I'm not a coward, just shy (Hogwarts fanfic)

ch 3 - the sorting

I quickly found the compartment that Ron was in. Also in there was the boy from the robe shop.

"Do you mind if I sat with you" I asked them quietly.

"Of course, Harry, This is my Adoptive brother Taylor, Do you know who this is Taylor, this is Harry potter" Ron said excitedly. I blinked wondering if I had heard the name before. After a minute I shook my head.

"Sorry" I smiled an apologia at him, "I don't think I have heard the name, Thank you for helping me in the robe shop I never got the chance to thank you".

"No problem that kid was being a prat" He said, the I noticed his glasses were broke.

"Would you like me to fix them" I pointed to my glasses before drawing my wand for my jumper pocket. "Oculus Reparo" I waved my wand and the glasses fixed themselves, the tape holding them together falling off.

"Wow, I guess we are even now" He said taking off his glasses and testing the bridge.

"What even happened between you too?" Ron asked and I realised I hadn't told anyone about what happened at the robe shop.

"I got into a little bother of mistaken gender when I went to get my robes fitted and a blonde kid was giving me trouble and Harry stood up for me" I said very quickly and quietly sitting down next to Ron.

"So let me get this straight, you were mistake for a girl, a boy was a prat about it and Harry Potter, the boy who lived stood up for you" He sounded amazed. I nodded as Stormy started yowling. I give up and let her out of her cage where she leap off and jumped on me. She climbed on my shoulders and using my shoulder to stand on her hind legs she perched on my head.

"Why does that stupid cat like it there" Ron growled. He didn't like Stormy because she toyed with his pet rat, scabbers.

"She is not stupid, she is a cat and cats do what they do" I said reaching up to scratch behind her ear, she purred loudly and flicked her tall.

We had only been talking for 30 minutes, or I should they were talking, when the door opened. There stood a girl. She had really brushy hair and her front teeth were a little bigger than most but all around she was really pretty.

"Excuse me, Have you seen a toad, a boy called Neville has lost one" She asked loudly.

"No, Sorry" I replied. She eyed me and looked me up and down, noticing my guitar and cat.

"You're the boy who was singing in the compartment next to the one I was in" She said I brushed brightly.

"You what?" Ron exclaimed and said, "I didn't know you sang, Taylor", which only made me blush more.

"I-I-I don't, I was just messing around" I stuttered over my words.

"He is rather good actually, anyway, I am Hermione Granger" She voiced.

"T-Taylor F-Fleet" I stutter still not over my embarrassment.

"I am Harry potter"

"Ron Weasley", she completely ignored Ron.

"I have read about you" She said before turning to leave, "If you see a toad please catch it, Neville is in quite a state" and she left the compartment.

I dozed for the rest of the train ride, Ron had tried to wake me up for the lunch trolley but I mutter for he to give me a moment and before I knew it he was shaking me, telling me to pull on my school robes. I pulled them on still half asleep, almost walking out with them on backwards before Ron and Harry pulled me back and I realised my mistake. When we got off the train a man twice the size of a normal man and three times the width, who harry called Hagrid, hurried us onto boats where we sail across the black lake which I had read about in Hogwarts- a history. We finally entered the castle like school called Hogwarts. We were walking up the stairs a familiar voice sent shivers up my spine.