Fixing the Future

4.6

The train whistle blew as it started to leave, Scabbers being carried by Mrs. Weasley.
'Quick, quick! Ron! Ron! Oh, for goodness sake! Don't lose him!'
'Bye-bye, darling!'
Harry walked through the train with his friends behind him.
'I didn't mean to blow her up. I just...I lost control.'
'Brilliant.'
'Honestly, Ron, it's not funny. They were lucky not to be expelled.'
Hermione chastised making Alyssa roll her eyes,
'Don't be a party pooper, it sounds amazing- besides, Harry wouldn't of blown her up unless she deserved it.'

'And she most definitely did.' Sirius nodded.

'I think i was lucky not to be arrested, actually.'
'I still think it was brilliant.'
'A true masterpiece.'
'Come on. Everywhere else is full.'

The four entered a cabin where an adult with his face covered slept.
'Who do you think that is?'
'Professor R.J. Lupin.'

'MOONY! IT'S YOU!' Sirius yelled.
'I can see that...why am I on a train to Hogwarts?' Remus shifted uncomfortably, wondering why he didn't help Harry from the Dursleys.
'So Sirius and Remus are both in this year?' James asked getting a nod in response from Alyssa, 'is anyone else?'
'That sounds like a spoiler.'
'Ugh.'

'How did she know your name?' Bella asked.

'You know everything. How is it she knows everything?'
'It's on his suitcase, Ronald.'

'That's how she knew.' Evan answered.

'Oh.'
'Do you think he's really asleep?'
'Seems to be.'
'Or else he just snores when he's awake.'
'Why?'
'I've got to tell you something.'
Harry closed the door and the train was shown moving through a rainy, foggy part of the country.

'Let me get this straight. Sirius Black has escaped from Azkaban to come after you.'
'Yeah.'
'So once again, just like 1st and 2nd year, someone is trying to kill you? Brilliant! Just brilliant.' Alyssa said sarcastically and Hermione shushed her.
'But they'll catch Black, won't they?'
I mean, everyone's looking for him.'

'I'm not that easy to catch,' Sirius said proudly, seemingly having gotten over the fact he was a murderer working for Voldemort in the future.

'Sure. Except no one's ever broken out of Azkaban before, and...he's a murderous, raving lunatic.'

'Ouch.' Sirius said in offense.
'Very reassuring.' Marlene said sarcastically.

Harry just looked at him.
'Thanks, Ron.'
'Harry you need to stop making enemies cos it's getting very annoying.'
'Hey! I didn't do anything, it's not my fault everyone one wants to kill me.'
'I reckon it's your personality.'
'Hey!'

The train then jolted as it started to slow.
'Why are we stopping? We can't be there yet.'
Harry got up and opened the cabin door, looking out like the others, when the train jerked, throwing everyone back into their cabins.
'What's going on?!'

'Good question.'
'Not even at Hogwarts yet and something bad is happening.' Regulus groaned.

'Don't know. Maybe we've broken down.'
The lights then went out.
'Ouch, Ron, that was my foot.'
'There's something moving out there.'
'What the hell?'
The quartet all looked out the window.
'I think...someone's coming aboard!'
'How is that Lupin man sleeping through this!' Alyssa said in disbelief.

Remus flushed and James and Sirius laughed at him.

The train jerked again, the quartet on edge as the ice began to crackle softly across the window until all the windows iced over.