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BigBoy_06: "The Man On The Iron Horse"
Started: June 2006 Finished:_________

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- Chapter One -

The Start Of His Life

The midnight air was cold, the frost on the glass was gleaming from the moon light, and was shining onto Dan's face, he sat there gazing through the frosted glass window, out at the stars in the dull nights sky, only moving to pull back his long brown hair. The moon twinkled in his chocolate brown eyes as he sat on his bed staring out wondering what was going to happen the day after tomorrow, he stared out into the moonlit sky for a few more hours before he finally fell asleep, his head dropped back and fell into the pillow. Not too long after he fell asleep he shot up and looked around, he had thought someone was watching him, he got out of bed to look if he could see anyone but no one was out on the landing and no one was in his room so he got back into bed and went back to sleep.
The next morning he woke up and rubbed his eyes, the sun was shining strongly through the glass which was still frosted from the night before, he sat up, stretched and then got out of bed, he walked over to the window and looked out into the garden, the sun was shining but it was a winter sun and the rays were blinding if you looked at them and then all of a sudden from the shed at the end of the garden a big puff of black and green smoke wisped  into the breezy winter air. Dan turned and ran to the door, turned the large solid metal handle and ran down the long hallway and down the solid oak staircase.
The room was large with high ceilings and a irregular shape, cobwebs hanging off the light shade and there was three pictures hanging on the wall one was a big, strong, dark haired man with a big moustache, he was Called Alfo, he was given as a house warming present off Mauve, Dan's mothers cousin,  the other two were his great-grandmothers. Alfo smiled at Dan, so he smiled back smiled back and said "Good morning Alfo!" then walked out into the kitchen. His mother was sitting at the table sipping Coffee and reading the Daily Ticker, then she lowered the paper to look at Dan, her bright blue eyes shone from the reflection of winters sun outside and her blonde hair blew from the light gentle breeze coming through the open door and then she said "Hi darling did you have a nice sleep last night?" Dan replied "It was a bad night mam I couldn't sleep I was so nervous, because it's my first day of school tomorrow!" His mother then said "well sit down and I'll get some tea off the stove and get you some breakfast, that will calm you down." Dan said yes and went to sit down then realised what he had seen from the shed and asked "What is going on in the shed mum?" and she replied "Your father and your brother Tom are trying to make some potions for you to take to school with you." At once Dan leapt to his feet forgetting about his breakfast and ran out of the house and into the garden.
He ran down the cobble path and opened the door to the shed, it looked small from the outside but was rather big inside, his father was standing next to a large cauldron which had the same colours green and black in it as the smoke he had seen earlier. He asked his father what was in the cauldron and he replied "Oh its only to cure you if you get bit by anything, no matter what bites you drink this and you'll be better.", "Ok" replied Dan. Tom who was the other side of the cauldron was stirring the liquid around then all of a sudden "BANG!" all three of them jumped, even Dan's mother Lucia started shouting for them to keep the noise down. Dan lived with his two parents, his brother and his sister who was older than him. They all lived in Rosewood Avenue which was an ordinary street all except for them,  they were all witches and wizards. Terry Dan's father asked Dan and Tom to go into the house and get as many potion glasses as they can carry and bring them back to the shed. Dan and Tom ran back up to the house and they both went straight into the cupboard above the fire and took out four potion glasses each but because Tom was younger than Dan, Dan who was eleven and Tom was eight, one slipped out of his hands and smashed on the floor, their mother flicked her wand and the glass repaired and flew back into the cupboard, then the cupboard door shut and their mother said "Get back out the shed before you smash something else" so they both turned around and ran back to the shed. Back in the shed Dan's father who was called Terry, was ready to pour the potion into the glasses. He poured the first then asked Tom to put the cork in the top but neither Dan or Tom had brought corks, so Tom ran back up to the house to fetch some. Dan and his father continued to fill the glasses, while they were filling the glasses his father said "Dan at about noon we need to go get you your school supplies from Jemstone alley ok!", "Ok dad" Dan replied. When they had finished filling the glasses Tom entered the shed and said "sorry I took so long dad, me and mum couldn't find the corks anywhere, but we finally found them, they were behind the cupboards, the gnarckles must have moved them." Then Dan's father replied "We have seriously got to get rid of those Gnarckles they are starting to annoy me now!" and as soon as he said that Dan's mother shouted "Terry! Quickly come here, come and read what's in the paper.", "Ok! I'll be straight up" he replied then turned to Dan and said "Finish putting the corks in the top, then take two and come straight up to the house ok." "Ok" replied Dan, his father quickly ran up the path to the house, Dan turned around put the corks in the glasses and picked two of them up and carefully walked up to the house.
When Dan got back up to the house he put the potions onto the table, sat down with the rest of his family and eat the breakfast his mother had made him. After breakfast Dan's mother told him to go up to the attic and fetch the snapping snortog game down. As Dan got up from his chair his father said "Dan when you go up the attic take one of those potions with you, the spiders up the attic are rather poisonous and I don't want you spending your first day of school at the hospital. I'll fill it up later if you do use it." Dan replied "Ok dad ill take one just in case" so he picked up one of the potion glasses and ran out of the room and up the stairs.
When he got to the fourth floor, he looked up to see where the attic door was and he noticed it was not on the fourth floor, so he ran down the stairs to the third floor to see if it was there. When he got to the third floor he looked around and seen it, it was right by Sandy’s door. He walked over so that he was underneath the attic door then he wondered how to open it then he noticed a small thin piece of string dangling down. He pulled on the string hanging from the door and the door disappeared and was replaced instantly with a set of stairs with silky red carpet on the steps and a solid oak banister, he walked up them and peered his head through the top of the hole and looked around to see if he could see any spiders, but he didn't so he climbed up. When he had got up he wiped the dust off his clothes and looked around to see if he could see the game, he saw it in the corner of the room so he walked over to it, he went over to the game and was about to pick it up when a Siberian rattle spider dropped from the ceiling and onto the top of the box, He dropped the box to the floor, the spider ripped out its fangs and jumped at Dan, but he jumped back and the spider shot across the room, and when the spider was about to pounce back at him some one shouted "ARATAN!" and the spider froze in mid air and dropped to the floor. Dan was wondering who had cast the spell and at that moment his big sister Sandy popped her head into the attic. She climbed up into the attic and kicked the spider into the corner of the room and said "You will need to remember that spell for when you are in school, you will need it often" and Dan nodded and lent down and picked up the game and the potion and they both went back downstairs to the kitchen.
