[Hogwarts Between] Amber gets to the train.

[Patrick McCartney]

--- 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?"