Back to school! ( Ivy, Jordan, Jasmine, Nokomis )

[Kim Sullivan H4]

Kim ran around her house looking for Mr. Snuffles but couldn't find the brown teddy anywhere. "Mum!Where'd Mr. Snuffles go!?" Kim cried as she threw open her toy box and dug into it looking for the bear, she had to have him with her at school she always took him and she couldn't imagine Hogwarts without him. "Kim! Hurry up!" Her mother yelled from the living room, "And you left that bear in the car last week when we went to the zoo! Now get in here we're leaving now!" Kim slammed her toy box shut after picking up two more My Little Ponies and ran to the living room where her parents were waiting for her, her mother had a *Kim your a little too old to still be playing with toys* look but Kim didn't care as she stuffed the ponies into her trunk. "I'm ready!" She said excitedly.

The car ride was a normal one as Kim squirmed to see out of the back seat but couldn't. Her mother had told her she'd hit her grown spurt sooner or later, but Kim was still tiny and the last two years people on the train thought she was a 1st year and had tried to push her toward Hagrid when she got off the train. This time Kim was determined to be recognized so she had decided to wear her Quidditch uniform on the train so there'd be no mistake this time. As they walked onto the Platform Kim's eyes lit up as she saw the train waiting for her. "Alright Kim, you're a 4th year now, please try and behave a bit more grown up?" Her mother began, "I'm tired of having Professor Sprout send us owls telling us how many toys she and other professors have taken from you in class. And Kim don't ask Professor Snape if he likes ponies, we've told you he doesn't, in fact don't bother any of the professors this year Kim. Kim are you listening to me? You're 14, you've got to start acting more grown up, you're not a little girl anymore. Well it looks like the train is ready to move, so you'd better hurry or you'll miss the train, we love you."

"Blah blah blah is all Kim heard until "Hurry or you'll miss the train!" Kim spun and saw the train was starting to smoke and it was almost going to leave! "Bye mum, bye dad!" Kim said and hugged them both before running to the train. Once on board she looked up and down the cars. The front was not good, she didn't want to look like a 1st year, the back was where the Slytherins seemed to be, so the middle was the best! Besides that was where the trolley usually was! As Kim picked a compartment and sat down she opened her coin bag. She had saved a lot of money from working at her father's store in the summer and she was going to buy lots of candy this year!

[Jordan Elizabeth Cortes]

Back to school for her sixth year. Jordan Lehane pulled her shoulder-bag onto her left shoulder as she left her brightly lit room. The sun danced through her windows and made the curtains sway a little to the left. Her brown hair lifted a little as well, and she turned to close the door behind her. Jordan's eyes looked down the hallway at the closed doors. They all seemed identical in some weird way and Jordan liked the fact that everyone was downstairs- waiting for her. They were taking her out for breakfast before she was due at Platform Nine and Three Quarters. Being the only witch in the Lehane family, Jordan had grown accustomed to the last family breakfast of the summer holidays. It was tradition.

Jordan tucked some stray hairs behind her right ear, and walked down the stairs toward the entry hall. Vases of vibrant flowers alligned the doorway, and her parents stood chattering with Mara, Kyle, and Beth about where they wanted to eat. They told Jordan to pick the place, the night before, but she told them to work it out- she didn't care where they ate as long as it was together. Of course, that meant arguing and disagreements on the restaruant of choice- but Jordan took much joy in it, for she was going to miss it. Jordan situated her bag and walked into the middle of the group with a smile that showed her slight sadness, "Where to?" She asked brilliantly. Kyle chuckled and took her bag, throwing it over his shoulder, and draped an arm around his younger sister's arms.

"Mum says that little tea shop down the street. Pa says the retro cafe downtown. Mara says that cute little mall shopping centre near Kings Crossing. Beth says eat here. And I say anywhere, as long as we eat- I'm starved." Kyle smiled down at Jordan and winked, "So, it's ultimately your choice." Jordan raised an eyebrow as she realised that she was being set up. She knew they were making her decide anyway, and she didn't like how dishonest they were being. Jordan shrugged and crossed her arms: "I think I'll just buy something off the trolley on the train.." She knew that would get to them. Jill sighed with annoyance, but turned to Mark.

"Alright, we'll eat at the retro cafe, but I am not ordering coffee, I'm stressed as it is." Mark smiled triumphantly and kissed his wife before grabbing his keys out of the bowl on the sidetable which was by the entrance to the living room. Jordan laughed out loud at the fact that they were going to eat where her father had wanted to eat...again. They all walked outside into the warmth, and ended up packing into the car her parents had owned forever. Jordan was turning 16 soon, in February and she wanted a car for her birthday- though she knew that was near impossible.

