Danae

All right, so I'm perfectly normal, right? Nothing about me screams 'Please, drop me into the Harry Potter universe!'. Apart from the fanfiction, but so many people write fanfiction that it's probably almost normal. That was most likely a little confusing. Sorry. I get carried away quite a lot. I'm Danae. My best friend in the history of ever is Alyssa. We do almost everything together. Including travelling between universes apparently, but hey, who doesn't do that... So it was a normal day; we went into town, spent stupid amounts of money on stuff we weren't ever likely to use ever again and then went back to hers. We were both on the floor in her room - logical, huh? I mean, there was a bed right there, but it is easier to talk about random crap until the early hours of the morning when you're both on the same level I suppose. It was maybe 4am or so when we fell asleep. I can't even remember what we talking about, but I'm thinking that it's kinda irrelevant to the story.

So, we eventually fell asleep, and in the morning we woke up. Shocking right? I know it isn't particularly shocking, but that time it was. Not 'cause we were expecting to die or anything, that would be stupid. No, it was shocking because we weren't on her floor in sleeping bags anymore. We were... actually, at that point we had no idea. Alyssa woke first - she always does, annoying child. When I woke up she was just staring at different parts of the room in turn. I decided to do the same and was rather surprised *cough* understatement *cough*.

I probably ought to describe the room. It had four beds against the wall, and some chests of drawers and cupboards, though by the looks of the floor, the storage units hadn't seen a lot of use. The walls were just kinda creamy-off-white-beige-wall-coloured. There was a door at each end, and oh, we were in two of the beds. When I processed that, I started wishing that the owners of the beds, because the room was most definitely lived-in, would never come back. Ever. It would be such an awkward situation.

"What the fuck happened?" I always was known for my subtlety, although I think in that situation I can be excused.

"HOW WOULD I KNOW? DO I LOOK LIKE I KNOW?" Did I mention? Alyssa; not a morning person. And she doesn't deal with really weird occurrences very happily 'till she knows what's going on. Which, may I remind you, we didn't. We shut up again after that and looked around for a bit. And then we heard the voices.

"So are you going to do the essays today, or will I have to force you?" A male voice. A quick scan of the room revealed that it was a boys' room. That would only add to the awkwardness...

"Please Moony, as if you could. You know that we'll only do them the morning they're due. And not very well at that." Another boy.

"Prongs? He is really strong and all, you know. Not like Padfoot over there." 3 boys so far. And Prongs, Moony and Padfoot? Could they not think of their own nicknames? That's such a fail! I mean, not that I've ever given anyone a nickname, but still! I could still come up with a better nickname than recycling one from a book, even if it is one as awesome as the wonderful Harry Potter. Ooh, there were four boys, 'cause they mentioned another one. Shit. 4 boys + 4 beds = this is probably their room. Shit. I was so totally not ready for a confrontation. I was still sleepy! Sleep is good! I wanted sleep...

And the door opened... Yeah, I suck at dramatic-ness. So the door opened and guess what? The four boys we heard talking were the absent occupants of this room, and they had come back. Cue the awkwardness. When they walked in, I was more than a little shocked that they looked like I'd always imagined the Marauders would. The nicknames made more sense now, but I still think that's overly lame. Of course, I didn't really think that they actually were the Marauders, even if we were in a dorm, they used the nicknames, they looked like I thought they would have, and they were wearing robes. Looking back, I guess I probably should have seen it coming. I mean, it is common enough in fanfiction that the idea was in the back of my head.

The first boy, slightly shorter than the others and only just on the chubby side stopped point blank staring at the two of us. The boy behind, with unruly black hair and glasses walked into him. I probably shouldn't have laughed, but it was funny! Although I suppose it didn't make our situation any better. The first two moved out of the way so that the other two guys could walk in. And oh my goodness, were they fit. The first one had black hair and even with robes on, it was obvious he was pretty ripped. The other was a little shorter with sandy hair and a sweet face. He wasn't so bulky, but he still looked pretty strong. I probably ought to get on with it, nicht wahr?

"Why are you in my bed?" The sandy-haired one was talking to me. If ever I heard a question that could be an innuendo, there was one. I just kinda shrugged and made a face before telling him I had absolutely no idea. The black haired one was slightly more straight forward.

"Okay, so I didn't fuck you last night, and even if I did, you wouldn't still be here, so who the fuck are you, and what are you even doing?" I saw Alyssa put on her stubborn face and smirked to myself. This guy was not gonna know what hit him.

