22nd of December, 1990
(Y/n)'s POV
Hermione and I talked for some time, she told me all about her family, like her parents, that were dentists, and that they were very shocked and proud when she got her letter; She had always liked reading, and loves to learn new things, she's pretty skilled and smart, she told me she was first on all her assignments, and honestly, after talking with her, I couldn't understand why people wouldn't want to be her friend, I mean, I don't have much experience, but she doesn't seem like a bad person at all.
I also told her about my parents, and explained what happened at my birthday party. She was surprised that Dumbledore himself went to my house. I could tell just by her face, but before we could continue talking, my parents came looking for me.
"(Y/n), we have all your stuff, it's time to go home" Said mom, just when she finished saying that, she noticed I was with someone else.
"Hi young lady, are you my son's first friend?" She said in a surprised and curious tone.
"Um, I..." Hermione hesitated a little bit, so I happily answered for her
"Yeah! Her name is Hermione; can you believe she's a muggle-born? You wouldn't even notice it, she knows so much!" I said fast, as I usually talk when I was happy or excited, but I guess Hermione could understand me, because she smiled when I said she was my friend, I don't know why she hesitated, I asked her to be my friend after all.
"A muggle-born? I'm really glad she's your first friend sweetie, although we're not so different from muggles ourselves you know?" Said mom
"Yeah, I know mom, I already explained to her, it wasn't as complicated as I thought it would be" I said, laughing a bit.
"Well, as much as I'm glad you made your first friend, we have to go, we have everything ready and your dad has to do some reports for the ministry, I'll let you say your goodbyes sweetie, it was a pleasure to meet you Hermione, I hope you take care of my little one when you're in Hogwarts" After saying that, mom went to meet with dad, both waiting outside of the store.
I looked at Hermione with sadness and said
"I have to go now, but at least we'll see each other in Hogwarts again, it was really nice to meet you Hermione." I extended my hand.
She grabbed my hand and said "Bye (Y/n), I'm really excited to meet up with you in Hogwarts, I hope the months pass by quickly, take care" And that's how our little chat ended.
When we were going home I told my parents about how happy I was at making my first friend, and how we shared similar interests, my parents listened to me closely, and when I finished talking my dad said
"I know you're excited, but you better be ready because this few months will be though for you, we'll teach you things about the wizarding world that a normal kid should know, and even though you can't use magic outside of the school until you're of age, I still want you to see the technique and correct pronunciation. I'll teach you about charms and spells and your mom will teach you about plants and potions" He said, with a serious look on his face.
"Don't worry dad, I know I wasn't excited about school before, but now, how could I not be excited? I'll study harder than before!" I said, looking at him excited and with confidence.
When we got home, the lessons started almost immediately, my mom started to pull out books from places in the house I've never seen before, magic, I suppose. And that's how I started with plants, or herbology as mom likes to say, and potions.
Mom talked hours and hours in the lessons we had, three days a week and we practically were all day talking about plants and ingredients for potions, honestly, I was pretty much dozing off in these lessons, and not because mom is boring, it was because they just didn't attract my attention, I still tried to pay attention though, because mom looked like she enjoyed finally being able to talk to me about the things she truly loves.
With my dad's lessons on the other hand, I was more excited, my dad showed me some really flamboyant and complicated spells, mom later told me he showed me those to show off in front of his son, so I think he's cool or something like that, I didn't really understood a lot but I loved watching the pronunciation and technique of them.
A lot of the spells my dad said were from years above my first one, but that it didn't hurt to show them to me just so that I know them, if only he knew mom already told me he just wants to show off, I thought laughing a bit, he did show me in detail the spells that they would teach me in first year, or at least, the ones he remembered.
As a routine I got used to reading books every night, because my parents gave me books to read so I could accompany the practice with the theory, and in the morning I fed Blaze with fire from matches, when he needed to lunch, my dad casted a fire spell that honestly, was the one that caught my attention the most, throwing fire seems so cool, but he managed to just create a bit for Blaze to eat, it was much more than the little matches I got him.
And that's how I spent my days, until days became weeks, and then became months.
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23 of June, 1991.
Me and my parents went out more than normal these days, because according to them, they wanted to show me the muggle world, because I didn't know a lot about it, so we went to various places, such as eating ice cream, to parks, and this time we went to a zoo.
