Ricky was back on the track.
He yelled at every carriage to stop, but they would'nt, until a carriage with only two students came to a halt.
"What do you want?" Amberlynn Goyle and Scorpius Malfoy asked in unison.
"Oh...."
Ricky was in the slytherins carriage, and almost right in front of Hogwarts.
"C'mere." mberlynn said to Ricky "I've got a surprise.
Not really wanting to know what the surprise was, Ricky jumped out th ewindow and ran towards the castle... he was almost there!

Hailey peered out the window of their crowded carriage, and felt herself fill with excitement. She could see the highest points of the castle. Soon she would be back at school, and have no parents to scold her for playing tricks on people. Soon she would be seated in the familiar great hall, surrounded by her fellow Gryffindor classmates. She would soon feast on the food that was so perfectly made by the House Elves in the school kitchen, and she would once again see fresh young students be sorted into one of the four houses. She loved this school, and couldn't wait to be free from her summer sharade. Hailey would no longer have to pretend she was a muggle to fit in with the society her parents had chose to live in. She could truly be herself at Hogwarts. She could be the witch she was, without having to worry about exposing herself or her family.

The only downside Hailey could see, was that she would have homework, and classes to attend to, and unfortunatly for her, this year Gryffindor had most of their classes with Slytherin.

Dan seemed to be in an awfully bad mood. It had something to do with Ricky but she wasn't exactly sure what. They had been fighting on the train all day. She hoped they'd make up soon cause it was making everyone else stressed too. Hopefully after the feast they'd be friends again.

They'd almost reached the castle at this point and she was getting really excited now but also a little nervous. She LOVED school but she got nervous around other people so she didn't have many friends other then her group of friends she had now.

Emma could see the front doors of Hogwarts!! They were nearly there now!! Emma couldn't wait to step into the castle and look around at the Great Hall again!!

The flying thestral broke free of its harness, and the other one crashed painfully into a tree.
Ricky moaned and hoped out of the carriage, making a mental note to tell Charlie and Luna about that.

Ricky's carriage suddenly jerked. He peered out of the front window and saw that one of the thestrals was trying to fly.
His carriage made its way off of the track and into the patch of thick trees to its right.
One of the Ravenclaws said, "I told you something bad would happen if we sat with Ricky!"

Dan was rather angry.
He snapped at anyone who attempted to talk to him, and yelled at anyone who tried to find out what was wrong.
As his carriage made its way up the large hill, he said something.
"We're finally almost here." Then he was silent again.

Ricky's carriage made it's way up a large hill. He sat up higher in his seat so as to see over the hill before anyone else.
"There it is!" Ricky exclaimed.
The Ravenclaws in his carriage stared at him, a few giggled.
Ricky felt his face go red.

<<OK so once they get to the castle I say we start another folder thingy!! HOW DO YOU GUYS LIKE OUR STORY SO FAR!! MP what do you think about us making another folder thingy??>>

Emma was looking all around her. Hogsmeade station looked different then she remembered but she was really nervous the last time she was here so she hadn't spent much time looking around!! She took a deep breath of the crisp September air. She sighed contently!! The others didn't know how much she really liked being here. She loved school!! Her parents had always said she was bright but she thought she got good grades because she paid attention in her classes!!

She followed behind her friends who were just wanting to get into the carriages!! No one took there time these days!! She had always loved to take her time with things, most of the time!! Sometimes she did homework and her chores quickly but she liked having nothing to do so that was just her way of getting things done!!

She got into one of the many carriages with her friends. They seemed to pull themselves! The rumor was that they were pulled by ugly, winged horses but only people who had seen death could see them! Emma almost wished she could have seen someone die just too be able to see them! She thought they'd be magnificent creatures. She could sense them when she was by the carriages!! They had to be proud animals!!

The carriages started to move when she noticed Ricky wasn't with them!! "Where's Ricky" she asked her friends. "No idea" David said truthfully. Dan had a wierd look on his face. He must know Emma thought to herself. But she didn't ask Dan where Ricky was. He looked a little touchy!!

