Colin woke up feeling a bit groggy He turned over and was surprised to find
Rena looking at him. "Rena what are you doing in my room?"
Rena smiled a bit then motioned for him to look around, "We aren't exactly in your room Colin, in fact I am not all sure when we are."
"When we are? Don't you mean where we are?" Colin looked a bit confused.
"No I know where we are, the infirmary at Hogwarts. I don't know exactly when we are though." Rena shrugged and started to eat the food on a tray across her legs, "I thought it was all a dream last night, but I guess not since this is the same room that I was in last night. See that portrait over there isn't in our Infirmary. And look out that window, we haven't had snow all year, but there is about 15 centimeters out there." She motioned to the painting and window in turn, and Colin looked at each with surprise. "Now eat up, I have a feeling that Dumbledore will be up here soon."
Colin started into his own tray of breakfast food, then stopped. "Did you just say Dumbledore?"
"Yes, you do know who is he right?" Rena asked before taking a bite of toast.
"Of course, but Dumbledore is dead, he has been since before we were born."
Rena leaned over to him and spoke in a stage whisper, "I know that and you know that but he doesn't know that." She accented her words by pointing her fork at herself then him then over to the wizard who had just entered the infirmary.
Colin stared at Dumbledore in surprise as he came in cheerfully, "Well it looks like our two guests are in fine health today. Are your breakfasts good?"
Rena smiled up at the old wizard, "Yes sir they are wonderful. Colin I would like to introduce you to the Headmaster of Hogwarts, Professor Albus Dumbledore, Professor Dumbledore, this is Colin. He's in a bit of shock." Rena couldn't help smiling a little evilly.
"Well it is nice to meet you Colin, has Rena discussed your predicament with you yet?"
"No sir Colin just woke up actually. He knows a bit but not a lot, I hadn't gotten that far yet." Rena said with a smile.
"Well lets wait till after Poppy gives you two a clean bill of health then we shall discuss this all in my office." Colin couldn't help but be a bit confused but nodded in agreement.
He had just started into his breakfast when Madam Pomfrey entered the room and began to fuss over both of the patients. She reluctantly gave them both a clean bill of health and warned them to be careful and to report any headaches. She then set up a curtain that allowed them to dress back into their pajamas.
After they were dressed, Dumbledore led them to his office, and motioned for the two to sit down on a couch. He carefully hid a smile when Colin sat at one end of the couch and Rena on at the other end. "Okay now let's talk about what I think is going on. Now if I have this all correct we know you are from the future, how far depends on what year you come from. But the problem is that you have no idea how you got here or how to get you back." Colin looked at Rena who nodded, "Well Mr. Potter you seem to be as lost as I am. It may come as a shock to you but you and Miss Malfoy have landed in 1978. I heard Miss Malfoy tell you that you are at Hogwarts, and she is correct, and yes I am the current headmaster." Rena detected a twinkle in the headmaster's eye. "So now that you know about me, tell me about yourselves."
"Well sir, Colin and I are from your future, like we have said. We were both born in 2008. We are 6 th year students at the Hogwarts in our time. My father is a professor, while Colin's works for the Ministry. We are both on our house's Quidditch team, and are close to the top of our class, in different classes. My friend Joe says if we were the same person we would be head boy or girl. But as it is neither of us have the marks for that."
Colin decided it was time to clear something up, "Don't be so modest Rena, everyone knows you have the best marks in our year. You listen to your father too much. He can be wrong." Colin's tone turned from teasing to disbelieving anger. "He puts you down at every turn and you would rather believe him than those of us who see how hard you work."
Rena gave Colin a hard look and responded sarcastically, "And you work to your full potential."
"At least my parents love me." Colin shot back before he could censor himself, immediately regretting it as he watched Rena's face fall.
Dumbledore decided the fighting had gone far enough and broke in before it could get worse. "Well we cannot let you fall behind in your own time. Since we don't know how long it will be here I think it would be a good idea for you to continue to use the names that we gave Pomfrey as Misters Malfoy and Potter are well known students. Mr. Malfoy has graduated, but it he made it known that he was the last in a long line of Malfoy's. As for Mr. Potter, he is still a student. We'll keep the two of you together, which house were you in before again?"
"We are both Gryffindor sir." Colin answered.
Dumbledore looked a bit shocked but recovered well, "Then it will be in Gryffindor you will stay. I am assuming neither of you have a wand?"
"I have my wand sir, but do you Rena?" Colin looked over to her.
"Yes I do, you think I would come down to the common room where you reign supreme?" Rena gave him a look of scorn.
