Meeting Malfoy and henchmen

While they were talking, the train had carried them out of London. Now they were speeding past fields full of cows and sheep.

They had been quiet for a bit, watching the fields and lanes flick past.

Around half past twelve there was a great clattering sound outside the corridor and a smiling woman slid back their door and said, "Anything off the trolley, dears?"

Harry and Neville, who apparently had not taken breakfast leapt to their feet, but Ron's ears went pink again and he muttered in a very barely audible voice, "I've brought sandwiches" as held out the mentioned item packed in a lumpy package.

Harry who had never had any money for sweets from the Durselys and now that he had pockets rattling with gold and silver he wanted to buy as many candy and sweets that he could carry - but the woman did not have the sweets such as Mars Bars that he was familiar with.

Neville upon sensing Harry's bewilderment introduced the sweets as he could be said to be a veteran after living with his grandmother in the wizarding world for so many years.

He introduced Harry to Bertie Botts Every Flavour Beans and that sometimes you could happen upon a very nasty flavour that you may have never wished to eat, Drooble's Best Blowing Gum, Chocolate Frogs, Pumpkin Pasties, Cauldron Cakes and his personal favourite Liquorice Wands along with a number of other things that Harry had never seen in his life.

Heeding his advise, Harry bought a lot of Liquorice Wands, Choclate frogs and a number of things except the Bertie Botts Every Flavour Beans as he did not want to chance upon a shit like flavor.

Every Flavour really meant it.

You could get all the ordinary ones like chocolate, peppermint and marmalade but then you could also get spinach, liver, tripe and even a boogey one.

The woman was paid 6 Silver Sickles and 9 Bronze Knuts for the purchase by Harry and Neville.

Ron just stared as he saw the two bring in it all back to the compartment and place it on to an empty seat.

After goading Ron a little he had swapped the four corned beef sandwiches with Harry and Neville for some of his favourite sweets.

Although Harry had forgotten his two sandwiches after he indulged in the magical sweets.

Neville was more than happy to finish the corned beef sandwiches as unlike Harry and Ron he had eaten them so many times that he could not count.

"What are these?", asked Harry, holding up a pack of Chocolate Frogs.

"They are not really frogs, are they?"

Harry was starting to feel that nothing would suprise him.

"No," said Ron

"Chocolate Frogs have got cards inside them, to collect- Famous Witches and Wizards."

Neville explained when he saw that Ron had gone back to indulging himself in the sweets after a curt reply.

"I've got about five hundred of them but I'm missing Agrippa or Ptolmey," added Ron once he had cleared his mouth off the sweets.

Harry unwrapped his Chocolate Frog as they all watched in anticipation, and picked up the card. It showed up a man's face. He wore half-moon glasses, had a long crooked nose and flowing silver hair, beard and mustache.

Underneath the picture was the name Albus Dumbledore.

Harry turned over the card and read the introduction out loud while Ron frantically started opening the Chocolate Frogs in hopes of completing his collection.

After they had finished all the sweets Ron began to show off a spell his brothers had taught him to turn his rat yellow.

He rummaged in his trunk and pulled out a very battered looking wand. It was chipped in at many places and something white was glinting at the end.

"Sunshine, daisies, butter mellow,

Turn this stupid fat rat yellow."

He waved his wand, but nothing happened. Scabbers stayed grey and fast asleep.

"Are you sure that's a real spell?"

Harry was starting to feel that he would not be dead last if even a wizard like Ron could mess up.

Neville then proceeded to stick out his wand and used Lumos to conjure up a barely visible light that fluctuated.

It wasn't that he couldn't practice it to a higher level but he had planned to be able to barely perform all the spells that could possibly be taught in the first month as he was sure that after a demonstration by the teacher he would have much greater insight and would be able to increase his proficiency faster.

He was just elaborating about the spells when the compartment door slid open yet again but this time it wasn't the trolley woman.

Three boys entered and Harry recognised the middle one at once: it was the pale boy at Madam Malkin's Robe shop.

"Is it true that there is Harry Potter in this compartment?"

He had recognised Neville at first glance and merely nodded his head. They didn't get along so well as one of them had Aurors as parents and the other had a dark lord supporter aka minion as parents.

"Yes," said Harry. He was looking at the other boys. Both of them were thickest and looked extremely mean. Standing on either side of the pale boy they looked like bodyguards.

"Oh, this is Crabbe and Goyal, " said the pale boy carelessly, noticing where Harry was looking."And my name's Malfoy, Draco Malfoy."

Ron gave a slight cough, which might have been hiding a snigger.

Draco looked at Ron and chided that he didn't need to ask his name as his father had told him that all the weasleys had red hair, freckles and more children than they could afford.

"You'll soon find out that some wizarding families are much better than the others, Potter. You don't want to go making friends with the wrong sort. I can help you there."

He held out his hand to shake Harry's but Harry didn't take it.

"I think I can tell the wrong sort for myself, thanks," He said coldly.

"I'd be careful if I were you Potter," Draco said slowly.

"Unless you're a bit politer you'll go the same way as your parents. They didn't know what was good for them, either.

You hang around with riff-raff like the Weasleys, that Longbottom,Hagrid and it'll rub off on you."

Both sides with equal numbers seemed ready to clash when Malfoy asked Goyle to pick some snacks but the dumb boy had reached towards Scabbers.

Neville who was close by smiled in amusement at the farce that was going to occur and took a few steps aside.

Soon enough, Goyle let out a horrible yell and swung around the animagus who had apparently bitten into his knuckle;he finally got rid of it when he swung around and Scabbers finally flew off and hit the window.

All three of them disappeared at once, perhaps they thought that there were more rats in the sweets or perhaps they had heard footsteps, because a second later a girl with lots of bushy brown hair

wearing her Hogwarts robes appeared.

"What on earth has been going on?", she said looking all over the floor and Ron picking up Scabbers by his tail.

After Ron had confirmed that his rat had only been asleep and not dead they had a bit of an introduction with the bushy haired girl with a bossy tone of voice and came to know that she was a first year Muggle born Hermione Granger.

Neville explained their circumstances to her politely and inquired how she got here.

She responded that she only came here because people outside were behaving very childishly, racing up and down the corridors.

She left just as suddenly she had arrived before advising them to put on their robes as they were near to their destination.

Following her leave they looked out the window, it was getting dark. He could see the mountains and forests under a deep-purple sky. The train did seem to be slowing down.

All of them hurriedly took off their jackets and put on their robes.

A voice echoed through the train: We will be reaching Hogwarts in five minutes time. Please leave your luggage on the train, it will be taken to school separately.

The train stopped down completely so will this long chapter.

Bye!