"Were are we?" Asked Van, getting up.
"I have no idea...Oh! Lets ask these girls directions!" Exclaimed Steph.
"Excuse me!" Said Van, "we need..." She broke off. Seeing the girls clothing, they could see that they weren't at home. They whore little gray skirts, with long, white, stocks. They had a white blouse covered with a whole shirt a black cape.
"Euh...You needs what?" Asked one of the two.
"We...Euh, need to...Were are we?" Finished Van.
"Well, were at Hogwarts of course! Did you practice the amnesia spell that Mr. Flitwick gave us yester- Waite, hold the phone! Who are you?"
"I'm Stephanie," said Steph, "and this is my friend, Vanessa"
"Oh, Hi." Said the other girl, "We must be from different houses, we've never seen you before, I'm Pavartie, and this is my sister Padma." Padma smiled politely.
"Well, we absolutely must get going, nice meting you!" She said.
When the two girls left, Van and Steph were in a state of shock. And suddenly Steph just exploded.
"HOGWARTS!!! That means magic! And everyone in that magic world, that..." She gave a very mice like squeak, "Ronald!"
She picked up the book, and kissed it. "Thank you! Thank you! THANK YOU!!!"
"That's all very nice," interrupted Van, "but the question...How are we getting back?"
"Who cares!" Said Steph, with a romantic smile on her face.
Van rolled her eyes and said,
"We have to find someone who can help us-" She looked around, and seeing Pavartie and Padma's figure walking away, she exclaimed "Excuse me!"
The two girls stopped and looked around. Van and Steph ran up to them.
"Would it be possible to get instruction to Dumbledor's office?" She finished.
"You don't know where it is?" Padma said, with intrigued eyes.
"Well, we never really had, euh, to use it..." Steph said.
"Well, fallow us," said Pavartie, "where we need to go, we have to go pass it anyway."
"Oh, thanks a lot! Its means a lot to us!" Said Van.
"If you say so..." Added Padma.
They fallowed the two girls along a trail. They turned a corner, and the magnificent outlines of the castle could be seen in the distance. Van covered her mouth in disbelief while Steph, lets just say she didn't look like she was there. As they were closing in on the school, encounters of fellow students were more and more frequent. With very encounter, Steph looked at the person in question with searching eyes, and when that person wasn't who she was expected, she gave them murderous looks.
They entered the immense cedar door of the castle. The girls gasped in surprise. The place was even more beautiful than anything that they ever imagined. Shining armor decorated the hall. A ghost sometime crossed the hall with a long lost expression on there face. The student chatted happily, while the stonewalls glistered under the flicker of the giant golden chandlers.
"Are you coming or what!" Padma broke into their dreams. The girls hadn't realized, but they'd stop in the middle of the entrance, admiring the hall. Some passing student looked at them strangely, not only because of the fact they were pretty much the only one without cloaks, but also because of the fact that they were blocking half the entrance, looking at the magnificent chandlers. "What's wrong with you? Have you ever noticed them before, I know there great and all, but my goodness, after the 5ft time coming in, you get used to them!" She finished.
"We...we never noticed them before..." Steph said.
"Even stranger..." Added Pavartie.
The girl continued their walk to the office. The sisters stopped in front of a big golden eagle statue.
"There," said Pavartie, "I hope you do not need instruction to how to open the door..."
The two girls giggled away.
"Euh...Now what?" Asked Van.
"Do you honestly think I know the answer!" Said Steph. "Wait! Sherbet Lemon!" She said to the statue. It didn't move.
"Oooh" Van said "Euh, Chocolate Frog!"
It didn't work. The girls tried every single magical candy they could think of, when suddenly,
"Ear Wax." Said an old's man voice behind them. The statue was now letting was to an old staircase.
"Ear Wax?" Both girls said, turning to see the source of the voice.
"Indeed. I decided that it would be quite funny, to name it after the flavor of Berty Bot beans." Dumbledor said with a soft smile. "Now then, I believe you weren't trying to figure out my password for nothing. Please come in!"
The two girls walked in, admiring the paintings of passed away wizards who used to rule Hogwarts. Dumbledor seated in his chair and gestured the girls to sit in two other chair whom the girls swear they weren't there when they came in.
"Now then. I know all my students, but I'm afraid to say, I do not seem to recognize you two..." he said with no hint of sarcasm.
"Well..." Steph started. "It's not like your supposed to know us..."
"Go on..."
"We got here and we don't know how, all I know is that me and Vanessa knew about this place before we got here, and it all started with this book." She said while pulling the book out of her jacket. Dumbledor took the book in his long skinny finger. He flipped the page and his eyes widened.
"Were did you find this?"
"We got it in a library," said Van, "Steph opened it and it started writing its own story, by itself. And then we got here... Euh, professor, Pardon me asking, what year are we?"
