I was standing on the corner of a busy London street, arguing with Hermione about time turners again. "But Harry! You can't do that! You can't go back and kill Voldemort!" Hermione insisted once again.
"She is right you know!" A voice rose up from the crowd of people rushing passed us. A lanky man with admirable brown hair stepped towards us confidently, dragging a pretty blonde girl with him.
"But Doctor! Is this allowed? It's not a fixed point is it?" The girl whispered to the man. He told her not to worry, and she stared at us. It was uncomfortable, like the stares I got from people that had heard about me in the Daily Prophet, and where meeting me for the first time. But the strange couple didn't look like wizards, they had on clothes that matched, and where reasonably fashionable. Unlike any wizard he had seen outside of the wizarding world.
"Hello Harry, Hermione, I am the Doctor, and this is Rose Tyler." The man said, and I decided that they must have been squibs. There was on other plausible explanation. But I did wonder how they knew about Hermione, and how he knew so much about time turners.
"Hello, I don't mean to be rude, but HOW do you know us exactly?" Hermione asked, for once not being able to draw a conclusion when I had.
"Well, it's a long story…" The girl Rose said.
"Harry, are you busy?" Hermione rounded on me.
"Of course not," I said, knowing that I had to make sure that we kept this chat under two hours, but also knowing that it was unlikely with Hermione.
We decided that it would be best to go into the Leaky Cauldron than into a muggle Pub.
"Harry, who are those people?" Hermione whispered into my ear as soon as we started walking.
"I don't know, but I think they know a lot about us," I whispered back, hoping that they didn't hear us.
We stepped into the pub, and I called for Tom to bring us four Butter-beers. We sat in a cozy booth and had sipped on our Butter-beers for a minute before the Doctor started to talk. The first thing he asked, to my surprise was my age. I told him I was going into my sixth year at Hogwarts, and I was shocked when Rose said "I KNEW IT! THAT IS 5£, THANK YOU!" And to my utter confusion, the Doctor pulled out a wallet, and handed her the money.
It was giving my head a turn.
"Would you mind explaining?" Hermione asked, the irritation of not knowing was clearly starting to grate her nerves.
"I am an alien, and Rose is a muggle, although her great, great grandfather was a mudblood, although I don't really think that counts for anything!" the Doctor said it all so quickly I barely got any of what he said. A sideways glance at Hermione told me that she was feeling the same.
"An alien? From where?!" Hermione and I asked simultaneously.
"The planet Gallifrey, but it was destroyed in the Time War… That is a REALLY long story. Anyways, I know you wanted to know about how I knew about time travel…" He told Hermione and me about what he was, and what he did. When he was done his speech, Hermione and I sat gaping at the Doctor.
Hermione regained her composure, and in her typical Hermione fashion, started throwing rapid-fire questions at the Doctor and Rose. We had been sitting at the pub for an hour when I felt the floor begin to tremble. I looked at Rose, and from the unease on her face, I could tell that she had felt it too. We both gently nudged out friends, and in a minute, we were outside, but not in the place we had come from…
The sky was black with a swarm of what appeared to be bees, and there was a low rumble that told me all hell had just broken loose, and that our new friends where our only hope of escaping the swarm.
"Doctor… are those BEES?" Rose said her voice high with anxiety.
"No… those are Dementors." The Doctor whispered.