From brenda.mccartney at gmail.com  Tue Apr  8 20:18:57 2008
From: brenda.mccartney at gmail.com (Brenda McCartney)
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 20:18:57 -0400
Subject: [Hogwarts Between] Test post
Message-ID: <cbaa4650804081718y214bac78k8f3061e7051d6eca@mail.gmail.com>

Just testing to see if Pat's getting this.  No response needed.

Brenda


From wow_its_tashayar at yahoo.com  Tue Apr 15 20:03:20 2008
From: wow_its_tashayar at yahoo.com (Tashayar McCarthy)
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:03:20 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Hogwarts Between] NOW, here's the real post.
Message-ID: <324985.84956.qm@web38201.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Amber leaned on the car door armrest by the window watching the scenery move by. Now, after learning all the things she'd only read about in books was real and she was in it, a car was a boring hunk of metal going forty miles an hour. She closed her eyes and pictured the thing she'd be dreaming of ever since she saw it, riding a broom. She saw herself sweeping threw the air arms outstretched. The red-haired child closed her eyes and lifted her face to the sky, feeling the rush of wind brush her throat and fly into the distance behind her. The broom bumped up and back down and Amber?s imaginary dream was gone. She cursed under her breath at the car for ruining her fun but gave up taking it out on the car, knowing it wouldn?t get her anywhere, and leaned back on the armrest. 
  Kings Cross was far away from where Amber lived. It was four hours by car, but in Amber?s world it must have been at least seven. All the excitement made the car ride feel like they were going about two miles per hour, each stoplight was painful and each bump in the road was a dream killer. Then the buildings started to get bigger and London was in sight, Amber exploded. She started to talk constantly about what her grandfather thought was going to happen, where they were going to go, (even though she knew) if anyone else they knew was a witch/wizard, and any other question you can think of about wizardry and didn?t wait for an answer, she just needed something to do.
  The car rolled into the large parking lot with the steady stream of words following. The old car screeched to a stop and Amber burst out the doors and landed on all fours, ready to kiss the ground. A few of the people gave a side glance but many kids just stopped and stared, mouths agape, before their busy mothers pushed them toward the station. Amber?s grandfather made his way around the car and offered a hand to his granddaughter. Amber got up on her own and bolted to the sliding doors at the entrance; Phil stayed behind and got the suitcases. 
  ?Come back and get your things, love!? he called holding one of the lighter bags in the air. She had almost forgot! Her heart wanted to continue inside but her legs thought otherwise. She turned and ran back regardless of the excitement gripping her chest. Amber carried the two smaller bags and her grandfather rolled the large suitcase filled with all a witch needs to learn magic. 
  Amber followed her guardian threw the maze of trains and people with no idea of where they were going. Her grandfather turned suddenly and headed straight for a large barrier with the number nine on one side and the number ten on the other. He kept walking until he got right next to it and vanished. Amber stopped abruptly. This didn?t make since, Amber thought, it?s just solid wall. She reached her hand out to touch the wall but nothing touched her fingertips. Just air. Then the lighting of the room suddenly changed and when Amber looked around to see what had happened, she was somewhere else. The pillar now said 9 ?.

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From margdean at erols.com  Tue Apr 15 20:04:04 2008
From: margdean at erols.com (Margaret Dean)
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:04:04 -0400
Subject: [Hogwarts Between] Platform Nine and Three-Quarters:  Amber
Message-ID: <48054274.B74607A@erols.com>

[OOC:  Moving this to the correct list and retitling it]

     Amber leaned on the car door armrest by the window watching
the scenery move by. Now, after learning all the things she'd
only read about in books was real and she was in it, a car was a
boring hunk of metal going forty miles an hour. She closed her
eyes and pictured the thing she'd be dreaming of ever since she
saw it, riding a broom. She saw herself sweeping through the air
arms outstretched. The red-haired child closed her eyes and
lifted her face to the sky, feeling the rush of wind brush her
throat and fly into the distance behind her. The broom bumped up
and back down and Amber's imaginary dream was gone. She cursed
under her breath at the car for ruining her fun but gave up
taking it out on the car, knowing it wouldn't get her anywhere,
and leaned back on the armrest. 

     Kings Cross was far away from where Amber lived. It was four
hours by car, but in Amber's world it must have been at least
seven. All the excitement made the car ride feel like they were
going about two miles per hour, each stoplight was painful and
each bump in the road was a dream killer. Then the buildings
started to get bigger and London was in sight, Amber exploded.
She started to talk constantly about what her grandfather thought
was going to happen, where they were going to go, (even though
she knew) if anyone else they knew was a witch/wizard, and any
other question you can think of about wizardry and didn't wait
for an answer, she just needed something to do.

     The car rolled into the large parking lot with the steady
stream of words following. The old car screeched to a stop and
Amber burst out the doors and landed on all fours, ready to kiss
the ground. A few of the people gave a side glance but many kids
just stopped and stared, mouths agape, before their busy mothers
pushed them toward the station. Amber's grandfather made his way
around the car and offered a hand to his granddaughter. Amber got
up on her own and bolted to the sliding doors at the entrance;
Phil stayed behind and got the suitcases.
 
     "Come back and get your things, love!" he called holding one
of the lighter bags in the air. She had almost forgot! Her heart
wanted to continue inside but her legs thought otherwise. She
turned and ran back regardless of the excitement gripping her
chest. Amber carried the two smaller bags and her grandfather
rolled the large suitcase filled with all a witch needs to learn
magic. 

     Amber followed her guardian through the maze of trains and
people with no idea of where they were going. Her grandfather
turned suddenly and headed straight for a large barrier with the
number nine on one side and the number ten on the other. He kept
walking until he got right next to it and vanished. Amber stopped
abruptly. This didn't make sense, Amber thought, it's just solid
wall. She reached her hand out to touch the wall but nothing
touched her fingertips. Just air. Then the lighting of the room
suddenly changed and when Amber looked around to see what had
happened, she was somewhere else. The pillar now said 9?.


From hogsmeade at squaredbee.com  Sat Apr 19 21:31:24 2008
From: hogsmeade at squaredbee.com (Patrick McCartney)
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 18:31:24 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Hogwarts Between] Platform Nine and Three-Quarters: Amber
In-Reply-To: <324985.84956.qm@web38201.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <162953.35928.qm@web907.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com>


--- Tashayar McCarthy <wow_its_tashayar at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> Amber leaned on the car door armrest by the window
> watching the scenery move by. Now, after learning
> all the things she'd only read about in books was
> real and she was in it, a car was a boring hunk of
> metal going forty miles an hour. She closed her eyes
> and pictured the thing she'd be dreaming of ever
> since she saw it, riding a broom. She saw herself
> sweeping threw the air arms outstretched. The
> red-haired child closed her eyes and lifted her face
> to the sky, feeling the rush of wind brush her
> throat and fly into the distance behind her. The
> broom bumped up and back down and Amber?s imaginary
> dream was gone. She cursed under her breath at the
> car for ruining her fun but gave up taking it out on
> the car, knowing it wouldn?t get her anywhere, and
> leaned back on the armrest. 
>   Kings Cross was far away from where Amber lived.
> It was four hours by car, but in Amber?s world it
> must have been at least seven. All the excitement
> made the car ride feel like they were going about
> two miles per hour, each stoplight was painful and
> each bump in the road was a dream killer. Then the
> buildings started to get bigger and London was in
> sight, Amber exploded. She started to talk
> constantly about what her grandfather thought was
> going to happen, where they were going to go, (even
> though she knew) if anyone else they knew was a
> witch/wizard, and any other question you can think
> of about wizardry and didn?t wait for an answer, she
> just needed something to do.
>   The car rolled into the large parking lot with the
> steady stream of words following. The old car
> screeched to a stop and Amber burst out the doors
> and landed on all fours, ready to kiss the ground. A
> few of the people gave a side glance but many kids
> just stopped and stared, mouths agape, before their
> busy mothers pushed them toward the station. Amber?s
> grandfather made his way around the car and offered
> a hand to his granddaughter. Amber got up on her own
> and bolted to the sliding doors at the entrance;
> Phil stayed behind and got the suitcases. 
>   ?Come back and get your things, love!? he called
> holding one of the lighter bags in the air. She had
> almost forgot! Her heart wanted to continue inside
> but her legs thought otherwise. She turned and ran
> back regardless of the excitement gripping her
> chest. Amber carried the two smaller bags and her
> grandfather rolled the large suitcase filled with
> all a witch needs to learn magic. 
>   Amber followed her guardian threw the maze of
> trains and people with no idea of where they were
> going. Her grandfather turned suddenly and headed
> straight for a large barrier with the number nine on
> one side and the number ten on the other. He kept
> walking until he got right next to it and vanished.
> Amber stopped abruptly. This didn?t make since,
> Amber thought, it?s just solid wall. She reached her
> hand out to touch the wall but nothing touched her
> fingertips. Just air. Then the lighting of the room
> suddenly changed and when Amber looked around to see
> what had happened, she was somewhere else. The
> pillar now said 9 ?.


The sudden brightness of the sunlight, after the time
walking through the dark train station, hurt Amber?s
eyes.  As her vision adjusted she looked out onto a
wide platform made of planks of wood painted blue. 
The platform extended about twelve feet in front of
her and ended with a drop-off.  The railroad tracks
emerged from the right corner of the platform and
trailed off into the distant green hills.  Beyond the
platform the shadows of cumulus clouds moved across a
field of grass and trees.

The air smelled of currants and honey.  It was very
quiet.  Only the sounds of the nearby birds could be
heard.

To her right the platform ended less than a couple of
yards away.  Beyond that was a tall wooden fence
painted black with bright orange stars.  She could not
tell how tall the fence was since she could not see
how far off the ground the platform was, but the top
of the fence was well over the height of her
grandfather.  The space between the platform and the
fence was filled in with overgrown bushes and weeds. 
The leaves were green, silver, yellow, purple, and
red.  It was hard to tell if the wind was whipping the
leaves around or they were constantly beating each
other on their own.