Before we went in we heard some sort of scandal inside, my parents were busy buying the tickets and I got close to the entrance of the zoo, where a boa constrictor came out, I was surprised and a shiver ran my back, but when the snake looked me in the eyes, I felt weird, and I was about to be even more surprised, because it started to talk.
"Wheeere... where am I...? How will I get to Brazzzil if I don't even know where I am...?"
"You... you talk?!?!? How is that even possible?!?!"
"You too can underztannnd me? What a day... Hey kid, do you know where I am? And do you know how to get to Brazzzzil?" I... I didn't know what to say honestly, is this how every zoo animal thinks? Do they all want to just go home?
"Um, we're in England, Brazil is in South America, you're pretty far from home." I said, with a concerned look.
The snake got serious and asked "Could you take me to Brazzzil? A boy freed me, but I don't know how to get thereee, becauze I've never been there."
"I mean, I don't have a car, but I could ask my parents and we can leave you off near somewhere to make it easier for you to get there, would you like that?" I asked, a bit nervous, because I didn't know if my parents would think I went insane or what, I just hope things like this are normal in the wizarding world.
"Yez, I would like that, I'll be waiting in the bushezz." Said the snake while sliding to the bushes.
I went where mom and dad were and I asked, a bit anxious "Um, mom, dad, could you help me with something?"
"What happened little man?" Said dad
"First" I said "Promise me you won't think I'm mad or something like that"
"It's okay honey, you can tell us, we won't think you've gone mad" Said mom
"Well, follow me" I took them to the bushes while I talked "I don't really know how to explain this, but I need your help to take a friend I just made to the airport, he... needs to get there".
"What friend?" Asked mom, with curiosity in her eyes, I guess she's wondering how I made a friend in such short time"
"You can come out now..." I said to the snake hiding in the bushes.
"Greetingzzz, will you be able to take me to Brazzzil?"
Mom looked shocked, but didn't look like she understood him, my dad on the other hand, looked at me and said.
"We can't take her to Brazil, son, it's a long trip, and besides, I don't think they allow snakes..."
"But dad, we can just take him to the airport, leave him there and he can get to a plane by himself, by, I don't know, going into the cargo part of it, snakes are kinda elusive right? We can't just leave him here alone; he'll be in danger" I said to dad, trying to convince him with all the excuses I could give him.
My mom finally understood what we were talking and said.
"Dear... we can't just leave him here all alone, let's just take him to the airport, it's not that far from here."
My dad sighed heavily, looked me in the eyes with his stern expression, and said.
"Fine, take him to the car, we're going to take him to the airport, we can take that chance to show you one, and if you're lucky, you might even see one flying off."
"Thank you so much dad!" I said while I hugged him. "Come on buddy, we'll take you to the airport"
The snake made noises that I interpreted as happy and followed us to the car, who knew snakes could make happy noises.
When we got to the airport we all got out of the car, and we were lucky, because there was just a plane that was going to Brazil, according to the radio lady voice in the airport.
"Here iz where we zay goodbye, I will never forget you or the zoo boy, I'll get into the compartmentzz where they put the luggage, thank you zzzo much my friend."
Said the snake, and when he finished saying that, I saw him sliding really fast to get to the plane. I was kind of surprised no one said anything, but I was happy for him.
My parents were quiet the whole trip back home, and when we got back we continued the lessons. It was weird that they didn't talked about it, but I assumed that it was because it wasn't weird because of magic and all of that.
After the lessons, my parents walked me to my room, handed me the book of "One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi" by Pyllida Spore, and wished me good night.
I gave the inside of the book a quick glance and I felt sleepy, so I decided to get ready to sleep, not without getting close to where Blaze was, his little resting spot that looked like a volcano habitat, I picked him up, petted him, and said.
"One less day for Hogwarts, girl, and to be honest, I'm feeling kind of anxious and scared, but if I'm with you, I know we'll be just fine, (Y/n) and Blaze against the world, right?"
Blaze made some sounds, trying to tell me something, and because of all our nights talking, or rather, me talking by myself, I could understand a bit of what she said, I think.
"Yeah, I know Hermione will be there too, thanks for reminding me buddy." I said, laughing a bit, I put blaze in his little resting spot again and said.
"It's really late, and it's time we both sleep, we're still growing and tomorrow will be a really intense day, good night Blaze, I really love you." I petted him with my finger and he rubbed his face against it.
I laid in bed, and to my surprise, I fell asleep quite fast compared to other days.
