New character: Diana's P.O.V.
Most stories start off with a sentence that draw you into the story. But to be truthful, I don't know what to say. Maybe 'Things aren't what they seem', but then I'd be copying Wizards of Waverly Place. Or 'Things can happen', but that's so typical to say. 'Life takes you in directions you didn't know you had'? That's perfect, because that's what happened to me.
I live in a very small town in Camden, Alabama on a small island in the middle of the Alabama River. My daddy's a fisherman and my mom works at the local small church as the music minister. And I have two little sisters. Twins in fact. So basically a typical life in a typical family living in a typical two story brick house. You'd think I'd have very few choices in life and most of my life I did.
I'm almost eleven now and I think I might be stuck working at the church where my mom work's. And she'd be very happy to hear that even if I don't want it. She'd probably make me work there anyway.
You see my mom keeps things away from my sisters and I that she says 'Is evil and can mess up your life'. We don't have a TV, there are certain board games we're not allowed to have in the house, we are home schooled, and mom doesn't let us read anything outside of our textbooks or the books she gives us for our birthdays and Christmas. Which, if you don't know, is totally boring! And on top of all that, I can only be friends' with the kids at the church. A whooping number of three!
But here's what my mom doesn't know . . . Those kids have parents who teach them different things and different views of the world.
So I decided to obey her and stuck with those kids. Just us, two guys and two girls hanging out in the back of the crowd during service, whispering to each other very softly. Those were the best times I ever had, seriously.
I'm probably boring you, telling you about my life and all so I'll get along with it.
The girl, Julie, was really weird but cool weird you know? Well anyway she asked me what I liked to read and my answer; 'Anything my mom doesn't buy for me, which is nothing.' She giggled but then grew silent and looked at me.
'So you've never read Harry Potter?'
'What's that?'
'!' She stared at me silently with big eyes.
'Girl, you've been living in a cave or something because Harry Potter is huge!' She said and told me what it was all about. I was shocked to find out what it was about and asked her why she was reading something that was against our religion. Did I forget to mention that I'm Christian?
Julie said that if we read fiction but know that it's not true, that those things can't happen, it's alright. Same goes with movies that director's make up.
I smiled and looked over at my mom. She'd been wrong but worst of all; she lied to me about these books and movies being completely evil and mined wiping.
'Do you think I can come over to your house and read them? I can't read them at home or my mom will have a fit.' I asked Julie. She grinned and nodded.
'Go on and ask her.' Julie said.
I got up and said to Julie, 'Don't tell your parents why I want to come over. Just say that we want to hang want and maybe have a sleepover.' She nodded and I walked up to mom quickly.
"Mom, can I go over to Julie's house sometime?' I asked.
Then the questions why, what, where, and when came up. So to skip that part I'll just say that I got to go over to Julie's house the next Friday for a sleepover. That's when Julie and I took turns reading the first book in the Harry Potter series out loud together. We made it half way through the book before we crashed at 3:00 in the morning.
We got to have another sleepover the next week and we finished the book and I was so hooked! It was a thrilling story to read and I couldn't believe there were books out there like this! I couldn't wait to read the next book.
So right now it's been three days since I finished that book and my mom wants to have Julie over at our house for a change on Friday. I'm not that thrilled because that means she won't be able to bring the second book. But Julie says that she has another book in mind that might please mom if she catches us reading it.
It's Tuesday and I can't help but wander what book she has that she knows my mom and I will both like . . . That's a very slim number.
So life went on as normal until Friday came along.
Julie came over and I greeted her in.
"What's up?" I ask.
"Nothing much. I got a book that I think you might like." She said with a smile.
That's when mom came in and narrowed her eyes at us. "What book?" She asked coldly.
Julie held up a book and the title was: What's real and not real.
My mom snatched the book and skimmed the introduction. She smiled and handed the book back to us.
"Okay you can read that." She said and walked back into the kitchen to make us a snack.
Me and Julie walked up to my bedroom and we both started laughing.
"What's up with your mom?" She asked as she sat on my white queen bed.
I shrugged. "She says that any book she doesn't approve of is evil and can not be trusted. So what book did you bring?" I asked.
