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━ ATHENA AND HARRY FOUND AN EMPTY COMPARTMENT, JUST IN TIME FOR THE TRAIN TO SIGNAL ITS LEAVE. They both looked out the window and waved at their family goodbye. Knowing the two families, the greet farewell had been dramatic, multiple tears with armings reaching out for each other, extended waves, etc.
"Are you nervous, Har?" Athena asked the messy-haired boy, as she and Harry sat down, calming themselves.
"Yeah.. But we've got each other so we should be fine." He sent her a small smile, Athena returning the gesture.
Harry and Athena had always been like siblings ever since she moved in with Sirius. They would always hang out with each other; watch television at the Tower, or sneak into the pantry and take food. While Athena would be at training or have tutor lessons, Harry would be chilling at home or playing quidditch with his dad, sometimes inviting Neville over. But when Athena returns, Sirius would take her to James' house so that Harry and Athena could play. Sirius decided to find a house near James' so that they wouldn't have to travel far. They could just floo or apparate but Sirius didn't feel safe for Athena to apparate with him and they didn't want to waste the floo powder as they use it to go to the Tower as well.
A knock interrupted the children's chatter and the door had slid open. "Excuse me, do you mind if I join?" A redhead boy had spoken. "Everywhere else is full."
"Not at all," Harry replied with a smile, gesturing for the boy to sit next to him. Athena gave him a bright smile as the redhead sent a similar one in return.
"I'm Ron by the way, Ron Weasley." He greeted, looking at both her and Harry.
"Athena, Athena Black." She introduced herself.
"Harry, Harry Potter," The bespectacled boy spoke. Ron's face then dropped in shock, realising who the boy beside him was. The two Potters, specifically Harry, had become to be well-known in the Wizarding World, as they had both survived an attack of the Dark Lord, banishing him in the process.
"Is it true you have the- you know..." Ron asked, an emotion of shock flowing in his tone.
"The what?" Harry grew confused, not entirely figuring out what he was hinting at.
"The scar." Ron whispered, pointing towards his forehead. Athena snorted at his reply as Harry had shown him his scar. Ron's eyes widened in fascination. "Wicked."
As Athena was about to say something, another voice had interrupted, followed by the sounds of a trolley passing by.
"Anything from the trolley dears?" The trolley lady asked. Athena shook her head, kindly declining. Ron brought out a lump of bread wrapped in plastic, saying he was all set. Harry must've felt bad for the boy as he pulled out a few gold coins that James had given him.
"We'll take the lot!"
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"I can't believe you Harry. You were given a few gold coins to spend on a few lollies but instead, you buy the whole lot." Athena jokes, snickering as Harry rolled his eyes.
"Oh shut up 'thena. You're just jealous 'cause Sirius didn't give you any." Harry had retorted in return, popping a jelly bean in his mouth.
"Actually, he did. I just didn't want to use it because I had already eaten a few at home." She smirked in return. Harry's eyes morphed into small slits as he continued to eat the jelly beans. Though this soon stopped, as he got the dog food flavour.
He then changed his course of sweets, as he brought out a chocolate frog box and opened it. As he opened it up, the frog had jumped out of the box. But before it could jump anywhere else, Athena's fast reflexes came in and caught the frog, just as it was about to go out the window.
"This is why James doesn't buy you chocolate frogs." Athena started eating the chocolate. "Anyways, who'd you get."
Harry scanned the card first, before face morphing into a bored one. "Dumbledore again." Dumbledore was a really common person in the pack so it wasn't a surprise for her.
"Who's that?" The bespectacled boy asked, pointing over to the ran eating Ron's jelly beans.
"This is Scabbers. Pathetic, isn't he?" Ron had referred to the rat rummaging in the box of jelly beans. Athena felt a sudden urge to vomit. She didn't like rats, but this particular rat made her hatred towards rats even bigger.
"Just a little," Harry replied. Athena snorted quietly, knowing that Harry was slightly uncomfortable with the rat.
"Fred gave me spell that can turn him into yellow, want to see?" Athena nodded her head slightly, not knowing what to say but Harry seemed excited as he nodded his head and an excited look appeared on his face. Ron brought out his wand and just as he was about to pronounce the spell, a bushy-haired girl had stopped at the doorway.
"Has anyone seen a toad? A boy named Neville's lost one." She spoke. Athena's eyes lit up slightly at the name as he was one of Harry and Athena's closest friends. James and Sirius would sometimes bring their children to their friend's house, Alice and Frank Longbottom. Even though the two weren't around, they would still visit from time to time just so that Neville wasn't lonely.
The three children had grown a close bond, but Harry and Neville were closer as Athena would be at the tower, but Neville didn't know that. "Of course he did. I swear he really needs to keep an eye out for that frog." Athena murmured and Harry just laughed with his head nodding.
"Oh, are you doing magic? Let's see it then." She said, her tone being a bit cocky.
Ron cleared his throat. "Sunshine, daisies, butter mellow..." Ron started. "Turn this stupid fat rat yellow!"
Line shone at the head of the rat, which shocked it as the box was suddenly off its head. The rat was still brown. Ron looked at Harry and Athena, shrugging as Harry had shrugged as well.
"Are you sure that's a real spell? Well, it's not very good is it?" The girl commented as Athena rolled her eyes. Of course, she had looked out the window so this had gone unnoticed. Ron looked over to Harry with an is-this-girl-for-real look, to which Harry just shrugged, being polite.
"Of course, I've only tried a few spells myself, but they've all worked for me." She entered the small area and took a spot next to Athena. "Excuse me," She asked Athena to move so that she was now in front of Harry. "For example, Occulus Reparo!" She pronounced. The tape on the middle of Harry's glasses had disappeared and his glasses were now fixed.
"How many times have you broken your glasses this year Harry! I swear this is at least the fifth time." Athena didn't like being the responsible one between her and Harry. Normally when it comes to acting responsibly, it's Athena who's being scolded, but when it's about being responsible towards items or belongings, it's Harry who's being scolded.
"Wait Harry-?" The bushy haired girl frowed a brow, before realising who the brown haired boy was. "Holy Crickets! You're Harry Potter! I'm Hermione Granger," She looked over to Athena, giving her a curious look, indicating she wants to know who she was.
"Um, Athena Black." Athena gave her a warm smile and Hermione had given her bright one in return. So maybe she wasn't as bad as she thought...
"And, you are?" She turned her head over to the red-head boy who was stuffing his mouth with more candy.
"Erm, Ron Weasley." He blurred out, talking with his mouth full.
"Pleasure." Hermione had made a slightly irked face, but Athena doubted Ron noticed as he looked down to pick another gummy snake.
"Anyways I suggest that you change into your robes." The bushy-haired girl stood up, "I suspect we'll be arriving soon." She made her way to the door and walk away until she stopped just as she got through the door. "You've got dirt on your nose by the way, did you know?" She looked at Ron, pointing towards the side of her nose bridge. "Just there." Then she left
As she was gone, The dark brown-haired girl looked towards her friends. "She seems nice."
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a/n!
━ editing this gives me icks wtf
what was young me thinking oml
━edited -siriuslycv 2022©
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