Ch 8 Familiar faces and Strangers Pt. 2

The train filled with excited children, talking and playing with each other, some were high on sugar. The train ran through beautiful grassy meadows and curving along the river. The sky was clear, and the sun was smiling up on us.

I was sitting in a compartment talking with Hermione, we had been talking for a long time now. We were discussing the subjects offered in first year. I was not at all surprised when she mentioned she had mostly read through all the books in our syllabus.

She was expecting a little more reaction from my side, but the lack of one, upset her a little. "I am excited to see the castle, we will be living in a castle made with magic by the founders of the school. Did you know that the great hall ceiling is enchanted to match the scenery of outside?"

I smiled and nodded, "I am curious about what's inside the castle, there are some rumors that there are many sections in the school which are still yet to be discovered by anyone. I wonder what is in those room?"

She sighed and shook her head as if to say typical. I looked at her and said, "So you don't believe that there can be some hidden part of the school?"

She sighed and said, "If there was something like that, then don't you think someone would have found it by now? It's been, I don't know, a thousand years?"

I looked at her and said, "You know, one day, I will prove you wrong."

She smirked and said, "That would take a thousand years." I smiled and shook my head.

While we were having a chat about magic and wizarding world in general. We both felt that the world of magic somehow lacked behind in some ways. I could best describe the wizarding world as a snow globe. Contained within itself and unchanging.

As we were discussing this, a toad was loose on the train and a certain young redheaded girl was in pursuit of the said toad. She looks around for it, but the elusive toad manages to escape her, "Where could it be? It was right here just a moment ago. Maybe I should ask in one of the compartments?"

While we were arguing, we heard a knock and the door opened. I heard a girl's voice, "Pardon me, but have you seen a toad? Neville has lost his toad."

It was a girl, her hair was long and fiery red, it was redder than anything I had seen before it was tied in a ponytail with a white hairband. She wore a lavender color dress.

She was about 4'6" and had clear skin with freckles on her face. But what drew my attention the most was her eyes, her eyes were like emerald with the slight hint of Hazel in them.

I smiled and looked at her and said, "I am sorry, but I don't think a toad would come to our compartment through a close door."

She realized that and her face became flushed with embarrassment, but suddenly I felt a glare on my face. I looked at Hermione from the corner of my eye. Hermione cleared her throat and said, "I apologize for Mr Smarty Pants here. Hi, I am Hermione Granger." She put her hand forward, and she shook her hand.

I smiled and put my hand forward and said, "I am sorry, and I am Jonathan Beeston. Pleased to meet you." I pointed at the seat and said, "Please have a seat."

She shook her head and said, "I really should be going."

I nodded and smiled and said, "I understand but I have a solution that doesn't require such grunt work on your part."

She was curious and asked, "What is it?"

I smiled and said, "Well, first, I'd like to know your name."

She looked at me and shook her head and said, "I am Victoria Potter."

I heard her name and froze in my seat and I wasn't the only one Hermione was shocked as well. So this is the other half of the Potter twin that I have read about. In reality, she was just mentioned. It was mostly about Harry.

She looked at me and saw that I froze and said "Are you alright?" her tone had a subtle annoyance to it, maybe it's because everyone always does this when they get to know who she is.

I let go of her hand and cleared my throat and said, "I apologize, I didn't realize you were the other half of the famous Potter twins."

As she heard me, and she had a cold gaze in her eyes and she said, "Please don't tell me you are also going to beg me to introduce you to my brother?" Her voice had an annoying tone, well anyone would be annoyed if only their sibling got all the attention and not them. It might have made her feel that she was neglected.

I chuckled and said, "I can assure you that's not the case. I am actually more interested in knowing about you." She looked at me and was confused and quite possibly didn't believe me. But I said, "What I say is true. There are many articles about your brother. But you remain a mystery, there is not much written about you."

She looked at me, and it looked like she couldn't believe what she was hearing, but what I had said was true. The cold gaze from her eyes were nowhere to be seen now. She had a warm smile on her face.

