Chapter 7
Draco’s face light up “ Harry!” Draco said before bolting towards him.
Draco go’s to hug Harry but Harry flinches and avoids Draco,
“Harry you’re here!” draco said gleefully “come on I want to introduce you to my other friends” he says looping on of Harry’s arms with his which caused Harry to flinch again .
Draco dragged Harry towards a group of odd looking kids “guys this is Harry!” Draco said
“Wait-He does exist!?” The girl exclaimed shocked
“Yeah I told you”draco replied snakily
“Hi I’m blaise Zamboni ” the tallest of said “ that’s pansy parkinson“ he then gestured to the girl “over there is Theodore nott, Vincent Crabbe, and Gregory Goyle”
“Um hi, nice to meet you I’m Harry black-potter” Harry said, as Harry said his last name he watched everyone’s face turn as pale as a sheet,even Draco
“Is this why you wouldn’t tell us his last name!?” Pansy finally said after a minute of pure silence from the group
“Uh-no-yes!? No I didn’t know he was a potter” Draco managed to say “ he only introduced himself as a black”
“No I didn’t, I told you my entire last name you just didn’t hear” Harry butted in “ and why is it such a big deal anyways!?”
“Do you not know anything!?” Pansy said “you are famous because you defeated you know who and you are now simultaneously the heir to a house that’s previous heirs hadn’t produced any children to make a heir for”
“Who was I supposed to know that!? I’ve been living in the muggle world my entire life” Harry shot out defencelessly “I didn’t even know that the wizarding world existed until I got my acceptance letter”
“What!?” Nott said, finally speaking after watching as all this happened
“what do you mean” raised in the muggle world” and “ I had no clue the wizarding world existed” blaise said
“It means I was raised by relatives who were muggles and lived In the muggle world that never told me about magic or that knew it existed” Harry said annoyed
The group fell silent once again. They stayed silence for a full ten minutes until,
“So I’m going to guess you guys probably grew up hearing about the amazing boy who lived and now that you actually met me your disappointed so I’m just gonna head back to the train um bye” Harry suddenly remembering his conversations with Hagrid about why he was such a big deal then he went to turn and leave
“Wait! Harry your not a disappointment it’s just a lot to take in” Draco said “please, give us a chance”
Harry thought before answering “fine” he sighed, he really di want to be Draco’s friend and possibly theses other kids friend as well
The group remained silent.
Finally blasie spoke up” Is that a snake in your neck?” Pointing at Wisteria
“Oh yeah, do you want to meet her?” Harry asked “wait is that ok for them to meet you?” Harry turned to the snake,
which nodded in agreement then slithering down onto his are resting on his arm.” Her Name is Wisteria after her favourite flower”
“Harry when- how -why “ Draco said slightly backing away as his eyes met the snakes “ you never told me you had a snake”
“Oh I just got her yesterday, she needed a home and I wasn’t about to leave her with the du- um my relatives”
“Wow you have an actual snake? And the headmaster is ok with it” pansy said
“She a her not it and I sorta didn’t tell anyone so could you guys not mention her atleast until we are at Hogwarts” Harry said sheepishly
Pansy bursted out laughing “oh my Merlin precious saint potter breaking the rules before we even set foot into Hogwarts!?”
“Sorry but what!? People call me precious saint potter?” Harry asked in disgust
“Language pansy” Draco said
“Sorry mother Draco, shall I wash my mouth out with soap?” She teased
“Well yes, you should expect like the entire school to be calling you something along those lines Harry ” Draco informed
“I mean you are a really big deal in the wizarding world” blaise said “ you ended a war “
“Yeah but I didn’t mean to!? I was one” Harry explained
“Still” pansy said
Just as she was about to speak agin the train horn blasted off
“Shit, we better move blasie and pansy you go first” Draco said “then crabbe, nott and Goyle then Harry and me will come last”
“Language my dear Draco” pansy teased
“Shut up and go Parkinson and you too Zamboni“ Draco hissed
“Yeah yeah, meet you in our cart right?” She replied
“Yeah” Draco said “ now go, I refuse to be late or miss the train cause you were tarty”
“Agh fine, come in Zamboni“ she said finally leaving
A few minutes After blasie and pansy left nott crabe and Goyle followed after then Harry and Draco fiannly walked out of the abandoned side of the platform and re joined the crowd.
Harry made sure to readjust his hoodie to hide his companion once again. Draco informed him that they should spilt up to not draw attention to themselves which Harry didn’t protest.
Harry jumped onto the train and sat in an empty carriage, he figured he could meet up with the others when the train started again. He dug around the messenger bag he had been carrying. he packed it with some essentials like a spear set of clothes, two bottles of water, a can of soup, his wand, a few books he had “borrowed” from the library before leaving that were his favourites, his beanie that his aunt gave him, a few hair ties for when it got hot , a few treats he packed for hedwing and Wisteria though he didn’t know if Wisteria would like the ham he swiped that morning or if hedwing would like the biscuits he also stole, and a switch blade he stole from one of Dudley’s dumb ass friends when they left on the kitchen counter for like a week.
