Where is Harry?
Anne woke up at five o’clock on the morning of the first of September. She repacked her trunk making sure she had all her books and equipment.
She put her wand, her money, Rose, and a book on Classical Mythology into her backpack.
She got dressed in a pair of jeans and a light blue jumper which matched her eyes. She did her hair in her usual long neat plaits and then tied on her ribbons which turned light blue to match her jumper.
It was now a quarter to six. The train didn’t leave till eleven o’clock, but it was a three-hour drive from the Scamander house in Dorset up to London. Even if they didn’t leave for nearly two hours, they weren’t going to be late, but Anne was always panicking about something.
Anne clearly wasn’t the only one that got up early however as Mr. Scamander poked his head around the door fifteen minutes later.
He seemed surprised that Anne was already dressed, fully packed, and was sitting on the bed and reading a book. “Ah! I see your up Anne! I was just about to wake the boys up. I want to try and get out of here by seven o’clock so that we’re not late!”
Anne nodded. Mr. Scamander just smiled, “well at least one of you three seems to understand the importance of not being late!” he muttered before banging on Irwin’s door.
Anne went downstairs for breakfast a few minutes later and found Mrs. Scamander in the kitchen.
“Let me guess?” said Mrs. Scamander as she put sausages in the frying pan, “Landon’s trying to do the rounds, trying to wake you all up?”
Anne nodded.
“I don’t know what gets into him! He’s the same every year! He’s been rushing about since five o’clock this morning, I struggled to stop him waking you lot up till six!”
“It’s ok, I was already up,” she replied.
“Still,” she muttered pouring eggs into the pan, “most of the year I am married to a perfectly stable and normal man, but then every year on the first of September he goes crazy! Getting everyone up two hours early, snapping at the boys when they haven’t finished packing!”
“Morning,” grunted Rolf tousle-haired still in his pajamas.
“Morning dear!” said Mrs. Scamander kissing Rolf on the head. “You all packed?”
“I wouldn’t dare not be with dad in the mood he’s in!”
“We’re leaving the twins here today, they would only get in the way and there's three lots of luggage to fit in the car,” she said as she started serving sausages and scrambled eggs to Rolf and Anne.
After a very hurried breakfast and double-checking of the rooms, they placed the three trunks in the boot of the car and were ready to go by seven o’clock.
Newt and Tina were waiting outside the house with Averett and Aislynn once they had loaded the car.
“Bye-bye Irwin!” called Aislynn giving her brother one last teary hug.
“I’ll see you at Christmas ok?” Irwin said kneeling down to talk to his sister.
“Ok!” said Aislynn feeling slightly better.
“It was lovely to meet you dear!” said Tina.
“I hope you can come back next summer,” said Newt giving Anne one last hug.
“Let’s get a move on people! The train won’t wait!” yelled Mr. Scamander who was already sitting in the car.
“Landon, at least point we might arrive before the train even gets there!”
“There might be traffic! Come on Rolf!!!” he yelled at his son who had had to go back for his Potions book.
Anne, because she was the smallest, sat between Irwin and Rolf in the middle seat in the back of the car. It was three hours to Kings Cross, but they still arrived at a few minutes before ten.
“You see Landon,” said Mrs. Scamander pointing to the clock over platforms nine and ten, “It’s only a minute past ten, I don’t know what gets into you! It’s almost as if you have some kind of curse to be overly anxious on the first day of school each year!”
“I’m sorry Gwen!” he said blushing. “It’s just it’s so important, I don’t want the kids to miss the train!”
Rolf went through the barrier first, and then Mr. Scamander who was followed by Irwin and then Anne, Mrs. Scamander went last.
“Ok kids let’s get you two a compartment. Rolf, you need to change into your prefect robes,” said Mr. Scamander pulling Anne’s trunk off her trolley.
The train was completely empty as they were so early. They found a compartment and loaded Anne and Irwin’s trunks onto the train.
“Goodbye dears!” said Mrs. Scamander giving them all one last hug. “See you at Christmas!”
“Now then you two don’t study too much!” said Mr Scamander looking at Anne and Irwin. “Now I know you might not think it’s possible to study too much, but you need to remember to eat sleep and relax as well. Don’t forget!” he said ruffling his son’s hair, “you’re only twelve, you need to have fun sometimes!”
Irwin laughed, “don’t worry Dad we will!”
The Scamander family left and after a while, Irwin and Anne were joined in their compartment by Michael, Terry, Mandy, Lisa, Persephone, and Anthony. Padma was sitting in another compartment with her sister Parvati.
The train had been going for a few minutes when Ginny came into their compartment. “Anne, have you seen Harry?” she asked very flusteredly.
“No, I haven’t seen him for two weeks.”
“I don’t think he’s on the train!” she sobbed “we were running late, and I don’t think Harry and Ron made it through the barrier!”
Anne stared at her in shock. Harry wasn’t on the train? Then where was he??
“Anne I think I need to borrow your mirror,” said Irwin as he came back from double-checking the compartments for Harry.
“Sirius!” Irwin called “Sirius!!!”
“Hello?” answered Remus, “Oh hi Irwin! What’s up?”
“It’s Harry he’s not on the train and Anne’s panicking”
“Sirius get in here right now!”
“Yeah?”
“I thought you said you’d contacted the school saying Harry and Ron weren’t on the train but they were fluing later?” asked Remus anger in his voice.
“Yeah, I did”
“You clearly forgot to tell Anne! She’s panicking about where her brother is!” Remus yelled.
“Oh, Merlin!” he muttered. “Sorry, Anne! I forgot” said Sirius grinning sheepishly.
“Your brother is fine sweetheart, Harry will see you when you get there alright?”
Anne nodded; she was still shaken up but at least she knew Harry was alright.
“I’m sorry for stressing you out like this,” said Ginny.
“It’s ok,” said Anne “I understand why you were worried”
When it was reaching towards evening the train reached Hogsmeade. They left their trunks on the train and started heading towards the carriages. She noticed that the carriages didn’t seem to be being pulled by anything.
Maybe they were pulled by Thestrals Anne considered.
Anne got into a carriage with Irwin, Michael, Terry, Anthony, and Persephone.
“I hope the sorting doesn’t take long. I’m starving!” groaned Michael.
“Yeah me too!” added Terry.
“I mean it's not as if you two didn’t eat your weight in sweets just now on the train!” said Anthony sarcastically.
They arrived at the school and the hat sang the sorting song again. Anne noticed that it was different from the song it had sung last year. Just before the sorting began, Anne sighed in relief as she saw Harry and Ron join the others at the Gryffindor table.
Then the first-year students were all sorted into their new houses.
“Lovegood, Luna!” called McGonagall.
Luna ran up to try on the hat. She had barely had it on a second however when it yelled “Ravenclaw!!”
The Ravenclaw table began to cheer for Luna. Anne made space next for her at the table so that Luna could sit next to her.
“Hello Anne, I’m glad where in the same house!” said Luna dreamily.
After dinner, the Ravenclaws all trooped up to their tower and they unpacked their trunks.
Anne noticed that this year the other girls had made space for Anne’s books on their bookcases. They didn’t mind her unpacking all her books as long as they got to borrow them when they wanted to!
They stayed up gossiping and catching up on Anne and Padma’s beds about what they had done all summer.
“Um guys,” said Anne after a while, “It's one o’clock, we’ve got class tomorrow!”
“Merlin you’re right!” said Persephone.
They all went off to bed at that point not wanting to be tired for class the next day!