(Alright, I promised in the last chapter that something big is gonna happen…well it is…so just bare with me and please review! Ok that's all for now and on to story.)
Carrie sprinted down the halls of her school on her way to her History of Magic class. Not that she didn't think that the teacher wouldn't notice her absence, but if she ran into any of her other Professors…well her nights would be filled with dentition for the rest of her life. She was already in enough trouble for dieing the Slytherin's hair gold and red. She smiled at the memory of the looks of anger that was plastered all over the Slytherin's faces. Carrie ran past one room and for some reason was compelled to go in. Quickly looking over her shoulders Carrie ducked into the basically empty room.
Besides the fact the room was stripped of most of the desks there was nothing in the room, save the table in the corner with a wooden box on it. Carrie walked over to the box and eyed it carefully. She contemplated weather to open it or not, and lo and behold, her curiosity won the better of her. Carrie let her books fall from her arms and she opened the box very carefully.
At first it was only opened a crack and light shown from the inside of the box. Carrie opened the box more and more until it was completely opened. Then all of a sudden she was engulfed in a blinding flash and felt her head spin. When the light faded Carrie was gone. Dumbledore steeped out of the shadows smiling.
"I wonder if Carrie will enjoy the little trip she's been sent on." Dumbledore asked himself out loud before vanishing from the room.
Carrie felt as if her world was spinning and the light was so blinding she had to shut her eyes tight and cover them to block out the glare. Soon she felt the light lessening and then it was completely gone. Carrie looked around the room her eyes wide. She was no longer in the empty class room but in a room full of unpleasant parts of animals. Carrie stifled a scream before running out into the hallway. Something was different, but she didn't know what.
She was on longer concerned on getting to class, for some reason she felt as if now it wasn't as important as trying to find out what had happened. Walking down the halls she saw rooms full of students but none of whom looked familiar. Even the teachers were different. From down the hall she hear yelling and the sound of feet echoing on the stone floors.
"JAMES POTTER AND SIRIUS BLACK GET BACK HERE NOW!" A voice roared. (an: ok I don't have my books with me at the moment so if I spelled any one's name wrong or something like that please don't flame me…I can't even spell great WITH the book…alright back to the ff) Carrie steeped back as she saw two boys round the corner up ahead. They were running fast down the hall towards Carrie, who was incredibly confused. Wasn't James Harry's dad? And wasn't he dead? And why did that other name sound so familiar? The boys ran past Carrie and skidded to a stop.
"Who are you?" One of them with messy black hair and grey eyes asked. Carrie opened her mouth to answer when the sound of heavy footsteps echoed down the hall.
"Doesn't matter who you are but as long as McGonagall finds you out in the hallway during classes your head will roll," The other one said grinning. His grin strongly reminded Carrie of the one that Fred and George wore when they were up to no good. "Come on." The boy grabbed her arm and drug Carrie down the hall after the first boy. They sprinted down hallways up staircases and sneaked past classrooms up towards the Library. The three entered the room full of books and made their way to the very back of the Library and hid under a table. Breathless Carrie smiled; she had no clue what was going on but it sure was fun.
"So…are…you new?" One of the boys asked.
"Um, yeah, you could say that," Carrie answered. "I'm Karla, Karla Sanders." Carrie figured if one of these two boys really was James Potter, then either she was dreaming or had somehow managed to send herself back in time. Either way she didn't want to mess things up and fed them a fake name.
"Hi, I'm James Potter and this is Sirius Black," James said. The door to the library flew open and a very angry McGonagall stormed in. The three students held their breath as she passed their hiding space. Soon the teacher gave up and left the Library. James, Carrie, and Sirius climbed out from under the table.
"What did you do to get her so mad?" Carrie asked as the three left the giant room. James and Sirius looked at each other before answering.
"Well we kind-a thought it'd be funny to put hair dye in the water supply for the Slytherins, and let's just say their hair is hot pink now," Sirius answered.
