The Griffindor team had just won their first quiditch game of the year and Harry had caught his first snitch. The team was ecstatic and preparing for the celebration in the Griffindor common room. "Butter beers on me everyone!" George exclaimed.
"End scene! Good job everyone; that's it for rehearsals." Abby said as Serina removed the ginger wig from her head. She looked down at the maroon sweater with the golden 'G' that she was wearing and was reluctant to take it off. "Serina, you did great! I tell you when 'A Very Potter Sequel' hits out high school stage tomorrow it will be epic!" Courtney said approaching Serina in her Fred Weasly costume. "Yeah I'm really getting into my part now that we've done the full run through. I still like the original Harry Potter story though." Serina responded.
Serina walked out of the black box theater onto the campus of the all-boys high school that resided across from her all-girls high school. She had been rehearsing the student run production of 'A Very Potter Sequel' for the past 7 hours and it was 9 o'clock at night. "Geez, I guess pizza and hilarious references make the hours just fly by." With that Serina walked to the bus stop and rode home. She was going over her blocking in her head until the bus near her house. She didn't even have time to change her clothes so she fell exhaustedly into bed.
Next morning, Serina's alarm clock was blaring in her ear and she slipped out of bed. She groaned and stood on her tired feet to reach tiredly for her phone. Upon flipping it open she saw what time it was and saw that she had slept almost twenty minutes past her alarm. "Shit!" she exclaimed. She rushed to her closet and put on the first uniform she could get her hands on and packed the costume she needed for the musical that night. Luckily, she was ready by the time her carpool arrived and got to school a couple moments early.
As she sat in front of her locker and did her work for world history, her friend Wendy sat down to join her. "Hey, Serina." She greeted cheerfully.
"Morning Wendy…did you bring payment for your ticket?" Serina said, her head still facing down to the pages of her text book.
"I completely forgot. Could I give it to you later?"
"Sure that's fine. You're gonna love it. The play is so funny and I get to be ginger," Serina said happy to say so. "but tonight is the last night and I'm wondering what I'm gonna do with myself after school considering there's not much left to do." "You'll think of something." Wendy responded.
Serina dragged herself through the day and was wishing she could fast forward to the final performance. Once she got backstage though she was thinking she could just continue doing this performance until the end of the school year, but knew she would probably get bored with the story line.
The Overture began to play and Serina got into her position to go on stage. She could feel the joy oozing out of her in every motion, every step, and every word she spoke. Serina could feel herself becoming George Weasly as the play continued. Before she knew it she had gone through all of her scenes and it was already time for curtain call.
Serina left to go to the bath room and remove her make up that consisted of foundation, eye shadow, under eye, eye liner, mascara, bronzer, blush, more eyeliner to make freckles on her cheeks, and a preserving powder to keep it all from smudging (a lot for a male character huh?). She looked in the mirror at herself and could barely recognize the familiar contours of her face or the light brown hair beneath the thick ginger wig. Serina hugged her arms and squeezed her torso that was wrapped in the maroon sweater and the golden 'G'.
"Oh I'm going miss being you, George." Serina said with a submissive sigh. She reached out to the mirror in front of her and placed her fingertips on it. "If only I could stay in your shoe a while longer."
The lights flickered a bit but Serina paid no mind to them until they started flickering at an excessive rate. She was unsure what was happening and simply stood still hoping that the lights would stop turning on and off. Serina was starting to get paranoid since she grew up being told that bathrooms were haunted by various ghosts and went towards the door, but before she could reach it the lights went out completely.
Suddenly, Serina felt the ground beneath her give way. She thought she had tripped over her converse from making a sudden stop in the darkness. She could tell that wasn't the case when she didn't hit the ground. She thought, 'Am I dizzy from staying up so late or am I having a concussion?'
Then there was another strange feeling. Serina felt as though there was a hand pulling her forward from the collar of her maroon sweater and desperately tried to grab their hand and twist it to free herself. When she realized that there was no one there she waited to see what would show up in the darkness that she thought would surround her forever.
Serina's eyes snapped open and she found herself sitting up in a warm bed with a wool blanket over her shoulders. She gave the room a once over and noticed a few things such as the room was rather small considering there were 2 twin beds in it, also it was cluttered with clothes thrown lazily into a trunk at the end of the bed. Serina decided to remove herself from under the wool blanket and walk about the room for further examination. "Where could I be? This obviously isn't L.A. Wait a minute…are those quiditch posters! I must be in some sort of Harry Potter fan's room." Serina assessed.
Serina, being an avid Harry Potter fan herself, went to get a closer look at the posters. When she got close enough she became conscious of the movement within the poster as the handsome young quiditch player smiled at her. She rubbed her eye hardly believing what she was seeing since she could clearly tell the image was on paper.
Serina went to the window to see exactly where she was and saw a countryside that seemed to go on for miles. It was a warm and beautiful sight but even so it only made fear and worry arise in Serina's mind. Anxiety rose even higher when she heard footsteps outside of the door. Serina panicked and not finding any refuge in the small room froze in her place and hoped for the person to simply walk by. For all she knew this person could have her arrested or worse for being in their home without permission.
Then a voice that sounded familiar to Serina called out, "George! Come on out of bed. Mum finished breakfast and if you don't get down here you'll miss out on the pumpkin pasties." Much to Serina's disappointment, the doorknob turned and a 15 year old red head boy entered into the room with a mischievous smile upon his face as though he was planning on attacking his brother with an amusing prank. This smiled disappeared as soon as his eyes met the sight of Serina's back facing him.
From the moment Fred saw her, the red head new it wasn't his brother. Though this strange person had hair similar to his brothers and dressed like him as well, Fred could see her girlish figure surfacing through the clothes. Fred reached slowly into his back pocket for his wand and pointed it at the terrified girl's back. Serina turned very slowly and put her hands up in surrender. Fred kept his eyes focused on the girl and detected an expression of familiarity as she looked back at him. "Hello, Fred…" the girl said with a shaking voice and a nervous smile.
Without a second thought as to how this girl knew him, Fred assumed she was simply and imposter who used a faulty poly juice potion and stupefied her. Serina, whose reflection had been temporarily paralyzed was unable to dodge was unconscious on the ground. Fred stared down at the young girl and called up the Weaslys.
Meanwhile, somewhere in the bathroom of the student black box theater, Fred Weasly found himself looking at himself in the mirror of the girls' bathroom. "Bloody hell? What just happened? Where did the burrow go?" Fred took time to look at his surroundings but was stopped short when there was a knock on the bathroom door. "Serina, it's past 10 pm! Don't make me leave you behind! You know that Conner and Sean are waiting for us." called Sadona who played Hermione in the play and was Serina's ride home.
George didn't know what was going on but he knew now that he must be in the girl's bathroom. This meant that he was in big trouble. With no other option, George decided to face whoever it was out there. Sadona was sitting on the chair outside and Conner and Sean walked up to her. Conner had played Harry Potter and Sean had play Ron. "Is Serina still in there?" Conner asked. "She didn't take this long yesterday." Sean stated. "Yeah, I wonder if that blackout that happened just now freaked her out. Maybe I should check on her." Sadona said.
Before she even turned to enter the bathroom, George stepped out and faced the three of them and ignoring the similarities they shared with his youngest brother and his 2 friends said, "Hello, I'm George Weasly and I think something magic related happened to your friend 'Serina', right?"