They shuffled uncomfortably along the corridors, doing their best not to bump into anyone as they went and trying to be as quiet as possible so as not to alert anybody nearby to their presence.

"Tell me were nearly there!" Jordan complained

"Luckily for my feet... Yes... We are"

As fate would have it, just at that moment, who should come around the corner, but Malfoy, flanked as usual by Crabbe and Goyle. A tide of dislike rose up inside Jordan and she had to literally bit her tongue to keep herself from shouting something insulting.

"Watch this" Harry whispered, chuckling wickedly as he stuck his foot out right in Malfoy's path

"Harry... don't"

But it was too late; Malfoy foot had already clashed with Harry's, knocking him immediately off balance sending him shooting forwards through the air, before he landed spread-eagled on the ground. Jordan had to slap her hand over her mouth to stop herself from laughing as an embarrassed looking Malfoy began to pick himself up.

"Well don't just stand there... Help me!" He ordered, his two friends obediently rushing to his aid.

Once on his feet, he brushed his robes down with his hand and looked around suspiciously, obviously looking for whatever had tripped him up. On finding nothing he rounded on his two companions.

"You two watch where you're walking in future!" he bellowed, they looked at each other, more confused than usual, then just nodded at him "C'mon then, lets not stand here all day!"

A snort fought its way out of Jordan's mouth, echoing loudly around the corridor. Malfoy looked around suspiciously, glaring into the shadows for the source of the noise. Unable to fight it any longer, Harry dissolved into laughter, doing his best to stay quiet a, but failing miserably, his chortling bouncing off the walls.

Malfoy now looked slightly concerned at the sound all around him.

"Shut up!" Jordan giggled, daring to move her hand away from her mouth a little "He'll hear us.

"WHO IS THAT?" Malfoy called warily.

"C'mon Draco let's go!" Crabbe nudged him, looking extremely wary.

"It's probably just Peeves playing a joke" Malfoy decided, still not looking completely convinced as he glanced round uneasily "C'mon let's go... If were lucky we'll get to see the look on Potters face when they wipe his girlfriends memory"

Harry instantly stopped laughing and began to look around himself urgently.

"What are you doing?" Jordan asked him.

"Looking for something to throw"

"You can't!" She objected "Besides it's too late now... He's gone now look"

Harry looked up just in time to see Malfoy disappear round the corner, muttering to himself about how Peeves should have been exorcised years ago.

"That wasn't funny!" Jordan whispered, moving her hand away from her mouth.

"He deserved it!" Harry smirked.

"You could've warned me though"

"Sorry... I just couldn't resist... I didn't expect you to grunt like that".

"I did not grunt "She objected, blushing a little.

"Really what would you call it then?"

"I don't know, but it wasn't a grunt"

"Ok, Ok, whatever you say... C'mon the main entrance is just down there"

The two of them slipped outside into the cool night air and breathed a sigh of relief to have got out of the castle unnoticed before making their way slowly and carefully down the hill that led to Hagrids hut. It was dark now, but they kept the cloak on in case someone caught sight of them through the darkness,

"I think I'm getting better at this!" Jordan remarked " I haven't stepped on your toe in at least five minutes"

"Owwww"

"Ooh sorry!"

As they reached the bottom of the hill, something moving in the trees caught Jordan's eyes

"Shh Harry... Someone's over there!" She muttered, pointing at whatever it was.

Harry stopped in his tracks, his breath shaking and just looked over.

"Maybe it's Hagrid" he whispered

"Nah... It's not big enough"

"Well who is it then?"

Just then their question was answered as the source of the noise came further out of the trees, revealing it to be a rather familiar looking unicorn.

"It's your mate" Harry sighed relieved.

Moments later there was another rustling in the trees and another Unicorn emerged into the moonlight, closely followed by three much smaller ones, who looked almost golden in the dim light, every inch of them sparkling dazzlingly.

"Look at them" Jordan gasped "they're so cute!"

"I've never seen a baby one before" Harry exclaimed, seemingly rather taken with them too.

"They're so sweet" She gushed "do you think they'd noticed if I kidnapped one?"

"Jordan!" He exclaimed in surprise.

"I'm only joking...As if I would!"

Jordan's heart leapt as Hagrids front door flew open and a huge silhouette appeared in the doorway.

"Who's there?" he bellowed, peering out in to the night, quickly catching sight of the family of Unicorns "Oh... It's you is it?"

"Just keep quiet!" Harry breathed.

"Brought the family along I see... Where were they earlier eh?.. When Harry was trying to impress 'is lady friend?"

The Unicorn whinnied dismissively and went back to nibbling at the grass nearby. Hagrids took one last look around and stepped back inside his house, shutting the large door behind him.