Harry hadn’t known how long he had been reading before he felt a jolt and realised the train was moving, he looked out at the waving parents and then he saw Ginny run along the train with tears In Her eyes waving to he assumed her brothers In a diffrent carriage , he couldn’t blame her he would’ve done the same if he watched all her brothers go off to a school were they learnt magic and she had to wait a entire other year to go herself.
He was about to get up to find the others he his carriage door open, he hoped it might have been Draco but instead he was met with anouther Weasley. This one must’ve been Ron from what Harry could remember from his previous conversations.
“Can I sit here? All the other cars are full” he said
“Sure, Ron right?” Harry said gesturing to the seat across from him,
“Yeah, Harry?” Ron asked
“Yep” Harry answered “ you excited for school?
“Yeah, can’t wait to be in Gryffindor” he said “what about you?”
“Wait we get it pick our own house!?” He asked shocked that Draco hadn’t mentioned this
“No but my entire family has been in gryffindor” ron said “so it’s basically guaranteed”
“Um I’m not sure what house I’m going to be in, I don’t know what house my parents were in either”Harry Said
“Well then why don’t you just ask them?” Ron said
“They’re dead” Harry said nonchalant
“Oh sorry mate I didn’t know” Ron said
“Could you tell me about some of the houses, my friend is very biases so I was wondering to get a 3 party’s opinion” Harry’s asked
“Well griffindor is brave and determined , ravenclaw is smart and intelligent, Hufflepuff is loyal and chatty, and slytherin is a bunch of backstabbing dark wizards “ Ron said, very biases
“Oh why are slytherins backstabbers?” Harry asked
“Because they are, everyone knows that that’s we’re all the dark wizards come from” Ron said annoyed
“Hmm ok” Harry said, trying to defuse the situation as harry could tell Ron was getting irritated
The conversation went silent after a while so Ron opened the window to get some fresh air, (without even asking Harry which was rude Harry thought)and it blew Harry’s hair everywhere until they finally shut it again, Harry hadn’t seen Ron’s face until he heard a very audible gasp and saw Ron’s face, starting exactly at Harry’s scar.
“Y-your Harry Potter?” Ron asked
“Yeah” Harry said, he could already tell he was going to hate the conversation that was about to ensue
“Why didn’t you tell me!?” Ron asked
“I didn’t find it relevant, considering I told you my first name and you only told me your first name”Harry shrugged
“But then why did you cover the your scar with your hair!?” Ron asked agin
“Because “ Harry said
“But if you weren’t going to tell people who you are then you have to at least show the scar so people know who you are” Ron said getting irritated
“Why would I want people to know who I am!?” Harry shot back
“Because your a hero and people should praise you for that”Ron replied
“First of all I don’t want to be praised for something I dont even remember since you know I was one when this happend and second of all why would I want to be praised for and reminded of the night that my parents died!? Harry said getting mad
“Well that’s what I would do, not everyone has fame so maybe you should cherish the bit you have” Ron said
“I should cherish the fact my parents are dead!?” And the fact I have had to live with the Dursley’s for the last eleven years!? Harry said and thought
“Well yes!? You should cherish the sacrifice they made for you and the fame they gave to you” Ron barked back
“That’s it I’m leaving” Harry shouted, packing his books and wand into his bag before storming out of the carriage slamming ten Dorris behind him.
Harry stormed through pout the train in a rage he hadn’t experienced before, he hadn’t realised he had walked all the way to the back of the train until he heard welling that snapped him out of his trance. He turns to find a small blond boy crying in the corner of the train hallway he and Harry were standing in,
“Hey, are you ok?” Harry asked slowly moving towards the boy
“Ep!” The boy spoke startled by Harry’s sudden appearance “y-yeah I’m f-fine” the boy snuffled
“Are you sure? If it’s something bad I promise I won’t tell anyone ok?” Harry said
“No no it’s not that’s” he said “I-it’s just I lost my toad Trevor and I can’t find him anywhere and what if I lost him or left him at the platform!?” The boy stuttered out
“Hey oks, um it’s a magic toad right? He should show up right?” Harry said calmly
“No it’s um a normal toad” the boy said
“Oh um ok that’s difficult but um it’ll be ok um let me think” Harry said to the boy, suddenly Harry thought Of something,
“Here come with me ,I have an idea” Harry said, extending his hand to the blond boy
“O-ok” he said taking it
Harry lead the weeping boy through the train until they reached Harry’s trunk. Harry pulled it out and flew the lid open and started rummaging around,
“What are you looking for?” The blond boy asked, watching Harry go thought his trunk
“I brought a couple books over the summer and I think that one of them might have a solution to our problem” Harry continued not looking away from his trunk
“there!” Harry said picking up his history of the wizarding world and then he flipped through his book until he found the chapter about
Teleporting stuff and people sometimes even animals but the book called it something different that Harry couldn’t brother using it right that second.
