Every memory he has of Hogwarts plays through his mind like a movie from the moment he and Corvin arrive at King’s Cross. They decided that Sirius and Remus would stay home, this was more of a parent-child thing and they’re too close to the finish line to have something disrupt their carefully designed image. Of course, the send-off was much the same; lots of hugs, mountains of unsolicited advice, reassurances that they’ll love him no matter what house he’s sorted into, fretting over his supply of blood rations and whining about him possibly having to drink Snape’s blood if the rations run out, Remus plying him with chocolate and Sirius telling him the best places to hide to avoid detention, all that. On the platform itself, however, it’s only long hugs from his first dad and kisses on the head.