Now Bay was a muggle policeman?

Benny was becoming even more confused and it seemed Bay thought the girl was downright crazy. Maybe she was...maybe she wasn't. Maybe she was just lost and confused like he originally thought and her words were her defense to the confusion. His own head was hurting a little though so maybe it was best they try to move on to better stuff.

Like at least she trusted him and believed he was a student.
That was one plus.

"Uh huh, I do," he answered to her whisper, aware of how to get to the right tracks to get to the Express and let the train do the rest. It was, after all, where he himself was heading. "Sure...I can lead you," he answered. With or without Bay, that was up to the older boy. "Though he have to head to a less crowded section." Away from too many muggles.

Angel smiled at the man, she had no idea why the guy was looking at her like she was a crazy person, when she wasn't this man wasn't nice and she was thinking maybe she should run away from the guy when suddenly.

O_____________o


Angel blushed she was sad now, she had been sure he was in his early twenties at the least. "I'm so sorry." Angel sighed, this was bad and Angel didn't want to get killed by the kid for thinking he was an old man, well it wasn't her fault he looked like one. "I didn't mean to offend you."

Angel looked at the cute guy. "Awesome!" Angel smiled and gave the kid a hug. "I'm Angel Valentine, but you can call me Angel." Angel giggled, the guy could call her Ang, or anything he wanted, she didn't care. "I'm going to be in my first year." Angel beamed, she had no idea why but the guy was making her heart beat funny, she wasn't used to this sort of thing.

"So how do I get onto the platform?" Angel whispered to the kid, "I really, really, really want to go there now." Angel hoped the guy would show her like right now, she had totally forgot about the guy she had offended because she was like wondering why she couldn't take her eyes of this guy.

Something was different this term...

Something that was pretty hard to miss... something that was perched in view on his very chest.

Could ya see it?

THAT'S RIGHT, BABY. Theodore Kinsley was in charge HEAD BOSS Head Boy.

And boy, was he proud about it! The seventeen-year-old strutted down Kings Cross as if he was patrolling it already or something. He was by himself of course, because please, Theodore Kinsley didn't need adult supervision anymore. He'd kissed his parents goodbye at home and had told them to stay right there. Before making his way to the wall, Theodore decided to linger around the station just to make sure everything was in order. Head Boy duties and all.

At the mention of his lateness, a sheepish expression crossed Alec's face and he shuffled a little on the spot. "Yeah, sorry! I, erm... Dad and I were debating on whether to bring you mac and cheese for the journey." And Tag was worried about this? The boy grinned a little at that before saying, "Looks like your inner Yoda is coming out, mate."

Alec... didn't understand. Tag was graduating. Tag was a seventh year. And yet... the boy was saying that he wasn't? Yeah... confused Summers. But as always with conversations with Tageth, he knew that he just had to go along with what the boy was saying. It was how they got talking about leprechaun dancing and leprechaun schools. "Okay so... you're not a seventh year. Just a graduating Gryffindor?" Going along, he was. The grin on the former Hufflepuff's face widened when he heard what Tag had to say. "You're a very wise leprechaun, you know" He... wasn't being mocked, right? "Would it be bad if I had tricked myself into thinking it had happened yesterday?"

More grinning happened when Tag started laughing. It was a good feeling, yeah? Making your best friend laugh. Or making anyone laugh. "Yeah... and waving our walking sticks in the air in victory," GRIN. Exploding snaps? And too dangerous? "No... not too dangerous. Unless there's the danger of me beating you." Joking, he was.

And no, don't think about old age. Or grey hairs.

Abby was scared she was at Kings Cross having already said goodbye to her parents and she seemed to have got seperated from Angel and Aubrey and she had no clue as to where she was to go to get the train to school or even how to get onto the platform it said on her ticket

Toby had already been through the wall once already with his grandma, who was now waiting for him on the platform looking after Bludger for him. The fourth year had justcome back through to grab some muggle munch from the shop in the station, and was now merrily swinging a bag by his side as he ambled through the public square back towards the wall. There were familiar faces all over, headed this way and that, but one familiar face caught his eye.

Theodore Kinsley was lingering.

Of course, Tobias now knew the Slytherin prefect type person as his fellow Quidditch player from over the summer. SURE, they'd never had what you could call a conversation per se, but Toby figured that was of zero consequence. Obviously, they were buddies now.