To her left the platform continued about twenty-five
feet beyond where she stood.  There were two large
square wooden beams, in a row, painted red, holding up
the right end of a small roof over the edge of the
platform.  The shading roof had blue trim and yellow
roofing tiles.  It extended to back beyond the corner
of a building that was behind her.

Behind her was the red brick side wall of a building
that was twenty-five feet wide.  On it were many
extremely old faded and broken signs for things such
as a tea company from India, a cruise liner, and a
London insurance company.  Newer posters existed for
Ollivander?s Wands, a Zonko?s joke shop, and a
Honeyduke?s candy shop.  There were also layers of
schedules pasted on top of each other.  The wall above
her was almost two stories high ending in a flat roof.

Other than her grandfather she could only see one
other person ? a boy maybe a little older than she
was.  He was standing at the edge of the platform, to
the left, holding the end of his trunk and moving his
head back and forth as if he was looking for
something.

A train could not be seen.




From hogsmeade at squaredbee.com  Sat Apr 19 21:36:09 2008
From: hogsmeade at squaredbee.com (Patrick McCartney)
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 18:36:09 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Hogwarts Between] NOW, here's the real post.
In-Reply-To: <324985.84956.qm@web38201.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <928556.30131.qm@web901.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com>


--- Tashayar McCarthy <wow_its_tashayar at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> Amber leaned on the car door armrest by the window
> watching the scenery move by. Now, after learning
> all the things she'd only read about in books was
> real and she was in it, a car was a boring hunk of
> metal going forty miles an hour. She closed her eyes
> and pictured the thing she'd be dreaming of ever
> since she saw it, riding a broom. She saw herself
> sweeping threw the air arms outstretched. The
> red-haired child closed her eyes and lifted her face
> to the sky, feeling the rush of wind brush her
> throat and fly into the distance behind her. The
> broom bumped up and back down and Amber?s imaginary
> dream was gone. She cursed under her breath at the
> car for ruining her fun but gave up taking it out on
> the car, knowing it wouldn?t get her anywhere, and
> leaned back on the armrest. 
>   Kings Cross was far away from where Amber lived.
> It was four hours by car, but in Amber?s world it
> must have been at least seven. All the excitement
> made the car ride feel like they were going about
> two miles per hour, each stoplight was painful and
> each bump in the road was a dream killer. Then the
> buildings started to get bigger and London was in
> sight, Amber exploded. She started to talk
> constantly about what her grandfather thought was
> going to happen, where they were going to go, (even
> though she knew) if anyone else they knew was a
> witch/wizard, and any other question you can think
> of about wizardry and didn?t wait for an answer, she
> just needed something to do.
>   The car rolled into the large parking lot with the
> steady stream of words following. The old car
> screeched to a stop and Amber burst out the doors
> and landed on all fours, ready to kiss the ground. A
> few of the people gave a side glance but many kids
> just stopped and stared, mouths agape, before their
> busy mothers pushed them toward the station. Amber?s
> grandfather made his way around the car and offered
> a hand to his granddaughter. Amber got up on her own
> and bolted to the sliding doors at the entrance;
> Phil stayed behind and got the suitcases. 
>   ?Come back and get your things, love!? he called
> holding one of the lighter bags in the air. She had
> almost forgot! Her heart wanted to continue inside
> but her legs thought otherwise. She turned and ran
> back regardless of the excitement gripping her
> chest. Amber carried the two smaller bags and her
> grandfather rolled the large suitcase filled with
> all a witch needs to learn magic. 
>   Amber followed her guardian threw the maze of
> trains and people with no idea of where they were
> going. Her grandfather turned suddenly and headed
> straight for a large barrier with the number nine on
> one side and the number ten on the other. He kept
> walking until he got right next to it and vanished.
> Amber stopped abruptly. This didn?t make since,
> Amber thought, it?s just solid wall. She reached her
> hand out to touch the wall but nothing touched her
> fingertips. Just air. Then the lighting of the room
> suddenly changed and when Amber looked around to see
> what had happened, she was somewhere else. The
> pillar now said 9 ?.

( Sorry, a correction was made to what Amber saw. )


The sudden brightness of the sunlight, after the time
walking through the dark train station, hurt Amber?s
eyes.  As her vision adjusted she looked out onto a
wide platform made of planks of wood painted blue. 
The platform extended about twelve feet in front of
her and ended with a drop-off.  The railroad tracks
emerged from the left corner of the platform and
trailed off into the distant green hills.  Beyond the
platform the shadows of cumulus clouds moved across a
field of grass and trees.

The air smelled of currants and honey.  It was very
quiet.  Only the sounds of the nearby birds could be
heard.

To her right the platform ended less than a couple of
yards away.  Beyond that was a tall wooden fence
painted black with bright orange stars.  She could not
tell how tall the fence was since she could not see
how far off the ground the platform was, but the top
of the fence was well over the height of her
grandfather.  The space between the platform and the
fence was filled in with overgrown bushes and weeds. 
The leaves were green, silver, yellow, purple, and
red.  It was hard to tell if the wind was whipping the
leaves around or they were constantly beating each
other on their own.

To her left the platform continued about twenty-five
feet beyond where she stood.  There were two large
square wooden beams, in a row, painted red, holding up
the right end of a small roof over the edge of the
platform.  The shading roof had blue trim and yellow
roofing tiles.  It extended to back beyond the corner
of a building that was behind her.

Behind her was the red brick side wall of a building
that was twenty-five feet wide.  On it were many
extremely old faded and broken signs for things such
as a tea company from India, a cruise liner, and a
London insurance company.  Newer posters existed for
Ollivander?s Wands, a Zonko?s joke shop, and a
Honeyduke?s candy shop.  There were also layers of
schedules pasted on top of each other.  The wall above
her was almost two stories high ending in a flat roof.

Other than her grandfather she could only see one
other person ? a boy maybe a little older than she
was.  He was standing at the edge of the platform, to
the left, holding the end of his trunk and moving his
head back and forth as if he was looking for
something.

A train could not be seen.






From inuyash8 at yahoo.com  Thu Apr 24 07:05:17 2008
From: inuyash8 at yahoo.com (Paloma McFei)
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:05:17 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Hogwarts Between] getting to the train (Paloma)
Message-ID: <857761.49059.qm@web44910.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>

Paloma and her mom got in their car and drove into the center of Oxford. They drove for a half an hour until they got to the Radcliffe Camera.

the Radcliffe Camera is a old round stone building in the center of Oxford. It also has a copper roof and colums in between every window.

Her mom told her to go through the door shaped indent in the wall between the main entrance and a gated side entrance.

Paloma hesitated and glanced back at her mom every once and a while and saw her egging her on, but eventually she walked through the wall, and arrived inside a train station. Her mom arrived in the train station soon after her.

       
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From margdean at erols.com  Fri Apr 25 15:08:34 2008
From: margdean at erols.com (Margaret Dean)
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:08:34 -0400
Subject: [Hogwarts Between] Platform Nine and Three-Quarters: Cyrus
Message-ID: <48122C32.6AE94252@erols.com>

[OOC:  This was composed by William even though it's being sent
from my email address; Operamail and our home computer are not
playing nicely together at the moment. --MD]

	"Put that bird in its cage!", shouted Daphne Windermere's shrill
voice. The bird in question, Cyrus's owl Barnaby, was flitting
around the ceiling, hooting in a disgruntled manner concerning
the bustle surrounding him. Daphne was attempting to stuff
Cyrus's socks into the already groaning suitcase. 
	"C'mon, Barnaby," coaxed Cyrus. He was standing in the middle of
the room, holding the owl's cage. "It'll just be for a little
while."
	"Lying to your own bird now, eh?" said Gideon, coming through
the door with another hamper of clothes. He and Gerald, Cyrus's
elder brothers, had been drafted into preparing for the departure
to London. "It'll be wonderful," he commented sarcastically to
Gideon, who was coming up behind him. "Five hours in the car with
our darling brother, his owl, and that suitcase. A real joyride."
His voice fairly dripped with with irony.
	"Be nice to your little brother," scolded Daphne. "This is a
very big day for him." She scowled menacingly at the brothers,
who shuffled their feet and retreated downstairs. They nearly ran
into Eugene, who was coming up with a grin plastered on his face.
	"Hullo, folks!" he commented brightly. "How's it coming?" Daphne
muttered something heated under her breath, which luckily no one
could hear.
	"We're fine, dad," replied Cyrus, who was shutting the door of
Barnaby's cage.
	"So you're finally going to Hogwarts," Eugene said to Cyrus in a
low voice. "How do you feel? Excited? Nervous? Scared?"
	"I... uh... I'm fine, dad," said Cyrus. 
	"Good," said his father cheerily, clapping Cyrus's shoulder.
"Time to go!"

	The ride to London was unpleasant, to say the least. Everyone in
the small, shabby car was constantly hitting each other and
various of Cyrus's possessions with elbows and feet. Barnaby kept
up an almost constant ruckus throughout, putting everyone's
tempers on edge.
	Cyrus, though, spent most of the journey in silent
contemplation. He pretended to pore over his school books, often
not noticing that he had reread the same paragraph five times. He
finally gave up and pulled out his wand. The slight prickle in
his fingers as he held it told him that it was no ordinary length
of wood. "Ten inches, willow, with a unicorn's tail hair,"
Ollivander had told him. "Nice and flexible, and wonderful for
charms." Cyrus slowly rolled it over his fingers, feeling the
faint power that rested in it.
	His reverie was shattered by a sudden jolt, as the car rolled
into King's Cross Station. "Here we are!" said Eugene, and the
Windermeres piled out of the car almost before it stopped moving.
Daphne went off to find a cart, while the others began unloading. 
	"What do you have in this bag," asked Gideon in disbelief.
"Bricks?"
	"No, that's the one with my books and cauldron," Cyrus replied. 
	The immense pile of luggage barely managed to be crammed into
the cart. Eventually, though, Eugene trundled it off towards the
platforms, Barnaby's cage balanced precariously on top. Eugene
whistled unmusically as he walked, the rest of the family
straggling along behind him. "Platform 7, Platform 8, Platform
9... aha, here we are!" he said. "Here" was an imposing brick
barrier between platforms 9 and 10. The other Windermeres looked
at him as though he were insane. And rightfully so, as he began
to push the cart directly towards the barrier, gathering speed.
"Eugene, stop!" shouted Daphne. And then he was gone, as though
he had vanished into the bricks.
	Minutes, passed and Daphne had a look of horror on her face.
Finally, Eugene popped back into view. "Well," he said
impatiently. "What are you guys waiting for?" He was a bit
surprised whn his wife rushed into his arms and hugged him
fiercely. "Where did you go?" she asked scoldingly. "Where's
Cyrus's cart?"
	"Oh..." said Eugene, realizing that he had never explained
Platform 9 and 3/4. He proceeded to do so quickly, and then
demonstrated by having Cyrus lean against the barrier. He did so,
and disappeared.
	