It was only a ten minute drive to the cafe, and Jordan went through it over and over again in her head. She had been there so many times that it was nearly embedded in her memory. She sighed as she stepped out of the car, she always felt this sense of lonliness upon returning to Hogwarts- and it always began when they were going out to eat. The emotion would remain there for a few days, until she saw her friends and spoke with them- made plans to be with them on Hogsmeade trips and that sort of thing, but it returned every year. She wondered if that feeling would ever stop returning.

They entered the cafe and found a table that would sit all six of them. Jordan sat in between her parents and her siblings were around them. They ate and chatted merrily until it was 20 till 10. Jordan stood up as her parents payed the bill, and they all piled into the car once more. They drove toward Kings Crossing, and then parked. Jordan grabbed her bag from her father- and he rolled her trunk on the trolley she grabbed on her way in. They came between the platforms 9 and 10. Jordan breathed in and took the trolley from her father. She hugged him and kissed his cheek, did the same to her mother, and then heard some encouraging words from Mara, Beth, and Kyle.

Without further adieu. Jordan ran straight into the barrier, being transported to the other side and onto platform 9 3/4. The scarlett train engine stood grandly infront of her. Jordan breathed in the familiar air, and put her trunk on the correct car before heading into the middle of the train. Maybe she could find Kim, or someone she knew there. Jordan headed down the compartments. She looked into one and smiled a large smile. She opened it and entered the compartment, "Kim!" Jordan took a seat next to her fellow Hufflepuff and smiled again.

[Kim Sullivan H4]

Kim bounced on the red cushiony seat a few times as she looked out the window and set her backpack down on the seat next to her. There was nothing to do and it only took a few seconds for Kim to get bored. Picking up her backpack she looked at the picture of Kim Possible on it while she unzipped it to take out something to play with. After looking at a few things, Kim pulled out a little Kim Possible doll and set her bag down as she ran the doll along the cushion and up to the window and began to sing to herself.

Ooohh yeahh yeah
I'm your basic average girl
And I'm here to save the world
You can't stop me
Cause I'm Kim Sull-i-van!
There is nothin' I can't do
When danger calls
Just know that I am on my wayyyyyyyyyyy!!

It doesn't matter where or
When there's trouble
If ya just call my name
Kim Sullivan!

Call me, beep me if you
Wanta reach me
When ya wanta page me it's OK!
I just can't wait to hear
My cell phone ringggggg!!!
Doesn't matter if it's day or night
Everything's gonna be alright
Whenever you need me baby
Call me, beep me if ya
wanta reach me!!

Kim stopped playing with her doll when the door slid open and Jordan came in! "JORDAN JORDAN JORDAN!!" Kim said excitedly as she left her doll on the windowsill and got up. "Hey Jordan! I want to go get some candy before the trolley gets busy you wan't to come with me? I have lots of money now I worked at my dad's store this summer and it was fun I got to work in the computer game part it was really cool because I only had to work in the game part so when there was no one in there I got to turn on the TV's there and play the games or watch TV and then I got to put the new games out and then people would come and buy then and then I had to take their money or their credit card and put it into the machine to make sure that it was OK and then I put their game in a bag but first I had to unlock that plastic box thing that there is so that you can't go and steal the game you know? So then I put the games in a bag and the people can take their games home then it was really fun but we didn't take checks because you can write bad checks so we only took cash or credit cards and then debit cards too some people have those instead of credit cards so I got lots of money though from working so I can buy lots of stuff this year my mom said I should put some in the bank so I did but the rest I kept for myself I think I can get a lot of interest because I put about half my money I made in the summer in the bank so lets go get some candy then Jordan?"

[Jordan Elizabeth Cortes]

Jordan was greeted by a very hyper response from Kim, of course Jordan expected that. The fourth year Hufflepuff was always very erratic and enthusiastic, but Jordan loved her to death. Jordan listened as Kim talked about her summer working in her father's store. It sounded like fun, Jordan would admit- and she wondered how much Kim actually made from selling video games. She laughed and nodded; "Let's get candy! Do you know where the trolley is? Has it made it's rounds down this way yet? Ohhh, do you know what you want to get? I don't know about you, but I've been wanting some chocolate frogs and licorice wands!" Jordan grabbed Kim's hand and pulled her out into the aisle.

Others were still finding compartments and Jordan looked up and down the aisleway- searching for the trolley. Usually the lady would push the trolley down the way, but Jordan agreed with Kim. They should get to the trolley before it became overcrowded with other students. Jordan spotted the trolley, which had a few people standing around it- and headed off in that direction, still pulling Kim lightly. Jordan had made a promise to herself not to be too hyper and things like that, but it was the train ride to school- what harm could it do? They came to the trolley and Jordan stood on her tip-toes to look over the heads of the students, being how short she was.

"So, what else did you do over the holidays, Kim? Anything really exciting?" Jordan looked at Kim with a smile that said she was truly interested.

