Taylor laughed and took out a bag, tossing it at the girl when out of the blue, Harvs came up. She smiled in delight and threw her arms around his neck, kissing his cheek, "Hey Harvs!" Tay started to dance around him in happiness. "I am good and you?"

Lex looked curious at the bag that was tossed to her but before she could ask any questions she heard another familiar voice. She turned and saw none other than the know-it-all Ravenclaw who she planned to stick close to during the coming year. She watched the girl's happy reaction then gave her own. "Hey Harvey!" She said with a wide grin.

Harvey smiled as he was hugged and kissed by Taylor he was now used to her excited greetings but it still made him smile when she greeted him like that "Hey Taylor" he smiled as she started her usual dance around him "Thats good.. I am good too just waiting for the train to open up and off to school we go again.. but this time as fourth years" he smiled still not believing that they were fourth years now



He then turned to Alexa as she greeted him too "Hey Alexa.. and how are you?" he asked her as he saw her wide grin.. well it was good to see that both girls were happy to see him cause he had a feeling he would be hanging out alot more with both girls. He wondered if Alexa had made any friend her own age yet, cause he remembered he had made one friend here on the platform and a few more in the train.. and that was four years ago.

Tay giggled at Alexa, "It is just candy, Alexa..." She smiled then went back to dancing around Harvey, "That is good! I am excited." Taylor chuckled and kept twirling around him. After a few minutes, she finally threw her arms around Harvey again and kissed his cheek then finally backed up. Tay loved saying hi to him like that.

John was too worried about Sophie's behaviour to notice that one of her bags had actually fallen off the cart and kept on walking, looking at his daughter from the corner of his eye. Merlin, if there was some kind of potion or spell to make things go back to normal...

He did hear someone shouting 'Hey', but didn't turn around. First, they were in a public place, so people shouting around was expected; second, he was too concerned to pay attention to his surroundings at the moment.

Frowning, Sophie kept walking close to her father, Brady cuddled in her arms and eyes looking straight ahead. The badger was almost marching or something. If one knew Sophie well, they would expect her to be skipping, not marching!

Deeper frown. Sophie stoped on her tracks and turned around to face him. The one that had punched her. Well, sort of. But still. Those were his intentions, right? To hurt her!

Without replying to him, the girl eyed her bag that was currently being levitated by the strange man. "Thank you." She mumbled as she got a hold of her bag. She handed her bunny rabbit to her dad, opened the bag she had now placed on the floor and started looking for something.

When his daughter suddenly stopped, John's heart jumped and he also stopped at once. Whatever had happened now?? He looked over his shoulder before turning around.

The man held Brady in his hand and watched as Sophie looked for something in her bag. He looked up at the boy, then looked at the man that had levitated his daughter's bag. He had a very confused expression on his face, but didn't forget his manners.

"Thank you." He said to the man, letting go of the cart and holding his hand out. "I'm John Campbell." The young boy knew his girl already, so no need to introduce her. He looked down again to watch as she pulled something out of her bag.

The boxing telescope.

Sophie stared at Oakey some more as she held the object with her left hand and her bag hung from her right hand. After a few seconds of awkward silence, she stepped forward and held it out for him to get it.

Her smile turned into a sheepish one when he asked her the question. "Oh I'm fine...accidentally ran my trolley into Taylor just now and practically gave poor Felix a heart attack in the process." She looked down at the feline who had settled at her foot. When it meowed bitterly at her she giggled then took him into her arms. "But he's fine now, aren't you boy?" She laughed when the cat hissed at her. She loved making him mad; it was always funny. "And anyway how have you been? Do you have a girlfriend too? Do you give her candy like Taylor's boyfriend does?" Yes, consider this an interrogation.




Her eyes widened in delight at the mention of the fact that the bag contained candy! She squealed a bit before dipping her hand inside and pulling out a chocolate frog. She looked up at the girl with a new found love. "How did you know these were my favourite?" She could hardly unwrap it fast enough and Felix began whining in protest to the manhandling he was receiving but she was lost in the candy. "These are great, thanks!"

Taylor shrugged, "I just had extra candy so I thought you might like some." She laughed and smiled at her. "Any time... I sometimes go into the kitchen and make some cookies, brownies or cake if you want some... I mean you would have to catch me go to or from the kitchen." Tay shrugged.