"Well then you don't need wands but you definitely will need robes and a story." Dumbledore spoke before Colin could respond. "The story being the most important thing. I think maybe that the safest thing would be to say you are visiting our fine school observing teaching of the classes maybe. Now where should you be from?"
"South Africa maybe?" Rena asked as she looked at her hands.
"Yes that will work. Now I will introduce you at lunch, and you can start classes tomorrow if you like."
Colin saw Rena nod and answered for them both "That should be fine. Professor can we be shown to our dorm? We would like to get a bit of rest before meeting the school."
"Yes I will have Mr. Potter and Miss Evans show you there after I meet with them." As if on cue there was a knock at the office door. Dumbledore opened the door and the two students that Rena had seen before came in, along with three other boys. Dumbledore motioned for the students to sit down.
Colin moved closer to Rena and looked at the students in awe, then he began to whisper in her ear. "That is Sirius and Remus isn't it?" Rena nodded. "They look so young, but not too innocent huh?" Rena barely smiled then turned her attention back to Dumbledore had finished speaking to the other teens.
"Now that last night has been cleared up I would like to introduce you all to Mr. Colin Peters and Miss Rena Mallory, they will be visiting with us for a while and will be living in Gryffindor. Mr. Peters and Miss Mallory, these are among Gryffindor's finest, Miss Lily Evans, Misters James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, and Peter Pettigrew. I would hope that you all would become good friend. Mr. Potter, Miss Evans you will be excused from your classes until lunch so that you can help our visitors to settle in. Mr. Black, Lupin and Pettigrew you are excused back to your classes I will explain it your tardiness to Professor Binns this later this afternoon. I will see you all at lunch. Miss Mallory and Mr. Peters I wish you well in this endeavor keep your chins up and I am sure you'll be home in no time."
None of the students had noticed that they had been subtly moved toward the door until they were standing outside. They stood looking at each other in silence for a few seconds before the guys began laughing.
"Can you believe it Prongs we got away with it, we didn't even lose any points." Sirius slapped James on the back, heartily. Remus and Peter were also grinning but had wisely kept their mouths closed. Lily stood off to the side a bit her arms crossed.
"I can't believe you four, one of these days you are going to cross the line, then what will happen? You'll be expelled that is what will happen."
"Come off it Lily it was one little prank. No one even noticed a difference in the water closet and if they did it would just get blamed on Myrtle." Sirius said with a smirk.
"Oh you are insufferable. All of you, Remus I would have at least thought you would have had the brains to try to persuade them not to put dungbombs in Moaning Myrtle's water closet."
"They wanted to place the bombs Lily, at least I got them to set them off there then where they wanted to put them." Remus said defensively.
"And where did they want to put them?" Lily had the look of a mother expecting an answer.
"Stop that Lily you look like my Mum when I have caused an explosion at home." James complained. "We were going to put them in the Slytherin water closets."
Lily looked scandalized until she realized that everyone, even the two guests were laughing, and she let out a smile. "Now there's my girl smiling at our pranks like she always does." Sirius spouted as he put his arm around Lily's shoulder.
"Greoff you git." Lily shrugged off his arm before looking at her watch. "You three better get going if you don't want to miss History of Magic."
"Can't miss that one can we gentleman. It would mean missing our morning naps. I guess introductions will have to wait till lunch then. Cheerio then." Sirius still grinning put his arms around Remus and Peter's shoulders and they started off to their next class leaving behind a one hopelessly giggling girl, two boys smiling, and the other girl with daggers in her eyes.
"I swear he is the most errggg. I can't even put it into words." Lily stomped her foot as she looked after the departing trio.
"Tell us how you really feel Lily. Might make it all better." James spoke seriously but ruined it by grinning.
"James Potter you are just as bad as those three. In fact you are their leader. I swear that at times I could just scream at all four of you." Lily turned from him with a flounce and held out her hand to Rena. "It's nice to see you again Rena. And this must be Colin. I'm Lily Evans, 6 th year perfect for Gryffindor."
"And I am James Potter, the other 6 th year perfect from Gryffindor." Both Colin and Rena shook hands with the pair.
"I'm Colin Peters and this is Rena Mallory. We're are here on a sort of observation program from South Africa." Colin hesitated but continued after Rena nodded. "So what can you tell us about Hogwarts?"
"Well Hogwarts was founded by…" Lily started but James cut in.
"Now Lily they don't want to know all that boring stuff, if they did they could read Hogwarts: A History like you do." James threw his arm around the slightly taller Colin, "Now my friend let me tell you about the real Hogwarts…"
Lily rolled her eyes but motioned Rena to follow as they ascended the stairway to the Gryffindor tower.
