Ahhhh Finally the day came. The day of the departure. After saying goodbye to his parents, Jordan entered and went to the back of the train, as if it was his assigned seat on the school bus. Jordan was waiting for a few Gryffindor First Years to meet him back there. "I can't believe it, my first year of Hogwarts is underway. Lets Go!" Shouted Jordan as if he just won the Quidditch World Cup.

He was also one of the first on the train. "Well at least I'm not late or anything." He wondered when everybody would start to show up. Whether he was too early or not.

He also wondered wheter or not people liked the back. When he went to muggle school all the "cool" kids sat in the back. "Hmmm. Maybe it's a little early. Wait! I see some people! Lets go meet em!" Shouted Jordan as happy as a Coach winning the Super Bowl.

Ella could barely speak she was so excited. Each of her brothers ruffled her hair as they departed to go and find their friends. Ah. Now she was alone.. She quickly made her way to the back of the train carrying her bag & her cat carrier; her brothers had sorted her trunk.

She slid into one of the carriages and slid down onto one of the seats.Eeeeeep! She grinned to herself, finally off to a school where she wouldn't be picked on because of her gift and magic, a school where she would be surrounded by people like her.. she could hardly wait!

Opening her bag, she pulled out her copy of Witch Weekly and a packet of Haribos. Yes, Muggle sweets. So what? She loved them! Turning her head, she watched many other students saying their goodbyes and piling onto the train. Herself and her brothers had sent their Mother a letter the day before, informing her of their purchases and sending their love. She hadn't been there to see them off..

Ivan walked to the back of the train. Always the back of the train. Only losers and overachievers sat at the front and he wasn't either of those soooooo back of the train it was. Grabbing a compartment before a first year could he closed the door behind him and laid down on one of the benches. Time for a nap. Though with all the ruddy noise he wasn't sure he'd be able to but he'd damn well try.

As Jordan turned around, after putting away his trunk, owl and school supplies he saw someone, and it seemed like she was a first year from how tall she was. "I wonder if anyone thinks I'm a First Year from my height. I'm 5'7"." Jordan said to himself

"Hi, my name is Jordan. First Year in Gryffindor. How are you?" Said Jordan with a minor smurk on his tan face.

Thalia made her way to the back of the train, snagging an empty compartment. She neatly piled all of her belongings beside her, and then took out her journal and new quill. She let the sunlight that was pouring in from the window stream over her face.

Was it bad she was actually excited to be back on this train? Sure, it was giving them a ride to their ultimate doom for the rest of the year, but the train rides were nice. Long, eventful, and usually ended up with one more enemy to add to her growing list of names. Not to mention she'd be clinging onto a certain Gryffindor the whole time.

And with said Gryffindor trapped in her grasp at the moment, the sixth year Slytherin made her way down the aisles of the train, Poof following by her side, not bothering to look into the compartments until she came to the back. The back had the good seats, obviously. Like this compartment here. Empty, and quiet. Perfect.

And it shall be claimed as theirs.

Ella looked up from her magazine and raised an eyebrow.What was with the smurk?
'Hi, I'm Ella. I'm a First Year too, nice too meet you.'She tried to be polite. Being brought up around fice older boys sometimes made that hard. Sitting up a bit more, she looked at the boy properly. Wow. This kid was tall!
'I'm good thanks, how are you?' She grinned; he seemed alright.

Cassie said bye to Davidson, who seemed a little bit too happy to see her go and pulled her rather small trunk behind her to the train. She was soo bloody glad the day she found the store that sold them, very small and fashionable but could fit a plethora of things all shapes and sizes and she really needed that. She had lots of stuff after all and the professors at Hogwarts were so unpredictable, one always needed to be packed for that extra something.

As usual she headed for the back of the train and sat in an empty compartment with her tiny owl Nip and and Coffee her crup. To pass the time she took out her quidditch magazine and proceeded to oogle at the lovely fit quidditch players until Brynn or her other friends joined her.

Breathe in... Breathe out...

Kita wandered towards the back of the train, trying not to think about her supposed 'family' standing on the platform trying to make out that she was the most important thing in the world to them. Gah! Some people can be so stupid sometimes.

At least she was early for once. That was definitely a plus sign. Most of the compartments seemed to be empty. The only problem was choosing one she liked. But being little miss picky, she couldn't find one!

