𝙵𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚃𝚑𝚎𝚖

7 ~ Hogwarts Express

The Hogwarts Express rattled along the train tracks as it made its way to the school. Steam was being let out of the trains' pipe with a loud whistle. Harry, Hermione, Ron and Alice were all sitting in the carriage going over everything that had happened the day before. Since the grounds were destroyed they weren't able to sleep there.

So they made their way back to the Burrow and stayed there the night. Once they reached the Burrow Mrs Weasley almost had a heart attack when Arthur explained what happened. Alice however was overjoyed to finally be in the safety of her second home.

As soon as Fred and George saw her they embraced her in one of the biggest hugs she's ever received. With everything that happened yesterday, she was still very tense, but at least she was finally on the train. She always loved the trip to Hogwarts, it was where she met her closest friends.

Hermione was looking through the Daily Profit with awe.
"Anything from the trolly?" Said the sweet lady a couple carriages down from them. Hermione was still scanning through the paper while Ron was getting his money ready.
"Anything from the trolly?" Harry, too was searching in his pockets for some extra change along with Alice. The sweet lady had finally made it to their compartment.

"Anything from the trolly dears?" She asked sweetly as she wheeled a ginormous cart stacked almost to the roof with different draws of lollies and chocolate. Ron got up to order.
"Umm, a packet of Droobles... and a liquorice wand." The lady grabbed the Droobles and placed them in his hand, he glanced at them then to the money he had in his hand.
"On second thought... just the Droobles." Harry looked at him dearly.
"No it's fine. I'll get it. Don't worry."
"Just the Droobles, thanks." Ron shook his head and sat back down in his seat. Alice then got up to order.

"Two pumpkin pasties please?" Cho Chang asked the lady. Harry and Cho made eye contact, along with the two girls next to her who giggled and ran off. Alice cocked an eyebrow.

"Anything sweet for you dear?" She asked Harry. He quickly snapped back into reality.
"Oh... um, no i'm not hungry." Alice shoved Harry out of the way and ordered from the woman.

"Hey could i get two Chocolate Frogs, a packet of shrieking sherbet, three candied corn and a liquorice wand please." The lady gave Alice her purchased items and Alice handed over half her gold coins. She took a seat next to Ron who had already finished his Droobles. She nudged him and handed him the liquorice wand. She winked at him and he beamed back at her.

"This is horrible." Hermione started, the paper still in her hand. "How can the Ministry not know who conjured it? Wasn't there any security or...?"
"Loads according to Dad." Said Ron, chewing violently at the wand. "That's what worried them so much. Happened right under their noses." Harry began to touch his scar, Alice looked at him and sighed.

"It's hurting again isn't it? You're scar?" She asked worried, unwrapping one of her chocolate frogs.
"I'm fine." He replied plainly. Hermione tuned in and leaned forward towards Harry.
"You know Sirius will want to hear about this. What you and Ali saw at the World Cup, and your dream." Harry looked out of the window, into the twilight forest surrounding them. Alice looked confused.

"Wait... what dream?" She asked Harry and Hermione. She looked at her, remembering she'd forgotten to tell Alice as soon as she woke up.
"Well, you see two nights ago Harry had a dream. We think Lord Voldemort was trying to send him a message or something." Hermione stated, her face turning pale.
"Right... well, what is it?" Alice asked intrigued.  Hermione nodded at Harry.

"Well, there was this man, an old man and he went inside this old, broken down house. He could hear voices coming from upstairs... s-so he followed them and went up." Alice looked nervously at him and chewed her chocolate frog. "Then i saw... Voldemort in a chair talking to, um, Wormtail and this other man. Then there was this huge snake, and it-it talked to Voldemort. Then he... killed the old man..." Alice looked shocked and placed her hand on his.

"Harry, Hermione's right, Sirius will need to hear about this. When you dream about Voldemort... it's not a good thing Harry." He nodded in agreement and pulled out a piece of parchment and quill from his bag, then started writing.

Alice looked out the carriage door and saw Fred... or George walking past. She immediately got up, grabbed something from her bag and unhinged the door.
"Where are you going?" Asked Hermione.
"Bathroom." Alice lied, and began walking towards the ginger boy.

"Hey, Fred?" She tapped him on the shoulder. He smiled down at her.
"Hey Ali, are you alright?" He continued walking to a more private part of the train where there were no more compartments.
"Yeah! Um, i just wanted to return you're jumper to you. Sorry it's got a little dirty since what happened but yeah." Alice held Fred's jumper out towards him but he raised his hand.

"I want you to keep it. Besides, i like you in my clothes." He smirked down at her but she was lost for words. He bent down so his eyes were level with hers, he put his thumb over her lip and wiped it slowly. Then showed her.
"Chocolate." He stated. Alice blushed so hard she thought she must have looked like a tomato. "See you at school." He said and walked off, licking his thumb. Leaving her there with his jumper in her hands. Smiling to herself and not thinking, she put the jumper on.

Alice began to walk back to her friends, speechless from Fred's bold move. She walked in and sat down, all eyes on her.
"Gosh, Alice your bright red! Are you okay?" Hermione looked at her touching her face.
"Oh! Um, yeah i'm fine... just a little hot that's all."
"Then why don't you take off your jumper silly!" She said, noticing who's it was. "Wait... is that Fred Weasley's?" The two boys shot her a glance and she blushed a little more.

"Oh! I guess it is yeah.." Alice tried covering up.
"Don't be stupid. I'm not dumb, he gave it to you didn't he?" Hermione prodded at her.
"As a friendly gesture." Alice reassured her. Harry stood up and pulled down the cage with Headwig in it, he took her out and gave her a letter with the name 'Snuggles' on the front of it.

"Take this to Sirius okay Headwig?" Harry pet her under the chin with his pointer finger. She chirped back in response as Harry took her to the window of the train and set her out, watching her fly into the distance, over the lake and to Sirius Black.