"You didn't fuck me last night? Is that how you normally refer to it? 'Cause if it is, you really ought to remember that girls are people too. And for the record, I woke up here - it's not like I made a secret plan to sneak in here and get in bed with you, before you get any stupid ideas. You obviously think you're God's gift to women, which you are so not." LIES! He was sooo fit. And I knew that if 'Lyssa had a type, he would be it. So she was blatantly lying through her teeth. I glared at her so that she wouldn't piss these people off, and then decided to take matters into my own hands.

"I'm Danae, and she's Alyssa. She's not ever really very pleasant right after she wakes up, especially if it's in a different place. I don't know why we're here. Hell, I don't even know where here is! And seeing as you know our names, it would only be right for us to know yours. And I'd quite like to know where we are as well." Yes! I didn't act as crazy as I do in my head. Success! Sadly enough, that actually is a success for me... A moment of silence please, for my lost sanity. Moment over! And the sandy haired was talking again. Now that I actually listened (I don't often do that) he had a really nice voice.

"I'm Remus, the one who just got owned by your friend is Sirius, the one with the glasses is James, and this is Pete. You're in Hogwarts." Tcheh, yeah right. Bit of an elaborate prank though.

"As if! Though it is a rather posh set-up. I guess it's our friends' fault that we're here, and somehow they convinced you guys to act for them? That would explain the nicknames on the stairs though. And like we were ever gonna believe we're in Hogwarts. We may be obsessed but we're not that far gone yet!" I jumped in before Alyssa could open her mouth and start swearing and yelling at them. The boys just shared a look, as if to say 'what is this crazy person on about' or maybe just on full stop. There goes my slightly saner impression... Ah well, life goes on. 'James' just looked around and then announced we ought to go to Dumbledore. Except he said Dumbles... I thought they only came up with that nickname in fanfictions. Alyssa and I looked at each other and just decided to go along with it. If we walked out the door and it was still a medieval castle, I would think about believing them. If not, then we were a little confused for a while. Common as that is for me, I got used to it a while ago

Alyssa

"YOU IDIOTS. WE'RE NOT GOING OUTSIDE LOOKING LIKE THIS! DO YOU NOT REALISE WHAT WE'RE WEARING?" I roared at them.

I looked down at my pyjamas which had Barbie plastered everywhere – a great example of why you should NOT let your mum buy any of your clothes because they still think you are still their 'little girl'. I frowned, and out of the corner of my eye I saw Sirius snigger. Before that fool could say another word, I gave him 'the look' which meant if you say another word, you die.

"Prongs, Padfoot, Wormtail. I think they're right, people will certainly raise a few eyebrows at two girls in their pyjamas in the middle of the day especially if they're coming out our dormitory" It seemed that Remus was probably the brains of the group. All the boys went to the corner of the room to discuss 'quietly' what to do.

Danae had the usual I'm so confused look on her face; I knew she was thinking if this was all an elaborate prank that our friends had conjured for us. No. No offence to them, but they would never ever think of something this big, and even get a few guys to act.

The other explanation that this was all a dream had already failed. Pinching myself had been the first thing I had done when I had first heard the boys' voices. Danae being slow as usual had probably just thought of it.

"Alyssa, pinch me." Her voice was stern and the most unDanaeish I had ever heard it. Hmmm... to pinch or not to pinch? Mwahahaha...pinch. I covered ears in advance for I knew what was about to happen.

*SCREAM*

Before she could start lecturing me, I shouted "Don't blame me! You told me to!" She was still glaring at me, "You could have done it softly!" I mumbled words of apology but then her eyes shone.

"Wait... Does this mean we're not dreaming?"

"Of course not, and I don't think Lizzy and Millie are behind this either, they are way too retarded to pull anything this big off, for the time being we're gonna have to trust those losers until we come up with a better theory."

"WE'RE DONE!" Geez could that boy have shouted any louder? Well... he probably could have but let's not think about that now.

"So basically we're going to transfigure you into books and take us with you to Dumbles"

"James. HOW FUCKING DUMB CAN YOU GET? I DON'T THINK WE'D WANT TO BE TURNED INTO BOOKS. USE YOUR CLOAK!" Could they get any dumber?

James looked at me incredulously, "How do you know about that?"

Hmm, now that was a tricky question, it would be slightly weird if I told them, we've read books about you! And not to mention it'd make their heads bigger, as if they weren't big enough already. I barely knew these guys but I'd gotten a bad feeling about them. ALL OF THEM.

Instead of saying anything I just tapped my nose, it seemed the best thing to do and I think Danae agreed with me that it would be way too weird telling them about the Harry Potter books... Sirius glanced at me sceptically whilst the others just looked confused.