[Kim Sullivan H4]

Kim followed Jordan out of the compartment to find the trolley! Then soon enough they found it, a small group was there but it wouldn't take long to get service. Kim reached into her pocket and took out some money. "I want to get chocolate! You know those those little ones that look like the Hogwarts Express! I want a box of those and then I want some of those chocolate fudge squares and then I want to get some of those peanut butter squares too I wish you could buy those all the time but my mum says that they sell out really fast and they only are made a few times a year so you have to buy them when you find and now I see them so I'm going to buy them so I can have some now and not have to wait for the next time that they go on sale because that could take a long time and then what if they stopped making them all together that wouldn't be fun because I couldn't have them anymore like they used to make this cereal that I liked it had a monster on the front of the box and then the cereal was little chocolate puffs and if you let it sit for a while the milk turned into chocolate milk and it was really good my mum stopped getting it she said that it made me too hyper but I don't think so I liked it so now I got my job so I have money so I started to buy that cereal in the summer but then they stopped making it so now I get another chocolate cereal that is good too but it's not as good as the other one that one had little puffs this one has little squares of cereal that don't soak up milk as good so that you don't get as good a chocolate milk as you did with the other one that was really good do you like chocolate cereal I hope we can get some at Hogwarts this year I want to ask Professor Sprout if she can ask the House Elves to serve more chocolate cereal for us last year you know I went and I asked Professor Snape if he liked chocolate because I brought him a big bag of chocolate cookies because one time I had a cookie in class oh do you know how to make chocolate cookies because I do I learned this summer I got a bag of cookie mix and then you just put it on the cookie pan and bake it and they come out really good my mum says it's better when you make them yourself but I can't figure it out I always smash the eggs and they go all over the place so I don't like to do that really."

Kim stopped and saw a Chance to go in and get to the trolley so she squeezed her way between two older students and grabbed two boxes of train chocolates and two boxes of peanut butter squares and a box of chocolate fudge. Once she'd paid for them she took her arm full of candies and waited for Jordan to finish buying her candies too. Once Jordan walked to her, Kim headed back to the compartment. "Oh this summer was fun I got to work at my dad's store did I tell you that? I got to sell the video games and work in that section and then I got to play the games when no one was in my section it was really fun. Oooh! Did you see any movies this summer? I saw this one movie it had these monsters in it and the people went into the house to rescue some scientists but they couldn't find them because the monsters had turned all the scientists into monsters too so that there were some monsters who were walking around wearing the scientists lab coats and they rescue team had to shoot the monsters but they wouldn't die because they were already dead so they then had to burn them like you do with vampires and that kind of worked so then they were getting captured and there was only four left so they went to the basement of the house and they found the old generator and they used it to make a big bomb and they led the monsters down and then they set off the bomb and it blew up all the monsters and then they got in their truck and went back to their base but at the end of the movie you see one of the monsters climbing out of the blown up house so I think they're going to make another movie with that because you have to kill all the monsters in the movie otherwise you have to make a new movie so people know what is going to happen with the monsters because you don't want to see a monster running around and not know that it can be killed because monsters are bad and I don't like them but that was a good movie, do you like movies?"

[Nokomis Astarra H5]

Nokomis ran across the train station toward platform 9 3/4. She was running late. She hated to be late, but it seemed a usual event these days, one that managed to prevent her from getting injured in Diagon Alley, but it still wasn't a good habit to get into and she knew that. They were actually almost on time. She was using floo to get here, since it was a long way from Killeen, Ireland to London. Her mum gave her a really long emotional good buy, and then off she went on her way to London, realizing once she got there that she had forgotten her extra bag with her quidditch stuff in it. If it was anything else she would have left it and sent an owl to her mum asking her to send it later, but there was no way she was going to leave her quidditch things behind. She quickly flooed her way right back home and grabbed the black duffel bag, which her mum had embroidered with a big yellow H on the side, along with Nokomis Quidditch Captain on the ends. It was her mums way of showing how proud she was of her daughter, and it was a good gift, since pops had given her a quaffle, and a set of pads so she could practice at home, and she had her uniform, and then there was a yellow sweater and yellow t-shirt her mum had made her to look sort of like the uniforms, then she could practice in them so not to get the real ones dirty.

She finally ran through the wall and onto platform 9 3/4, just to see the fast few students boarding the train. She didn't have time to stop and catch her breath, instead she followed them aboard. Inside was packed with students, all trying to locate a compartment with their friends inside. She peered into a few with no luck, but then she heard a voice that she recognized instantly, and hurried along toward that compartment. Once she got there she saw Kim and Jordan, and gave them both a wide relieved smile. She was happy to finally find someone she knew. She was better at handling people now, but she still felt best when she was around her friends.

"Hi guys!"