Julie handed me the book and said, "It's not as interesting as Harry Potter but it's good enough. It's about all sorts of things like history and fantasy creatures. Telling us what's real and not. I suggest we read what's not real just to get a kick out of it." We both smiled and started reading.
The book was very interesting and made us laugh a lot. It told us about unicorns and how they were told to live in Northern England but it just became a fantasy creature when an old man mistook a white horse for a beautiful horned horse. Also that mermaids were thought to be real because one time a sailor in the early 1500's or so saw a manatee holding it's pup much like a baby on a rock through the mist and mistook it for a fish tailed woman holding her child.
After reading most of the book, Julie knocked out cold and dropped the book. I giggled and retrieved the book off the floor and looked at the clock. I was 3:00 in the morning but I wasn't tired. I wanted to keep on reading this book because it was interesting so I kept on reading.
I was very close to finishing it when I came across a page that said:
Witch's and how they traveled from realm to realm.
I was about to turn the page, not very interested but a few word's caught my eyes.
. . . Visited worlds beyond your imagination.
That made me think of Harry Potter. It was an unbelievable world and I wanted to go there so badly. So I read on.
Very few witches are able to travel from realm to realm because you have to be a certain half-blood to do it. A very rare half-blood. The town's people in Salem in 1694 said that an old lady that was thought to be a witch said she visited these other realms in her dreams and they were real. All she had to do was want it go there really badly and wish upon the moon before she goes to sleep. Of course the people in Salem believed her to be mentally challenged and 'put her out of her misery' they said but many people believe she was hanged.
That's when I stopped reading. There was more to it like how it's not real and all that but I wanted to try something. I wanted to try to go into the Harry Potter world.
I looked out the window and grinned. There it was the moon. But I don't know how to pray to a moon . . . Is it like praying to God?
I got on my hands and knees and folded my hands in front of me on the windowsill. If you're out there, let me travel to the world of Harry Potter. That's all I ask for.
Suddenly I was very tired and I crashed onto the floor asleep with my long wavy brown hair covering my lips and closed brown eyes. That's when I found out that life is very surprising.
*The following content belongs to the book: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling.
It was a very sunny Saturday and the zoo was crowed with families. The Dursleys bought Dudley and Peirs, Dudley's friend, large chocolate ice creams at the entrance and then, because the smiling lady in the van asked Harry what he wanted before they could hurry him away, they bought him a cheap lemon ice pop. I wasn't bad either, Harry thought, licking it as they watched a gorilla scratching it's head who looked remarkable like Dudley, except that it was blond.
Harry had the best morning he'd had in a long time. He was careful to walk a little way apart from the Dursleys so that Dudley and Piers, who were starting to get bored with the animals by lunchtime, wouldn't fall back on their favorite hobby of hitting him. They ate in the zoo restaurant, and when Dudley had a tantrum because his knickerbocker glory didn't have enough ice cream on top, Uncle Vernon bought him another one and Harry was allowed to finish the first.
Harry felt, afterward, that he should have known it was all too good to last.
After lunch they went to the reptile house. It was cool and dark in there, with lit windows all along the walls. Behind the glass, all sorts of lizards and snakes were crawling and slithering over bits of wood and stone. Dudley and Piers wanted to see huge, poisonous cobras and thick, man-crunching pythons. Dudley quickly found the largest snake in the place. It could have wrapped it's body twice around Uncle Vernon's car and crushed it into a trashcan – but at the moment it didn't look in the mood. In fact, it was fast asleep.
There was a little gasp behind Harry and he turned around to see a sort of tall, brown hair girl looking at him with wide eyes. When she saw him looking at her, her face flushed bright red and she looked away.
Harry raised an eyebrow but looked back at the snake when Vernon tapped the glass after Dudley whined about it not moving.
"This is boring." Dudley moaned when the snake didn't budge and he shuffled away.
Harry moved in front of the tank and looked intently at the snake. He wouldn't have been surprised if it had died of boredom itself – no company except stupid people drumming their fingers on the glass trying to disturb it all day long. It was worse than having a cupboard as a bedroom, where the only visitor was Aunt Petunia hammering on the door to wake you up; at least he got to visit the rest of the house.