A few other Ravenclaw students clambered into Ricky carriage. And the horse-things took off.
Ricky looked out the back window and saw Dan's curious face watching him drive away.

Ricky rushed off the train, and heard arguing.
"Let me say it!" a wheezy voice said.
"No one will hear you." Responded a dreamy voice.
"First year- cough cough."
"Hagid... Charlie take him back. I'll deal with this."
Ricky hurried over to a carriage that was pulled by the dead like horse things. Hagrid had told him about them. Only when you see someone die would you be able to see one, only... Ricky didn't remember who he saw dying.

Cliff, Hailey, Dan, Juniper, Zynea, Emma, and David all exited their compartment and headed to the door.

"We're here!" Hailey exclaimed. She had been unusually quiet the entire train ride. She had been silently thinking up pranks to play on all those who had been annoying last year... Everyone else wanted to play pranks, but she worked alone.

Ricky made his way back to the compartment, and with only about five minutes left of the ride he had to get his things ready.
All the way back he thought about how much he enjoyed being alone. Most of his friends thought that they could boss him around just because he was little. Ricky sighed when he reached the door.
He slid open the compartment and peered inside.
"There you are!" Dan exclaimed. "I've gone the whole summer without you and now you keep disapearing! Get me a drink!"
Ricky's jaw dropped.
He reached as high as he could to get his luggage off the shelves... The he stood on the seat and reached up... "Cliff! get my things..."
Ricky stomped angrily from the compartment, and headed towards exit, and the train slowed down. Ricky peered out of a window and saw Hogsmeade come closer.

"So now that it's quiet and less crowded in here", Emma said to Juniper, Zynea, Hailey, and Dan, "We should probably get our things together!!" Emma relized that there wasn't much point in the guys leaving... but oh well she thought to herself. She got up and went over to the other compartment to get her things. Zynea, Hailey and Juniper followed so they could get their things too. Emma opened the door without even knocking. (Emma was usually polite and shy but she was always a little restless and hyper on the train ride to school so she wasn't really thinking straight!!)

The boys looked up and sighed as they saw they were all in the same compartment again. "I told you that its too crowded with all of us in the same compartment!!" David said angrily to the girls.
"We're just getting our things!!" Emma said testing David's patience. He didn't look pleased. "Why don't you guys just go over to your compartment and gather your things up too?" Emma said to the boys, "Dan already over there packing up his things. Besides the trains going to arrive at Hogsmeade Station soon!" The boys got up lazily and went back to their compartment. "Boys" Emma said with a sigh, "They're sooo annoying sometimes!!" The rest of them nodded in agreement.

<<OK Emmas starting to sound like the leader of the girls and David OR Cliff for the boys!! David can be leader of the boys if you guys want but I was kinda thinking either Juniper or Hailey would be the leader of the girls!! Emma's usually shy so Leader doesn't really fit her. WRITE MORE OFTEN IF YOU CAN......PLEASE!!!!!!>>

Lilly Potter was walking down the train's aisle looking for her youngest brother Albus. Even though he was in 4th year and she was only in 2nd she still liked to hang out with him. They all hung out together! (All being Hugo, Lilly, Albus and Rose!) Lilly's oldest brother James was in 6th year so he didn't really hang around them much.

She needed to find Albus!! There was only about 9 minutes left until the train arrived at Hogwarts and she wanted to be with Albus!! (Even though, like I said before, Lilly is in 2nd year she still feels uncomfortable at school so she relys on her brothers for guidance.)

She found him in a compartment with Hugo and Rose near the front of the train. "Why are you all the way up here?" she asked them almost in tears, "I couldn't find you. I don't want to be by myself when the train arrives at school." She started to cry a little but Albus got up and pulled her into a seat beside him trying to comfort her. Hugo and Rose looked a little uncomfortable so Albus just patted Lilly's back with out saying anything.

