Mina smiled softly as she entered and moved to sit down. "Thank you, the front of the train is rather noise and all," she explained. Usually she would have loved it, but she wasn't in the mood to run into anyone that would bring back feelings she rather keep hidden. But seriously, who was she kidding, her best friends hardly ever found her on the train anyway. Perhaps, it was wishful thinking they would this term. Yet, this was the one time she didn't want it to happen. Folding her hands in her lap, she looked at the him and tilted her head slight. He looked familiar. She knew she had seen him around, but she was having a hard time remembering just where.

"I'm Jasmina Bennett. But everyone calls me, Mina." she replied with a tiny small of her own. She knew she could smile more, but smiling and being extremely happy about returning to term wasn't high on her list. She left the train a few months ago, wanting to get back to her friends and school. Yet, now the only thing she wanted was to hide and study. Well, perhaps hang out with Ella and Cadence too, but she knew that she couldn't see much of her other best friend. Shaking her head slightly, she cleared her thoughts. No, she wouldn't think about that right now. "Pleasure to meet you, Evan." she added as she started to think back to where she recognized him from.

Smiling around at Ainra and Camille, Magnolia couldn't help but feel excited to be going to Hogwarts. At least she knew she wasn't alone anymore.
"Wow, i've never been to Asia before. are you nervous about being so far from home?" Magnolia asked.

Camille beamed hearing this.

"No, i`m not..both of my parents are magically inclined..so does my brothers" She sighted remembering them. "They all graduated actually,..i`m the only last one who hasn`t studied magic yet" She blinked. " but we engage ourselves insome muggle stuff...like both of my parents got professional muggle jobs.. so doesmy brothers.." suddenly wondering, "have you got siblings??" she friendly asked.

"Oh, i'm the only one in my family. I think they all thought it made sense for me to be a witch because i always made strange things happen when i was little" Magnolia said laughing. She smiled, thinking about her family. "I have a little sister named Gemma, i am hoping she will get into Hogwarts next year!" Magnolia said to answer Camille's question.

"no.." she just said plainly. "and, my parents are already expecting it as well...the letter i mean."

Camille faced her. " abit.. i miss..i miss a lot actually..many people..many stuff..but hey~ i think i got you here now guth.." she beamed, trying to be positive. inspite of the bit sadness she`s feeling inside.

Keeley giggled as she noticed Rex. Heehee, at least she didn't have to sit on the floor anymore. People kept stepping on her, and it hurrrt. Gah. She smiled nevertheless, and hopped up. "Okie dokie." she grinned, trying to ignore the lovey dovey-ness of her friend and his gal. She wasn't much of a romancer. Grabbing her fat, proesting cat, the girl fixed her yellow headband, sitting on her eqqually yellow hair. Yessss, yellow was a good third year color.

"You guys are lucky!" Ainra said. "I wish I had a brother, or sister." She was an only child and had always wanted a sibling to fight with.

Evan nodded slightly at her excuse. She didn't have to explain him anything, but it felt good that at least some people still cared to tell him the reasons, unlike... whoever. How he wished to be back in Liverpool now, with his beloved team. But instead, he was in the Hogwarts Express and planning how to avoid Marie and most of the people. This wasn't right. He definately didn't de--

His thoughts were cut off with her talking. Jasmina Bennett... he hadn't heard the name before, he was positive. He nodded again. So was he supposed to call her Mina as well? Suited him, like it'd make a difference. "Nice to meet you too, Mina." he said. Then, just for something to say, he asked "Which house and grade are you in?" Because sitting there in silence wouldn't help him keep his thoughts off what would happen in school this year.

Magnolia grinned at Camille and Ainra. She glanced out of the window and noticed huge mountains with snow-capped peaks. "I wonder where we're going" Magnolia said out loud. "Does anyone know where Hogwarts actually is?" she asked

Camille giggled. "YOu woudn`t want it.."Camille laughed. "kidding,
seriously,it really depends on how they treat you" Camille stared.

"I think we're close." Ainra said. "I heard someone talk about it being on top of a mountain. Although I don't know which mountain specifically." She suddenly realized how much she didn't know about anything. She had a sudden thought that this could be some sort of elaborate hoax but shook that out of her head. Hadn't she seen magic in Diagon Alley? Or perhaps this was all a dream. Maybe she'd wake up back at her house in a few minutes, and get up and go to school and eventually forget all about this wonderful dream. She looked at the two girls. "Does this feel surreal to you?" She asked them. "I"m starting to not believe it's true."

CAmille stopped. "Britain??"she mouthed in confusion.

