Hello, everyone. Here's another Narnia/Harry Potter crossover for this wonderful community. This involves our resident Know-It-All witch, Hermione Granger accidentally entering Narnia with her friends, the Pevensies. Of course, this has been done many times before but I wanted to put my own personal spin on it.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION: This fic is set at the beginning of Prince Caspian and the beginning of Chamber of Secrets. I know the Pevensies were younger when they went back the second time, but allow me some creative license here, please. LWW happened approximately two years before this story is set, instead of one. The Pevensies are muggleborn like Hermione (in case you wanted to know). Lucy is in Hermione's year and is friends with her, Harry and Ron, together making the Golden Quartet. Lucy is in Gryffindor along with Peter and Edmund while Susan is in Ravenclaw. I think that is all the background information necessary for now and if I remember anything else important I will add it in.
Please review if there are any gaping holes anywhere or if there is something you need clarifying, or if you want to review for another reason. They are always greatly appreciated.
AUTHOR'S NOTE: I wish I could say I was C.S. Lewis AND J.K. Rowling but, alas, I cannot. Such a shame.
Chapter 1
"Lucy! Lucy!" I shouted to my friend as I entered the platform. I dragged my trunk behind me as I went over to her and her siblings.
"Hermione!" she called in response, waving me over. "It's so good to see you again!"
I smiled. I'd missed my friends over the summer, particularly because everyone from my old muggle school didn't want to meet with me again. I'd also missed being able to freely use the spells I'd learnt over the course of the last year. It had been unfortunate that I'd had to spend so long without access to the lustrous Hogwarts library.
Lucy being Lucy, she hugged me and dragged me over to the bench her family were sitting on. By some lucky mistake, we had all arrived about forty minutes before the Hogwarts Express was meant to leave and ten minutes before it would arrive. We chatted amicably as we waited for the train, recounting our holidays and anything else of interest that came up.
Ten minutes after I first arrived, I noticed the train appear around the corner before the station. Not after it was five metres into the station, I felt Lucy stand up next to me.
"OW!" she shouted. I looked at her confusedly.
"Lucy," Susan said pointedly, clearly worried about drawing unnecessary attention. For some reason however, nobody seemed to have noticed - in fact, they acted almost as if we weren't here at all.
"Something pinched me!" answered Lucy, equally as confused as the rest of us.
"Oi, stop touching me!" Peter, the eldest of the Pevensies, shouted at his brother Edmund, angrily standing up too.
"I didn't do anything!" Edmund replied.
"What is that?" Susan questioned, as she, Edmund and I stood up too, feeling an odd pinching sensation.
"It feels like magic," Edmund said.
"Don't be silly," I replied. "Magic doesn't act like this."
"We should hold hands," Susan, ever the mother hen, said.
"I'm not holding hands with him," Edmund argued in regards to Peter.
"JUST DO IT!" his brother replied, grabbing Edmund's hand. We had to shout now due to the noise of the incoming Hogwarts Express.
Through the train windows, I could see tiles being ripped from the walls of the station. On the platform side, posters were being torn in half. An unusually vigorous wind whipped the hair around our faces. Slowly, a cave appeared from underneath the peeling away walls and eventually the train disappeared into what had once been a solid wall; however, it was now the opening of the cave that had materialised and showed a white-sanded beach with sapphire blue waters through the large gap. I stared with my mouth hanging open. I knew magic could do an awful lot of things but how was this possible? We hadn't apparated and we hadn't used a portkey so I was very confused as to how we were here.
In my peripheral vision I saw Lucy and Susan exchange a glance. Seconds later they were running, laughing across the sand, shedding excess clothes. Edmund and Peter quickly followed suit, leaving me standing at the cave entrance. I forced any worries and confusion from my mind and chased after the siblings.
I don't know how long we spent splashing each other in the waves. Lucy fell over in a particularly big one, ruining her clothes, but still remained laughing. Out of breath, we eventually paused, standing knee deep in water with clothes and hair dripping.
"Where do you suppose we are?" Edmund asked, looking somewhere behind me.
"Well where do you think!?" Peter respomded as if his brother was stupid.
"Only, I don't remember any ruins in Narnia."
We all took this opportunity to look at the cliffs at the back of the beach.
What's Narnia? I thought to myself as we began a trek up to the ruins Edmund had noticed, collecting pieces of clothing on our way.
"So what is Narnia then? How do you know about it?" I asked as we finally entered the ruins. I apparently wasn't as fit as I had thought I was and had huffed and puffed my way up the steep incline while Lucy and her siblings acted as if it was a walk up the stairs to bed.
