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Originally Posted by Emzily

This years goodbye to his parents was the easiest it had ever been. Theo didn't even hug either of them, just stood there whilst he received a peck on the cheek from his mum, and a shoulder pat from his dad. His brother and sister weren't here. Although it was with kinda good reason he supposed, because Casper started school today, too, and Kathryn was working or something. But anyway, pssssht, smell ya later! Theo had people to see, and OWLs to obtain.

He ditched his parents early, making them go home. This meant that he had to face THE WALL for the first time on his own. Yeah, Theo immediately regretted his decision to get rid of the 'rents.

But he couldn't call them back NOW.

The train was leaving in like, 10 minutes. And the Hogwarts Express waited for NOBODY. His eyes flickered to the clock, then to the wall, then to the clock, then to his mobile phone.

Suddenly feeling like he needed a wee, Theo started dancing on the spot and trying his best not to cry.

Zahra's parents were around. But now that they were like wizard royalty or something, blahblahblah, they were busy. Not too busy for her, OBVIOUSLY, but when the youngest Kettleburn caught....

....Theo...

... in her periphery, she migrated that way.Theo-ward. Theo-ho. She didn't know why.

...

She made a walk past him.

Circled him a little, ahem, hey hi hello.

She was JUST ABOUT TO SAY.... something. When some other girl. She was there. Saying stuff.

SO Zahra just stopped and stared. O___O

The question was: was he and Ariana Logan on good enough terms to talk about PEE URGES?

HMMMM?

Didn't think so. Theo crossed his legs tight and smiled brightly at his fellow teammate. "Hi. Yup. Cool." He paused, wondering what sort of things he should ask. Too bad he didn't care in the slightest right now. Later, later was good. "I don't think I texted you this summer, did I?" He was pretty sure that he had texted Ariana loads last summer when he first got her number.

That seemed to have distracted him enough, and his legs loosened up a little bit.

Theo didn't notice anything for a good while, other than Ariana, and the clock on the wall over there. They were sooo going to be late if they didn't get a hurry on. Was it bad that he wanted a hand to hold as he went through the wall?

Would Ariana hold his hand?

No. He didn't want that. So he looked around for another potential hand-holder. But it was just full of kids. Kids EVERYWHERE. And one particularly familiar kid was looking right at him.

Wait, not looking... staring. Creepo. "... Wot?" He managed, in the grumpiest Theo!voice he could pull out.

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Originally Posted by Emzily

Theo didn't notice anything for a good while, other than Ariana, and the clock on the wall over there. They were sooo going to be late if they didn't get a hurry on. Was it bad that he wanted a hand to hold as he went through the wall?

Would Ariana hold his hand?

No. He didn't want that. So he looked around for another potential hand-holder. But it was just full of kids. Kids EVERYWHERE. And one particularly familiar kid was looking right at him.

Wait, not looking... staring. Creepo. "... Wot?" He managed, in the grumpiest Theo!voice he could pull out.

O____________________O

He said hi.

No, but it was real close to hi. Like both had one syllable. Zahra's eyes got WIDER. And wider. And wider. Until finally she broke out into a HUGE, PUT ON, kind of creepy 'cause it was kind of forced, SMIIIIIILEY GRIN.

Hi.

Okay.

Okay.

"hi. i know how to do it." Zahra pointed at the wall. "i've done it a million times." At least. AND SHEWOULD HELP HIM OKAY? If he even heard her. It was the quietest she'd ever been... erm.. ever. Hi. Okay. "you can pee on it, too, if it's an emergency." Zahra KNEW the LOOK of pee. She did. Merlin, did she. "just gotta be quick."

She also knew the look of crying before getting on the train, cause she'd done that several times now, too. Like the first year she was SUPPOSED to come to Hogwarts? She cried so much her daddy took her home. She knew that look.

Hi. Okay.

"Uhhh." Good for you? Was she insinuating that Theo didn't know how to walk through the wall? "I have actually walked through it for the past four years, you know." He was just feeling a little nervous to do it without his parents' backup. Was that bad for a fifth year? Yeah, it kinda was. Especially when he was trying the whole 'being mature' thing this term. He still had time!

His eyes widened when she started mentioning the pee thing. Theo quickly looked back to the clock and he suddenly started dancing on the spot again.

His pee feeling had gone but now it was back.

THANKS.