And that was why he stopped halfway across the square, right by Theodore, and looked up at him. Crikey, he was, errr... a lot taller than he seemed when they were all up in the air on broomsticks. BUT FRIENDSHIP KNEW NO HEIGHT RESTRICTION.

"'Sup Theo!" Toby greeted the older lad in his usual chipper tone, giving him The Nod as he reached into his bag and pulled out a bag of sweets. "Remember me?" As he chucked a caramel candy into his mouth, Tobias tilted his head at the older boy. Something seemed... different. "You got a new hair cut?"

No one was noticing him. It was upsetting. 'Course it didn't help that no one he knew were hanging around here, so he assumed they were already through the wall and ready to board the train. He decided to give it five more minutes of loitering around before getting through the barrier himself. It was sorta something he always had to psych himself up for. Scary and stuff.

Oh. Kid.

Tobias. "Oh, hey. Yeah, 'course I do. Good summer?" Theo replied in a much less enthusiastic manner than Toby had just given him. He wasn't thick, and he certainly remembered such a Quidditch player like him. In fact he had always annoyed Theodore prior to the last summer when they had shared a team, purely because of his skills. Now he thought he was alright, though.

NEW HAIR CUT?

>______________________>

"No." Theo puffed out his chest subtly.

Notice it. Notice the badge. Feel the power.

Huffing and puffing, Lux slowly made her way over to where the platform was. Too much luggage. She had brought waaaaaay too much stuff. Oh well, it was too late to do anything about it now besides keep taking breaks and slowly make her way over to where the train was.

Stopping for a moment to catch her breath, she noticed a young girl who seemed to be lost. "Can I help you?" Chances were good that she was going to Hogwarts, but Lux didn't want to let anything slip just in case this girl was a muggle.

Theo REMEMBERED him. TRU FRENZ.

"I had a great summer, yeah," Tobias nodded, bouncing away happily on the balls of his feet as per usual. "How about your summer? D'you want a sweet?" he added, holding out the bag of toffees.

Hmmm, no new haircut? Toby looked thoughtful, but Theo's subtle chest-puffing had worked wonders on Toby's subconscious, and he immediately looked to the older boy's chest where his eyes landed on Theo's prefect ba- WAIT.

"Hey, cool! You're Head Boy?!" the Hufflepuff said in something akin to wonder. "Wicked badge." Mad-shiny too. And... were you supposed to say congratulate people in this situation? Couldn't hurt, right? "Congratulations! So you're like president of Hogwarts or something now, yeah?"

Abby looked up at the girl and said "Yeah i am a little lost i am trying to find my way to the platform that will take me to Hogwarts, this is my first time going to Hogwarts and i don't know what to do"

Aaah, so this was a student. Good, because honestly Lux wasn't sure if she would have been able to help if the girl turned out to be a muggle. "Okay, I can lead you there because I am heading to Hogwarts myself. I am Lux." Giving the girl a friendly smile, she hoped that would make her feel a little less scared. The first journey over to the platform was scary, she remembered how she had done it only last term. She had taken it at a run and had feared she would crash even though she knew it wouldn't happen.

And there she was, holding a pet bag with a small black kitten inside, and behind her, a set of luggage ready to go into the train. But...the train wasn't around, weird. At this, Paloma just looked around, trying to figure out what to do next, where to go and who to find. She had only made some fiends, but she hadn't actually told them she was actually going to attend Hogwarts this year and the next ones. This already felt like the rush of her life.

Her parents had left her on the other side of the cross, possibly shaking their head regards her daughter's decision, but she assured them much that her behaviour would 'probably improve' if she actually attended Hogwarts. But...who was she to blame? Trouble sometimes follows...

Vader began to scratch Paloma's arm begging to get out, to be let free and walk around. "You kinda deserve it, but last time..." She shook her head, remembering how the kitten went on a scratch spree on people's ankles. Finally, all she could do was to take him out of the bag and hold him in her arms.

"If we only could find..." Louis...yes, she didn't even have to say it, since Vader kind of understood who she was talking about. The kitten himself had a good, decent friendship with the boy who owned a cute white girl kitten.