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31st de August, 1991
It was night time already, and because it was my last day, my parents didn't give me any lessons, but because I was already used to it I started to read one of my favourites books, "The Standard Book of Spells 1" by Miranda Goshawk, I've already read this book like a thousand times, but I just couldn't contain my excitement and read it again and again, just like most of the books in my first year list, except herbology and potions, those kind of bored me but I had to read them.
While I was reading it, my parents walked in my room, and dad said
"Well little man, time to sleep, tomorrow we have to get up early for the big day"
Mom looked kind of sad, she looked at me and said.
"Your dad's right, as excited as you are, you can't stay up too late, you know how you are in the mornings..." She said, with a small laugh, it sounded strange though, so I figured they were a bit sad with me leaving.
"I know mom, but I just can't sleep, I'm too excited and anxious, what if my classmates don't like me? What if I can't make any friends? I don't know how to talk to them, I'll get all nervous and-"Before I could continue my anxious ranting, my dad hugged me.
"Everything will be alright little man, just... be yourself, doing that will attract the right people, if you try hard to be someone else you won't have any true friendships, go out there and show the world what you have shown us these past few months, you don't have to show anything to us, we're already as proud as we can be, and we will always be proud of you" While my dad said this, tears were starting to pour out my eyes.
"Besides... you won't be alone, won't you? You'll have your friend, what was her name? Oh right, Hermione~~~" She said in the tone she used to mock me sometimes.
When she did this, my cheeks blushed a bit, but I don't think they noticed, and said
"Mom! She's just a friend! But yeah, you're right, I won't be alone, I just hope we get put in the same house... if we're not, I don't know what I'll do..." My head started to fill with all the things that could go wrong if I'm not in the same house with Hermione, I started to get nervous, but quickly shook it off.
"Everything will be alright sweetie, remember, when those hard moments come, I'm sure you'll know what to do, you're a smart kid, even if you don't think you are, so try not to worry too much, think about it, but don't overdo it." Said mom with a faint smile, while she stroked my head.
"All right" I said, while smiling "Thank you so much mom, dad, this few months have been the best of my life, and it's all thanks to you guys" When I finished my sentence, I yawned
"I got a little sleepy, so I'll try to sleep now, I love you guys" I said while my parents tucked me under the sheets.
"Good night sweetie, we love you too" Said mom, my dad stroked my head, and then both got out of my room.
It took some while for me to finally be able to sleep. All night I was imagining all sorts of scenarios, good and bad ones, until finally after a few hours, I fell asleep.
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1st of September of 1991
Because of all the excitement I wasn't able to sleep much, and I woke up late, it was hard to fully wake up, and that's why we're in the situation we are in right now.
"Come on dad! We're going to be late!" I said frantically to my dad, who also had a hard time sleeping last night
"I know! But don't worry, we're going to be fi- Blimey!" Said dad, while trying to get ahead of many vehicles, one almost bump into us, but it seems that calmed him a bit
"Don't worry little man, we'll get there in time, we're almost there" He said, now with his voice more calm
"Yeah, don't worry sweetie, we're still pretty much in time." Said mom, trying to calm me too.
I was still nervous and anxious, but I was able to keep the need to ask how much was left until we got there. And finally we arrived, almost late, but we arrived, we entered the station and I started to frantically search for the platform 9 and ¾, my dad got a hold of me and said
"(Y/n), we know you're anxious, but the platform is kind of... difficult to find if you don't know where to look" He said, and winked with one eye when he did "Follow us"
I did just that and we ended up with my cart in an entrance between platform 9 and 11, I looked everywhere. I knew it was something magical to hide it from the muggles, but I didn't know where to look.
My parents got behind me, took my cart, and started to push us directly to a wall, I was kind of in panic because I thought we were going to crash, so by instinct I close my eyes, a few seconds after I felt a weird feeling through my body, and when I opened my eyes again, I was amazed.
In front of me there was a scarlet red train, and a platform, which was full of kids with their own luggage, they moved one side to the other boarding the train, and I finally saw the sign that said "Hogwarts express, eleven o'clock"
When I saw the time, I started to push my cart towards the train, my parents followed me and guided me in where should I go, before we got to the first door, my parents saw a red headed lady, they stared at her for a few moments and mom got close to the woman and said
"Molly? Molly Weasly? Is that you?" The red headed woman turned around and her eyes opened wide in awe.
