"Paige, pssssst, Paige!" she whisper-screamed, "We're… at… HOGWARTS!" Lizi pushed up her circular glasses and scratched her fake scar, which chipped.
Paige sprung out of the train dressed in the exact same attire- exception, she was wearing Gryffindor robes rather than Hufflepuff.
"I know! And to think, they all thought we were actually German exchange witches, coming for our first year in Hogwarts!" she said with a giggle.
There was a short pause where both girls' eyes darted to either side of them, poorly contained smiles spreading across their faces.
"Which, of course," Lizi said slowly, voice shaking with laughter, "we are."
"Yeah… 'course we are…," Paige agreed, speaking in a German accent. Both waited a split second before bursting into muted laughter, earning them quite a few long, disturbed stares from the new students around them.
Paige immediately slapped her fingers over her mouth, and Lizi quickly followed suite, shaking hard as she attempted to control her laughter.
"Okay okay, ready?" Lizi squeaked.
"Yes!"
"GOGOGO!"
She began racing through the maze of students, Paige following closely behind and giggling loudly.
Lizi and Paige carefully took their time getting out of the boats that had taken them across the river. Their luggage had been brought over with them, and each grabbed a very, very large suitcase.
Then, with the speed of… well, as fast as you can go while lugging a suitcase five times your own weight, the girls ran to the castle known as Hogwarts.
Both stood, heads bent back, mouths gapping in awe.
"…Lizi?" Paige whispered.
"Uh-huh?"
"Have we died?"
"And gone to heaven?" Lizi finished for her.
"Yeah."
"Then, yes, Paige, I think we have," Lizi whispered.
"Or maybe we're just standing before Hogwarts in awe, because we actually got here," Paige smiled and looked at the other girl.
Lizi shrugged, returning the smile. "Well, either way, we're here- ready to go meet our Heavenly Hogwarts god?"
Paige shot forward this time, leaving Lizi to jog after her, in all her lazy glory.
"I WANNA BE HUFFLEPUFF!" Lizi shouted eagerly.
"GRYFFINDOR!" Paige shouted back.
They ran through the double doors and…
Lizi was instantly hitting the ground and squealing. She'd slipped on a dropped wand, which now sent her sliding on her back down the hallway, eyes wide in horror.
Paige was not far behind. "Lizi? Where'd you g-OOOOOOH!" she shouted as she too slipped on the deadly wand and was catapulted on her back and sent sliding down the hallway.
Paige was soon sliding right next to Lizi. Both were horrified, both knew they were going to die, both were screaming…
Until they looked at each other's facing, and both began cracking up. And then the shouting began
"OOOOO, I BET I CAN BEAT YOU, PAIGE!"
"BEAT ME WHERE?"
"WHEREVER WE STOP!"
"OH, I BET YOU CAN'T!"
"OH YEAH?"
"YEAH!"
"WELL, YOU'RE GOIN' DOWN, GRYFFY!"
"I DUN'T THINK SO, HUFFYPUFFY!"
"Huffy… puffy?"
"YEAH THAT'S WHAT I SAID!"
"OH IT'S ON NOW! EVERYONE KNOWS IT'S JUST HUFFY!"
"WHAT DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH ANYTHING!?!"
"I DUNNO!"
And it went on like this all through the halls, to the point where they were shouting things like 'HOOPLA!' and 'YOU'RE SUCH A GANGSTER, PAIGE!'. Until they saw their stop, anyways.
"I GOT DANDR- uh, Paige?"
"Whut?"
"Is that… the Great Hall?"
"I… I think so…"
"Uh-Ooooh…"
The two girls began screaming, and the people that had gathered there to see the housing of the first years split like the Red Sea.
"WE'RE GUNNA HIT THE WALL!" Lizi shouted.
They could see the stone wall now, but just when they thought they would hit it for sure, someone in a purple robe stepped in between them and the wall.
"NO, WE'RE GUNNA CRASH INTO DUMBLE-DORE!" Paige shouted.
The girls screamed even louder, alerting Dumbledore, who stepped quickly out of the way while shouting, "HOLY LEMON DROPS!"
A split second later, both of them crashed into the wall with a thud.
"…Ow…" Lizi muttered.
"I take that back… we're still gunna hit the wall," Paige whispered.
Both then looked up to see Dumbledore's upside down face as he looked at them in concern,
"German foreign exchange students coming to Hogwarts for their first year?" he said skeptically.
Paige and Lizi glanced at each other and spoke simultaneously, "Jah."
Paige and Lizi now stood amongst several students, both forming many new bruises as they impatiently awaited their turn on the stool. They gasped in amazement as the hat was brought out.
"Psst, Paige!" Lizi hissed.
