Chapter 1: A wand! Yay!
By the time we got back to the Gryffindor common room I was stuffed. I had actually managed to eat some ice cream as well! You know, I wonder how they keep it cold… oh right, magic.
Anyway, we all (except Remus since he had prefect duties) stopped outside the portrait of the Fat Lady who seemed to be busy drinking butterbeer with her friend. Amazingly enough, she seemed to be on the verge of becoming drunk. On butterbeer. I thought that just house-elves got drunk on that!
"Eh…" James stopped so suddenly that Peter walked straight into him. "What's the password?"
"Didn't Moony say that?" Peter asked and tried to get up. He fell down onto the floor again. Mainly because I tripped him when no one was looking, but also because he's a bigger klutz than Neville.
"Eh… no…"
"…"
"…"
I sighed and helped Peter up. What? I can be nice if I want to…
"Are you going to stand there all night?" The Fat Lady said in an irritated tone and then hiccupped.
"No, only until a Gryffindor Prefect passes by and gives us the password…" I said as-a-matter-of-factly.
"Unless we guess!" Sirius said. I could almost see his animagus-self wagging his tail. Wait a minute… this was the start of their fifth year… so they're not animaguses/animagi (how do you say it in plural?) yet! Gosh I'm slow.
"Sure…" I said sarcastically. "Hmm, let me see… Hakuna Matata?"
Everyone stared at me as if I was insane.
"What? I was being ironic…"
"Anyway…" James said and looked around the hallway (which was empty, because if it wasn't all the other students would probably realize that this is where the Gryffindors sleep! I'm surprised they haven't already). "I don't suppose you could let us in?"
"No!"
I began going over all the Gryffindor passwords I had heard. They all seemed pretty random, I mean it would've been way easier guessing the Slytherin password, so I began muttering words to myself while the others tried to coax the Fat Lady into opening up.
"Slytherin sucks!"
"Oh come on Peter, be a little original…"
"Sorry…"
"Okay, could you give us a clue or two?" James asked and ruffled his hair. Jeesh, Lily's not even here…
"Can we ask you questions?" I asked and the Fat Lady reluctantly nodded in agreement.
"Okay… is it magical?" First things first.
"Yes."
"Is it a spell?" Peter asked and the Fat Lady shook her head.
"Why would it be a spell?" Sirius said and looked at Peter. "Is it a… a… an animal?"
"Yes."
"Does it fly?"
"Yes."
"So it's a flying animal… well that's a lot… Billywigs, Hippogriffs, Pegasus…"
"Thestral."
The portrait of the Fat Lady swung open and the others looked impressed.
"What's a thestral?" Peter asked and tripped on his way inside the common room. James pulled him up when Remus appeared from the boys dorm.
"It's a big scary horse with wings that you can only see if you've seen someone die." Remus said and Peter made a pathetic noise.
"They pull the carriages up to the castle…" I purred and took great satisfaction in seeing Peters terrified face. I know he saved Harry's life and died doing so but still… he's the reason Lily and James DIES and that Sirius ends up in Azkaban! Now that's pretty much unforgivable in my eyes. I know, I'm a horrible person.
"Seriously?" Sirius said with a raised eyebrow.
"Seriously."
"How'd you know?"
"I read it. In a book. From the future…"
"You and your future."
I smiled a big, innocent smile at him. "Yes, me and my future."
"You should take Divination."
"No thank you."
"Why not?"
"Because I don't like Trelawney."
"Who?"
"Oh right… she doesn't begin working until 1980…" That's the year Harry was born… I looked at James. "You get married early." I immediately smacked my hand over my mouth.
"I WHAT?" James looked shocked. Sirius looked shocked. Peter… was laughing? Remus smiled a bit even.
"Nothing…" I squeaked out.
Sirius was seriously laughing his ass off now. Okay, I'm going to stop with the 'Sirius seriously'-thing now. It's getting annoying.
"WHO do I marry?" James pretty much screamed out, scaring the crap out of some second-years.
"What's with him?" Lily had appeared in the stairs and looked with a raised eyebrow at James who was gaping like a goldfish. Sirius was rolling on the floor laughing. Seri- dammit!
"Apparently, James here is going to get married early…" Remus said with a mocking smile. So he wasn't always innocent… or something like that.
"Really? Well, good luck with that." Lily sounded skeptical and I really couldn't help but silently agree with that. She turned around and walked up the stairs again while James was silently mouthing "who?" over and over again.
I turned to Remus and, with a meaning glance at James and Sirius, said: "Take care of them, please?" Remus nodded and I turned around and hurried after Lily up the stairs just to get past that whole introduction-thingy.
"Hi!" I said excitedly and beamed at her. She looked at me in a weird way. At least I think it was in a weird way, I don't know what she looks like when she looks at people in a weird way…
"Hi…"
"So, you know I'm the girl from the future who's going to attend classes with you and the guys despite not knowing any of the fundamentals of magic and therefore needs tutoring?"
