(A/N): I'm really sorry this took so long to get up, but I did say that it would take longer to write this story. I don't know why I didn't upload this earlier cause I've had it done for weeks… Anyways, thank you to Milkamoo97, bluestring, QuillDraconis95 and Logan Henderson Is Mine for your reviews! Once again, I don't own Big Time Rush nor the Wizarding World of Harry Potter. Those belong to amazing people who are not me so please don't sue. And now, enjoy the chapter!
Chapter 3: Discrimination Is Everywhere
The next morning, Kendall, Carlos, Logan and James woke up, thinking that what had happened the day before had been a dream. They didn't even talk about it for fear that the others would laugh. However, when they walked into the main part of the apartment and found Mrs. Knight, they discovered that everything was real.
Mrs. Knight was holding a stick that the guys assumed was a wand. She would mutter words under her breath as she did movements causing plates to fly up in the air and set themselves on the table. In the sink, the dishes were washing themselves, no help of human hands whatsoever. Waving the wand again, the frying pans on the stove flipped the pancakes into the air and caught them. The fridge suddenly opened and the milk came flying out to the table to pour itself into the glasses. The boys stood there standing and staring with their mouths open wide.
"I know!" Katie called out to them from the couch, "Isn't it cool?" She was smiling as she watched the food set itself on the dining table. "I can't believe Mom never told us!"
"I couldn't tell any of you," Mrs. Knight defended her actions, "It's the wizarding law! None of the children can know until the oldest child in the family is allowed to go to Washburn."
"Wait, so this wasn't a dream?" Kendall confirmed, "The four of us are really wizards?" Carlos reached forward and pinched Kendall's arm. Kendall grabbed it and looked at Carlos accusingly, "Ow! What'd you do that for?"
"To see if you were dreaming, but you're not," Carlos replied, "Which means we're wizards! I'm going to go eat magical food!" He ran over to the table and began stuffing his face with food.
"Make sure that you don't eat too much," Mrs. Knight told him as she waved her wand. The frying pans flew over to the table and dropped their pancakes on the growing stack. "The way we're getting to your parent's house is a little hard to stomach the first time through."
"How are we getting there anyways?" Logan asked as he, James and Kendall sat down at the table, "Broomsticks?" He laughed at the thought, but he was the only one laughing. It quickly stopped.
"Broomsticks are too slow," Mrs. Knight replied as she and Katie joined them. "And we can't use floo powder because we're not attached to the floo network here and neither are Carlos's parents." The others looked at each other, confused at the thought of what floo powder was. Mrs. Knight didn't notice as she went on, "There's too many of us to apparate. Besides, that's not exactly the safest way for beginning wizards. So, we're going to use a portkey." She finally noticed their confused looks. "Oh, that probably sounded like gibberish to you, didn't it?" They nodded their heads enthusiastically. "Well, let's start with what we're using today. A portkey is-"
Suddenly, there was a loud pop sound as Gustavo and Kelly literally appeared out of nowhere. The boys and Katie jumped out of their seats in shock, Carlos knocking his plate off the table. Mrs. Knight, however, didn't seem concerned.
"Sorry we're late," Gustavo started, "Ooh, breakfast!" He grabbed a bunch of pancakes off the plate and began stuffing them in his mouth.
"That was not portkey transportation," Mrs. Knight clarified. "That was apparition."
"Have they finished eating yet?" Kelly asked Mrs. Knight.
"No!" The boys answered instead as they and Katie got back up on their seats to eat.
"Mhmpht," Gustavo tried to speak. When he realized that no one could understand him, he swallowed the pancake and then tried again, "Then finish! We have to go! We're leaving for our tour tomorrow and we won't have enough time to buy your school supplies if we don't get this done soon!" Carlos, James and Kendall groaned at the thought of school supplies. Logan looked happy.
"So, what do we have to get?" Logan asked, "Pens, pencils, paper."
"More like quills, ink and parchment," Kelly told him. "Oh, and electronic devices don't work around magic, so no cell phones." All four boys groaned this time. "Which means at least one of you should get an owl."
"Owl?" The guys looked at each other confused at the thought of using owls to communicate. "What the?"
"Are you done yet?" Gustavo seemed impatient. "We don't have time for questions!"
