Arizona was on the move.
It was her first day back at Hogwarts, and the 16 year old girl couldn't be more excited. It was another exciting journey full of magic and monsters, spells and witchcraft. She practically ran through the train station to reach platform 9 and 3/4, not even hesitating for a moment when she burst through the magical wall that lead to the Hogwarts Express. Grinning, she looked down at her little orange cat, Ginger, and let out a barking laugh. It was exhilarating to be back, and she wouldn't change it for the world.
Arizona went up into the train, and found herself an empty compartment. She was almost never joined by anyone else, which gave her plenty of time to change into her robes and either read a book, play with Ginger, or even get a head start on classes. But Arizona's favorite train activity was planning her pranks.
She was known as something of a prankster around Hogwarts, though all of them were pretty harmless. She would enchant chalk in teacher's classrooms to shrink immediately, making lessons impossible for the day. One time she enchanted all of the other student's quills to dry out of ink as soon as it was taken from the inkwell. Her favorite prank was the time she levitated the giant squid out of the lake to dangle over the castle. She wasn't even caught for that one, considering she was high up in the Womping Willow, of which she had a great relationship with. (Or an incredible ability to stun it, whatever you want to call it.) The squid hadn't been to happy with that one, but it had made Arizona laugh until it felt like her sides were going to split.
This year, Arizona had a few things up her sleeve, but she was too excited to get back to Hogwarts to even think about planning anything at the moment. She stood and paced, the warm blue eyes of her kitten watching her move back and forth across the compartment. Ginger was the best listener, Arizona had come to realize. She began to talk aloud of her excitement of finally returning to the best place on Earth.
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Remus Lupin had a stomach full of nerves. They were a mixture of good nerves and bad nerves, as he was very excited to be back at school, but also worried about his... condition. You see, Remus was a werewolf, and sometimes it made attending a school of witches and wizards a bit trying. Luckily his friends knew about what he was, and didn't judge him for it, but he was nervous that he was going to end up hurting someone at the school. None of the teachers knew, as Remus was mostly good at hiding it. He was mostly worried about his friends getting in trouble.
When James, Sirius and Peter figured out what he was, they laughed. At first, Remus thought they were laughing at him, which made him angry, but Sirius assured him they were laughing
with him, which Remus didn't understand because he wasn't laughing. That's when he suggested they help him live a better life as a werewolf, and his three friends transformed into animagus, which was highly illegal, since they weren't registered. Sirius became a great shaggy black dog, James transformed into a stag, and Peter became a rat. Every full moon, the four friends would sneak out shortly after dinner, and run like hellfire to the Womping Willow, where they would stun it for a few minutes and disappear down a small hole, which lead to the Shrieking Shack in Hogsmeade. It was seen as an incredibly haunted building shortly after they moved there, courtesy of Sirius and James making noises all night to keep troubling kids away. Remus was thankful for his friends, and looked over to see them waiting for him next to platform 9 and 3/4.
"There's our Moony!" James shouted, clapping him on the back. Remus grinned. It was great to see his friends again, after a long summer. James had been off traveling with his family, Peter lived too far, and Sirius had slept through most of his summer. He wheeled his car to face the entrance to the platform, and looked to his friends.
"Shall we?" he asked, already making his way through the barrier. He knew his friends would be close behind, as they were almost never found alone. Being that they were all in Gryffindor house, it was easy for them to always stick together and hardly ever come separated.
Once on the platform, Remus maneuvered deftly onto the train, his three friends close behind him. He found them an empty compartment, directly across from a Slytherin girl who was nervously pacing in her own compartment, apparently talking aloud to her small orange cat. Remus shrugged, figuring this would be as good a place as any to settle in for the trip.
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