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Platform Nine and Three Quarters, 9:37AM: (PLEASE REMEMBER, only I am posting time, so that way we can keep everything organized and so that we neither go too slow or too fast. Everyone's post does not have to exactly match the timeframe, it just has to be close enough so that we can all stay chronological and organized while also never going too slow)

Joshua wondered, did the train leave at 9:45AM simply as a coincidence, or was it deliberate. The station was Nine and Three Quarters after all. And why was it Three Quarters anyways? Joshua wondered if they named the station after the time the train left. Because otherwise, Nine and a half would be more accurate. Either way, Joshua was looking out the window, waiting for his only Childhood friend, Sao. Her full name was Saoirse Andromeda Penelope Adelrik-Lysias, but he just called her Sao (pronounced "Sayo"), at least when her mother was not around. They had a lot in common. They both had over controlling people in their family. She had her mother like Joshua had his grandfather. And her mother absolutely refused to let anyone call her anything other then Saoirse.

Joshua came from a very old, very prestigious pure blood family. Now, most of his family was actually pleasant to deal with, at least most of the time, but then there was the most prestigious and most influential of them all, his grandfather. He and his grandfather did not see eye to eye, on anything. His grandfather just wanted to use him to elevate his own status, while otherwise just keeping him locked away out of sight so Joshua did not embarrass him. Taking him to fancy parties to show off. That was technically how Joshua met Sao. They were both trying to sneak away. Joshua was more of a "skinny dip in the river" person then a "Fancy Ballroom Party" person.

He looked out the window again, waiting to see when she would show up. He was actually the first DeBell to attend Hogwarts in a long time. Most of the time they were homeschooled, partly because of their prestige, and partly because of the DeBell bloodline train. They were a special form of Metamorphmagus, where while they could only shapeshift into a certain number of forms, they had other perks to make up for it. They also have their downsides, such as they could not shapeshift their clothes like an Animagus, and they have to do it a certain amount of time that changes for each DeBell after their last transformation or feel exponentially increasing pain. Technically, Joshua should morph at least one to two times a day.

He took out his notebook, and began drawing the station while he waited. He wanted to capture all of its detail. He didn't bother putting his glasses on either. He only needed his glasses to read, but not always to draw. Only if he was drawing something close to him. However, to read anything either close to him or far away from him, he needed them. As he finished, he heard a knock on the door, but he knew it wasn't his friend. So he decided to have some fun. He quickly changed, and turned into his wolf form. The person opened the door, saw him, and quickly yelled, shut the door, and ran away.

(I hope you don't mind this next part SuperRoo, I would have asked you if you came online after I had this idea, but you didn't, so I figured you would want to return able to post immediately instead, considering this was based on what we talked about).

Before anyone else came though, the door opened again, and it was Sao. She looked at Joshua, laughed a little, and then entered and then closed the door behind her. "We have not even arrived yet and you are already getting us into trouble?"

Joshua turned back into his human form, and started getting dressed as Sao sat down. They were best friends, so he did not care anyways. "Hey, worried you entered a different train car entirely. Besides, no one knows my family's secret but you, so the conductor will just think he is crazy. Plus, you gotta admit that was hilarious. Even more then that time we went skinny dipping in the river, and you decided to climb a tree, but accidentally got stuck and wound up hanging upside down, naked, from a tree. And then, after making a sketch, I tried to help you, and got stuck as well".

The train then made its starting noise, and began to depart. As he finished getting dressed, he grabbed his notebook and showed her the sketch of the station. "What do you think? My best yet?"

(So, rahter longish, but the first post always is! Anyways, let the posting begin! Also, yes, me and SuperRoo did a lot of discussion about our characters histories, and decided they where best friends growing up)