The boys looked down at their empty plates before replying, "Yep." Mrs. Knight used her wand and the stuff on the table went back into the kitchen, going to where they were supposed to be.
"Good," Gustavo responded, "Now, I need something that we can use for the portkey." He spotted the pillows on the couch, went over there and grabbed one. He pulled out a wand and tapped the pillow, saying, "Portus." He put away his wand before walking back over to the group. "Everyone must be touching this pillow." He held it out for them. Mrs. Knight and Kelly immediately went over and put fingers on the pillow, but James, Kendall, Logan, Carlos and Katie looked at each other confused. "TOUCH THE PILLOW!" The five left scrambled over and touched the pillow.
"This is going to feel like you're hooked on," Mrs. Knight told the boys and Katie. "And whatever you do, don't let go." The new wizards looked at each other in shock and horror.
Suddenly, they felt the hook. They were lifted off their feet and began bumping into each other as they span in a circle. Before they knew it, they had landed in front of Carlos's house. The pillow fell to the ground as the guys and Katie began walking around dizzily. Logan ran over to the bushes and lost his breakfast in them.
Kelly looked to Gustavo, "They took that well."
"Much better than I thought they would," Gustavo added. Logan wiped his mouth before he rejoined the group.
Gustavo led them to the front door where he knocked. They waited a few seconds before Carlos's mom answered the door, looking surprised to see the group standing on her doorstep.
"Mrs. Garcia," Kelly began, "There is something we need to discuss with you and your husband."
"Mom!" Carlos got to the front of the group. "I'm a wizard!" Mrs. Garcia's eyes went wide at his proclamation.
"Maybe you should come in," Mrs. Garcia suggested. The group followed her inside.
Officer and Mrs. Garcia were sitting in their living room with the group. There weren't many seats, so the boys and Katie had to sit on the floor while the adults took up the two couches. Carlos had already greeted his siblings by telling them he was a wizard. They had looked at him like he had finally snapped.
"So," Mrs. Garcia broke the silence. "What mental hospital are you sending him to?"
"Mom," Carlos spoke up, "I'm not crazy! I really am a wizard!"
"Of course you are son," Officer Garcia smiled at him before he turned to Mrs. Knight, Gustavo and Kelly who were on the longer couch, "What's the harm in letting him think he's a wizard? He'll figure out the truth eventually."
"Actually," Kelly started, "He is a wizard. Carlos, give them your letter from Washburn."
"Uh," Carlos looked confused, "I forgot where I put it."
"I have it," Mrs. Knight announced as she dug around in the pocket of her jeans. She pulled out four small envelopes. "Sorry, I had to shrink them to make them able to fit." She turned to Gustavo, "Do you think it's alright to do magic in front of them now that they have to know?"
"Griffin can get you out of any trouble," Gustavo told her. "But I think you should be fine. Wizards have done worse."
Mrs. Knight shrugged before she pulled her wand out and tapped on the envelopes, saying, "Engorgio." The envelopes in her hand swelled back to their normal size. Officer and Mrs. Garcia watched with wide eyes. Mrs. Knight didn't seem to notice as she flipped through the envelopes, pulling out Carlos's. She handed it over to Carlos's parents. They took it and pulled the parchment out of the envelope. Scanning it, they began to get smiles on their faces.
"My boy's a wizard!" Officer Garcia got up off the couch and pulled Carlos into a hug.
"My baby got accepted into a college!" Mrs. Garcia got up too and joined the family hug. "I never thought it would happen!"
"Washburn isn't a college," Gustavo spoke up, stopping the family hug. "It's a wizarding school. Grades aren't how you get in, magical power is."
"We're going to take Carlos to get his school supplies after this since we won't have time after the tour," Kelly explained. "We just wanted to tell you and ask if either of you had any questions."
"I still don't get how he got in," Mrs. Garcia commented. "Can you give me a better explanation than he has magical powers?"
"This might take a while," Mrs. Knight responded before they went into an explanation of the wizarding world.
Carlos, James, Logan and Kendall were sitting in the front yard of the Garcia's house. They had gotten tired of listening to the details of the wizarding world that they knew they would learn at school anyways. They left so they could take a break from the change that none of them were ready for in the first place. Sitting in front of any of their houses was usually what the boys did during the summer months, back when they lived in Minnesota.
