A/N: Two real life authors of Harry Potter fics are abound to be dropped into J.K Rowlings magical world where they must survive. Takes place at the beginning of Harry Potter's fourth year at Hogwarts. Review and thanks to Selena, we both help wrote this together. Two authors are better than one i can say. So give a nice review. Flames are used for Fluffy's dinner. and Hungarian Horntail too.
Harry Potter Meets Two Crazy Fanfiction Writers
"Get off the computer Selena!" A sharp voice from
below bellowed. The annoyed girl glanced down
momentarily from the computer screen before she looked
back to find her place. She was reading a Harry Potter
fan fiction piece which she absolutely loved. She
again became so engrossed in reading that she didn't
hear the light tapping against the door beside her.
"Leave now or you shall regret this day for the rest
of your life." A voice hissed into her ear. Thinking
that it was just her annoying brother trying to bother
her again, the girl ignored the voice and kept
reading.
"Yeah right, and I'm Hermione Granger." She muttered as she neared the climax of
her reading.
"I am warning you one more time, child, to move away
from the computer. I am trying to save your life!"
That same voice hissed into her ear with enough venom
to kill five people.
"Look! I'm almost done! You can wait another damn
minute!" Selena snapped, her eyes still glued to the
screen.
"Fine! But I'll give you one more warning before I
leave you to die. Do not make a wish, unless you want
to end up worse then dead." There was a soft pop and
then the voice was gone. Selena turned to see what the
noise was and gasped when she didn't see anyone or
anything. Shaking herself, she wondered if maybe her
brother was just playing tricks on her.
"Hmph!" Selena growled as she turned back to the
computer. She sighed deeply and placed her hands on
either side of the computer screen. "I wish I had
magic, just like Harry Potter. I wish I could go
there." She began to chant, just so that her brother
would hear that she was wishing on purpose. She didn't
expect the flash of light that illuminated her and
knocked her out of her seat and into oblivion!
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Another boy at another computer was typing
vigourously. He glanced at the clock beside him and
then muttered angrily as he continued to type.
"They think that they can tear down my site? Oh yeah?!
I'll show them." He muttered angrily as he began to
type even faster, not looking down at all. He had
writer's block and he thought that the best way to get
rid of it was to type all of it out of his system. He
read what he'd writen and then yelled angrily. It just
didn't sound right!
"I don't need this crap!" He yelled at the computer
angrily. He sighed and rested his head on the
keyboard. He began to bang it softly, trying to make
the writer's block go away. "Jeez, I wish I had magic
like Harry Potter. I wish I could go there and get
some new ideas!" As if a genii's lamp had been rubbed,
the screen bursted into light and the boy, Jake, fell
back in surprise and floated into oblivion!
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"Waaaaaaah!" Jake fell endlessly through the strange portal that had been his computer screen seconds before.
After an eternity of falling, he dropped out of empty sky and down on the hard ground. "Jeez! Just what I
need. An unexpected misery. Ouch. Where am i?"
When Selena woke up, she found herself on a grassy
floor. She stood up and brushed herself off. Her head
was pounding and there were cuts all over her hands,
as if she had been cut by twigs. She pulled pieces of
grass, leaves, and dirt out of her long blond hair and
starred up at the black canopy of trees with cobalt
eyes. Starring around in wonder, she looked down and
gasped. Instead of the jeans and blue sweater she had
been wearing, she now wore black robes with the crest
of a lion on her right side. She began to explore the
clothing before she realized that there was a stick
hanging out of one of her pockets. She pulled it out
and gasped. She was holding a wand.
Turning it over in her hands, she glanced up and
yelped! A boy was walking towards her dizzily. He wore
the same robes as she did and his face was scratched
up. His brown hair was messed around as if someone had
been using it as an eraser. He blinked his blue eyes when
he saw her with the wand in her hand.
"Who are you?" He demanded.
"Ouch. hi. Oh bloody thorn. My name is Selena, who are you? And where the hell
are we?" The boy blinked and then began to look around
in wonder. It seemed that the two were in a huge
forest, so dark that it was very hard to see anything
but the outline of the other person. The boy shrugged
as he came closer.
"I'm Jake. I don't know where we are." He turned back
to her and narrowed his eyes. "Wait a minute, do you
read fanfiction?" Selena looked at him in surprise.
"Yes." Her eyes widened. "Wait, do you write
fanfiction?! Wow! You're the guy that wrote all of
those fics that I like so much! What the hell are we
doing here? Where is here?" Jake shrugged again.
"I don't know. I was at my computer the last time I
checked." He checked his pockets and found a wand.
"Wha? What the hell? Is this a joke? What's going on?"
Jake exclaimed. Selena shrugged.
"I don't know, I just woke up. The last thing I
remember was this voice telling me not to make a wish.
I think it was my brother it was really weird. I made
a wish just to piss him off. I said that I wanted to
go into the Harry Potter world and have magic like
him. After that this light thingy happened and here I
am."
"That's what happened to me, basically. Without trying to piss anyone off." Jake said.
"That's weird. But if we did go into Harry Potter,
which is just impossible, then where would we be?"
Selena glanced around the forest again and paled
drastically. "What's the matter?"
"The Forbidden Forest." Selena whispered. Jake felt a
chill go down his back. It wasn't frightening to think
of the Forbidden Forest when you were safe at home,
always knowing that it wasn't real. Being inside of a
dark, silent forest, however, was the one thing that
made a person wonder. "What was that?!" Selena
whispered. A twig had snapped and then snarling had
followed.
"Shit, I don't wanna know." Jake whispered back. He
began to pull Selena away from their spot and towards
a random direction. Selena still held her wand in her
hand, fingers turning white with fright.
"Do you think maybe its just a stray dog or
something?" Selena whispered.
"Not a chance in hell." Jake muttered as he began to
move faster, dragging Selena along behind him. Whether
it was to protect her or just for comfort, neither of
them knew. They just kept moving in one direction,
trying to ignore the constant snapping of twigs and
the louder sound of snarling. "I hate this." Jake kept
muttering.
"Are we dreaming? This is scary." Selena whispered.
"Come on." Jake said, skirting the question. Finally,
and much to their delight, they came to the edge of
the clearing and stopped short. They starred up and up
and up until they thought they'd fall over! A giant
castle loomed above them, comforting in its strength
but also frightening in its size. Selena began to
shake.
"Are you still scared?" Jake asked without tearing his
eyes away from the castle.
"No way! I'm excited as hell! That's Hogwarts!" Jake
blinked and then grinned widely. It was true. It had
to be true. That was the Hogwarts castle.
"What do we do now that we're out of the Forbidden Forest?" Jake asked as he tore his gaze away from the enourmous castle.
"I wish I knew. Duck!" He pulled her down to pretect
her from a stray bludger which zoomed past, narrowly missing their heads.
"What was that?"
"A bludger. A stray one. Some git musta lost it. Nearly took
my head off. I mean ours. Bloody buggers could have kill someone!" Jake turned to look in the direction the bludger went.
"I agree. So what do we do now that we've almost been killed five minutes after entering a world which isn't even real?" Selena demanded sarcastically. She didn't like being where she was at all.
"Well, surely, we better find our way back." Jake said. "That's what every fan fiction requires. Still, this feels a little too real. In all of my fics its just fun and laughs. This one feels a little too real."