The snake suddenly opened its beady eyes. Slowly, very slowly, it raised its head until its eyes were on a level with Harry's.
It winked.
Harry stared. Then he looked quickly around to see if anyone was watching. Only one person was and it was the girl from earlier but she quickly looked the other direction.
Harry waited a moment before he looked back at the snake and winked, too.
The snake jerked its head toward Uncle Vernon and Dudley, then raised its eyes to the ceiling. It gave Harry a look that said quite plainly:
"I get that all the time."
Harry felt like he needed to say something to the snake but decided to go against it. What if someone over heard him?
That's when someone tapped on his shoulder.
Harry turned around expecting one of the Dursleys or Piers but instead it was the brown hair girl again.
"Try speaking to him." She whispered.
Harry raised an eyebrow. "What?" He whispered, confused.
"Speak to him." The girl whispered, pointing at the snake.
Harry stared at her for a moment before looking back at the snake.
"It must be really annoying to be in that cage all day with all these people drumming on your glass." Harry murmured through the glass, though he wasn't sure the snake could hear him.
The snake nodded vigorously and Harry heard the girl next to him breath in sharply but ignored her.
"Where are you from anyway?" Harry asked the snake.
The snake jabbed it's tail at a little sign next to the glass. Harry peered at it.
Boa Constrictor, Brazil.
"Was it nice there?"
The boa constrictor jabbed it's tail at the sign again and Harry read on: This specimen was bred in the zoo. "Oh, I see – so you've never been to Brazil?"
As the snake shook its head, a deafening shout behind Harry, the snake, and the strange girl next to him jump.
"DUDLEY! MR. DURSLEY! COME AND LOOK AT THIS SNAKE! YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT IT'S DOING!"
The strange girl whispered, "I can't believe it." With wondering eyes. Harry thought she was talking about the snake but something told him she wasn't.
Dudley came waddling toward them as fast as he could.
"Out of the way, you," he said, punching Harry in the ribs. Caught by surprise, Harry fell to the concrete ground but knocked the girl down with him on the concrete floor. What came next happened so fast no one saw how it happened – one second, Piers and Dudley were leaning right up close to the glass, the next, they leapt back with howls of horror.
Harry and the girl sat up and gasped; the glass front of the boa constrictor's tank had vanished. The great snake was uncoiling itself rapidly, slithering out onto the floor. People throughout the reptile house screamed and started running for the exits.
As the snake slid swiftly past them, Harry and the girl both could have sworn a low, hiss voice said, "Brazil here I come . . . Thanksss, amigos . . . Ssstay together. . ."
The keeper of the reptile house was in shock.
"But the glass," he kept saying, "where did the glass go?"
"I know where it went." The girl beside Harry murmured to herself and Harry looked at her.
"You do?" He whispered to her.
The girl hesitated. "Sort of." She whispered and looked around.
Quickly she fiddled through her pockets and found a mini sharpie. She grabbed Harry's arm and rolled the sleeve up and quickly jotted down something.
"Hey what are you doing?" Harry whispered to her.
"Just call me if you have any questions okay?" The girl whispered and put her sharpie away.
Harry looked at his arm and it had a seven-digit number with the name Diana under it. He rolled the sleeve down over it.
"Questions? About what?" Harry whispered and looked over at the Dursleys. The reptile housekeeper was apologizing to them and making Aunt Petunia a cup of tea so they didn't notice what was going on with Harry and the girl, Diana.
"Anything strange and . . . magical that happen at any time." Diana said.
"But-" Harry began but Uncle Vernon was yelling over at him, "Boy! What are you doing!" and stomping over to them.
"Call me and I'll explain as much as I can." Diana whispered and got up. "Excuse me sir," She said as Uncle Vernon stepped up to them, "But he was merle seeing if I had hurt myself when YOUR son knocked me over."
Uncle Vernon stared at her, red in the face. "I can a sure you it was that boy that was talking to you who did it." He said and starred angrily at Harry.