"Really? I did something like that, I died all of their hair my house colors," Carrie said thoughtfully. She smiled at remembering the look on all of their faces. Sure it had gained her detention for the next five years but that was alright, it would be worth every minute.
"What were your house colors?" James asked.
"Red and Gold," Carrie answered and then began to mentally kick herself.
"Ha! Cool! Those are our house colors!" James said smiling.
"Do you need to go see Dumbledore to get sorted or what?" Sirius asked as they stopped outside of the Gargoyle that was the entrance to the headmaster's office.
"Yeah, seeing Dumbledore would be helpful," Carrie looked the statue over. "Do you two know the password?"
"Do we know the password?" Sirius said smiling smugly. "Of course we do! It's uh…it's umm…James? What's the password?" Carrie couldn't help but smile at these two guys.
"Isn't it Lemon Drop?" James asked. Just then the statue leapt to the side to let Carrie enter. Carrie grinned at James and began to walk into the passage.
"Will you two wait for me?" Carrie asked. "See, I don't really know my way around the school and…"
"Sure, just don't take forever, the last place we want to be found by Professor McGonagall is right by Dumbledore's office," Sirius said.
"Alright," Carrie turned and entered the passage. Slowly she made her way up to the headmaster's office. When she arrived she knocked on the shut wooden door.
"Come in," Came a cheery voice that could only belong to Dumbledore. Carrie took a deep breath not knowing exactly what she was going to tell him but whatever it may be she hoped she would be ready. She stepped into the office and saw her future Professor sitting at his desk trying to pull apart two lemon drops that had gotten stuck together. "May I help you?"
"Umm, well yes actually," Carrie began. "Gosh, I don't really know how to start this but, I'm not from around here." Dumbledore leaned back in his chair and let Carrie continue. "Ok, well maybe a better way to explain this is to tell you all I know."
"That is the best way to begin all things," Dumbledore said a smile playing on his lips.
"Yes, I guess it is," Carrie said laughing slightly. "Well, it all began when I was sprinting towards class; I was running late and didn't want to get caught. Anyway, I passed this empty room and for some reason went in. The only thing in it really was this wooden box on a table; I opened it and found myself here."
"Ahh yes, the Box of Time," Dumbledore said standing up from his desk. "Yes, it's one of my favorite things; I own it actually, well at the moment at least."
"Well, what should I do?"
"I suggest that you stay here until your time is up. You may be here for a day, a week, a month, who knows how long. So you may attend school here until you leave, and you may stay in the house you have already been sorted into."
"Well if you think that's what I should do then I guess that's the best thing," Carrie smiled at her head-master.
"You ought to run on to lunch now and then you can pick up your books in you common room later…by the way, which house are you in?"
"Gryffindor."
"Alright, well run along, oh and give these to James and Sirius," Dumbledore tossed Carrie two candy bars. "And here is something for you." He then tossed her a box of a Chocolate Frogs.
"Thanks," Carrie said grinning. She turned and walked down the hall and walked out of the passage. When she left the passage way she found the hall empty. Carrie looked up and down the hall until she heard someone calling her 'name' softly from behind one of the suites of armor. It was Sirius, who pointed down the hall towards a room where McGonagall walked out of. She looked younger than the McGonagall that Carrie was used to.
"Excuse me," McGonagall said coming towards Carrie. "Who are you? And why aren't you in class?"
"I was…um…I'm new, and Dumbledore said I could just go onto lunch and then I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do," Carrie said pointing over her shoulder to the office that she just come out of. "Oh and I'm Karla Sanders."
"Well I am Professor McGonagall, head of the Gryffindor house, have you been sorted yet?"
"Yes Professor, I'm in your house actually." McGonagall looked Carrie over and smiled.
"Alright, well good luck and I must be off, I'm looking for two boys…you haven't seen…no you just got here, well it was nice to met you." And with that Professor McGonagall was off walking down the hall. When she was out of site James and Sirius steeped out from out from their hiding places.
