Krestena Black: Book 4

Aboard the Express

Krestena's POV

"Why do I need a ball gown? It's so stupid" I whine.

"You need one and are going to take the dress your dad got you" Uncle Remus tells me.

"Thanks for the dress dad, it's beautiful. I just don't get why we need them" I tell them.

"Me neither, but at least you'll be safe at Hogwarts" he states. He and Uncle Remus haven't let me out of the house since I got home from the world cup. I gave Uncle Remus my key and he collected all my school things. I'm all packed ready to go to the station in twenty minutes. Uncle Remus is apperating me there.

"Who are you sitting with on the train?" Uncle Remus asks me.

"Harry and the others. Cedric wanted to get a head start on strategies for quidditch this year" I tell him. "Which is fine as I really wanted to get a head start on my homework schedule with Hermione for the year. Due to our work loads" I explain.

"Have a good year" dad says hugging me and I hug back tightly. I love having dad in my life. Though I do worry about him a lot. And he gets on my nerves when he teams up with Uncle Remus against me. We let go and I grab Uncle Remus who apperates us along with my luggage to the station.

I board the train and find a compartment putting my luggage away. Soon Harry, Hermione and Ron join me in the compartment. They tell me about the older Weasleys strange behaviour. "That's strange, I wonder what they were talking about. Whatever it is, must be why we need dress robes" I tell them.

"I agree" Hermione states. Suddenly we hear Draco talking about Durmstrang. Hermione closed the compartment door. "I wish he had gone, then we wouldn't have to put up with him" she tells us.

"Same, he is so annoying sometimes" I tell her.

"Durmstrang's another wizarding school?" Harry asks curious.

"Yes, and it's got a horrible reputation. According to An Appraisal of Magical Education in Europe, it puts a lot of emphasis on the Dark Arts" I explain.

"I think I've heard of it" Ron mumbles. "Where is it? What country?" he asks Hermione and I.

"Well, nobody knows, do they?" Hermione and I tell them eyebrows raised.

"Why not?" Harry asks us confused.

"There's traditionally been a lot of rivalry between all the magic schools. Durmstrang and Beauxbatons like to conceal their whereabouts so nobody can steal their secrets" Hermione explains.

"Come off it" Ron laughs and I roll my eyes. Typical Ron, so narrow minded sometimes and forgets we're magical. "Durmstrang's got to be about the same size as Hogwarts - how are you going to hide a great big castle?" he asks us.

"Hogwarts is hidden Ronald" I tell him.

"Everyone knows that. Well, everyone who's read Hogwarts A History, anyway" Hermione explains.

"Just you two then" Ron says and I glare at him. "So go on - how d'you hide a place like Hogwarts?" he asks us.

"Do you forget we have magic?" I ask him. "It's bewitched" I tell him firmly. Man I am moody today, it must be nearly that time of the month.

"If a Muggle looks at it, all they see is a moldering old ruin with a sign over the entrance saying DANGER, DO NOT ENTER, UNSAFE" Hermione explains. Harry then asks if they did the same thing to Durmstrang. "Maybe or it might have Muggle-repelling charms on it, like the World Cup stadium. And to keep foreign wizards from finding it, they'll have made it Unplottable" Hermione states.

"Come again" the boys say.

"Well, you can enchant a building so it's impossible to plot on a map, can't you?" I ask them.

"If you say so" Harry mumbles.

"But I think Durmstrang must be somewhere in the far north. Somewhere very cold, because they've got fur capes as part of their uniforms" Hermione tells them.

"It would've been so easy to push Malfoy off a glacier and make it look like an accident" Ron says dreamily. Sometime during the afternoon Ron covered Pig's cage with him coat. To calm him down. Hermione and I are reading quiet happily. While Harry and Ron explain the world cup to Neville. Who had dropped by for a visit.

"We were in the Top Box..." Ron started to say.

"For the first and last time in your life, Weasley" Draco drawls as he appeared with Crabbe and Goyle.

"I don't remember us inviting you in cousin" I tell him coolly.

"Weasley, what is that?" Draco asks pointing at Pig's cage. A sleeve of Ron's dress robes was dangling from it, very obvious. Ron made to stuff the robes out of sight, but Malfoy was too quick for him; he seized the sleeve and pulled. I grab my wand from my pocket. "Look at these" he says holding them up.

"Accio" I say and they fly to me. I hand them to Ron and point my wand at Draco. "Don't make me hex you before we even arrive in school Draco. Leave" I tell him firmly.

"Fine, see you around cuz" he says and leaves. Ron slams the door behind them shattering the glass. Which Hermione repairs with her wand. We then go to change into our robes. We rejoined the others as we arrived at the station. It is bucketing down with rain.

"Impervious" I say waving my wand over me. We say hello to Hagrid before getting into a carriage together. The others all soaking wet while I'm dry. Hermione dries and warms the others up. Not that it'll help much as it's still raining hard when we arrive at the castle.

A/N

Picture above of Ron holding Pigwidgeon and picture on the external link of his dress robes.