"Well, I guess we should find a way home anyway. Jake, what happened to the fics you made?" Selena asked, trying to get off the subject of reality.
"Bloody Fanfiction.net destroyed them. They're making
things worse. They should shut it down permentally." Jakes snarled when he remembered the day he logged on to the computer and his fics were gone.
"Oh, don't talk like that. It's honestly not that bad. I mean it could be worse. We could have been sent to Voldemort's castle or something. That would be bad, but this isn't. Er, well, I mean this is pretty bad but it doesn't mean we should stop writing, I mean trying to find a way back."
"WHAT ARE YOU TWO CHILDREN DOING HERE!!!" A voice snapped behind the two teeagers. Both yelped and jumped into the air. They turned around slowly to find a tall man with sleeked back white-blond hair and billowing black robes glaring at them. He held up a long wand and tapped it against his free hand as if it were a whipping crop. Selena gulped.
"Children? CHILDREN!" Jake turned to fight the tall man, fists clenched and unclenched, As Lucious scowls at the two before he fixed them with an oddly familiar sneer.
"That's Lucius Malfoy!" Selena said, awe creeping into her voice. Jake glanced back at her thoughtfully. "Er, I thought he would look hotter." This time Jake raises and his eyebrows dangerously to disappear under his hair and bursted into laughter.
"How the hell do you know my name?" Lucius demanded. Selena paled when she saw the wand moving in her general direction. She knew that she was a Muggle and she knew that she would be toad stew if Lucius got around to using magic.
"We can smell a rat near by." Jake said, completely oblivious to the threatening wand. Selena wanted to bash him in the head but she refrained from drawing any more attention to herself. Lucius ignored the comment as if he was too important to hear them.
"What are you two doing here instead of at the feast?" Lucius asked casually. Selena gulped audiably and tried to think of a quick excuse. True, both of them were in a strange world, but no one would believe them if they just blurted it out to the first person they saw.
"We dropped out of of the sky from our world, where you're only a fictional character in a children's book. Where else do you think we dropped here from?" Selena said indignified. She thought about what she said and slapped her forehead. Maybe the fall had damaged her brain.
"Oh, what a funny story!" Lucius said sarcastically. "Get lost before I curse you to pieces." He said with a toss of his head. Selena stuck her tongue out at him while he wasn't looking.
"Sure, we'll leave." Jake and Selena walked away from Lucious and began to skirt around the side of the castle looking for the entrance. They soon grew lost and couldn't remember where they had left the forest and met the hostile Lucius Malfoy.
"You know, the narrator of this fic would probably be annoying." Jake commented as he began to think about his site again. He was starting to get new ideas to write at least.
"Short and annoying." Selena agreed as she glanced at the looming forest, which seemed much darker when looking at it from the outside. Darkness was decending on the grounds and Selena didn't want to think of the creatures that could sneak up behind them. She was sure that she would scream herself to death of someone tapped her shoulder from behind.
"Now what?" Selena demanded once they had circled nearly half of the grounds and began to trip in the darkness of the day. Selena couldn't even see the floor beneath her feet!
"I don't know." Jake said.
"We can't just barge in, even if we knew where the damn door was. We have to find somebody to talk to of course."
"We have to be careful though. If we talk to the wrong person, we could get ourselves cursed to Timbuktu by anyone, maybe Snape. I don't want to get cursed by Snape, do you?" Selena shook her head. "Good. Hey! Is that the door?"
"Yeah!" Selena leapt forward and discovered that the door was made of a dark wood. She looked over the door handle and the metal knocker.
"Its open." Jake said as he pulled the door open.
"Fascinating Jake. But where do we go now? From what I've read, Hogwarts is bigger than a city." Jake looked back towards the grounds thoughtfully. "What are you thinking about?"
"I was just wondering how come Lucious didn't kill me." Jake said. "Maybe he thought we were students. We're wearing the Hogwarts uniform and we've even got wands, but I don't think he knows that we're Muggles."
"Snap out of it Jake." Selena instantly slaped him. He starred at her in shock for a minute before she blushed. "Look, we can't be thinking about something like that right now. If this really is a fan fiction, then maybe the author is keeping him from killing us. I think. And I rather not be alone with him to see if that's true."
"No problem." Rubs his cheek. Selena smiles apologetically.
"You know, that was the first time I ever slapped anyone." Jake starred at her as if she was crazy.
"Anyhow, we better get inside. It's starting to rain." At that moment, a huge drop landed on Selena's cheek. She brushed it away and walked into the school as Jake held the door open. Two students were running down the corridor as if they were late for something so the two fanfiction writers hurried after them curiously. Theyalmost got lost until they heard the quick footsteps again. They arrived at the doors of a huge room quickly.
The room was lit by hundreds of floating candles, each one suspended in the air. There were four enourmously long tables stretching forward towards a single long table which seemed to be set higher than the rest of room. Kids in black robes were sitting in all four tables but at the High Table there sat adults wearing different colored robes. They were smiling at the group of trembling children who were standing at the front of the school.
A tall woman with square spectacles and bottle-green robes was calling out names. The child called would sit on a stool, an old and battered hat would be set upon their head, and then the hat would say the name of the House that they were sorted into. Jake and Selena watched the Sorting ceremony for a long five minutes before they could speak again.
"What year do you think it is?" Selena asked curiously. Jake looked over the tables and pointed to the one in the center left. He was pointing at a boy with raven-black hair and pale skin. He was sitting beside a tall red haired boy. Across from them sat a girl with bushy brown her. The two fanfiction writers could only see the backs of their heads but they could guess who they were instantly.
"They're not first years at least." Jake said.
"Tell me something I do not know." Selena muttered.
"Baddock, Malcom!" The woman, Professor McGonagall, called out. Selena thought that there was something oddly familiar about the name. Jake and Selena hadn't moved from their spot by the door.
"SLYTHERIN!" The Sorting Hat called out.
"Branstone, Eleanor!" McGonagall said next.
"HUFFLEPUFF!" The Hat said next.
"Cauldwell, Owen!" McGonagall said. Selena felt herself tensing, knowing that something important was going to be said soon.
"HUFFLEPUFF!" The Hat cried out.
"Creevy, Dennis!" Selena gasped and grabbed Jake's arm in a steely grip. He turned to her in shock.
"Dennis Creevy only came in the fourth! We're in the fourth year with the TriWizard tournament!" Selena said excitedly. Jake starred at her and then smirked.
"You mean that kid that fell into the lake and was so excited when the giant squid put him back into his boat? The kid whose brother was obsessed with Harry Potter and kept taking pictures of him?" Selena nodded vigioursily. "God bless him." Jake said reverantly. "Should we go in?" Selena's smile disappeared.
"And inturrpt JK's book characters? Are you insane?" Jake shrugged.
"Would you rather wait until they're finished with the ceremony?" Selena glanced at the students still being sorted.
"Well yes actually. Oh no, this is all wrong. We're not supposed to be here at all. We would have screwed up the whole story if we had dropped here instead of in the forest. Even now we could mess up so many things!"
"Oie." Jake rolled his eyes. "Come on! Haven't you always wanted to pay Wormtail back for all of the crap he did to everyone? I personally do." Selena opened her mouth to protest but then her eyes glazed over.
"Actually, I like that idea. But you have to promise not to just blurt out the whole thing! We have to be discreet and give them hints. It won't be any fun at all if we just out and just tell them the whole thing. Maybe we could save Ceddric and stop Voldie."