"So your in our house huh?" James asked as they began to make their way towards the Grand Hall. Carrie nodded grinning.
"It sounds a lot like the house I was in at my last school."
"Come on, we're going to be late for lunch," Sirius said. He walked over to a blank wall and smiled over at Carrie. "We know a short-cut." Sirius then turned and walked through the wall. Carrie's mouth hung open in shock.
"That…that's…wow."
"Yeah, it only does that between breakfast and right after lunch. You end up right outside the Grand Hall, it's quite handy to know about," James explained. Then he too walked through the wall. Shrugging her shoulders Carrie followed her new found friends. Then, half way through the passage, Carrie remembered where she had heard those names before. It had been a few nights after Halloween and Carrie had managed to get Harry to tell her about what had happened before she came to Hogwarts. Then in his third year he explained all about Remus Lupin, Sirius Black, and some guy who was one of their friends but went over to the 'dark side' so to say. Carrie was trying to remember the guys name when she came out right in front of the Grand Hall.
"This is where we eat…every meal…everyday…" Sirius said gesturing towards to Grand Hall. "You know after five years it gets kind-a old."
"What year are you in?" Carrie inquired as they entered the lunchroom.
"Fifth," Both boys said.
"Look there's Remus," James said pointing to the Gryffindor Table. "Let's go, looks like he saved us some seats."
"Remus is kind-a quite, and the mature one out of us all," Sirius muttered to Carrie as they approached the table and sat down.
"Alright, this is Karla," James said introducing Carrie. I need to get used to being called Karla, Carrie thought. "And this is Remus and Peter." James said pointing to two other boys. Carrie nearly fell out of her seat…well actually she did fall out of her seat. Peter! That was the bad guys name! Carrie wasn't to sure when exactly this guy went evil or what threat he would be but still…
"Karla?" Sirius asked looking down at Carrie who was lying on the floor. "You ok? And what was that about?"
"Umm…yes, yes I'm fine and um…I just remembered something that I forgot to uh…do, that's all," Carrie said nervously standing up. The four boys exchanged confused looks with each other and Carrie sat back down at the table.
"So Karla, where are you from?" Remus asked as he pushed his food around on his plate.
"America," Carrie responded. "I'm from Massachusetts." Just then some of who Carrie guessed the Slytherins were, walked in. "Are those the…"
"Slytherins?" Peter finished for her. Carrie shot him a glare and then mentally kicked herself for it. Stupid! He hasn't done anything yet….has he?
"Yes, notice the hot pink hair," Sirius said smiling. James wore a grin that matched his friends, while Remus just rolled his eyes. The Slytherins approached the table scowling.
"You all better watch it, no one gets away with making us look like fools," One of the Slytherins said. To Carrie he looked very familiar.
"Looks to me your doing a pretty good job on your own," Carrie muttered under her breath. Obviously she had said it a little louder than she had intended because Sirius began to crack up laughing while the Slytherins glared at her.
"Who are you?" The boy who had spoken before asked.
"I could ask you the same thing," Carrie said putting her elbow on the table and leaned on it casually.
"I asked you first."
"I asked you second."
The boy glared at Carrie before walking off. Before he had reached his table he looked back over his shoulder at the five Gryffindors. "If I were you I'd watch my back." Then the boy joined his friends.
"I'm sooo scared," Carrie said sarcastically. "Who was that guy anyway?"
"That? That was Serverus Snape," James answered. (an: remember no book…can't spell anyway…so yeah…thought I should remind you.) Carrie nearly choked on her food. Really got to stop doing that…really got to stop, Carrie thought to herself.
"What is it this time?" Remus asked as Sirius patted Carrie on the back. Carrie gasped for breath and tried to get her voice box to work.
"Umm it's just I know his uhhh…cousin!" Carrie shouted hoping that the guys would buy her story.
"Are they are bad as he is?" James inquired.
