[Hogwarts Between] Kadyn, Cyrus, and Amber on the train

[Zack Kunkel]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Patrick McCartney <
hogsmeade at squaredbee.com> wrote:

>  >
> >While they were discussing money, there came a loud clattering noise
> in the corridor outside. The door of their compartment slid open and a
> plump, kindly-looking witch peeked in.
> >
> >"Anything off the trolley, ducks?" she asked the three children.
> >
> >"uhm... can you give me costs for "Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans",
> and chocolate frogs?" Kadyn had a fairly large collection of Chocolate
> frog cards at home, but was still missing quite a few. He turned back
> to Amber and Cyrus. "Do either of you need anything?"
> >
> >"Yes." said Amber. She got up from her seat and looked at the trolley.
> Colorful wrappers overloaded the cart. Packages marked 'Cauldron Cakes'
> and 'Peppermint Patties', 'Birdie Bots Every Flavoured Beans" and small
> cases of 'Chocolate Frogs'. Amber ordered all mentioned, getting an
> extra frog for Kayden, a small payment for the lost tips.
> >
> >"Anything for you, love?" the witch asked Cyrus.
> >
> >"Um, sure," said Cyrus. He purchased several Cauldron Cakes and
> Chocolate frogs, and put down his book to eat.
> >
> >The treats were priced so as not to break the budgets of
> schoolchildren, so they didn't deplete the children's spending money
> too alarmingly. Most of Kadyn's Chocolate Frog cards turned out to be
> ones he had already, as usual, but there were a couple of new ones. One
> of these was a witch with a mane of black hair, wearing a blue velvet
> gown that matched her eyes.
> >
> >"Winifred of West-Mere-Land," the text read, "also called the Witch of
> the West-Mere-Land, was a well-known healer and Animagus of the 13th
> Century. Her animal form was a black mare. The venerable wizarding
> family of Windermere claims her as an ancestress."
> >
> >"Blimey, I've never even heard of her before..." He turned the card
> over, seeing that the witch had disapeared. "I'll look her up in a
> 'History of Magic' book, see if it says anything more." He opened a box
> of "Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans" and dug in his bags for his
> "History of Magic" book, and then swallowed what he thought was a
> cherry bean.
> >
> >Amber looked at the card. Nothing. All there was was a dark black
> background. "So, what's so special about this? It's just...blank."
> >
> >"Well of course its blank, you can't expect her to wait around all
> day? she's got places to go, just like any portrait." Kadyn popped
> another bean in his mouth, then spit it out. "ugh...jalapeno..."
> >
> >Her eyes widened. She grabbed her suitcase and rummaged through it,
> scattering clothes and nick-nacks all around the compartment, until she
> reached a glossy piece of paper. Amber stared at her young face and the
> faces of two adults. One had long red hair and green eyes, the other
> blond hair and glasses. They were still. Amber sighed. She knew in the
> back of her mind they wouldn't move, they're a muggle picture. She put
> them back and started to clean up her stuff.
> >
> >Just then the witch on the card popped into view again, as if coming
> to look out a window. She waved and smiled...but she didn't seem to be
> looking at Amber or Kadyn. She seemed to be waving in Cyrus' direction.
> >
> >Cyrus happened to glance up at that moment. His face flushed scarlet
> when he saw the Chocolate Frog card, and he reached for his book again.
> >
> >"Do you know her, Cyrus? She certainly seems to know you..." Kadyn bit
> into another Berties Bott's Bean, and gagged.
> >
> >"Umm... yeah. She's a distant ancestor of mine." said Cyrus.
> >
> >"Ancestor?" Kadyn exclaimed. "Wow, all my family i Muggles." Kadyn
>  knew that this was only mostly true, but he thought it was close
> enough.
> >
> >"My family is Muggles also. Well, my grandparents are." said Amber.
> >
> >"My mum's a muggle," said Cyrus. "All my dad's family are purebloods
> though. They were kind of angry with him for marrying a muggle." Kadyn
> shook his head. "My parents are both wizards. They are just both muggle
> born wizards."
> >
> >"Purebloods are...?" asked Amber.
> >
> >"They're wizards with no muggle blood," Cyrus replied. "A lot of the
> older wizarding families pride themselves on being pureblooded."
> >
> >Kadyn nodded "Almost all purebloods are related though, due to their