Magnolia started to feel worried. What if they were being shipped off to some child labor camp? Or what if this was all in her head? Great, magnolia thought to herself, i always knew there was something wrong with me. But she had a wand and books! All of these things had to be real, so why would the school be fake? "I feel like there is no way this can be happening" she answered Ainra. "But what about all of the kids who are returning to Hogwarts!" Magnolia exclaimed, "They wouldn't just make it up! I heard some older students talking about dragons and quidditch and something called hinkypunks!" she said, getting louder and louder with excitement. After she stopped speaking, magnolia realized she was standing up. oops, carried away again...

Becca nodded with approval to Kevin. "Yeah, Beater is my favorite position for sure. In my first few terms they kind of put me anywhere, but Beater was my first and favorite." She turned and tilted her head slightly at the overly anxious Ravenclaw and scrutinized her for a moment. "Hm. Well it's lovely to meet you, Cedes."

So it really was quite a party. And, thankfully, none of the present company seemed like they would end up making her want to rip her eyes out of her head by the end of the journey. As far as good traveling companions went, Mariel, Kevin, and Cedes were acceptable choices. Though, none of them seemed too keen on starting conversations. That meant Becca was going to have to be the adult in the situation and keep it going. How terribly exciting.

"So. Uh. What do you guys do... or where do you guys tend to hang out around the school in your free time? It's weird that I haven't seen much of any of you around - maybe except for you, Mariel."

Looking at both of them , camille sighted leaning her back;slowly closing her eyes, she whispered. "Thooper~" letting the sound of her ipod, fill her head; trying to avoid, thinking ,she`s already heading to hogwarts. this is it, this must be it..this is hogwarts.

stems and gears oh how the daisies bloom when chandeliers light up the engine room...

Kevin smiled at Becca and said "Well i love to hang around the lake as i like to hang out by the water but i do hang around other places as well Becca"

Magnolia was lost in thought as she watching the scenery fly by the train window, blending into a stream of purples and greens and dark blues as the sky darkened. Suddenly she had a thought. "Camille?" she asked tenatively, "Do you know any spells, you could show us?"

home will always be here unseen out of sight oh wi--ieh?
Camille opened her eyes again, pretty shocked as the other girl was exclaiming.
"um, ca-alm down please?" She sounded worried. " You can borrow my ipod if you like.."She didn`t know what else to do to make her feel pleasant.

Chase thought about what Savannah could write in her notebook. She could make it her journal or something."I don't know"She replied.

Ainra smiled at Magnolia, and laughed a little as she stood up. This girl had to have more personality than anyone she had met in the muggle world. "Yeah," She said, as she stopped laughing. "There's no way this isn't real." She was getting more excited. The muggle world had always been such a grey place for her, she had always known that she was destined to go somewhere with a bit more color. She sighed a little. "This is going to be great!"

Mina smiled politely as she tried to think about just where she had seen Evan before. She wasn't at all great with names but she remembered faces and there was a lot of faces she remembered, but just no names to place with them. Maybe it was time for her to start matching up names to faces, that was sure to keep her busy and her mind off of certain people and their show of af....

Just as she mind started to linger over thoughts that were sure to make her cry, she hear him ask her a question. "I'm a third year, Ravenclaw," she replied with a shrug. It was odd for her to think that she really was a tird year now and thirteen. She was growing up and it wasn't like she dreamt it would be like. She expected it to be different, she expected to have friends that adored her as she adored them, but maybe this is what being a teenager was really like. "And you? What house and year are you?" she asked. Maybe if she knew this, she could remember just why he looked so familiar to her.

Blinking, Camille smiled. "Sure.." she said as she was handing out her wand. "here.."she sighted heavily. "My brothers taught me this..one of the simpliest they said" trying to concentrate while holding her wand, she gave out a little breathe "Lumos.."She muttered gently , as alittle glow of light stayed at the tip of her wand..like a torch." idunno what this is called..but my brothers said it comes handy when the battery of the flashlight is low." she grinned.

looking at her, Camille agreed. "yeah thooper great~" she said , playing with the lumos she made.

Magnolia felt like her heart would explode with joy. There was just no way that this could be a dream (she wasn't that creative). "That's really neat!" Magnolia told Camille, smiling. She pulled her wand out of her bag and held it for a second. "So you just say Lumos?" she asked wiggling her wand a little.

Ella was wandering the compartments when she caught sight of her other BEST friend. "Mina!!" Ella smiled, seeing her and giving her a hug. "How was your summer? I missed you sooooo much!" Ella had so much to tell her, and give her. Then she realized Mina was having a conversation with someone else she didn't know, and felt like she interrupted. Oops.

"I'm Ella," she smiled, introducing herself, pretty much jumping into their conversation, "Sorry if I interrupted," she added hastily.

Ainra pulled heer wand out as well. "Lumos." She muttered. She saw the end of her wand light up. "Wow." It had just come so naturally to her, like reading and writing had in muggle school. She smiled, but tried to not get too excited, there was sure to be an equivalent to math here, something that she simply could not understand. However this reaffirmed her belief that this was where she belonged.