"If you're the lord, what does that make me? The lady?"
The war is over and all seems to be going minimally well until everything comes crashing back down for Adhara to the point where she would trade her existence to fix everything that had gone wr...
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"Nothing," Adhara replied, staring at the hologram, "he didn't do anything to worry about," she added as she smiled and asked for the next reader.
Rabastan picked up the book mentally preparing himself for what he might read and to relax his anger at the chapter read.
"Chapter two: Back to Hogwarts," he read, being aware that some were not paying attention to him as they were watching Adhara with concern.
As if she was going to disappear at any moment.
They leaned over the bar of their trolleys and strode determinedly towards the barrier, picking up speed. Within a metre of the barrier, they started to run and... Patapum!
Hadrian and Ronald had tried to cross the barrier to get onto Platform 9¾ without success, both of them bouncing off causing a loud bang that drew the attention of many muggles around them.
"The entrance closed?" Lord Potter questioned, puzzled as far as he knew it had never happened before.
"What the hell are you doing?" exclaimed one of the guards standing near the area.
"Sorry, we lost control of our trolleys," apologised Hadrian politely before taking his leave and walking away with Ronald to avoid attracting even more attention. "What happened, why couldn't we cross?" he questioned quietly, not understanding what was going on.
"That's what we're all wondering, son," said Lord Black.
"No idea," Ronald grunted, annoyed by the stare of the crowd that was still staring at them. "We're going to miss the train at this rate."
Hadrian glanced at the station clock, the big hand was ticking towards twelve o'clock and the second hand was slowly turning. It was ten seconds before they officially missed the train, he left the trolley with Ronald and, with only his backpack, approached the entrance again and tried to get in. In the end he only managed to crash into the wall as the barrier remained unbreakable and the clock struck eleven o'clock indicating that they had missed the train.
"It's gone," said Ron, astonished. "The train has already left. What if my parents can't come back to pick us up? Do you have any Muggle money?"
"There must be another way for them to get back, Draco said that not all wizards use this entrance and that the Hogwarts Express is only the most common way to travel to school, but not the only way."
"And you're going to believe him? My family has been using this method since my brother Bill entered Hogwarts, if there was another method why didn't we use it? It would have been easier than going mad every year travelling through Muggle London to get here if it were true."
"You say that as if your parents and ancestors didn't go to school," Lord Malfoy pointed out as Ronald only managed a grimace on his face as he agreed with him.