Rena smiled a bit then motioned for him to look around, "We aren't exactly in your room Colin, in fact I am not all sure when we are."
"When we are? Don't you mean where we are?" Colin looked a bit confused.
"No I know where we are, the infirmary at Hogwarts. I don't know exactly when we are though." Rena shrugged and started to eat the food on a tray across her legs, "I thought it was all a dream last night, but I guess not since this is the same room that I was in last night. See that portrait over there isn't in our Infirmary. And look out that window, we haven't had snow all year, but there is about 15 centimeters out there." She motioned to the painting and window in turn, and Colin looked at each with surprise. "Now eat up, I have a feeling that Dumbledore will be up here soon."
Colin started into his own tray of breakfast food, then stopped. "Did you just say Dumbledore?"
"Yes, you do know who is he right?" Rena asked before taking a bite of toast.
"Of course, but Dumbledore is dead, he has been since before we were born."
Rena leaned over to him and spoke in a stage whisper, "I know that and you know that but he doesn't know that." She accented her words by pointing her fork at herself then him then over to the wizard who had just entered the infirmary.
Colin stared at Dumbledore in surprise as he came in cheerfully, "Well it looks like our two guests are in fine health today. Are your breakfasts good?"
Rena smiled up at the old wizard, "Yes sir they are wonderful. Colin I would like to introduce you to the Headmaster of Hogwarts, Professor Albus Dumbledore, Professor Dumbledore, this is Colin. He's in a bit of shock." Rena couldn't help smiling a little evilly.
"Well it is nice to meet you Colin, has Rena discussed your predicament with you yet?"
"No sir Colin just woke up actually. He knows a bit but not a lot, I hadn't gotten that far yet." Rena said with a smile.
"Well lets wait till after Poppy gives you two a clean bill of health then we shall discuss this all in my office." Colin couldn't help but be a bit confused but nodded in agreement.
He had just started into his breakfast when Madam Pomfrey entered the room and began to fuss over both of the patients. She reluctantly gave them both a clean bill of health and warned them to be careful and to report any headaches. She then set up a curtain that allowed them to dress back into their pajamas.
After they were dressed, Dumbledore led them to his office, and motioned for the two to sit down on a couch. He carefully hid a smile when Colin sat at one end of the couch and Rena on at the other end. "Okay now let's talk about what I think is going on. Now if I have this all correct we know you are from the future, how far depends on what year you come from. But the problem is that you have no idea how you got here or how to get you back." Colin looked at Rena who nodded, "Well Mr. Potter you seem to be as lost as I am. It may come as a shock to you but you and Miss Malfoy have landed in 1978. I heard Miss Malfoy tell you that you are at Hogwarts, and she is correct, and yes I am the current headmaster." Rena detected a twinkle in the headmaster's eye. "So now that you know about me, tell me about yourselves."
"Well sir, Colin and I are from your future, like we have said. We were both born in 2008. We are 6 th year students at the Hogwarts in our time. My father is a professor, while Colin's works for the Ministry. We are both on our house's Quidditch team, and are close to the top of our class, in different classes. My friend Joe says if we were the same person we would be head boy or girl. But as it is neither of us have the marks for that."
Colin decided it was time to clear something up, "Don't be so modest Rena, everyone knows you have the best marks in our year. You listen to your father too much. He can be wrong." Colin's tone turned from teasing to disbelieving anger. "He puts you down at every turn and you would rather believe him than those of us who see how hard you work."
Rena gave Colin a hard look and responded sarcastically, "And you work to your full potential."
"At least my parents love me." Colin shot back before he could censor himself, immediately regretting it as he watched Rena's face fall.
Dumbledore decided the fighting had gone far enough and broke in before it could get worse. "Well we cannot let you fall behind in your own time. Since we don't know how long it will be here I think it would be a good idea for you to continue to use the names that we gave Pomfrey as Misters Malfoy and Potter are well known students. Mr. Malfoy has graduated, but it he made it known that he was the last in a long line of Malfoy's. As for Mr. Potter, he is still a student. We'll keep the two of you together, which house were you in before again?"
"We are both Gryffindor sir." Colin answered.
Dumbledore looked a bit shocked but recovered well, "Then it will be in Gryffindor you will stay. I am assuming neither of you have a wand?"
"I have my wand sir, but do you Rena?" Colin looked over to her.
"Yes I do, you think I would come down to the common room where you reign supreme?" Rena gave him a look of scorn.
