--"Platform 9 3/4? There ain't no such thing. You are the 700th kid to asked me that!"--

Felicia Alexandra Vincent had made it. She was here, now all she needed to do to get to Hogwarts was step on the train and ride it. Her nerves were running wild. She couldn't tell whether she was nervous or excited, but it didn't matter. She was feeling something alright. Maybe her insanity. Eh, she'd have to check that when she woke up. The small muggleborn looked around, for someone who hadn't known how to get to Platform Nine and Three Quarters ten minutes ago, she seemed to be doing pretty well on time, there weren't many students here yet. For a painstaking moment, she thought maybe she was in the wrong place. That the Hogwarts Express was on the other side of the train station or something. But no, the words were printed on the side of the train. "I must be mental," she whispered with a slight giggle as she glanced at Neyiri. Well, it was time to board. Taking a step on the train, she felt a rush of nothing but simple giddy. "And I love it."

Melanie was nervous. Or was she excited? She could tell what that feeling in her stomach was but she did know that she had nearly forgotten today was the day she'd board the train and she had ran around this station looking for Platform 9 and 3/4. And when she had found it, she ran right through it. Running through the wall gave Melanie a bit of a odd feeling... and a bit of a stumble. Catching herself before she fell, mostly through the flailing of the arms, she looked up and was welcomed by the world's most amazing sight - a beautiful red train.

Why didn't subways in New York look like that? Everyone would love it then!

Now... where did she go? Melanie looked around the platform wishing she had asked her grandparents to come with her. Was she supposed to just stand here? Was she supposed to go board the train? Where would she put her suitcase and owl? Cotton Candy fluffed up his feathers again, causing Melanie to giggle quietly.

She felt more lost than a first year. Which she basically was since this was her first term right?

--"Platform 9 3/4? There ain't no such thing. You are the 700th kid to asked me that!"--

"Oh, hey! My name is Alex, it's my first year," Alex glanced back. Melanie was an older girl, by the looks of it, but she looked just as lost as a first year. Which was really what had made Alex curious enough to talk to her. "What year are you?"

So, summer would be over soon.

He couldn't believe that summer had passed so quick! Maybe because Gary spent most of his summer time at his hometown, Vancouver. Time flew so fast, right? It seemed like yesterday he stepped his foot to this station for the first time. It was his first year at Hogwarts after he and Luke had a big argue about his movement to that school. Now, he was already in sixth year of school, and his second year at Hogwarts.

The blonde guy walked across the platform. Was he late or too early? It wasn't too crowded here. Oh, maybe he was too early to arrive here. Gerald was.. enthusiast? Not really. Bored? He didn't think so. But Hogwarts seemed like his second home and he never regretted to be one of the students of Hogwarts. He just stood up there and started biting his apple. He looked around if he could find someone familiar here. Perhaps Gary could find his missing girlfriend, who was dissapeared since last Christmas. Sigh. Could you please stop thinking about her even just for a second, Gerald?

Melanie turned in surprise to look at the girl. She smoothed out her hair and smiled at her, trying not to fidget nervously or excitedly. She still couldn't tell. "I'm going to be a fourth year, but this is my first time here! It's so cool!" Melanie exclaimed, grinning from ear to ear.

She also didn't know what she was supposed to do. Was she supposed to put her luggage somewhere? This girl seemed to know more than Melanie did though which just made her more nervous-excited.

The girl shifted her weight from one side to another before she realized the girl had introduced herself. Face tinging red a little, she quickly let go of her suitcase handle and stuck it out for the girl to shake. "I'm Melanie Sung, it's nice to meet you Alex." There. That should've righted everything that she had done wrong, right? After all, it was better late than never... hehe.

His fifth year was about to start. It was actually pretty funny to think that Daichi was now a fifth year. FIFTH YEAR! fifteen years old. And yes, he still carried his plushed ducky where ever he went.

He had pushed his trolley with his suitcases through the wall and now found himself on the north end of the platform. Despite that he had seen this place a lot of times now, he was still amazed by it. The red train in front of him made him realize that he was finally going back to Hogwarts.

His brown eyes continued to stare at the train as he wondered what kinds of stuff would happen this year at school. Because, well , come on! This was Hogwarts. Each year he had been there something strange had happened so it was bound to happen again right? Or maybe Daichi just hoped for some adventure because if he had to think about his OWL he was sure to have a breakdown soon. Eyes fixed on the train, and deep in thought, he pushed his trolley and walked forward until...

He slammed against someone. Or something... ! His thoughts were immediately interupted as he shook his head wildly. With wide eyes he now stared at a boy around his age and a deep red blush covered his cheeks. "I-i-i'm so sorry!" he said with a bow of his head. "Did i hurt you?!" he asked as he walked around the trolley to see if he was hurt.

