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Years ago, during the time of Harry Potter's 5th year of Hogwarts, there was a young 4rd year Ravenclaw. This Ravenclaw's name was Will Wilkins, and he had a special ability that no one, not even Professor Dumbledore, knew about. When Will's powers started to show when he was a babe he realized that he could send what he called a Projection into the world while his body lay unconscious in his wake.

Will, who had been intrigued by this told his Wizard father and Muggle mother, neither of whom have heard of such a thing. When Will got to Hogwarts he searched and searched the library for a book on it, he even checked the Restricted Area, but to no avail. As far as he knew, he was the only wizard who could send out a Projection.

Now, in 1995 Will will embark on an adventure that could very well match that of Harry Potter's…

Will lay in bed, it was midnight on the day of his return to Hogwarts, in eleven hours he'll be on a train rolling along the country side on his way to that magical castle. He wondered what would happen this year at Hogwarts. See every year since Will's been going to Hogwarts something has happened. Last year, Harry Potter's name was pulled from the Goblet of Fire, and he claimed You-Know-Who was back and responsible for it! The year before, Will's first year, Dementors invaded the school, in search for the murderous fiend Sirius Black; being in the same generation as Harry Potter was definitely eventful.

Will decided he wasn't going to get to sleep, so he got up and turned on his video game system. Growing up with a Muggle mother had its advantages; he essentially grew up in both worlds, Wizard and Muggle. He got a lot of strife at Hogwarts for having a Muggle mother, mostly from the Slytherins, but it didn't bother him, he loved his mom. Besides, with Will's best friend Ivan Froggs backing him, no one really makes fun of him much anymore.

Ivan, or as everyone called him, Frog, was one of the biggest and toughest kids in Hogwarts. He came from the same family as Viktor Krum so he was a popular guy. Frog wasn't just called Frog because of his last name either, he was large and rotund, face covered in warts. As a joke, Frog has trained himself not to laugh, but instead to croak.

Will was so busy on his game he didn't even notice what time it was until he heard a rap on his window. He walked over to the window and pulled the blinds; surprisingly the sun was rising and there was an owl at his window. Will opened the window and pulled the Daily Prophet from its pointed beak and put 5 bronze Knuts into its coin pouch. The owl hooted its thanks and shot off into the morning.

Will turned from the window and flipped through his mail. "Junk, junk, junk," he said as he dropped one by one into the trash. "Junk, junk, ju – wait, what's this?" He had come across an envelope that looked rather interesting.

To William Wilkins

Small bedroom

In front of TV

Will hadn't seen a letter that descriptive since his Hogwarts letter. He ripped the envelope open and pulled out a letter and a page from a book, he read the letter first:

Dear Will,

You don't know me, but I am to be your Ancient Studies teacher. My name is Samuel Grimm. I was told by a rather curious ghost that you were in the library last year searching for a particular subject. The clipping from the book included may bring some light to your search.

I await your arrival so that we may talk more,

Professor Samuel Grimm

Will almost couldn't believe what he had just read, he flipped rather excitedly to the book clipping attached and read:

Astral projection(orastral travel) is an interpretation ofout-of-body experience(OBE) that assumes the existence of an "astral body" separate from the physical bodyand capable of traveling outside it. Astral projection or travel denotes the astral body leaving thephysical bodyto travel in theastral plane.

"An Astral body is able to live without a body for most of an eternity," Will read aloud to himself. "Though there were no recordable wizards who had had such an ability." Will was rather upset about that portion, but he was ecstatic to see that he was able to get some answers.

He was shaken by the sound of his name coming up from the kitchen; it was time to go…

Will and his parents got to King's Cross Station at 11:00, half an hour before the Hogwarts Express was to leave the station. They approached the barrier between platforms 9 and 10 and Will looked around before charging toward it with his cart. He went faster and faster, he was going to crash if he didn't slow up, but of course when you're a wizard nothing is what it seems. Will went right through the wall and ended up on platform nine and three quarters.

Will smiled as he breathed in the fresh air, he was going back. Will pushed his cart toward the train and walked past familiar faces; he saw Frog up ahead and broke into the run. He stopped abruptly when a pale boy with a pointed face and blond hair walked out in front of him. The boy glared hard at Will and said, "Watch where you're going, Wilkins."

"Why don't you watch where you're going, Malfoy?" Will spat back.

"How dare you talk to me like that," Malfoy said in a low voice. "Crabbe, Goyle." Two large boys approached with their fists clenched.

"Hiding behind your thick skulls, huh Malfoy?" said Will. "Too afraid to face me yourself?"

"Maybe they should pick on someone 'eir own size," came a voice from behind Malfoy. The three Slytherins turned to see Frog standing tall and menacing. If possible, Malfoy's face got paler as he ran onto the bus, probably wetting himself on the way up. Frog looked at Will and smiled.

"Good to see you," Will said, shaking his friend's hand.

"You too, chap," Frog said in his Cockney accent.

"Let's get on the train before something else happens," Frog pulled Will's trunk onto the train. Will looked up and saw Harry Potter boarding the train; he had read an article in the Prophet that he had used magic in front of a Muggle. It said he was defending against Dementors, which Will found hard to believe, but then again with Harry Potter unbelievable things happened to him all the time.

"All aboard!" the conductor shouted, Will got onto the train and followed Frog to an empty compartment. They both sat down and waited as the train lurched forward. Will told Frog all about his summer holidays, though Frog probably didn't understand anything about videogames and television. Frog told Will about his trip to Transylvania, visiting his vampire hunting uncle, Van.

They had been on the train for just under an hour when the compartment door opened. In stepped a girl who was about Will's height. She had long brown hair and the prettiest green eyes anyone could ever have, her name was Rose Rosier. She looked at Will and smiled.

"Hello Will," she said, "Have a good holiday?"

"Uh," Will stammered, Frog gave him a kick in the shin and Will found the words. "Y-yeah, did you?"

"Oh it was wonderful," Rose said as she sat in the seat beside him. "We went to Paris to visit my cousins, the Delacours."

"Ah," Frog said, face breaking into a wide grin. "The Delacours…"

"Hello Frog," Rose said with a chuckle. "How was your holiday?"

"Oh, same ol' same ol' thanks fer askin'."

Rose turned back to Will and said, "Oh, so get this, we have some Ministry broad coming to teach Defense Against the Dark Arts."

"A Ministry worker?" Will groaned. "Well, at least she won't be here for long."

"Yeah," Frog said. "Job bein' jinxed an' all."

"I hope this hasn't anything to do with Potter's hearing," Rose said.

"Maybe," Will said. "Or maybe Fudge is finally making his move against Dumbledore, eh?"

"Yeah," Rose said, standing. "Well, I should be off. I wanted to come see you how you both were; I'll see you both at the feast!" She walked out and when the compartment door slid shut Will let out a great breath that he'd been holding in.

"I feel like a bloody fool whenever she's around," Will said, rubbing his face.

"Don' worry, mate. Could be worse, I 'ear 'Arry Pottuh's fallen fo' Cho Chang."

Will couldn't help but grin, "What rotten luck, huh?"

"Yeah, we should prob'bly get changed. Bound to 'it 'Ogwarts at any moment." And sure enough Hogsmede station was in view just around a bend on the left.

"We're home," Will said under his breath.