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Nordic Witch 
No. No. No!
This was not happening! Not today, not again! Cole was going to curse his uncle Alfie for putting him in this position for another year in a row. What was his father going to say? Would he get a howler at breakfast? Last time he had vomited all over the feast table and now he didn't want to even think about this new issue that had arisen without his fault. As the thought hit him hard in the gut he stopped in the middle of the train corridor and just hyperventilated as his face whitened. How was he going to explain this to Professor Sandu or worse Headmaster Trent? This was a fullblown nightmare. He didn't have one pet with him to school as expected, but FIVE and he had misplaced lost all of them.
Not seing or really knowing where he was going Cole pushed opened the door to the first compartment and stared inside at the occupant for a good whole minute in silence. Blinking he cleared his throat as his eyes locked on the several years younger girl and he mumbled out in a slightly desperate tone to her. "You haven't seen a small colony of magical rats run by here by any chance have you?"
Okay, so Isla wasn't the kind of girl to have self-pity, but right now, she was feeling pretty lonely and bored in this compartment. She'd only been sitting here ten or so minutes, but it felt like an eternity. Also, she'd heard this ride was something like seven or eight hours long. She wasn't even tired, so if she didn't find something to do or somebody to talk to, she was going to go crazy before they reached Hogwarts.
That was what the door to the compartment opened, and some boy looked inside.
Blink. "You lost a whole colony of rats on the train?" she asked. When she had had time to let that sink in, she added,
"Cool!" to the end of her statement.
"I mean, not cool for you, obviously. I can help you look for them if you want?" Tracking down a colony of rats would certainly make the train ride more interesting!
"How many are we talking about here?" she asked. There could be a
lot of rats in a colony, but at least he'd said it was a small colony. This was going to get pretty interesting, especially if there were people on the train who weren't exactly the rodent type.