"Yeah, we met at my old school…a real jerk," Carrie answered.
"James," Sirius said a sparkle entering his eyes. "Where's Lilly?" Sirius fluttered his eyelashes in a teasing manor. James glared at his friend, reached over Carrie and shoved Sirius hard.
"Who's Lilly?" Carrie asked, even though she knew very well who she was.
"James latest crush," Remus told her grinning. "And there she is." Carrie looked over her shoulder and saw a girl who looked about her age with red hair. She was pretty, and Carrie could see she was a very happy person. Well what do you expect her to be? Evil? She's Harry's mom and she married James who seems like a great guy…though this Peter guy I'm not to sure about.
"Is she in our house?" Carrie asked as Lilly approached James. Sirius, Remus, and Peter nodded, James was to distracted by his dream girl walking up to him.
"Hi James, boys," Lilly said smiling. "Who's this?" She asked looking at Carrie.
"I'm Karla Sanders," Carrie said grinning. "I'm new."
"She's from America," Sirius added with a smile.
"Well it's nice to meet you, I'm Lilly Evens. James, ummm… I was wondering if you could help me with my potions homework later tonight?" Lilly asked her face turning a light shade of pink. Carrie exchanged knowing looks with Peter, Remus, and Sirius. She had only seen the two together for less than five minutes and she could already tell that Lilly liked James about as much as he liked her.
"Sure, we can meet in the common room and then go down to the library," James said smiling.
"Alright, see you later," Lilly walked off and sat at the other end of the table with her friends. Carrie watched her go and then looked over at James glaring.
"What?" He asked as he saw the same look that Carrie wore on the faces of his other friends.
"Why don't you ask her out? She likes you," Carrie stated. James' face turned six different shades of red before he finally answered.
"She doesn't like me," He said quietly.
"Ahh well your loss. I'll ask her out if you don't do it sometime soon," Sirius said as he stuffed his face with food. James shot him a look with daggers in his eyes. "Ok ok, so I won't." Sirius said spraying food all over everyone. Carrie wrinkled up her nose and dusted herself off.
"Ahh, say it don't spray it," Carrie muttered picking some food out of her hair. Peter, James and Remus laughed, Sirius just smiled at Carrie and returned to eating his lunch. Carrie joined her new found friend in stuffing his face with food, and began to fill her own stomach. After a nice lunch of chicken and mashed potatoes, none of which went flying this time, Carrie stood up from the table.
"I need to go to the common room and see if my books are there yet…what class do you all have next?" Carrie inquired. The boys didn't even look up from their plates to answer.
"Charms," They said together.
"Alright, ummm…well I might see you there…" Carrie began to walk off when some thing occurred to her. She, for one, didn't know the password, and two, wasn't supposed to know where the common room was. She slowly turned back around and approached the table again. "Ummm…where is the common room by the way?"
"I'll show you," Remus offered. "I need to get my books anyway." Remus stood up from the table and began to walk out of the Grand Hall with Carrie in his wake. The first few minutes they walked in a comfortable silence. Then Remus began to ask Carrie questions.
"What's your favorite subject?"
"Well, I really like potions, at my old school I was smart enough to be in the seventh year class but left before anything could be arranged," Carrie answered looking at the pictures on the walls. Some of the ones she recognized looked almost bran new, while the ones she didn't recognized were approaching their last days.
"Potions?" Remus repeated. "That's the Slytherin subject here. The head of the Slytherin house teaches it and Snape is really good at it too." Carrie nodded and smiled.
"Well then, I guess I'll just have to put those Slytherins in place and show them who the best really is."
Remus smiled over at Carrie and Carrie felt as if she had finally been accepted by the other Gryffindor. "Here we are," Remus said stopping in front of the picture of the fat lady.
"Password?" The picture asked.
"Muggle," Remus said and the picture swung open to show the entrance to the common room. "Alright, I don't know where your books would be, but I'm going up to my dorm to get mine. I'll be back in a second."
