September First - Back to School Who: Open to everyone and their cousin. When: September 1, 2020 Where: King's Cross, Platform 9 3/4 and the Hogwarts Express Status: Open, Ongoing Summary: Tree I: Changs
Madison hunts the train for trouble while Malcolm trails along behind her. After a bit of distracted conversation, Madison encourages him to pick a compartment to stay in while she continues her hunt. When he still wants to come along, she shuffles him off to go talk with Rose so that he's out from underfoot.
Tree II: Malfoys
Libra whines about wanting to go, and Scorpius points out that she can't go yet. He then teases Aries about finishing his summer homework, then taunts him a bit about what sorting entails - informing him that he has to do a spell and if he fails he'll get sorted into Gryffindor. Eventually he relents and tell Aries how it's really done - though he makes him promise to torment Libra with the same stories when her first year rolls around.
Tree III: Tris, Lan, Dominique, Acevona
Tris and Lan - after Acevona parts company with them - drop hints and tease a bit about the totally epic train prank Tris is going to pull. Dominique is highly suspicious but curious all the same - moreso when Tris and Lan part company on the train. Dominique settles into a middle compartment to watch. For the record, Tristan opts not to go through with it. Common sense? Or is streaking down the entire train just too much even for him? No one knows ...
Tree IV: Brenna, Autumn, Madison
While Autumn is talking with some prefect friends, she is beset by the plague of Brenna - though Brenna is easily chased off with a little embarrassment. Autumn and Madison chat a little about the known troublemakers and how the term is starting off - and how they wonder what Tris and Lan are really up to.
Tree V: Rose, Malcolm, Roxanne
Rose, Lily, and James show up together, though James quickly parts company from Rose - and Lily follows him. Rose isn't alone for long though, as she's soon joined by Malcolm Chang. The two have very different interests, and the conversation is fairly disjointed with Rose trying to pull it toward Quidditch and Mal trying to pull it toward books. Once they're settled on the train, they're joined by Roxanne, and Rose is glad for the distraction. Roxy talks about the canary cremes she's improved upon, and the conversation goes from there.
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Madison was a little bit preoccupied as she gave her mother a brief hug good-bye and checked to make sure her prefect badge was clearly visible before striding off into the crowd. She expexted Malcolm would be tagging along behind her, but her main concern at the moment was to find Tristan and Farnsworth before they got into any trouble.
Not, of course, that she assumed she would be able to stop them. She had vague hopes, though. If nothing else, maybe she could stand around long enough for some sort of prefect aura to mend them of their errant ways.
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Aries sighed loudly as he was ushered through the entrance to platform nine and three-quarters. He had been expecting to be a little more excited about starting his first term at Hogwarts, but annoyance was the emotion that seemed to be winning the day here.
Possibly because Libra had been alternating between hanging off of his shirt and Scorpius' all morning. It had been a bloody pain getting packed with the eight-year-old underfoot. He would have thought she'd grown up a little by now, but no. She was just as annoying as last year.
Probably more so since she couldn't seem to find out how to have her way now.
"But I want to go as well," the youngest Malfoy insisted, wrinkling her nose when no one seemed to pay her any attention.
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Where Palmer had gone, Paige didn't know. As soon as her parents released her from their watch, however, she was off like a bullet to get on the train. She had suffered through an entire summer without candies, and in the name of Merlin's beard, she was going to find the sweets trolley.
Paige hesitated a moment as she wandered down the aisle.
Did... the sweets trolley run before or after the train started moving? Where was it before then? A hidden compartment... invisible?