Abby smiled at Lux and said "Nice to meet you Lux, I am Abby and thanks i thought that i would never find my way to the platform"

And then there was Mac and Cheese debate between Alec and his father. Which Tag had nodded slowly at. Mac and cheese. Kind of a hard to eat 'on the go' snack, but Tag appreciated the thought. "Thank you for taking your time on the mac and cheese debate. Its a great issue that not many people take seriously. I'm glad to know the Summers men do." Totally serious here. To an extent of course. People should take the mac and cheese seriously. Then inner Yoda. Tag wasn't trying to come out as sounding like Yoda, but hey, if that's what Alec got, Tag wasn't complaining. So there just came another simple nod to that.

"Yes! Exactly. Graduating Gryffindor." THERE. Alec finally caught on. Graduating. He wasn't a seventh year. Nope. He was still that tiny little fist year. Wise leprechaun? Hmmm. That was a new one. Tag wasn't quite sure if he could agree to Alec on that level. Maybe smart. Wise sounded really really smart. Nods. Then, OMG Alec there is nothing bad about the duck pond. "Why would it be bad? I mean, you probably just re-imagined yourself the best memory in the world." Tag said happily with a little added wink for effect. Probably better than any memory Alec had at Hogwarts. This isn't stretching it.

Walking sticks, Tag just shook his head at that. "Walking sticks are for weak men." He said. "Although, they're a pretty bad weapon for anyone that's annoyed you." Can you imagine if a kid was annoying you and you'd just whack them in the shin. "There is danger for me then." Wink. Tag's memory wasn't the greatest in the world.

Like seriously where did he get to? And that fast. They were no where near platform 9 and 10. If she was late because she was waiting on him then he was just going to have to take her there his self. Or she should just go on without him. Yes! That's what she was going to do.

That was until some random blonde girl walked up to her and said hi. She smiles at her before speaking. "Hey, what's up?" Was she going to Hogwarts, too? She would have asked but what if she was a muggle that would be weird asking one if they were going to Hogwarts. They would have no idea what she was talking about and call her mental.

Louis was excited to return to Hogwarts.
The summer had been great and he’d met quite a number of people he was eager to see again, but he’d actually really missed the stone walls of the castle and the view of the grounds from the boys’ dormitories in Gryffindor Tower.

Carrying a curious white kitten in the crook of his arm and his luggage with his free hand, the Gryffindor boy made his way through the Square. He remembered clearly how to reach the platform (mostly because his lack of direction last term had almost taken him to the wrong train and he’d been a little traumatized since), and felt no need to make any extra stops.

Until the kitten in his arm began wriggling furiously, letting out a string of high-pitched meowing squeaks.

“Wha—? We’re almost there, Lu—”
And that’s when he saw them.
Following Luna’s - or La petite Lune, as his mother nicknamed her - line of sight, Louis’s gaze fell upon an all-too familiar girl carrying an adorable kitten with mysterious black fur.





NO.

WAY.

“……………………. Tiny?”

He was hallucinating, right?
RIGHT?!

"Anytime! We, erm... we wanted to send you off with a snack you like but couldn't decide on the right one." And pizza was out of the question too, as his Dad reminded him. Not even talks about charming it so that it stayed hot until Tag opened the box had swayed the man. ... Right. Back to the topic at hand. "Like hair, we take our food seriously." GRIN. "People should take it seriously, I guess." Was there a lot to debate about with mac and cheese? Shrug. "Do you have something for the journey or... are you going to get something off the trolley?"

Alec was catching on, yeah. Conversations with Tag meant that you had to catch on. Go with the flow. "It has a bit of a ring to it, doesn't it?" Graduating Gryffindor. The words made his heart ache but... the boy smiled a little over at his second favourite blonde. You couldn't be sad around this leprechaun. Especially when he was talking about the duck pond and Alec's possible best memory in the world. "'Course, I did! I... still don't know how you didn't think I was weird when I tackled you."

... Weak men. Alec chuckled before saying, "Don't say that around Botros, mate." And Botros wasn't weak. Lesson on Thor, anyone? "Remind me not to give you a walking stick, yeah?" Or to not annoy the boy while he was holding one. GRIN. "I'll go easy on you when we're playing exploding snap in our fifties." When. Because this was a plan.