Diana shook her head. "I'm afraid not as you see the boy on the floor isn't strong enough to push me much less hurt me. But your son over there can and he did. I have the right of mind to call that abuse and think that when he pushed me over he made the glass push into the windowsill without noticing. So really I could tell the house keeper that or you can leave this boy alone, give a stern talking to your son about pushing girls smaller than him around, and go home without trouble." She said a bit shaky at the beginning but more confidant at the end.
Uncle Vernon looked at her a bit scared because what she said made since. But then he became a bit angry.
"You're just a kid, so don't get snippy with me!" He yelled.
"I'm not snippy." Diana said calmly.
Uncle Vernon raised his fist and yelled, "Don't talk back."
"Yell at me again and I'll yell child abuse." Diana said sternly.
This stopped Uncle Vernon and he calmed himself down. "Who are you?" He asked trying to play nice.
"I'm not aloud to tell strangers my name, especially someone who looks like they're about to punch me." She said.
Uncle Vernon was angry again but this time yelled, "Petunia! Get the boys! We're leaving!"
Diana smirked and helped Harry up. "Just do what I do sometimes, it helps." She whispered to him and winked. Harry chuckled.
Uncle Vernon grabbed his arm and started pulling him out of the reptile house. Diana held her hand up to her face like she was talking on a phone and mouthed, 'Call me' and then pointed to his arm.
Harry nodded before the others noticed and they left.
Dudley didn't get a stern talking to but just one measly word of advice, "Don't push girls around." Uncle Vernon said.
They were talking about what happened and they were about to drop Piers off when he said that he saw Harry talking to the snake before Dudley push him and Diana away. This made all conversation stop till Piers was inside his house.
Uncle Vernon was so angry he could hardly speak. He managed to say, "Go –cupboard –stay –no meals," before he collapsed into his chair, and Aunt Petunia had to run and get him a large brandy.
But Harry didn't really listen because he was thinking about the girl who had given him her phone number.
That's when Uncle Vernon pulled the boy to the cupboard himself and locked him in.
Diana's P.O.V.
I can't believe it. I'm here. In Harry Potters world!
I wonder if my cell phone works here. . .
I pulled my cell phone out of jeans pocket and looked at the signal. All four bars and complete service! Sweet!
I wonder how long I'm going to be here. Oh I hope it's till the end of the year! But what happens back home? Does time stop there or does it go on like usually? I've got to tell Julie about this if I ever go back!
But I'm so tired now. Must be because I've ran out of adrenaline.
I pulled my small purple leather wallet out of my pocket and saw I had forty bucks left.
I think I'll go to a motel and stay the night.
And that's what I did and it only cost me seven American dollars a night and when I walked into the room I immediately climbed under the covers of the bed and went to sleep.
I woke up in my bedroom with Julie shaking me awake. That couldn't be a dream . . . Could it? No. I could feel everything.
"Diana!" Julie yelled in my ear.
"What?" I snapped.
Julie let go of my arm that she was shaking. "It's noon and you wouldn't wake up. Your mom called an ambulance when you wouldn't wake up." She said frightened.
That's when sirens could be heard in the room.
I quickly got up and ran down the stairs. "I'm alright, I'm alright!" I yelled and my mom came around the corner.
"Oh thank you lord!" She said, looking to the sky and then ran to hug her daughter. "I thought I lost you."
"I'm fine. My mind was just trying to give me a dream that needed to be seen." I said to her.
She was confused but then smiled. "Did God send you a message?" She asked.
I smiled. "Yeah. A life changing message. I just can't tell you what he said." I said and went back to my room when the ambulance came and mom explained what happened.
The medics were a bit off about going without checking me but my dad came home from fishing and settled things with mom.
I think I've figured out this realm traveling stuff and I told Julie all about it. At first she thought I was joking (At least I thought that she thought that) but I told her I'd prove it to her if the moon was out tonight.
She just grinned and shook her head. "That's alright. I believe you." She said.
*Some content might be changed to go with my story so don't be angered or surprised.
A/N: Phew! (Fans myself) that's the longest chapter I've ever written and all in two hours none stop! Well, I'll be updating next week so tell me what you think!
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