"Yes?"
"Do you still have that camera?"
"Yes, why would I not?"
"Take a picture of the hat!"
"Ooo, ooo, okay!"
Paige brought out her camera excitedly, and began to alter the image to perfection.
"You zoomed in too much!"
"No I didn't!"
"Yeah-huh!"
"Oh… well, now I have!"
"Now you've zoomed out too much!"
"Will you leave this to me?"
"Nu!"
Suddenly, a ray of purple light zapped the camera, and it burst into ashes, silencing the girls. They looked around to see THE Professor Snape glaring coldly at them.
"Paige! Paige it's HIM, it's really HIM!" Lizi whispered, flailing her hands around excitedly. "You think he'll give me… detention?!?" She squealed excitedly, Paige staring blankly at her.
"Okay, students, okay, calm down, now! Time for the hat!" Dumbledore said briskly, turning just as Professor McGonagall cam in with the hat.
"Lizi, she looks even older in person!" Paige whispered.
"I know! It's amazing!"
It was only then that the two girls realized they'd been talking out loud, and both received a cold glare from McGonagall.
"Hehe… oops…sorry!" Lizi whispered to her, and only got a harder glare.
"Let's begin!" Dumbledore said quickly.
Lizi stood, bouncing up and down, as they called name after name. Finally, a name she knew very well was called.
"Paige …Z-something!"
Paige squealed excitedly and raced forward. She almost sat on the hat, but they pulled it away before she managed to do so.
As soon as the hat was on her head, it called out a house. "GRYFFINDOR!"
"YEAUUUUHHHH!" Paige squealed, rushing over to Lizi rather than the Gryffs.
"GUR', DID YO HEA DAT? I'M A GRYYYYYFF!" she screamed.
"SHEWT, NO WAY, GUUUUR'!"
"Um.. Ms. Zimmerman? The Gryffindors are over there…," Dumbledore murmured.
Paige froze where she was and slowly turned to her fellow Gryffindors. "Oh… right! I knew that," she muttered awkwardly. She took her place amongst them, and there was a short silence before Dumbledore continued the naming.
"Gretchen Berhman."
"RAVENCLAW!"
"Fredick Forrester."
"SLYTHERIN!"
"Darian Hartchester."
"GRYFFINDOR!"
"Lizi H"
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"
Lizi ran forward, literally pouncing on the stool. She put her hands on her lap and waited excitedly.
The hat shook itself when the Professor began to lower him down on Lizi's head. "No, no, I don't need to touch this one to know… HUFFLEPUFF!"
"SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET!"
Lizi ran and took her place amongst the Hufflepuff happily. She glanced to either side of her. On her left, a fat, tall boy with a uni-brow and gorilla shape. On her right, a slim, moderately sized girl. She chose that one.
"Wazzup, my fellow Huffy? My Homie? My G Dawg? Home Skillet Bizkit? My-?"
"Will you shu'up? Are you even German? Or a witch for that matter?"
Lizi paused. "Uhh… jah, I am!"
"Then say something in German." The girl was glaring angrily at her.
So, Lizi, with her not-so-amazing memory skills, pulled out the few words she knew in German and put them together.
"Angebar, balgy, egoistic, dumm dings," She said proudly.
"You just called me a Bigheaded, bratty, selfish, and stupid thingamajig," the girl snapped angrily.
"Uhhh… because… uhh… YOUR MOM!"
The rest of the day, the girls followed around their houses, pretending to know just what they were doing. By the end of the day, they were exhausted.
As Lizi crawled into her totally awesome bed, she pulled out her silenced cell phone and called Paige.
Paige, on the other line, was lying in bed, staring blankly at her cell phone screen. She answered immediately.
"Isn't it weird how we're pretending to be first years when we're thirteen?"
"Yeah.. But oh well! WE'RE HERE, AREN'T WE PAIGE?"
"YE-UHHHH!"
Short pause.
"Are you asleep yet?" Lizi whispered.
"No." Short pause. "Are you?"
"No." Short pause. "Are you asleep now?"
"No." Short pause. "Are YOU asleep now?"
And it went on like this for about an hour, until the pauses became longer and longer, and both passed out with their cell phones balanced on their ears.
Lizi: Okay, hold up. Lady L.? Yeah, um… doesn't this seem a little childish, even for Paige and I?
Paige: Yeah um…
Lady Lala: Oh, please, you two! This is just the beginning! Let everyone think they know you! Come on!
Lizi: Yeah but…
Paige: We have no choice, Lizi.
Lady Lala: EXACTLY!
SPECIAL NOTE: Yes, I DO love Harry Potter. But I love doing things like this too. MUAHA.