Sam nodded as Rhys walked out of the cabin and looked over at Lysander. "Sounds like a plan, I'll face the other way if you want to get changed as well," he said, turning around and quickly changing out of his muggle clothes and into his school uniform.
But he wasn't fast enough. He'd just pulled his shirt over his head and was in the middle of pulling his first leg through his pants when Rhys came back in, ranting about some issue she had.
"Ahhh," he shouted out, tripping over as he attempted to hide his half-dressedness from the girl in his own house and smacking his head on the glass of the compartment's window. "What are you doing?" He shouted, gathering his robes around him and quickly hitching his pants up as he felt his face burn bright red.
"Try. Knock. Next. Time," he said sternly, shaking his head and standing back up, only to finally realise what she was saying. "Oh no, not... drat, one minute," he said, throwing his trunk open and rummaging about until he found his least favourite, ugly jumper, too small pants, and painting shirt out, ready to be given to the guards.
"Why? You trying to figure out who'd taste best?" he asked Alex as he did this, before winking at the other boy to let him know he was kidding. "No, it's because they've not come down this way yet," he said, and sure enough as he spoke, a burly looking wizard dressed in gray entered the compartment.
"Here," he said vehemently, throwing the ugly clothes he'd selected at the man. "That's all I've got on me... good riddance too," he added, rolling his eyes behind the man's back as he walked out.
"Thick these ones, aren't they?" he said with a smirk. "Still," he said, any traces of a smile disappearing, "It's pretty rubbish for this to have happened already, don't you think?" he asked the others, wondering if this was what the whole year was going to be like.