She nodded. "Yes…"
"And Dumbledore said that you could do that!" I continued beaming at her. I thought all the muscles you use to smile was going to freeze in place before she answered.
"Yeah…"
"So is it okay with you?"
"Sure…"
"Okay, bye!" I skipped back into the common room and found the guys gone. I looked around. There was no one there. I began stalking up the stairs to their dorms and looked at each door until I came to the end of the stairs and found the sign that said "Fifth Year" and opened. They were all wide awake apparently, including some other guys so I guessed that there weren't just five guys this year (seriously, Harry's year must have been the smallest ever).
"Hello!" I jumped into the room and Peter fell off his bed.
Everybody looked at me like I was crazy. I beamed at them.
"What are you doing here?" Sirius said in a seri- Fuck!
"It's like midnight…" James yawned.
"Only midnight..?" I said. "Jeesh… you really go to sleep at midnight?" I asked them with my eyebrows raised.
"It's school tomorrow…" Peter piped up.
I sighed and shook my head. "I've stayed up an entire night on a school night! Sure I was dead tired the next day but… You can at least stay up an hour more?"
"You know, you're not allowed here…" James began and looked at Sirius. I wonder if they're like Fred and George… maybe…
"We'd best get you out of here…" Sirius finished off with a devilish(ly handsome) grin. They both looked at me, grinning like little devils.
"Whoa, okay, I'm going!" I said, my hands raised as if to guard them off.
They just kept grinning, and suddenly I found myself tackled to the ground (floor) by two guys about twice my size (seriously, I'm like the definition of small).
"Ouch… You know… this could totally look weird from another angle…" I said and tried to imagine the situation without going off to fangirl-heaven.
They just sniggered and heaved me up and carried me out of their dorm and through the common room (which had been filled by sixth years and seventh years who hadn't gone to bed yet) with me trying to break free.
"This is SO not fair!" I yelled at the top of my lungs.
"Quit whining." Sirius said as they began climbing the stairs to the girl's dorm. Wait, does that mean that they don't know…?
Suddenly the stairs turned into a slide and we all ended up in a pile on the floor. Again.
"Didn't you know that you guys can't get up those stairs?" I giggled at their dumbfounded faces.
"No…"
"We've never tried before…"
I kept giggling and got up easily since I was on top (hehe…). "Well goodnight then, I won't keep you from your beauty sleep…" I said and skipped up the stairs leaving the two of them on the floor while the older students laughed at them (okay, us… but anyway…).
I quickly found my dorm and to my surprise there was already a new bed standing there. I tried to tip-toe over the floor in order to not wake the other girls. I really think I did a good job.
Lily got the greatest idea ever I think, which was "wake up the new girl so she doesn't oversleep the first day of school", even though I didn't think so at first. I hate people waking me up.
So, when I dragged myself down in borrowed school robes (Lily again, and this girl called Mary whose last name I didn't quite catch) to the Great Hall I didn't stand out quite as much as I did the day before. I quickly found the guys at the end of the Gryffindor table eating. A lot. I wonder how the hell they keep themselves so fit. Okay, Moony wasn't really a question, and Peter wasn't really athletic but the other two…
"So, what have we got today?" I said and grabbed some toast.
"McGonagall's just handing out the schedules." Moony replied and nodded at said witch who was just giving them to Lily and the other girls.
"Oh."
When McGonagall came to us she tapped me on the shoulder with a rolled up parchment-piece.
"Ms. Pettersson, as I'm sure you know already, in the third year at Hogwarts students add new subjects to their curriculum…" She trailed off with a somewhat questioning tone.
"Yes, professor."
"Do you know which classes you'd like to study?"
I thought for a moment. "Care of Magical Creatures, Ancient Runes and… what do you guys study?"
"Arithmancy, Ancient Runes, Muggle Studies." Remus said with his mouth full of bacon. He honestly looked starving.
"Care of Magical Creatures, Muggle Studies and Divination." Came from both James and Sirius, which surprised me a bit. I reminded myself to ask them sometime.
"Care of Magical Creatures, Divination and Ancient Runes." Peter piped up and now I really was surprised. I mean, Hermione once got a rune wrong, how many runes did Peter get wrong?
"Okay… well I don't like Divination that much and I suck at anything that involves counting, so I'll just take Muggle Studies."
"Aren't you muggleborn?" James asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Yes."
"Then why would you read about Muggles?" Sirius said.
"Because it will be funny to see how many things wizards get wrong."
James and Sirius looked at each other. Then they shrugged and began stuffing themselves full of anything in sight.
