Chapter 1 Just Dropping In

It was a rare Sunday morning in the Weasley household, all of Molly and Arthur's children and grandchildren were present for the Easter morning breakfast. There was a loud discussion regarding the merits and demerits of using the Zinger-Ritz broomstick in professional Quidditch, near the fireplace a game of wizard chess was on between Hugo and Roxanne where Hugo despite his younger years was defeating his cousin easily. James passed time by ribbing Victoire about her engagement to Teddy, while rest of the family played Quidditch in the yard which was in full glory of the spring.

Suddenly there was a familiar "pop" of apparation, everyone was shocked as to who could breach the Burrow's safeguards but that shock was nothing compared to that of finding a person, a girl to be precise crumpled on the multicolored rug in the middle of the room. "Oh Dear! Someone help the poor child!" exclaimed Molly. Ginevra hurried to the spot and helped the girl stand up; she looked pale, dizzy and frankly very foreign. Ron bellowed at his sister,

"Are you daft Ginny? Touching some stranger like that! What if she was cursed!"

"Ron! As you can see I am safe and sound, we can comfortably conclude that she is NOT cursed!"

While the entire family tried to make sense of the situation, the strange girl trembled with fear as she stood surrounded by a number of people and had no idea how she had landed there. Hermione gently grasped the girl's shoulders and made her sit on the chair,

"Sit down love, you must be scared. Is this your first time apparating? Thank goodness you didn't splinch yourself! Here, have a glass of water, can you hold it yourself? Should I help you?"

"Th-Thank You, I can mm-manage."

Hermione watched the dark haired girl as she clutched the glass and took a careful sip, her large eyes were filled with apprehension, and she barely looked sixteen. She wondered how she apparated into the house despite the protective charms, maybe it was one of those accidents where children couldn't control the amount of power they had.

By now the others had come to talk to the girl before making any other decisions. Ginny kneeled near the girl and asked, "Honey, do you know where you are? Or how you ended up here? Where you practicing apparation?"

The girl swallowed hard and finally spoke, "I have no idea what you are talking about, and I don't know what happened, where am I?"

"You don't sound like you are from around here sweetie."

"Ginny, tell the girl where 'here' is, I bet she has no idea of that" said Hermione.

"Oh of course, you are in a village outside Devon, that's in England."

"England? Britain? But how did I reach here! You are joking right? This is some big prank! Oh wait, I am sure I am dreaming, because the last thing I remember is feeling sleepy. Haah, I have vivid dreams but this surpasses everything!"

"Gin, I don't think she is right in the head!"

"Ron! Stop talking rubbish! The girl is confused! Shut Up!

Ok, honey you are not dreaming, pinch yourself and see!"

Harry stood watching the scene, wondering why no one had asked the girl her name yet. He stepped forward

"Sweetie my name is Harry what's your name? You said you remembered feeling sleepy, anything else? Where you were etc?"

"Umm….my name is Anamika. I remember, I was in my room, feeling sleepy, then I suddenly started feeling really dizzy, I thought I was having one of my vertigo spells, I-I think I tried to my medicine, then the next thing I know is that I am here on the floor in your house. And yeah, my room, my house, that's in India, the city Bangalore to be precise."

Anamika looked around, if she was not dreaming, then how the hell did she reach England? Some sort of magic? Apparation like in the Harry Potter books? Yeah, like that was possible, this HAD to be a dream. But she pinched herself and it HURT! Usually she didn't have enough strength to hurt herself in a dream, then how?

"Sweetie you sit here and relax, we'll all go and try to find out what happened all right? We will contact the Magical Parliament of India"

"The WHAT of India?" Anamika was now convinced that she was dreaming. Magic? Right!

Harry Potter apparated into the office of Kingsley Shaklebolt, Minister of Magic, this little meeting also had in attendance Professor Damien Loggerfield, the person responsible for keeping an eye on the magical quill that wrote the name of students who were to attend Hogwarts: School of witchcraft and wizardry.

"Aah…Mr. Potter, is it true what I read in your note? A muggle girl just apparated into the Weasley's home?" said Loggerfield while brushing off floo powder from his robes.

"Please call me Harry, Damien. And yes that's exactly what happened. If what the girl says is true than she was somehow forced to apparate."

"Hmm….Potter I have a feeling that the girl is a witch, maybe undiscovered or it could be a case of faulty side along apparation. The technicalities of magic are still unknown to us. I am flooing over to the Indian Minister of Magic's office, would you like to come along, and I have already sent them an owl?"

"Hold on minister, I think we should take the girl with us"

"Loggerfield, you did not see how scared the girl was! She is nearly as old as my daughter and that is not something I would put my daughter through! The child is convinced she is dreaming!"