Dan's parents were deep in concentration when he walked into the kitchen they were reading an article about his sister Sandy starting work at the Daily Ticker, as a reporter. When they had finally finished reading the article they looked up at Dan and his mother said "I see you found the snapping snortog game alright." and he nodded and sat down. They were playing the game all morning and Dan was winning, when he looked up the clock was about to chime saying it was twelve o'clock, so he told his father and they finished the game off, the only person to have blood dripping from their hands was Tom. When they started putting the game away one snortog had one last bite and grabbed onto Dan's finger, when he finally got it off blood squirted all over the floor, his mother then waved her wand at his finger and the cut had healed up. After the last of his blood was cleaned up off the floor his father told him to get his coat and wait in the car for him, so Dan ran to the coat hanger and grabbed his coat and walked down the path and got into the car. Not too long after his father came walking down the path and got into the car, started the engine and drove down the street.
On their way to Jemstone Alley Dan put the radio on and his favourite band came on "The giggling ghouls" so he turned it up a bit louder. When they got to the secret entrance to Jemstone alley Dan's father parked the car and they both walked down a lane and turned into a dead end full of bins. Dan had never been in Jemstone alley before so he didn't know why his father had stopped by dirty smelly bins. When Dan was about to ask his father what was going on, his father tapped the top of the three bin lids with his wand and then tapped the wall and  then the bricks all moved to reveal a secret passage  into Jemstone alley. They both walked down the street and stopped outside a pub the stags wand and his father turned to him and said "Dan you take these 3 knuts and go look around, buy stuff for school that you will need and meet me back here in three hours, I have got to get something." Dan replied "I'll be back outside here at four o'clock then" and he said good bye to his father and went off to look around.
Dan went straight to the nearest shop which was a sweet shop called Hobarts Sweetly Sweets so he went in. Inside the shop was full of sweets, all the sweets he could think off. He walked over to one of the shelves and on them were Gumi beans, Jelly bugs and some magical animals, Dan picked up as much as he could carry and put them onto the counter. The man behind the counter who Dan assumed was Hobart came over to the counter, he had short grey hair, lots of wrinkles and moon shaped glasses sitting on the edge of his prolonged nose.  He asked Dan how he was and Dan replied saying he was nervous about his first day of school the next morning, then Hobart told him to eat some toffee flavoured Gumi beans before he went to sleep and he would be ok. Dan paid for the sweets, stuffed them into his pocket and walked out of the door.
Outside in the street he saw a tall woman with long ginger curly hair and standing next to her was a boy about his age with the same ginger hair as his mother, looking into Aroids Animals pointing at the owls, so Dan walked over to introduce himself. When Dan was going over the boy had already noticed Dan was coming to him so he decided to walk over to Dan. When they had met Dan said "Hi my name is Dan Troublewaters." the other boy replied "Hi Dan my name is George Remington. Are you going to Hashton this term? I am." Dan replied "Yes I am going to Hashton and I’ve got to get some supplies for school now, do you want to come with me?" George looked at his mother and she said "yes you can but meet me at the stags wand at four o'clock then ok" and George said ok. Dan and George went looking around Jemstone alley for hours and they bought a lot. When it was almost four they walked to the stags wand together. When they got there their parents were waiting for them so Dan and George said goodbye to each other and said they will see each other in school and both went to their cars. When Dan got into the car, his father started the car and started making his way home, Dan said to his father on the way home "What did you do earlier then dad?" and his father said "I bought you your robes, wand, broomstick, books and all the other stuff you'll need this term and that broomstick is the best it's the new firestorm 3000, hope you like it." all the way home Dan and his father talked about how he was going to be in the school's skybee team.
When they got home Dan helped his father to take the stuff he bought into the house. After his father brought the last thing in he asked Dan if he would try the robes on. Once Dan had tried on all his new Hashton robes his mother went out to the kitchen and came back with some pumpkin and horse radish soup for their tea. Dan eat all of his and went out into the kitchen to get some more. When he got back every one had finished and was starting to go to bed so he eat the soup and rushed off to bed.
When he got to his room Dan walked over to the window to look out, then he realised what Hobart had said about the Toffee Gumi Beans, so before he would try see if they would work he went over to his hamster cage to feed his hamster Sam and to play with him for half hour. When he had put Sam back in his cage he walked over to his bed, took out the Gumi bean and put it on his bead side table, then got undressed and put his pyjamas on. As soon as he got into bed he took the bean off the bed side table and put it in his mouth. The flavours exploded in his mouth and soon after he had fallen to sleep.
The next day he got out of bed and said to himself "Hobart was right" then he got changed into his clothes and went downstairs. His mother was sitting in the living room reading the Daily Ticker, when he got to the bottom she turned around and said "Are you ready we are leaving in ten minutes" Dan said yes and went into the kitchen to make some breakfast. After he eat his breakfast his father asked had he put the potions into his trunk  and Dan said yes then he asked for Dan to bring the trunk downstairs. Dan Ran up stairs, put all the last bits and bobs into his trunk grabbed his hamster cage and dragged them downstairs. When he had finally got to the bottom of the stairs his father said "Dan put your coat on and put them in the car, I've got to go and wake your sister up she starts work today for the Daily Ticker and I don't want her being late." Dan dragged the trunk to the car, opened the boot and lifted it in, he carried his hamster cage with him. He walked around the car and got in the front and put the cage onto his lap, his mother and brother were in the back they were going to say goodbye at the station. Dan's father was coming down the path as he was looking at the house, it looked like every other house in the street from the outside but inside it was a lot different. His father got into the car and started the engine, as they drove off Dan said goodbye to his home and wondered wether life at Hashton school for witches and wizards would be the same as living at home.