"How? We can't just barge into the maze and get the portkey and try stop Cedric from meeting his fate. I think Cedric's death is not exactly in vain. JK might have done it for good reason. I can be wrong. We're just human."
"But, oh come on, it's not fair that Cedric gets to die."
"It's not fair that Harry's parents gets to die either. We can't play with death. We would lose our own if we did. And we may never come back home."
"I hate this. But you're right." Selena said disappointly.
Selena began to drift in a wonderland of thoughts before Jake shook her awake.
"We can't go in there just now." Jake said, pointing inside.
"Why not? I'm hungry." Selena pouted.
"Let me see, what would you do if all of a sudden two fifth year students just come into the Great Hall and sit down without even being Sorted?" Selena opened her mouth to reply but she closed it soundly. "That's what I thought." Jake said.
"Fine." Selena said, crossing her arms. "We should wait for Dumbledore I guess." Selena sat down on the floor so that she could see what was going on but she wouldn't have to stand.
"This is going to be a long day." Jake said as he watched.
The two teenagers watched the end of the Sorting Ceremony with interest and a touch of nervousness. Selena had the urge to run over to Harry Potter and start telling him what was supposed to happen, what each task was going to be like, where and what Wormtail was currently doing, and anything else that came to mind. Still, they were nervous enough that they sat by the doors and simply watched. Everyone was too busy watching the Ceremony to look back at the door to find two susposed fifth years watching.
"I have a question." Selena said as the students began to eat hungrily when the Sorting ended. "Why is it that in every fan fiction that a person makes up, they always talk to Dumbledore? I haven't read a single one where someone goes to talk to Professor McGonagall instead, or Snape. I mean, I just always wondered." Selena glanced up at Jake.
"I guess its because he's trustworthy." Jake said with a shrug. "I mean, I guess that's why. Who would want to go to Snape anyway? He'd probably faint or curse us if we told him that we're Muggles and McGonagall wouldn't even believe us. That or they'd take us to Dumbledore anyway."
"I guess you're right." We heard a clang somewhere at the Gryffindor table (we thought it was the Gryffindor table since Harry Potter was sitting there). We glanced up from our conversation to find that the girl with bushy brown hair (Hermione Granger) was as pale as the ghost she was talking to.
"What's wrong with her? She looks like something crawled up her-,"
"Shut up!" Selena snapped. "This is the part where she finds out about the House Elves." Jake glanced at her thoughtfully.
"Jeez, you read every single detail, don't you?" Selena blushed slightly.
"What can I say? I love those books. And that's the only reason I want Harry Potter to find out about Wormtail." She giggled sinisterly and Jake gulped. She sounded a little frightening.
"Er, sure." Jake said. "How much longer do we have to wait?"
"I think they're just starting desert so we still have a while." Selena flexed her knees, which immediately cracked. "Ow." She said below her breath.
"Does that always happen to you?" Jake asked.
"All the time." She mumbled as she stretched her other knee, which popped. "Damn that hurts."
"Try not to make too much noise." Jake glanced up at the High Table and starred carefully at one of the teachers. He was a tall man with greasy black hair and sharp black eyes. He wore a black robe and his face was a pasty white. "I think that one's Snape." Jake said, motioning towards the man.
"A greasy basterd, isn't he?" Selena muttered. Snape, as if he could feel their stares, began to turn their way. Jake pushed Selena aside and dove behind the door! After a few seconds, Jake peeked out again and saw that Snape's attention had been drawn elsewhere.
"That was close." Jake said. Selena crept back to her spot.
"Thanks." She said.
"No problem." He glanced at his watch and then back at the students. "Jeez! How long are they going to take?" He muttered.
"I think its almost over. Look! Dumbledore's standing! He's probably going to tell the students about the TriWizard tournament now.
"So!" began Dumbledore. "Now that we are all fed and watered," Jake and Selena made sarcastic sounds, "I must once more ask for your attention, while I give out a few notices.
"Mr. Filch, the caretaker, has asked me to tell you that the list of objects forbidden inside the school has this year been extended to include Screaming Yo-yos, Fanged Frisbees, and Ever-Bashing Boomerangs. The full list comprises some four hundred and thirty-seven items, I believe, and can be viewed in Mr. Filch's office, if anyone would like to check it."
"As ever, I would like to remind you all that the forest on the grounds is out-of-bounds to students, as is the village of Hogsmeade to all below third year. It is also a painful duty to inform you that the Inter-House Quidditch Cup will not take place this year. This is due to an event that will be starting in October, and continuing throughout the school year, taking up most of the teachers' time and energy - but I am sure you will all enjoy it immensely." At that moment, Selena felt a hard hand grab her by her upper arm and lift her to her feet. Jake suffered similar treatment.
Both looked up into a terrifying face. He was shrouded in a black traveling cloak and he had a long staff wedged under one arm as he picked the teenagers off their feet painfully. Selena could just make out a long mane of grizzled, dark gray hair, with a face that looked as if it had been carved out of weathered wood by someone who had only the vaguest idea of what human faces are supposed to look like, and was none too skilled with a chisel. Every inch of skin seemed to be scarred. The mouth looked like a diagnol gash, and a large chunk of the nose was missing.
One of his eyes was small, dark, and beady. The other was large, round as a coin, and a vivid, electric blue. The blue eye was moving ceaselessly, without blinking, and was rolling up, down, and from side to side.
"Shit." Selena and Jake said at the same time.
"I have great pleasure in announcing that this year at Hogwarts-" Dumbledore was not permitted to answer as the doors flew open and the man holding the two teenagers dragged his prey into the Great Hall. Everyone looked at them and gasped when the man threw his head back so that his hood would come off. Selena was whimpering and Jake was trying to squirm out of the man's steely grasp on his upper arm.
He pushed the two caught fanfiction writers to the High Table, where all of the teachers were looking at them with interest.
"Sir, I found these two at the doors." The man said gruffly in an undertone.
"Who are you children?" Dumbledore asked kindly but firmly.
"Well, glad you asked that," Selena laughs nervously, "Its a bit of an interesting story." Selena said with a weak smile. "We'll be glad to tell it but do you mind letting us go first? You're hurting me." The gruff man turned to Dumbledore, who nodded. The two rubbed the spot where their arms had been abused and turned back to Dumbledore.
"We can't tell you here." Jake said. "Its a bit too weird first of all and everyone's starring." Dumbledore watched the two carefully before he saw their uniforms.
"Very well. Go to the Gryffindor table and eat something. I shall come to speak with you when everyone has left." The two teenagers nodded, walked shyly to the Gryffindor table, and sat down. Once there, they sighed in relief before starring at the golden plates before them. Food was waiting for their eager stomachs, which growled when they smelt the delicious scents.
They turned to the High table to find that Dumbledore was whispering something to the man that had caught Selena and Jake before he motioned for him to sit down. Selena and Jake made a point to ignore all of the stares they were recieving from the other students.
"May I introduce our new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher?" Dumbledore said into the silence. "Professor Moody."
"Moody?" A whisper came from close by. Selena and Jake looked up to find who they knew to be Harry Potter muttering to Ron Weasley. "Mad Eye Moody? The one your dad went to help this morning?" Now that she could see him porperly, Selena glanced over the famous Harry Potter.
