Chapter 5
The few remaining weeks before school Harry threw himself into chores, reading his books, mainly the muggle born guide to the wizarding world and how to Latin (which thankfully after getting the book he had learned that he needed to know latin to preform a lot of spells) and potions, taking what the potions shop keeping had said to heart.
Harry also decided that he would continue to talk to Draco despite what Hagrid had said. So over the next few weeks Harry spent all day as a maid then all night studying before sending a letter (usually a response letter) to Draco then heading to sleep. Draco and Harry spoke so much it was like they had known each other their entire life’s . Draco told Harry at first mainly stuck to talking about quidditch but after a few letter they started talking about school, like classes. What Draco knew about the professors and which ones you should actually try to get good grades with. But everytime the school houses came up Draco would be super defensive of one but sorta trash talk the others but Harry gave him the benefit of the doubt because his all his family had been in that house themselves and maybe they didn’t know a lot about the other houses except for the rumours or gossip about what the houses were supposed to be like. One evening Harry’s owl had returned and Harry realised that he never needed up naming her, after consulting all day he chose hedging after this amazing warrior he had read about in his history book.
But Harry’s good mood from his school books and Draco’s letters where always brought down because every year Dudley somehow managed to have his friends over nearly everyday so that meant Harry had also became their personal punching bag because he hasn’t going to same high school as them so their excuse was the needed to do as much as they could before the next holidays which aunt patina nor Vernon detested.
Harry just kept his head down until the day finally came, it was finally August 31st. The next day Harry was going to wake up and leave before sunrise with all his belongings with him just as aunt patina instructed after earlier that day after Dudley had went to his room for the night so he couldn’t hear Harry and aunt patina talking as after Dudley learnt about Harry not going to the same high school he had become overly annoying trying to figure out why but when aunt patina and Vernon shut him down that firstly made him throw a tantrum then made him even more determined to figure it out.
Harry went out into the backyard he spent some much of his life in. He had to visit it one final time before leaving it behind for school. Harry walk around, letting his hands touch the bushes and tree he had spent so much time maintaining and heard a rustle in one of the bushes then a voices rambling on about rich people and how it was importable to find any prey around with them keeping everything so clean.
“Um hello?”Harry spoke trying to see who? What? Was in the bush
“Who gosssss there” hissed the voice
“Oh my name is Harry,can you come of the bush so I can see you?”
“Whysss would a humanssss want to see me?” The voice spoke. so that confirmed that whatever has speaking to him wasn’t human or a human with a weird dialect Harry thought
“Because I want to speak to you” Harry spoke, hoping he chose the right words
“Do yousss promisesss not to harm me” the voice asked anxious and wary “And are you alone? No other humanssss”
“I’m alone and I promise I won’t harm you “ Harry replied
“Ok then”the voice replied “if you insists”
Harry expected a lot of things but not a common grass snake. The snake looked beautiful, its coat seemed glossy like it had just shed its skin elsewhere. The thing that caught Harry’s attention were its eyes that were a lovely blood red,
“Wow, you are a very pretty snake” Harry spoke as the snake slithered closer to Harry
“Really? Most humanssssss think I’m a disgusting rodent” the snake spoke shocked by Harry compliment
“That’s so mean, who would do that!?” Harry said sitting down
“The other humanssss in your shelter hasss said that before” the snake hissed
“Oh OH. I’m so sorry” Harry said profusely “ if it helps they say the same about me”
“Thatssss terrible” the snake hissed
“Yeah…..so I heard you complaining in the bush, what were you complaining about?” Harry said trying to change the topic
“Oh I have to relocate here as the grass I had lived in is getting built on by humanssss” the snake grieved “they forced many of my sisters and brothers to leave or we would have been killed” the snake sigh “ and because of all of the rich clean people here, it’s impossible to hunt”.
“Oh I’m sorry “ Harry said “there’s a park a few streets away maybe there would be mice there”
“No sadly many of my siblingssss already inhabitant that park” the snake replied “I wouldn’t want to intrude on their land and start a territory war”
“Oh sorry I wish I could help more but I have to go to school tomorrow and I won’t be back until the next holidays” Harry said
“Don’t worry, this is life and that’ssss that way it isssssss” the snake replied
“You could come with me? I could try to drop you off somewhere deserted that should be filled with prey” Harry offered
“Really? Why would you help young humanssss” the snake said shocked
“Why not? You ain’t hurting anyone, all you are trying to do is find some prey and hey my friend told me the school we are going to is massive and surrounded by a forest” Harry said “ maybe you could come to school with me?”
