"Look, Mummy! The train looks exactly like the bedtime stories you and daddy used to tell us!" Honoria held on to Olivia's hand as she jumped up and down.
"I told you," Olivia laughed.
"Dad, can you tell Honoria to calm down? I don't want to look like a dunderhead before we even get to Hogwarts," Scorpius said with his arms crossed his chest. Olivia could tell he obviously hung out with his grandpa too much since "dunderhead" was new to his vocabulary.
"I think you should relax, Scorp. You should be just as excited as your sister," Draco said, ruffling his son's hair. Scorpius moved out of his father's reach and fixed his hair.
"Are those my favorite twins?" Olivia saw Ron squeezing through the crowd to greet them. Hermione was behind them with their children, Rose and Hugo.
"Uncle Ron!" Both kids yelled and raced up to Ron to give him a hug.
"And what about me?" Hermione pretended to look hurt, but smiled when both kids laughed and gave her a group hug too.
"Hey, guys," Olivia smiled and also hugged Ron and Hermione. Draco smiled and shook Ron's hand and smiled at Hermione.
"Come on, Rose. Want to get a better look at the train?" Honoria grabbed her hand and they both ran to check out the train.
"Don't go too far, girls!" Olivia yelled after them.
"Can you believe the kids are already starting Hogwarts?" Hermione said.
"Well, not for me!" Hugo pouted.
"You will soon, son," Ron reassured him.
"Has anyone seen Harry and Ginny?" Olivia asked looking around.
"There!" Scorpius pointed to a running Albus Potter.
"Slow down, Albus!" They could hear Harry yelling after his son. Albus refused to slow down as he ran straight into Scorpius and both boys fell to the floor.
"Merlin, Albus!" Scorpius laughed as he wrestled Albus.
"Get up, boys. The floor is filthy," Draco broke up the laughing eleven year olds and helped them up.
"Hey, everyone," Harry said when he caught up.
"Hey, Harry — hey, Ginny," Olivia smiled, greeting her old friends.
"What about me, Aunt Olivia?" Olivia looked down to see Lily hanging onto her mother's leg.
Olivia knelt down to kiss the little redhead on the head, "Hey, sweetie."
"How's it going, James?" Draco said to James who looked uncomfortable standing with everyone.
"Fine," James said flatly, "I'm going to find Teddy."
"Teenagers," Harry shrugged in a "what can you do?"/"Sorry about that" fashion.
"Right," Draco said. Olivia knew he was still a little awkward around her friends — even after nineteen years.
"The train leaves in ten minutes — I thought your father was going to come to see the twins off," Draco asked Olivia.
"Oh yeah — where is Professor Snape?" Hermione asked, forgetting she didn't have to call him that anymore.
"I'd rather not know — no offense Olivia, but he still scares me," Ron said.
As if he had heard Ron himself — Olivia's father Apperated right behind him.
"Sorry I'm late. I wanted to drop off my things at Hogwarts first," he smoothed out his robes.
"Hey, dad," Olivia hugged him. Ron and Harry looked as scared to see him as they did when they were kids, which made Hermione, Ginny, and Olivia laugh.
"Hi, Grandpa!" Scorpius turned and jumped into his grandfather's arms.
"Where's your sister?"
"She ran off with Rose," Scorpius said.
"Hello, sir," Albus said, looking as excited as Scorpius was to see him.
"Hello, Albus."
"So what kind of cool Potions are we going to make tomorrow? Felix Felices? Amortentia? Draught of the Living Dead?" Albus asked.
"Whoa, relax. You're not going to be making those anytime soon," Severus said. Upon seeing the disappointed looks on Albus' and his grandson's face, he knelt down next to them and whispered "But you are old enough to see my stash, huh?"
A smirk grew on both boys' faces as they nodded.
"Dad, please don't accidently blow up our kids," Olivia said.
He smirked. "I should get—"
"Grandpa!" Honoria and Rose reappeared from their adventure and Honoria ran up to him.
"Just the little girl I was looking for," he said. "Scorpius, Honoria — come here."
Both kids did what they told as Severus knelt down to their level.
"I wanted to tell you something before you left. No matter what house you're sorted into — whether it's Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, Slytherin, or Gryffindor, I'm already proud of the two of you," He looked up at Olivia when he said Gryffindor — reminding her that even though she was never sorted into Slytherin like he wanted when she was eleven, he was still and always proud of her.
Olivia smiled.
"You're grandpa's right," Draco said, "Your mother and I are already proud of you two also."
"Thank you," Both kids said at the same time.
"Goodbye everyone and see you kids later at the feast," Severus said to all the kids and he Disapperated.
"Wow, you're father's definitely mellowed out since our Hogwarts years," Ron said, shocked.
"Age and experience will do that to you," Olivia pointed out.
"Can you believe we have to work tonight?" Harry said to Olivia.
Olivia sighed, "I know. I wanted the day off since it's Honoria and Scorpius' first day, but I guess being an Auror doesn't give you much room to have day's off."
"The Ministry gave me the day off," Hermione pretended to gloat.
"Fred and George gave me the day off as well. You know, I didn't think I'd like working with them at Weasleys Wizarding Wheezes, but it's actually fun," Ron said.
"Well, it should be considering it's a joke shop," Ginny said.
"Come on, kids. The train leaves in exactly two minutes," Draco said. The kids quickly stopped what they were doing to say goodbye to their parents.
"I'll miss you Mummy and Daddy," Honoria hugged both her parents.
"Won't you miss us too, Scorp?" Olivia said to her son.
"Yes," he tried to sound okay with the fact that he was leaving home for awhile to impress Albus, but Albus quickly caught on and started to pretend-tease his best mate.
"Stop acting like you didn't cry on the way here, Albus," Ginny said. Albus turned red, as it was Scorpius' turn to pretend-tease him back.
"Oh, stop it — the two of you," Draco said, while trying not to laugh along with Ron and Harry at their son's play fighting. It was ironic that Draco and Harry's son's where best mates since they fought constantly at their days at Hogwarts.
Everyone hugged and kissed their kids goodbye as the kids ran to board the train.
"You think they're going to have as much fun as we did?" Hermione asked the rest of the gang.
The train's whistle went off loudly, signaling it's leaving. Olivia, Draco, Hermione, Ron, Harry, and Ginny waved goodbye to their kids as the train left the station.
"Let's hope not, Hermione," Olivia laughed.
They all laughed along with her.