He was a tall boy of fourteen with messy raven-black hair and huge emerald eyes. Underneath low-hanging bangs was the famous lightening-shaped scar. He was pretty thin, but he had the body of an athelete. Ron was incredibly tall for his age with flaming red hair and soft blue eyes. Selena thought the two of them were cute but she blushed when she saw Harry glance at her. Returning to her food quickly, Selena tried to ignore the blush on her face.
Jake was watching Hermione carefully. She was a pretty girl of medium size with long bushy brown hair and chocolate colored eyes. She had a grace which most would have overlooked if they didn't watch her carefully. She held herself in a way that expressed her completely confidence in what she knew and what she wanted to learn. Hermione caught Jake starring at her so he quickly turned back to eating. Hermione, on the other hand, blushed at the attention.
"Must be." said Ron in a low, awed voice. He hadn't caught the stares.
"What happened to him?" Hermione whispered. "What happened to his face?"
"Dunno," Ron whispered back, watching Moody with fascination. Selena glanced at Jake and leaned closer to him.
"I forgot about that part." She said as a way of apology.
"Oh well, at least now Dumbledore will have to talk to us without blowing us up." Jake said, eating again. Dumbledore began to talk about the TriWizard tournament and all of its history. Selena listened with rapt attention but Jake was gazing out over the other tables to see where everyone was. He nudged Selena after a while, who turned to him with annoyance.
"What?" She whispered.
"There's Draco Malfoy." Selena immediately lost her annoyed look and looked in the direction that Jake had indicated. He was a tall boy with silver-blond hair identically to his father's, piercing blue-gray eyes, and a smirk on his face. He glanced over at Selena starring at him and looked surprised when she blushed and turned away. "I bet he's an arse." Jake muttered.
"In the books he acts like one. I bet that if we were in Slytherin he'd like us. Until he finds out that we're not . . . you know." Jake nodded. "Anyway, I can't believe how damn hot they are! I thought that it was just a fan fiction thing but now I'm not so sure." Jake wrinkled his nose.
"Don't tell me we're going to make this a Mary-Sue exchange-students-gets-with-someone fic!" Selena blushed.
"Yeah right! I've never even been on a date before! Why would they even consider the idea?" Jake blinked in shock.
"You've never been on a date?" Selena blushed.
"Shut up."
"I never knew that." He said. "I thought that was all girls ever do, you know, talk about guys and stuff like that." Selena glared at him.
"I don't!" She began to giggle. "I read fan fiction instead." The two began to laugh, which earned them some curious glances from their neighbors. "Anyway, would it really hurt if one of them asked me out? I mean, I've written about five where they do but I never actually thought I would get a chance."
"You did that?" Jake asked in astonishment again.
"Oh please! Don't tell me you haven't even wondered what it would be like to date Hermione or Ginny!" Selena said in annoyance. Jake shrugged.
"Point taken." The Great Hall bursted into complaint. Selena and Jake looked up to find that Dumbledore was trying to restore silence.
"Bedtime! Chop chop!" He finished. The students began to leave, easily forgetting about Selena and Jake since they had been told about the tournament. Dumbledore waited until the Great Hall was almost completely empty before he motioned for the teenagers to come toward him.
"And now, tell me your names please." Dumbledore said.
"I'm Selena." Selena said.
"I'm Jake." Dumbledore nodded to them.
"And why weren't you in the feast?" Dumbledore asked.
"We aren't students here, not really." Selena began.
"We're from another world. In our world, this is just a story book. We somehow got transported here and we've been trying to figure out what to do now that we're here. We don't know how to get back home and for some reason we have wands." Dumbledore sat back with a pensive _expression on his face.
"Are you Muggles?" He asked.
"In our world we are. There's a Muggle writer there named J.K. Rowling and she wrote the entire Harry Potter story starting from his first year. So far she's finished the fourth year." Dumbledore blinked.
"What do you mean?" Both kids turned to find Snape eyeing them suspiciously.
"She wrote exactly what happened in Harry Potter's life. For example, last year Sirius Black escaped from his cell in Azkaban and he was almost delivered the Dementor's Kiss, but he 'mysteriously' disappeared." Jake said. All of the teachers glanced at each other with expressions of disbelief in their eyes.
"Everyone knows that, it was in the papers." Snape snapped.
"Fine!" Selena hissed. "Last year Harry Potter and his friends claimed that Peter Pettigrew was alive and that Sirius Black was innocent! They said that the reason that Peter escaped was because Remus Lupin changed into a werewolf, Peter changed into his rat Animigus form, and escaped into the forest! Harry, Hermione, and Ron, (who broke his leg) both stunned you because you were threatening to kill Sirius!" All of the teachers starred at them in shock.
"Er, I think that was a bit much." Jake said.
"I could have done worse." Selena muttered.
"Yeah, you could have gone on about all of the stuff they did. And about Snape and his little present from Voldie on his left forearm." Jake said. Snape grabbed his arm and Selena smacked her forehead.
"I think we should stop there." Selena said.
"Why don't we tell them about the tournament? You know, what happens in the maze at the end with the-," Selena leapt forward and covered Jake's mouth with her hand.
"That's enough!" She hissed. "What do you think would happen if the teachers knew about that?!"
"Mmph!" Jake said.
"Ok you two, tell me who exactly are you really?" Snape asked threatningly.
"Severus Snape, you stop pestering these two. It's not like they haven't broken a rule. Obviously I couldn't understand their mumbling. Let them go." Spoke Dumbledore in a firm serious voice. Snape let go and Jake muttered quietly as a mouse.
"Why don't we start at the top, Jake, Selena, you tell me you both are Muggles in your world right? And said you two come here mysteriously with a uniform and a wand. How unusual. And you said something about Sirius Black and you spoke about Peter being alive and you say you knew about the tournament?"
"Well, like we said. Harry Potter's life is written in a book. Four books. And we're waiting for the fifth one..."
"Jake can't you just shut your mouth?"
"Well it's true if anyone would just listen... ouch." Selena stomps Jake's foot.
"Quit with those Monty Python lines."
Jake smiled sheepishly.
The teachers obviously have no ideas what Selena or Jake were talking about.
Dumbledore chuckled, "Interesting. I suppose three of us should speak alone and please Snape, McGonagall, everyone, off to bed." So they left and three people walked all over to the corridor.
"Sorry Professor Dumbledore, but, maybe it's not good to say everything. Thus there are good idea for this to happen because who knows what terrible things can happen. We know Sirius is Innocent. And we understood we don't have the power to convince the ministry."
"Listen you two, i understand now you two are from the future and dropped into our time and our world, best we do not know. As a matter of fact, you can't be the judge of people's lives. Stopping one who shouldn't have to be stopped, not stopping those who should be stopped, like saying one should die but deserved to live, as those who lives deserved to die, can you give them that? Sometimes, evil and good both have major parts to play. For good. or for worst. Best in fact, leave everything alone. Just pray that Voldemort does not found out about you two. Now, up the stairs, off to bed. Don't be late. Come for breakfast in the morning and since you two do not learn here, best i can do is give you something to do. Maybe helping the Truwizard tournament."
"You can count on us sir." Jake said smiling.
Then Selena and Jake rushed up to meet the Gryffindors before they would have been stuck outside of the common room and now Jake just wish they were doing the right thing. Little do they know how much terrible things will come to pass. Will they survive or will they not?