“I would enjoy that young humanssss” the snake spoke
“what’s your name? I never asked sorrry “ Harry said as the snake slithered closer
“Snakes don’t have names, we are either sister brother or children” the snake said
“Can I name you? Are you a boy or girl?” Harry said
“I’m a girl and yes you me names me” she spoke
“Hmmm do you have any favourite plants or something you dearly miss from where you are from?”
“I used to live next a massive patch of Wisteria“ she spoke “ they were my favourite flowersssss”
“Ok then how about your name be Wisteria?”
“I likes it” Wisteria said” how about you young humansss? Do you have a namessss”
“Oh sorry I’m Harry-harry was cut off
“GET IN THE HOUSE YOU DELINQUENT” aunt patina
Harry turned to see aunt patina standing by the door waiting for him
“Here” Harry said reaching his arm out” climb yo and hide in my shirt”
Reluctantly Wisteria climbed up his arm and hid in Harry’s shirt as he stood and entered the Dursley’s house once again.
Inside aunt patina went full rampage yelling and cursing at him. She only stopped when Vernon came in. Harry knew that he had to stop this because Wisteria was in his shirt and he couldn’t risk her being hit by Vernon. Luckily Vernon only shouted some words then dragged Harry to his room. After he left aunt patina gave him a key she expected to be under the Mat in front of the door by the time she woke up and don’t contact them unless he has dieing then she left as well.
Harry spent his last night in the Dursley’s packing and pacing around in his room thinking of how he could get to London, train? Bus? Walk? The only thing that broke Harry’s thoughts was hedwing banging on his window, Harry waked over and open the window for hedwing. She swooped in dropping the letter she was carrying in the bed before landing in the desk to drink out of the bowl of water Harry snuck up for her, all was fine until she noticed Wisteria sleeping on his wardrobe. Hedwing let out a shrill that sounded like a war cry then flew up to start attacking Wisteria
“Hedwing no!” Harry shouted rushing over to grab Wisteria before hedwing reached her, after the snake was safely wrapped around his neck Harry went over to calm hedwing down explaining that Wisteria is a good snake and won’t harm either of them, hedwing let out a suspicious hoot but happily went to her cage to sleep. Harry after that fresco went to sit on his bed and found his letter from Draco. Harry had nearly forgotten about it because of Wisteria and hedwing, Harry on pens the letter and it read
Dear Harry
I have considered a lot about or previous conversation and I must agree with you that the author was completely wrong about the understanding of the sub he was supposed to be a master at
I’m most excited to you tomorrow at the station and don’t forget you have time enter through the 9 1/2 platform
I will be arriving earlier due to politics issues amongst pure bloods, you know the usual, so I will be occupied most the morning but I should be free 30-15 minutes due to departure if you don’t see me before departure meet up with me on the train
And I must beg you once again to have a talk with your owl, she keeps tormenting mine
Sincerely Draco malfoy
P.s have you read the book about Quidditch sent you?
Harry couldn’t help but laugh even when Draco was trying to be formal he still found a way to bring up Quidditch.harry placed Draco’s letter into a small pocket In Harry’s trunk along with his others then Harry shut his trunk up and headed to bed.
The next morning Harry couldn’t contain his excitement, he rushed to the bathroom as soon as he woke up and got ready, he had been up for about ten minutes or so and he was basically pushing himself out the door with his trunk in tow, Harry had sent hedwing ahead while he had detached her cage and had put in his trunk, he had found one of Dudley’s old jumpers and had Wisteria sit in the hood so people wouldn’t stare at him for carrying around a snake. Harry had coughs the train like he and Hagrid had done a few weeks ago prior.
Harry did get strange looks like he thought he would for dragging a trunk for central London, he finally found the platform he needed to be at but after two laps up and down he couldn’t find platform 9 1/2 anywhere he was about to give up hope when he bumped into a orange haired girl ,
“Oh I’m so sorry, I wasn’t watching where I was going” Harry said helping the young girl up
“It’s ok, I was in the way as well” she said “ hi I’m Ginny” she introduced herself
“Hi Im Harry, where’s your parents” he said as he noticed she was by herself
“Oh my mum and dad are helping my brothers with there stuff, I asked if I could wait for them at the platform but I can’t find it” she said “my bother Percy said it was right here right between 9 and 10” she said
“Are you looking for platform 9 1/2 to?” Harry asked, he thought it was worth a shot
“Yes! Do you know where it is!? Can you show me?” She asked with excitement in her eyes
“Sorry, can’t find it either” Harry said scratching his neck then he felt scales, Harry had forgotten that Wisteria has there
“Ginny!” Shouted a short wild haired woman “ I told you to wait for atleast one of your bothers to show you where the platform was”
Ginny turned and said “ hi mum, sorry I must’ve not heard you.”