"GUYS. WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR! GO GET IT."

"Fine." James sulked, he ran to the bed which Danae had been sleeping on and pulled a silvery cloak from underneath. The invisibility cloak. I whispered to Danae, "If this doesn't work then I'm so going to scream" James handed it over grudgingly. The silvery cloak lay between our hands, this felt so unreal. So naturally our first instinct was to test it out and see if it actually worked. Obviously we weren't disappointed to find that it was the invisibility cloak, it's ironic how yesterday we were talking about what we'd do if we had an invisibility cloak and here we are today with the real thing in our hands.

"Girlies, if you're done?"James glared at Danae who seemed to be missing a body and was now a floating head. Danae giggled as she slowly slid the slivery cloak off her, whilst James was eyeing her with a pang of confusion. "So you two are going to get under the cloak and we're gonna walk you over to dear old Dumbles, but you must promise not to tell anyone about my cloak."

"We pinky-promise"

"What in Merlin's beard is a pinky promise?" The chubby boy with blond hair, supposedly Peter, had spoken. For some reason, I'd always expected Peter to be a scrawny boy with mouldy brown hair and here he was the total opposite of scrawny, fat.

"Wormtail... Are you stupid?" Remus inquired sarcastically.

"Yes" Sirius grunted.

"Sirius. That was a rhetorical question and Wormtail, we all pinky-promised at the weekend in the library when we were-"

"PRONGS."

"Yeah?"

"Shut up."

James glowered fiercely at Sirius who was doing some sort of hand action which seemed to have relaxed James a bit. Peter looked like he was drowning in his own thoughts looking more confused than ever.

"The thing with the pinkys? I thought we were pinky wrestling."Everyone's jaws quite literally dropped and Remus started hitting his head against the wall, whereas I wanted to pull my hair out. Peter, on the other hand, was puzzled. I had a feeling I was not going to like Peter, he was just ... aggravating.

"ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS?" James shouted furiously. I held my breath for what was about to come, from all the fan fictions I had read, this was pretty obvious.

"NO. BAD PRONGS. Wormy is NOT fucking me!"Laughter erupted like a volcano across the dormitory; it had probably been the most I had laughed since like... EVER. I glanced around the room, everyone in tears of laughter apart from Wormtail who had gone bright pink. Sirius ran to Wormtail's side and addressed him, "No offence Pete, not that you're not attractive or anything... I just don't bend that way yet" Yes you've guessed it, laughter again. This time I remained stiff, it had been funny the first time but now he was just over doing it.

"GUYS – We're off track...Prongs, carry on please" Finally the one with the common sense had spoken, and it was about time. I didn't really want to be stuck in this dormitory any longer as there was an awfully foul smell coming from underneath one of the beds..

"Sorry to interrupt but what's that smell?" They all promptly started sniffing like dogs.

"I don't care what the smell is, we have to get you outta here, and we have a few... erm... things to do soon. So get under that cloak now!"

Hastily Danae and I got under the cloak, it felt so magical. What am I saying? It was magic after all.

The four boys walked in front of us, looking slightly hesitant at first however resuming their normal selves after we climbed out of the portrait of the fat lady. It felt so weird, but then again life is pretty weird. Who would've known we'd wake up in Hogwarts? I cleared my head of these thoughts as I saw James hit on a pretty girl with long red hair and emerald green eyes, obviously Lily Evans. She looked pretty annoyed at the sight of him, and made gagging noises as she walked past him with another girl who I didn't seem to recognise.

"Hey Danae, who's the other girl?"

"You read my mind. I was just about to ask you!" We grinned at each other; I swear we were telepathic or that we knew each other too well.

"Danae, Lyssa, don't talk, you'll give yourselves away!" Honestly. We're not as stupid as their friend Wormtail. We knew that, that's why we were whispering quietly, but then again, they wouldn't know what whispering was if it came and hit them in the face seeing as they'd practically shouted that across the corridor. I knew better as to not shout at them, not yet anyway.

Finally we reached two stone gargoyles and we froze.

"Padfoot, you know the password?" Moony enquired.

"Yeah.. Sherbert Lemon!"

"Ooh I like those!" Wormtail shouted excitedly. I sighed in dismay, hurry up and say it.

"Nice to know Pete," Remus coughed for a second and addressed the gargoyles,"Sherbert Lemon!"

The gargoyles sprang to life as we pulled our cloaks off, instead of the circular staircase we'd expected to see, an elderly man with a long wispy beard stood in our way. His name; Albus Dumbledore.

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