Carrie watched Remus disappear up the flight of stairs that lead to where the boys stayed. Carrie let out a sigh and fell into one of the large arm chairs. She was totally confused. What was she doing here? How long will she be here? What will things be like when she got home? Another thing that bothered her was that she missed Fred, and she missed Draco, after all he was one of her best friends. Carrie closed her eyes and tried to figure everything out, but soon gave up.
"Ms. Sanders?" Came the voice of Professor McGonagall. Carrie opened her eyes to see her professor standing in front of her. "Dumbledore has told me that you will receive you books tonight and are excused from classes. He has also told me that some of you things have arrived and are waiting in his office."
"Thank you Professor," Carrie said as she noticed Remus coming down the stairs. "I'll see you later." Carrie jumped out of the chair and followed Remus down to the Great Hall.
"So you aren't going to classes?" He asked shifting his weight from foot to foot.
"Not now, if you need me I'll be on the Qudditch Field," Carrie answered grinning.
"Alright, see you after classes."
"Bye." Carrie waved good bye to her new friend and watched as he joined the other students on their way to class. Carrie turned and faced the blank wall that she had come through earlier. Carrie glanced over her shoulders and placed her hand on the wall, and to her joy it went right through the wall. The rest of her body followed and soon she found herself by Dumbledore's office. She muttered the password to the statue and retraced her steeps up to the headmaster's office. She knocked on the door and then entered.
"Ahhh….hello again…I don't seem to remember catching your name last time," Dumbledore said from his seat behind his desk.
"Well, which name would you like?" Carrie asked. "I have two now…then one everyone thinks is my name and then my real name."
"How about both?" Dumbledore suggested with a twinkle in his eye.
"Karla Sanders is the name I made up and Carrie is my real name."
"Nice to met you Carrie, well here are some of your things that I think myself has sent you…anyway it's just your broom, some of your prank things and a few robes. Would you like me to have some one take them up for you?"
"Sure, that'd be great Professor, but um…." Carrie looked down at her trunk that was sitting on the floor. "Would you mind if I went and flew around on the Qudditch Field some?"
"I wouldn't mind at all," Dumbledore said smiling warmly. Carrie grinned and fell to her knees. She opened her trunk and as she reached down to hunt for her broom she found two folded pieces of parchment. She took them and shoved them into a pocket of her robe. Carrie then proceeded in looking for her broom. When she found it Carrie's smile grew and she stood up.
"Alright, Remus knows that I'll be on the field if anyone needs me," Carrie said as she shut her trunk with her foot.
"OK, well run along, I don't want to keep you away from the air."
Carrie thanked her headmaster and ran out of his office. She bolted down hallways and stairs still she found herself running towards the Qudditch Field. When she arrived Carrie collapsed onto one of the benches breathing hard. The cool air ripped in her lungs and made them sting. Carrie reached into her robe and pulled out the two pieces of parchment. She opened the first one and saw it was a letter from her Dumbledore in her time. In the letter he explained that she would be there for the month of November and that she should try and have some fun. The only thing he did explain in the letter was why she was there. Shrugging Carrie opened the other letter and smiled, it was from Fred.
Dear Carrie,
I hope you enjoy your little trip. Dumbledore told us that you went somewhere for the school. Later, knowing me, I found out where you really were. Pick up as many tips from Sirius Black, he was one of the top pranksters this school has ever seen, but be careful, when he grows up he becomes evil. Also I know Harry would want you to find out as much as you can about his parents so I know you won't mind in hanging out with them some. I just want to let you know I'm going to miss you, and so is the team…we're putting Ron in your spot for November…hope he does alright. Well don't go and charm anyone back then…and PLEASE do something to Snape while you have the chance…but then again how could you pass it up? Oh….yeah…Draco says hi….and that he hopes you have fun and all and to come back in one piece. I promise I won't hurt or hex the little prat while your gone but I WILL be hard. Well I'll let you go…can't wait to see you again!
