Sirius was now wide awake and had pulled Harry out of bed. Dumbledore waved his wand and Harry suddenly had new clothes on, they seemed to have food stuffed in the pockets. Harry also noticed his own wand was in one of his pockets. Another wave of Dumbledore's wand and Harry and Sirius were spinning though blackness. Then Harry noticed that they had stopped. Harry thought that they had landed in a cave, it was very dark. He pulled out his wand and lit it. They had landed in a dark house. It was Harry's bedroom, only backwards. It took him a while but he figured out the land of shadows must be on the other side of the real world. Harry found a note with his wand, which read

Dear Harry,

If you are reading this, you must be in the land of shadows. Your objectives are to: stay alive and find out what your shadow self wants with you. How it plans to do it and you need to figure out how to stop him. Shadows are scared away by the light and the only known way to kill them is to throw water on them. Hopefully you will find water in shadow land. To get back to this world wave your wand and say, eleviate etaivele

--Dumbledore

Harry set out with Sirius to find his shadow self. When Harry found that his Aunt, Uncle, and cousin were not in the house, he realized that they had not gone back in time any time lately. Harry, did however see his shadow self outside on Privet Drive cursing anyone who would walk past. He didn't curse them with his mouth, either; he was actually taking out his wand and cursing them with hexes that Harry didn't know. Harry was looking outside the window and saw that the sign did not read Privet Drive. Instead it read, evirD tevirP. Suddenly Harry remembered that everything in this world was backwards. He wondered if people here talked backwards too, but he knew they didn't because his shadow shelf was talking as normal. Harry walked outside and asked his shadow:

"Why do you want to kill me?"

"Why kill, when torture lasts so much longer? I will get you soon enough, but first I think the authorities would like a word with the falsetto Harry Potter!"

A sort of whine came out of Shadow-Harry's mouth. Two other shadows came from nowhere and grabbed Harry. Sirius tried to free him, but two more shadows carried Sirius off with Harry. Harry and Sirius were carried to a place, which read liaJ, Harry worked it out later that it said jail. The shadows led Harry and Sirius into a room that read swodahS-noN roF. Underneath this were scribbled the words; For Non-Shadows: Your trial begins in 24 hours. Harry did not understand what that sign could mean. The shadows threw him and Sirius into different cells. Then yelled over his shoulder, "Disregard the notice, your trial shall begin within five hours!"

These words made no sense to Harry and, as Harry could tell, it did not seem to make sense to Sirius either. His shadow's words keep haunting him: '.the falsetto Harry Potter!'