"No way! Phoebe is that really you? Oh how many years have passed, I've seen Salazar from time to time when I have to drop Arthur his lunch at the ministry the times he forgets, but I haven't seen you in ages! I almost didn't recognize you, how have you been?"
My parents were about to start chatting, which I had a feeling would be long, so I said hi to the red headed lady, she looked at me in a similar way she looked at mom, she hugged me and said to my ears
"I simply cannot believe you're this big now, we'll have another occasion to catch up, for now, get to the train sweetheart"
I started to walk towards the train to not be late, and my parents said some words to Mrs. Weasly, and followed me to say goodbye.
When I was about to get in, my parents helped me load my luggage on the train, and handed me Blaze, I put her in the handmade pocket I made on my black jacket, alongside with my white shirt and grey pants, I tried to make one in every clothes I had just so Blaze was comfortable enough.
My parents looked at me with sadness in their eyes, my mom had teary eyes, and she hugged me while saying to me.
"I love you so much sweetie, take care of yourself, be good in school, don't destroy anything and..." I knew what she was going to say, so I cut her off and answered her.
"Mom, I'll be fine, I'll try to send you guys letters every day, but the train is about to go" I said, in a bit of a hurry
She kissed my cheek, petted Blaze, and let my dad say something to me too.
My dad put his hand on my shoulder, looked at my eyes and said.
"There's probably going to be a lot of scenarios where you're going to want to give up, but I know you never will, it doesn't matter how many things happen, that's one of your qualities, you know? Your perseverance, like your mom said, take care of yourself, although knowing you, the ones taking care of you are going to be Blaze and Hermione." He said, chuckling a bit.
"Dad, mom, I love you guys so much, and don't worry, I'll be fine, trust me"
I looked at my parents with teary eyes, hugged them a bit, and in that moment the train alerted that it was leaving, because it sounded, so I quickly said while heading inside to look for a compartment.
"Bye mom, dad, I'll see you in a few months!" And the doors closed.
And that's how I started to look for an empty compartment, or at least, almost empty, because all compartments were full of people, and a lot of people in one place made me nervous, I tried to look for Hermione, but because there were a lot of people, I got a bit nervous and just tried to find a compartment for me I'll look for her in school.
I looked and looked, until I found one nearly empty, there were only two boys, one that had black hair and glasses, while the other was taller and had red hair, the same colour as the lady that my parents said hi to must be her son I thought.
I breathed deeply, swallowed my nervousness and shyness, opened the compartment and talked to them.
"H-hi, can I stay in this compartment? All the other ones are full and I'm not good with crowds..." I said, cursing in my mind because I still stuttered a bit.
The black haired boy nodded with his head, while the red headed one said
"Sure, sit wherever you like"
And so I did, I sat on the other side of the compartment, in front of them because they both used the other one.
"Oh, r-right, I forgot, my name is (Y/n) (L/n), nice to meet you guys"
"I'm Ron Weasley" Said the red headed, that I now knew was named Ron, while he extended his hand, which I took to greet him.
"What about you?" I asked the black haired kid.
"Harry Potter"
"Well, nice to meet you Harry" I said, while I extended my hand the same way Ron extended his, he looked at me with a confused face, and accepted my hand
"Don't you know who he is?" Asked Ron
"U-um, should I? It's just Harry right?"
When I said that, both of them had different reactions, Harry looked relieved, but Ron was in disbelief, as if he couldn't believe what he was hearing, but I didn't really understand why, his surname was familiar to me, but that was it, it was just Harry to me.
"Yes, just Harry, it's really nice to meet you" Said Harry with a smile on his face, but I didn't give him much attention, I was still confused, but before I could even ask anything, Harry asked Ron.
"So, Ron, is everyone on your family wizards?"
"Er - I think so, yeah" Said Ron "I think mom has a cousin who is an accountant, but we never talk about him"
After that, Ron asked Harry how it was to live with muggles, I thought we all just met, but maybe he told him before I got here, they also talked about Ron's family, he had 6 brothers, talk about a big family, after chatting for some while, Harry looked at me and asked.
"What about you (Y/n)?"
"W-well, it's kind of complicated to explain I guess, my parents are wizards, but I didn't know until my 11th birthday, supposedly they wanted to keep me away from this world because they thought it was dangerous or something, which is weird because honestly this world has been fantastic so far, but after we talked things they kinda accepted it, and taught me things about this world in the last few months... huh, I guess it wasn't that complicated" I said laughing a bit at the situation.
