The Weasley Girl Story

The Weasley Triplets

"– make sure none of you drop anything –"

Harry turned around to see a plump, red-haired woman talking to six children, five boys and a girl, and all of them with the same flaming red hair.

Each of them was pushing a trunk like Harry's — and (Harry's heart almost skipped a beat when he saw this) on one of the carts, in a cage much like Hedwig's, an owl was sitting on its perch and looking out at its surroundings.

The mother — she had to be their mother — was chatting away, and so none of them seemed to notice when Harry, heart hammering, pushed his cart after them, making sure to stay just close enough that he'd hear what they were saying.

"Now, what's the platform number?" said the mother.

Before any of the boys could answer, the girl beat them, "Nine-and-three-quarters, Mum," she said.

"It's always been nine-and-three-quarters. It hasn't changed just because we're going this year. It was nine-and-three-quarters last year, and the year before, and it was nine-and-three-quarters the year before that, and the year before that —"

"Congratulations, dear sister, you pass the memory test," said one of the boys.

"Percy," said the mother, interrupting them in order to address the tallest boy (a rather pompous-looking teenager wearing horn-rimmed glasses). "You go first."

Percy, who hadn't said anything so far, nodded and marched towards platforms nine and ten.

Harry watched him carefully, but as bad luck would have it, just as the boy reached the barrier between the two platforms a large crowd of tourists walked past, obscuring Harry's view.

It only took ten seconds or so for them to pass, but it was enough that when they'd passed, the boy had vanished.

"Fred, you next after that you –," said the woman, completely undisturbed by the fact that one of her sons had vanished and pointing her finger to  the boy – Fred's twin, "– George, go after that."

Fred took his cart and pushed off towards the platform barrier.

This time Harry was determined to keep his eyes peeled to see where he went, but... all of a sudden, the boy was just gone, just like his brother, and Harry couldn't tell where he'd gone off to at all.

Now the third brother took his cart and went off in the same direction — and then he, too, was nowhere to be seen.

Harry gathered up his courage and stepped closer to the plump woman.

"Er, excuse me," he said.

She turned around and gave him a warm smile.

"Hello, dear," she said.

"First time at Hogwarts, is it? It's our triplets first time as well. This two boys is Gabby and Gid, and this girl here is Ronnie." She motioned to her two son and her daughter, which one of boys is a bit taller than the other and the other seems to be the same height as their sister, who was almost half a head taller than Harry but just as skinny and which combined with her long hair and mass of freckles make her look gorgeous and older – somehow.

"Yes," said Harry, feeling both relieved that it seemed he wouldn't have to explain himself, and surprised that the tall girl was no older than him.

"The thing is — the thing is, I don't know how to—"

"How to get onto the platform?" she said kindly.

"Yes," He nod.

"You don't have to worry. All you have to do is walk straight at the barrier between platforms nine and ten. Don't stop, and don't be scared you'll crash into it, that's very important. Best do it at a bit of a run if you're nervous. Go on, go now before Gabby."