“Ok now all he have to do is find someone older then us to help” Harry said
“R-really? But wouldn’t we be bothering them” the boy asked
“I’m sure if we ask nice enough they’ll help” Harry said
“Who will help?”said a voice behind Harry
He turned still sitting in front of his trunk to see a average hight bushy haired girl in her robes standing in front of him,
“Are you allowed to be in that trunk?” She asked gesturing Harry’s trunk
“Yeah? It’s mine” he said “I was looking for my book”
“How do I know you’re telling the truth and not stealing from someone’s trunk?” She asked
“You don’t but you can trust me that I didn’t” Harry said “anyways I was just looking for my history book so I could help my friend, you see he lost his muggleToad and we were just about to give get a upper year it summon him with the teleportation spell in this book”
“Telaport- oh you mean Apparition!? That’s so cool but you would have to ask a forth year atleast to do it” she said “come on, I met I few girls who might be able to help” she said leading the way
Harry quickly shoved his trunk back and followed her closely followed by the blond boy,
“So why do you think these girls could help us?” Harry asked
“Oh I was talking to them about a few spells I learnt over the summer after I got my acceptance letter and they mentioned that a few of them were themselves ravenclaw so it was they sorta like to study a little bit so they new a lot of advanced spells” She said
“Wow that’s really cool, hey you said you got your acceptance letter this summer so that mean your a first year?” Harry asked
“Oh yeah, I’m a muggle born that’s apparently the word for non magic person and only just learnt about magic and the wizarding this summer” she said
“I’m also a first year, I’m not muggle born but I grew up in the muggle world cut off from the wizarding society” he said
“I’m also a first year but I’m a pure blood” the blond boy spoke “um pure blood means someone who comes from a family full of wizards and witches with no muggles in the family what so ever”
“Wow that’s so cool that they have words they classify if you come for a wizard family or muggle” she said
“Yeah it’s interesting, I wonder what they call someone who’s one parent is a muggle and the other is a witch or wizard”Harry asked
“That’s called half blood” the blood boy answered
“Ooo thanks um sorry I never realise I didn’t ask you but what’s your names?” Harry asked
“Oh I’m Hermione Granger, nice to meet you” she spoke
“I’m Neville longbottom” the blond boy spoke
“Hi hermione and Neville I’m Harry-“ harry stopped mid sentence. He didn’t know if he should introduce his name like potter or black-potter, screw it he said, they’ll find out later what’s the worst that could happen.
“I’m Harry Potter” he said
They both stopped walking, hermione went to say something but eventually stopped herself, Harry figure or more liked hoped that she knew the full story and shouldn’t bring it up while Neville stood there not in like omg spoke but something diffrent Harry dint know how to explain it.
“Nice name does Harry stand for anything?” Neville asked finally breaking the awkward silence
“I hope not” Harry joked.
If only Harry knew that would be the first and one of the few times anyone would reacted to him like that
After finding the group of girls, hermione the girl she had been speaking to as Choi chang and explained how she was a year above them. Choi then directed them to a fourth year who then preformed the spell gracefully for them afterward hermione get “kidnapped” aka she got distracted talking about spells again to the group of ravenclaws.
Afterward Harry finally decided that he had enough of social interaction for one day and went looking for Draco. Harry walked up and down eyeing every carriage he could to see if Draco was in it. Harry also noticed that Neville had been walking with Harry since they got Trevor back, harry just thought Neville wanted to hangout and stuff since Harry got Trevor back for him which Harry wasn’t opposed to more the merrier as long as they don’t ask him difficult questions he didn’t want to answer or make a big deal over who he was.
Harry was walking down a hall the strangely didn’t have many students in it, at least compared to the other carts he and Neville walked through. Just as Harry walked past one of the empty cars the door slide open,
“Finally! We thought you weren’t going t o show!” The voice spoke, Harry spun around to see pansy standing at the dorm forms of the now full car,
“Oh my Merlin Draco look he replaced you” she laughed “and he’s blond and everything”she said pointing at Neville as he immediately jumped behind Harry shocked by the sudden appearance.
“No he didn’t, your just lying to for revenge, now move and let him in” Draco said from somewhere in the car
“He did too” laughed blaise now also standing with pansy at the door
“Hi guys, this is Neville um Neville these are my um I guess friends blasie pansy and Draco somewhere in there”
“You guess!?” Draco screeched from in the cart “ how dare you potter, this will be the last time I talk to you ever mark my words”
“Dray stop being dramatic” pansy chuckled “come on in Harry and Neville? Right”
“Um yeah Neville” Neville spoke still behind from Harry
Harry and Neville walked into the car and saw nott in the far corner next to the window reading, blaise sat on the same chair as him and Draco while pansy and sat on the opposite side, Harry chose to sit to pansy.
“Where’s what’s their name crabbe and goyell?” Harry asked
“Oh, we ditched them” pansy said
“We don’t even like hang8ng out with them, we just do because our parents expcept blasie are allied with theirs”
“Is that why I couldn’t see anyone in the car before you guys opened the door?” Harry asked
“Oh yeah, it’s a charm we cast so we can avoid annoying people” blaise said
“Yeah but wouldn’t people just walk in if they saw it empty?” Neville asked, Harry had almost forgot he was there
“There’s a compulsion charm to gently push people away from opening the door to the car” draco explained
The rest of the group spent the rest of the train ride talking while Harry slowly nodded off leaning pansy originally but she pushed him off onto Neville.