On the train Closed

Ash Saying

Ash couldn't believe she was there- Platform Nine and Three-Quarters. It was entirely different from the ordinary King's Cross Station. There were a lot of people; it occurred to Ash that they were witches and wizards. There wasn't any difference in the appearance between them and ordinary humans- Muggles, as the letter from Hogwarts said. She felt relieved when she realized no one could call her strange here as her old schoolmates did. Nobody really wanted to be friends with her in the Muggle world because strange things kept happening around her. But who could ever say she's weird or strange when she'd be surrounded by people like her? Perhaps she'd have friends now!
Ash was wearing a black baggy T-shirt with black cargo pants and black sports shoes. She was a short skinny girl and her face kind of looked cold, though she was kind-hearted. She quickly boarded the train with her heavy trolley and her backpack, which contained her sketchbook and a lot of pencils.
She walked forward to find herself a compartment; it was really hard to find one, for most of them were full. Finally, she found a compartment with a girl sitting alone.
"Hi! Can I sit here?" said Ash. But to her disappointment, the girl shook her head and said her friends were going to sit there. Ash just kept walking when she found another compartment. She was about to enter when some boys rushed inside, and now it was full. Ash sighed and walked ahead, this time a little hastily.
At last, she found another compartment with two girls and a boy who were busy talking to each other. "Hi. would you mind if I sit here? I can't find any empty seats..." said Ash, panting, while the three stopped talking and looked up at her. Ash looked back at them, eagerly waiting for a response.

@Andrea Harrison, @Ember Candlelight, @Nick Jackson

Nick's Speaking | Nick's Thinking

Nick was talking with Andrea when a girl came and asked to seat.
"Well, hm, I don't mind, sit down, please. I tried to find a place before you and I couldn't so I understand how difficult is to find place to sit." Nick said. Then he saw her troley. It was so big. Enourmously big! "Wow, what a bag" Nick thought. It's time to say that Nick had just a little bag. Ha had no money to buy more items and didn't have to use a big troley (anyway Jacksons didn't have any troley).
"Well, this girl looks rather strange. Maybe it's normal here in the world? Hm, but she looks rather odd even for a world where wizards and witches exists. Hm, I should be careful with her. Interesting, her parents are wizards or normal people (Nick still didn't know the world "muggle") Well, I should ask her about it, maybe."
"Hey, My name is Nick and what's your one? Are you form a family of wizards? Hm... Om..." Nick didn't know what to say. The girl had some influence on him. He felt unusual. He didn't understand what is it but he... "What's wrong with me? Or what's wrong with her? I feel uncomfortable for sure... Mmmm..."
It was still really beautiful outside the window. There were such a landscapes there. The train was crossing a river. It all looks facinating.

@Andrea Harrison, @Ember Candlelight, @Ash Brown

Ash Saying

"Thank you so much!" said Ash, smiling cheerfully. She sat down next to the girl with headphones around her neck. Ash had noticed that it was only her who had a backpack besides the trolley. She ran out of space in her trolley for her sketchbook and pencils, so she had to bring her backpack along with her. Her sketchbook was the only thing that helped her forget the loneliness she experienced during her time at her old school.
Ash couldn't tell if she appeared strange again, though she wished she didn't. People who didn't know her thought she was strange, but those who were close knew she was funny and nice.
Anyways, those three people seemed cool to Ash. She wondered whether they were from families of witches and wizards or the muggles.
"Hi! I'm Ash Brown," Ash replied to Nick."You can call me Ash. Nice to meet y'all." She glanced outside the window. The landscape was soothing. But the crystal clear sky overhead... it was simply stunning! "Well, I'm from a muggle family. And I really don't know about the wizarding world except that they call ordinary humans muggles here." Said Ash, removing her gaze from the window.
"How about you guys? Do you belong to muggle families or Wizard families? And what's it like to be in a family of wizards? And What are your names?" She said the last sentence as she looked at the two girls. Her curiosity was spreading throughout her body as she eagerly waited for their response.
Ash was feeling excited about everything that was going to happen at Hogwarts. Guess what, she used to dream of magic, now she was actually going to learn it!