"Oh, it's amazing! You'll love it. Pete, Su, Ed and I stumbled across it in a wardrobe last summer about a month before school. I think I've told you that we were sent to live with a Professor while our parents sorted some things out. We were playing hide and seek one day when I found an intricately carved wardrobe to hide in," Lucy began. She went on to explain how she and her siblings had tried to find Lucy's faun friend, Mr Tumnus, who had been kidnapped by the White Witch, the evil queen of Narnia. However, their priorities had changed when Edmund unintentionally betrayed them to the Witch in exchange for Turkish delight. Peter, Susan and Lucy then walked to the Stone Table with their friends, the Beavers, to try and get Aslan to help Ed. (Aslan is a large, talking lion who I think is some sort of King, I didn't fully understand - Lucy started rambling around this point.) On the way, the siblings were stopped by Santa Claus who gave them each gifts: Peter got a sword and shield, Susan got a set of bow and arrows as well as a magic horn, and Lucy received a dagger and healing cordial. Eventually they reached Aslan's camp at the Stone Table where Peter was knighted Sir Peter Wolfsbane and Aslan's troops managed to save Edmund from the Witch. In exchange for Edmund's freedom, Aslan sacrificed himself on the Stone Table at the hands of the Witch. (He later came back to life. Somehow.) Meanwhile, Peter and Edmund went to battle with the Witch. After breaking the Witch's wand, Ed was stabbed by its broken shards and nearly died. Luckily, this was about the point where Aslan and the girls arrived. Aslan killed the Witch and Lucy healed Ed with her cordial. A few days later, the siblings were crowned as Kings and Queens of Narnia and they successfully ruled for a further fifteen years. They only returned to England after they rediscovered the wardrobe by mistake when hunting the White Stag, which can supposedly grant any wish to those who catch it.
By the time Lucy had explained everything, we were deep among the ruins. I still had more questions, but didn't have enough time to ask them before Susan tripped over something.
"Hey, come look at this," she said, holding a gold chess knight.
"That's mine!" Edmund exclaimed, reaching out to take it.
"Which one?" joked Peter.
"I didn't exactly have a solid gold chess set in Finchley, did I?" the younger brother light-heartedly retorted.
"Then we must have lived here," Susan said, visibly confused.
"It can't be..." Lucy said quietly before running off. The rest of us followed, knowing she must have worked something out. "Imagine walls, and pillars there." she directed her siblings to stand in front of broken chunks of stone. "And a glass roof too."
"Cair Paravel," Peter said, referring to the castle Lucy had said the siblings had lived in during their reign. "But what happened here?"
Edmund walked over to another lump of destroyed stone. He ran his fingers over it, examining it. "Catapults," he said finally. "This didn't just happen. Cair Paravel was attacked."
"But who would do such a thing?" Lucy asked, aghast. Nobody responded, probably still too in shock themselves.
During the silence, Peter and Edmund walked over to an overgrown wall. They pushed it sideways, revealing a hidden door. Susan and Lucy obviously knew more about the importance of this door than I did as they ran over to it in an attempt to help the boys pry open the rusted door. I walked over too but didn't help, in fear of intruding and getting in the way.
The panels of the door were soon peeled back, revealing a dark, downward tunnel. Peter ripped a strip off his school shirt and tied it to stick but when we realised what he was trying to do, Ed just gave him his muggle torch instead. Now with a source of light, we ventured down into the darkness. I stayed at the back of the group, still unsure about everything that was happening.
From in front of me, I heard Peter gasp, "It's all still here!" I saw a flash of gold before Ed's torch moved on again. What could be down here?
There weren't many steps left, so I hurried down the last few. In the final bottom chamber, treasures lined the walls. Four chests stood in front of regal looking statues around the edges of the room. A layer of dust lined the slowly crumbling stone. On a plinth in the centre of the room, a single gold plate rested, a majestic lion's face pressed into it.
The Pevensies each walked to one of the chests, opening them to reveal their lustrous contents. Both Lucy and Susan's contained large numbers of dresses, most of which seemed far too big for the girls. Edmund's chest was filled with pieces of armour, along with maps and documents detailing information about Narnia I could barely even begin to comprehend. Peter's chest had much less variety than Edmund's, although it was filled with similar objects: a few loose documents, and tunics and chainmail fir battle.
Each chest also had a crown perched atop its main contents. Lucy and Edmund's were silver and Susan and Peter's were gold. The boy's crowns had four points on them while the girl's were much more delicate, seemingly just strings of flowers. I had never seen anything more beautiful.
There were also items - weapons - in the chests that seemed to be important to the siblings, more so than any objects. Lucy was treasuring an embellished dagger and a diamond vial filled with bright red liquid. Both Peter and Edmund were handling swords: Edmund had two (one with an embellished lion pommel like Lucy's dagger and one that was much simpler) while Peter only had one, with a detailed pommel like Edmund's but with more engravings down the blade. Susan was holding an ivory quiver of arrows and a majestic bow. She was searching through her chest, having lost something.
"My horn," she said, breaking the silence. "I must have left it on my saddle the day we went back."
I knew she meant the magic horn that had been gifted to her from Father Christmas since Lucy had explained about it earlier. The items the siblings were favouring were also gifts from the man and I recognised them from Lucy's description.
I looked at Susan sympathetically from the corner I was still standing in from when I first entered the chamber. Lucy quickly changed the subject however by suggesting that we all change into more appropriate, Narnian clothes. She offered me some of her spares as we were similar sizes and we all quickly changed into the dresses and tunics from the chests. (I needed some help from Lucy as I was unused to the style of long dress.)
We then set up a small campfire outside in the ruins of the once beautiful castle and settled down for the night, having decided to search for more people in the morning.
So this chapter 1, I hope you liked it. I will try to update as soon as possible but I don't know when it will be. Until then, enjoy life
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