"What about the idea, though?" Hermione asked me, her voice had an annoying tone in her voice, and it broke Victoria from her daze and she looked at me and said, "Yeah, what about the idea?"

I cleared my throat and said, "You should just ask the conductor to make an announcement for the missing toad. It would be a lot easier this way."

Her cheeks were now red with embarrassment as her cheeks matched her hair, and she just took off in a hurry, 'I hope we meet you soon, Victoria.'

I then sat down next to a very surprised looking Hermione. I asked her "What?"

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In another compartment away from us sat a concerned brother and his nonchalant friend who was too busy stuffing his face with candy. The compartment was littered with candy wrappers and toffees.

Harry got up and looked out of his compartment and Ron said with his mouth full of candies, "Don't worry mate, she'll be back in a few minutes."

Harry turned back to see his friend and said, "Yeah, but she has been gone for a while. I knew I should, I have gone with her."

Ron gulped the candies in his mouth and said, "You may be right, but she took off before we could go with her."

Harry exhaled sharply and sat down on his seat and said, "I don't know, why is it taking her this long?"

As he sat down, an announcement was made throughout the train. "If anyone has seen a greenish brown toad alone. Please report to compartment no 6 at your earliest, thank you."

Ron looked at harry and smiled and said, "That was a bloody brilliant idea on her part."

Harry looked happy and smiled and said, "She is the smart one. I wouldn't have expected anything else from my sister…"

After a few minutes of the announcement, the door of Harry's compartment opened and Victoria looked at the state of the compartment and exhaled and shook her head and sat down closer to the window.

Ron asked Victoria, "Did you find the toad?"

Victoria hummed and nodded, "Yes, someone saw it in the toilet and reported it." She continued looking out the window, she seemed lost in her thought. Yet her face was not vacant, it had a slight smile.

Harry tapped on her shoulders and she looked at him and hummed, and he asked, "Is everything alright?"

She nodded, "I am fine, Harry." She continued to gaze out the window, and the smile just never disappeared from his face. Ron and Harry both were left scratching their heads as to what was the cause of this smile?

All while the reason for the mysterious smile was having lunch with Hermione.

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"I didn't know they were going to serve lunch?" Hermione said while eating her sandwich.

I took a bite of the sandwich and said, "I was told by someone that we would, and it kinda makes sense, I mean filling up children on sugar is not that much of a good idea."

She chuckled and I asked, "What?"

She just chuckled and shook her head and said, "It's nothing."

I looked at her and said, "You have been doing that same thing since she left."

She smirked and said, "I don't know what you are talking about?"

I just sighed and shook my head and continued to eat my sandwich. I looked outside the window, and it was starting to get dark. The train was now passing through a low valley and I could see some tall hills in the distance, we must be close to Hogwarts.

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Section with Cotton 🐍

Greetingsss Readersss,

I am back and I do hope you liked this chaptersss. Firstly I kinda get what I did wrong with chapter 6. Instead of me just telling you what was different in this world I should have just shown you that way it would have had more impact. But no problem lesson learnt.

Second of all a bit of a family tree for all of you. It's going to become more like Alabama.

So Jon's mom is related to Grindelwald. She is her cousin. And I don't know if I am quite sure but Grindelwald is related to Antioch Peverell who had the elder wand.

Voldy is related to gaunts who in turn is distantly related to Cadmus Peverell. The owner of the resurrection stone.

And Harry is related to Ignotus Peverell. The owner of the invisibility cloak.

And all these families have branch families and relatives of their own. So When you think about it if Jon goes for any of the major family girl which he will, it will be incest... kinda of. Such is the Wizarding World. I had like read somewhere that Ginny was also in someway related to Harry.

So I guess that clears up most of the stuff and I hope you enjoy the upcoming chapters as well and I will try my best to make the characters more believable and real.

Throw a comment if you liked the chapter and throw some stones while you are at it and I will see you in the next one. Bye.