Harvey smiled as Taylor giggled at Alexa's excitment over candy before resuming her dance around him before giving him another kiss on his cheek "Yeah I can see that you are excited.. are you sure you are not partly excited on seeing me here?" he questioned her jokingly.. he looked at her and realised they had become close quite quickly.. they went from friends to 'siblings' in 1 short year.. it felt good though so he was not complaining at all



Harvey listened as Alexa explained what drama had happened before he had gotten there, a ramming trolley, a flying cat, girls falling over? wow thats alot to have happened before he go there. "Well I am glad both Felix and Taylor are fine and no injuries to be seen." he seemed a little taken aback when the cat hissed.. he shook his head when he looked at the cat.. he knew what he was looking at but didnt want to bring it to attention. He then looked at Alexa as she starting questioning interrogating him.. did she know that he had a girlfriend or had she guessed that? well he couldnt lie since Taylor was there "I have been well hanging out with some friends of mine" he smiled looking at Taylor as they had hung out "As for your other questions.. yes I do have a girlfriend.. no I dont give her candy like Taylor's boyfriend does." he said to her before looking at Taylor hoping that she didnt find it rude that he didnt buy her sister some candy "But I have some so I can give some to her when we get to school" there that way both sisters would get candy from their boyfriends. He then watched as Alexa got lost in the candy that Taylor was giving her, he chuckled as he watched her.

Her eyes went wide and for a moment she stopped chewing on the chocolate frog. "You go down into the kitchen to bake tooo?! Wow that's so cool can you take me down their sometime?! I wanted to sneak down there once it got late enough but I wouldn't mind going with you instead." Did she care that she was revealing her mischievous plans to these two...? No, because there was nothing they could so about them...other than haul her over their shoulder and bring her back to her common room...she hoped it wouldn't get to that....



LE GASP!!!! O________________O

She looked up at him with a overly shocked expression for a few seconds as she tried to make sense of this because it was either he was lying or Taylor was lying about this whole boyfriend thing and right now she hoped he was the one that was lying! "What'd you mean you don't give her any candy?! That's just not right! Not right at all! She," She pointed over at Taylor, "said that boyfriends give you candy--she made me decide to get a boyfriend and you're telling me that I won't get any candy when I have a boyfriend...?" She paused for a second then looked up at him. "Or are you just a terrible boyfriend??" That might have been it because she was still clinging tightly to the belief that boyfriends gave you candy. Yes. Hmmm...so he was making amends by deciding to give her some when they got to school. "Well I suppose that's fine, there, so you do know how to be a good boyfriend--will you get me some candy too even though I'm not your girlfriend." It was worth a shot.

At her dismissive hand wave, he nodded and eyed her, wondering if it had been him or Isaac that'd bumped into her. Either way it was Isaac's fault in the first place - that was another reason to be mad at him, right?

Forgetting about everything during the kiss, the barrier, his anger at Isaac, his intimate meeting with his trolley and luggage, Edmund wondered why it'd taken so long to get to this. When she pulled away, he took a deep breath and gazed down at her, vaguely aware that his arms were wrapped around her, but also amazed that he'd gotten two kisses within the space of about five minutes.

"It's okay, Isaac was right. I wasn't going to go through of my own accord." He assured her softly, shivering once more at the thought. "Just forget about it." He supposed he owed Isaac an apology for the looks, but right now he didn't want to apologise. The guy had practically tackled him. "I need to send dad an owl." His voice was bitter.

If it had been anyone other than Kendall, she probably would have been offended by the fact Patrick had actually laughed at the fact she'd felt the need to show him that she'd actually managed to go accomplish that one mission that had been set for her. As it was, she was probably a bit too hyper to really notice, even as she'd giggled as their alternative came up in his response. "So now I can say I've had chocolate-flavored coffee, and coffee-flavored chocolate?," she asked with a grin. She was pretty sure his chocolate didn't have whipped cream on it, though, so it was going to have a hard time competing. Even if it got a point just for being chocolate. "And I don't know why you couldn't find me earlier. Maybe you weren't looking hard enough." Maybe it was the fact she didn't have a fedora on this time. She had them in her trunk, but she just hadn't felt like her outfit needed one to be awesome. Plus, not wearing one showed off her hair, still streaked pink because her mothe rhad lost that argument. She wasn't a first year anymore, so she didn't feel like she had to be as careful. And besides, the conversation change to talking about his new owl distracted her from her theories about why he hadn't found her sooner. "But I'm sure he saw lots of people while he was still at Eeylops," she argued. That didn't seem like a real reason why Orion had suddenly acted all weird. "He didn't act like this before?"

