Ch. 3: Platform 9 3/4

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[Flash Back]

"He's alive. For now." A voice whispered.

"Just zap him. He won't live for anything" another voice said. Eldon looks up. The small one year old had nothing to protect him. This was the end. The end of his life, and he knew it.

"It's almost to easy" the voice said.

"Lord, you're the most powerful wizard." A voice said.

And like that, there was a sieving pain in Eldon's forehead.

He only saw what didn't matter.

A black hooded figure flash a wand at him. Then him loosing air. Then it running away. And then, the dead body of two adults. Human adults. But not muggles. Dead.

[Years later]

I walk to the end of the platform and check the number. 8. I walk around for a bit, searching for platform 9 and three quarters. But it's not here.

"Excuse me, sir" I say to a conductor. "I'm looking for platform 9 and 3/4" I say.

He looks at me strangely. "There is no platform 9 and 3/4" he says.

So it looks like it all was just a scam. Great. Lucien is going to literally murder me now.

"9 and 3/4 this way, come on James!" I heard someone say. I followed the sound.

A woman with three boys, one girl were standing at platform 9, close to 10.

"Okay, go easy John!" The mother yelled.

"Bye!" He replied. And just like that, he ran into the wall, but he went through it.

"Woah..." I said to myself.

After two others went, I walked up to the woman.

"Um..I am...is this platform 9 and 3/4?" I asked.

"Yes, it sure is! Need help?" She asked. I nodded. "Just run right through the wall get off with a running start" she said.

I walked to the end, and started running, feeling stupid, like I'm gonna run into the wall, but then I'm through it. And I'm in a new station.

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