	Cyrus found himself swept into a crowd of people. He looked back
and saw nothing but a plain brick wall. Suddenly, Eugene swept
out of nowhere and took him by the arm. He began to steer Cyrus
through the press of people towards the cart, guided by Barnaby's
faint hooting. Cyrus looked around himself, and couldn't help but
snicker at the odd assortment of clothes people were wearing. One
man had managed to put the coat of his 3-piece suit on backwards,
and was trying to figure out what he couldn't move his arms.
Another gentleman, wearing a flower-patterned evening dress, was
talking to a lady in knickerbockers and a one-piece bathing suit.
	But as he approached the front of the crowd with his cart, his
attention was rivetted to the scarlet train that stood, hissing
and steaming, by the edge of the platform.


From webmaster at squaredbee.com  Fri Apr 25 22:00:39 2008
From: webmaster at squaredbee.com (=?utf-8?B?UGF0cmljaw==?=)
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 02:00:39 +0000
Subject: [Hogwarts Between] getting to the train (Paloma)
In-Reply-To: <857761.49059.qm@web44910.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>
References: <857761.49059.qm@web44910.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <2042895870-1209175237-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-632461873-@bxe132.bisx.prod.on.blackberry>

Paloma walked onto a quiet platform.
 
In front of her she could see a girl that looked her age standing with an old man.

To her left was the corner of a brick walled building.  Other students and their parents walk around the corner of the building.  They looked anxious, as if they were uncertain or didn't know what to do..



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-----Original Message-----
From: Paloma McFei <inuyash8 at yahoo.com>

Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:05:17 
To:hogwartsbetween at gamera.cc
Subject: [Hogwarts Between] getting to the train (Paloma)


Paloma and her mom got in their car and drove into the center of Oxford. They drove for a half an hour until they got to the Radcliffe Camera.

the Radcliffe Camera is a old round stone building in the center of Oxford. It also has a copper roof and colums in between every window.

Her mom told her to go through the door shaped indent in the wall between the main entrance and a gated side entrance.

Paloma hesitated and glanced back at her mom every once and a while and saw her egging her on, but eventually she walked through the wall, and arrived inside a train station. Her mom arrived in the train station soon after her.

 
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From wow_its_tashayar at yahoo.com  Sun Apr 27 19:49:13 2008
From: wow_its_tashayar at yahoo.com (Tashayar McCarthy)
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:49:13 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Hogwarts Between] NOW, here's the real post.
In-Reply-To: <928556.30131.qm@web901.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <42019.93740.qm@web38205.mail.mud.yahoo.com>



Patrick McCartney <hogsmeade at squaredbee.com> wrote:    
--- Tashayar McCarthy 
wrote:

> Amber leaned on the car door armrest by the window
> watching the scenery move by. Now, after learning
> all the things she'd only read about in books was
> real and she was in it, a car was a boring hunk of
> metal going forty miles an hour. She closed her eyes
> and pictured the thing she'd be dreaming of ever
> since she saw it, riding a broom. She saw herself
> sweeping threw the air arms outstretched. The
> red-haired child closed her eyes and lifted her face
> to the sky, feeling the rush of wind brush her
> throat and fly into the distance behind her. The
> broom bumped up and back down and Amber?s imaginary
> dream was gone. She cursed under her breath at the
> car for ruining her fun but gave up taking it out on
> the car, knowing it wouldn?t get her anywhere, and
> leaned back on the armrest. 
> Kings Cross was far away from where Amber lived.
> It was four hours by car, but in Amber?s world it
> must have been at least seven. All the excitement
> made the car ride feel like they were going about
> two miles per hour, each stoplight was painful and
> each bump in the road was a dream killer. Then the
> buildings started to get bigger and London was in
> sight, Amber exploded. She started to talk
> constantly about what her grandfather thought was
> going to happen, where they were going to go, (even
> though she knew) if anyone else they knew was a
> witch/wizard, and any other question you can think
> of about wizardry and didn?t wait for an answer, she
> just needed something to do.
> The car rolled into the large parking lot with the
> steady stream of words following. The old car
> screeched to a stop and Amber burst out the doors
> and landed on all fours, ready to kiss the ground. A
> few of the people gave a side glance but many kids
> just stopped and stared, mouths agape, before their
> busy mothers pushed them toward the station. Amber?s
> grandfather made his way around the car and offered
> a hand to his granddaughter. Amber got up on her own
> and bolted to the sliding doors at the entrance;
> Phil stayed behind and got the suitcases. 
> ?Come back and get your things, love!? he called
> holding one of the lighter bags in the air. She had
> almost forgot! Her heart wanted to continue inside
> but her legs thought otherwise. She turned and ran
> back regardless of the excitement gripping her
> chest. Amber carried the two smaller bags and her
> grandfather rolled the large suitcase filled with
> all a witch needs to learn magic. 
> Amber followed her guardian threw the maze of
> trains and people with no idea of where they were
> going. Her grandfather turned suddenly and headed
> straight for a large barrier with the number nine on
> one side and the number ten on the other. He kept
> walking until he got right next to it and vanished.
> Amber stopped abruptly. This didn?t make since,
> Amber thought, it?s just solid wall. She reached her
> hand out to touch the wall but nothing touched her
> fingertips. Just air. Then the lighting of the room
> suddenly changed and when Amber looked around to see
> what had happened, she was somewhere else. The
> pillar now said 9 ?.

( Sorry, a correction was made to what Amber saw. )


The sudden brightness of the sunlight, after the time
walking through the dark train station, hurt Amber?s
eyes. As her vision adjusted she looked out onto a
wide platform made of planks of wood painted blue. 
The platform extended about twelve feet in front of
her and ended with a drop-off. The railroad tracks
emerged from the left corner of the platform and
trailed off into the distant green hills. Beyond the
platform the shadows of cumulus clouds moved across a
field of grass and trees.

The air smelled of currants and honey. It was very
quiet. Only the sounds of the nearby birds could be
heard.

To her right the platform ended less than a couple of
yards away. Beyond that was a tall wooden fence
painted black with bright orange stars. She could not
tell how tall the fence was since she could not see
how far off the ground the platform was, but the top
of the fence was well over the height of her
grandfather. The space between the platform and the
fence was filled in with overgrown bushes and weeds. 
The leaves were green, silver, yellow, purple, and
red. It was hard to tell if the wind was whipping the
leaves around or they were constantly beating each
other on their own.

To her left the platform continued about twenty-five
feet beyond where she stood. There were two large
square wooden beams, in a row, painted red, holding up
the right end of a small roof over the edge of the
platform. The shading roof had blue trim and yellow
roofing tiles. It extended to back beyond the corner
of a building that was behind her.

Behind her was the red brick side wall of a building
that was twenty-five feet wide. On it were many
extremely old faded and broken signs for things such
as a tea company from India, a cruise liner, and a
London insurance company. Newer posters existed for
Ollivander?s Wands, a Zonko?s joke shop, and a
Honeyduke?s candy shop. There were also layers of
schedules pasted on top of each other. The wall above
her was almost two stories high ending in a flat roof.

Other than her grandfather she could only see one
other person ? a boy maybe a little older than she
was. He was standing at the edge of the platform, to
the left, holding the end of his trunk and moving his
head back and forth as if he was looking for
something.

A train could not be seen.



   
   
  Amber looked back and fourth many times then waved her hand threw the air to see if the train was invisible. The wizarding world holds many things she had never heard before, so she was just checking to see if invisiblity was one of them. She turned to the boy on the other end of the platform and called out "Oi! Are we late or something!?"

       
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From: hogsmeade at squaredbee.com (Patrick McCartney)
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 17:06:21 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Hogwarts Between] Platform Nine and Three-Quarters: Cyrus
In-Reply-To: <48122C32.6AE94252@erols.com>
Message-ID: <68063.82057.qm@web901.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com>


--- Margaret Dean <margdean at erols.com> wrote:

> [OOC:  This was composed by William even though it's
> being sent
> from my email address; Operamail and our home
> computer are not
> playing nicely together at the moment. --MD]
> 
> 	"Put that bird in its cage!", shouted Daphne
> Windermere's shrill
> voice. The bird in question, Cyrus's owl Barnaby,
> was flitting
> around the ceiling, hooting in a disgruntled manner
> concerning
> the bustle surrounding him. Daphne was attempting to
> stuff
> Cyrus's socks into the already groaning suitcase. 
> 	"C'mon, Barnaby," coaxed Cyrus. He was standing in
> the middle of
> the room, holding the owl's cage. "It'll just be for
> a little
> while."
> 	"Lying to your own bird now, eh?" said Gideon,
> coming through
> the door with another hamper of clothes. He and
> Gerald, Cyrus's
> elder brothers, had been drafted into preparing for
> the departure
> to London. "It'll be wonderful," he commented
> sarcastically to
> Gideon, who was coming up behind him. "Five hours in
> the car with
> our darling brother, his owl, and that suitcase. A
> real joyride."
> His voice fairly dripped with with irony.
> 	"Be nice to your little brother," scolded Daphne.
> "This is a
> very big day for him." She scowled menacingly at the
> brothers,
> who shuffled their feet and retreated downstairs.
> They nearly ran
> into Eugene, who was coming up with a grin plastered
> on his face.
> 	"Hullo, folks!" he commented brightly. "How's it
> coming?" Daphne
> muttered something heated under her breath, which
> luckily no one
> could hear.
> 	"We're fine, dad," replied Cyrus, who was shutting
> the door of
> Barnaby's cage.
> 	"So you're finally going to Hogwarts," Eugene said
> to Cyrus in a
> low voice. "How do you feel? Excited? Nervous?
> Scared?"
> 	"I... uh... I'm fine, dad," said Cyrus. 
> 	"Good," said his father cheerily, clapping Cyrus's
> shoulder.
> "Time to go!"
> 
> 	The ride to London was unpleasant, to say the
> least. Everyone in
> the small, shabby car was constantly hitting each
> other and
> various of Cyrus's possessions with elbows and feet.
> Barnaby kept
> up an almost constant ruckus throughout, putting
> everyone's
> tempers on edge.
> 	Cyrus, though, spent most of the journey in silent
> contemplation. He pretended to pore over his school
> books, often
> not noticing that he had reread the same paragraph
> five times. He
> finally gave up and pulled out his wand. The slight
> prickle in
> his fingers as he held it told him that it was no
> ordinary length
> of wood. "Ten inches, willow, with a unicorn's tail
> hair,"
> Ollivander had told him. "Nice and flexible, and
> wonderful for
> charms." Cyrus slowly rolled it over his fingers,
> feeling the
> faint power that rested in it.
> 	His reverie was shattered by a sudden jolt, as the
> car rolled
> into King's Cross Station. "Here we are!" said
> Eugene, and the
> Windermeres piled out of the car almost before it
> stopped moving.
> Daphne went off to find a cart, while the others
> began unloading. 
> 	"What do you have in this bag," asked Gideon in
> disbelief.
> "Bricks?"
> 	"No, that's the one with my books and cauldron,"
> Cyrus replied. 
> 	The immense pile of luggage barely managed to be
> crammed into
> the cart. Eventually, though, Eugene trundled it off
> towards the
> platforms, Barnaby's cage balanced precariously on
> top. Eugene
> whistled unmusically as he walked, the rest of the
> family
> straggling along behind him. "Platform 7, Platform
> 8, Platform
> 9... aha, here we are!" he said. "Here" was an
> imposing brick
> barrier between platforms 9 and 10. The other
> Windermeres looked
> at him as though he were insane. And rightfully so,
> as he began
> to push the cart directly towards the barrier,
> gathering speed.
> "Eugene, stop!" shouted Daphne. And then he was
> gone, as though
> he had vanished into the bricks.
> 	Minutes, passed and Daphne had a look of horror on
> her face.
> Finally, Eugene popped back into view. "Well," he
> said
> impatiently. "What are you guys waiting for?" He was
> a bit
> surprised whn his wife rushed into his arms and
> hugged him
> fiercely. "Where did you go?" she asked scoldingly.
> "Where's
> Cyrus's cart?"
> 	"Oh..." said Eugene, realizing that he had never
> explained
> Platform 9 and 3/4. He proceeded to do so quickly,
> and then
> demonstrated by having Cyrus lean against the
> barrier. He did so,
> and disappeared.
> 	
> 	Cyrus found himself swept into a crowd of people.
> He looked back
> and saw nothing but a plain brick wall. Suddenly,
> Eugene swept
> out of nowhere and took him by the arm. He began to
> steer Cyrus
> through the press of people towards the cart, guided
> by Barnaby's
> faint hooting. Cyrus looked around himself, and
> couldn't help but
> snicker at the odd assortment of clothes people were
> wearing. One
> man had managed to put the coat of his 3-piece suit
> on backwards,
> and was trying to figure out what he couldn't move
> his arms.
> Another gentleman, wearing a flower-patterned
> evening dress, was
> talking to a lady in knickerbockers and a one-piece
> bathing suit.

[ Rollback:  The descriptions of the people who have
arrived is very good.  We need to roll back the last
paragraph.  The train can't be seen at this time. ]


In front and to the left of Cyrus is one girl about
his age with an old man.  Just in front of him is
another girl about his age with a lady.  To his right
is a black fence.  To his left there is the corner of
the brick building that is behind him.  Beyond the
corner is a boy holding onto a trunk and looking back
and forth as if he is looking for something.  Everyone
has an expresion of concern.  They are all mulling
around as if they do not know what to do.

Cyrus can't see any train.





From hogsmeade at squaredbee.com  Sun Apr 27 20:15:08 2008
From: hogsmeade at squaredbee.com (Patrick McCartney)
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 17:15:08 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Hogwarts Between] Amber gets to the train.
In-Reply-To: <42019.93740.qm@web38205.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <270178.71140.qm@web904.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com>


--- Tashayar McCarthy <wow_its_tashayar at yahoo.com>
wrote:


> ( Sorry, a correction was made to what Amber saw. )
> 
> 
> The sudden brightness of the sunlight, after the
> time
> walking through the dark train station, hurt Amber?s
> eyes. As her vision adjusted she looked out onto a
> wide platform made of planks of wood painted blue. 
> The platform extended about twelve feet in front of
> her and ended with a drop-off. The railroad tracks
> emerged from the left corner of the platform and
> trailed off into the distant green hills. Beyond the
> platform the shadows of cumulus clouds moved across
> a
> field of grass and trees.
> 
> The air smelled of currants and honey. It was very
> quiet. Only the sounds of the nearby birds could be
> heard.
> 
> To her right the platform ended less than a couple
> of
> yards away. Beyond that was a tall wooden fence
> painted black with bright orange stars. She could
> not
> tell how tall the fence was since she could not see
> how far off the ground the platform was, but the top
> of the fence was well over the height of her
> grandfather. The space between the platform and the
> fence was filled in with overgrown bushes and weeds.
> 
> The leaves were green, silver, yellow, purple, and
> red. It was hard to tell if the wind was whipping
> the
> leaves around or they were constantly beating each
> other on their own.
> 
> To her left the platform continued about twenty-five
> feet beyond where she stood. There were two large
> square wooden beams, in a row, painted red, holding
> up
> the right end of a small roof over the edge of the
> platform. The shading roof had blue trim and yellow
> roofing tiles. It extended to back beyond the corner
> of a building that was behind her.
> 
> Behind her was the red brick side wall of a building
> that was twenty-five feet wide. On it were many
> extremely old faded and broken signs for things such
> as a tea company from India, a cruise liner, and a
> London insurance company. Newer posters existed for
> Ollivander?s Wands, a Zonko?s joke shop, and a
> Honeyduke?s candy shop. There were also layers of
> schedules pasted on top of each other. The wall
> above
> her was almost two stories high ending in a flat
> roof.
> 
> Other than her grandfather she could only see one
> other person ? a boy maybe a little older than she
> was. He was standing at the edge of the platform, to
> the left, holding the end of his trunk and moving
> his
> head back and forth as if he was looking for
> something.
> 
> A train could not be seen.
> 
> 
> 
>    
>    
>   Amber looked back and fourth many times then waved
> her hand threw the air to see if the train was
> invisible. The wizarding world holds many things she
> had never heard before, so she was just checking to
> see if invisiblity was one of them. She turned to
> the boy on the other end of the platform and called
> out "Oi! Are we late or something!?"


The boy responds: "Unheard of!  Where is it?"

  


From wow_its_tashayar at yahoo.com  Sun Apr 27 20:19:44 2008
From: wow_its_tashayar at yahoo.com (Tashayar McCarthy)
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 17:19:44 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Hogwarts Between] Amber gets to the train.
In-Reply-To: <270178.71140.qm@web904.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <545879.5971.qm@web38208.mail.mud.yahoo.com>



Patrick McCartney <hogsmeade at squaredbee.com> wrote:    
--- Tashayar McCarthy 
wrote:


> ( Sorry, a correction was made to what Amber saw. )
> 
> 
> The sudden brightness of the sunlight, after the
> time
> walking through the dark train station, hurt Amber?s
> eyes. As her vision adjusted she looked out onto a
> wide platform made of planks of wood painted blue. 
> The platform extended about twelve feet in front of
> her and ended with a drop-off. The railroad tracks
> emerged from the left corner of the platform and
> trailed off into the distant green hills. Beyond the
> platform the shadows of cumulus clouds moved across
> a
> field of grass and trees.
> 
> The air smelled of currants and honey. It was very
> quiet. Only the sounds of the nearby birds could be
> heard.
> 
> To her right the platform ended less than a couple
> of
> yards away. Beyond that was a tall wooden fence
> painted black with bright orange stars. She could
> not
> tell how tall the fence was since she could not see
> how far off the ground the platform was, but the top
> of the fence was well over the height of her
> grandfather. The space between the platform and the
> fence was filled in with overgrown bushes and weeds.
> 
> The leaves were green, silver, yellow, purple, and
> red. It was hard to tell if the wind was whipping
> the
> leaves around or they were constantly beating each
> other on their own.
> 
> To her left the platform continued about twenty-five
> feet beyond where she stood. There were two large
> square wooden beams, in a row, painted red, holding
> up
> the right end of a small roof over the edge of the
> platform. The shading roof had blue trim and yellow
> roofing tiles. It extended to back beyond the corner
> of a building that was behind her.
> 
> Behind her was the red brick side wall of a building
> that was twenty-five feet wide. On it were many
> extremely old faded and broken signs for things such
> as a tea company from India, a cruise liner, and a
> London insurance company. Newer posters existed for
> Ollivander?s Wands, a Zonko?s joke shop, and a
> Honeyduke?s candy shop. There were also layers of
> schedules pasted on top of each other. The wall
> above
> her was almost two stories high ending in a flat
> roof.
> 
> Other than her grandfather she could only see one
> other person ? a boy maybe a little older than she
> was. He was standing at the edge of the platform, to
> the left, holding the end of his trunk and moving
> his
> head back and forth as if he was looking for
> something.
> 
> A train could not be seen.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Amber looked back and fourth many times then waved
> her hand threw the air to see if the train was
> invisible. The wizarding world holds many things she
> had never heard before, so she was just checking to
> see if invisiblity was one of them. She turned to
> the boy on the other end of the platform and called
> out "Oi! Are we late or something!?"