Juliet has been excited since 3 days ago. She couldn't stop talking and keep on packing more stuffs, it makes everyone in the house just laugh at how enthusiastic she is about this. Of course she is. She is finally transferring to the school that she had always wanted. So she got up early and fixed everything before leaving. Her uncle Alexander couldn't drop her off at the station today because he has work at the ministry. Her aunt Victoria is sick since yesterday, so Juliet can't really force her. Which only leaves one other person in the house to help her... And her uncle would not let her go alone to the train station today, forcing his own son to drop her off even just a little while.

He is leaving tomorrow and instead of enjoying his last day in London, THIS had to happen. He woke up very early to because she is too excited to be dropped off at the train station. His father did give him specific rules. Drop her off but don't leave til the train arrives. It's not fair. NOT FAIR!!! Though he is a bit looking forward to it still, he is going to see a couple of familiar people on the platform, so why not?

Upon arriving at the platform, a few people were there. He helped Juliet with her bags and they both sat on one bench. Students were around but none of them he knew of. Looking at his cousin "Told you not to be too early" he mumbled as he eyed the Daily Prophet paper on his hand.

Alex took the hand with a smile. "I know! I can't believe all of this-" she waved her hands to indicate the train station. "was right under my nose all this time! I come from a muggle family," she added after a second in explanation, having learned the word 'muggle' a few days ago. It seemed to clear up confusion over her silly mistakes she made. "I think there's probably a place for that inside the train," she said, pointing to Melanie's suitcase. [color=#7700ff]"I don't see a spot for it out here."

Melanie looked around the place. She didn't believe it either. She wasn't even from around here. The station itself looked different from the ones she was used to seeing. Plus, it wasn't underground like the ones she saw. "Oh, I'm half and half, but both my parents are half... so I think that makes me a quarter-blood." It made sense with math in her head somehow. She was pretty sure how that would work. There was a place for the suitcase on the train?

"Oh," she said, her hand gripping the black plastic again. Well, she supposed she'd have to hold onto it before boarding then. "Do you know where the owls go?" Because she didn't want Cotton Candy to get hurt.

Ella's summer had been interesting, and that was putting it mildly. As she arrived to the station and said goodbye to her family, she couldn't help but feel a bit relieved to be headed back to Hogwarts. She wanted the familiarity of friendly faces and the cozy common room. She was also ready to get back into the routine of classes and homework, as silly as that sounded. She just wanted to be really busy so she could forget about somethings...This was a new year. She was going to be a THIRD YEAR. It would be great. Mhm.

Letting her eyes scan the platform, the blond looked around for any of her friends excluding Sophie, who she was sure still hated her.

People said that waiting is so much boring... and Gary approved that. Now he was bored to wait for the train. Even apples couldn't heal his boredom. Perhaps the blonde guy could do something to distract himself from the boredom such as talking with fellow Hogwarts students? He need to socialize more but he wasn't a good person to start a conversation, seriously. Maybe at the first time people would notice Gerald Rush as an attractive boy who liked to flirt around girls (because he was good looking and handsome enough *coughs*) but they were TOTALLY wrong.

He is a typical cool person. Very cool enough, you would think he's such an arrogant because he didn't talk much. Unless if you had known him for a long time.

While he was standing here, waiting whether the train would be up soon or not suddenly...

*BUMP!!*

The blonde guy felt that there was someone had hit him. OHMYSWEETMERLIN how could a person could hit him? Was he blind or something because he couldn't see Gerald Rush who was so tall and big? Luckily he wasn't falling backward or something. He almost yelled at the person who had hit him accidentally. Noticing that he had apologized, Gary didn't yell to him. "Well... That's okay." said him cool. "And don't worry, I am fine." he continued when the boy asked him if he was hurt or not.

Laura had finally arrived at the station, she couldn't believe it was already that time of the year again, she would have to say goodbye too her family soon, well most of her family anyway her sister Lana obviously would be coming on the train again but well it would be like normal, Lana would probably go and see her friends whilst she would see her.

Laura was skipping along next to her father when she suddenly saw someone. "ELLA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Laura looked at her father who nodded his head and Laura went and skipped off towards her bestie. "I can't believe we are starting our third year." Laura giggled as she hugged her bestie. "What do you think about it?"

Justin went through the barrier and walked down the platform to see if any of his friends were there yet. He set his trunk near the baggage boarding station and went to find a bench to sit on.... He guessed that he was the only one of his friends there already.