"That was close!" Harry sighed "let's just get the bike and get out of here!"

"Ok... Where is it?"

"Round the back here I think" he said and began to edge his way around the hut, grinning broadly as he found was he was looking for.

"That thing can fly?" Jordan asked, unable to believe the rather old looking bike would even manage to move successfully along the ground.

"Let's hope so" He uttered and leaned over, quietly pulling it away from the wall, wincing as it squeaked rather loudly.

"Hagrids going to hear this"

"It'll be OK" Harry assured her, glancing round himself "I wonder if there's any crash helmets"
"Actually I was thinking more along the lines of a parachute!" Jordan muttered sarcastically.

"Very funny!"

"Who's joking?"

"We'll have to get further away to start it up, or everyone in the castle will hear us!" he informed her "C'mon, we'll head that way"

The two of them began walking, pulling the bike along with them, and both cringing every time they made the slightest noise. But the night around them was quiet, not even the whisper of a breeze to disturb the stillness. The trees stood motionless, bathed it in bright moonlight, not even a single branch moving as if they were momentarily frozen in time, or maybe just watching the world around them, the sky and the hillside... not to mention the rusty old motorbike that was seemingly trundling along of it's own free will.

"Do you think this is far enough?" Harry asked after they had been walking for a while. Jordan looked behind to see that Hogwarts was now just a silhouette on the horizon and nodded. Not needing any further prompting, he pulled off the cloak and took a deep breath of the fresh air, his cheeks rather pink after being trapped beneath the cloak for so long.

"Thank god for that" Jordan sighed.

"Don't thank him yet... We've still got a long way to go"

They both surveyed the rather rusty bike in front of them, it looked like it may once have been a rather splendid piece of machinery, but time had not been kind to it.

"It looks a bit... Old" Jordan croaked "And how are you going to start it up... There's no key!"

"I hadn't thought of that!" Harry grimaced, scratching his head nervously.

"Maybe we could sneak into Hagrids hut and get it!"

"There's so much stuff in there we might never find it!" He replied, pulling his wand from his robes "no... It's a magic bike, there's no reason to think it won't start by magic!"

"If you say so" She shrugged and looked at him expectantly as he just stood there looking rather blank faced "well go on then"

"I'm thinking!" he whined "Where's Hermione when you need her eh?"

"Right here!" a voice replied, startling them both, They looked round to see Ron and Hermione emerging from the trees.

"What are you doing here?" Harry crowed "I told you..."

"Well we couldn't let you have all the fun on your own could we?" Ron smiled.

"Besides it suddenly occurred to me you might not know the right spell to get the bike started up!" Hermione continued.

It was too dark to see if Harry was blushing or not, but Jordan felt sure that he was.

"Go on then do the honours!" He smiled, putting his wand back in his robes.

"You better get on first" She insisted. Harry climbed on immediately then patted the seat behind as a signal for Jordan.

"If I die on this thing I'm coming back to haunt you!" She hissed playfully, pushing her doubts aside and climbing on too.

"Ready? " Hermione asked, Harry nodded and she raised her wand, took a deep breath, then said "Ignitium!"

Immediately the engine of the bike roared into life, sending Jordan's heart into a frenzy. She gripped nervously onto Harry's waist and began to bitterly regret agreeing to this madness in the first place.

"Thanks!" Harry called, now shouting to be heard.

"Harry, you better get going before someone comes!" Hermione insisted, patting him on the back.

"Ready Jordan?" He asked, but didn't give her chance to answer as he hit the accelerator and the two of them shot off into the night. Jordan shut her eyes tightly and buried her head into Harry's back, every nerve in her body jangling with fear as they sped along.

"Please just don't let me die!" She whispered to herself, taking one deep breath after another in a rather futile bid to calm herself down. It was like being on a roller coaster, waiting for it to end, wondering what on earth possessed you to get on it in the first place. She took a deep, deep breath followed by another, then opened her eyes a very little way, so that all she could see was a sliver of the world around her. But the sight that greeted her was not the one she'd expected.

"Were still on the ground!" she exclaimed

"No... Really!" Harry's voice rasped back.

"Is something wrong?"

"I'm just trying to find the right button!"

"Which one's have you tried?" She asked, peering over his shoulder cautiously, not loosening her grip on him in the slightest.

"Everything but this one!" He called, reaching out and hitting a small orange button without any warning.

The bike made a rather unhealthy spluttering noise, then another, then a loud painful squeak. By now Jordan's stomach was turning somersaults and her heart felt about ready to leap out of her chest.

"What's happening?" Harry asked.

"You're asking me?" She replied, glancing around nervously, noticing immediately that something was different. The bike was no longer running along the ground, but hovering just above it" Harry... I think it's working!"

