Time at the Hogwarts Express

For a while the friends chatted about their summer and especially about how South America had been. Outside of the train the landscape passed by while the sun moved over the sky. After a while Neville left to see if he could find Seamus and Dean while Luna talked about that she seen a strange creature during the night once while they stayed at a jungle hotel during their trip. Harry had started to skim through the book again, now that Neville's place next to him was free. Ron was reading the Daily Prophet, which was writing about Hogwarts official reopening a week ago and how today the students would return to the school.

After a while the three girls left and Harry turned his attention fully to the book.

“What are you reading?” Ron asked from behind the newspaper.

“Oh, just a book I found from Sirius,” harry said and wondered if he should tell Ron what was actually in the book and that he had asked his brothers to help him with some of the potions inside. But the thought was interrupted by his grumbling stomach.

“I will quickly check with the trolley witch, you want anything?”

“Maybe a cauldron cake,” Ron said and Harry nodded, while heading down the carriage, asking fellow Gryffindor students if they had seen the witch already. In one of the adjacent compartments he found Hermione and Ginny, who sat with Lavender Brown and the Patil twins. Harry greeted all of them and also asked if the girls wanted something, but was told that they would check later themselves.

He continued his journey through the carriage and through one of the Ravenclaw carriages, before he found the witch chatting with the conductor at the end of the carriage. She quickly noticed him and gave him a wide smile as he picked some of the items from the cart. Finally he paid and the witch and the conductor moved into the next carriage, leaving Harry standing alone. He just wanted to turn back as some thought rushed through his head. Maybe he could?

He quickly skipped through the pages and found a spell, he had seen earlier. He pointed the wand at one of the filled chocolate frogs and mumbled: “Venerem Stimulant”. A pinkish vapor shot from the tip of the wand and laid down on the chocolate frog before merging with the chocolate. Harry put his wand and the frog away and headed back with the frog in his had and a paper bag with the rest of the food in his other.