The boy responds: "Unheard of! Where is it?"

   
   
  "Why do you think I asked you?" replied Amber


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From hogsmeade at squaredbee.com  Sun Apr 27 20:35:27 2008
From: hogsmeade at squaredbee.com (Patrick McCartney)
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 17:35:27 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Hogwarts Between] Amber gets to the train.
In-Reply-To: <545879.5971.qm@web38208.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <519012.7295.qm@web901.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com>


--- Tashayar McCarthy <wow_its_tashayar at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> > 
> > The sudden brightness of the sunlight, after the
> > time
> > walking through the dark train station, hurt
> Amber?s
> > eyes. As her vision adjusted she looked out onto a
> > wide platform made of planks of wood painted blue.
> 
> > The platform extended about twelve feet in front
> of
> > her and ended with a drop-off. The railroad tracks
> > emerged from the left corner of the platform and
> > trailed off into the distant green hills. Beyond
> the
> > platform the shadows of cumulus clouds moved
> across
> > a
> > field of grass and trees.
> > 
> > The air smelled of currants and honey. It was very
> > quiet. Only the sounds of the nearby birds could
> be
> > heard.
> > 
> > To her right the platform ended less than a couple
> > of
> > yards away. Beyond that was a tall wooden fence
> > painted black with bright orange stars. She could
> > not
> > tell how tall the fence was since she could not
> see
> > how far off the ground the platform was, but the
> top
> > of the fence was well over the height of her
> > grandfather. The space between the platform and
> the
> > fence was filled in with overgrown bushes and
> weeds.
> > 
> > The leaves were green, silver, yellow, purple, and
> > red. It was hard to tell if the wind was whipping
> > the
> > leaves around or they were constantly beating each
> > other on their own.
> > 
> > To her left the platform continued about
> twenty-five
> > feet beyond where she stood. There were two large
> > square wooden beams, in a row, painted red,
> holding
> > up
> > the right end of a small roof over the edge of the
> > platform. The shading roof had blue trim and
> yellow
> > roofing tiles. It extended to back beyond the
> corner
> > of a building that was behind her.
> > 
> > Behind her was the red brick side wall of a
> building
> > that was twenty-five feet wide. On it were many
> > extremely old faded and broken signs for things
> such
> > as a tea company from India, a cruise liner, and a
> > London insurance company. Newer posters existed
> for
> > Ollivander?s Wands, a Zonko?s joke shop, and a
> > Honeyduke?s candy shop. There were also layers of
> > schedules pasted on top of each other. The wall
> > above
> > her was almost two stories high ending in a flat
> > roof.
> > 
> > Other than her grandfather she could only see one
> > other person ? a boy maybe a little older than she
> > was. He was standing at the edge of the platform,
> to
> > the left, holding the end of his trunk and moving
> > his
> > head back and forth as if he was looking for
> > something.
> > 
> > A train could not be seen.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Amber looked back and fourth many times then waved
> > her hand threw the air to see if the train was
> > invisible. The wizarding world holds many things
> she
> > had never heard before, so she was just checking
> to
> > see if invisiblity was one of them. She turned to
> > the boy on the other end of the platform and
> called
> > out "Oi! Are we late or something!?"
> 
> 
> The boy responds: "Unheard of! Where is it?"
> 
>    
>    
>   "Why do you think I asked you?" replied Amber



"That's rude!" the boy response with a sneer back to
Amber.  "The train is not here.  What is going on?"

The boy stomps off to the far end of the train station
draging his trunk behind him.






From wow_its_tashayar at yahoo.com  Sun Apr 27 21:05:22 2008
From: wow_its_tashayar at yahoo.com (Tashayar McCarthy)
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:05:22 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Hogwarts Between] Amber gets to the train.
In-Reply-To: <519012.7295.qm@web901.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <473386.42053.qm@web38204.mail.mud.yahoo.com>



Patrick McCartney <hogsmeade at squaredbee.com> wrote:    
--- Tashayar McCarthy 
wrote:

> > 
> > The sudden brightness of the sunlight, after the
> > time
> > walking through the dark train station, hurt
> Amber?s
> > eyes. As her vision adjusted she looked out onto a
> > wide platform made of planks of wood painted blue.
> 
> > The platform extended about twelve feet in front
> of
> > her and ended with a drop-off. The railroad tracks
> > emerged from the left corner of the platform and
> > trailed off into the distant green hills. Beyond
> the
> > platform the shadows of cumulus clouds moved
> across
> > a
> > field of grass and trees.
> > 
> > The air smelled of currants and honey. It was very
> > quiet. Only the sounds of the nearby birds could
> be
> > heard.
> > 
> > To her right the platform ended less than a couple
> > of
> > yards away. Beyond that was a tall wooden fence
> > painted black with bright orange stars. She could
> > not
> > tell how tall the fence was since she could not
> see
> > how far off the ground the platform was, but the
> top
> > of the fence was well over the height of her
> > grandfather. The space between the platform and
> the
> > fence was filled in with overgrown bushes and
> weeds.
> > 
> > The leaves were green, silver, yellow, purple, and
> > red. It was hard to tell if the wind was whipping
> > the
> > leaves around or they were constantly beating each
> > other on their own.
> > 
> > To her left the platform continued about
> twenty-five
> > feet beyond where she stood. There were two large
> > square wooden beams, in a row, painted red,
> holding
> > up
> > the right end of a small roof over the edge of the
> > platform. The shading roof had blue trim and
> yellow
> > roofing tiles. It extended to back beyond the
> corner
> > of a building that was behind her.
> > 
> > Behind her was the red brick side wall of a
> building
> > that was twenty-five feet wide. On it were many
> > extremely old faded and broken signs for things
> such
> > as a tea company from India, a cruise liner, and a
> > London insurance company. Newer posters existed
> for
> > Ollivander?s Wands, a Zonko?s joke shop, and a
> > Honeyduke?s candy shop. There were also layers of
> > schedules pasted on top of each other. The wall
> > above
> > her was almost two stories high ending in a flat
> > roof.
> > 
> > Other than her grandfather she could only see one
> > other person ? a boy maybe a little older than she
> > was. He was standing at the edge of the platform,
> to
> > the left, holding the end of his trunk and moving
> > his
> > head back and forth as if he was looking for
> > something.
> > 
> > A train could not be seen.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Amber looked back and fourth many times then waved
> > her hand threw the air to see if the train was
> > invisible. The wizarding world holds many things
> she
> > had never heard before, so she was just checking
> to
> > see if invisiblity was one of them. She turned to
> > the boy on the other end of the platform and
> called
> > out "Oi! Are we late or something!?"
> 
> 
> The boy responds: "Unheard of! Where is it?"
> 
> 
> 
> "Why do you think I asked you?" replied Amber



"That's rude!" the boy response with a sneer back to
Amber. "The train is not here. What is going on?"

The boy stomps off to the far end of the train station
draging his trunk behind him.



   
   
   
  "Last time I checked that wasn't rude!" Amber shouted across the station, hands on hips, "what's wrong with you!?"


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From outcast.zeta at gmail.com  Tue Apr 29 17:52:32 2008
From: outcast.zeta at gmail.com (Zack Kunkel)
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:52:32 -0400
Subject: [Hogwarts Between] Train Hopping
Message-ID: <4f9174a0804291452ra68708emb2a60447f65375@mail.gmail.com>

His Train, had been running late.

Kadyn's parents had come up with the brilliant idea of letting him stay with
there
muggle parents, starting right after their trip to Diagon Alley. After a
dreadfully boring
time there, he found out that he would have to take a two hour train ride to
Kings Cross,
Alone.

But his unaccompanied trip brought its own problems, as the muggles
questioned his
strange cargo. Kadyn told them that he was going to attend a funeral, and
that the
items in question belonged to the deceased. It got them to allow his trunk
and such on
the train, but people kept checking up on the young boy traveling alone.

The ride was extremely boring, because he couldn't do anything. Kadyn
couldn't read any of
his school books, in fear that one of the women who kept an eye on him would
inquire
about the book, and he couldn't even play with Hesetu, because he had been
instructed
to keep him in his cage at all times.

Plus, they were running late. Kaydn finally arrived on the platform, twenty
minutes after
the planned arrival time, and made a bee-line for Platform 9.

His father had told him that the platform was in the stone column in between
platforms
9 and 10. He hadn't thought to ask about it at the time, and regretted it
now. Kadyn reached
out and touched it, and felt himself get pulled through the column onto the
platform.