<<Ok so the trains almost at Hogwarts. Took us LONG enough!! Um whats going on with Albus and the others?? I'm a little lost. I hope I didn't make Lilly too babyish, or Albus too caring or the others too....something!! I don't know. Just tell me what you think about them!!>>

Albus Potter walked out into the hall as the "trolly" lady was passing.
"I'll take a licorisch wand and two pumpkin pasties. You want anything?" He asked his family who was in his compartment. "Okay one bag of Berty Botts Every Flavoured beans, about ten chocolate frogs and a ... cat?"
Rodney was sliding under his feet and into the compartment. Just behind him was a second year boy who looked as though he wanted the cat.
"fifteen galleons, four sickles, and a knut please." The lady asked.
"here" Albus said stuffing the money into the lady's hand. The lady was in fact Penelope Clearwater, but he liked to pretend he didn't know her.
"Thanks Potter." said Penelope and she walked away.
"Excuse me... have you seen a cat?" Ricky asked.
"yeah come on." said Albus.
"M - merlins beard... you're Albus... Did you know you're dad is -"
"Yes my father is Harry Potter, here's your cat. Now scram."
"Albus..." Hugo said.
"I'm sick of people recognizing me by my dad."
"W - well I did realize it was you b -before I realized who you're dad was..."
"true," Hugo said.
"Look I'm sorry," Albus said.
"It is quite alright. I heard that you're dad was a lot like that when he was your age."
"Ha ha ha. Here's you're cat" Hugo laughed while handing Rodney over to Ricky.
"B - bye," Ricky studdered.
"See ya," Albus said.
As the compartment door closed Ricky heard one of the girls say "ten minutes left."

Ricky saw Professor Arberstrong coming down the hall, and slip into a compartment. While he was in the compartment, Ricky slipped past.

Ricky raced out of the compartment.

Amberlynn walked into the compartment.
"Don't you have friends or something to do other than talk to us?" Ricky whined.
"Say that one more time!" Amberlynn growled.
"I SAID 'Don't youhave friend-'" Ricky started, but Cliff jumped on him and covered his mouth.
"That's what I thought you freak." Amberlynn said. "I've decided that I won't tell you."
"Tell Us what?" Ricky asked.
"Okay if you insist, Mr Arberstrong is coming to look for you." She said leaving the compartment. Just before she closed the door Rodney slipped out of the compartment.
"Oh no, not again. Does he have to do that every year."

"Ricky we know what Harry did." Cliff said annoyed.

"Come on Cliff," Ricky said, so Cliff and Ricky followed David out of the room. Rodney ran behind Ricky and Cliff carried Artimus who was squaking excitedly.
When the three boys sat in the other compartment Ricky said, "Did you know this is the exact seat that Harry Potter - the destroyer of the diary horcrux, and Voldemort- sat in?"

"Sorry" David said when everyone gave him a stop-whining look, "I just want the train ride to be fun and relaxing. School's ok but I love hanging out with you guys, my friends!!"

"Yeah. But we all want to be included in these schemes!!" Emma said stubbornly, "So i'm not leaving" She stood straight and stamped her foot. She meant business.

"Besides" David said, "We only have about half an hour of the train ride to go!! So lets do something ALREADY!!" He stood up at this with his fists clenched and his teeth gritted. He was getting quite irritated and everyone knew this, so they didn't push the matter any further.

"Well it's too crowded!!", David said sulkily, "Whoever is making plans to trick people, Stay Here!! Whoever isn't can go to the other compartment!!" No one moved. "Come on", David said in a whiny voice, "All of us can't be making plans to trick people. This is so stupid."

"And?" Juniper replied. "We need to plan," she said with an evil laugh. Then she laughed a happy laugh.

Just then Juniper decided to go get Hailey so they could strategize some evil scemes together. She went across the hall to get Hailey but she came back with Emma and Zynea also!! "What are all of you doing over here??" David asked with a twinge of annoyance in his voice, "It's too crowded in here!!"

"Oh really, well I'm sure he'd love to know..." Amber replied.

Juniper relpied.
"We're deciding how to prank Malfoy."

the compartment door to the boys room slid open. Amberlynn stuck her head in and said "what are you losers doing?"