"Narrator, you can shut your gob now."
Sorry Jake. Anyway, let's just hope for the best, Selena and Jake will survive in the upcomming chapters. If they ever live...
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Harry Potter Meets Two Crazy Fanfiction Writers
"Get off the computer Selena!" A sharp voice from
below bellowed. The annoyed girl glanced down
momentarily from the computer screen before she looked
back to find her place. She was reading a Harry Potter
fan fiction piece which she absolutely loved. She
again became so engrossed in reading that she didn't
hear the light tapping against the door beside her.
"Leave now or you shall regret this day for the rest
of your life." A voice hissed into her ear. Thinking
that it was just her annoying brother trying to bother
her again, the girl ignored the voice and kept
reading.
"Yeah right, and I'm Hermione Granger." She muttered as she neared the climax of
her reading.
"I am warning you one more time, child, to move away
from the computer. I am trying to save your life!"
That same voice hissed into her ear with enough venom
to kill five people.
"Look! I'm almost done! You can wait another damn
minute!" Selena snapped, her eyes still glued to the
screen.
"Fine! But I'll give you one more warning before I
leave you to die. Do not make a wish, unless you want
to end up worse then dead." There was a soft pop and
then the voice was gone. Selena turned to see what the
noise was and gasped when she didn't see anyone or
anything. Shaking herself, she wondered if maybe her
brother was just playing tricks on her.
"Hmph!" Selena growled as she turned back to the
computer. She sighed deeply and placed her hands on
either side of the computer screen. "I wish I had
magic, just like Harry Potter. I wish I could go
there." She began to chant, just so that her brother
would hear that she was wishing on purpose. She didn't
expect the flash of light that illuminated her and
knocked her out of her seat and into oblivion!
* * * * * * * * * * * *
Another boy at another computer was typing
vigourously. He glanced at the clock beside him and
then muttered angrily as he continued to type.
"They think that they can tear down my site? Oh yeah?!
I'll show them." He muttered angrily as he began to
type even faster, not looking down at all. He had
writer's block and he thought that the best way to get
rid of it was to type all of it out of his system. He
read what he'd writen and then yelled angrily. It just
didn't sound right!
"I don't need this crap!" He yelled at the computer
angrily. He sighed and rested his head on the
keyboard. He began to bang it softly, trying to make
the writer's block go away. "Jeez, I wish I had magic
like Harry Potter. I wish I could go there and get
some new ideas!" As if a genii's lamp had been rubbed,
the screen bursted into light and the boy, Jake, fell
back in surprise and floated into oblivion!
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"Waaaaaaah!" Jake fell endlessly through the strange portal that had been his computer screen seconds before.
After an eternity of falling, he dropped out of empty sky and down on the hard ground. "Jeez! Just what I
need. An unexpected misery. Ouch. Where am i?"
When Selena woke up, she found herself on a grassy
floor. She stood up and brushed herself off. Her head
was pounding and there were cuts all over her hands,
as if she had been cut by twigs. She pulled pieces of
grass, leaves, and dirt out of her long blond hair and
starred up at the black canopy of trees with cobalt
eyes. Starring around in wonder, she looked down and
gasped. Instead of the jeans and blue sweater she had
been wearing, she now wore black robes with the crest
of a lion on her right side. She began to explore the
clothing before she realized that there was a stick
hanging out of one of her pockets. She pulled it out
and gasped. She was holding a wand.
Turning it over in her hands, she glanced up and
yelped! A boy was walking towards her dizzily. He wore
the same robes as she did and his face was scratched
up. His brown hair was messed around as if someone had
been using it as an eraser. He blinked his blue eyes when
he saw her with the wand in her hand.
"Who are you?" He demanded.
"Ouch. hi. Oh bloody thorn. My name is Selena, who are you? And where the hell
are we?" The boy blinked and then began to look around
in wonder. It seemed that the two were in a huge
forest, so dark that it was very hard to see anything
but the outline of the other person. The boy shrugged
as he came closer.
"I'm Jake. I don't know where we are." He turned back
to her and narrowed his eyes. "Wait a minute, do you
read fanfiction?" Selena looked at him in surprise.
"Yes." Her eyes widened. "Wait, do you write
fanfiction?! Wow! You're the guy that wrote all of
those fics that I like so much! What the hell are we
doing here? Where is here?" Jake shrugged again.
"I don't know. I was at my computer the last time I
checked." He checked his pockets and found a wand.
"Wha? What the hell? Is this a joke? What's going on?"
Jake exclaimed. Selena shrugged.
"I don't know, I just woke up. The last thing I
remember was this voice telling me not to make a wish.
I think it was my brother it was really weird. I made
a wish just to piss him off. I said that I wanted to
go into the Harry Potter world and have magic like
him. After that this light thingy happened and here I
am."
"That's what happened to me, basically. Without trying to piss anyone off." Jake said.
"That's weird. But if we did go into Harry Potter,
which is just impossible, then where would we be?"
Selena glanced around the forest again and paled
drastically. "What's the matter?"
"The Forbidden Forest." Selena whispered. Jake felt a
chill go down his back. It wasn't frightening to think
of the Forbidden Forest when you were safe at home,
always knowing that it wasn't real. Being inside of a
dark, silent forest, however, was the one thing that
made a person wonder. "What was that?!" Selena
whispered. A twig had snapped and then snarling had
followed.
"Shit, I don't wanna know." Jake whispered back. He
began to pull Selena away from their spot and towards
a random direction. Selena still held her wand in her
hand, fingers turning white with fright.
"Do you think maybe its just a stray dog or
something?" Selena whispered.
"Not a chance in hell." Jake muttered as he began to
move faster, dragging Selena along behind him. Whether
it was to protect her or just for comfort, neither of
them knew. They just kept moving in one direction,
trying to ignore the constant snapping of twigs and
the louder sound of snarling. "I hate this." Jake kept
muttering.
"Are we dreaming? This is scary." Selena whispered.
"Come on." Jake said, skirting the question. Finally,
and much to their delight, they came to the edge of
the clearing and stopped short. They starred up and up
and up until they thought they'd fall over! A giant
castle loomed above them, comforting in its strength
but also frightening in its size. Selena began to
shake.
"Are you still scared?" Jake asked without tearing his
eyes away from the castle.
"No way! I'm excited as hell! That's Hogwarts!" Jake
blinked and then grinned widely. It was true. It had
to be true. That was the Hogwarts castle.
"What do we do now that we're out of the Forbidden Forest?" Jake asked as he tore his gaze away from the enourmous castle.
"I wish I knew. Duck!" He pulled her down to pretect
her from a stray bludger which zoomed past, narrowly missing their heads.
"What was that?"
"A bludger. A stray one. Some git musta lost it. Nearly took
my head off. I mean ours. Bloody buggers could have kill someone!" Jake turned to look in the direction the bludger went.
"I agree. So what do we do now that we've almost been killed five minutes after entering a world which isn't even real?" Selena demanded sarcastically. She didn't like being where she was at all.
"Well, surely, we better find our way back." Jake said. "That's what every fan fiction requires. Still, this feels a little too real. In all of my fics its just fun and laughs. This one feels a little too real."
"Well, I guess we should find a way home anyway. Jake, what happened to the fics you made?" Selena asked, trying to get off the subject of reality.