"Its all right, I don't mind you asking." There was a pause, "Oh, euh, right, its year 1997"
Van looked at Steph, "You know what this mean! We just time traveled..."
"Well, now, we must figure out how to get you back. As I can see, you girls must not be muggles since you can see your surroundings. But, to make sure I have a test for you."
"Like?" Asked Steph.
"I will give you a stone. If by holding it, it turns light blue, and starts hovering over your had, well, you are witches."
He handed out the stone to Vanessa first. She took it and held it. Nothing happened at first, but then, the stone started changing. It got blue, really light blue, than started it way up. But then, the stone didn't stop there, it got higher and higher, turned bright white, like a very bight light bulb, then it exploded with a loud BANG. There was a long moment of silence, and then Dumbledor spoke.
"Well then, I've never seen that before with a student, and most oddly, from one that never did magic before..."
He handed out a new rock to Stephanie. The stone did the same odd behaviors, but not white, more like and odd greenish yellow color.
"Well..." Said Dumbledor. "I can see that you two hold immense powers. You will certainly stay here to learn to use them well. Now, go on, I will call professor McGonagall to great you. I will send you into Griffindor because I find that professor McGonagall is the best to get student to catch up." And with that he winked is right eye.
The girls smiled and headed out, but Van turned and said, "But professor, what about the book? Will we never know what it is? And we need school supplies no? and also, what about our parents?"
"Well, one, I will do some research on the book, and I promise to tell you as soon as I figure something. Two, school supplies have already being brought up to you dormitories. And finally, Three, I'm afraid I cant do anything about that until I fond a way to send a letter to the future." Seeing Steph's scared look he added with a smile, "I already have an idea how, no worries..."
The girls smiled back and left. An old looking women waited for them a the bottom of the stairs.
"Welcome to Hogwarts," she said. "I'm professor McGonagall, please fallow me."
With that, she turned on her heals and started her way up the hall.
"Hogwarts..." Said Van, thoughtfully, and passionately at the same time.
"Ron..." Said Steph, but only with passion.
Van rolled her eyes and kept on walking. After no long, they reached a panting of a fat lady, with a hideous pink dress. "Dragon's Scale" said the professor. The painting moved way to a hole in the wall. The inside was buzzing with activity. Steph froze.
"Ron, catch!" Yelled a boy with jet-black hair.
Ron, who was looking at the two girls didn't hear him, and the quill landed square on his forehead. Little black dot now decorated his face. Ron snapped back to reality a shouted at Harry, who was now in tears from laughing.
"Harry, not funny! I could of lost my eye! How do you expect me to play Quiditch now!"
With that, Harry shut up, but with a lot of difficulty, because Ron hadn't even a clue of the ink not making its way down his face.
Steph still starring at him, flushed and walked away, suddenly interested in the painting of a tree as he turned and said hi.
"Did I say something wrong?" He asked to Van, obviously, he didn'y notice the flush.
"No, not at all." She said, trying to laugh. "She's just... Euh, you've got..." She added, pointing at her forehead.
He rubbed his and with an gasp of horror, turned around, looking at Harry with murderous eyes. Harry couldn't hold it anymore, and he burst in laugher again.
"Harry!" And with that he left for the guy's dormitories.
"Steph, come on!" Said Van.
The two headed up to their dormitories, were they figured they were anyway. As they stepped in their room (thankfully, the right one) a crowd of girls were looking at the newly appeared beds. With the sound of the door closing, they looked around.
The girls all went back to their business except one bushy haired young lady.
"Hi, I'm Hermione" She said with a smile. "Are you the new students we've being hearing all about in the school?"
"Wow, news goes real fast here..."Said Van. "Well, I'm Vanessa, and this is..."
She looked around for Steph, who was on her bed looking at the sealing, blank expretion on her face. "Yea...This is Steph"
"Is...Is she alright? She looks..."
"Oh, let her, she just had an interesting meeting with her dream guy"
"SHUT UP VAN!" Steph shouted, getting the attention of the whole pack of chatting girls.
"Anyway, yea, she's still in shock." Van finished.
"Who!" Exclaimed Hermione. "Do I know him?"
"Yes, very well!"
"Harry!"
"Nope"
"...Ooooooh, no way...RON!"
"SHUT UUUUUUUUUUUUP!!!" Steph yelled again.
"Well," said Van. "She just gave it away"
"Damn..." Steph said.
"You have to promise not to tell him though." Said Van. "Or else I'm going to get murdered..." She added, glancing at Steph, who was still looking at her with her I'll-Kill-You look.
"I promise."
With that, they left the room, heading downstairs for a chat with the guys.
"Coming Steph?" Asked Hermione.
"I'll...I'll you stay here..." She said.
Van giggled and left with Hermione.
