Hello everybody! This is my new story that tells a story of how an adult muggle finds her way into Hogwarts. I hope you enjoy reading it.
I have not finished it yet, so if you have any feedback or ideas, please leave a comment.
Also, I do not own any of the characters and such, those are entirely JK Rowling's.
The mysterious woman
The new school year had started a week ago and both students and teachers had settled in well. After the first week of lessons everybody was happy it was Friday and all were having dinner in the great hall. Professor Dumbledore was talking to professor McGonagall about young Harry Potter, who had just started his first year.
All of a sudden, chaos erupted. A blinding light appeared in the middle of the great hall, and a woman stood in its place as the light vanished. Students were screaming and the whole staff was jumping up from their chairs, wands out. Hogwarts was the most well secured building in all of magical Britain, no one should be able to just appear in the great hall like that.
Severus Snape was the quickest to reach the woman. He held her at wand point but stood not too close, as he was not sure of the power of this woman. Dumbledore stood right behind him. For his old age he was surprisingly quick. 'Who are you?! How did you apparate into the hall? What are you doing here?' Snape asked. The woman was of average height, had brown hair and blue eyes, and frantically looked around, as if she was searching for something. 'Answer me woman!' Snape demanded. The woman turned her head towards him, and that was when both Snape and Dumbledore noticed the confused look and the fear in her eyes. Upon a closer look they noticed she was wearing strange clothes, and had no wand in hand. Just as they realized she might not be a threat, her eyes started rolling back in her head and she fainted. Dumbledore was quick enough to cast a cushioning charm but neither man was quick enough to catch her before her body hit the floor.
Dumbledore immediately got into his headmaster role. 'Minerva! Guide the students back to their dormitories!' Snape was already kneeling next to the woman, casting basic diagnostic spells. 'Filius, get madam Pomfrey! Severus, how is she?' Snape looked up from the woman who was still lying on the floor. 'I'm not sure Albus, she seems fine but she won't wake up.'
Dumbledore looked at the woman and her strange clothes. She looked muggle but there was something off about her. He asked the staff, who were still present in the great hall if anyone recognized her, but nobody did.
'She might have something on her that shows who she is?' Pomona Sprout suggested. Dumbledore nodded approvingly. Both Snape and Sprout carefully checked the woman and her pockets. Snape pulled some sort of access pass from her front pocket and Sprout found a small device in her back pocket with a wire connected to it. Snape examined the pass: 'her name is Stephanie Saxton'. He handed the pass over to Dumbledore who looked at it and saw that the photo matched the woman's face. 'I don't know what this is,' as Sprout held up the device, 'but it looks like a muggle artifact.' she said.
At that moment madam Pomfrey came hurrying in. 'Out of my way, let me check her!' Pomfrey started chanting spells and blue glowing diagrams appeared in the air. She examined them attentively and nodded in understanding. 'Well, she is healthy as far as I can see. But her magical core is most...unusual. It is quite large but very unstable. She probably won't wake up now because her journey here must have taken quite a toll on her, apparating through the wards and all that. I will let her sleep in the hospital wing to keep an eye on her until she wakes up.'
She conjured a stretcher and levitated the woman onto it. 'Do you know her Albus?' she asked. Albus shook his head. 'No but Severus found this pass on her, apparently her name is Stephanie Saxton.' They all looked at the unconscious woman on the stretcher for a moment, wondering what just had happened and what it meant.
'Alright, I will go with you to the hospital wing Poppy. Severus, will you join us? The rest of you can retire for now. Hopefully Miss Saxton will wake up soon. We will discuss any new information tomorrow morning during the staff meeting, good night.' With a final nod they all went on their way.
The walk to the hospital wing was quiet as they were all wondering who Miss Saxton was and what she was doing here. They arrived at the hospital wing and Poppy levitated Stephanie on one of the beds. With a flick of her wand the woman's clothes were replaced with a hospital gown. Poppy casted a monitoring spell, 'That's all we can do for now. We'll just have to wait until she wakes up.'
Minerva walked in and looked at the woman lying in the bed. 'The students are in their dormitories, I have the elves bring them some food, as the dinner was interrupted. Do you already know who she is?' Albus nodded and handed her the access pass they found on her. 'Stephanie Saxton…' Minerva mumbled, 'never heard of that name'. Suddenly she gasped. Both Albus and Severus looked up at her. 'What is it?' She handed them the pass. 'Look closely' she said. The men examined the pass once more, and then they both saw it… the pass was issued on the first of October 2020. The year was 1991.