Prologue

It was early in the morning of July 16, 1995 in San Jose, California. Harry Potter and the Seekers had been very busy for almost the last month traveling across the United Kingdom and North America on their first tour, the Transatlantic Tour.

The week before, they had a pretty impressive reception in Canada and just the day before, they played three impressive shows, one in Sacramento, the other two in San Jose. It gave them a pretty good chance of seeing San Jose before eBay started building it.

For the next four days, though, they'd be taking off to Anaheim to visit the Happiest Place on Earth; Disneyland. Harry was very excited about this for three reasons;

One, there was a new Lion King parade called The Lion King Celebration that had just started the year before.

Two, they'd be attending Disneyland's 40th Anniversary Celebration, labeled as the 40 Years of Adventure Celebration, so they didn't quite know what to expect,

Three, many of their friends from Hogwarts would be attending as well, and they couldn't wait to share all the fun and magic of Disneyland with them.

The celebrations weren't until the next day, so they had a pretty good amount of time to get everyone warmed up for the festivities.

Anyways, Harry was laying in his hotel bed, almost ready to get up because he wanted to get Hermione by surprise. She was sleeping in the bed next to his and he wanted jump on it to wake her up. But unfortunately, he was too late. Hermione was already jumping up and down on his bed to try and wake him up first.

"Harry! Harry! Wake up!" She shouted.

"Today's the day we're going to Disneyland for the 40th Anniversary Celebration! We can't be late!"

"Okay, okay, I'm up, I'm up," Harry promised, to quote his favorite Disney film.

As soon as Harry awoke, Hermione grabbed him by the hand and dragged him out of bed to go and wake the others, starting with their parents.

"Mum! Dad! Wake up!" Hermione shouted. "We've got to get going! Disneyland waits for no one!"

"Okay, okay Hermione," Paul promised. "We're up, we promise."

Paul and Jane awoke and Hermione sprinted out of the room to go wake everyone else. Paul turned to Harry.

"You know, Harry," Paul whispered. "Sometimes I think she's five instead of fifteen."

"You have no idea," Harry reassured him.

Naturally, Paul chuckled at this, as Lily and James came into the room, stretching and yawning, along with Molly and Arthur.

"You're up already?" Harry asked them.

"We heard everything from our rooms," James explained.

"Honestly, I think that girl is better at waking people up than I am," Molly reasoned.

She wasn't wrong. Hermione jumped on Ginny's bed first so they could wake up Fred and George together, and as soon as they were up, they all jumped on Ron's bed since he was such a heavy sleeper.

Sarah's bed was the last one and Harry jumped on this one himself, tickling Sarah to the ends of the earth, she was kept laughing until she demanded that Harry stop because she ended up feeling like she had to go to the bathroom.

"What was that for?" She demanded.

"For all the times you woke me up by tickling!" Harry grinned.

"You're mean!" Sarah whined.

"I'm your big brother, it's my job." Harry smirked.

Anyways, as soon as everyone was up and refreshed, they headed into the hotel lobby for a quick stop at the breakfast buffet. Ron ended up piling everything on his plate; eggs, sausages, potatoes, toast, mushrooms, bacon, pancakes, and waffles. He also took a bowl and filled it with every kind of cereal the hotel had, even the kinds that some Brits didn't like; Froot Loops, Frosted Flakes, Rice Krispies, Cocoa Puffs, Cinammon Toast Crunch, Honey Nut Cheerios, Regular Cheerios, and that's just to name a few. He had so much food on his plate that their stop at the buffet was anything but quick, and without my help, it would have racked up the check-out bill.

"Come on Ron, let's go!" Harry demanded.

"But I haven't finished all my cereals yet!" Ron whined.

"Take them with you," Harry suggested.

They checked out and headed outside, where the Rolls-Royce was already waiting for them, and the kids all piled in excitedly. Especially because what would take most people a six hour drive, would only take them three hours. This gave them enough time for them to watch two Disney films on the TV-VCR combo they'd installed in the limo. Naturally, they decided on The Lion King and Beauty and the Beast as they were the favorites of our two main characters.

Harry was given an American VHS copy of The Lion King as a surprise gift from his Muggle friend Danny Kahn, who he met up with in New York City several weeks before while on a weekend break from touring.