Kadyn looked around for anyone who looked familar, and walked casually
through the
platform. He came to the wall with the flyers for the various Diagon Alley
and Hogsmeade
stores, and posted one for his parents cafe

Looking at it proudly, Kadyn then turned and walked toward the edge of the
platform,
and realized the train wasn't there yet. He felt silly for rushing here, but
his thoughts were
interrupted by two people fighting down the way.
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From outcast.zeta at gmail.com  Tue Apr 29 17:59:46 2008
From: outcast.zeta at gmail.com (Zack Kunkel)
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:59:46 -0400
Subject: [Hogwarts Between] Train Hopping
In-Reply-To: <4f9174a0804291452ra68708emb2a60447f65375@mail.gmail.com>
References: <4f9174a0804291452ra68708emb2a60447f65375@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4f9174a0804291459n586b5065ud78e3d601a87558c@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 5:52 PM, Zack Kunkel <outcast.zeta at gmail.com> wrote:

> His Train, had been running late.
>
> Kadyn's parents had come up with the brilliant idea of letting him stay
> with there
> muggle parents, starting right after their trip to Diagon Alley. After a
> dreadfully boring
> time there, he found out that he would have to take a two hour train ride
> to Kings Cross,
> Alone.
>
> But his unaccompanied trip brought its own problems, as the muggles
> questioned his
> strange cargo. Kadyn told them that he was going to attend a funeral, and
> that the
> items in question belonged to the deceased. It got them to allow his trunk
> and such on
> the train, but people kept checking up on the young boy traveling alone.
>
> The ride was extremely boring, because he couldn't do anything. Kadyn
> couldn't read any of
> his school books, in fear that one of the women who kept an eye on him
> would inquire
> about the book, and he couldn't even play with Hesetu, because he had been
> instructed
> to keep him in his cage at all times.
>
> Plus, they were running late. Kaydn finally arrived on the platform,
> twenty minutes after
> the planned arrival time, and made a bee-line for Platform 9.
>
> His father had told him that the platform was in the stone column in
> between platforms
> 9 and 10. He hadn't thought to ask about it at the time, and regretted it
> now. Kadyn reached
> out and touched it, and felt himself get pulled through the column onto
> the platform.
>
> Kadyn looked around for anyone who looked familar, and walked casually
> through the
> platform. He came to the wall with the flyers for the various Diagon Alley
> and Hogsmeade
> stores, and posted one for his parents cafe
>
> Looking at it proudly, Kadyn then turned and walked toward the edge of the
> platform,
> and realized the train wasn't there yet. He felt silly for rushing here,
> but his thoughts were
> interrupted by two people fighting down the way.
>

[OOC: sorry, forgot something]

He recognized one of the voices, and called down towards the two people.
"Already in a fight, Amber?"
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From hogsmeade at squaredbee.com  Tue Apr 29 19:13:09 2008
From: hogsmeade at squaredbee.com (Patrick McCartney)
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:13:09 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Hogwarts Between] Amber gets to the train.
In-Reply-To: <473386.42053.qm@web38204.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <196927.59659.qm@web905.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com>


--- Tashayar McCarthy <wow_its_tashayar at yahoo.com>
wrote:



> > > 
> > > Amber looked back and fourth many times then
> waved
> > > her hand threw the air to see if the train was
> > > invisible. The wizarding world holds many things
> > she
> > > had never heard before, so she was just checking
> > to
> > > see if invisiblity was one of them. She turned
> to
> > > the boy on the other end of the platform and
> > called
> > > out "Oi! Are we late or something!?"
> > 
> > 
> > The boy responds: "Unheard of! Where is it?"
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > "Why do you think I asked you?" replied Amber
> 
> 
> 
> "That's rude!" the boy response with a sneer back to
> Amber. "The train is not here. What is going on?"
> 
> The boy stomps off to the far end of the train
> station
> draging his trunk behind him.
> 
> 
> 
>    
>    
>    
>   "Last time I checked that wasn't rude!" Amber
> shouted across the station, hands on hips, "what's
> wrong with you!?"
> 


As Amber shouts at the boy she can see down the front
of the train station.  The blue planks of the
platform, as well as the empty train tracks to her
right, trail off into the distance.  Above her, held
up by posts, going down the edge of the platform, is a
roof that is feebly attempting to provide shade to
those standing on the platform.  Now, the shade is
mostly provided to the front of the station building.

The number of people at the station is growing very
quickly.  The boy is soon lost in the crowd.

Through the multitude she can see that the the station
goes down about fifty feet.  On the near and far
corners are very large poofy couches.  The far couch
has several thirteen or fourteen year old boys leaning
and jumping on it.  On the near couch sits a very
pudgy man with a round face and very short hair.

The front of the train station has three large
windows.  There is a line of people in front of each
of them.  The farthest one has the shortest line of
people, while the middle one has by far the longest
line of people, and these people seemed to really want
something that is there.  In this line parents are
standing quietly while many of the children are
jumping up and down.

Beyond the third window she sees what looks like a
very tall and wide opening.  Puffs of green smoke and
streams of people are constantly coming out of it.







From hogsmeade at squaredbee.com  Tue Apr 29 19:36:54 2008
From: hogsmeade at squaredbee.com (Patrick McCartney)
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:36:54 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Hogwarts Between] Train Hopping
In-Reply-To: <4f9174a0804291459n586b5065ud78e3d601a87558c@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <788413.85562.qm@web906.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com>


--- Zack Kunkel <outcast.zeta at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 5:52 PM, Zack Kunkel
> <outcast.zeta at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > His Train, had been running late.
> >
> > Kadyn's parents had come up with the brilliant
> idea of letting him stay
> > with there
> > muggle parents, starting right after their trip to
> Diagon Alley. After a
> > dreadfully boring
> > time there, he found out that he would have to
> take a two hour train ride
> > to Kings Cross,
> > Alone.
> >
> > But his unaccompanied trip brought its own
> problems, as the muggles
> > questioned his
> > strange cargo. Kadyn told them that he was going
> to attend a funeral, and
> > that the
> > items in question belonged to the deceased. It got
> them to allow his trunk
> > and such on
> > the train, but people kept checking up on the
> young boy traveling alone.
> >
> > The ride was extremely boring, because he couldn't
> do anything. Kadyn
> > couldn't read any of
> > his school books, in fear that one of the women
> who kept an eye on him
> > would inquire
> > about the book, and he couldn't even play with
> Hesetu, because he had been
> > instructed
> > to keep him in his cage at all times.
> >
> > Plus, they were running late. Kaydn finally
> arrived on the platform,
> > twenty minutes after
> > the planned arrival time, and made a bee-line for
> Platform 9.
> >
> > His father had told him that the platform was in
> the stone column in
> > between platforms
> > 9 and 10. He hadn't thought to ask about it at the
> time, and regretted it
> > now. Kadyn reached
> > out and touched it, and felt himself get pulled
> through the column onto
> > the platform.
> >
> > Kadyn looked around for anyone who looked familar,
> and walked casually
> > through the
> > platform. He came to the wall with the flyers for
> the various Diagon Alley
> > and Hogsmeade
> > stores, and posted one for his parents cafe
> >
> > Looking at it proudly, Kadyn then turned and
> walked toward the edge of the
> > platform,
> > and realized the train wasn't there yet. He felt
> silly for rushing here,
> > but his thoughts were
> > interrupted by two people fighting down the way.
> >
> 
> [OOC: sorry, forgot something]
> 
> He recognized one of the voices, and called down
> towards the two people.
> "Already in a fight, Amber?"


As Kadyn shouted a woman walking with an elderly man
stepped right in front of him.  

"Please!" the lady scolded as she glared at Kadyn. 
The shock had startled her.  The lady had very long
straight black hair, was wearing a yellow hooded
cloak, and was carrying what looked like a large glass
ball.  The old man had long curly gray hair, clean
shaven, and wearing a purple ruffled cloak tied with a
red cape.

She stood there glaring at Kadyn as if to ensure that
it would stick forever in his mind before she moved
on.  As she was walking away he could hear her talking
to the old man:  "I told you I had a bad feeling.  I
had a dream that this happened.  It was caused by a
visitor 
."  Her voice trailed away.






From hogsmeade at squaredbee.com  Tue Apr 29 19:36:55 2008
From: hogsmeade at squaredbee.com (Patrick McCartney)
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:36:55 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Hogwarts Between] Train Hopping
In-Reply-To: <4f9174a0804291459n586b5065ud78e3d601a87558c@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <22854.95184.qm@web905.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com>


--- Zack Kunkel <outcast.zeta at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 5:52 PM, Zack Kunkel
> <outcast.zeta at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > His Train, had been running late.
> >
> > Kadyn's parents had come up with the brilliant
> idea of letting him stay
> > with there
> > muggle parents, starting right after their trip to
> Diagon Alley. After a
> > dreadfully boring
> > time there, he found out that he would have to
> take a two hour train ride
> > to Kings Cross,
> > Alone.
> >
> > But his unaccompanied trip brought its own
> problems, as the muggles
> > questioned his
> > strange cargo. Kadyn told them that he was going
> to attend a funeral, and
> > that the
> > items in question belonged to the deceased. It got
> them to allow his trunk
> > and such on
> > the train, but people kept checking up on the
> young boy traveling alone.
> >
> > The ride was extremely boring, because he couldn't
> do anything. Kadyn
> > couldn't read any of
> > his school books, in fear that one of the women
> who kept an eye on him
> > would inquire
> > about the book, and he couldn't even play with
> Hesetu, because he had been
> > instructed
> > to keep him in his cage at all times.
> >
> > Plus, they were running late. Kaydn finally
> arrived on the platform,
> > twenty minutes after
> > the planned arrival time, and made a bee-line for
> Platform 9.
> >
> > His father had told him that the platform was in
> the stone column in
> > between platforms
> > 9 and 10. He hadn't thought to ask about it at the
> time, and regretted it
> > now. Kadyn reached
> > out and touched it, and felt himself get pulled
> through the column onto
> > the platform.
> >
> > Kadyn looked around for anyone who looked familar,
> and walked casually
> > through the
> > platform. He came to the wall with the flyers for
> the various Diagon Alley
> > and Hogsmeade
> > stores, and posted one for his parents cafe
> >
> > Looking at it proudly, Kadyn then turned and
> walked toward the edge of the
> > platform,
> > and realized the train wasn't there yet. He felt
> silly for rushing here,
> > but his thoughts were
> > interrupted by two people fighting down the way.
> >
> 
> [OOC: sorry, forgot something]
> 
> He recognized one of the voices, and called down
> towards the two people.
> "Already in a fight, Amber?"


As Kadyn shouted a woman walking with an elderly man
stepped right in front of him.  

"Please!" the lady scolded as she glared at Kadyn. 
The shock had startled her.  The lady had very long
straight black hair, was wearing a yellow hooded
cloak, and was carrying what looked like a large glass
ball.  The old man had long curly gray hair, clean
shaven, and wearing a purple ruffled cloak tied with a
red cape.

She stood there glaring at Kadyn as if to ensure that
it would stick forever in his mind before she moved
on.  As she was walking away he could hear her talking
to the old man:  "I told you I had a bad feeling.  I
had a dream that this happened.  It was caused by a
visitor 
."  Her voice trailed away.