> being fewer of them then their were years ago."
> >
> >
> >The cabin door suddenly slid open with a slap and was replaced by a 14
> year old girl. She was wearing her school robes and holding a blue
> balloon by a string. The balloon kept floating in and out of the
>  doorway.
> >
> >"Oh, excuse me. I am looking for my friend Dagobert, have you seen
> him?"
> >
> >"No, I don't think anyones been in here, besides the trolley lady..."
> Kadyn shook his head. "Sorry."
> >
> >"What's he look like?" asked Amber, "Maybe if he shows up we can tell
> him your looking for him."
> >
> >She looked up trying to envision him in her mind. One foot went up
> onto its toes.
> >
> >"He has very dark straight hair, parted on the side. His eyes are a
> deep brown, and he has the cutest little bump on his right ear." She
> paused and then looked down at them. "Perhaps you have seen
> his younger brother, Childeric? He's about your age."
> >
> >Amber thought. She could have sworn she had seen him before. He was
> the boy she had fought with at the station. When she remembered her
> face went bright scarlet, "No, I don't think I've seen him before."
> >
> >Kadyn thought too. "hmm..." He thought that was who Amber had been
> fighting with, but he couldn't remember. He assumed Amber would have
> remebere if so, so he said nothing.
>  >
> >"Thank you." She slid the door shut catching a part of the balloon,
> making it look as if she had caught it on a nose. She slid the door
> open and pulled the balloon free. As she re-closed the door
> they could hear out in the hallway, "Sorry about that."
> >
> >Amber was so embarrassed that she had just met, what could have been,
> the boy's girlfriend that she stole the book Cyrus had been reading and
> turned to a random page hiding her face behind it.
> >
> >Cyrus noticed this, but chose not to comment. He had been silently
> watching the interplay, eating his Cauldron Cakes. Having not seen
> Amber at the station, he was unsure why she was suddenly so
> embarressed.
> >
> >Kadyn saw Amber blush, and tried to figure out why. After a sudden
> revelation, he exclaimed "I was right! The boy she was looking for was
> that boy you were fighting with, back on the platform!" Kadyn smiled,
> then began to think of why she was blushing over this.
> >
> >Amber shot Kadyn a dark glance then started to actually read the book
> Cyrus had been reading both to distract her mind and also to lose some
> redness of her face.
> >
> >"What?" Kadyn frowned. "What did I say?" Kadyn shook his head. "Girls"
> he thought silently to himself. He looked at the book. " What are you
> reading? "Fantastic Beasts and Where to find them". Where did you pick
> that up, Cyrus?"
> >
> >[OOC: What's in the book?]
> >
> > "Flourish and Blott's, in Diagon Alley." Cyrus replied.
> >
> >"Oh, I didn't actually get my books there. I got mine back from a
> local shop back in Hogsmeade." Kadyn peeked over Amber's shoulder.
> >
>
> >"This is brilliant!" said Amber "It's called a 'Thestral'. It says,
> 'you can only see them when you've looked into the face of death. From
> those who've see this strange but terrible beast have said that it
> resembles a bony horse with black bat wings.' Also there's a rectangle
> that looks like a picture should be there. Is this one of those strange
> pictures where they walk in?"
> >
> >"No, you probably just can't see it because you haven't seen death."
> Kadyn
> shrugged and looked over where the thestral should have been.
> >
> >[OOC: It is there but Amber can't see it. She hasn't seen death.]
> >
>
> [OOC:  This train even happens in all the threads simultaneously.  All
> threads sync with this event.]
>
> They felt a thump followed by a sharp jolt in the floor of the train.
> There was an unnatural silence – no train engine sounds were heard.
>
> A crack sounded as the train came to a sudden and complete stop.
> Luggage, books, personal items, and students filled the air.  Those
> students who did not fly out of their bench seats bounced off of the
> cushions behind them and landed on the floor.
>
> Outside the windows the landscape was motionless.
>

"Ow..." Kadyn rubbed the back of his head, where something had bumped into
his head. "What's happened? I don't think we're there yet..." Kadyn peeked
out the window, trying to see if they were anywhere near Hogsmeade station.




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