The woman sighed, as she got closer she finally saw Harry” oh hello, I didn’t realise Ginny was talking to someone”
“Ek! I’m so sorry” she said “ mum this is Harry, Harry this is my mum misses Weasley. Mum Harry is also looking for the platform”
“Oh well come this way dear.” She said waving him towards her then she turned and walked off both him and Ginny had to catch up to her as she continued to chattered “It’s my song Ron’s first year at hogwarts as well, Ginny’s is next year, she decided to tag along to say bye to her brothers”
“Wow that’s nice” Harry said “so do you know where the platform is? I looked up and down trying to find it, I even asked a attendant but she gave me a funny look”
Misses Weasley laughed “of course she would’ve, the platform entrance is hidden from muggles so they don’t try to catch the train as well”
Harry nodded as she spoke until they fell into a silence. Just as Harry thought the conversation was over and he wouldn’t have to talk to another person until he met him Draco, they turned the corner to find a herd of red heads, Harry tried to process how many of them their was but everyone looked to similar apart form hight, Harry was also convinced he saw two of the same person
“Ginnykins! Where did you go” one of the taller ones ran towards Ginny and pulled her into a hug” how dare you get into mischief without me”
Then another yelled form the crowd of red heads in agreement
“Who’s the new kid?” A boy just taller then Harry said
“This is Harry “ Ginny pipped up pulling form the boys arms “he was also looking for the platform”
“Hi” Harry musters out, harry had never been good in crowds, always freaking out feeling like the walls closing In On him, usually he would find it hard to breathe and then he would usually end up with him having to leave because he had started crying but Harry pushed those thoughts? Memories? out of his head so he could focus on the crowd in front of him all of their eyes ripping through his skin judging him for even breathing
“Hi! I’m Ron I’m also starting this year” the boy said walking out to shake hands his Harry
“Hi, I guess you already know my name” Harry chuckled
Harry was about to say something when misses Weasley clapped her hands and aid they should probably get a move on. They walked back towards to here Harry and just been with Ginny,
“ok Fred, George, Percy then Ron “ she said, then one bye one they started to ran straight into a wall and didn’t come back, they had all gone through except for Ginny, misses Weasley, what Harry assumed to be Ginny’s and Ron’s dad mister Weasley and Harry himself,
“Ok Harry I suggest you get a head start and run straight into the wall” Moises Weasley spoke with such a soft and gentle voice. So Harry did exactly that, running into the wall expecting it to shut him out but I don’t as Harry went through the almost tripped but not having the wall to catch his fall by put luckily but running he was able to stop himself In Time.
Harry had never seen anything like this before, there were all kids of all age saying good bye it each other. Harry had somehow lost the entire Weasley clan so he figured he would look around for Draco. After about what felt like twenty minutes he gave up and went to hoist his trunk into the train but he hadn’t expected it to be so heavy but all of a Sutton it was light as a feather
“Wotcher there” someone said,it was one of the Weasley but then Harry realised there was two but these two were identical, must’ve been twins
“Hi I’m Fred” one said, shooting his hand out for a hand shake
“No im Fred “ the other said also shooting his hand out for a hand shake
“He’s George!” They said in unison then laughed
Just as Harry was about to say something misses Weasley called out for them, again.
Harry let them go figuring it was a family thing. Harry walked around for a while until he spotted a flick of silver amongst the crowd, Draco! He thought. Harry tried his hardest to keep up in the crowd, he had also tried calling out to no avail Draco couldn’t hear him.Harry continued to follow Draco until they both needed up at the other end of the platform that seemed to be abandoned.
As Harry got closer he saw Draco talking to a short girl wearing a hard face even though she was laughing, her outfit seems to be a plain formal shirt and shirk to match, she had short hair the would’ve stuck out Had it not been for the headband she was wearing. She was accompanied by a tall boy, with high cheekbones, dark skin, and long, brown slanting eyes. a few feet to the left was Tall, quite thin, dark hair average hight boy standing reluctantly beside a large and very fat, with a thick neck. He had gorilla-like arms, a flat nose, and wore a pudding bowl-style haircut. However, in spite of his overweight, fat physique and next to him an almost identical boy but you could easily tell that they were not related.
Harry was about to walk over when Harry noticed the girl noticed him then said something to Draco that caused him to do a full 180 turn facing in Harry direction.