"Well then you don't need wands but you definitely will need robes and a story." Dumbledore spoke before Colin could respond. "The story being the most important thing. I think maybe that the safest thing would be to say you are visiting our fine school observing teaching of the classes maybe. Now where should you be from?"
"South Africa maybe?" Rena asked as she looked at her hands.
"Yes that will work. Now I will introduce you at lunch, and you can start classes tomorrow if you like."
Colin saw Rena nod and answered for them both "That should be fine. Professor can we be shown to our dorm? We would like to get a bit of rest before meeting the school."
"Yes I will have Mr. Potter and Miss Evans show you there after I meet with them." As if on cue there was a knock at the office door. Dumbledore opened the door and the two students that Rena had seen before came in, along with three other boys. Dumbledore motioned for the students to sit down.
Colin moved closer to Rena and looked at the students in awe, then he began to whisper in her ear. "That is Sirius and Remus isn't it?" Rena nodded. "They look so young, but not too innocent huh?" Rena barely smiled then turned her attention back to Dumbledore had finished speaking to the other teens.
"Now that last night has been cleared up I would like to introduce you all to Mr. Colin Peters and Miss Rena Mallory, they will be visiting with us for a while and will be living in Gryffindor. Mr. Peters and Miss Mallory, these are among Gryffindor's finest, Miss Lily Evans, Misters James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, and Peter Pettigrew. I would hope that you all would become good friend. Mr. Potter, Miss Evans you will be excused from your classes until lunch so that you can help our visitors to settle in. Mr. Black, Lupin and Pettigrew you are excused back to your classes I will explain it your tardiness to Professor Binns this later this afternoon. I will see you all at lunch. Miss Mallory and Mr. Peters I wish you well in this endeavor keep your chins up and I am sure you'll be home in no time."
None of the students had noticed that they had been subtly moved toward the door until they were standing outside. They stood looking at each other in silence for a few seconds before the guys began laughing.
"Can you believe it Prongs we got away with it, we didn't even lose any points." Sirius slapped James on the back, heartily. Remus and Peter were also grinning but had wisely kept their mouths closed. Lily stood off to the side a bit her arms crossed.
"I can't believe you four, one of these days you are going to cross the line, then what will happen? You'll be expelled that is what will happen."
"Come off it Lily it was one little prank. No one even noticed a difference in the water closet and if they did it would just get blamed on Myrtle." Sirius said with a smirk.
"Oh you are insufferable. All of you, Remus I would have at least thought you would have had the brains to try to persuade them not to put dungbombs in Moaning Myrtle's water closet."
"They wanted to place the bombs Lily, at least I got them to set them off there then where they wanted to put them." Remus said defensively.
"And where did they want to put them?" Lily had the look of a mother expecting an answer.
"Stop that Lily you look like my Mum when I have caused an explosion at home." James complained. "We were going to put them in the Slytherin water closets."
Lily looked scandalized until she realized that everyone, even the two guests were laughing, and she let out a smile. "Now there's my girl smiling at our pranks like she always does." Sirius spouted as he put his arm around Lily's shoulder.
"Greoff you git." Lily shrugged off his arm before looking at her watch. "You three better get going if you don't want to miss History of Magic."
"Can't miss that one can we gentleman. It would mean missing our morning naps. I guess introductions will have to wait till lunch then. Cheerio then." Sirius still grinning put his arms around Remus and Peter's shoulders and they started off to their next class leaving behind a one hopelessly giggling girl, two boys smiling, and the other girl with daggers in her eyes.
"I swear he is the most errggg. I can't even put it into words." Lily stomped her foot as she looked after the departing trio.
"Tell us how you really feel Lily. Might make it all better." James spoke seriously but ruined it by grinning.
"James Potter you are just as bad as those three. In fact you are their leader. I swear that at times I could just scream at all four of you." Lily turned from him with a flounce and held out her hand to Rena. "It's nice to see you again Rena. And this must be Colin. I'm Lily Evans, 6 th year perfect for Gryffindor."
"And I am James Potter, the other 6 th year perfect from Gryffindor." Both Colin and Rena shook hands with the pair.
"I'm Colin Peters and this is Rena Mallory. We're are here on a sort of observation program from South Africa." Colin hesitated but continued after Rena nodded. "So what can you tell us about Hogwarts?"
"Well Hogwarts was founded by…" Lily started but James cut in.
"Now Lily they don't want to know all that boring stuff, if they did they could read Hogwarts: A History like you do." James threw his arm around the slightly taller Colin, "Now my friend let me tell you about the real Hogwarts…"
Lily rolled her eyes but motioned Rena to follow as they ascended the stairway to the Gryffindor tower.