From wow_its_tashayar at yahoo.com  Tue Apr 29 20:16:07 2008
From: wow_its_tashayar at yahoo.com (Tashayar McCarthy)
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:16:07 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Hogwarts Between] Train Hopping
In-Reply-To: <22854.95184.qm@web905.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <319220.59210.qm@web38205.mail.mud.yahoo.com>



Patrick McCartney <hogsmeade at squaredbee.com> wrote:    
--- Zack Kunkel wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 5:52 PM, Zack Kunkel
> wrote:
> 
> > His Train, had been running late.
> >
> > Kadyn's parents had come up with the brilliant
> idea of letting him stay
> > with there
> > muggle parents, starting right after their trip to
> Diagon Alley. After a
> > dreadfully boring
> > time there, he found out that he would have to
> take a two hour train ride
> > to Kings Cross,
> > Alone.
> >
> > But his unaccompanied trip brought its own
> problems, as the muggles
> > questioned his
> > strange cargo. Kadyn told them that he was going
> to attend a funeral, and
> > that the
> > items in question belonged to the deceased. It got
> them to allow his trunk
> > and such on
> > the train, but people kept checking up on the
> young boy traveling alone.
> >
> > The ride was extremely boring, because he couldn't
> do anything. Kadyn
> > couldn't read any of
> > his school books, in fear that one of the women
> who kept an eye on him
> > would inquire
> > about the book, and he couldn't even play with
> Hesetu, because he had been
> > instructed
> > to keep him in his cage at all times.
> >
> > Plus, they were running late. Kaydn finally
> arrived on the platform,
> > twenty minutes after
> > the planned arrival time, and made a bee-line for
> Platform 9.
> >
> > His father had told him that the platform was in
> the stone column in
> > between platforms
> > 9 and 10. He hadn't thought to ask about it at the
> time, and regretted it
> > now. Kadyn reached
> > out and touched it, and felt himself get pulled
> through the column onto
> > the platform.
> >
> > Kadyn looked around for anyone who looked familar,
> and walked casually
> > through the
> > platform. He came to the wall with the flyers for
> the various Diagon Alley
> > and Hogsmeade
> > stores, and posted one for his parents cafe
> >
> > Looking at it proudly, Kadyn then turned and
> walked toward the edge of the
> > platform,
> > and realized the train wasn't there yet. He felt
> silly for rushing here,
> > but his thoughts were
> > interrupted by two people fighting down the way.
> >
> 
> [OOC: sorry, forgot something]
> 
> He recognized one of the voices, and called down
> towards the two people.
> "Already in a fight, Amber?"


As Kadyn shouted a woman walking with an elderly man
stepped right in front of him. 

"Please!" the lady scolded as she glared at Kadyn. 
The shock had startled her. The lady had very long
straight black hair, was wearing a yellow hooded
cloak, and was carrying what looked like a large glass
ball. The old man had long curly gray hair, clean
shaven, and wearing a purple ruffled cloak tied with a
red cape.

She stood there glaring at Kadyn as if to ensure that
it would stick forever in his mind before she moved
on. As she was walking away he could hear her talking
to the old man: "I told you I had a bad feeling. I
had a dream that this happened. It was caused by a
visitor 
." Her voice trailed away.
   
   
   
   
   
  The sound of Amber's name completely distracted her from the boy, who as she looked back was gone in the growing crowd. She scanned the fast moving people and her eyes halted on a friendly face. "KADYN!" and bolted and wrapped her arms around him. "Finally! Someone I know and don't hate!" she glared at the space where the boy originally was. Then as fast as she began she stopped and ran her eyes once again at the croud, "Soooo, where's your parents?"
     
   
  



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From hogsmeade at squaredbee.com  Tue Apr 29 22:10:36 2008
From: hogsmeade at squaredbee.com (Patrick McCartney)
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:10:36 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Hogwarts Between] Amber gets to the train.
In-Reply-To: <473386.42053.qm@web38204.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <279805.14555.qm@web905.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com>


--- Tashayar McCarthy <wow_its_tashayar at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> 
> 
> Patrick McCartney <hogsmeade at squaredbee.com> wrote: 
>   
> --- Tashayar McCarthy 
> wrote:
> 
> > > 
> > > The sudden brightness of the sunlight, after the
> > > time
> > > walking through the dark train station, hurt
> > Amber?s
> > > eyes. As her vision adjusted she looked out onto
> a
> > > wide platform made of planks of wood painted
> blue.
> > 
> > > The platform extended about twelve feet in front
> > of
> > > her and ended with a drop-off. The railroad
> tracks
> > > emerged from the left corner of the platform and
> > > trailed off into the distant green hills. Beyond
> > the
> > > platform the shadows of cumulus clouds moved
> > across
> > > a
> > > field of grass and trees.
> > > 
> > > The air smelled of currants and honey. It was
> very
> > > quiet. Only the sounds of the nearby birds could
> > be
> > > heard.
> > > 
> > > To her right the platform ended less than a
> couple
> > > of
> > > yards away. Beyond that was a tall wooden fence
> > > painted black with bright orange stars. She
> could
> > > not
> > > tell how tall the fence was since she could not
> > see
> > > how far off the ground the platform was, but the
> > top
> > > of the fence was well over the height of her
> > > grandfather. The space between the platform and
> > the
> > > fence was filled in with overgrown bushes and
> > weeds.
> > > 
> > > The leaves were green, silver, yellow, purple,
> and
> > > red. It was hard to tell if the wind was
> whipping
> > > the
> > > leaves around or they were constantly beating
> each
> > > other on their own.
> > > 
> > > To her left the platform continued about
> > twenty-five
> > > feet beyond where she stood. There were two
> large
> > > square wooden beams, in a row, painted red,
> > holding
> > > up
> > > the right end of a small roof over the edge of
> the
> > > platform. The shading roof had blue trim and
> > yellow
> > > roofing tiles. It extended to back beyond the
> > corner
> > > of a building that was behind her.
> > > 
> > > Behind her was the red brick side wall of a
> > building
> > > that was twenty-five feet wide. On it were many
> > > extremely old faded and broken signs for things
> > such
> > > as a tea company from India, a cruise liner, and
> a
> > > London insurance company. Newer posters existed
> > for
> > > Ollivander?s Wands, a Zonko?s joke shop, and a
> > > Honeyduke?s candy shop. There were also layers
> of
> > > schedules pasted on top of each other. The wall
> > > above
> > > her was almost two stories high ending in a flat
> > > roof.
> > > 
> > > Other than her grandfather she could only see
> one
> > > other person ? a boy maybe a little older than
> she
> > > was. He was standing at the edge of the
> platform,
> > to
> > > the left, holding the end of his trunk and
> moving
> > > his
> > > head back and forth as if he was looking for
> > > something.
> > > 
> > > A train could not be seen.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Amber looked back and fourth many times then
> waved
> > > her hand threw the air to see if the train was
> > > invisible. The wizarding world holds many things
> > she
> > > had never heard before, so she was just checking
> > to
> > > see if invisiblity was one of them. She turned
> to
> > > the boy on the other end of the platform and
> > called
> > > out "Oi! Are we late or something!?"
> > 
> > 
> > The boy responds: "Unheard of! Where is it?"
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > "Why do you think I asked you?" replied Amber
> 
> 
> 
> "That's rude!" the boy response with a sneer back to
> Amber. "The train is not here. What is going on?"
> 
> The boy stomps off to the far end of the train
> station
> draging his trunk behind him.
> 
> 
> 
>    
>    
>    
>   "Last time I checked that wasn't rude!" Amber
> shouted across the station, hands on hips, "what's
> wrong with you!?"
> 


[ This is now continued in "Train Hopping".

  -- EOT
]





From outcast.zeta at gmail.com  Wed Apr 30 17:36:29 2008
From: outcast.zeta at gmail.com (Zack Kunkel)
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:36:29 -0400
Subject: [Hogwarts Between] Train Hopping
In-Reply-To: <319220.59210.qm@web38205.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
References: <22854.95184.qm@web905.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
	<319220.59210.qm@web38205.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <4f9174a0804301436p602021c5i6409ac9b63967ba2@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Tashayar McCarthy <
wow_its_tashayar at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
>
> *Patrick McCartney <hogsmeade at squaredbee.com>* wrote:
>
>
> --- Zack Kunkel wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 5:52 PM, Zack Kunkel
>  > wrote:
> >
> > > His Train, had been running late.
> > >
> > > Kadyn's parents had come up with the brilliant
> > idea of letting him stay
> > > with there
> > > muggle parents, starting right after their trip to
> > Diagon Alley. After a
> > > dreadfully boring
> > > time there, he found out that he would have to
> > take a two hour train ride
> > > to Kings Cross,
> > > Alone.
> > >
> > > But his unaccompanied trip brought its own
> > problems, as the muggles
> > > questioned his
> > > strange cargo. Kadyn told them that he was going
> > to attend a funeral, and
> > > that the
> > > items in question belonged to the deceased. It got
> > them to allow his trunk
> > > and such on
> > > the train, but people kept checking up on the
> > young boy traveling alone.
> > >
> > > The ride was extremely boring, because he couldn't
> > do anything. Kadyn
> > > couldn't read any of
> > > his school books, in fear that one of the women
> > who kept an eye on him
> > > would inquire
> > > about the book, and he couldn't even play with
> > Hesetu, because he had been
> > > instructed
> > > to keep him in his cage at all times.
> > >
> > > Plus, they were running late. Kaydn finally
> > arrived on the platform,
> > > twenty minutes after
> > > the planned arrival time, and made a bee-line for
> > Platform 9.
> > >
> > > His father had told him that the platform was in
> > the stone column in
> > > between platforms
> > > 9 and 10. He hadn't thought to ask about it at the
> > time, and regretted it
> > > now. Kadyn reached
> > > out and touched it, and felt himself get pulled
> > through the column onto
> > > the platform.
> > >
> > > Kadyn looked around for anyone who looked familar,
> > and walked casually
> > > through the
> > > platform. He came to the wall with the flyers for
> > the various Diagon Alley
> > > and Hogsmeade
> > > stores, and posted one for his parents cafe
> > >
> > > Looking at it proudly, Kadyn then turned and
> > walked toward the edge of the
> > > platform,
> > > and realized the train wasn't there yet. He felt
> > silly for rushing here,
> > > but his thoughts were
> > > interrupted by two people fighting down the way.
> > >
> >
> > [OOC: sorry, forgot something]
> >
> > He recognized one of the voices, and called down
> > towards the two people.
> > "Already in a fight, Amber?"
>
>
> As Kadyn shouted a woman walking with an elderly man
> stepped right in front of him.
>
> "Please!" the lady scolded as she glared at Kadyn.
> The shock had startled her. The lady had very long
> straight black hair, was wearing a yellow hooded
> cloak, and was carrying what looked like a large glass
> ball. The old man had long curly gray hair, clean
> shaven, and wearing a purple ruffled cloak tied with a
> red cape.
>
> She stood there glaring at Kadyn as if to ensure that
> it would stick forever in his mind before she moved
> on. As she was walking away he could hear her talking
> to the old man: "I told you I had a bad feeling. I
> had a dream that this happened. It was caused by a
> visitor ?." Her voice trailed away.
>
> Kadyn was very confused, and had merely meant to attract
Amber's attention. He refused to meet eye contact with her
and acted normal, as if nothing had happened, though in reality
she had really creeped him out, and he was wondering what she
had been talking about. Kadyn shook off the thoughts of what
had happened and called to her again. "Amber?"

