The Great Adventures of Harry and Y/N, Year One

Chapter 5: Platform 9 ¾

It's finally time!!! All aboard the Hogwarts Express! (I hope you all have a soft spot for rats because Y/N absolutely loves any and all animals! Enjoy!)

The month of August flew by very quickly for me, Dudley was now very scared of both Harry and I while the other two Dursleys tried to pretend Harry wasn't there half the time. The good news about this though was that Harry could come over to the L/N household as he pleased and he often stayed the night, a permanent bed now made on the couch downstairs for him.

It was today, the last day of August, that my parents thought to bring up the fact that they wouldn't be able to drive Harry and me up to the train station tomorrow for our departure due to work. Harry's face fell along with my own at this news, but both my parents assured me that they would make sure the Dursleys would give us a ride up on the day of departure, how they would accomplish this I had no clue, but my parents went over to the Dursley household after and asked nonetheless.

Not even five minutes had passed before my mum and dad came back with good news, the Dursleys were headed up to London to take Dudley to the hospital and get the pigtail Hagrid had given him, what felt like ages ago, removed and they had agreed to drop us off at the station.

Harry went home for the night after that to double check he had packed everything on the school list before we were to head out in the morning, I did the same with the help of my parents and I went off to bed early to make the morning come even faster!

Around five o'clock in the morning, I was awoken by my dad kissing me on the forehead before he headed off to work, my mum had left a few minutes prior. Why they were both going off to work so early, I honestly had no idea, but I was too distracted and nervous with thoughts of boarding the train today to think much of it. 

After my dad left, I flicked my lights on knowing quite well I would not be able to get back to sleep, looking out my window and across the way to Harry's bedroom I could see that his light was on as well. After waving to him through my window I focused on gathering all my belongings at the door and went through the tedious and quite tiring process of trying to drag my heavy trunk full of clothes and textbooks down the stairs and to the door.

I passed the next hour by reading through a few of my textbooks on the history of Hogwarts, it was actually quite an intriguing tale along with my potions textbook, I had never heard of half the ingredients some of the potions called for in my life!

Finally, it was time to go, I opened the door before anybody had a chance to knock and with the help of Harry, the two of us were able to carry my trunk to the back of Mr. Dursley's car where it fit snuggly beside Harry's own.

After much coaxing, Petunia was finally able to get Dudley to agree to sit next to me in the car and we were off to the station!

Once we all arrived Vernon surprisingly helped both Harry and I carry our luggage in, something I thought was a little too suspiciously kind of him until we realized what his ulterior motive was as soon as we pulled out our train tickets.

"Ha! As you both can see, we have Platform 9 and Platform 10! Good luck getting on wherever that Platform 9 ¾ is!" Then, after a bit more taunting Mr. Dursley walked off with a snarky laugh, both Harry and I could also swear Petunia and Dudley were laughing in the car as well once they pulled out of the station.

"What do we do now?! Did your parents say anything about finding the platform?" Harry asked quickly, I could tell he was starting to panic a bit and I would be lying if I said I wasn't starting to as well...

"Uhm... No... They just uh, they said to ask around if we couldn't find it, maybe one of the train attendants will be able to help us..?" I said, trying my best to remain cool-headed in the situation as we found the nearest attendant and asked if he knew where the train for Hogwarts was. He said he'd never heard of it and asked where it was located and when neither of the duo could answer him, he just gave us an annoyed look and shooed us away, most likely thinking we were messing with him.