[Hogwarts Between] Heath Arrives at Platform 9 3/4

[Patrick McCartney]

--- Karen Klutzke <kklutzke at gmail.com> wrote:

> [OOC: written by Brandon, but sent to the list by
> Mom.]
> 
> "And we dub thee, Heath Johnson, knight of Camelot!"
> cried King Arthur
> knighting Heath as he kneeled before Arthur. A
> thunderous applause
> went up from the audience. Heath waved at the
> bystanders when a large
> gray dragon shoved its massive scaled head into the
> throne room.
> Instinctively Heath drew his sword and charged at
> the great beast.
> The monster saw Heath and reared back its head and
> bellowed,
> 
>
"BBBBBBBRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!"
> 
> Groggily Heath wiped the sleep from his eyes,
> mumbling something not
> even he fully understood. Reaching to turn off the
> alarm clock Heath
> instead accidentally knocked it to the ground where
> it started to
> vibrate across the floor. His dad couldn't just get
> him a normal alarm
> clock, noooooo, Heath had to use his old man's old
> alarm clock; the
> one three feet tall and three feet wide and bell
> loud enough to wake
> the dead on the other side of the planet. Sliding
> the covers off,
> Heath reached down to pick up the clock, only to
> slide off the bed and
> bang his head on the nearby wall. Upon closer
> investigation Heath
> realized that his feet were some how tied up in the
> sheets. He tried
> to squirm his feet free but to no avail. Sighing he
> tried to reach for
> his clock. His fingers just barely touch it, and
> then the clock
> vibrated out of reach and got stuck on the floor
> vent. Infernal rings
> could be heard echoing through out the house. Just
> when Heath was sure
> things couldn't get any worse Cinrus, his barn owl,
> fluttered down and
> landed on Heath's head. "How the bloody heck did you
> get out of your
> cage?" questioned Heath. Cinrus just looked down at
> her owner with an
> expression in which to say, "You actually thought
> that stupid cage
> could hold me?" and hooted what was most likely the
> owl equivalent.
> She then bent over and started pecking his head.
> 
> Needless to say the rest of the morning didn't go
> much better. First
> off breakfast was burnt, which was amazing
> considering it was cold
> cereal. Both Samantha and Collin refused to shed
> light on the subject.
> Afterwards it turned out that Cinrus had found her
> way in through a
> neighbor's open window and made a late night snack
> of one of their
> gerbil pets. The pellet was found by Heath when he
> stepped on it while
> taking a shower. Later an animate andmalevolent
> suitcase was created
> by Samantha when she messed up her charm because of
> Heath's bathroom
> finding. The suitcase managed to take out a vase and
> trample the
> flowers inside, rip its way through Collin's
> favorite jacket, and bash
> into the families' computer, knocking it onto the
> floor; and that was
> only the tip of the iceberg. The Johnsons finally
> cornered it in the
> laundry room where it was tipping over the trash can
> and mixing the
> clean clothes with the dirty ones. A few smashes
> from a baseball bat
> that Collin was holding took out the demonic cargo
> carrier once and
> for all.
> 
> About an hour later the Johnsons packed Heath's
> school supplies
> (robes, cauldrons, books, etc.) into Heath's
> suitcase. When Samantha
> found her son staring intently at the bag she
> explained her family's
> legacy. The Makars, Samantha's side of the family,
> came from a long
> line of wand makers, artificers, and the magical
> equivalent of
> scientists. Samantha herself was planning on being
> an enchantress
> before she met Collin. Of course such lines of work
> come with their
> own dangers. One mispronunciation could lead to a
> disaster, as
> demonstrated by the previous suitcase. She was
> trying to charm a
> suitcase into a bag of holding, which would allow it
> to hold anything
> that could fit through its opening. The down side
> was that even though
> an infinite amount of things could fit inside, their
> weight didn't
> diminish.
> 
> About another two hours after that (traffic was a
> pain) the Johnsons
> arrived at the train station. It was full of people
> bustling this way
> or hustling that way. More than once Heath almost
> lost sight of his
> parents. Then one time he did. Standing near a wall
> Heath scanned the
> crowd for his parents, but it was like they fell off
> the face of the
> earth. Suddenly a hand reached out through the wall
> and pulled Heath
> through. Stumbling through Heath rubbed his eyes and
> reoriented
> himself. He was in another train platform. "Behind
> you," said a voice.
> Turning around Heath saw his mom with a beaming grin
> on her face and
> his father who looked a little more white than
> shaken. "Welcome to
> platform 9 and 3/4. This is where young witches and
> wizards take the
> train to Hogwarts," explained Samantha. Heath looked
> puzzled at the
> wall he just passed through. Glancing at where Heath
> was looking
> Samantha chuckled and said, "Oh that. Yeah, that
> wall can give you
> quite a scare if you don't know what it is. It's
> mainly just an
> illusion to make sure that muggles don't stumble
> in."
> 
> Looking around Heath did in fact prove his mom
> right--there was no
> train. A few people stood around with worried looks
> on their faces.
> One was a girl with a woman. A little ways off Heath
> could see a
> different girl arguing with a boy. An old man stood
> nearby looking at
> one of the many moving posters. Finally Heath found
> what he had been
> looking for, a train schedule.
> 

[OOC:  I am assuming that you are looking for the
Hogwarts Express on the schedule.]

As Heath scanned the train schedule the crowd became
very excited.  Everyone was suddenly moving around
very quickly.  He was bumped into over and over again,
which made scanning the schedule very difficult.

There it was:

Hogwarts Express - Sept. 1 - Departure 11:00 AM