Could waiting get any more boring?

Probably, yes.

Paloma just sighed, stood up from her trunk which she took as a seat, tip toed in order to be able to see around her, sat again (and repeated that routine over ten times, more likely), but nothing. No sign of any...Louis.

The hardest thing though, and probably the most painful was to hold Vader in her arms, whilst the evil kitten scratched her arms and assumed her finger was a good snack to start biting every now and then.

Just then, kitten squeaks, along with a voice coming from a not very far distance took both Vader and Paloma's attention. Quickly, the black kitten ran towards the white one graciously walking through the crowd, then met in the middle.

All Paloma could do was stare and laugh. The little white kitten was Luna, Louis' kitten. And then, he appeared, calling her 'Tiny'.

"That's me, please don't waste that name." She quickly answered to him when walking towards him, yet not losing sight of her luggage. Although what she meant was, please don't say that out loud. "Surprise." She shrugged, trying to make this a casual moment. Failure, of course.

Marigold grinned at the girl. Muggle or not, she already seemed cool. "Nothing much, just going to school." See that? Real casuuuuual. If the girl was a muggle, she would just assume Marigold went to some random boarding school. If she was a witch, she would probably pick up the subtle hint that the random boarding school is HOGWARTS!!!

"Yeah, I just need to head over to Platform 9. I'm 3/4 sure I know where it is."

She really hoped this girl was a witch because those hints were GREAT.

It had been ages since Raeanne had been to Kings Cross and the platform. She graduated Hogwarts way too many years ago, she was sure that she would have forgotten where to go but nope, the map in her head led herself and her niece to where they had to go. It was sad that her sister couldn't be here for her own daughter but Raeanne guessed that being a Broadway star was more important that paying attention to your own child. But as her sister would tell her that she didn't know anything about kids because she wasn't a mother. Being an aunt was the closest things that she would come to being a mother and she cares about Emmylou very much. They had a lot of aunt and niece bonding time over the summer. They went pretty much all over the place or as many places as Raeanne's money could take them. She probably spent to much on Emmylou but Raeanne was sure that Emmy would be the only niece that she would have. "Are you excited?" Rae asked Emmylou. Raeanne was curious as to how Emmy felt about going to a knew school, this one being a very popular one. Raeanne remembered what it felt like to go to Hogwarts during her first year, she was nervous, excited and scared.

The thirteen year old skipped around as she followed her aunt to wherever they were going. Well Emmylou knew where they were going but she didn't know how to get there but she knew that her favorite aunt knew how to get there. Emmylou wore a big smile on her face, she was so happy to finally be going to Hogwarts and to be with Kace, Luxness, Lou Boo, Bartman, Cinnabun and Bayness. Was that a new nickname for a new friend? Emmy flailed a tiny bit. She still didn't know Lux's boyfriend that well but she didn't know that he had really nice hair and seemed really nice and the only thing that matter was that Luxness was happy with him. Emmylou looked up at her aunt. "I'm very excited but I'm a little scared too. I'm mostly scared about the sorting." Emmy stopped skipping around. She was just scared about how big the school was and about the sorting, she father had said that it didn't matter what house she was in and her mother did too but Emmylou was sure that her mother wouldn't be happy if she didn't get into Slytherin.

Raeanne stopped, she knelt down to Emmylou's height and put a reassuring hand on her shoulder. She knew what was going on. Honestly there was nothing scary about the sorting. Raeanne came from a family full of Slytherin's and she herself wasn't a Slytherin. She felt the pressure of having to be sorted into Slytherin but she was sorted into Gryffindor and she loved all seven terms of it there. They were very welcoming. "Look here, don't worry about where your mother wants you to be sorted." She told Emmylou in a calming voice. "It doesn't matter where you're sorted just as long as you are happy." Raeanne knew that Emmy didn't belong in Slytherin, she honestly didn't know where Emmylou would be sorted so any of the four houses would be a surprise for her.

