p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"I woke up again feeling cold and looked around in search of the source of the chilly temperature. For the first time, I took in my surroundings./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Unlike before I had lost my senses, a small porcelain lamp next to me illuminated the room. I was in a big, beautiful canopy bed covered in light grey bedding with intricate scrollwork details in lilac./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"It went nicely with the rest of the space, which had indigo walls and dark antique furniture like in one of those old English Manors you see in Downtown Abbey./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"I looked around and saw that the wall behind the bed was covered in windows. Most of them were draped off with heavy curtains; all except one, which was open and letting in a cold breeze. It was dark outside, probably the middle of the night./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"As I snuggled further in the duvet, all memories of my encounter with the French woman flooded my mind after a minute or so and my breath hitched./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"I needed to understand what was going on, as this didn't look like it was just a bad dream. On the other hand, things didn't add up so I couldn't just jump to conclusions. That, or I was in denial about the whole thing./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"With a heavy lump in my throat and tears threatening to spill from my eyes, I took a deep breath and decided to look back at everything I had discovered until then./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"I was in a strange house that I'd never been in before, with a woman I didn't know but seemed to know me (or thought she did), and there was this Dixie person who had gone to call on the French lady./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"If I truly had gotten hurt in an accident, I would have been taken to the hospital. And even if there were fancy looking private clinics in the world, I didn't see any machinery or IV sacks next to my bed. This looked like someone's house, and a pretty exquisite one at that, judging by the interior design./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Had I been kidnapped? It all reminded me vaguely of Stephen King's Misery for some reason./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"I needed more information to get a full picture of what was going on, and to get back home as soon as possible. Considering that I was still feeling pretty crappy and wouldn't be able to leave on my own if I tried, I resolved to call out for someone to enlighten me further./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""Hello? Is anyone here?" I asked tentatively and was again horrified to hear a high-pitched version of my own voice instead. Had the accident affected my vocal cords?/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"I was in mid-thought when I saw it. Out of thin air, a small creature with bat-like ears and big, puppy eyes appeared next to my bed, making that popping sound I heard before. It was wearing a small forest green tunic and smiling wildly at me./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"I blinked once, then twice at the thing and my mind went blank. I think I was too shocked to react properly./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""Miss called for Dixie?" said the little creature with a pleading voice./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"I must have looked quite dumb at that moment, as I just stared at Dixie for a good minute. Then I cleared my throat and addressed him (or her? It, let's call the thing "it")./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""Uh, hello," I said cautiously, trying not to have a mental breakdown. "Would you mind telling me where I am?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""In Fawley Court in Edinburgh, Miss" Dixie responded promptly, as if it was the most obvious thing in the world./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Fawley Court in Edinburgh. Huh. Ok, this was getting weirder by the minute, but I needed to get to bottom of it./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""And…why am I here?" my voice sounding shriller than before./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Dixie looked at me as if I had grown a second head. "Because it is your home, Miss. You live here with Madame."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""Madame…?" I asked uncertainly./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""Madame Noir, Miss. Your grandmother!" huffed the creature impatiently./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Oddly enough, that was more of a curveball for me than the fact that I was speaking with some strange looking being that really reminded me of… but no, it couldn't be. Nope./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"I decided to play the post-traumatic confusion card and pretend I was just having a mild case of amnesia./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"emMaybe playing along will get me somewhere./em/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""Right, and err… Dixie, who am I again? That accident must have messed up with my head a bit." I said massaging my temples./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""Elizabeth Fawley, Miss. You are the heir of the Ancient and Noble House of Fawley, of the Sacred-Twenty Eight. Dixie is honored to serve such an important family!" recited Dixie in one breath, bowing slightly./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Ok, now I was on the verge of a panic attack. I must have been in a coma or something, it couldn't be real. It couldn't be. WHAT THE ACTUAL FU-/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""Dixie, could you please bring me a newspaper?" I said suddenly, breaking that train of thought just in time before I started hyperventilating./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"In a moment Dixie disappeared right before my very eyes, which caused my jaw to drop, and after a few seconds, the creature reappeared with a paper in its hands. I took it and didn't have time to thank Dixie that it spoke again./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""Dixie will go prepare a meal for Miss, as it has been a long time since she has eaten," said in a worried tone. My stomach growled in response and seemed to only further prove Dixie's point. I nodded dumbly and again witnessed the disappearance followed by a loud pop./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"emRight, OK./em I took a deep breath. emUnless I'm hallucinating all of this, I have just spoken to a house-elf called Dixie, who serves the