Chace headed towards the northern end of the platform with his usual assortment of luggage. Chace had been a bit taken aback by the fact that his aunt had gotten slightly teary eyed at him leaving for the year, which made no sense to Chace whatsoever. Especially considering the fact that the two of them had done nothing but argue pretty much the entire time he had been there. But, whatever. He was moving on and about to be back to his much desired independent life at school. Chace hadn't seen Abby since their adventure at WWW, the purchases from that trip tucked securely amongst his things, and he had to admit he was pretty excited to see her. Spotting an open bench just a bit away from a pair of sobbing parents seeing what Chace assumed was their first year son, Chace headed towards it and put his things down. Honestly...the kid was just going to school. Was it really necessary to be such a hot mess about it?

"Hey Laura!" Ella greeted her friend, a wide smile on her face. She was glad they were friends again, especially because they had a lot of catching up to do. "I know, it's a bit weird, yeah? I still remember first year like it was yesterday. I was so scared then." Now Ella felt a mixture of excitement and calmness...if that was even possible. "I'm ready to start, honestly. I've been wanting to come back to Hogwarts since the beginning of August. Though I'll miss my family." And Dino, the new puppy. She'd miss him a lot too. "I'm ready though. It'll be a good term, I think. Lots of new people to meet and stuff." So all in all it should be great, right?

Maxwell ran through the barrier and headed up the platform, he was supposed to meet Ariana at the north end. He saw Justin and thought things could be awkward, He hadn't seen Justin all summer and He and Ariana were now together...did Justin know that? Awkward..

Laura smiled at Ella, she was glad, that they were Besties again, she was playing with her neckless, which she always did when she was nervous. "Yeah it is." Laura giggled. "I remember the first time I meet you and that feast and pillow fight we had in the dorm." Laura giggled. "And the first time I lost points, because I said to stop a spell you throw the wand on the floor."

Laura looked at Ella as she continued to play with her neckless. "I'm ready as well but well..." Laura didn't want to speak to Oakey at the minute, she was really upset about something that had happened. "I well..." Laura sighed at Ella. "Did you have a good summer?" Laura suddenly decided to change the subject.

Ariana walked to the north end of the platform where her and her friends met every year she saw max and her smile grew "Hey Max!" she said walking up and giving him a kiss "How are you, i havent seen you in a week." she said as she noticed justin "oh hello Justin."

Justin saw Max come through the barrier. He did know that he and Ariana were seeing each other.... Though he thought that was odd .. Them being the best of friends and now dating?.... Well, he had done the same thing with Minerva..... "Oi, Max.... Good to see you.... how've you been this summer? Haven't really sen you....By the way I think it's great that you and Ariana hooked up." he said with a smile as he waved his friend over to have a seat.
Then he saw Ari walking up to them.... " Hey, Ariana.... I heard that the two of you got together over the summer..... Congrats." Justin said half heartedly.

Maxwell smiled and kissed her back. "Hey, I've been okay. I missed you." He looked over at Justin Awkwardly and then back to Ariana. "You look cute." He said commenting on her outfit.

Maxwell looked to Justin and found it odd that he was just fine with him seeing Ariana. He felt uncomfortable, Justin's politeness caught him off guard. He expected rudeness. "Hey, Justin. Summer's been okay...my mom past so i've been living in Scotland...and yeahh thanks. It just kinda happened."

What if this person was mean? What if this person he had hit was going to turn around and yell at him and and and...

What if this guy was actually pretty calm about it? eh...

"R-Really?" Daichi asked unsure when the guy said that he was fine. And when he was sure that he was he smiled a bit shyly. He ran a hand through his blonde hair as he looked at the guy. He looked familiar, perhaps he had seen him in class but had never talked to him? Must be~

"I've seen you around the school before!" The Slytherin stated as he began to place the owl cage with his pet owl further on the luggage. During the small crash the thing had slided down a bit yet did not fell off the trolley. He just wanted to make sure that the cage and the bird inside was safe.

"I'm Daichi, Fifth year Slytherin.. fifth year! Can you believe it! fifth year!"

O______o

"thanks Justin." she then looked at max "I dress like this every day why is everyone so shocked." she said with a chuckle she was an inch taller, and she did lose weight over summer maybe she just looks better, but she didnt know

Ella smiled as Laura remembered their first term. She giggled about the pillow fight part, that had been lots of fun. When were they not fun, though. Pillow fights were the best! She raised her eyebrows at her friend's hesitation. She was ready but...? "Laura, what's up with you, anyway?" She was acting really weird. Very...unLaura-ish. As for her summer..."It was okay. I met some new people, went to the zoo, got a puppy, went to a pool party..." All in all a good time...except for the Harvey situation. She didn't want to talk about that, though. "Did you?"

Looking around them, Ella smiled as she spotted Justin a little ways away. She was wondering what was going on with him since they had last spoke. She hadn't seen him much towards the end of the summer. "Hey Justin." She said, waving at him.

"No shocked, Just appreciative." He said with a smirk. "he'd grown as well, a few inches. Max was very tall for his age.