@Ember Candlelight, @Andrea Harrison, @Nick Jackson

Calum Speaking, Sakina Speaking,Ozias Speaking

Ozias came in with the masses; he was neither too early nor too late, but that didn't stop his family from dashing in a hurried manner to the train. Regardless, the three of them were thinking about how time would be spent without Ozias at their usual spot in Ireland.

"We're finally here!" Calum, Ozias's father spoke as they walked into the station. His father had a heavy Irish accent

"Are you absolutely sure that you have everything?" His mother, Sakina, asked almost immediately after.

"I am absolutely sure, Mom. We've checked at least a million times." The boy responded, his accent prominent, but not as bold as his father's. He wasn't wrong, though; they have went over Ozias's trunk at least 4 times a day for the last week. "I have my wand," He revealed his wand in hand "and my clothes and supplies are in my trunk."

It took them a few minutes, but they found the correct wall to run through. "Woah, that was scary" Calum said. Seeing as he was a muggle, Sakina understood, but she still couldn't help but to roll her eyes.

The train was much bigger than he could have ever imagined, and his eyes widened in suprised at that fact. He took his trunk with him. Said final goodbyes to his parents, and walked up to the masses. He wasn't necessarily nervous at the fact that he only knew himself; the fact that he was at mental solitary, he just found it annoying at how immense the clump of people was.

After a few minutes, he finally was actually able to give his ticket to the wizard at the door and walk in the train for the first time. The train's interior was also big, but not big enough; even though it was able to fit many other kids and the trunks, Ozias still felt like he was being shoved against the doors of each compartment. And after a few seconds, his hand latched on a door without realizing it and he opened it.

The first thing he noticed was that there were already four other people in the compartment: three girls and a boy.

"It is really crowded out there and this is probably one of the emptiest compartments I'll come across. So can I sit here, please?" He asked, noticing the compartment still had a few spaces, albeit only two left, but he still had to try. After all, he did manage to accidentally open the door.

@Andrea Harrison, @Ember Candlelight, @Ash Brown, @Nick Jackson

"Thanks, so much," Ozias said, relief revealing itself on his face "I'm Ozais, Ozais Tsongé. Nice to meet you."

The boy chose the seat on the other side of Andrea and Ash, next to Nick and Ember. After choosing his seat, he attempted to get his trunk, which was slightly larger than average under his seat. It took a few tries of changing its position back and forth, but he eventually got it.

"Glad that's out of the way." Ozais thought

He was glad to have gotten out of the crowd in the middle aisle of the train; he didn't know how much longer he would've had to go for if they said no. But he was very grateful they said the opposite...

As his activites progresses, he leaned back in his seat, noticing how soft the seats were. He soon realized that the clattering of the wheels against the track served as a soothing background noise, especially when things started to get awkward. After a few minutes he decided to break the ice further.

"Who are you three?" He asked with a tone that showed genuine curiosity "Are you all excited for your first year at Hogwarts? What house do you guys think you're going to get sorted in to?"

@Andrea Harrison, @Ember Candlelight, @Ash Brown, and @Nick Jackson

Ash Saying

Ash was about to say something to Andrea when the compartment door suddenly opened, revealing a boy. He asked if he could sit there with them. And Ash didn't really mind, so she merely nodded with a slight smile as Andrea said 'Sure'. Saying 'thank you', the boy took his seat beside Nick and Ember, facing Ash and Andrea.
He introduced himself as Ozias Tsongé. The name... it for sure sounded cool.
Ozias pushed his trunk which was rather larger than average under the seat. It seemed kinda hard as he did that, but after a few tries, he was successful.
There was a moment of silence as Ash tried to think of something to say, not realizing she had forgotten to introduce herself. How on earth could she forget to tell her name?
It was then that Ozias asked for their names.
"I'm Ash... Ash Brown," said Ash, smiling slightly. "Nice to meet you! And yeah. I'm really excited for my first year." She answered further to his question. "Well... about the house-" She suddenly stopped speaking. House? She didn't know about any houses at Hogwarts. She knew nothing about Hogwarts and the rest of the wizarding world(besides the word muggle).
"Um... I don't know about any houses," she said after a short pause. "My family is of muggles, so I don't know anything. Could you tell me about them?"

