Harry Potter: Raised By Roses

Chapter Twenty: Is That A Car?

"It's completely solid," Krinos says, knocking on the pillar.

"I feel like I need to make a joke about 'a rock and a hard place," Harry commented.

"You just did," Olivia told him.

Melody looked at the nearest clock. It said 10:50. There were still ten minutes before the train was due to leave. So this wasn't the barrier closing on its own after everything's been taken care of.

"It's definitely not a natural seal," Melody says. "It's not past eleven yet."

"No need to worry," Olivia told them. "A simple little snap of my fingers and the gateway will reverse in time to when it wasn't sealed."

And she did just that. She snapped her fingers, a little spark flashing, and then walked right through the barrier.

"I love her powers," Krinos chuckled.

The trio were the next through the barrier. Olivia gave them all hugs.

"As much as I admire you three for basically studying almost non-stop for you to take midterms and finals for Crystal Rose, try to be twelve-year-olds for a while," Olivia suggested. "Do not make me travel to the future and see you all regretting the amount of studying you did."

"We'll try, Liv," Melody giggled. "But remember that I am both a member of Mermaid house at Crystal Rose and Ravenclaw at Hogwarts. Learning is who I am."

"I can definitely say with full confidence that Oliver will probably keep me quite busy with Quidditch," Harry snickered. "So you only have to worry about me if my, oh so gentle, captain goes nuts with the training."

"You can channel the flying ability of a bird, so you are a natural in the air," Krinos reminded. "And four years older or not, Wood will have to answer to me and Melody if he tries to push you too far."

"He better watch out," Olivia failed to keep a straight face.

Giving her cousins one last hug each, she let them get on the Hogwarts Express. As she left, a few redheads past her but she paid them no mind. She had a minister to yell at over the stunt he pulled a few months ago. She was really going to enjoy showing him his place far below the Greek magical government.

"Bet you guys five drachmae that she's off to yell at Fudge," Harry said to his siblings as they watched their cousin leave from their compartment.

"That's a fool's bet and you know it," Melody responded. "Besides, I can not stand gambling. It's an idiot's form of entertainment."

"Someone mention entertainment," Fred and George say, showing up in the doorway.

If not used to invisibility and teleportation mystic souls popping out of nowhere every other minute back home, the trio would probably have jumped out of their skins.

"Do you two have some sort alarm spell that alerts you two when certain words or phrases are spoken," Melody raised an eyebrow.

"If we did," Fred started.

"We wouldn't admit it," George finished with a smirk.

The two fourth years came in and sat on either side of Harry.

"So, where's Lee," Krinos asked.

"Probably flirting with," Fred started.

"Katie, Angie, or Alicia," George finished.

"We'll prepare to get some ice for his face," Melody smirked. "For the slap that he will most likely be getting from, at least, one of them."