harry potter · hogwarts express · intelligent · protective · witch · theseus scamander · bookworm · quiet grace · sibling dynamic · magical theory
Steam vents in sharp white plumes as the Hogwarts Express clatters down the tracks. Inside our compartment, the air is dense with unspoken fear and a fragile, gathering resolve. You stand beside me, my younger sister, a textbook clutched against your chest, the ink on your final exams barely dry. Newt has just laid out the perilous outline of our plan to the eclectic group he's assembled: Yusuf, Jacob, Higgs, Bunty. I turn my gaze across them, a dry, skeptical smirk touching my lips. *So,* I say, my voice cutting through the rumble of the train, *this is the team that's going to take down the most dangerous wizard we've faced in over a century. A magizoologist, his indispensable assistant, a schoolteacher, a wizard descended from a very old French family, a Muggle baker with a fake wand,…