7 The Hogwarts Express
[This chapter will feel a bit fast-paced and short, i apologize for that, while i love this story and it has a lot of potential, i have several other fanfics i want to write.]
After getting his wand and a wrist holder for it, he has one last stop before heading home.
Suddenly stopping in the middle of the street, he looks up to one of his guards, "I know where the owl emporium is but where do first years go to get a cat?"
One of them answers him with a succinct sentence, "left of Gringott, there's a sign with a cat on a broom"
After nodding his head, he follows the man's directions and sure enough, he finds Feline's Forever.
[Author's Note, i can't find any mention of a cat version of the owl emporium in Diagon Alley, so i made one up]
Entering, the store, he sees cages lining the walls of the store, and a bespectacled woman standing behind a counter.
"Welcome to Felines Forever, are you here for your first Hogwarts animal?"
"I'm just looking", He says before wandering around the store as the eyes of all the cats look at him with love and affection.
Each cat he passed by would meow at him hoping for his attention but the one that caught his eye was a kitten with black fur and heterochromatic eyes.
With one pink eye and one green eye, the cat was the one he wanted.
Purring at his touch, the kitten that could fit in a single hand looks up to him with love.
Holding the kitten to his chest, he drops a bag of coins on the counter and leaves while muttering, "I'll take this one".
Returning home, he finds a grieving mother and Kreacher in the dining area, Orion Black has passed on.
He was surprised that his father's death surprisingly didn't have much of an emotional impact on himself, maybe because he had the mind of an adult or maybe because he experienced death himself... either way, he spent the little time he had left at home helping his mother through her hardship.
Weeks pass by, his eleventh birthday comes and goes, before the day finally comes to go to Hogwarts.
To say he was excited wouldn't be right, thanks to his father's paranoia, he's spent the majority of his life in the Black Manor.
To him, Hogwarts will be the first stepping stone on his path to success.
The journey to platform nine and three quarters was instant, he had Guppy apparate him there.
He mastered apparition himself before his tenth birthday as his father wished but didn't want the people at the platform seeing his level of skill yet, after all, only an idiot shows all his cards at once.
Arriving at the platform, he took a moment to look around but didn't notice anyone he recognized from the books, movies, or lore.
[Please Read: I will be adding some characters created by me since there is NO ONE in his year that is mentioned anywhere, so apart from the staff at Hogwarts, everyone else will be made by me]
Walking into the train, he finds an empty compartment before casting as "Capacious Extremis", this spell makes the room considerably bigger on the inside while the exterior of the room and train looks the same.
Relaxing comfortably, he reads a book on advanced potion-making.
After roughly ten minutes, he hears a knock on the door, looking up from his book, he sees a boy with curly brown hair and caramel-colored skin, "May i sit in hear?"
Arcturus gestures to the seat opposite him, "go ahead"
As the new boy smiles and takes his seat, he looks in awe at the size of the room before he sees the ring on the taller boy's finger, "Heir Black, it's a pleasure to make your acquaintance", he says while holding out a hand.
Arcturus sighs before shaking the boy's hand, "since you know who i am just because of my ring and know proper manners, you're definitely a pureblood"
"If i had to take a shot in the dark, I'd say you're from the Shafiq family", He says while never taking his eyes away from his book.
The boy's face lights up a bit, "Yes, my names Zahid Shafiq, nephew to Lord Shafiq"
An awkward silence fills the room that is only interrupted by Arcturus changing the page in his book.
"Umm, I said that I'm-", The boy reiterates but is quickly interrupted.
"I know who you are, I just don't care, if we are put into the same house as each other then we can get to know one another but until then... be quiet", Arcturus says all this while looking at his book except for the to last words.
After being startled by Heir Black's vivid green eyes, he quickly takes out a book and sits quietly.
Hours pass by before they don their robes and depart the train.
[I apologize for the short chapter and all the author's notes]
[I honestly don't care about numbers but we hit the milestone of a thousand collections and a hundred power stones... thank you all for your support.]
