Ian pushed his cart to the wall that led to platform 9 3/4 and looked back one more time to make sure she was coming. He heard her question and smiled. Just don't think about it. It's a door and that's how you need to look at it. Making sure he had his owl's cage secured with his free hand he pushed to the wall and went for it.

He felt the semi-familiar dread as he approached the wall and walked straight forward. He wasn't sure how it worked because one second he was walking head first into a wall and the next he was on platform 9 3/4. As soon as he got through, he looked back for AJ.