"Bloody Fanfiction.net destroyed them. They're making
things worse. They should shut it down permentally." Jakes snarled when he remembered the day he logged on to the computer and his fics were gone.
"Oh, don't talk like that. It's honestly not that bad. I mean it could be worse. We could have been sent to Voldemort's castle or something. That would be bad, but this isn't. Er, well, I mean this is pretty bad but it doesn't mean we should stop writing, I mean trying to find a way back."
"WHAT ARE YOU TWO CHILDREN DOING HERE!!!" A voice snapped behind the two teeagers. Both yelped and jumped into the air. They turned around slowly to find a tall man with sleeked back white-blond hair and billowing black robes glaring at them. He held up a long wand and tapped it against his free hand as if it were a whipping crop. Selena gulped.
"Children? CHILDREN!" Jake turned to fight the tall man, fists clenched and unclenched, As Lucious scowls at the two before he fixed them with an oddly familiar sneer.
"That's Lucius Malfoy!" Selena said, awe creeping into her voice. Jake glanced back at her thoughtfully. "Er, I thought he would look hotter." This time Jake raises and his eyebrows dangerously to disappear under his hair and bursted into laughter.
"How the hell do you know my name?" Lucius demanded. Selena paled when she saw the wand moving in her general direction. She knew that she was a Muggle and she knew that she would be toad stew if Lucius got around to using magic.
"We can smell a rat near by." Jake said, completely oblivious to the threatening wand. Selena wanted to bash him in the head but she refrained from drawing any more attention to herself. Lucius ignored the comment as if he was too important to hear them.
"What are you two doing here instead of at the feast?" Lucius asked casually. Selena gulped audiably and tried to think of a quick excuse. True, both of them were in a strange world, but no one would believe them if they just blurted it out to the first person they saw.
"We dropped out of of the sky from our world, where you're only a fictional character in a children's book. Where else do you think we dropped here from?" Selena said indignified. She thought about what she said and slapped her forehead. Maybe the fall had damaged her brain.
"Oh, what a funny story!" Lucius said sarcastically. "Get lost before I curse you to pieces." He said with a toss of his head. Selena stuck her tongue out at him while he wasn't looking.
"Sure, we'll leave." Jake and Selena walked away from Lucious and began to skirt around the side of the castle looking for the entrance. They soon grew lost and couldn't remember where they had left the forest and met the hostile Lucius Malfoy.
"You know, the narrator of this fic would probably be annoying." Jake commented as he began to think about his site again. He was starting to get new ideas to write at least.
"Short and annoying." Selena agreed as she glanced at the looming forest, which seemed much darker when looking at it from the outside. Darkness was decending on the grounds and Selena didn't want to think of the creatures that could sneak up behind them. She was sure that she would scream herself to death of someone tapped her shoulder from behind.
"Now what?" Selena demanded once they had circled nearly half of the grounds and began to trip in the darkness of the day. Selena couldn't even see the floor beneath her feet!
"I don't know." Jake said.
"We can't just barge in, even if we knew where the damn door was. We have to find somebody to talk to of course."
"We have to be careful though. If we talk to the wrong person, we could get ourselves cursed to Timbuktu by anyone, maybe Snape. I don't want to get cursed by Snape, do you?" Selena shook her head. "Good. Hey! Is that the door?"
"Yeah!" Selena leapt forward and discovered that the door was made of a dark wood. She looked over the door handle and the metal knocker.
"Its open." Jake said as he pulled the door open.
"Fascinating Jake. But where do we go now? From what I've read, Hogwarts is bigger than a city." Jake looked back towards the grounds thoughtfully. "What are you thinking about?"
"I was just wondering how come Lucious didn't kill me." Jake said. "Maybe he thought we were students. We're wearing the Hogwarts uniform and we've even got wands, but I don't think he knows that we're Muggles."
"Snap out of it Jake." Selena instantly slaped him. He starred at her in shock for a minute before she blushed. "Look, we can't be thinking about something like that right now. If this really is a fan fiction, then maybe the author is keeping him from killing us. I think. And I rather not be alone with him to see if that's true."
"No problem." Rubs his cheek. Selena smiles apologetically.
"You know, that was the first time I ever slapped anyone." Jake starred at her as if she was crazy.
"Anyhow, we better get inside. It's starting to rain." At that moment, a huge drop landed on Selena's cheek. She brushed it away and walked into the school as Jake held the door open. Two students were running down the corridor as if they were late for something so the two fanfiction writers hurried after them curiously. Theyalmost got lost until they heard the quick footsteps again. They arrived at the doors of a huge room quickly.
The room was lit by hundreds of floating candles, each one suspended in the air. There were four enourmously long tables stretching forward towards a single long table which seemed to be set higher than the rest of room. Kids in black robes were sitting in all four tables but at the High Table there sat adults wearing different colored robes. They were smiling at the group of trembling children who were standing at the front of the school.
A tall woman with square spectacles and bottle-green robes was calling out names. The child called would sit on a stool, an old and battered hat would be set upon their head, and then the hat would say the name of the House that they were sorted into. Jake and Selena watched the Sorting ceremony for a long five minutes before they could speak again.
"What year do you think it is?" Selena asked curiously. Jake looked over the tables and pointed to the one in the center left. He was pointing at a boy with raven-black hair and pale skin. He was sitting beside a tall red haired boy. Across from them sat a girl with bushy brown her. The two fanfiction writers could only see the backs of their heads but they could guess who they were instantly.
"They're not first years at least." Jake said.
"Tell me something I do not know." Selena muttered.
"Baddock, Malcom!" The woman, Professor McGonagall, called out. Selena thought that there was something oddly familiar about the name. Jake and Selena hadn't moved from their spot by the door.
"SLYTHERIN!" The Sorting Hat called out.
"Branstone, Eleanor!" McGonagall said next.
"HUFFLEPUFF!" The Hat said next.
"Cauldwell, Owen!" McGonagall said. Selena felt herself tensing, knowing that something important was going to be said soon.
"HUFFLEPUFF!" The Hat cried out.
"Creevy, Dennis!" Selena gasped and grabbed Jake's arm in a steely grip. He turned to her in shock.
"Dennis Creevy only came in the fourth! We're in the fourth year with the TriWizard tournament!" Selena said excitedly. Jake starred at her and then smirked.
"You mean that kid that fell into the lake and was so excited when the giant squid put him back into his boat? The kid whose brother was obsessed with Harry Potter and kept taking pictures of him?" Selena nodded vigioursily. "God bless him." Jake said reverantly. "Should we go in?" Selena's smile disappeared.
"And inturrpt JK's book characters? Are you insane?" Jake shrugged.
"Would you rather wait until they're finished with the ceremony?" Selena glanced at the students still being sorted.
"Well yes actually. Oh no, this is all wrong. We're not supposed to be here at all. We would have screwed up the whole story if we had dropped here instead of in the forest. Even now we could mess up so many things!"
"Oie." Jake rolled his eyes. "Come on! Haven't you always wanted to pay Wormtail back for all of the crap he did to everyone? I personally do." Selena opened her mouth to protest but then her eyes glazed over.
"Actually, I like that idea. But you have to promise not to just blurt out the whole thing! We have to be discreet and give them hints. It won't be any fun at all if we just out and just tell them the whole thing. Maybe we could save Ceddric and stop Voldie."