Hermione also met up with her Muggle friend Rachel Greissman, the girlfriend of Danny Kahn, as her grandmother had tickets to the Broadway production of Beauty and the Beast, and the two girls dragged their boyfriends in to see it with them. While they were there, Rachel bought Hermione a copy of the Original Broadway Cast Recording on CD and Cassette, and a copy of the show's souvenir program.

After the three hour drive, they finally reached Anaheim early in the afternoon. The first stop they made was over at the LAX Airport, where many of their friends from Hogwarts were waiting. Sirius Black and Remus Lupin had taken the Potter Private Plane, flown back to Heathrow Airport and picked up all students and staff who were participating in the trip. Many of them were amazed to have flown in an aeroplane for the first time.

The parents all went over to speak with the Professors to get them straightened out before they went to the hotel. Professor Dumbledore was there, front and center, along with Professors McGonagall, Flitwick, Sprout, and Hagrid. Professor McGonagall was looking rather weary, Flitwick rather cheerful, Sprout, like she wanted McGonagall to pull herself together, and Hagrid rather doubtful. He thought the idea of spending the summer at a Muggle establishment was rubbish.

I bet you can't wait to see what I've been planning for him?

Meanwhile, Harry was going around, seeing who was there and realized that someone was missing; Snape. At the end of the school year, he'd joined the Seekers' crew as their second medical supervisor, after Lily, so he ended up going along with them on tour. But strangely, Snape wasn't even with them that morning and Harry couldn't believe he didn't notice it until now.

But he immediately forgot all about it as he and Hermione found some friends that they were looking for; Cedric Diggory and Cho Chang.

"Hey, you made it!" Harry greeted.

"We're not late are we?" Cedric asked.

"You're right on time!" Came a voice from behind them.

Harry, Hermione, Cedric, and Cho looked over their shoulders and saw Danny and Rachel there to greet them.

Naturally, Hermione and Rachel embraced each other, squealed, and started jumping up and down like little girls, while Harry and Danny also excitedly embraced each other, minus the screaming.

"Hey!" Harry greeted. "What are you guys doing here?"

"We wanted to give you a nice little surprise," Danny answered.

"And you have!" Hermione agreed

The four friends embraced each other and Danny took Harry over to a nearby McDonald's stand. Ron, Fred, George, Ginny followed, along with a girl with waist-length blonde hair, Oliver Wood, and two Hufflepuff girls, Susan Bones and Hannah Abbott.

Danny remembered Cedric and Wood from last Christmas, but had not yet met Susan, Hannah or the other girl. When they got to the McDonald's stand, he got a sense of who they were. The reason they were there wasn't the food, but the toys they were offering with the Happy Meals. These toys were to promote the 40 Years of Adventure Celebration at Disneyland. They were plastic figures of Disney characters on Disneyland rides and attractions. The toys all had wheels at the bottom and a little peephole you could look inside and see a picture of the attraction.

There were eight toys;

Br'er Bear riding Splash Mountain,

Aladdin and Jasmine riding the elephant Abu in the Aladdin's Oasis Dinner Show,

Simba on Pride Rock in The Lion King Celebration Parade,

Mickey Mouse riding Space Mountain,

Roger Rabbit driving Benny the Cab through Toontown,

Winnie the Pooh riding Big Thunder Mountain Railroad,

Peter Pan on the Fantasmic Pirate Ship,

and

King Louie on the Jungle Cruise Boat.

Each of them picked a different toy;

Harry chose a Simba, Danny took an Aladdin, Ron picked a Peter Pan, Fred and George each took a King Louie, Ginny chose a Br'er Bear, The blonde girl chose a Roger Rabbit, Susan and Hannah each took a Winnie the Pooh, and Oliver Wood took a Mickey Mouse.

"What made you pick that one?" Harry asked.

"Well, if this ride is called Space Mountain, it must be brilliant, right?" Wood answered.

"Oh?" Danny thought as he turned to Susan and Hannah. "So is Big Thunder Mountain your ride of choice?"

"Not exactly," Susan answered.

"Yeah," Hannah added. "But we love Winnie the Pooh and we want to collect as much Winnie the Pooh stuff while we're here."