Emmylou didn't even know what had happened, where was Auntie Raeanne? The blonde looked over her shoulder and noticed that her aunt had stopped, Emmy ran over to her. She watched as she knelt down in front of her. Was something wrong? Emmylou realized that Aunt Raeanne had figured out what was wrong with her and reassured her that it didn't matter what house she was sorted in just as long as she was happy. Emmy smiled brightly, she loved her aunt. "You're the bestest, Auntie Raeanne." Emmylou was also sure that she was closer to her aunt that she was with her own mother. The summer had just been rough lately because she hadn't seen her mother in a little over a year. Emmylou thought it was her fault that her mother didn't want to visit her father and her.

Luna had taken advantage of Louis’s moment of shocked distraction to climb over his arm and hop off onto the floor, moving swiftly through the feet of all the people passing by to meet her favourite friend. The only one she had, really.

“This—You—You’re here… here!” Louis couldn’t help but laugh through his shock - he was certain he wouldn’t see her again for months! He had learned to dismiss his hopes of walking through Hogwarts grounds with her, pranking innocent first years with hellbent origami birds. And now she was here. And all those hopes came flooding back to him in a rush.

“Well, come on! I want a proper greeting,” said the boy once he was able to find his voice again, the brightest of grins lighting up his expression as he walked over to his friend with arms wide, enveloping her in a tight hug.

TINY DANCER AND CATBOY REUNITED. :')

Cinnamon waited for a moment listening to the other girl. Oh she too was leaving to go to school on a train here. Well that's cool. "Oh, yeah? That's me as well." See? She could be going going to Hogwarts. Yes she could.

But how to be sure, without looking like a moron.

Well that was a subtle hint if she ever heard one. A grin spread across her face. She laughed. She was a witch. Yay. "If I go past platform 10 I've gone to far." Her hint was epic. Cinnamon's was pretty good, too or that's what she thought. "I'm Cinnamon." she grinned again at the girl.

Jasmine had already said goodbye to her mother and was now making her way through the square solo. She had not been entirely enthusiastic about transferring to Hogwarts, but going on the summer field trip had changed her mind, sort of. Now she was dragging her trunk and trying to find her way to platform 9 3/4. As she walked, Jasmine glanced around hoping to see some familiar faces from her summer trip. No luck thus far.

Jasmine entertained herself by trying to tell the Hogwarts students from the muggles. Since she was not exactly sure which way she should go, she decided to follow the kids with the cats. Surely they had to be going to platform 9 3/4. Soon Jasmine would be on the train, headed toward her new life......ready or not.

EEK. Happy friends reunion. Inside, her heart would be pumping a million liters a second, but...

At his she contained that urge to squeal with a smirk, then a firm nod. "Knew you'd be surprised. And boy, she grew up!" The latter about Luna, who had been just bought a couple of weeks ago.

"I wanted this to be a total secret. I knew I'd be attending this year, since before our last meeting." Which meant that she was unbelievably torturing the poor boy when she made him think there was no chance she would go to Hogwarts.

But hey, she was not able to really explain to Louis, since he wanted the proper friend greeting. And surprisingly, she let him squish her into a hug, and let out a squeaky giggle in the process. "Sorry for being so mean." She whispered, hoping nobody but him would hear her. Tough girl image to take care of, man!

After a while, she pulled out of the hug, and once they were standing at a reasonable distance, and also that Vader and Luna were staring at each other, Paloma carefully picked up both kittens and smiled, kissing Luna's head. "Don't you look so cute with that ribbon 'round your neck..." She talked to her.

Louis couldn’t help but laugh again as he pulled back from the girl and Paloma confessed how she’d kept everything a secret all along, how she knew it would surprise him. YOU DON’T SAY. He’d almost had a heart attack when he saw her! Actually, he was still pretty eligible for that heart attack.

“I can’t believe you kept it from me all this time…” he accused softly, an amused grin on his face as he shook his head in disbelief. He knew Paloma could be mischievous, but this was a whole new level of pranking.

“You’re not mean at all,” he assured her a moment later, watching as she went on to pick up the playful kittens that had come to them then. “Just… very good at surprises.” Lou watched with endearment as his friend greeted little Luna adoringly, though the white kitten seemed too distracted trying to paw at Vader to notice the affection coming her way.

And even after greeting the girl and hearing her confession, Louis couldn’t believe it. Señorita Tiny Dancer was OFFICIALLY a Hogwarts student. A classmate!

Suddenly, Lou’s eyes lit up with eager curiosity.
“Do you know which House you’ve been sorted to?”