Kita hauled her trunk further along the train. Maybe the snagging a good compartment plan was going to be a total and utter fail. Who knows.

Giving up, she walked into the compartment nearest to her. Placing her trunk and her owl cage on the luggage rack, she slouched down by the window and looked outside. If there was one thing she knew, it was this: it was definitely going to be an interesting year this year...

Dragging her trunk behind her, Macy wandered down the aisle. She stopped, however as she came to the back of the train. Shoot. There was no more train to walk through. Sighing, she peeked into an apartment, only entering and swinging her case into the rack once she was satisfied that it was empty.

The girl took a seat, drumming her fingers subconsciously. Hmm. Well. It would appear that they were finally off to Hogwarts. Mum and Dad and Eden were back at the platform and she was, well, here. Honestly, she was beginning to wonder if switching schools was such a good idea.

... NOW WAS NOT THE TIME TO DOUBT HERSELF!

Beauxbatons had been awful. That's why she'd left. And considering she'd met one of her former enemies(... -ish) on the way here, things were not looking up to well. Sigh. This was a new start. A new beginning. A new... Well, a new year. And a new wand for that matter, but that was normal.

Thomas put his trunk on the seat and sat down. He was finally going to hogwarts! He could not wait! He double checked his trunk to make sure everything was there:
1 Wand
His uniform
Hogwarts: A History by Chroniculus Punnet
A History of Magic by Bathilda Bagshot
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by Newt Scamander
The Dark Forces: A Guide to Self-Protection by Quentin Tremble
How Not To Blow Off Your Fingers On The First Day by Julius Gummidge
A Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration by Emeric Switch
Quidditch Through the Ages by Kennilworthy Whisp
Goshawk's Guide to Herbology by Miranda Goshawk
The Standard Book of Spells Grade 1 by Miranda Goshawk
Hilary Stargazer's Guide to the Galaxy by Hilary Stargazer
Cauldron
Yep everything was there he relaxed waiting for his friends to come on.

Isobel was walking down the train, looking for somewhere to sit. The compartments had filled up fast; there were only a few empty ones left. But who wanted to sit by themselves when one could make new friends? Certainly not Isobel...Quidditch Captain. She grinned like crazy as she walked down the train before taking a breath and trying to calm her insides.

It was the start of the Fourth Year's second year at Hogwarts, she wanted to start it out good. That morning she had thought about Beaubaxtons. Two years ago she would be getting ready to meet up with Violet and go to Beaubaxtons. But for the past year she had been at Hogwarts, with no Violet, and it had been awesomer. Then Isobel saw a girl sitting herself in a compartment. In fact, she looked vaguely familiar, but she couldn't place why. With a shrug Isobel slid open the compartment door. "Hello," she said shyly. "Can I sit here?"

Responding to Ella, "Pretty good. Been anticipating this day for awhile. I bet your excited as well?" Asked Jordan as nice as he could. He had to make sure to show his personality, so other students don't think he is stuck up or think he is better than everyone else because he's taller than most 11 year olds. He also wanted to make sure people knew he was a first year and not any other, as he looked older than most of the first years at Hogwarts.

Belle find a compartment all to herself. She was excited to start to her second year of hogwarts. She loved the feeling of going back and seeing her friends again and learning new spells. She wore a new outfit, she got this new outfit, she was sitting on the train, in her own seat, listining to music and writing in her journal completly in her own world for the moment.

She suddenly burst out laughing, he seemed pretty.. nervous?
'Sorry.. feeling a bit giddy. Yeah, really realllly excited' she told him.' Suprised my brothers haven't killed me to be honest, I've been asking them that much about Hogwarts!'She grinned, brushing her hair off her face; the light of the compartment shining on it making it look even more gingery- auburn than it already was. She inwardly groaned. Bleurgh.
Moving on... Ella patted the seat next to her and pointed to the one opposite.
'Fancy sitting with me? I don't wanna have to start talking to my cat..' she giggled and put her magazine down.'So.. any brother or sisters already here? I have 5 older brothers.. and my Mam came here. I'm half and half.'she smiled gently. Wow, she rambled a lot....