"I wonder where this school is," Kendall spoke up.
"A big school, someone must have seen it," Logan added. "They can't keep a school secret for long."
"They probably have some spell to keep it hidden from muggles," Carlos decided. When the other three looked at him, he said, "What? There's gotta be spells for everything!"
"He has a point," Kendall admitted. "You saw the way that my mom made breakfast this morning. And we got here so much faster than if we'd have to take a plane."
Before anyone could say anything else, there were two distinct pops that came from across the street. The boys looked over to find Mr. And Mrs. Diamond heading their way.
"Stop this right now!" Mrs. Brooke Diamond was yelling at her ex-husband. "You have no right to tell your son who to be friends with! That's my job!" James looked at his three friends in confusion before he looked back to his approaching parents.
"Not now, Brooke!" Mr. Diamond dismissed her before he stopped in front of the boys. "James, you're coming with me!"
"What?" James exclaimed as he got to his feet. "Why?"
"No!" Mrs. Diamond insisted, "He's coming with me!" She grabbed her son's hand and began to pull him away.
James pulled his hand from his mother's grip, "Not until I find out what's going on!"
"At least we agree on something," Mr. Diamond addressed his ex-wife. "We both don't want our son to be associated with mudbloods and blood-traitors."
"HEY!" They head a yell coming from the Garcia house. The group looked behind them to find Mrs. Knight, Officer and Mrs. Garcia, Gustavo and Kelly standing in the doorway. It was Mrs. Knight who had yelled. She rushed over to stand between the boys and James's parents. "What did you just call them?"
"And if it isn't the mothering blood-traitor," Mr. Diamond responded. Mrs. Knight gasped and slapped his face.
"I'm sorry about him," Mrs. Diamond apologized, "He never knows when to keep his mouth shut."
"Don't apologize," Mrs. Knight told her, "We all know you're thinking the same thing."
"Well, we're taking our son," Mrs. Diamond insisted, grabbing James's arm and pulling him away.
"NO!" James insisted, pulling his arm away from his mother. "I don't want to leave my friends! We're going on tour!"
"Big Time Rush is done," Mr. Diamond spoke up. "There's no way I'm letting my son stay in this group."
"WHAT?" the four boys yelled.
"You can't do that!" Gustavo got right up in front of Mr. Diamond's face, "James has a contract. YOU CAN'T TAKE HIM!"
Mr. Diamond stood his ground, "I'm going to find a way." With his words hanging in the air, he turned around and stalked off, eventually disapparating. Mrs. Diamond looked at the group, helplessly, before she left too.
"Mom," Kendall glanced over at his furious mother, "What did James's dad mean by mudbloods and blood-traitors?"
Mrs. Knight looked at her son for a second, frowning, "Those are dirty words. Don't ever say that to anyone."
"But what do they mean?" Logan asked.
"Mudblood is a rude word for a muggleborn," Kelly explained, stepping forward to join them. "It means dirty blood. Most wizards don't use it, but there are some families that think they're better than others." James shook his head, ashamed of his family. "And blood-traitor is used for those people who associate with muggleborns. Never listen to it."
"Is there something wrong with being muggleborn?" Mrs. Garcia asked.
Gustavo shook his head, "There is nothing wrong with being muggleborn! A lot of great wizards are muggleborn, sometimes even showing up pure-bloods."
"We should go," Mrs. Knight insisted. "Where's Katie?" She went back into the house to find her daughter.
"How much is all of this school supplies going to cost?" Officer Garcia asked.
"We'll take care of it," Kelly replied. "Don't worry about it." He seemed happy with this arrangement.
Gustavo was holding the pillow again as he changed it back to a portkey right as Mrs. Knight and Katie came out of the house. The boys grimaced as everyone but Carlos's parents gathered around to touch the pillow.
"So, where are we going anyways?" James asked.
"The Mall of America," Gustavo told them. The boys and Katie looked at Gustavo, confused, right before they felt the hook and disappeared from the area.
(A/N): Well… James's parents are jerks… But, now they're going shopping! At the Mall Of America! ….Wait… What? Where could there be something magical in the Mall Of America? You'll just have to wait to find out! The next one might take a while, but I already have part of it typed up, so you never know. Until next time, review and happy reading!