"How? We can't just barge into the maze and get the portkey and try stop Cedric from meeting his fate. I think Cedric's death is not exactly in vain. JK might have done it for good reason. I can be wrong. We're just human."
"But, oh come on, it's not fair that Cedric gets to die."
"It's not fair that Harry's parents gets to die either. We can't play with death. We would lose our own if we did. And we may never come back home."
"I hate this. But you're right." Selena said disappointly.
Selena began to drift in a wonderland of thoughts before Jake shook her awake.
"We can't go in there just now." Jake said, pointing inside.
"Why not? I'm hungry." Selena pouted.
"Let me see, what would you do if all of a sudden two fifth year students just come into the Great Hall and sit down without even being Sorted?" Selena opened her mouth to reply but she closed it soundly. "That's what I thought." Jake said.
"Fine." Selena said, crossing her arms. "We should wait for Dumbledore I guess." Selena sat down on the floor so that she could see what was going on but she wouldn't have to stand.
"This is going to be a long day." Jake said as he watched.
The two teenagers watched the end of the Sorting Ceremony with interest and a touch of nervousness. Selena had the urge to run over to Harry Potter and start telling him what was supposed to happen, what each task was going to be like, where and what Wormtail was currently doing, and anything else that came to mind. Still, they were nervous enough that they sat by the doors and simply watched. Everyone was too busy watching the Ceremony to look back at the door to find two susposed fifth years watching.
"I have a question." Selena said as the students began to eat hungrily when the Sorting ended. "Why is it that in every fan fiction that a person makes up, they always talk to Dumbledore? I haven't read a single one where someone goes to talk to Professor McGonagall instead, or Snape. I mean, I just always wondered." Selena glanced up at Jake.
"I guess its because he's trustworthy." Jake said with a shrug. "I mean, I guess that's why. Who would want to go to Snape anyway? He'd probably faint or curse us if we told him that we're Muggles and McGonagall wouldn't even believe us. That or they'd take us to Dumbledore anyway."
"I guess you're right." We heard a clang somewhere at the Gryffindor table (we thought it was the Gryffindor table since Harry Potter was sitting there). We glanced up from our conversation to find that the girl with bushy brown hair (Hermione Granger) was as pale as the ghost she was talking to.
"What's wrong with her? She looks like something crawled up her-,"
"Shut up!" Selena snapped. "This is the part where she finds out about the House Elves." Jake glanced at her thoughtfully.
"Jeez, you read every single detail, don't you?" Selena blushed slightly.
"What can I say? I love those books. And that's the only reason I want Harry Potter to find out about Wormtail." She giggled sinisterly and Jake gulped. She sounded a little frightening.
"Er, sure." Jake said. "How much longer do we have to wait?"
"I think they're just starting desert so we still have a while." Selena flexed her knees, which immediately cracked. "Ow." She said below her breath.
"Does that always happen to you?" Jake asked.
"All the time." She mumbled as she stretched her other knee, which popped. "Damn that hurts."
"Try not to make too much noise." Jake glanced up at the High Table and starred carefully at one of the teachers. He was a tall man with greasy black hair and sharp black eyes. He wore a black robe and his face was a pasty white. "I think that one's Snape." Jake said, motioning towards the man.
"A greasy basterd, isn't he?" Selena muttered. Snape, as if he could feel their stares, began to turn their way. Jake pushed Selena aside and dove behind the door! After a few seconds, Jake peeked out again and saw that Snape's attention had been drawn elsewhere.
"That was close." Jake said. Selena crept back to her spot.
"Thanks." She said.
"No problem." He glanced at his watch and then back at the students. "Jeez! How long are they going to take?" He muttered.
"I think its almost over. Look! Dumbledore's standing! He's probably going to tell the students about the TriWizard tournament now.
"So!" began Dumbledore. "Now that we are all fed and watered," Jake and Selena made sarcastic sounds, "I must once more ask for your attention, while I give out a few notices.
"Mr. Filch, the caretaker, has asked me to tell you that the list of objects forbidden inside the school has this year been extended to include Screaming Yo-yos, Fanged Frisbees, and Ever-Bashing Boomerangs. The full list comprises some four hundred and thirty-seven items, I believe, and can be viewed in Mr. Filch's office, if anyone would like to check it."
"As ever, I would like to remind you all that the forest on the grounds is out-of-bounds to students, as is the village of Hogsmeade to all below third year. It is also a painful duty to inform you that the Inter-House Quidditch Cup will not take place this year. This is due to an event that will be starting in October, and continuing throughout the school year, taking up most of the teachers' time and energy - but I am sure you will all enjoy it immensely." At that moment, Selena felt a hard hand grab her by her upper arm and lift her to her feet. Jake suffered similar treatment.
Both looked up into a terrifying face. He was shrouded in a black traveling cloak and he had a long staff wedged under one arm as he picked the teenagers off their feet painfully. Selena could just make out a long mane of grizzled, dark gray hair, with a face that looked as if it had been carved out of weathered wood by someone who had only the vaguest idea of what human faces are supposed to look like, and was none too skilled with a chisel. Every inch of skin seemed to be scarred. The mouth looked like a diagnol gash, and a large chunk of the nose was missing.
One of his eyes was small, dark, and beady. The other was large, round as a coin, and a vivid, electric blue. The blue eye was moving ceaselessly, without blinking, and was rolling up, down, and from side to side.
"Shit." Selena and Jake said at the same time.
"I have great pleasure in announcing that this year at Hogwarts-" Dumbledore was not permitted to answer as the doors flew open and the man holding the two teenagers dragged his prey into the Great Hall. Everyone looked at them and gasped when the man threw his head back so that his hood would come off. Selena was whimpering and Jake was trying to squirm out of the man's steely grasp on his upper arm.
He pushed the two caught fanfiction writers to the High Table, where all of the teachers were looking at them with interest.
"Sir, I found these two at the doors." The man said gruffly in an undertone.
"Who are you children?" Dumbledore asked kindly but firmly.
"Well, glad you asked that," Selena laughs nervously, "Its a bit of an interesting story." Selena said with a weak smile. "We'll be glad to tell it but do you mind letting us go first? You're hurting me." The gruff man turned to Dumbledore, who nodded. The two rubbed the spot where their arms had been abused and turned back to Dumbledore.
"We can't tell you here." Jake said. "Its a bit too weird first of all and everyone's starring." Dumbledore watched the two carefully before he saw their uniforms.
"Very well. Go to the Gryffindor table and eat something. I shall come to speak with you when everyone has left." The two teenagers nodded, walked shyly to the Gryffindor table, and sat down. Once there, they sighed in relief before starring at the golden plates before them. Food was waiting for their eager stomachs, which growled when they smelt the delicious scents.
They turned to the High table to find that Dumbledore was whispering something to the man that had caught Selena and Jake before he motioned for him to sit down. Selena and Jake made a point to ignore all of the stares they were recieving from the other students.
"May I introduce our new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher?" Dumbledore said into the silence. "Professor Moody."
"Moody?" A whisper came from close by. Selena and Jake looked up to find who they knew to be Harry Potter muttering to Ron Weasley. "Mad Eye Moody? The one your dad went to help this morning?" Now that she could see him porperly, Selena glanced over the famous Harry Potter.