Love Always, Fred
Carrie smiled and stuffed the letters back into her robe. She mounted her broom and began to fly around thinking about what Fred had said. What did he mean by Sirius being all evil? She thought it was Peter. Carrie began to remember her conversation with Harry that one night. He had said something about Sirius being blamed for what Peter had done…Carrie was sure that Harry had told her that Sirius was innocent, but maybe Fred didn't know. Oh well, it wasn't going to happen for another several years so it didn't really concern Carrie.
She was really enjoying the feeling of flying and the feeling of the wind rushing through her hair when she heard someone calling her name. Carrie looked down and saw four little people on the ground. She flew lower and saw that the people were none other than her new friends.
"Hey guys," Carrie said as she hovered a few feet above the ground. "Don't you all have class or something?"
"Nope, school's out…you've been out here for awhile," Remus said covering a smile with his hand. Carrie shrugged and landed.
"So what are we going to do?" She asked. Sirius was about to say something when he wrinkled his nose and shut his mouth. Carrie saw a similar look on James' face while Remus just rolled his eyes and Peter hid behind James. Carrie looked over her shoulder and saw the Slytherins coming towards them. None of them looked too happy either.
"Clear the field," Snap said in a very nasty way.
"No….but maybe if you ask nicely we will….or you can leave, the choice is yours," Carrie said crossing her arms over her chest and staring down her future professor.
"Get off the field now…or else," Snape said his eyes glittering with anger.
"Or else what?" Sirius asked coming up beside Carrie. "Are you going to get your friends to come and kick us off the field?" Sirius glared at Carrie's future professor. Snape pulled out his wand but Carrie was one step ahead. Her wand was already out and she sent a wave of Sparks at Snape.
"Make on more move unless it's off this field or by the heavens help me I'll blast you off this field," Carrie said coolly. Snape looked over at his friends and then smirked. "You care to try me? Then go ahead, put me to the test." Carrie knew Snape wasn't getting off the field. This is for you Fred, Carrie thought. As Snape began to utter a spell Carrie used the same spell she had used on Draco before.
Snape flew across the field and into the stands. The jaws of both the Slytherins and the Gryffindors jaws dropped. "Anyone else care to be escorted off the field?" Carrie asked the remaining Slytherins. The Slytherins shook their heads as they carefully back away from Carrie and off the field.
"So since the field is ours…wanna play Quidditch? I mean we could do something like…" Carrie turned around to look at her friends. Huh, feels like I just did this awhile ago. Carrie thought to herself. Minus the whole Fred getting knocked out factor.
"I'm game," Sirius said. "I'll run back to the school and get our brooms."
"OR," Remus said stopping his friend. "We could just summon them, I mean since we can do that."
After the boys brooms shot out of the school and to their masters sides the nervous looking Peter finally spoke-up.
"You know I don't think I'll play," He announced. "Aww come on Peter," James said patting his shy friend on the back. "We won't kill you."
"I know it's just the teams are uneven and all," Peter said stepping away. "Besides I've got charms homework."
"Alright little buddy," Sirius said. "You know we could rotate people in or there could be an uneven team. I mean if you really don't want to play…"
"No, I've got charms, and besides I don't really like flying remember?"
"Ok, ok just don't turn into a bookworm got it?" James said as Peter walked off the field and towards the school. "Hey wait don't we need some Quidditch balls?" James asked his remaining friends. A huge grin spread over Carrie's face and she stepped aside to reveal a box lying on the ground.
"Guess Snape and co. forgot to take their when they….er….chose to leave," Carrie said.
"You know Carrie," Sirius said as he walked over and draped and arm across Carrie's shoulders. "You are the coolest girls I have ever met."
"Well, what are we standing around here for?" James asked mounting his broom. "Let's play some Quidditch."
Ok not best chapter ever but at least I updated….sorry it took so long but my laptop crashed and all this huge mess. Anywho please r/r!