"Basically, I was raised as a muggle, I don't know all the things and what they did teach me was things about magic and different assignments that they'll teach us this year, strangely enough, they only told me history of the wizarding world in their words, never on books, but I know the most important names"
They both looked at me surprised in the middle of my monologue, but their faces returned to normal when they started to understand.
Just in that moment, Blaze peeked her head from my handmade pocket in my jacket - my mom helped me stitch them all too - on the right side of my chest.
"What's that? Said Ron, surprised and with his eyes wide open
"Oh, it's my pet, her name's Blaze, it's a fire dwelling salamander, but don't worry, she's pretty docile and kind, she's just a bit curious because, well, she's practically still a newborn, that's why she can fit in this pocket, um, Do you want to pet her?"
Ron shook his head, Harry, on the other hand, said yes, so I put my hand out and Blaze jumped to it, wanting to express her happiness, she expelled some fire out of her mouth.
This startled Harry a bit, but he still petted Blaze with his index finger. After he was done, I put Blaze in my pocket again.
Ron then started to talk about his rat, Scabbers, saying things like how useless he was, and said that it was a hand me down pet that belonged to his brother Percy, who got an owl, but his parents couldn't buy something else for him, for some reason, he didn't finish his sentence, it looked like he was embarrassed to say anything because his ears started to look like his hair.
I honestly thought there wasn't anything bad in saying that kind of stuff, we were all friends, I thought no one would mock each other, I felt guilty, but I didn't know what else to say. Harry also realized it and he started to say things about his life.
Harry told us how he got hand me down clothes from his cousin, or how he never really got proper gifts, which apparently made Ron feel better, and it took that weight from my back.
"And until Hagrid told me, I didn't know I was a wizard, or about my parents and Voldemort..."
Ron got startled, which kinda surprised me "You said You-know-who's name!!" He said.
"I don't see how saying Voldemort's name is something to be surprised about..." I said
Ron got startled again, which seemed kinda like a lot, after all, it's just a name, right?
"I'm not trying to make myself look brave or anything by saying the name, it's just I never knew I wasn't supposed to say it, see what I mean? I have a lot of stuff to learn... I'm sure I'll be the worst in the class." Said Harry
"I just say his name because dad told me that by being afraid of it is how we give it power, and I think he's right." I said "But don't worry Harry, I think there are a lot of students that come from muggle families, you won't get left behind, besides, I can help you, it's not like I know a lot, but I can help you a bit" I tried to make Harry feel reassured.
"Yeah, like (Y/n) said, people who come from muggle families learn pretty fast, and I think you'll learn fast too." Said Ron.
I saw Harry and it seemed that what we said cheered him up a bit, so I also felt relieved. We talked for some time, until a lady came to our compartment and asked.
"Anything off the trolley, dears?"
My parents gave me enough money, or more than enough, for the whole year, saying it was mine, I didn't feel like I was going to need money, it was a lot, so I put most of it inside my luggage, but I had some in my pockets.
Suddenly, Harry said
"I'll take the whole lot"
When I heard this, I got nervous, I didn't want Harry to pay for all of it, so I said
"We'll split it, I don't want you to pay for everything, Harry."
Harry said he didn't mind paying for it, but I insisted, and from one moment to another, we were surrounded by candies. I was really happy, I love candies.
"Bertie Bott's Every-Flavour beans?" Asked Harry
"Uh? I don't think it has every flavour, does it?" I added
"Yep, every flavour, you can have the most ordinary ones like chocolate and peppermint, or spinach and liver, my brother George reckons he had a bogey-flavoured one once, so you want to be careful with those." Said Ron
Harry left the beans to one side and grabbed another candy.
"Chocolate frogs? They're not real are they?" Asked Harry to Ron, I honestly couldn't be surprised anymore, there were some really weird candies.
"It's a simple charm, so no, they're not real" Said Ron "See what the card is, I'm missing Agrippa"
"What?" Harry and I said at the same time.
"Oh, right, of course you two wouldn't know, chocolate frogs have cards inside them, to collect them, famous witches and wizards, I've got about five hundred of them, but I haven't got Agrippa or Ptolemy." Said Ron, he said it as if it made absolute sense to him, which was honestly mad.
Harry opened his chocolate frog, and the frog inside it jumped out of the package through the window.
