The other's story

The next morning when they stepped outside they were surprised to discover that Anne was already there, walking randomly around singing something which took a while for them to catch:

Moj beli cvet
Moj daljni svet
Daj, vrni se
Moj bodi spet

Za vedno vse moje
V življenju tvoje je
Cvet z juga, blizu morja še…

"Hello!" Sirius yelled, trying to get her attention, soon after all the others began too, however she seemed completely ignorant of the yelling. Finally Fred lost patience and ran over and tapped her on the shoulder.

"Oh… hey…" She said while pressing a button on a thing hanging around her neck and taking some thingies out of her ears. "Didn't hear you."

"I sorta figured. We were all yelling at you. What was it you were singing anyway? Didn't sound English, was it Danish?"

While they had talked they'd walked back to the others who all seemed just as curious as Fred about what she'd been singing.

"Oh… no. It's Slovenian."

"You speak Slovenian?" Igor looked like he was about to fall down.

"Nah… not really… doesn't really know what she's singing… something about saying goodbye to her love and giving him a white flower…"

"Why do you have a Slovenian song?" Gellert asked curiously.

"It's the Slovenian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest from 2007."

"2007?" Severus said, looking at Anne like she had dumped down from the moon, well; she'd dumped into her own story and that's just as crazy. "We are in the year 1998. Well, that's when I died anyway… the year of the battle."

"It's true…" Remus began…

"Oh… time differences. I come from the year 2008. Back in 1998 I was an innocent little ten year old girl."

"Er…" Fred began, "Are we supposed to believe that?" he finished, seeking shelter behind his uncles.

"That I was innocent? Nah… not really."

"So. That also explains why I've never heard about or seen that thing hanging around your neck, even though I'm muggle born." Colin said. "A lot of things could have happened in ten years."

"Yeah… it's an Mp3. music storing and playing devise. And it's really been fast with these… I thing the first ones were 128 mega byte. This one's one giga byte, a giga byte is thousand mega bytes, and that's a pretty small and outdated one… they come with 30 giga bytes and some of them can even play videos. But… the they are rather clumsy and have no need for one that big… though I do consider updating to a two GB one."

Not surprisingly it was only Colin who vaguely understood what she was talking about.

"You watch Eurovision?" he asked.

"Yeah… began to around 2000."

"I also watch it… would have watched it on the day this year instead of when I was back from Hogwarts as I did the other years, the only good thing about being unable to attend school, if I hadn't… well… died. Do you know who won?"

"Yes. Israel. Dana International with a song called Diva. It's really good."

"Oh… I heard a bit about her… she used to be a man right?"

"Okay." Regulus said, "Call me stupid but what on earth, or in this case the afterlife, do you mean about 'she used to be a man'?"

"Gender swap." Anne said, looking at Regulus like he was stupid.

"You muggles are crazy." Regulus said.

"Yup." Sirius said, then clasping his hand over his mouth. "Merlin. I agreed with Reggie."

"Who won the other years? I mean… after I died…" Colin asked.

"In 1999 it was Sweden with Charlotte 'Take me to your heaven.' In 2000 it was Denmark with Olsen Brothers 'Fly on the wings of love.'"

"Bet you like that." Merope said smiling.

"Yeah… not a bad song at all. And pretty surprising. A lot of the other countries had huge scene shows and everything. They, the Olsen Brothers, were just two elderly men with a guitar each who, sang. Everyone held their lighters up in the air when the sang the refrain the last time. Oh… in 2001 it was Estonia with Tanel Padar, Dave Benton and 2XL 'Everybody.' In 2002 it was Latvia with Marie N 'I wanna.' in 2003 it was Turkey with Sertab Erener 'Everyway that I can.' in 2004 it was Ukraine with Ruslana 'Wild dance.' In 2005 it was Greece with Elena Paparizou 'My number one.' In 2006 it was Finland with Lordi 'Hard rock hallelujah.' And finally in 2007 it was Serbia with Marija Serifovic 'Molitva.' The first one since Diva which didn't contain any words in English after the lifted the languages rule. Ruslana's was part English part Ukrainian."

"You said Serbia." Gregorovitch began. "Don't you mean Serbia & Montenegro?"

"Nope. They broke the uniting in 2006. And Kosovo has just declared that they are independent from Serbia…"

In the end they had a rather educating history and geography talk.