"Harry is right Loggerfield; I will go and see if their officials agree to come to the burrow with me."

Anantjeet Sahay, the headmaster of Hogwarts Indian counterpart, Gurukul apparated with Harry Potter, Loggerfield and Shaklebolt near The Burrow.

"Umm sweetie, some friends of ours will be arriving, they are going to help us figure out what happened alright?" Ginny explained to Anamika.

"Okay"

Knock-Knock

"Oh they are here. Mum can u please take the kids home? I'll be staying here with her"

"Alright dear, take care" Molly apparated out.

Ginny opened the door and let the party of four into the house.

"Good evening Minister, Professor uh..."

"Oh this is Principal Sahay of Gurukul, the Indian school of Magic."

"Good evening Mr. Sahay, I am Ginny Potter, this is my parents' house."

"Can I meet the girl Mrs. Potter? She might feel more comfortable around her countryman" said Sahay smiling at Ginny.

She doubted anyone could be comfortable around the man, he seemed to be the kind who held lofty ideals and was rather stuff, none-the-less she obliged him

"Of course!"

Ginny introduced the man to the girl and quietly went and stood in the corner, she refused to leave the child alone with his man.

"My name is Anantjeet Sahay, I am here to help you go back home. You can call me Mr. Sahay. What's your name?"

"Uh..Good evening, my name is Anamika Sharma"

"Anamika, that's a nice name, what is your birth date and where were you born Anamika? Don't mind my questions please; I need them to help you out"

"It's 14th January 1995 in Mumbai, I already told the others I was in my house in Bangalore before I somehow got zapped here."

"Hmm…alright, thank you, what was the date at that time?"

"It was 6th June 2012"

"One last question. Do you know magic?"

"Magic? Umm I tried learning some tricks from my magic box set but I am not fast enough, so no"

"Oh okay, thank you for your time beta. Mrs. Potter would join us in the other room?"

"Oh alright, so A-a-anam..Sorry I can't pronounce your name love"

"It's A-NAAAM-EEE—KAA"

"Anaameekaa right? Ohk, so you sit here, eat something while I go and get some information alright?"

Anamika nodded.

Sahay looked back at the girl as he left the room; the foreigners were being very good to her, a strange muggle, no muggle born. He rechecked the list in his hand, yes her name was there, no doubt this girl was a muggle born witch but she had never attended their school, no magical training at all it seemed. She wasn't lying he knew it he had done a little charm at the end to confirm it. Somehow, this girl had been missed when intimations were done to families of muggle born witches and wizards. Oh God, it was going to be a big fiasco, the muggle born rights activists would try show that this was done on purpose, he could lose his post, no, he had to do damage control.

"Minister, Mr. Potter, Professor, this girl here is a muggle born witch, she is of age but somehow she was left out of school, this was before I took over office so I have no idea how such a grave mistake could be made. I can't take her into our school, if this case is revealed it would be made out to be a deliberate attempt to remove muggle borns, but I can arrange for lessons, privately of course, once her parents are told. She had a sudden surge of latent power that caused her apparation; it wasn't really apparating so much has a random release of energy. The energy was enough to push her to this distance where the power matched hers. I think while she is here, time isn't really moving at her home. She moved a few months backward in time, her absence won't be realised there at all. If she is sent back, she will jump back here again, until she learns to harness the power, we can't send her back to her home."

"So she has to use learn to her magic and only then she can go back." said Shaklebolt.

"You intend to hide her like some dirty secret huh Principal? Deny her a quality magical education because of someone else's mistake?" said Ginny.

"Then what else do you suggest Mrs. Potter?"

"She came to our home, so she is under our protection, we will teach her magic, get her a wand, everything!"

"I agree with my wife, we have no problem in letting her stay with us, Minister if you allow this then we will take her home right away"

"Well Principal Sahay, our community does not penalise people for other's errors, we do not allow any injustice to befall people, whether they are Muggle, Muggle born, Half –blood or Pureblood. In fact if the child can be tutored by my best auror and his family, she will be ready to go to Hogwarts for special training too. I am sure Headmistress McGonagall will not have any issue"

"None at all Minister, I can enroll her right now if you would like? I will leave for Hogwarts right now" Loggerfield apparated away.

"I will escort you back to the ministry Mr. Sahay; you can apparate from my office. Potter, I suggest you break the news to the girl, make her believe it if you can please"

"That might be a problem, but we will try"

"Good night now"

"Goodnight"

Anamika watched as Harry and Ginny, husband and wife she guessed walked into the room, she had heard the other guests leaving. So time for the verdict. She readied herself. A sudden thought crossed her mind, her mother must be worried about her, she had been gone for quite some time now! Oh God she had to go home soon!"

"Anamika, we need to talk to you…"