"Well... let's hope it survives the fall." I said, laughing a bit.
"Probably not, they can only jump once" Said Ron
Harry looked at the package again and picked up the card, he inspected it and said.
"So this is Dumbledore!"
"Don't tell me you've never heard of Dumbledore!" Said Ron "Also, can you give me one frog? Agrippa might appear, thanks"
"Even I know who Dumbledore is, Harry, do you really not know who he is?" I asked.
Harry didn't answer my question, instead, he flipped the card he had and read out loud.
"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."
After reading, Harry turned the card again, and said
"He's gone!"
"Well, you can't expect him to hang around all day." Said Ron "Uhg, i got Morgana again and i've got about 6 of them, maybe you can start collecting them too!" Said Ron
We started to chat again, mostly trivial stuff, Harry and Ron started to open a lot of chocolate frogs searching for cards, I was just enjoying magical people's sweets, which to be honest were pretty good.
After a while talking we heard a knock on the door, when i looked in that direction i saw a boy with a round face and teary eyes, the boy asked
"I'm sorry, but have you seen a toad at all?"
I denied it with my head and Harry and Ron did the same.
"I've lost him! He keeps getting away from me!" He said.
"He'll turn around" Harry said trying to comfort the teary eyed boy.
"Yeah, well, if you see him..."
I wanted to ask him if he wanted any help, but because I've never talked to him before my shyness took control of me and my voice wouldn't come out. I hate when this happens... I saw him leave for another compartment as I called myself an idiot for not asking him.
I got out of my thoughts because Ron said something that annoyed me a bit.
"Don't know why he's so bothered, if I'd brought a toad I'd lose it as quick as I could. Mind you I brought Scabbers, so I can't talk" When Ron finished talking I said
"Don't know about you Ron, but if I lost Blaze I would search for her until I passed out, besides, I don't think it's a good idea to treat Scabbers the way you treat him, animales feel just like people do, even if you don't believe it." I said with annoyance in my voice.
"Meh, it's not like it matters, it's an old rat, he doesn't understand a word of what I'm saying, he probably doesn't understand what he's thinking, so it doesn't really matter..."
I felt annoyed at that too, but decided to not push it, maybe later, but now I didn't want to mess up my chances at making friends.
"He might have died and you wouldn't know the difference, Fred taught me a spell to turn him yellow, want to see?" Said Ron.
"Yeah!" Said Harry, I was hesitant because Dad never taught me a spell like that, but nodded with my head anyways.
Ron took out his wand and said "Unicorn's hair is falling out, anyways..." His wand looked, hairy? It was weird, I didn't really know why, but didn't pay much attention to it.
Before he started, the round-faced boy came back, but this time, with a girl that was familiar to me, who couldn't recognize that bushy brown hair?
"Has anyone seen a toad? Neville's lost one" Said Hermione, with that bossy tone of hers.
"We've already told him we haven't seen it" Said Ron, Hermione looked like she didn't listen to him, as she realized I was in the compartment as well, she opened her eyes and said
"(Y/n)! Hi!" Before I could respond, she entered the compartment and hugged me, which I happily returned. " Why didn't you send me a message? And why didn't you look for me?" She said, as she sat right next to me, where the empty space was.
"W-well, I would have, but you didn't give me any info on how to contact you or send you a letter, you know? Besides... I didn't feel very comfortable looking through every compartment, and didn't want to be a nuisance to everyone else. Either way, I'm sorry, I should've looked for you..." I said a bit sad, I didn't want my first friend to be mad at me because I didn't try harder.
"Oh, well, that's on me I suppose, i got all excited because I got my first friend that I forgot to give you my address, anyways, you don't have to apologise, it's in part my fault, besides, from what we were able to talk, I realized how you are, you wouldn't ignore me on purpose" Said Hermione, she was... super observant of everything apparently, I guess it comes with being smart I thought.
I felt pretty relieved by hearing that to be honest, and our conversation was cut short, because she focused on Ron again who had his wand out.
"Oh, are you doing magic? Let's see it then."
"Er, all right" He cleared his throat "Sunshine, daisies, butter mellow, turn this stupid fat rat yellow" He waved his hand and... nothing happened, I was bummed, I expected to finally see magic to see the level of my friends but I guess it's not a real spell.