He was a tall boy of fourteen with messy raven-black hair and huge emerald eyes. Underneath low-hanging bangs was the famous lightening-shaped scar. He was pretty thin, but he had the body of an athelete. Ron was incredibly tall for his age with flaming red hair and soft blue eyes. Selena thought the two of them were cute but she blushed when she saw Harry glance at her. Returning to her food quickly, Selena tried to ignore the blush on her face.
Jake was watching Hermione carefully. She was a pretty girl of medium size with long bushy brown hair and chocolate colored eyes. She had a grace which most would have overlooked if they didn't watch her carefully. She held herself in a way that expressed her completely confidence in what she knew and what she wanted to learn. Hermione caught Jake starring at her so he quickly turned back to eating. Hermione, on the other hand, blushed at the attention.
"Must be." said Ron in a low, awed voice. He hadn't caught the stares.
"What happened to him?" Hermione whispered. "What happened to his face?"
"Dunno," Ron whispered back, watching Moody with fascination. Selena glanced at Jake and leaned closer to him.
"I forgot about that part." She said as a way of apology.
"Oh well, at least now Dumbledore will have to talk to us without blowing us up." Jake said, eating again. Dumbledore began to talk about the TriWizard tournament and all of its history. Selena listened with rapt attention but Jake was gazing out over the other tables to see where everyone was. He nudged Selena after a while, who turned to him with annoyance.
"What?" She whispered.
"There's Draco Malfoy." Selena immediately lost her annoyed look and looked in the direction that Jake had indicated. He was a tall boy with silver-blond hair identically to his father's, piercing blue-gray eyes, and a smirk on his face. He glanced over at Selena starring at him and looked surprised when she blushed and turned away. "I bet he's an arse." Jake muttered.
"In the books he acts like one. I bet that if we were in Slytherin he'd like us. Until he finds out that we're not . . . you know." Jake nodded. "Anyway, I can't believe how damn hot they are! I thought that it was just a fan fiction thing but now I'm not so sure." Jake wrinkled his nose.
"Don't tell me we're going to make this a Mary-Sue exchange-students-gets-with-someone fic!" Selena blushed.
"Yeah right! I've never even been on a date before! Why would they even consider the idea?" Jake blinked in shock.
"You've never been on a date?" Selena blushed.
"Shut up."
"I never knew that." He said. "I thought that was all girls ever do, you know, talk about guys and stuff like that." Selena glared at him.
"I don't!" She began to giggle. "I read fan fiction instead." The two began to laugh, which earned them some curious glances from their neighbors. "Anyway, would it really hurt if one of them asked me out? I mean, I've written about five where they do but I never actually thought I would get a chance."
"You did that?" Jake asked in astonishment again.
"Oh please! Don't tell me you haven't even wondered what it would be like to date Hermione or Ginny!" Selena said in annoyance. Jake shrugged.
"Point taken." The Great Hall bursted into complaint. Selena and Jake looked up to find that Dumbledore was trying to restore silence.
"Bedtime! Chop chop!" He finished. The students began to leave, easily forgetting about Selena and Jake since they had been told about the tournament. Dumbledore waited until the Great Hall was almost completely empty before he motioned for the teenagers to come toward him.
"And now, tell me your names please." Dumbledore said.
"I'm Selena." Selena said.
"I'm Jake." Dumbledore nodded to them.
"And why weren't you in the feast?" Dumbledore asked.
"We aren't students here, not really." Selena began.
"We're from another world. In our world, this is just a story book. We somehow got transported here and we've been trying to figure out what to do now that we're here. We don't know how to get back home and for some reason we have wands." Dumbledore sat back with a pensive _expression on his face.
"Are you Muggles?" He asked.
"In our world we are. There's a Muggle writer there named J.K. Rowling and she wrote the entire Harry Potter story starting from his first year. So far she's finished the fourth year." Dumbledore blinked.
"What do you mean?" Both kids turned to find Snape eyeing them suspiciously.
"She wrote exactly what happened in Harry Potter's life. For example, last year Sirius Black escaped from his cell in Azkaban and he was almost delivered the Dementor's Kiss, but he 'mysteriously' disappeared." Jake said. All of the teachers glanced at each other with expressions of disbelief in their eyes.
"Everyone knows that, it was in the papers." Snape snapped.
"Fine!" Selena hissed. "Last year Harry Potter and his friends claimed that Peter Pettigrew was alive and that Sirius Black was innocent! They said that the reason that Peter escaped was because Remus Lupin changed into a werewolf, Peter changed into his rat Animigus form, and escaped into the forest! Harry, Hermione, and Ron, (who broke his leg) both stunned you because you were threatening to kill Sirius!" All of the teachers starred at them in shock.
"Er, I think that was a bit much." Jake said.
"I could have done worse." Selena muttered.
"Yeah, you could have gone on about all of the stuff they did. And about Snape and his little present from Voldie on his left forearm." Jake said. Snape grabbed his arm and Selena smacked her forehead.
"I think we should stop there." Selena said.
"Why don't we tell them about the tournament? You know, what happens in the maze at the end with the-," Selena leapt forward and covered Jake's mouth with her hand.
"That's enough!" She hissed. "What do you think would happen if the teachers knew about that?!"
"Mmph!" Jake said.
"Ok you two, tell me who exactly are you really?" Snape asked threatningly.
"Severus Snape, you stop pestering these two. It's not like they haven't broken a rule. Obviously I couldn't understand their mumbling. Let them go." Spoke Dumbledore in a firm serious voice. Snape let go and Jake muttered quietly as a mouse.
"Why don't we start at the top, Jake, Selena, you tell me you both are Muggles in your world right? And said you two come here mysteriously with a uniform and a wand. How unusual. And you said something about Sirius Black and you spoke about Peter being alive and you say you knew about the tournament?"
"Well, like we said. Harry Potter's life is written in a book. Four books. And we're waiting for the fifth one..."
"Jake can't you just shut your mouth?"
"Well it's true if anyone would just listen... ouch." Selena stomps Jake's foot.
"Quit with those Monty Python lines."
Jake smiled sheepishly.
The teachers obviously have no ideas what Selena or Jake were talking about.
Dumbledore chuckled, "Interesting. I suppose three of us should speak alone and please Snape, McGonagall, everyone, off to bed." So they left and three people walked all over to the corridor.
"Sorry Professor Dumbledore, but, maybe it's not good to say everything. Thus there are good idea for this to happen because who knows what terrible things can happen. We know Sirius is Innocent. And we understood we don't have the power to convince the ministry."
"Listen you two, i understand now you two are from the future and dropped into our time and our world, best we do not know. As a matter of fact, you can't be the judge of people's lives. Stopping one who shouldn't have to be stopped, not stopping those who should be stopped, like saying one should die but deserved to live, as those who lives deserved to die, can you give them that? Sometimes, evil and good both have major parts to play. For good. or for worst. Best in fact, leave everything alone. Just pray that Voldemort does not found out about you two. Now, up the stairs, off to bed. Don't be late. Come for breakfast in the morning and since you two do not learn here, best i can do is give you something to do. Maybe helping the Truwizard tournament."
"You can count on us sir." Jake said smiling.
Then Selena and Jake rushed up to meet the Gryffindors before they would have been stuck outside of the common room and now Jake just wish they were doing the right thing. Little do they know how much terrible things will come to pass. Will they survive or will they not?
"Narrator, you can shut your gob now."
Sorry Jake. Anyway, let's just hope for the best, Selena and Jake will survive in the upcomming chapters. If they ever live...
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