard of the wall closing before.

"Oy! What do you two think you're doing?" The station guard says. Ada glares at him "Well we just thought it would be so funny to run into the wall. What do you think?"

"What's with the attitude?" Blaise askes amused and Ada gives him a look, "How about you run into a wall and be in a good mood then." Blaise smiles sheepishly "Fair enough."

The man shakes his head at them and walks away; Ada glances at Ron "Why can't we get through?"

"I don't know." Ron touches the wall with his hand, discovering the bricks have become solid "The gateway's sealed itself for some reason." Ada also touches the wall to see that it's completely solid. The clock chimes and they look up at a nearby clock displaying the time 11:00 "The train leaves at exactly 11:00. We've missed it!"

Ron glances at the clock in horror, then turns to the girl "Ada... if we can't get through, maybe mum and dad can't get back."

Ada stays silent trying to decide what to do about their dilemma "Maybe we should just go and wait by the car." Ron lights up at the sound of these words suddenly gives him an idea "The car..." Ada glances at him, wondering what he's got in mind.

A blue car starts rising up into the air flying up into the sky.

"Cub you didn't." Remus sighs disappointed, Ada winces and hides into her boyfriend, she's been doing that a lot recently. Sirius starts clapping his hands in excitement, "Oh Bambi I'm so proud, I wish me and prongs did this." That causes the girl to smile slightly.

A handful of muggles were looking up in complete shock never in their lives have they seen a flying car. "Urmm Ron I wont lie, muggles don't really see flying cars on the day to day." Ron nods nervously "Urr... right." He his a big sliver button and the car turns invisible and flies off.

After flying for a few hours the car turs visible again confusing the two. Ron tries the button again but it doesn't change "Oh no. The invisibility booster must be faulty." Ada sighs "Oh great, very helpful. We should head lower and try and find the train."

"Okay" Ron pulls the rickety lever and they fly down towards some train tracks. "Right now we just need to find the train and hope when we get to Hogwarts Minnie doesn't kill us."