Toad issue!

They had a good time chatting and eating candies that Harry bought for them. Who knew the Harry Potter, Perseus thought would be poor was packing with galleons. The awkwardness between Draco and Harry wavered a little but Harry still seemed to be holding something back. Perseus knew from Bailey that Malfoy's family was one of the followers of Voldemort when he was at its peak but when he was said to have died they quickly change sides.

From an outsider's point of view, it might have seen as a despicable and traitorous action but Perseus knew it wasn't that bad after all that's what he would've done in that situation as well. Perseus had a similar attitude as the current Draco in his past life, arrogant and a born hatred towards muggle-borns but luckily him being a squib taught him decency and he at least had a chance to learn that when it comes to wizards only the muggle-born would treat squibs with some amount of respect, unlike the nobles.

The countryside now flying past the window was becoming wilder. The neat fields had gone. Now there were woods, twisting rivers, and dark green hills.

There was a knock on the door of their compartment and a round-faced boy came in. He looked tearful.

"Sorry," he said, "but have you seen a toad at all?"

When they shook their heads, he wailed, "I've lost him! He keeps getting away from me!"

"He'll turn up," said Harry with Draco ignoring the boy's existence completely and Perseus not paying too much attention to it in general.

"Yes," said the boy miserably. "Well, if you see him..."

He left.

"Don't know why he's so bothered," said Draco. "If I'd brought a toad I'd lose it as quick as I could."

"Well, what else can you do." Perseus said shrugging, "Other than an owl, a cat and a toad you're not allowed to bring other creatures at all."

"I guess you're talking about the rules, right?" Draco said shaking his head, "You see it is all just formalities, you can bring any animal you like as long as it's not above an XXX-level creature and small enough to be contained in a small area."

"What's an XXX-level creature?" Harry asked curiously.

"You see, in the magical world there are magical creatures like unicorns and dragons." Perseus said looking at the surprise in Harry's face, "Yes, they are all real, Harry. And these creatures are divided according to how dangerous they are. It goes from X-level which basically means boring creatures that can't harm anyone to XXXXX-level which means wizards killers and creatures that can't be domesticated."

"I see." Harry gulped imagining a fight between a wizard and a dragon, "Did you bring any pets then?"

"I didn't." Draco said, "It seemed like a hassle but I am planning on getting an eagle for Christmas. What about you Perseus?"

"I didn't bring any as well." Perseus said, "I had been meaning to get an owl at least but I had kinda forgotten about it. Maybe I'll get one for Christmas as well."

"You can use mine if you want to." Harry said, "I luckily got an Owl as a gift. Not that I have anyone to send letters to."

Just then the compartment door slid open again. The toadless boy was back, but this time he had a girl and a boy with him. The girl was already wearing her new Hogwarts robes and the boy was the redhead Perseus recognized to be the one who crashed into him previously.

"Has anyone seen a toad? Neville's lost one," she said. She had a bossy sort of voice, lots of bushy brown hair, and rather large front teeth.

"We've already told him we haven't seen it,"

"See, Neville you should just let it go." The redhead said, "The toad was useless anyway."

"The only reason Neville's toad is gone is because you wanted to try your stupid spell on it." The girl said glaring at him, "If you don't want to help him, go back."

"Whatever, who cares about the stupid toad anyway." The redhead pushed through Neville who looked as if he was about cry any moment, but then his eyes fell of Harry or more especially his scar, "Wicked! Are you Harry Potter?"

Harry who was getting uncomfortable with how the boy was treating Neville looked at the boy a bit unfavorably.

"Do you know him, Harry?" Perseus asked as Harry nodded.

"His family helped me find the platform." Harry said, "Do I know you?"

"I am Ron-"

"No need to ask who they are, Harry. My father told me all the Weasleys have red hair, freckles, and more children than they can afford." Draco said snorting, "Get lost Weasley before you dirty out compartment."

"What did you say?" The boy named Ron glared at Draco while Perseus was busy looking at Harry's reaction to the matter. From what it seemed, Harry seemed to view both the boy and Draco the same but maybe he was a bit lenient to Draco per se. Harry turned towards Perseus as if asking for help as Perseus sighed.

"Sigh! This is going to be annoying." Perseus said taking out his wand, "You all might want to step back a little."

Ron who was still in a mood for fight wasn't barging off until the girl pulled him away, her eyes stuck to Perseus.

"Accio, toad!"

Everyone was expecting something extraordinary to happen but nothing did.

"Sigh! So bloody annoying." Perseus fumed, after all, summoning a toad he had never seen before was proving to be extremely hard.

Ron snickered on the side as others stayed quite.

Taking a deep breath Perseus pulled his wand at the top of his head as he concentrated on the spell thinking of every toad he had ever seen on TV, "ACCIO! TOAD!!"

A puff of smoke covered the floor of the compartment when they all started hearing loud croaking noises. All of them looked down to see the floor covered with toads of different kinds as all of them hurriedly lifted their feet.

"Trevor!" Neville said delightfully as he jumped into the pile of toad catching one of them on his fall.

Perseus was glad that the spell worked but he didn't expect, every toad from the entire train to be summoned into the room.

"This might've been a bit overkill." Perseus said, "We might want to get out of here."

Harry and Draco nodded as they jumped out of the compartment as Perseus helped pull Harry's suitcase and Neville outside from the heap of toads.

"Close the door," Draco said as Perseus nodded and waved his wand again just then Draco pushed Ron, in the compartment right before it closed on him.

All the other looked at Draco as he just shrugged, "What? I tripped. Besides, we can't let those toads out anymore unless we want to be blamed for stealing."

"I couldn't agree more." Perseus nodded as he could see Ron screaming for them to open the compartment. "Sorry, Mr. Weasley if we open the compartment I wouldn't be able to contain the toads so till we stop at Hogwarts we request you to stay patient in there. There are some treats we previously bought but you can enjoy them as compensation for your patience."