Fawley family, one of the Sacred-Twenty Eight. Most important of all, it seems under the impression that I am someone called Elizabeth Fawley and my grandma is the French lady with grey hair I spoke to before./em I exhaled slowly. emBrilliant./em/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Brilliant, indeed. All those words most definitely rang a bell, as I had grown up to love the series of books about the Harry Potter world (not to mention its many fanfictions). To say that I was a huge Potterhead was an understatement./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"I had so many conflicting emotions going on, a part of me wanted to start jumping up and down the bed, because MAGIC IS REAL, DAMMIT, and another part of me was about to burst into tears because I just wanted to go home./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"I then realized that I was still holding the newspaper in my hands that was, you guessed it, none other than the Daily Prophet. The front page read "NEO ELECT MINISTER FUDGE ALMOST THROWN OUT OF THE WINDOW BY EX MUGGLE PRIME MINISTER", with a moving picture of what looked remarkably like Cornelius Fudge (the similarities between him and actor who played him in the movies were uncanny!) standing next to the unmistakable Margaret Thatcher. That threw me off big time, so I searched for the date on the corner of the paper./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"It was the 31st of July 1991. Harry Potter would turn eleven years old today. Hagrid was most likely breaking in the hut in the middle of the sea and taking him away from the Dursleys. And I wasn't even born yet. Shit./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"At that point, I could hardly believe my mind had manufactured it all. Looking through the newspaper, and the amount of detail there was in it, I somehow decided that this wasn't just a figment of my imagination./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Undeniably, my mind felt clear, and not under some spell. My heart painfully lost not to be in my home, and apparently not even in my time, but I seemed to be ok with the world I had stepped in. I had no idea how that had happened, or if I was still alive, but I couldn't bring myself to panic over that. It was an odd feeling, and I couldn't explain it./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Mind over matter, I chanted in my head./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"After having gone through the entirety of the Prophet (which had me grinning and tearing up because OMIGOSH IT'S ALL REAL!), I wondered if the knowledge I had on the future of this universe was accurate, or if the Harry Potter books were just a dramatization of the actual story. Either way, I felt comforted by the fact that I knew quite a lot about the wizarding world, especially considering that I was just a muggle./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"One thing was for certain: I needed to keep a low profile for the time being. What if someone found out of who I was and what I knew? What would happen to me then? I wouldn't want to risk it./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"This was a dream come true, literally, and while I would most definitely try to work out whatever had happened to bring me there, I wouldn't pass up the opportunity to just enjoy being in the wizarding world. No way in hell./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Those were my thoughts when the door to my room opened once more./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Unlike before I had lost my senses, a small porcelain lamp next to me illuminated the room. I was in a big, beautiful canopy bed covered in light grey bedding with intricate scrollwork details in lilac./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"It went nicely with the rest of the space, which had indigo walls and dark antique furniture like in one of those old English Manors you see in Downtown Abbey./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"I looked around and saw that the wall behind the bed was covered in windows. Most of them were draped off with heavy curtains; all except one, which was open and letting in a cold breeze. It was dark outside, probably the middle of the night./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"As I snuggled further in the duvet, all memories of my encounter with the French woman flooded my mind after a minute or so and my breath hitched./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"I needed to understand what was going on, as this didn't look like it was just a bad dream. On the other hand, things didn't add up so I couldn't just jump to conclusions. That, or I was in denial about the whole thing./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"With a heavy lump in my throat and tears threatening to spill from my eyes, I took a deep breath and decided to look back at everything I had discovered until then./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"I was in a strange house that I'd never been in before, with a woman I didn't know but seemed to know me (or thought she did), and there was this Dixie person who had gone to call on the French lady./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"If I truly had gotten hurt in an accident, I would have been taken to the hospital. And even if there were fancy looking private clinics in the world, I didn't see any machinery or IV sacks next to my bed. This looked like someone's house, and a pretty exquisite one at that, judging by the interior design./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Had I been kidnapped? It all reminded me vaguely of Stephen King's Misery for some reason./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"I needed more information to get a full picture of what was going on, and to get back home as soon as possible. Considering that I was still feeling pretty crappy and wouldn't be able to leave on my own if I tried, I resolved to call out for someone to enlighten me further./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""Hello? Is anyone here?" I asked tentatively and was again horrified to hear a high-pitched version of my own voice instead. Had the accident affected my vocal cords?/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"I was in mid-thought when I saw it. Out of thin air, a small creature with bat-like ears and big, puppy eyes appeared next to my bed, making that popping sound I heard before. It was wearing a small forest green tunic and smiling wildly at me./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"I blinked once, then twice at the thing and my mind went blank. I think I was too shocked to react properly./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""Miss called for Dixie?" said the little creature with a pleading voice./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"I must have looked quite dumb at that moment, as I just stared at Dixie for a good minute. Then I cleared my throat and addressed him (or her? It, let's call the thing "it")./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""Uh, hello," I said cautiously, trying not to have a mental breakdown. "Would you mind telling me where I am?