A/N: I've been writing this for awhile now, and a few weeks ago I got a PM from szabatka2 asking to post it. So… da da da da! I did!As I've been writing this for awhile,I already have seven-and-a-bit chapters written, so I'll postthem whenever I can be bothered. Lol. Oh, Harry, Ron, Hermione and Ginny think that they're muggles. Just thought I should let you know.
Disclaimer: I own neither JKR nor C.S. Lewis' plot, characters, settings, dialogue etcetera, etcetera. Duh.
Once upon a time there were four children whose names were Ron, Hermione, Harry and Ginny. Harry, Ron and Hermione were all the best of friends, and Ginny was Ron's little sister who always tagged along with them. This story is about something that happened to them when they were within the care of a strange old man called Professor Dumbledore. He had no wife and he lived in a very large house with a housekeeper called Argus Filch.
The foursome came to stay with him one summer holiday. Harry and Hermione were supposed to be going to Ron's house, but his parents were called away to Romania by Ron and Ginny's older brother, Charlie. Dumbledore was a family friend, and he was happy to help them.
Professor Dumbledore was a very old man with a silvery beard and half-moon spectacles. When the children saw him they all liked him at once, but he was so odd that Ron, who was the light-headed one, wanted to laugh and had to keep pretending to cough to hide it.
As soon as they had said goodnight to the Professor and gone upstairs on the first night, the girls went into the boys' room to talk.
"Isn't this house awesome?" said Harry, who, as an orphan, had never seen such luxury in his life.
"Yeah," said Ron. "But the Professor's a mad old coot."
"I think he's an old dear." said Hermione. Ginny began to snigger. "Oh, come off it!" cried Hermione.
"Yeah, Ginny, lay off." said Ron, who had always had a secret thing for Hermione. "Anyway, isn't it time you were in bed?"
"Stop trying to be Mum." retorted Ginny. "And who are you to say when I'm going to bed? Go to bed yourself."
"Maybe we should all go to bed." suggested Hermione. "Ginny and I are bound to get into awful trouble if we're found in your room this late."
"No you won't!" exclaimed Harry. "Does Professor Dumbledore seem like the kind of person who would care if we stayed up?"
"Filch would probably tell us off, though." commented Ron.
"What's that noise?" asked Ginny suddenly. They all fell quiet. There was a faint hooting sound from out the window. Ron, being the closest to the window sill, leant
to look outside.
"Bloody hell! A snowy owl!" he called. Harry, Hermione and Ginny all rushed quickly to have a look.
"Wicked!" whispered Harry.
"Imagine the wildlife there must be around here!" said Hermione. "There might be eagles!"
"Badgers!" said Ginny.
"Stags!" said Harry.
"Foxes!" said Ron.
But when the morning came, a heavy rain had settled over Professor Dumbledore's property.
"Of course it would be raining." grumbled Ron.
"Oh, stop Ron." said Hermione. "I'm sure it'll clear up soon. In the meantime we can amuse ourselves inside. I wonder if the Professor has a library…"
"Er, why don't we just explore the house?" suggested Ginny, who knew perfectly well that there was no getting Hermione out of a library once she was inside.
The house was very interesting and old, not unlike Professor Dumbledore. Each room held something new and different, from whirring silver objects to bookshelves with dusty volumes that greatly interested Hermione.
In fact, the only room that didn't fascinate any of them in some way was a room they found about three quarters of an hour's way into exploring. This room was completely bare, apart from a built-in fireplace and a very dusty cabinet leaning against the wall.
"Nothing interesting in there!" announced Ron. Harry and Hermione agreed and left. But Ginny lagged back a little longer. After all, they hadn't looked inside the cabinet. There might be something amazing in there! So Ginny opened the door, and a few mothballs fell out. And inside the cabinet was… nothing. It was just a bare cupboard.
"I should have known there was nothing interesting inside such a cabinet." Ginny sighed. As if to prove this to herself, she rapped a knuckle on the wood at the back of the cabinet. Or, at least she tried to.
For when Ginny had tried to knock on the back of the cabinet, her hand had fallen straight through the solid wood.
"How funny." she muttered to herself. Now, Ginny was a curious girl. So, without thinking much of the consequences, she stepped entirely through the back of the cabinet.
She stepped out again. But what she saw was very confusing. She had stepped through the back of the cabinet, and come out again through the back of the cabinet! It was as though she had only turned around, instead of stepping through wood.
Ginny shrugged. She must have just imagined it.
"Ron! Hermione! Harry! Wait on!" she called. Slowly, she pushed open the cabinet door. But the spare room was on the other side of the cabinet no longer. Instead she was in a forest. Snow was upon the ground. "R-Ron? Hermione? Harry?" she asked half-heartedly.
Then she realised. She hadn't come back through the same cabinet! The cabinet back in Professor Dumbledore's house had transported her to its pair! Which stood here, in this forest. Then Ginny shook her head. What was she on about? Cabinets transporting her to forests… she must have been dreaming. She pinched herself. Well, she wasn't dreaming.
Suddenly, there was a loud thud, and someone called; "Ouch!" Ginny looked up. Standing there was a giant. He had shaggy hair and a beard, black eyes, and was about twice the size of a normal man. He was hopping up and down on one leg, nursing the other one (Ginny suspected he must have stubbed his toe). The ground kept shaking as he landed. He was wearing a scarf, and carrying a pink umbrella. Ginny giggled. She thought he looked quite funny.
The giant looked up for the source of the giggle. He saw Ginny, and his eyes flicked back to the cabinet behind her.
"Blimey!" he muttered.
A/N: Alas, what a short chapter. Even shorter than the one in TLTW&TW book! This was actually quite similar to that chapter to that one – as the story gets on I'll vary the writing, too.
