"Do you really want to throw this whole thing out the window? If we change it, then we won't know what will happen next! What if someone tries to catch us? What if someone found out what we know about this year? Do you know how many people we could get into trouble?" Selena demanded.
"Look, can we argue about this tomorrow? I'm tired." Jake said as he yawns and stumbles over chairs.
"Jeez." Selena muttered. She began to make her way towards what she thought was the girl's dormitory before the portrait of the Fat Lady opened and Professor McGonagall entered sleepily.
"I'm sorry to bother you at this hour of the night, but Dumbledore has received urgent news and wishes for you to come back to his office." Jake and Selena exchanged glances.
"But he just sent us here!" Selena whined. "And I'm tired!" McGonagall yawned and then shrugged stiffly.
"He asked to see you." So once again, Jake and Selena found themselves walking through the wonderful corridors of the Hogwarts School, in the middle of the night, just about to go to a warm and very comfortable-looking bed.
"It had better be good." Selena muttered. "I'm sleepy!"
Jake yawns.
"So you know what shall happen this year do you?" The two teenagers turned sleepily to find Professor Snape and Professor Moody walking along beside them. Neither was quite sure how they had come to walk with them unnoticed.
"Yeah." Jake muttered.
"You sound as if this year is going to be dangerous." Moody commented.
"It is if you know how bad this year is going to get."
"Don't tell us!" McGonagall snapped.
"How bad?" Snape asked at the same time.
"On a scale of good to bad, end-of-the-world worse." Selena said.
"It's so bad, all hell will break loose. People won't be able to sleep for weeks bad." Jake continued.
"Hell-on-earth bad." Selena added.
"Everyone-will-fall-in-love-with-Snape bad." Jake continued. This earned each teenager a deathly glare from an annoyed Professor Snape. Selena gulped but Jake ignored the look.
"Does it involve You-Know-Who?" Professor McGonagall asked slowly.
"You know, I've always wondered what kind of mother would call their child You-Know-Who. His name is Voldemort for Christ's sake!" Jake said. McGonagall gasped and cringed. Jake leaned closer to Selena. "I've always wondered what it would be like to do that."
"He wasn't called that in the first place. He was Tom Marvolo Riddle and then changed his name to Voldemort. Which makes a good name for him." Selena snapped tiredly.
Jake smiled, "I know."
"That makes no sense."
"Sure it does. I mean would you accept a child calling himself Voldemort?"
"STOP SAYING THE NAME!" Snape shouted.
:"Geez Snape, trying to wake the dead?" Jake grinned harshly at him. Selena felt like bashing him in the head again.
"What else do you know?" Professor Moody asked gruffly. His eye was spinning around nervously. Selena and Jake took one look at him and took three visible steps away from him before continuing to follow McGonagall.
"Nothing." Selena said sweetly.
"Nothing that you would want to know about." Jake added just as sweetly.
"Dumbledore is expecting us." McGonagall commented.
"Okay! Do we get to see Fawkes?" Selena said excitedly.
"Yeah! I've wanted to see a phoenix ever since I read the second book!" Jake said. All of the teachers walking glanced between each other.
"I suppose that you will." McGonagall said.
They arrived at a stone gargoyle after a long ten minutes of walking, which was a sign for Snape and Moody to head back to their own rooms. McGonagall gave the password.
Once Dumbledore had allowed them in, he followed and sat down behind his desk. There was a soft flutter of wings before a beautiful red bird with gold feathers and golden claws flew down to rest on the back of Jake's chair! Selena and Jake immediately began to croon over the bird, which was delighted by the admiring attention it was receiving from its visitors.
"Good evening." Selena had managed to coax the phoenix onto her lap where she was petting it gently.
"Hi." Jake said with a yawn. "I thought that you sent us to bed."
"I did. I'm sorry for waking you but I thought that some things had to be discussed first." Dumbledore said. "If I can persuade you not to tell Mr. Potter or any of the other Hogwarts students what shall occur during the year, then I believe I shall allow you to join them in the Gryffindor Tower as ordinary students." Selena and Jake starred at him in shock.
"That's why you dragged us over here?" Selena demanded.
"I have other matters to discuss as well." Dumbledore said.
"I think the old man's a few knuts short of a galleon if you know what I mean." Jake said as he leaned closer to Selena. She nodded. "It's almost like he's scared that we'll tell someone about Snuffles."
"I love Sirius! He's one of my favorite characters!" Selena whispered back dreamily. "I just wish Harry had let them kill Wormtail instead of letting him go free, the basterd." Jake nodded feverantly. "I'd like to feed him to Hermione's cat!"
"Or the dragon Norbert." Jake said.
"Or the giant squid." Selena added.