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- Chapter Two -

On The Way To School

On his way to the bus station he saw many people some big, some small but he thought to himself they all had one thing in common they were all buggles, buggles were non-magical people and knew nothing about the existence of the wizarding world. He soon got bored, the bus station they needed was a three hours drive from his house, so he turned and said to his father "dad would you mind if I took Sam out of his cage, only for a little while." His father said "yes you can Dan but be careful ok don't drop him." Dan said ok and started playing with his hamster Sam.
When they arrived at the bus station they parked next to the sign that said "Welcome to Hertfordshire Bus Station" written on it. Dan got out of the car and walked over to the trolleys to get one so he could put his stuff in. When he got to the trolleys he noticed that he had to put buggle money into a slot on the trolley to let it go, so he ran quickly over to his father and said "Dad the sign by the trolley says I need one buggle pound to have the trolley" so his father gave him a pound and he ran back to get a trolley. When he took the trolley back to his parents they all lifted the trunks onto the trolley. Once they finished loading the cases Dan pushed the trolley to the bus, the bus was the only one that stood out, all the other buses were boring red double decker busses, then he thought to himself it was like the bus he had dreamt about when he was younger. After saying good bye to his mother and father he dragged his trunk onto the bus, carted it down the walk way to the nearest seat and pushed it underneath.
When the bus started moving the conductor came round looking for tickets, The conductor looked at Dan and said "Ticket please sir!" so Dan handed the ticket over to the conductor who has a tall thin man of about thirty years of age with long greasy brown hair and walked with a bit of a limp and the conductor looked at the ticket, ripped it in the middle and gave it back to him. Dan turned to look out of the window but the bus was going to fast to see what was going on outside, all he knew was that it was raining. The conductor walked up to Dan again but this time he sat in front of him and started talking to him, "So what’s your name then buddy" Dan replied "Dan Troublewaters sir, what’s yours" The conductor said "The names Bill, Bill Turin. Pleased to meet you Dan Troublewaters." but as the conductor was about to say something the bus came to a halt and some more people got on, "sorry to cut our conversation short Dan but more people have got on, if anyone your age has got on ill tell them to come up and sit by you to keep you company ok." "Ok Bill, see you later" replied Dan and then the conductor walked off down to the people who had just got on. Dan turned to look out of the window to see where they were but before he could make anything out, somebody had sat down in front of him, there in front him was a tall gangly boy of about the same age as Dan, he had short blonde hair, blue eyes and rather pale skin. As the boy looked at Dan he smiled and quietly said "Hi the names

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