"You should bring Hailey over here than cause she'd love to prank Malfoy!!!" David said excitedly, "So would I though!!" He laughed hysterically.

((that's fine))
"Same thing. But I'd rather talk about... what jokes to play on Professor malfoy." She said with a sly grin.

"Just about our summers" David said with a smile on his face. "What are you girls talking about?" Juniper noticed Ricky holding a jelly eel and looking sulky. She just shook her head. She didn't want to know! <<Sorry MP just wanted your character to notice Ricky. Bye g2g. I'll be on at 5 o'clock tommorow. See yas!!>>

Junper got up.
"I'm going to go see what the uys are talking about." Juniper was always one to hang out with the guys and run around and play pranks, even as much as she loved fashion.
"Hey guys, what are you people talking about?" she said, slinding open the door and leaning against it.

"Yeah my mom's alittle crazy too but thats just her so anyway my summer was kinda boring but it always is cause thers no one to play tricks on. He smiled evilly. Ricky jumped up from his seat and grabbed a jelly eel ((Is that something in the wizarding world))"Very funny Dave" Ricky said sarcastically. "You always play jokes on me." David just shrugged while trying not to laugh.

Emma answered her own question!! "Well I went to Ireland to visit my Uncle Henry and then I went to my aunts farm in Oxford and rode some of her horses and stayed there for a week!! It was an amazing summer!! But im glad to be back at school!! I LOVE it here!! No muggles!! I have to spend all my time with them at home AND I get to use magic!! So YEAH!! Emma laughed happily.

"Alright, but I think my mum snapped, I swear she's fully crazy now." Dan answered.

"So how were your summers?" Ricky asked Cliff, David ,and Dan.

Zynea replied next.
"It was fun. I found a pathway in the woods where I can fly my broom."

Juniper replied first.
"Mine was fantastic! My parents took me to France, and we went shopping! Oh my god, the clothes are SO amazing. That's where I got this headband," she said as she showed them a black headband with bright polka dots.

"So how were your summers?" Emma asked Hailey, Zynea, and Juniper(who had just got back from the changing rooms.)

Juniper realized she wasn't in her school robes either. She never really liked the robes. They were plain and black, though she often got in trouble for wearing colorful bangles and bright headbands. She walked ruefully to the changing rooms where she added her signature flair. What, she thought, is the point o being a wizard if I can't look good?

Just then Dan, Cliff, and Ricky came into there compartment. "Here you are," Cliff said, "Professor Potter and Longbottom let us go early. There really nice!!" Ricky snickered. Cliff gave him a you-better-stop-or-i'm-going-to-pound-you look. Ricky stopped laughing. "Ok so everyone's here?" Hailey asked. Everyone nodded. "OK, so I guess we could use this compartment and the empty one across the hall, cause there's no way we're all going to fit in this compartment!!" Hailey stated happily. They all agreed and decided to use one as the girls compartment and one as the boys. The boys all went off to the compartment across the hall with their luggage and pets and the girls organized all their things in the other one. Emma was the only one who wasn't in her school robes yet so she quickly changed into them and joined the rest of the girls in their conversation. <<Sorry g2g for supper!! I'll be back in about 20 minutes!! So wait for me if you can!!>>

"We're back!" Ricky cheered, rushing into the compartment.
"Yeah, and it is all thanks to Ginny and Neville!" Dan added.

Juniper called down the train.
"Dan, Ricky, get down here!" she called with her arms crossed, her foot tapping, and a big smile on her face.

"Ricky, Dan AND Cliff (he's isn't here either if you didn't notice) are in the professor's compartment." David replied annoyingly <<Lets just say some of the teachers go on the train and they have there own compartment>> "Why are they in the Teachers Compartment" Hailey asked.
"Cliff and Ricky were "restling" AGAIN and Dan (being Dan) HAD to join in so they were rolling around and ran into the Teachers Compartment door and Professor Arberstrong got them in trouble and now they have to sit in their compartment for half the train ride!!" David stated in an annoyed voice.