Weird non-evil owls aside, the chocolate was still much more important. Unless the owl wanted the chocolate, at which point she was going to have to tell him that there was no way she was giving it up. Orion would just have to be happy with the fact he had an awesome owner instead, and she grinned at Patrick again after scooping Accio up in one arm again. She wasn't letting her kitty get too far away either, after all, and both her and the cat peered inside the messenger bag as it had been held open. "Awesome," she said, before eyeing all the boxes he'd taken out. "Are those all truffles?" That would be a lot of truffles, and she'd told him she wanted other stuff too. Chocolate owls and other things, although she didn't think he'd figured a butterfly out yet. Hmm, maybe he could make a giant chocolate butterfly, she wondered, momentarily not paying attention. It came back as he'd opened the bigger box and taken a couple truffles out, though. Experiment was in session. "I think we should go kinda slow. Not eat all of them right away, but before the train gets to Hogwarts," she observed, waiting for him to offer her some. She could always steal the other stuff later. Experiments meant acting serious.

Taylor giggled, "Okay maybe I am a little excited to see you." She smiled at him, "But who can blame me?" Tay looked up at her friend-brother, happy that they had gotten close in just one year. Taylor didnt think anything about Harvs not giving her sister some candy. Tay nodded at the girl, "Yeah I go down there and bake... I just hope that they will be open this year again..." She trailed off, "Yeah, I can take you there someday if they are open that is." Taylor smiled at the girl.

Too bad his father couldn't send him off. He already went to work when Xing woke up. At least he made breakfast for him and left a note stating that he had called a taxi to send him to King's Cross Station so his only son wouldn't be rushing too much. Of course he left the money for the taxi. It often crosses his mind what his father does for a living. Come to think of it, the man is pretty luxurious. As far as he was told, his father's job is business related. He never mentioned what kind of business though.

Being surrounded by hundreds of people is normal for him, so it doesn't surprise Xing to see so many people around the Hogwarts Express. Lei is now awake and climbs the trolley to Xing's shoulder. The boy doesn't seem to mind it as he casually takes a sip of the latte he took away from the cafe before he ran through the wall.

Elise had lost Erin somewhere in the crowd, but she was probably off socializing. Erin was never quite as socially awkward as Elise. Elysia'd like her, she mused. Dragging herself and her luggage, she found herself at the south end if the platform.

Stumbling on, she didn't really pay much notice as she tried looking for her best friend. "Erin?" she called, looking around. And this distraction, well... It wasn't quite the best.

Bumping a little violently against someone, Elise halted immediately. "I'm so sorry!" she gasped, blushing. "I didn't see you there!"

Fingers crossed, nothing valuable got broken.

One of her bad habits: checking she's got everything AFTER arriving on the platform, when there was nowhere near enough time to return home. Wand? Check! Books?-several minutes of fumbling-Check! The album from Gwen-Check. 'Now, where's that thing?' the girl said out loud, rather annoyed.

MEOW!

'Yes, Pluto, I know you're here, I'm not looking for you.I'm looking for that envelope!' Ari told her cat, which had just woken up in his cage. She couldn't believe she had been that absent-minded and forgot the envelope at home. 'There's no other way but to ask grandma to mail it to me.But it would take days.' the Gryffindor reckoned.

Unbeknowst to her, the thing she was looking for was lying on the platform, a short distance away from where she was standing. It could be lost forever...

Her mood hardly improved at the thought that she was about to travel by train. She hated trains. They were crowded. And smelly. And noisy. Did I mention crowded? At least she might meet someone new. Yes. That's it. Think positively.

Feeling a force pushing him from the side, Xing pulls the hand holding the latte away further from where the force came from at the same time as he covers the small lid with his index finger. Lei the kitten already jumps off his shoulder back onto the stack on trunks. Upon hearing the girl's apology, Xing shrugs his head. "It's ok," he assures with a smile before taking another sip of the latte.

And then he continues. "Are you looking for your sister?" because he heard she was calling out for Erin. It could be anyone, but considering that she looked worried, he guessed it probably would be her sister.

Elise released a sigh of relief. Nothing fell, and nothing broke. Thank Merlin for the fact that the other tall person was steady. Unlike her. "Thanks," she smiled. "I'm just really clumsy."

Her sister? Oh, he probably meant Erin. "No," she smiled. "My sister's off in university. I was looking for a friend, but she'd probably socializing somewhere." Erin was way more poplar than her.

"I'm Elise," she said, realizing that she hadn't introduced herself. Silly girl. Father would be disappointed.