Thomas looked to the left and saw Jordan " Oh hey Jordan! " Thomas called

Blah blah blah. Brynn was trying to tune out the conversations of the pre-pubescent first-years in front of her. Their little legs were not moving very fast and the girl was getting increasingly impatient. He forced herself to take a deep breath and control her annoyance. Brynn Pierce was not typically this easily irritated, but one had to understand that she hadn't eaten breakfast. And this girl needed breakfast to start the day off un-grumpily.

When she finally maneuvered past the firsties, she booked it down the hall, as if to 'show them' how slow they had been moving. How mature. AHA! There was her best frannnnn. "Cassie!" She grinned and dropped the handle to her luggage in order to give her friend a tight hug. When the two finally parted, she saw the adorable little owl in some beanie or.. something. "Oh my gosh, Cass... he is so cute! So, this is your new owl?" She scrunched her nose and smiled at the little guy as she ogled over his cuteness.

Embarrassed as she laughed, "Sure that's fine. I wish I had a couple brothers, I'm the only child in my family. My mum and dad were busy with work at the Ministry, so they decided to keep me as the only child. Guess theres good and bad to only child, haha." Jordan replied, feeling sorry that Ella had three or four brothers, as he couldn't remember. "I don't think I could handle that many brothers I think. Haha. Must be a real challenge."

Macy looked up as the compartment door opened, pushing her sunglasses back into her hair. A girl about her age walked in smiling and asked if she could sit. Eh. Why not?

"Sure. Go ahead." She watched as the girl gave her a skeptical look before appearing to shrug it off. ??? Erm... Ignoring the look, she reached into her purse and pulled out a magazine. Heh. It seemed like everytime she made social contact with a person it was blocked through magazines. Or enhanced. Whatever.

Ignoring the girl walking in, Macy flipped through the magazine. Biting her lip, she examined the various displays of up-and-coming fashions. Snort. Yeah, at Beauxbatons nearly half the trends had come and went a month before school was out. Jeez. The one thing these people could do was keep this thing up to date.

"Whats up Thomas? Care to sit with us? We've got room for a couple more people." Replying to Thomas wanting to introduce him to his new friend, Ella.

"Thomas meet Ella, Ella meet Thomas." He felt this was the right thing to do, to make some friendly conversations while on the Hogwarts express. He was surprised how easy it was making new friends.

Biting her lip, she felt ashamed.. yeah she was a bit too forward for some people...
'Sorry.. didn't mean to embarress you.. I do that a lot..' Merrrh..awkward... She shrugged her shoulders slightly, tossing her hair again.She held up five fingers grinning.'Five older brothers.. and yeah it is a bit annoying I suppose-' She flet her eyes widen.. she had seen this boy before.. she was suddenly sure she had. Shaking her head, flushing red she turned away. Rubbing her forehead she spoke again.
'By the way, I'm sure people won't be put off by your height..'she grinned again.'I'd rather be tall to be honest.. I'm practically a midget! You won't be able to see me coming in the corridoors!'Ella covered her mouth, laughing again. Jeez, she was lucky if this guy wanted to be her friend..

She waved.
'Hey!' smiling she held out her packet of sweets to them both.'Haribo?' she asked grinning.

"Hi Ella nice to meet you!" Thomas smiled at Ella.

"Yes, please" He thanked Ella.

"Thats funny, haha. It's alright, better to have more of a personality than to be dull, eh?" Replying to Ella, he was liking his new friend. She was funny, easy to talk to, just what he looks for in the friend. This year should be good, haha. And he thought it was funny how she randomly laughed. Not many girls he met did this, so he knew she was the friendly kind of person. He was glad he met her.

Cassie watched as Coffee lived up to his name and ran around the compartment acting the fool by trying to jump up unto the seat to catch Nip. Nip seemed to be taunting him, convinced that the little dog like creature dressed in very expensive grey cotton top could not catch him. Oh how her little darlings amused her. She laughed even more as Coffee jumped, missed and landed on his back, then rolled to his feet and repeated everything all over again.

She didn't have to wait long though before she was joined by her bestest best friend in the whole wide world."BrynniBun!!!" She said returning the tight squeeze that her friend trapped her in. Oh she really missed her. She laughed as Brynn finally noticed Nip."Yeah, that's Nip, careful though, he..well..he nips. XD" She looked down moments later to see Coffee humping Brynn's leg. Ah man, she really loved that little crup, there was never a dull moment when he was around."I umm..I think Coffee missed you Brynn." She said laughing.