>
>
>
>
>
> The sound of Amber's name completely distracted her from the boy, who as
> she looked back was gone in the growing crowd. She scanned the fast moving
> people and her eyes halted on a friendly face. "KADYN!" and bolted and
> wrapped her arms around him. "Finally! Someone I know and don't hate!" she
> glared at the space where the boy originally was. Then as fast as she began
> she stopped and ran her eyes once again at the croud, "Soooo, where's your
> parents?"
>
> Kadyn sighed. "To tell you the truth, I haven't seen them since
Diagon Alley. They had me stay with my Muggle grandparents,
and then i had to take a train here from there house. I thought
I was running late, but i guess not..." His gaze drifted towards
the place where the train should have been.

[OOC: approximately what time is it in game right now?]

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From fjcute at gmail.com  Wed Apr 30 20:49:53 2008
From: fjcute at gmail.com (Fiona Trumitch)
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:49:53 -0400
Subject: [Hogwarts Between] Seluna train thread
Message-ID: <638f7a580804301749y45260135y601229713853f53c@mail.gmail.com>

Seluna looked out the window at the train station. She thought that it
had started with a simple letter, but this was much more. She was
going to some unknown place to learn MAGIC?!?!? The idea sounded like
she had both gone crazy and finally found her life, her real life. Not
some life where she lived every day the same. Every day had dragged on
with nothing new or exciting happening. She was fed lies by her
parents and had lived an empty life.

This step, this train, this school, everything, this was something she
had been hoping for for a long time, and she was too scared to move.
Finally she took a deep breath and stepped out of the car. She didn't
want Mori to think she was scared of anything. Besides she ran away
from her boring life, her parents, and everything she knew. She could
do this. Carrying her backpack, suitcase, and Lucky in a carrier, she
waved goodbye to Mori's dad and started to go in.

Once Mori caught up she started looking for platform 9 3/4. She had
been here before, and she had never seen a platform 9 3/4. "How are we
supposed to find the train?" she asked Mori.

"Well my dad had said that it should be right... here." Mori said,
pointing towards the wall between the 9th and 10th platforms. "He said
that we just walk through."

"Wait, we have to walk into a WALL!?!" said Seluna with a surprised
look on her face. Mori shrugged and walked up to it slowly, so she
would not hit it if this did not work. She touched it and her hand
went through the wall! She walked all the way through and her body
dissappered. "This is CRAZY!" exclaimed Seluna, after wacthing Mori
walk through. She went up to it and gulped. Then she stepped through.

She looked around and stood frozen. The platform said 9 3/4. So it was
real. And if this was real then everything else had to be as well.

"Come on!" called Mori, standing a little way farther down. Seluna
nodded and then ran to catch up with her friend. They stowed thier
luggage, all but Lucky and Mori's owl. They got on the train and found
an empty car. Seluna said nothing, trying to take in everything she
could.


From hogsmeade at squaredbee.com  Wed Apr 30 22:22:57 2008
From: hogsmeade at squaredbee.com (Patrick McCartney)
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:22:57 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Hogwarts Between] Train Hopping
In-Reply-To: <4f9174a0804301436p602021c5i6409ac9b63967ba2@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <204312.46132.qm@web905.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com>


--- Zack Kunkel <outcast.zeta at gmail.com> wrote:

> > >
> > > [OOC: sorry, forgot something]
> > >
> > > He recognized one of the voices, and called down
> > > towards the two people.
> > > "Already in a fight, Amber?"
> >
> >
> > As Kadyn shouted a woman walking with an elderly
> man
> > stepped right in front of him.
> >
> > "Please!" the lady scolded as she glared at Kadyn.
> > The shock had startled her. The lady had very long
> > straight black hair, was wearing a yellow hooded
> > cloak, and was carrying what looked like a large
> glass
> > ball. The old man had long curly gray hair, clean
> > shaven, and wearing a purple ruffled cloak tied
> with a
> > red cape.
> >
> > She stood there glaring at Kadyn as if to ensure
> that
> > it would stick forever in his mind before she
> moved
> > on. As she was walking away he could hear her
> talking
> > to the old man: "I told you I had a bad feeling. I
> > had a dream that this happened. It was caused by a
> > visitor 
." Her voice trailed away.
> >
> > Kadyn was very confused, and had merely meant to
> attract
> Amber's attention. He refused to meet eye contact
> with her
> and acted normal, as if nothing had happened, though
> in reality
> she had really creeped him out, and he was wondering
> what she
> had been talking about. Kadyn shook off the thoughts
> of what
> had happened and called to her again. "Amber?"
> 
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > The sound of Amber's name completely distracted
> her from the boy, who as
> > she looked back was gone in the growing crowd. She
> scanned the fast moving
> > people and her eyes halted on a friendly face.
> "KADYN!" and bolted and
> > wrapped her arms around him. "Finally! Someone I
> know and don't hate!" she
> > glared at the space where the boy originally was.
> Then as fast as she began
> > she stopped and ran her eyes once again at the
> croud, "Soooo, where's your
> > parents?"
> >
> > Kadyn sighed. "To tell you the truth, I haven't
> seen them since
> Diagon Alley. They had me stay with my Muggle
> grandparents,
> and then i had to take a train here from there
> house. I thought
> I was running late, but i guess not..." His gaze
> drifted towards
> the place where the train should have been.
> 
> [OOC: approximately what time is it in game right
> now?]
> 

[OOC:  You should ask someone.  You are not limited to
these, but the people around you are:

* The lady whom you yelled into her ear
* The elderly man the lady was walking with
* Amber's grandfather
* Amber
* A pudgy man with a round face and short hair sitting
on a couch near you
* A girl about your age who is just standing there
* A lady standing with the girl looking around
* A crowd of indiscriminate people
* Three windows in the front side of the train station
with people sitting inside them (beware: there are
lines of people in front of these windows)

:end OOC]





From hogsmeade at squaredbee.com  Wed Apr 30 22:37:13 2008
From: hogsmeade at squaredbee.com (Patrick McCartney)
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:37:13 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Hogwarts Between] Seluna train thread
In-Reply-To: <638f7a580804301749y45260135y601229713853f53c@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <664488.3582.qm@web907.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com>


--- Fiona Trumitch <fjcute at gmail.com> wrote:

> Seluna looked out the window at the train station.
> She thought that it
> had started with a simple letter, but this was much
> more. She was
> going to some unknown place to learn MAGIC?!?!? The
> idea sounded like
> she had both gone crazy and finally found her life,
> her real life. Not
> some life where she lived every day the same. Every
> day had dragged on
> with nothing new or exciting happening. She was fed
> lies by her
> parents and had lived an empty life.
> 
> This step, this train, this school, everything, this
> was something she
> had been hoping for for a long time, and she was too
> scared to move.
> Finally she took a deep breath and stepped out of
> the car. She didn't
> want Mori to think she was scared of anything.
> Besides she ran away
> from her boring life, her parents, and everything
> she knew. She could
> do this. Carrying her backpack, suitcase, and Lucky
> in a carrier, she
> waved goodbye to Mori's dad and started to go in.
> 
> Once Mori caught up she started looking for platform
> 9 3/4. She had
> been here before, and she had never seen a platform
> 9 3/4. "How are we
> supposed to find the train?" she asked Mori.
> 
> "Well my dad had said that it should be right...
> here." Mori said,
> pointing towards the wall between the 9th and 10th
> platforms. "He said
> that we just walk through."
> 
> "Wait, we have to walk into a WALL!?!" said Seluna
> with a surprised
> look on her face. Mori shrugged and walked up to it
> slowly, so she
> would not hit it if this did not work. She touched
> it and her hand
> went through the wall! She walked all the way
> through and her body
> dissappered. "This is CRAZY!" exclaimed Seluna,
> after wacthing Mori
> walk through. She went up to it and gulped. Then she
> stepped through.

> 
> She looked around and stood frozen. The platform
> said 9 3/4. So it was
> real. And if this was real then everything else had
> to be as well.
> 


[ Sorry, rollback.  The train is not available at this
time.  We must roll back the last paragraph. ]

As Seluna crossed the barrier she saw a crowd of
people filling the train platform.  A loud cheer rang
out from everywhere as she stepped into the blue
platform planks.

There were so many people in the crowd that she could
not see what was beyond them.  Children of all ages
from 11 to 17 mulling around with what must be parents
or guardians.  There is a mixture of cloaks, jeans,
capris, and dresses.  T-shirts and jackets speckled
the throng of cloaks and wizarding hats.


> "Come on!" called Mori, standing a little way
> farther down. 