"Are you sure that's a real spell?" As if she read my mind, Hermione said those words "Well, it's not really good, is it? I've tried a few simple spells for practice, and it's all worked for me. Nobody in my family's magic at all, it was ever such a surprise when I got my letter, a pleased one, of course, I mean, it's the very best school for witchcraft there is, I've heard, or more like, I've learnt all our set books off by heart, of course, i just hope it will be enough, I'm Hermione Granger, by the way, who are you?" Again, she tended to monologue fast about stuff when she was excited, it was good to see she didn't change at all.
"I'm Ron Weasley" Ron muttered, Hermione extended his hand and they shook hands, Hermione said
"You have dirt in your nose" Ron tried to clean it but wasn't able to.
"And your glasses are broken, let me see if this works" She walked over to Harry, took out her wand, and said "Oculus reparo" Which repaired Harry's glasses, she then walked back to sit right next to me, Harry looked at his glasses, and then said.
"I'm Harry Potter"
"Are you really?" Said Hermione "I've read all about you, of course, I got a few extra books for background reading, and you're in Modern Magical History and The Rise and Fall of the Dark Arts, and Great Wizarding Events of the Twentieth Century."
"Am I?" Said Harry, dazzled.
"Is he?" I said, kind of surprised.
"(Y/n), of course he is! I thought you would know that, he's the one that everyone says defeated You-know-who" Hermione then went on to explain what happened to Harry, how his parents died protecting him from Voldemort, and how he apparently defeated him.
"W-what? Why would he go after a baby? Why would he target your family in the first place?... I'm sorry Harry, I didn't know, I really don't know what to say..." I said, with sadness in my voice, even though there was nothing I could do, i still felt bad for him
"Don't worry, it was a long time ago, I don't even remember my parents, besides, it felt good to be treated normally, not like a celebrity, i hope you-" Harry was saying but i cut him off
"Yeah, don't worry Harry, I'll treat you just like any other person, to me, you're nothing more than Harry." I said, he smiled and so did I.
"Oh, yeah, (Y/n), you haven't shown me your magic have you? Why don't you do a demonstration? Come on, let's see." Said Hermione, I know she was excited, but I didn't really like being in the spotlight. I was hesitant, so I took out my wand.
"Okay... my dad taught me a few spells to be prepared for this year's content, so, let me think" I remember what Hermione said about Ron's nose, so I aimed my wand at him and said
"Tergeo" I waved my wand and suddenly, the dirt that was in Ron's nose left, leaving him clean.
"Wow! Not even I knew that spell... I guess that's what you get by having an Auror as a father." Said Hermione.
"Wait, you don't know this spell? Dang, maybe dad showed me this one just to show off... Well, at least it worked"
Harry and Ron looked amazed at the spell, which honestly, it wasn't much, it was a simple cleaning spell, but I guess for people who've never done magic before it looked like a lot.
"Well, going back to the main conversation, does any of you know what house you'll be in? I've been asking around and I hope I'm in Gryffindor, it sounds by far the best, I hear Dumbledore himself was one, but I suppose Ravenclaw wouldn't be too bad... Anyways, we'd better go and look for Neville's toad. You three had better change, you know, I expect we'll be there soon" She was going to leave but I called out to them before it was too late
"Hermione! C-can I help you guys to search for Neville's toad? I have to put on my robes though... will you guys wait for me? I want to help because I know that if I lost Blaze I would feel the same or even worse..."
Blaze?" Asked Neville.
When Blaze heard her name being mentioned, she poked her head out of my pocket, which startled Neville and Hermione. She knew about my pet, but never saw her, I only mentioned her name.
"So this is Blaze, she's adorable!" Said Hermione while her hand approached Blaze to pet her, Blaze received the pet with pleasure, she loved being petted.
Neville was a bit scared, and hesitant about petting her.
"What's that?" He asked with his voice trembling a bit.
"Oh, she's a dwelling fire salamander, she's my pet, don't worry though, she's docile and would never attack someone unless she has to, want to pet her?" I said to Neville.
Neville hesitated a bit, but stretched his arm and started to pet Blaze, and she happily accepted it.
"It feels like my toad, just a bit more dry."
"Well, I'm going to change into my robes, I'll see you guys later, Harry, Ron." I said while waving my hand and exiting the compartment
"See you (Y/n)!" Said Harry.
"Yeah, see you around (Y/n)" Said Ron.
I went to the bathroom and exited a few minutes later, with my robes on.
"I'm ready, let's go"
And so we started to look for Neville's toad.