"Ican'tpeeoutside." He bent forwards and whispered to her. What kind of SICKO did she think he was? Pssh, even public toilets were a step too far for Theodore.

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Originally Posted by Emzily

"Uhhh." Good for you? Was she insinuating that Theo didn't know how to walk through the wall? "I have actually walked through it for the past four years, you know." He was just feeling a little nervous to do it without his parents' backup. Was that bad for a fifth year? Yeah, it kinda was. Especially when he was trying the whole 'being mature' thing this term. He still had time!

His eyes widened when she started mentioning the pee thing. Theo quickly looked back to the clock and he suddenly started dancing on the spot again.

His pee feeling had gone but now it was back.

THANKS.

"Ican'tpeeoutside." He bent forwards and whispered to her. What kind of SICKO did she think he was? Pssh, even public toilets were a step too far for Theodore.

O_________________________________O

He was talking to her.

Hehe.

Okay. Zahra cast a glance around her, mostly making sure MIKEY TOUSSAINT wasn't skulking around. And she was ABOUT to take his hand and SHOW him that he could do the wall too, all by himself, and with her, 'cause it really wasn't a BIG DEAL or nothing, no big deal...

...WHEN HE LEANED FORWARD WITH WHISPERING STUFF AND WAS THERE AND OHHHHHHH UHMMMMMm...

Zahra's feet seemed to tangle and she just fell right back. Right on her butt.

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Well, there no familar faces in sight of Wade just yet, just the average muggles walking by about their business. This blended the two owners of their own loaded trolly quite nicely. Letting time pass by, Wade began conversing with the new guy.

"Cool," Cute kid, wasn't he? Wade certainly thought so. "So, what's your name?" Because he was sure 'kid' wasn't it. "Well, I'm starting my seventh year.. so if you're confused on anything you can let me know." Now the question was, if he did have any concerns. So Wade slightly loosened his grip on the trolley just in case.

Marigold walked quickly with her father pushing her trolley to the wall. She was still a bit sad from saying goodbye to her mum, but she was excited to be going back to Hogwarts! She would write to her mum, anyway. Her father yelled back to her to hurry up, and she sped forward. Her father ran through the brick wall, a few muggles walking past the wall, their eyes glued to their phones and not noticing a thing. She looked around one last time, and walked towards the wall.

She took a few slower steps before speeding up and finally running through the wall. Just like last year, her eyes closed for the impact that never came.

Penelope nudged him back and replied with her own smirk, "Planning on going through and actually going through are kinda different though, yeah?" Because one kept you on this side of the wall and the other got you onto the platform. Pretty simple, basic difference. And she totally would drag him through the wall with her if he really was planning on just standing there. If she had to go back to school, so did he. Heh.

"Yeah, I'm gonna go," she answered with a nod. "Eventually." Whenever he went through. Maybe they could go through together? "You wanna hold Spot while going through?" The cat on her shoulder was staring intently at him, as if expecting attention. Which she probably was.

Seventh year.

Merlin, Kat just realised how OLD she was now. Being of age and all that, you know. Seventeen and she was soon going to begin her last year of magical education in Hogwarts. Hmm, well here's to hoping that it was the best last year for her. Minus NEWTs, you know.

For the first time in her entire life, this was the only time her mum or sister didn't accompany her to Kings Cross. She didn't have an apparition license yet, but she definitely had Floo'd herself. She was by herself and she knew what she was doing anyway. There was no problem. So, hello people. Hi. Katrina Hudson in the house.

... And why was Theo feeling all dancy?

Maybe she didn't needa go through the barrier yet. Too lazy. Maybe just wait for someone. Meh. They still had time anyway.

Oh man.

This was it.

Hogwarts was just on the other side of the country. of this wall. More or less. This is where is BEGAN, anyway.

Tallulah looked to her mum, then her dad, and then to Fern. She grinned, and might've sqeaked a little bit. Ahem. It might be her 15th birthday, but Tallulah had never been near Platform 9 3/4 before. They didn't think she'd ever have reason to. Which made her think...

"Hey, mum. Can you even pass through the wall?"

"Yes."

"Oh." Okay. Tallulah smiled, content with that answer. (She was also a little saddened by it, though she supposed her mum would have stayed at home if she couldn't.)

The birthday girl looked back to her cousin.

"Well... Ferny. You ready?"

