Chapter 19 - 19. the ride and the arrival (1/2)

me Luna and Harry on our heels found a nice empty compartment I cast a quick notice me not over the door cause I know what happens Harry and Luna looked at me funny then everyone sat down and started to chat.

Ryan: hello my names Ryan Diggory I didn't catch your name.

Harry: ah sorry I'm Harry, Harry Potter.

Lunas eyes widen a bit and I just keep smiling as she replies.

Luna:Luna lovegood one of his future wives and childhood friend.

she said dreamily

Harry:*chokes* one of his wives?

Ryan: long story. anyway where have you been living these past 11 years my new friend.

out of the corner of my eye I see a gangly redhead wander past and discretely get rid of the notice me not spell

Harry: I've been living with my aunt and uncle.

Ryan:oh and what are they like?

his eyes narrow.

Harry: not the greatest kind of people.

he says awkwardly ready the change the subject we switch topics and start talking about school and being excited about magic and classes and what everything is going to be like while Luna reads the quibbler and leans against me. I ask Harry if he knows any magic and he says no I told him I can teach him some good starter spells at school he happily agrees he's pretty much starved for friends at this point we discuss what house we all want to be in and decided on gryffindor together I told Luna to just tell which house you wanted at the selection earlier.

While they had been talking, the train had carried them out of London. Now they were speeding past fields full of cows and sheep. They were quiet for a time, watching the fields and lanes flick past.

Around half past twelve there was a great clattering outside in the corridor and a smiling, dimpled woman slid back their door and said, ”Anything off the cart, dears?”

Harry, who hadn't had any breakfast, leapt to his feet along with Ryan who was a sweet junkie went out into the corridor.

He had never had any money for candy with the Dursleys, and now that he had pockets rattling with gold and silver he was ready to buy as many Mars Bars as he could carry -- but the woman didn't have Mars Bars. What she did have were Bettie Bott's Every Flavor Beans, Drooble's Best Blowing Gum, Chocolate Frogs. Pumpkin Pasties, Cauldron Cakes, Licorice Wands, and a number of other strange things Harry had never seen in his life. Not wanting to miss anything, he got some of everything and paid the woman eleven silver Sickles and seven bronze Knuts.

Luna stared as Harry and Ryan who basically bought the whole cart and shook her head wryly the seats were loaded with candy and they would surely be in a sugar coma later Ryan even pulled out some of Lunas favorites discretely from his inventory butterscotch vanilla and chocolate puddings she locked onto them with keen eyes of a predator he knew of he didn't throw the bait he would be mauled to death he quickly threw them at the seat as she leapt at them with a ravenous gleam in her eye everyone knows Luna is a pudding addict he has a whole drawer in his fridge dedicated to her he had to restock it the very same day he showed her.

”What are these?” Harry asked Ryan, holding up a pack of Chocolate Frogs. ”They're not really frogs, are they?” He was starting to feel that nothing would surprise him.

”No,” said Ryan they are just chocolate frogs that have been enchanted to jump once or twice they also have cards in them wizard kids collect them kind of like pokemon.

Harry nodded his head in understanding while Luna looked confused.

Luna:pokemon?

Ryan:ah pocket monsters I'll show you later.

Lunas eyes brightened at the thought of pocket monsters.

Harry unwrapped his Chocolate Frog and picked up the card. It showed a man's face. He wore half- moon glasses, had a long, crooked nose, and flowing silver hair, beard, and mustache. Underneath the picture was the name Albus Dumbledore.

”So this is Dumbledore!” said Harry.

Harry turned over his card and read:

ALBUS DUMBLEDORE

CURRENTLY HEADMASTER OF HOGWARTS

Considered by many the greatest wizard of modern times, Dumbledore is particularly famous for his defeat of the dark wizard Grindelwald in 1945, for the discovery of the twelve uses of dragon's blood, and his work on alchemy with his partner, Nicolas Flamel. Professor Dumbledore enjoys chamber music and tenpin bowling.

Harry turned the card back over and saw, to his astonishment, that Dumbledore's face had disappeared.

”He's gone!”

Ryan: yeah bro wizard pictures move and stuff magic you know?

They had a good time eating the Every Flavor Beans. Harry got toast, coconut, baked bean, strawberry, curry, grass, coffee, sardine, and was even brave enough to nibble the end off a funny gray one, which turned out to be pepper.

The countryside now flying past the window was becoming wilder. The neat fields had gone. Now there were woods, twisting rivers, and dark green hills.

There was a knock on the door of their compartment and the round-faced boy Ryan recognized came in. He looked tearful.”Sorry,” he said, ”but have you seen a toad at all?”

When they shook their heads, he wailed, ”I've lost him! He keeps getting away from me!” Ryan: you should probably go to a prefect they usually know a summoning spell they are the students with the big silver p on their chest.