It was then that Danny noticed the other girl.

"And who is this?" He asked.

"This is my friend, Luna," Ginny introduced.

"Luna Lovegood," she corrected as she shook Danny's hand.

"What made you pick Roger Rabbit of all characters?" Ginny asked her.

"I would have chosen, what you call, Alice in Wonderland, if that were an option, but since it wasn't, I had to choose another level of twisted insanity." She explained.

"Well, you won't have to when we get to the park," Danny reassured her. "I'm told there's an Alice in Wonderland ride there… two actually."

Luna smiled in excitement, as an energetic squeal would have been too out of her character.

Anyways, everyone headed outside, and all piled into the Rolls-Royce, one by one as if they were entering a clown car. Fortunately, no Muggles saw them, and they all drove over to the Disneyland Resort at 1313 Harbor Boulevard. They pulled up to a sign which read, the Disneyland Pacific Hotel, which was where they'd be staying. They all ended up staying on the same floor, even taking up the whole floor, trying to have rooms next to each other. Harry, Ron, and Hermione had one room together, Danny and Rachel had the room to their left, Fred, George, and their friend Lee Jordan to the right, Cedric, Cho, and Wood across from them, and Ginny and Luna next door to them.

Anyway, they wouldn't be going into the park until tomorrow, so they were looking for something to do. In the lobby, they found a brochure for a nearby cinema, which just happened to be showing Pocahontas. When Cho saw the ad, Harry decided to get permission from his parents to avoid her pleading. James got the Rolls-Royce going and took Harry, Hermione, Cedric, Cho, Danny, Rachel, Ron, Ginny, Fred, George, and Luna and to the cinema where they were able to catch a 5:00 screening.

When they got there, they noticed that the lobby here was decorated for the occasion as well, with fake willow branches hanging from the ceiling and fake deerskin with images of the characters on them stretched across fake logs. If that wasn't enough, there was even a waterfall with running water in one corner of the room, and Pocahontas buckets for popcorn at the snack bar. Apparently, they were trying to replicate the success they had with The Lion King the year before. They all ended up getting buckets and Harry made note to give his to Cho when the movie was over.

Most of them, except Cho, ended up thinking the previews were more interesting than the movie itself. The other big summer movies like Apollo 13, Waterworld, and Batman Forever had already been released, so there weren't any previews for them, but the movies coming out later in the year caught Harry's eye. Like Jumanji, GoldenEye and one other movie that was going to be a crowing achievement in the history of animation and filmmaking in general… Toy Story.

Once the movie begun and the Walt Disney Pictures logo was shown, there were quick military drum beats playing over it, as if to indicate that the movie just wanted to get itself over with.

At the beginning, when the villain, Governor Ratcliffe showed up, Harry thought, "Oh Merlin, here we go." He was only slightly less of a trope than any of the villains he'd seen before in environmental films and shows.

When they got to the New World and showed Pocahontas's people, Harry thought it could be a little interesting, until he realized that the movie was busy rushing itself and he was going to forget about what he was seeing within the next too minutes.

He didn't think Pocahontas herself was all that interesting either. What was even more strange to him was that the animals didn't talk, but the trees did.

Worst of all, he was especially disdainful of the film's environmental and "political" messages. To him, they were about as phoned in as any episode of Captain Planet. And needless to say, the villain didn't help the cause either.

But, he didn't think it was horrible either. He did enjoy a number of the songs, and genuinely liked the look of the film, at least in terms of the color scheme and backgrounds.

But when they got to the end of the film, when Pocahontas and John Smith parted, he heard Cho crying her eyes out next to him. He, naturally, didn't think the sadness was earned by this point in the film, but chose not to say anything as he and the others walked out of the film.

James picked them up in the Rolls-Royce and they all headed back to the hotel to order room service for dinner. As soon as they got back, Harry picked up a brochure from the check-in desk which read on the cover,

NEW! The Spirit of Pocahontas – Live on Stage at the Fantasyland Theatre

Cho snatched the brochure from him and ran back up to her room, squealing, dragging Cedric with her.

Harry smiled, but shook his head, knowing that this trip was going to be very long… and he liked it.

But as much as he liked that, that's nothing compared to the surprise I'm bringing him in the next chapter.