"Care of Magical Creatures, Ancient Runes and Muggle Studies…" McGonagall tapped a schedule with her wand and gave it to me. I silently groaned. I wouldn't have any of my "new" classes today. Instead, I'd have double-hours potions, History of Magic (which I'll from now on just call history because otherwise it's so long to say and write) in the morning although the afternoon would get better with DADA and Charms.
"Before you go off to your potions class however, Dumbledore wanted me to take you to his office where he and Ollivander are waiting."
"Now? Professor?"
"Yes. I trust you've eaten?"
I looked down at my plate. Well yes, I had eaten. A bit of toast and then I'd had some tea, which was normal breakfast for me so I nodded and got up to face my doom… Just kidding. Hehe…
McGonagall led me through the hallways of the castle and I desperately tried to remember the way. I didn't. Of course, I'd probably find my way down to the dungeons for potions. I mean come on, you basically just have to go down the stairs all the time, right?
"Peppermint Toad." Dumbledore sure had weird candy preferences. McGonagall ushered me to step up on the stairs-thingy (which is just awesome) but didn't deign to follow me. I guess she had people to teach stuff.
At the end of the stairs I found the door to Dumbledore's office open and walked in immediately.
Dumbledore was talking to Ollivander who looked just as creepy as one could imagine. Creepy meaning fucking awesome.
"Hello Fawkes." I said, thereby announcing my presence.
"Ah, miss Pettersson, I see you're familiar with my phoenix." Dumbledore said with a smile.
"Yes, sir. They're beautiful creatures. I hear they're pretty good singers too." I added the last part jokingly and Dumbledore chuckled.
"Indeed they are. Well, to the matter at hand, miss Pettersson, this is Mr. Ollivander, as I am sure you know already." Those blue eyes glittered as he sat down behind his desk.
"Indeed I do, professor. Good morning Mr. Ollivander." I said and nodded to him. What? I can be polite if I want to…
"Good morning, miss Pettersson." Creepy voice is creepy. And awesome, but I guess you knew that already. Without further conversation he took out a measuring tape that began to measure me on its own while Ollivander fiddled with one hell of a lot of boxes for a while.
When the measuring tape finally was done Ollivander picked up a box and opened it and handed the wand in it to me.
"Try this, vine, twelve and a half inches, unicorn hair." I took the wand and gave it a wave. A pile of books on a table behind Dumbledore's desk decided to rip their pages out in a comical yet suicidal manner. I smiled apologetically at Dumbledore and gave the wand back to Ollivander.
"No, not the one… hmm… here, holly, eleven inches and phoenix feather."
I almost choked on my tongue when I heard that. Holy shit! Was basically the only thing going through my mind as I took the wand and pointed it at the already destroyed books. For some reason they began to tap dance. Ollivander decided that no, that was not the wand for me (which I already knew of course…) and gave me another one.
Possibly a dozen wands later, with the books looking as if they had been chopped up and then left dangerously close to a fire, Ollivander took up a very shiny, dark red wand for me. I have to say that I loved the look of it.
"Rosewood, eleven and three quarter inches long. Dragon heartstring, unyielding." I took the wand from him and immediately a pleasant warmth spread from it and through my entire being. It emitted some silvery sparks and Ollivander clapped his hands.
"Marvelous." Was all he said before he, with a flick of his own wand, got all the other boxes of wands to fly into a trunk that looked a little too small to be able to contain them all.
"Very well, miss Pettersson, you may go to your class now. Although I suppose that you want your textbooks first." Dumbledore said and smiled and returned the books to their former glory before giving them to me. I said goodbye to him and Ollivander before I skipped down to Potions class. Gee, what a strange way to end a sentence. Skipping down to Potions class… Seriously.
A/N: So yeah, this took a very long time to write... XD
If there's any references to anything in here I probably don't own it (okay, most definitely don't own it) and yadda yadda copyright stuff...
And yes, that second wand was totally Harry's wand ;) I was thinking of mahogany for me first but I decided that no, I don't want a wand the same material as James's and decided to go with rosewood (which from some pictures are a dark red and I luuuuuv it ^^). Apparently Fleur's wand was made of rosewood but whatever XD And I noticed that a lot of people have wands with dragon heartstring in it, seriously, I can't remember all of them I just know it ended with Viktor Krum, hehe...
So, I'll be at my grandmother's house for about a week, which means no internet, but I'll try to write as much as I can on the next chapter, though I'll probably have to cram it in between studying and stuff or something along those lines...
Meanwhile, why don't you all go and check out imafeckingstarr's stories? :) She wrote one where she got sucked into Tom Riddle-era which was what got me to finally decide to write this story, it's finished now and she's writing the sequel :)
Also, if anyone wonders why the title of this story isn't the same on the site as it says in the actual story, it's because it's just called "Holy... crap!" on my computer and I kind of had to come up with something that didn't include a (full) swear... and then forgot to mention it in the prologue ^^
