Flying to Hogwarts

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The Ford Anglia is parked at King's Cross Station as numerous people walk past it. In the station, Iris, Harry, Ron, Ginny, Percy, Fred, George, Mr., and Mrs. Weasley are desperate to catch the Hogwarts Express before it leaves.

Mr. Weasley trying to rush everyone starts speed walking while yelling "10:58. Come on, come on!" 

"The train will be leaving any moment!" Mrs. Weasley adds on rushing the kids along. Mr. Weasley calls out "Fred, George, Percy, you first!" Fred pushes his cart through the barrier to Platform 9¾, followed by Percy and George. George turned to grab Iris's arm at the last minute to go with them making her squeal out at suddenly being pulled towards the wall making the Weasleys and Harry laugh.

"I know the feeling" Lily grumbles remembering Marlene unexpectedly grabbing her and pulling her through the barrier because she was too nervous about running into the wall. Marlene saw her best friend's expression and said "Oh don't be a baby! It was one time and you were just standing there staring at the wall. I was just helping." Marlene says with no regrets making Lily jokingly huff and cross her arms.

Mrs. Weasley pats Ginny on the back guiding her to go next. Ginny pushes her cart and runs through the wall; Mr. and Mrs. Weasley following behind.

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 Harry and Ron are left.

Sirius frowns feeling confused asking "What about the boys?" Molly doesn't reply and just stares at the screen wide-eyed. She wouldn't forget about Harry and Ron, right? Why would she or Arthur not stay behind to make sure all the kids got through, especially after they made sure the older boys got through?

Harry turns to Ron "Let's go." Ron nods; then the two boys push their carts directly for the wall. However, instead of going through the wall, Harry inexplicably crashes into it and falls over; Ron loses control of his cart and falls over as well. A station agent, the same man Harry saw a year ago, notices them while speaking to a woman, and approaches Harry and Ron as they get to their feet, groaning from their slight injuries. The Station Agent yells out "Oy! What do you two think you're doing?"

"Sorry. Lo-lost control of the trolley" Harry sheepishly says the agent shakes his head at them and walks away; Harry glances at Ron "Why can't we get through?"

"I don't know. [touching the wall with his hand, discovering the bricks have become solid] The gateway's sealed itself for some reason" Ron says in a panicked tone.

Harry touches the wall to see that it's completely solid hearing a clock chime, he and Ron 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 Harry "Harry... if we can't get through, maybe Mom and Dad can't get back."

People around the hall all start talking over each other wondering how the barrier could just close up like that never seeing anything like it before.

Lily meanwhile is starting to become really worried along with James and the rest of the Maurders.

Molly has tears gathering in her eyes feeling like the world's worst mother and goes to apologize to Lily and James but before she can the movie starts back up.

The camera then shows the other side of the wall where a distressed Iris is trying to get back through worried about why her brother didn't come through. Cedric looks out of the train worried that he didn't see Iris only to gasp when he sees her slamming her body into the barrier with tears rolling down her face. Cedric looks at the clock and sees she only has two minutes to get on the train and immediately takes off towards her.

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