[Hogwarts Between] Amber gets to the train.

[Patrick McCartney]

--- 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.