SPOILER: I'M NOT.

The wall, this was the tricky part for Damon nearly all the time, his first year he had forgot to make sure he brought his trunk through with him, in his excitement of being in Hogwarts for the first time he had ran through and didn't realize his trunk was elsewhere until just before the train left.

Today was a pretty good day at least from his point of view. This time he had made sure he had an iron grip on the cart that would carry his trunk through the wall, he would most definitely not let it leave from his sight. So with one last look to make sure all of his items were accounted for he zoomed through the wall onto the platform.

Another summer over, yet for Kendall, she admitted even to herself that this summer had been ten million times less, well, something as compared to last summer. If only because nobody had ended up broken and unconscious this summer, and instead, she and Patrick had wandered around Galway all summer. It was even kind of weird being back in London, simply because it had been months. Isabel had ended up coming and getting her supplies for her a few weeks earlier, just because she’d decided guarding the hideout was more important than school supplies. Or maybe it had just been time with her boyfriend, but all she was going to admit to was that she’d been guarding the hideout. Either way, she was prepared for the term, as long as there weren’t dementors again. She’d rather just eat her chocolate stash on her own time.

Plus, she’d made sure she had a complete set of paints and other art things, for certain projects she’d had in mind since fourth year at least, carefully kept away from the chocolate in her trunk. Nothing was going to get contaminated, and she’d actually been able to cast the protection spells over it all on her own now that she was actually seventeen and everything. She didn’t have to ask her brother or Isabel to do magic stuff for her, but she’d still asked them to drop her and Patrick off at Kings Cross just because. It was a tradition, practically, but they’d stayed outside instead of walking her in. She’d lost Patrick in the crowds too, but she’d continued toward the wall disguising the platform confidently. He’d find her there, or at the train, and she could look for others in the meantime. Like the blonde Slytherin she saw dawdling near the wall, and she’d dragged her trunk over with a grin, Accio perched on top as if he was a ship’s captain or something. “Hey Katrina!,” she said brightly, pulling up next to her and eyeing the shiny badge. That wasn’t a normal prefect badge, but she stayed quiet for a second. She’d let Kat say something first.

Oh, she shouldn't have said that last part. It echoed in Cutty's 11 year old brain like the dropping of a sickle on a library floor.

Some rules are meant to be broke you know.

Did Heather Malfoy just say she mentored younger students? Cutty decided that he had been born in the wrong year entirely and that if someone were to re-invent the time turner he would find a way to get his hands on it. He found himself wanting to know everything Heather knew.

"Yeah. I wouldn't want to be prefect neither. Prefect is for gits." Yeaaah. He was cool. He was gonna dis on thems what were lowlier than he and Heather, because now that they were friends he had been elevated to her status...oh and Jezzebelle too, he supposed.

This was gonna be an interesting year.

The beginning of term. It meant that she didn't have to see her parents for a whole year almost. But it also meant that she had to make friends, which was hard. Red had a problem talking to people, mainly men and boys, and spending a year with them may be hard.

She was going to the platform with her parents, although why they agreed to come with her was beyond her. "Right, Phoenix, don't be causing trouble in Hogwarts, they don't need you crying at everything. Be good, we won't see you at Christmas so goodbye. Right, off you go, see you at the end of the year." her father said.

Red sighed and with her trunk, passed through the wall and onto the platform, she didn't need her parents doing that, do waving goodbye, she went to a new adventure.

Usually Olly would have smirked at his obvious discomfort. But now, she kind of sort of maybe possibly needed his help. So she didn't. Instead she simply glanced back towards the wall, glaring at it like it had done something wrong. Which it had. It existed. Why did they even have to run through a wall? How weird was that? If Hogwarts as a whole was as weird as getting to the platform then this was going to be a really tough year.

His SIXTH time? Okay, now she even knew which year he was in. And yes she had noticed his emphasis on through. Of course she technically knew that people tended to run through it. But accidents did happen right? His next question got him another eyebrow raise as if she wanted to say well, duh!. Only once again she she didn't say anything but instead just nodded slowly after a moment of silence. "Mhm. And I hope it'll be through and not into." At this she glanced back the wall briefly.

After another moment of silence and consideration, Olly did finally reach to take one of the sweets he was offering her. Maybe those would help calm her nerves. "Thanks." She replied absently, her attention back on glaring at the wall in front of her. Okay, if she didn't go through soon she would probably miss the train. Which despite everything, she really didn't want.