"Oh my god it is... It's working!" he laughed, as they began to climb up higher and higher "It's really working!"

Jordan felt so exhilarated that she completely forgot to be afraid as they soared through the air, leaving the world below far behind. Travelling high in the sky where the only landscape was the clouds and the stars that peppered the heavens around them.

"This is amazing!" she whooped excitedly "Were actually flying!"

She hugged Harry tightly, but this time not because she was afraid and she marvelled at how different the world looked from up here.

"It's a bit different from flying a broomstick!" Harry announced

"I wouldn't know!"

"Now all we've got to do is find our way to your house... Any good at Geography?

"Not too bad why?"

"Cause I have no idea where were going!"

They flew over countless field and trees, then a sea of street lamps and rooftops, twinkling out into the night, lighting they're way. It was like being in a different world up here, so quiet, even with the buzzing of the bike engine.

"What's that funny shaped building down there?" Harry asked, peering toward the ground.

Jordan looked down and immediately recognised it.

"It's the Bull Ring Shopping centre... This is Birmingham"

"Is it far from where you live?"

"No not too far, but I think we should follow the road or we'll get lost"

"Which one?" Harry asked, looking at the tangled mass of roads beneath him "There's loads of them"

"Good question" She grimaced, none of them looking particularly familiar from up here. She'd only been to Birmingham a couple of times as it was "Can you go a bit lower so we can see the road signs!"

"People will see" he objected

She looked at the road again and shrugged.

"I don't know...try that one!" She suggested, picking one at random and pointing down at it.

"Are you sure?"

"Not in the slightest!" She replied honestly, "But we have to start somewhere!"

They followed the road faithfully, turning whenever it did and Jordan found that the landscape beneath was starting to look more and more familiar.

"This is it, this is it!" She screeched as a large Cathedral loomed into view "This is Worcester! My house is just over that way!"

Harry turned slightly and they continued to zip through the air

"We need to find a quiet road where I can land!" He called.

"Do we have to?" Jordan whispered, wishing they could stay up her forever, or at least a little longer

"Course I've never landed a flying motor bike before so it could be a little bumpy!"

"Bumpy?"

"I'll do my best... now which one is your street?"

"That one there... Next to the cemetery!"

Jordan could actually see her house now, the garden littered with toys belonging to her little brother and sister. It seemed quite bizarre looking at it all from up here.

"I'm not really sure how to do this!" Harry confessed, his voice sounding tense.

"Try pressing the same button again!" Jordan suggested, now feeling rather nervous herself.

But before either of them could do anything, the bike began to lose height, leaving Jordan's stomach somewhere up in the clouds.

"What's happening?" Jordan called, her heart now pounding frighteningly quickly.

"I don't know!" He shouted back "I'm not doing it!"

"Is it broken?"

"No, I think it's driving itself!"

Jordan didn't really have time to consider those words, as the ground was looming rather quickly. What had been a tinge of nervousness was now turning into fully-fledged fear, reality crashing in on what had felt almost like a dream.

"God hold on!" Harry called.

She just shut her eyes and gripped on to him even tighter, finding herself saying a quiet prayer as they hit the ground. The bike seemed to bounce along the floor a few times, then let a sad sort of screeching noise, before drawing to a standstill.

For a second the two companions did not move, just remained huddled, with their heads down, as if unsure it was all over. Slowly Harry began to move and looked around, taking a deep, relieved breath.

"It's OK!" he murmured.

Jordan cautiously looked up and could almost not believe they had landed safely. Her house was just in front of her; she was back home... And all in one piece.

"Are you alright?" Harry asked as he climbed shakily off the bike and looked at her.

She didn't answer straight away and climbed off the bike too, then flung her arms around him, squeezing him tightly, relieved and grateful all at the same time.

"What's this for?" He asked, as his snaked his arms round her too.

She didn't answer; she didn't have one to give. So the two of them just stood there in the orange glow of the street lamps, holding each other tightly. Neither warning to let go, but both knowing that the time to say goodbye was drawing near.

Just at that moment there was a loud cracking noise nearby. Jordan and Harry leapt apart and looked round just in time to see Professor McGonagall seemingly appear from nowhere.

"I'm in big trouble!" Harry muttered real fear in his eyes.

"Miss Quinn, Mr Potter... What a surprise!" Professor McGonagall rasped vindictively

"Professor I can explain!" Harry began.

"Can you?... Can you really?" She continued in the same tone "You can explain why you left Hogwarts without permission and stole a bewitched motorbike, which you are neither old enough or licensed to fly. To smuggle someone out of school who was under investigation by the Ministry of magic not to mention risking getting yourselves killed in the process!"

"Erm... Sort of" Harry squeaked.

