Taking On The Magical World

"That is more than fine with me, dear." The trolley lady says to Lee with a sweet smile on her face as she carefully takes out what he asked for the trolley.

The trolley lady hands Lee the sweets he ordered then he quickly hands the money after that the trolley lady says her goodbyes and closes our compartment door as she leaves.

After a while, Fred spoke up, "how on earth did she do that, Lee just wished for the trolley to come along, puff, she was here, at our compartment."

Lee nods his head and says, "I know, right, what kind of dark magic was that?"

George shakes his along to what his Fred and Lee say and speaks up in a whisper after they say their piece, "I cannot believe we were thinking about sneaking off the train, one day."

Lee face contorted as he heard what George said and shouted, "What!" but he immediately caught himself, I think he thought that the trolley lady might hear him if he spoke very loud so this time when he spoke it was in a whisper, "are you guys crazy, you wanted to sneak off the train?"

Fred smiles at Lee, "don"t worry, we now know how scary that trolley lady is so there is no way we will try to cross her."

Lee looks relieved after he got that confirmation from Fred, "Good, that granny looks very dangerous, she must be some powerful witch."

"Yeah that makes sense, n.o.body at Hogwarts is average except maybe Filch, I think that he might be a squib." Said, George.

Fred looks at me, "Why are you laughing Caelum?" He is right, I was trying really hard to hold it in so that I could continue to listen to them spew ridiculous ideas, but they are all facing me with questioning looks, now that they noticed me I let it out and continue to laugh until some tears fall down my face and my stomach starts to hurt.

"Okay, okay I am done laughing now," I said to them as I wipe away the tears that build up on the corners of my pair of eyes, I look at them and see that they do not look so happy, so I figure I owe them an explanation.

"What? you guys sound like some frightened muggles, "she must have done some serious dark magic" come on are all of you guys serious, if you want an honest opinion, then she must have set up some wards already in the compartment to catch certain keywords so that she could come as soon as possible if anyone needs anything."

"What, but how? isn"t setting up wards very hard, I thought that only a powerful wizard or a group of wizards could set it up," said Fred.

"Professor Dumbledore must have done it, he is always doing some crazy stuff, this fits the bill anyway so why not." I look at the twins then add, "or he might have set it up to help the trolley lady keep track of people who want to get off the Hogwarts Express."

"Yeah that makes sense, anyways we were not the ones that said, "she must have done dark magic" it was Lee who said that did you see him, he nearly jumped off his seat when the trolley lady came," said George.

Lee snorts, "Did you guys see yourselves, you were deathly pale and sweating buckets, so you were not any better than me."

I shake my head at them as see they continue to argue with each other, wanting not to get into their pointless argument I sneakily dig into the snacks that Lee careless placed all over the compartment and get back to my book.

But under my breath, I say "that is why knowledge is important."

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The four of us rush off the Hogwarts Express with nothing on our hands (house elves take your stuff to your room at Hogwarts) as soon as the train stopped at the station. Hagrid was there but this time he was not here to lead the first years but everyone to the carriages that are driven by the Thestrals. It seems like I can see them, must be because I died I guess.

I looked at the Thestrals that are tethered to the carriage, they look like boney reptile horses with wings but what catches my attention is their pupilless eyes, it is ghostly milk white all around.

I turn away from the Thestrals and get into the carriage with the twins and Lee so I do not have to draw attention to myself.

As I get into the carriage Fred looks at me and asks, "Why were you staring at the carriage for a while there?"

"Oh, I was just wondering what makes these carriages move, I am sure as h.e.l.l it isn"t an animated carriage since that would take a lot of magic to do, even for Professor Dumbledore."

"You always pay attention to things that do not matter," said Fred and George carried on for him, "look at us, all we care about is digging into that delicious return feast."

I look at them and the contempt is clearly evident on my face, "is your stomach the only things you guys can think of, for all you deny that Ron is related to you guys, you are clearly very similar."

Fred and George each put their hands on their hearts and put on fake shocked faces. "How could you compare us to our adopted brother?"

Ever since I have known the twins they put on a facade that they have nothing to do with Ron.

"Fine, that is an unfair comparison but you are getting very close," I said.

Lee looks at us and speaks up, "we are here so stop arguing and let"s get off the carriage, the feast awaits us."