Ron Weasley
The train was packed with students, front to back. chuuya just barely managed to find an open space to sit at.
His attention turned towards the window. Hogwarts school of magic, the thought itself made him nervous. He was going to be a wizard.The compartment began door slid open and he was greeted with a familiar face.
”Do you mind, everywhere else was taken” It was the boy from the station. “Not at all”
The boy sat across from him and put his hand out towards chuuya with a smile. “I’m Ron—Ron Weasley…though you probably heard that from my mum”
“I’m chuuya”
He shook Ron’s hand the boy began to dive into a random story about some rumours he heard about Hogwarts, when they heard a pair of wheels moving across the polished wooden floor. An older woman with a snack trolley stopped in front of them. “Would you boys like anything from the trolley?”
chuuya looked at it closer. The sweets and chocolates were…well unusual to say the least. Ron picked up a homemade sandwich “no thanks im all set” he made a gesture towards it.
Chuuya was about to decline the woman’s offer when he saw Ron’s face as he eyed the sweets. “We’ll take the lot” It couldn’t hurt to make an early friend.
He payed the woman eleven sickles and seven bronze knuts. “Woah…” Ron’s eyes looked like they were about to jump out of his head.
Chuuya picked up some sweets. He read the packaging. “Bertie botts every flavor beans?” He looked up at Ron who was stuffing his face with gummy snakes. “They mean every flavor” chuuya took a bite of the sweet in his hand “Theres chocolate and peppermint” That didn’t sound too bad. “and there’s also…spinach, liver and tripe.” He was beginning to regret trying the jelly bean.
Ron leaned closer. “George sweared he got a bogey flavor one once” That definitely put him off..chuuya swiftly removed it from his mouth, it wasn’t worth the risk.
He picked up another item. Chocolate frog. He didn’t trust the stuff anymore. “These aren’t real frogs are they?”
“It’s just a spell. Besides, it’s the cards you want.” Ron pointed at the packaging. “Each packs got a famous witch or wizard, I’ve got about five hundred m’self”
That seemed interesting enough. Chuuya began to open the box, and to his surprise the chocolate frog began to move. It hopped over to the window and jumped out. Ron just shrugged.
“that’s rotten luck, they’ve only got about one good hop in them to begin with.” Honestly he was slightly relieved it had escaped, he would have never been able to eat a moving frog.
These wizard people were weird. Chuuya noticed a card at the bottom of the box, he picked it up to make out who the wizard was. It was an old man with a long white beard. “I’ve got Dumbledore”
Ron gave the card an unimpressed look. “I’ve got about six of him” Chuuya looked back to the card..Dumbledore was gone. He blinked. Still gone.
He placed the card with the two’s growing pile of wrappers, he couldn’t get his head around all of this magic.
He could hear a high pitched noise. Squeak . Squeak .”this is scabbers by the way” A small rat moved out of the box Ron was holding. The boy rolled his eyes at his pet rat “Pathetic isn’t he?”
Chuuyas mind wandered back to the list hagrid had shown him. At the bottom there had been some extras the students could bring which included pets: owls, cats and toads. He didn’t remember any rats, probably because there wasn’t any use for them.
”Just a little bit” Chuuya smirked slightly.
”Fred gave me a spell as to turn him yellow” Ron looked at him proudly. “Want to see?”
“Yeah” He was quite curious to see the boys display of magic. Ron felt around his pockets and grabbed his wand, he cleared his throat.
Chuuya watched carefully. “Sun-“ Ron’s words died out as a girl with bushy hair ran up to them in a hurry, scanning the room, The girl was wearing a grey cotton jumper and a cloak identical to the one hagrid had helped him buy. She sighed. “Has anyone seen a toad, a boy named Neville’s lost one”
Ron raised a brow at the girl. “No?” Though she clearly wasn’t listening, instead her gaze lingered on his wand.
”oh, are you doing magic?” A smirk replaced her stressed expression. “Lets see then.” Ron’s eyes narrowed in concentration as he cleared his throat once more.
“..sunshine’s..daisy’s, butter..mellow..” He looked up in thought for a second “turn this stupid fat rat yellow!” His wand pointed to scabbers as the rat shrieked. Nothing happened other than the box being removed from on top of its head.
Ron turned to him shrugging in confusion, Chuuya just shrugged back. The girl tilted her head. “Are you sure that’s a real spell?” She scoffed slightly “well it’s not very good is it?”
Ron gestured at the girl with his head giving chuuya a look. He dissected it as: this girls crazy I have no idea what she’s on about.
”of course, I’ve only tried a few simple ones myself.” She grabbed her own wand, it was slightly different to Ron’s. “But they’ve all worked for me.” The girl walked up to their pile of unfinished snacks.
“for example” she pointed her wand at one of them. “Engorgio” The box of chocolates she casted her spell on suddenly grew two times larger. Ron quickly stuffed his face with the enlarged chocolates.
Chuuya was impressed at her display of magic, she seemed confident at spells. The girl had a proud smile on her face. “Whats your name” she offered a polite nod to him.
”Chuuya” the girl raised a brow but said nothing more. “I’m hermione granger!” She turned her attention to Ron who was still chewing on a piece of chocolate. Hermione shot him a dirty look.
”and..you are?” The boy mumbled something incomprehensible. The displeasure on hermione’s face grew ten-fold.
Chuuya answered for him. “Ron Weasley” The boy in question nodded along with a goofy grin. “..pleasure” Her attention landed onto to chuuya once again.
“you two better change into your robes. I expect we’ll be arriving soon." Chuuya had forgotten about that, he nodded to hermione and she began to leave.
Once she reached the door-way she stopped for a second before turning towards Ron. “You’ve got dirt on your nose by the way, did you know?” Hermione pointed to the left of her nose “just there” Ron wiped it off whilst glaring at her.
The girl didn’t seem to notice and walked away. The train began to produce more noise—they were clearly getting close. It would be best if they took hermione’s advice and changed into their wizard robes.
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His cloak felt strangely comfy though it was a bit on the thin side. The cold air attacked him relentlessly. “Come one first years hurry up!!” A meaty man beckoned the first years towards him, Chuuya recognized the voice as Hagrids. He followed after ron and stopped in front of the larger man.
”Hello chuuya!” Ron turned towards chuuya with a questioning look, he just rolled his eyes. “Hey hagrid”
Ron’s eyes widened at hagrid's large build. “Woah…” Hagrid took a deep breath and straightened his back making him appear taller than he already did.
“Right then this way to the boats cmon then!!” The large man began lead the group of first years to a dock of small boats, his boots echoed through the path.
He reached a boat with Ron and took a seat. It’s weight shifted as someone else got on, however he was too busy looking around at his surroundings. The moons light reflected onto the river bellow them, soft ripples spreading throughout the water.
“it’s beautiful isn’t it?” Chuuya looked up to see a girl with light blonde hair smiling at the river, the lantern she was holding lit up the small wooden boat. He nodded in agreement, the place really was mesmerizing.
”do you think there’s a chance we’ll fall off..” Rons voice cracked, he was gripping onto the side of the boat in fear. The blonde girl tilted her head in contemplation. “I heard there’s sirens lurking at the bottom, it would be interesting to test your theory..” Ron’s fearful expression only deepened.
”Tell her to stop!” Ron pointed at the girl before gripping onto the side once more. “look we’re almost there” chuuya looked up to see an enormous castle towering over them. So that’s Hogwarts he thought. The place looked like something straight out of a fairy tale.
They got out of the boats and Ron was all but kissing the ground at his feet. A woman was waiting for them outside, everyone lined up ready to enter the palace that was Hogwarts.