"Mr Potter I seriously doubt that, there is no excuse for the way you have behaved"

"Professor it was all my idea... Please don't blame Harry" Jordan piped up, desperate to keep him out of trouble

"Miss Quinn, I have known Potter long enough to know that he could have come up with this plan all on his own" She said sternly.

"But really, it was my idea... Honestly"

"Professor you must admit the way the Ministry was treating her was terrible!" Harry interrupted a note of defiance in his voice.

"It is not for you or I to question the ministry" She stated, Harry opened his mouth to object, but was interrupted once again "As they have decided to leave Miss Quinn alone... With her memories intact!"

"But Professor" Harry moaned, the words seeming to take a second to register "They've what?"

"They have decided to leave Miss Quinn alone!" She repeated, the hint of a smile on her face this time.

Jordan also just stood in shock; her heart feeling like it might explode at any moment with sheer happiness

"But... How ... Why?" Harry asked.

"Professor Dumbledore insisted that she and her family could be trusted to keep our secret he also expressed concern at the effect it would have on you!"

"On me?" he asked.

"He told the minister that he felt you had already suffered enough loss for one lifetime!"

"Oh!" he croaked a little sadly, then looked up at Jordan and smiled.

"So we did all this for nothing" Jordan crowed "Harry is going to be expelled for nothing?"

"Luckily for you both, Professor Dumbledore and I are the only ones who know about your little moonlight flit, as soon as I realised you were gone I apparated straight here!" Professor McGonagall explained "So as long as I get you back to school promptly, no one will be any the wiser!"

"Really, Thanks Professor" Harry grinned, relief written all over his face.

"Now really I must insist that we go, before we are missed" she ordered, then looked at the motorcycle "but I can't let you ride this home... And you can't apparate yet"

She stood there for a moment in thought, then shrugged and climbed on to the motorbike. Both Jordan and Harry sniggered at the sight of this usually prim and proper lady straddled over a motorcycle, then quickly tried to hide the fact as she turned to look at then expectantly

"Well I was young too you know" She smiled "Once"

"If it's alright, I'll just walk Jordan to the door" Harry asked quietly.

"It's ten feet away" She muttered, then a look of understanding spread over her face "Very well, but don't be long!"

"It was nice to meet you" Jordan smiled at her "thank you for everything!"

"You're welcome... For some reason I feel sure I'll be seeing you again!"

"You never know!" Jordan smirked at the rather exasperated look on the old lady's face at the very thought of it.

"C'mon" Harry whispered, grasping hold of Jordan's hand and leading her the few steps to her front door, then turned to look at her once again "So... Here we are!"
"Yep... Home sweet home" Jordan joked

"It's been an adventure!"

"It's been wonderful!" She sighed dreamily "I wish I could live in your world, you're so lucky... here everything is so..."

"Normal" Harry suggested.

"No, the word I was going to use was boring!"

"It's not so bad really!" he uttered, glancing behind as Professor McGonagall cleared her throat loudly in an effort to get him to hurry up "I guess I better go!"

"I guess" Jordan sighed sadly, her heart aching at the thought of saying goodbye to him so soon.

"Maybe we could get together over the summer... Meet up or something!"

"Really? That'd be great" She beamed, trying to forget how long away the summer was

Professor McGonagall cleared her throat again.

"I better go!" He sulked, "But I'll see you soon OK?"

"OK!" Jordan sniffed, trying to blink away the tears that were forcing their way into her eyes. He looked at her one more time before turning and walking slowly away, back over to his teacher, staring solemnly at the ground.

"Right get on Potter!" She ordered him.

"Hang on a sec!" he uttered turning round and walking back over to Jordan "I forgot something."

"What did you forget?" She asked as he reached her.

"This" He replied as he gently brushed her hair out of her face with his hand, then tenderly placed his lips against hers, before moving away and smiling coyly. Even Professor McGonagall was momentarily dumbstruck and just stood there looking surprised. "I'll see you in the summer... I promise"

"OK!" she croaked and watched as he walked back over to the bike, this time climbing on and holding on rather un-enthusiastically to the teacher in front.

"Ignitium!" The Professor ordered and the bike roared into life once again. Harry turned and waved as it began to move, slowly at first, then speeding up quickly, before slowly and surely rising up from the ground.

"Yeehah!" A loud voice rang out as they got higher and higher and to Jordan's surprise it wasn't Harry doing it but Professor McGonagall.

She kept her eyes on them till they were nothing but a speck in the distance and felt that determined tear trickle down he face. She found herself wondering if she would ever really see him again, they did after all come from two different worlds.

"Bye Harry!" she whispered sadly, wiping the tear away, before taking a deep breath and knocking on her front door. There was a scuffling of feet and a click and the door swung open to reveal her mum standing there, looking overjoyed to see her.

"Jordan... You're home!"