A NEW SURPRISE

Writer: tieuthunhoc
Sa: 5+
Warning: non

Chapter 1: On the platform 9 3/4

The fall has come lazily with some breezes playing with hair and clothes of passers-by. The little family crossed the crowded station heading to the barrier between platforms nine and ten. Harry and Ginny were pushing two trolleys on top of these sat two large cages. The owls inside them hooted indignantly drawing questioning looks of commuters on the station. A black-headed boy was chattering enthusiastically about something, while his younger brother seemed to swallow every word with a bright face. A little girl behind them burst into tears.
“ What’s wrong, Lily?” said Harry anxiously.
“ I want to go to school” sobbed Lily. Harry smiled at her and said:
“ It won’t be long. Two years and you’ll be going too”.
“ I want to go now”. Tears full of her green eyes. The five Potters reached the barrier. James and Albus took their trolleys from their parents and leaned against the brick wall. A moment later, they vanished. Ginny took Lily’s hand and they followed the boys walking through the barrier with Harry behind them.
Platform 9 ¾ was as crowded as the station. Groups of people gathered near a scarlet locomotive. Some students stuck their heads out of windows talking with their friends or families. Cats purred, toads croaked and owls hooted adding to voices of people noisily. Lots of eleven year-old boys and girls, as well as Albus, looked around nervously.
The Potters passed a blond-headed boy whose face was especially pale on the way down the platform.
They reached a coach. Harry helped to lift two trunks onto the train then turning round to face his family. James had run to look for his friends. Albus was eyeing around and then he asked Harry:
“ Have they come yet?”
“ They’ll be here soon. Why don’t you go and look for an empty compartment while we wait here?” said Harry. As Albus went on the train, he walked towards where Ginny and Lily standing. Lily kept sniffling. Harry crouched down and placed a hand on her cheek:
“ C’mon….”. At that time, he heard a familiar voice echoing over the crowd.
“ Harry, Ginny.”
He turned round to see Ron, Hermione, Rose and Hugo. The fours were walking towards them, beaming.
“ Everything’s ok, mate?” said Ron patting Harry on the back. “ Where are the boys?”
“ On the train,” said Harry. “ What makes you late?”
“ I nearly crashed into a mailbox when I had dodged to avoid crashing an old man” said Ron. He smiled full of guilty while Harry laughed. “Then we had a trouble with a polix and came late.” He glanced at Hermione. She and Ginny were both talking cheerfully. Lily and Hugo were running around their legs. “ I haven’t passed the Muggle driven test yet. Wish you could see, she almost tore me in two.” said Ron shaking his head while Harry laughed even louder.
They saw Rose ran towards them then she seized Ron’s sleeve pulling him to the train:
“ Daddy, come and help me with my trunk.”
Harry stood there watching Lily and Hugo with a gentle smile on his face. Suddenly, he felt someone dashed against his back. He swung round to see a boy with blond hair and a pale face looking up at him with horror. The boy looked like he was to faint. He stuttered:
“ I’m……I’m….sor..sorry, Sir.” Harry held out a hand to help the boy up and smiled at him:
“ It’s ok. Just watch carefu………” Harry stopped mid-sentence staring at him, mouth-opened. The boy glanced at Harry then broke into a run. Harry turned round to find the boy though he was out of sight. Ginny, Hermione, Lily, Hugo and Ron joined him a few seconds later. Ginny looked at Harry’s surprising face:
“ Is something wrong, dear?”
“ Oh, no….nothing. Just a boy….but he couldn’t be….” said Harry still eyeing the crowd of students near the train. Ginny, Ron and Hermione looked at another wondering.

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