Golden boy

The Train to Hogwarts

I'm really struggling to find a platform called 9 and 3/4. Was this whole thing just a sick joke? I see another boy I think around my age. He has black hair and round glasses. He's carrying practically the same things as me. Maybe he will know? "Uhm hello? Do you know where platform 9 and 3/4 is?" I tap his shoulder and ask him. "No. I'm looking for it myself." His voice is quite but stern. "Oh sorry, maybe we will find it soon."

I start pushing my trolley. Hmm 3/4 is a fraction so wouldn't it be between 10 and 9? I put my hand on the wall between both of the platforms and it goes clean through. It startled me a little. I guess I'll risk it. I push myself and the trolley through the wall to find a train waiting. It reads: Hogwarts. How lucky is that?

Now I'm in a compartment when someone slides the door open. "Can I sit here? The only compartment is full of sixth years." It's the same voice as earlier. I nod. "I'm Harry, Harry Potter" That name sound familiar but I shake it off. "I'm Scarlett Murphy." "Until yesterday I didn't even know all of this existed." He said.

Another person slides the door open. "Excuse me, do you mind everywhere else is full" "Not at all." Says Harry. So the ginger boy sits down. "My name is Ron Weasley and you two are?" "I'm Harry,Harry Potter." Ron's face goes turns shocked. "So..so it's true- I mean do you really have the birth or..." The boy is fumbling over his words. "Or what?" He points to his forehead "The scar?" Harry pulls his hair up and smiles he had a mark that looks like a lightning bolt. Woah "Wicked!" The boy exclaims and then turns to me. "What's your name?" It takes me a second to process that he's speaking to me. "I'm Scarlett, Scarlett Murphy." His face once a smile look in even more stumped "I've heard about your dad?" I nod. Is this going to be happening the whole time in Hogwarts? "It's kind of cool.I mean not what he did, but he's so well known that he went to Azkaban!" How did this boy make something so dark into something so light? I smile "Your not wrong."

A lady with a wagon full of sweets stops in front of the cabin. "Anything from the cart?" She asks. Ron picks up a sandwich that looks 5 days old. "No thanks my mum packed me lunch." I have some money but I wasn't going to waste it on sweets. "No thanks!" I exclaim. "I'll buy the lot of them." Harry says me and Ron both turn to him and he pulls many gold coins out of his pocket.

We are all stuffing our faces with sweets because the cabin is full with them. "What are these?" Harry picks up a box of Bertie Botts "Those are jelly beans but you don't know if the flavour will be good or bad." He put the box back down obviously not wanting to try them. I open a wrapped chocolate that says 'Chocolate Frog' and opened it. A frog jumped out of it and hopped onto the window. "Catch it!" Ron shouted so I tried closing my hands around it but it escaped out the window. "It got away but maybe next you will have more luck next time.My brother told me a spell to turn my rat yellow do you want to see?"

He asked us and I nodded eagerly. "Sunshine dais-" before he could finish the spell a girl with frizzy brown hair and eyes opened the compartment. "Have any of you seen a toad? A boy named Nevilles lost one." We shake our heads. "Ooh are you doing magic? Let's see then." She said quickly. Before Ron continued he gave Hermione a deadly glare. "Sunshine,Daisies,Butter-mellow turn this stupid fat rat yellow!" The rat did not turn yellow instead the box of Bertie bots he was in was shot off him. "Are you sure that's a real spell? Well it's not very good is it?." The girl said smartly. "I've only tried a couple simple spells but they all worked for me." She stopped in front of Harry so I moved to the left so she could sit down. She smiled in return. "For example, oculus reparo." Harry's glasses were immediately repaired. Harry looked stunned. "Holy cricket your Harry Potter! I'm Hermione Granger And you are?.." she faced Ron with a disgusted face as he was stuffing his face with a muffin. "Im Ron Weasley." The muffin he was eating sprayed all over the floor. "Pleasure,and you?" She looked at me. "Scarlett Murphy." How many times will I say my name? "Terribly sorry about you know... your mother.You three better change into your robes we are nearly at Hogwarts."