A/N: This is my first fanfiction, so plz don't flame me.

Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter...

Behind The Veil?

chapter 1-

It was at the beginning of the school year, and Hermione was heading for the prefects' bathroom. It was in the middle of the night, the only time she could be certain no one else was there, the rest of the day, it was often a long queue outside the statue that guarded the entrance. She said the password ("alternative universes") and walked inn. Before she could put her name on the list that hung on the wall and lock the door, someone else came into the bathroom…

"What are you doing in here?" Hermione glared at the boy who just came in; it was Draco Malfoy.

"I'm going into the prefects' bathroom, to take a bath, that's what people usually do in bathrooms," he said with a smirk, "What were you going to do?"

"Same thing, of course, not much use in going here for a shower, they're not any different from those in our dorm. Well, I was here first, so you can just…" Wham; there was a loud crash from the wall where the list hung, "What did you do?" she yelled at Malfoy, he didn't say anything, but moved closer to the wall.

"I didn't do anything! I've never heard of anything like this, not anything magical, at least, maybe there's someone trying to knock down the wall from the other side?"

"Maybe…" Hermione moved closer to the wall, "but if it was, I don't think it would be doing… that."

The wall was starting to wobble like some kind of marble-coloured jelly. "I don't think you should do that,"

Malfoy was reaching out his hand to touch the wall, "I really don't think you should do that." She took a step forward and just as she did, the wall started to swirl, and it sucked her and Malfoy in, and then spit them out.

"What the bloody hell was that?" She said, and looked puzzled at Malfoy.

"I don't know, he said, and I don't think I want to either, I'm going back to the common room!" With that, he took off and practically ran out of the room.

Like I want to take a bath now, she thought, and walked out of the room too.

The book caught fire, and Sirius dropped it in surprise. Why didn't it work? What happened? It should have worked! Damnit, it should have worked! He kicked one of the gargoyles beside him on the roof, "IT SHOULD HAVE WORKED!" He fell down to his knees, crying, he hadn't done that since before Azkaban, hell, he hadn't done it since he was six.. I better get back to my room before any of the other teachers hear me and wonder what's happening up here. So he went down the stairs to go back to his room, when he noticed Hermione Granger coming towards him, he froze, could she see that he'd been crying? Too late to run now; she's spotted me. Hermione froze too, and then she got a suspicious look on her face and walked slowly towards him,

"Sirius? What are you doing here? I mean- You're dead! Uh… I mean… how- "

Oh my god, is this the Hermione from my world? How did that happen? "What do you mean I'm dead, can't you see me standing right in front of you? It's me! Your professor!" He said, he was probably wrong, this couldn't be her, she was probably just kidding…

"You're a professor? You died at the end of last year! What is this, some kind of joke?" Her eyes were teary, "because if it is, it's not very funny" Her voice trembled a little, but she kept it under control.

Oh no! What happened? This really is the Hermione from my world! The spell must have opened a portal from there to here instead of here to there. I should have, done… something. "It's not a joke, I think it's an alternate reality, or dimension or whatever you want to call it. When I fell trough the Veil, I found myself here, didn't realize it at first, but, when I met James, I sort of understood…" He chuckled at the memory.

"James? James Potter? As in 'Harry Potter's father?'" she stared at him.

"Yep, that's the one, did you come here alone?"

she shook her head, "I came here with Draco Malfoy"

"Really", he said, "you know, in this world, you're dating him-",

"WHAT? I'm with Draco Malfoy? EW!"

"Keep your voice down, what if someone comes by here and hears us? How will you explain th-?" they both stopped brething, someone was coming, their footsteps coming closer and closer, Hermione panicked and hid behind a suit of armour. At the exact same time, Malfoy came around the corner

"Granger, Why are you hiding?", he drawled. Then he spotted Sirius, "What are you doing here? you're supposed to be dead, my da-... Anyway," He turned back to Hermione, "There's something weird going on, I went down to the entrance to the Slytherin common room, and then a prefect came by and said I should go to my own common room, and then I said that was my common room, and he looked funny at me and said I was in Ravenclaw!"

Hermione looked shocked at him, "That's because we're in an alternate universe, you'd think you understood that, when you saw man who supposedly died almost three months ago..." Sirius looked puzzled at her at this, but didn't mention it when he then spoke,

" I know someone who can help you get new identities and stuff here, it's not like you can walk around like this, what if you meet yourselves?"

So they all walked down into the dungeons, what they were going to do down there was a mystery to Hermione, and judging by the puzzled look on Malfoy's face, he didn't know why either. When Sirius finally stopped, they were in a room Hermione 'd never seen before, it was circular with tousands of bookshelves. On the floor was a large map of hogwarts, just like the Maurader's Map, only with colours, and very detailed.

Sirius walked to the middle of the room and said clearly "James Potter!" the map zomed in on the transfiguration classroom, and a man sitting in a chair grading papers. "Right", Sirius said, "you two stay here, and I'll go get him, okay? Don't touch anything please."

Draco waited till the ex-convict was safely out of the room before he rushed into the middle of the room and said, "Rawenclaw girls-shower." this'll be FUN.

"Eww Malfoy, that's disgusting, and do you honestly think that there'll be anyone there now? " She snorted, "It's in the middle of the night."

"Shut up, mudblood, y-"

She cut him off, "What did you just call me?" she whipped out her wand from her pocket, "Say that again and I'll hex you!"

"Oh, really? The mudblood thinks she can-" She cast a batbogey hex on him and the small monsters surrounded him in a large cloud "yes, she does."

A/N: I fixed this chapter up a bit.. tried to make it easier to read...