Albus Potter was walking towards the changing booth, with his cousin Hugo. Two boys were waiting outside his mom's compartment, he ignored them. But as he was walking past, the door opened and through the door, he saw his mum she said: "Oh, Albus I almost forgot." then she rushed out to greet him."Look!" she pulled out a parcel, and handed ot to Albus. "open it!" He did what he was told. He pulled out a finely knit maroon jumper with the letters A.P. sewn onto it.
"oh." Was all he said. He felt his face go red, and beside him Hugo snickerd.
'Oh, Hugo I didn't see you there, you've got one too! You're so lucky you have a grandma like mum.'
Hugo pulled out his jumper which had the letters H.W. sewn onto it.
"I- Er love it?" He tried. His face too was turning red.
"I told Mum that I'd make sure you wore them often!'
'Oh no!' the boys said together, and they ran away.

'What are we doing in here?' Ricky asked Cliff, however Dan was the one who answered.
'We're being punished.'
'Why am I being punished?' Ricky asked. 'I was kidnapped, then tackled, and I'm getting punished?'
'Life's tough' Dan responded.
'Stop chatting!' Professor Arberstrong shouted. 'I'm leaving to do my route.'
As professor Arberstrong left the compartment Ricky burst.
'I didn't do anything!' He whined.
'You can leave.' Neville said.
'Arberstrong has no idea what it is like to be a child.' Ginny said. 'Cliff, Dan, you go too.
'Sweet.' Dan said, then he and Cliff left the compartment.
'Neville?... Er proffesor Longbottom, can you tell me the story of how you killed the wiked snake Nagini?' Ricky asked quietly. Ricky was completly obsessed about the entire legend thing.
'Rick, you've heard that story so many times, at the end of every Herbology class even.' Neville moaned.
'one last time? The abbreived version?'
'The hat was placed on my head, it caught fire, a sword hit my head, I grabbed the sword, the hat was off my head I sliced the snake, then it died, okay leave.' Neville said really quickly.
'Rushed much.' Ricky said under his breath.

The door opened, and Hailey nearly screamed. Fortunately she recognized David's head peeking through the door. She sighed with relief. "Where have you been? I thought we decided we were going to meet here an hour before the train left to set pranks up for everyone! Oh!!" She gasped, she hadn't realized everyone else was behind David, and giving her a skeptical look. "I meant set a prank on Ricky." She said, saving herself. She'd noticed he wasn't in the hall. "Where are Ricky and Dan?" She asked.

Amberlynn stuck her head out of her compartment and laughed. "Idiot's" she said

<<This is getting really confusing, because aparently Dan is with every single character we have. So let's just put them together and everything should be fine.>>
After the group of kids found Juniper and Zynea, they went looking for Hailey. Daniel, Juniper, Zynea, David, Emma, and Ricky, were all walking towards the only compartment they hadn't checked.
"Where's Cliff?" Ricky asked. Everyone stopped walking.
"There!" Dan yelled pointing the direction they had just come, where Cliff was tiptoeing away.
Ricky ran towards him. When he reached him, Cliff suddenly jumped around, picked Ricky up and flung him over his shoulder and ran away.
"W- w- what are y- y- y- you doing?!!" Ricky yelled Stuttering due to the fact that his stomach was smashing against Cliff's shoulder, and knocking the breath out of him.
Ricky lifted his head and saw Dan running after them. "Put m- m- me down!" Ricky yelled loudly.
He lifted his head again and Dan was right behind them.
Dan and Ricky had known each other forever, and Ricky always knew what Dan was thinking.
"NO!" Ricky yelled, "DAN DON'T!!!" It was a pointless effort. Dan dove towards the boys.
The three of them plummeted to the ground and rolled around a lot, Ricky smashed his head against a few doors, not to mention the floor.
Many heads were now sticking out of the compartment doors. The three boys finally rolled to a stop in front of another compartment door.
Professors Potter, Longbottom, and Arberstrong walked out of the compartment all taking their turns at kicking Dan's head.
"Sorry," They had all said. "What happened out here? Well whatever happened you are all coming in this compartment for half the ride to teach you a lesson." Professor Arberstrong said.