Heather shook her head and just laugh at the boys young mind. "I'm not saying I didn't want to be a prefect. Actually I was really upset when I wasn't chosen as one." She had thought she had been a good student. However, it was only after she didn't get the badge that she went stark crazy. I'm just saying I'm glad I wasn't in the end because I managed to have more fun. It didn't tie me down with responsibility that I would have never been able to handle at the time anyway."

Jezz looked around at all the people completely checking out of the conversation between Cutty and Heather. Who really cared anyway? She was never in the running to be a prefect anyway. There were a lot of faces she didn't recognize and she felt her heart drop a tad. Maybe coming back wasn't the greatest idea after all. She knew almost nobody.

Giving a sigh she looked at her watch. They had time but...

Yeaah! No responsibilities. Loners. Rebels. That's you and me, Heather Malfoy. That's you and me! And Jezzebelle too, maybe. Although Cutty thought with her sense of manners she was more of a team player.

"They couldn't tie you down, Heather Malfoy." He said becoming more comfortable with the former Quidditch star. "Would you sign my chest?" He said becoming way too comfortable with the former Quidditch star as he took out a quill, opened up his shirt and thrusted his skinny chest forward.

Jezz came back to earth a moment to soon. She watched in silence as Cutty opened up his shirt and pushed his skinny chest toward Heather. She started to laugh and had the hardest time covering it up with a few fake coughs. You never saw that happen these days. At least she didn't.

She looked at the older woman watching her face closely for any sign of anything and was surprised to find a blank slate of emotion. She had never witnessed this before from this person. What happened? Did Cutty break her?

Heather just stared at the boy. She wanted to laugh at him and tell him sure but she wasn't about to sign a little kid. She wasn't even sure how to respond to this stuff anymore. She hadn't signed anything in years. She knew one thing though. He needed to but his shirt back right. Improper manners, removing clothes in public. Especially with muggles around to witness it.

She knelt down in front of the boy and closed his shirt back up. "How about I sign something that won't fade after a bath or two." She pulled out a piece of parchment from her hand bag and took the quill from the boy. She gave it a quick scratch across the center and smiled handing them both to him. "Just don't lose it okay?"

She turned back to the red head girl who looked fit to burst. "Manners Jezzabelle. It's not polite to laugh at people." She shoved the girl forward and sighed. Why did she agree to do this again? Taking care of an almost of age teenager?

Kat wouldn't see Kings Cross anymore. Not until the end of this term, when she's finally graduated. She was a bit excited for her final term because she was a seventh year and they usually OWNED the school. But then she hated how they were going to have NEWTs as well. She had a bloody headache with her OWLs back in her fifth year but now, it was even harder. Nastily exhausting, as the acronym would like to describe it as. It meant more studying and required a lot more focusing on classes and textbooks. That was a bit of a challenge, because Kat had tryouts to attend this term. Dylan wasn't captain anymore, so they must have a new one. She didn't know who, but she was hoping it was a likable person. Guess all Kat needed to do was manage her time wisely and make the most out of the time allotted for them. With this new shiny badge she got days ago, it would be a challenge is she willing to take.

Eyes gazing up the clock, Kat realised she had a least five to ten minutes left before the train departed. According to her, that was still a lot of time and she usually left the platform around three minutes before eleven o'clock out of habit. It's been something she's carried since her fourth year so changing an old habit would be a bit difficult for her. She didn't have an Elise to go with, which was definitely a first. At least her bestie would be flying with the Pride of Portree players and going professional even if she was only a reserve beater. And, you know Kat was seventeen now? She got to taste the feeling of being independent. That meant she didn't have the Trace with her anymore which was exciting because she got to do everything with her wand the whole summer. Way to make her younger brother, Alexander, jealous. He still had another year until he turned seventeen so Kat was always doing his things for him. Lazy butt, Alex was. He was probably abusing Kat's "of age" abilities but she didn't mind it. At least she got more time to spend with her wand. Mum always let Kat and Alex keep their wand when they were at home because of underage reasons. But that all changed for the Slytherin. Just then, after a few thoughts to herself, Kat saw Kendall. Her K1. "Hi Kendall!" she greeted her Ravenclaw friend. She noticed the quietness from the Ravenclaw and realised that she was looking at her new badge. Oh, right. She had some explaining to do. "Surprise?" Head Girl, yo.

