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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 10:30 PM, Margaret Dean <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:margdean@erols.com">margdean@erols.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="Ih2E3d">Brandon Klutzke wrote:<br><br>> >> > > > Another whistle blast sounded. The wheels screeched as the<br>> >> > > > train's brakes slowed the train. Outside the windows the<br>
> >> > > > movement of the scenery slowed almost to a stop. Those<br>> >> > > > lucky enough to have a view out of some windows could<br>> >> > > > glimpse the highest tower of Hogwarts through the<br>
> >> > > > tops of the trees.<br>> >> > > ><br>> >> > > > The Hogwarts train station suddenly filled the windows on<br>> >> > > > one side of the train. The features of the platform slowly<br>
> >> > > > moved from left to right. Finally, with a final screech<br>> >> > > > and a jolt, the movement of the station stopped.<br>> >> > > ><br>> >> > > > A final blast announced that the Hogwarts Express had<br>
> >> > > > arrived.<br>> >> > ><br></div>
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<div class="Wj3C7c">> >> > > Paloma found a door and slowly walked down the stairs once the<br>> >> > > train stoped, she looked around to see what the train station<br>> >> > > looked like.<br>
> >> ><br>> >> > At one end of the platform stood a man with long, shaggy black<br>> >> > hair and beard. Several sizes larger than anyone else and draped<br>> >> > in a long overcoat, he looked just too big to be allowed; but<br>
> >> > what could be seen of his face wore a broad grin, and his black<br>> >> > eyes twinkled. Waving a hand the size of a truck tire, he called<br>> >> > out, "Firs' years! Firs' years this way!"<br>
> >><br>> >> Seluna and Koramori both looked at eachother with a strange<br>> >> expression. The man who was yelling for first years for Hogwarts<br>> >> was huge. They were only about half his height, That they could<br>
> >> tell from far away. But he seemed friendly and they doubted that<br>> >> a magic school would send someone who could hurt them to bring in<br>> >> new kids. Seluna walked over to the man, carrying her suitcase<br>
> >> behind her. Mori right behind her as well. She carried Lucky in<br>> >> her arms and looked up at the man. Her parents had never kept<br>> >> books on magical creatures or fairy tales in the house, but Seluna<br>
> >> read about them at the library and at school. This man isn't big<br>> >> enough to be a giant, and he didn't look like an ogre, even though<br>> >> they were about his size, so maybe he wasn't a magical creature.<br>
> ><br>> > [OOC: sorry Iforgot to say that Paloma got her robs on and grabed<br>> > what ever she needed and Luna (her cat) then went out to the station]<br>> > Paloma followed the mans command and went over to him and waited for<br>
> > everyone else to get off the train.<br>><br>> Gathering up his stuff Heath squeezed off the train. In retrospect he<br>> decided it was much like being toothpaste being squeezed out of it's<br>> bottle. After being jostled along Heath finally got a good look at<br>
> Hogwarts Castle. Shocked by the spectacle, Heath made the mistake of<br>> standing still. Less than a second later he was shoved from behind<br>> into another kid who shoved him into another kid and so on much like a<br>
> pinball bouncing off bumpers. This went on for a few more times until<br>> Heath was shoved into the legs of the biggest man Heath had ever seen.<br>> In fact, Heath's head just barely surpassed the man's pelvis. Looking<br>
> up Heath saw that the man was wearing a heavy overcoat and had beard<br>> that would make a lion's mane look tame.<br><br></div></div>"Steady on, there, mate," said the big man as Heath collided with<br>
him, and he reached out a hand to keep Heath from falling over.<br><br>Raising his voice again, he called out, "Just leave yer stuff on<br>the platform, it'll be taken up ter the school. Firs' years,<br>this way!"<br>
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<div>Kadyn stumbled his way off the train, his luggage, being repeatedly battered back and forth. He chuckled slightly, as most of the first years seemed to be in awe, at least to him. He waved to a friend of his parents, who had just been passing through the station. He began to move towards the groundskeeper, who he had seen once or twice before out on the grounds of the school, and quickly stopped and called back. "Amber, Cyrus, you coming?"</div>
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