remember, everything’s tagged under the dogfather. part one is here, with links to the rest at the bottom. I’m also going to round up the story-so-far and post it to my AO3 once I get Harry past the Sorting Hat. if you’re waiting for the next installment and the anticipation’s killing you, go read a zine or a comic from my Gumroad page.
- on the train, Harry is a bit relieved to have a compartment nearly to himself. he’s in with Padfoot and the youngest of that big noisy family from the platform– Ron, who also seems quite glad for a bit of quiet and space to catch his breath. two of his brothers invite them to see someone’s giant tarantula, but Ron doesn’t seem to like spiders any better than Harry does.
- they subside, for a bit, into the slightly awkward silence of two strangers whose parents clearly expected them to befriend one another. Padfoot flops over onto his side, puts his head on Harry’s shoes, and goes to sleep.
- Ron makes the first overture. “are you allowed dogs at Hogwarts? I thought it was only cats, rats and toads.”
- “if anyone asks, I’m going to say he’s a very large cat,” Harry says.
the hogwarts express
Published
Question of Smoke 