So the train had finally come! The excited second year was carrying her trunk and her owl's cage . Cassia had just said goodbye to her parents and younger brother. Although she was so glad for finally getting on the train to return to Hogwarts ,she was sad for leaving her brother behind. She already missed him. But he'll be alright and they'll write letters to each other like last year. She wasn't going to ruin her happiness. She had been waiting for this moment for so many.

Walking until she got to the south end of this platform. She was having a bit of trouble carrying the trunk and the cage with so many people walking on the platform. She had to push her way through bodies of people. The curious girl was looking around her searching for a familiar face but none was found. She had missed her friends and was eager to meet them. Unfortunately she couldn't search for them now for it was so crowded her. Maybe on the train she thought.

Cassia stood catching her breath for a couple of minutes. As she stopped she spotted a girl a couple of feet to her right. She was talking to herself? Cassia stepped closer to the girl just because she was curious about the situation. You don't always see people talking to their selves. When she got closer she noticed that the girl was talking to her cat. And the second year snake loved cats. Crouching near the cat and patting its head Cassia said ,"That's a very cute cat! " Then she remembered that the girl probably didn't see Cassia coming considering she came from her behind. Hoping that she hadn't already startle the girl by her sudden appearance she said looking at the girl, "Erm…Hi, you have a nice cat," The snoopy young SLytherin grinned.

Another term of Hogwarts was upon Elijah. He couldn't believe that this was going to be his sixth one and part of him hoped that this one would be just as good as his fifth year. For starters, Williamson wouldn't be around anymore which meant that that was one less Professor that hated him. He just hoped that the man's replacement was much nicer.

His mother had been pretty insistent that she escort him to the train station but he did NOT let her anywhere near the platform. To Elijah, there was nothing more UNattractive than having to have your Mummy see you off. Nope. So, she was left outside of King's Cross as Elijah made his own way to the familiar wall and eventually onto the platform that hosted the train which would take him back to his most favourite place on Earth (except for the classes bit).

He had read in the Prophet that they should be expecting some visitors on the train. Board of Governors or something? Elijah would be sure to seek them out just to feed his own curiosity. What if one of them was really hot? Although, he guessed that they'd all be OLD and wrinkley and stuff. Ew. But, he had promised he wouldn't meddle in things that didn't concern him TOO much this term. Not after what happened in Hogsmeade a few months back.

Arabella-Marie was puzzled and said "If you do not mind me asking why were you not returning to Hogwarts this year"

Distracted as she was, it took Ari some time to notice that someone-a very tiny someone-was playing with Pluto. 'Careful there, I can't guarantee he won't bite.' she said gently, taking a closer look at the girl. The cat, who was usually very suspicious around strangers began to purr loudly. He clearly liked the compliment and decided that the girl was trustworthy.

At another glance, Ariadne noticed the amount of luggage the girl was trying to carry on her own...and a few steps away...the envelope that she had dropped earlier! 'There it is!' she dashed to grab it and placed it safely in her pocket. Returning to the girl, Ari realized she must seem like a total lunatic now. 'I'm not barking mad, if you're wondering. I just thought I've lost it.' And it was valuable. Not something she'd ever afford to lose.

Trying to salvage her reputation in front of the adorable child, Ariadne offered her help. 'I can help you with those trolleys if you want.' Not that she didn't have loads of luggage herself, but she felt kind of sorry for the little one. 'I'm Ariadne Marchbanks, by the way. And that's Pluto.' she added, pointing to the cat. 'Who might you be?'

Annabelle just made it from the North End of the Platform because it was just too crowded over there. When she got to the South End, she realized there wasn't so many people. She could breathe and not have to say excuse me over 100 times. She got her trunk and Charlene over safely and she was waiting to board the train. She gave one of the nice conductor helpers, Charlene's cage. "Bye girl i will be seeing you after the train ride." Belle smiled. She nipped her finger softly to show she understood. Charlene did not mind the train ride. Then she looked around to see if she could meet new faces.

Hearing the word bite Casssia's hand froze above the cat's head. She glanced down at it and looked into its eyes. Don't bite me please? She thought. Oh yes the girl had this ability to speak with cats. And now she played with its ears lightly assured that the cat was harmless. And suddenly the cat's owner ,the older girl bolted towards something. Not only the girl spoke to herself, Cassia thought.

Older kids can just be awkward sometimes.