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""In Fawley Court in Edinburgh, Miss" Dixie responded promptly, as if it was the most obvious thing in the world./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Fawley Court in Edinburgh. Huh. Ok, this was getting weirder by the minute, but I needed to get to bottom of it./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""And…why am I here?" my voice sounding shriller than before./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Dixie looked at me as if I had grown a second head. "Because it is your home, Miss. You live here with Madame."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""Madame…?" I asked uncertainly./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""Madame Noir, Miss. Your grandmother!" huffed the creature impatiently./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Oddly enough, that was more of a curveball for me than the fact that I was speaking with some strange looking being that really reminded me of… but no, it couldn't be. Nope./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"I decided to play the post-traumatic confusion card and pretend I was just having a mild case of amnesia./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"emMaybe playing along will get me somewhere./em/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""Right, and err… Dixie, who am I again? That accident must have messed up with my head a bit." I said massaging my temples./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""Elizabeth Fawley, Miss. You are the heir of the Ancient and Noble House of Fawley, of the Sacred-Twenty Eight. Dixie is honored to serve such an important family!" recited Dixie in one breath, bowing slightly./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Ok, now I was on the verge of a panic attack. I must have been in a coma or something, it couldn't be real. It couldn't be. WHAT THE ACTUAL FU-/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""Dixie, could you please bring me a newspaper?" I said suddenly, breaking that train of thought just in time before I started hyperventilating./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"In a moment Dixie disappeared right before my very eyes, which caused my jaw to drop, and after a few seconds, the creature reappeared with a paper in its hands. I took it and didn't have time to thank Dixie that it spoke again./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;""Dixie will go prepare a meal for Miss, as it has been a long time since she has eaten," said in a worried tone. My stomach growled in response and seemed to only further prove Dixie's point. I nodded dumbly and again witnessed the disappearance followed by a loud pop./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"emRight, OK./em I took a deep breath. emUnless I'm hallucinating all of this, I have just spoken to a house-elf called Dixie, who serves the Fawley family, one of the Sacred-Twenty Eight. Most important of all, it seems under the impression that I am someone called Elizabeth Fawley and my grandma is the French lady with grey hair I spoke to before./em I exhaled slowly. emBrilliant./em/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Brilliant, indeed. All those words most definitely rang a bell, as I had grown up to love the series of books about the Harry Potter world (not to mention its many fanfictions). To say that I was a huge Potterhead was an understatement./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"I had so many conflicting emotions going on, a part of me wanted to start jumping up and down the bed, because MAGIC IS REAL, DAMMIT, and another part of me was about to burst into tears because I just wanted to go home./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"I then realized that I was still holding the newspaper in my hands that was, you guessed it, none other than the Daily Prophet. The front page read "NEO ELECT MINISTER FUDGE ALMOST THROWN OUT OF THE WINDOW BY EX MUGGLE PRIME MINISTER", with a moving picture of what looked remarkably like Cornelius Fudge (the similarities between him and actor who played him in the movies were uncanny!) standing next to the unmistakable Margaret Thatcher. That threw me off big time, so I searched for the date on the corner of the paper./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"It was the 31st of July 1991. Harry Potter would turn eleven years old today. Hagrid was most likely breaking in the hut in the middle of the sea and taking him away from the Dursleys. And I wasn't even born yet. Shit./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"At that point, I could hardly believe my mind had manufactured it all. Looking through the newspaper, and the amount of detail there was in it, I somehow decided that this wasn't just a figment of my imagination./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Undeniably, my mind felt clear, and not under some spell. My heart painfully lost not to be in my home, and apparently not even in my time, but I seemed to be ok with the world I had stepped in. I had no idea how that had happened, or if I was still alive, but I couldn't bring myself to panic over that. It was an odd feeling, and I couldn't explain it./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Mind over matter, I chanted in my head./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"After having gone through the entirety of the Prophet (which had me grinning and tearing up because OMIGOSH IT'S ALL REAL!), I wondered if the knowledge I had on the future of this universe was accurate, or if the Harry Potter books were just a dramatization of the actual story. Either way, I felt comforted by the fact that I knew quite a lot about the wizarding world, especially considering that I was just a muggle./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"One thing was for certain: I needed to keep a low profile for the time being. What if someone found out of who I was and what I knew? What would happen to me then? I wouldn't want to risk it./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"This was a dream come true, literally, and while I would most definitely try to work out whatever had happened to bring me there, I wouldn't pass up the opportunity to just enjoy being in the wizarding world. No way in hell./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Those were my thoughts when the door to my room opened once more./p