@Andrea Harrison, @Ember Candlelight, @Nick Jackson, @Ozias Tsongé

Nick's Speaking | Nick's Thinking

The odd girl name was Ash. And Nick thought that the name was as strange as the girl was. "Muggles are normal people. I should remember it as this word can be rather useful" Nick thought. He looked at the window and saw another breathtaking landscape. On the right Nick saw yellow fields. Their color was a color of gold. Then there were a river. It was rather wide and quick. But it was amazing! It's water was crystally clean. It looked like if Nick had a binocular he could see fish inside. And in the left there were mountains. They were extremelly high and grey. They looked threatening and fascinating in the same time. The train was going to Scotland. Mike (Nick's father) was from Scotland but Nick had never been to there. He wanted but he couldn't. And now he had a chance to enjoy looking at one of the most beautiful landscapes in the world. Nick didn't know where does Hogwarts located, and it was shocking for him that it was located in Scotland which he had always dreamed to visit. It all was wonderful for Nick (in all the senses of the word "wonderful").

Meanwhile girls introduced themselves and were talking about muggles. Nick realised that they both are from muggles families and it made Nick a little bit more confident. Suddenly, a boy entered their compartment. He asked to sit down and soon was on one of the sits. He introduced himself as "Ozias" and a surname with a complex pronounciation. Nick didn't remember it. "Well, he has a complex name and an ENORMOUS trunk." Nick thought "Yeah, I definitely forgot to buy something. What will I do?! I even has no money to buy items... That's a problem". Nick spent all his money buying food in the train.

Ozias started a dialog. He asked about Houses. Nick didn't understand him correctly. Ash didn't understand it, too. Nick decided to take part in the dialog and said "Hi, my name is Nick. And.. Yeah, what about Houses? What is it? And yes, of course I excited by all this magic, especially of the landscapes. Just look at it and you never won't forget them... Yeah, as a son of normal peopl... Hm, sorry, muggelms, or how to pronounce correctly, I'm fascinated by all this magic. Actually I still can't believe I'm a wizard..." During his speech Nick got confused when he said "normal people"... But it was just the first day for him in the wizarding world, so he still didn't realised that he's part of it.

@Andrea Harrison, @Ember Candlelight, @Ash Brown, @Ozias Tongé

A few minutes later, and here he was still admiring the comfiness of the seat.

These seats are amazing! He thought.

It was that moment that he noticed the absolutely beautiful view outside of the window. There stood a large yellow of who knew what, but the real thing that he was capivated by was the river beyond it that held the reflection of what seemed like wheat, or some other grain. The river, although impotently, reminded Ozias of the days worth of time he had spent swimming in the lake by their house back in Ireland. It reminded him of the games the three of them played in the water; it brought a glimpse of nostalgia upon him. Though, the river also reminded of time he almost, quite literally, drowned; his first discernment of magic (check profile for more detail).

Nick and Ash's voices broke Ozias off from his nostalgia. They both introduced themselves.

"Nice to meet you, Nick and Ash!" He smiled.

He waited for them both to finish speaking. Then he realized something:

They must be muggleborn if they didn't know anything whatsoever, about Hogwart's houses. And, quite frankly, he forgot any other combination of wizard and witches then half-blood for a few minutes.

How inconsiderate He thought. But he quickly got over it.

"The houses..." As he spoke, he realized he didn't know much about them as he thought. "...are a group of four communities within the school. They are Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff and Slytherin, and are based on Red, Blue, Yellow, and Green. They are also based on certain characterists. But I can't remember any of them. I've only heard a few rumors from my mother, but she went to Uagadou. Which is the main wizarding academy in Africa, so don't take anything I say too seriously. But, I remember her telling me that I belong in a Hufflepuff."

@Andrea Harrison, @Ember Candlelight, @Ash Brown, @Nick Jackson