So this big cool kid knew all the things, and he was helping him! He smiled and straightened out his t-shirt, maybe the big kid knew Oliver too.
'I'm Donn'cha! Donny is fine too.' Or Donnacha Andrew Harper, but only if he was in trouble. Donnacha wiped his hand on his trousers and held it out, shaking hands was the big kid way of introducing yourself. 'What's your name?'

This big kid was a REALLY big kid! Seventh years knew everything, his cousin had said so anyway. 'The wall.....' Donnacha paused to squint at the wall for a moment, it looked like any other wall. And any other wall Donny had run into had hurt, he had bruises to support this. '..does it hurt?' That was all he wanted to know right now, Padraig had told him it was "excruciatingly painful".

He felt that nudge and Ascanius couldn't help but smirk wider at her at how positively Essex she just sounded. His posh little miss had spent all summer with him and had naturally adopted some of his manner of speaking. Smirk. It was cute. Not that'd he ever say that out loud or anything, yeah? Jeez, he wasn't some nancy.

And then she offered up Spot to hold. Pfft, 'course he wanted to hold Spot. That was a silly question. That cat adored him and stuff, which he wouldn't blame her. He had that effect on all types of females, why would felines be any different? So he took her from Pen and grinned, "C'mon, lets go through." He had to find someone anyway.

Er.

HE DIDN'T PUSH HER, HONEST.

Theo took a look around them anyway, just to check that no one was looking and ready to point the finger at him. He was many things, but no girl pusher. Girls were gross and not nice to touch. "Are you... uhh... alright down there?" Remembering his inner gentleman, Theo held out his hand, kinda awkwardly, for the girl.

Whose name he still did not know.

It seemed as if everything he said didn't seem to be going the right way with this girl. And to think he thought he was... good at talking to girls. Certainly not nervous or weird or any of it. He did smile at her, though, and resisted the urge to ruffle his hair... again.

... Oh! OH! This explained everything! The weird looks towards the wall and the way she had moved towards it but stopped at the last minute. Alec almost felt sorry for the girl, actually, and a little bad too. "Well... if it makes you feel better, I don't think many people crashed into it before." And they could just ignore the guy who had fallen over there, yeah?

She was taking one of his sweets! Personal victory? He thought so! "Anytime!" he said, feeling a little less weird about this little encounter. Sweets helped, yeah? ... Pause. "Erm... I think we should get going before we miss the train." And before they ended up crashing into the barrier but... there was no need to mention that last bit. The girl might be nervous enough already without him adding onto it.

Donn'cha, eh? That was definitely a unique name to Wade. "Nice name, Donny," He smiled before accepting his hand to shake, being careful not to crush them. "I'm Wade." Meanwhile, Wade was carefully thinking on what house he will be in, hopefully with the yellow house. Heh.

Now it was clear on why he was stationary. Wade glanced at the direction he was squinting at. It wasn't just an ordinary wall, it was the one docked right between Platform 9 and 10. Did it hurt? He smiled softly before looking back at Donny. "Nah.. only if you want it to.." Because only saying 'no' didn't make it less scary. "It's actually fun running towards it with your eyes closed.. how does that sound?" Was he ready to make the journey?

If it made her feel better?! Olly just stared at the boy for a moment, with her mouth hanging open slightly as if she were trying to say something but couldn't quite think of the right words. "Not MANY?!" She finally ended up repeating his words, followed by a small shake of her head. "You're not helping, you know..." She added, lowering her voice slightly but still loud enough for him to hear.

Seriously, she'd almost convinced herself that not thaaat much could happen and now here he was talking about how some people had actually run INTO the wall before. Really, not helping. Though, the fact that he was still standing next to her WAS oddly comforting. In a way. Not that she'd ever admit to that out loud but, at least she wasn't staring at the wall in front of her alone.

Sucking on the sweet he had given her, Olly glanced back at him again when he replied, considering him for a moment. She couldn't quite figure out why he was trying to help her but whatever. Right now she just needed someone to give her the last push to get through the wall. Not literally. "After you then." Olly said with a small smirk and a hand gesture to indicate that he should just go ahead. She wanted to see if he got through, then she would follow. Easy, yeah?

Hopefully.