Oh but the girl explained herself finally, "Oh it's ok to act mad," The Snake said ,"In fact it could even be cool ," She nodded. Yeah the second year had spending the summer categorizing cool and uncool attitudes. And she had decided that being crazy and weird is cool sometimes! "Glad you found it ,the thing you were missing," She said to the older girl. It must have been an essential thing which caused the girl to act…...cool like that.

"Thanks," Cassia said to the girl when she volunteered to help her. Though Cassia hated that she looked small and short like that but she appreciated being helped. "I think I'll borrow that vacant trolley over there," She pointed to a trolley left at a near corner. She had been looking for one but never found one…well until now. Cassia straightened hoping that she'll look a bit taller now. Then bounced to the trolley and brought it.

Introduction time ,huh!" Nice to meet you Ariadne," She grinned at her. Then crouching near the cat again, "Hey Pluto! "She went to play with its wars again. Their cat at home liked it ,hopefully will too. Turning to the girl, "I'm Cassia Somerlad," she answered. "I'm a second year." Oh yeah she wasn't a firstie anymore!

HOGWARTS!

It was so, so near. And she didn't truly care about Hogwarts, but more at the idea that once THERE she was free to use her wand. The negative and positive aspects of Hogwarts. This was definitely one in-between. Not being able to do magic outside the Castle. SIGH.

Her dad was here with her, but OF COURSE, he was now talking to another grow up he hadn't seen in Merlin knows how long and she was all alone pulling the cart that held her luggage. Which wasn't much, really, just the trunk and a small backpack. At the top of said backpack was Mags, the bright pink Pygmy Puff, looking mighty uncomfortable as she grabbed onto the backpack somehow. She didn't seem to enjoy her current placement, but Lottie decided not to let her on her shoulder as she dealt with her luggage.

BUT THEN...

...THEN...

...thecartkindoftrippedoversomethingand...her trunk fell over! The almighty heavy trunk! And dad was...

...nowhere to be seen. *FROWN*

Well, you know what? She said she didn't need him for this, so she could TOTALLY get the trunk in place without any help. WITHOUT ANY HELP. She could do it. She was super strong. No help needed or wanted. Thank you.

Except, as her hands tried to take hold on the thing...it didn't move at all.

She...kept on trying, of course. Failing, over and over again.

Giving his friend coffee flavoured chocolate might not have been the best of ideas now considering Patrick knew that Kendall wasn't going to be able to pay attention to anything that he was saying since she'd be too distracted by the sugar rush that was partially thanks to the chocolate flavoured coffee. "You can, though I don't recommend having both at once again otherwise people might wonder if you're alright." he explained before looking around the station, noticing all the people wandering around which somehow didn't bring about the feeling of being watched again like it had in Diagon Alley; there still wasn't an explanation about why that had happened but he wasn't going to just bother thinking about that now when there were other things to deal with. "Maybe, I mean I'm not entirely observant at times especially when I'm thinking about a story." It wasn't exactly difficult to find her when she got her hair to have pink streaks in it but, most of the time he had been used to her randomly sneaking up on him so it had been quite justified. What hadn't been justified was why exactly Orion had been acting strangely, he didn't have any issues with the owl before so there shouldn't have been a reason where he was acting oddly but there was and he just couldn't have explained it. "Hmm true, honestly the amount of people that passed him in the shop had to be pretty crazy." Pausing slightly before he spoke again, it seemed like he needed a minute to collect his thoughts so that he could speak properly without just rambling on about nonsense. "Not at all. He only started acting like this since we had arrived at the station, it's like there's something weird here." He wasn't about to just start questioning what was wrong with the station when there wasn't a clear explanation to what it was exactly going on here.

Moving away from the conversation about his owl, he just seemed to relax rather than just being a tiny bit afraid that something was going on that couldn't be explained; chocolate seemed to just segue the earlier discussion and that had made him feel better. Once she commented on the boxes that he had brought out of his messenger bag, he couldn't help but grin at it since he knew exactly what was coming when the truth was mentioned. "Actually, the big box is the truffles; the others are the small chocolate owls and brooms that I had promised you earlier this summer." He hadn't brought the two foot owl with him since it would have been far too heavy to carry while waiting to board the Hogwarts Express, but that was still going to be given to her when he could have been able to get it from the shop. Offering the box of truffles to her, he waited for her to take some before she decided to make a rule about how the experiment was going to work which hadn't surprised him in all honesty. "That makes sense. You don't want to be bouncing around immediately but, I'm taking notes in case this turns out to be a joke." As far as he had known, this had worked properly and he ended up bouncing around like a kangaroo which had been pretty fun but it wouldn't have been good for just sitting on the train.