"Or that giant spider from the second year." Jake continued.
"Or maybe the Basilisk that Harry killed." Selena commented.
"Seriously Selena you can't play with death although we can imagine him dying in my grasp. That moldering sewer rat." Jake muttered harshly and tiredly.
"I believe that you may know now why I really brought you here." Dumbledore inturrupted cheerfully. "Come. Do you know how to travel by Floo Powder? We must go to Diagon Alley in order to get your equipment if you are to start your classes tomorrow." Selena spent a moment simply picturing herself being a witch. Jake was imagining stuffing Wormtail's mouth with explosives and watching him blow up.
"Floo powder? Oh wait, I remember that stuff." Selena said. "You throw it into the fire and you say where you want to go, right?" Dumbledore nodded. "I've always wanted to try that!" She said excitedly.
"This is going to be great!" Jake said dreamily. "I'll get those fireworks from the fourth of July. I wonder how many he can fit into his mouth. Maybe I should count out a few of those firecrackers from New Years. Where could I get them in this world?" He began to rattle on about several other kinds of fireworks and which ones would probably work the best.
"Hey Jake!" Selena finally said.
"What?" Jake said, turning to her.
"We're going to Diagon Alley!" She said. He blinked.
"Really? Cool." Selena starred at him and then shrugged.
"We're going by Floo Powder." Jake's face lit up.
"That's great! I could stuff Wormtail with that instead and send him to hell!" Selena starred at him.
"Er, we're just going to get our equipment for school." Selena told him.
"Really? Okay." Jake said abashed but dark grin spreads his face.
"Come then." Dumbledore motioned towards his fireplace. "I shall call Professor McGonagall to accompany you since I would rather not leave the school while my students are sleeping."
"Yeah. You certainly don't want Voldie sneaking in unannounced." Jake said. Dumbledore grinned broadly.
"By Voldie I assume you mean Lord Voldemort?"
"Who else would we be talking about?" Selena asked curiously.
"I'm afraid no one is so bold as to call him something so . . . degrading." Dumbledore said, smiling even wider. "As a matter of fact, I'm rather fond of the name." Jake bowed slightly in his seat.
"You're aloud to use it to your heart's content." He said.
"Thank you very much." Dumbledore said warmly. He moved off down into another part of his office, leaving the two teenagers to whisper about Diagon Alley excitedly. When Dumbledore returned, Professor McGonagall entered the office as well.
"Good evening sir." McGonagall said.
"Minerva, I believe that these new students require certain equipment. From what they have told me, they already have their wands but no more. Please assist them in Diagon Alley and explain to the shop owners that I am responsible for the late notice." McGonagall glanced at the two Americans and then nodded towards the fireplace.
"Go on." She said. Jake motioned for Selena to go first.
"Meany." She muttered under her breath nervously. She took a pinch of black powder from inside a pot and threw it into the fire. Taking a deep breath, she entered the fire nervously and then barked out 'Diagon Alley' before grabbing herself in horror. She fell through endless chimneys and finally felt herself thrown out of a single one. She yelped as she fell forward and her body gave a loud thump when she hit the hard stone floor.
"Ow." She mumbled.
Before she could get up, another body came hurtling out of the fireplace and landed on top her! Both groaned loudly.
"Get off." Selena hissed.
"Sorry." Jake muttered as both got up. They were covered in ash and their elbows were ringing from where the various chimneys had bashed into them. They began to brush themselves off when Professor McGonagall walked out of the fireplace calmly without a speck of ash on her.
"Wow." Selena and Jake muttered, both still brushing off black smudges all over their bodies.
"Did you have an unpleasant trip?" McGonagall asked tenderly.
"We've never done that before." Jake admitted. "At least we didn't end up in Knockturn Alley." McGonagall nodded her agreement.
"Come along. Its late enough, we should try to get this done quickly." McGonagall said briskly as she began to herd her charges out of the fireplace and towards the door of where ever they were. It turned out that the room was actually a place for Floo travel and was always open.
As they walked out of the store and into the pitch black night, Selena and Jake couldn't help starring at all of the stores. True, there were no lights on and the shops were probably more impressive in the daytime, but neither of them cared. Diagon Alley was just a beautiful and exciting place to be.
"Oh man i so wanted to get some of those stuff at the Hogsmeade. Hey Professor McGonagall, sadly even if we don't have a signed permission slip to get to go to Hogsmeade, can there be a way we can?" Jake asked pleadingly and still tired.
"Well... alright but only in one condition. You must all follow the rules and no cruel tricks among anyone get it?"
"Ok Professor McGonagall." Jake and Selena smiled. Though Jake is more darker.
"We have to be good ok Jake?"
"Ok. As long as YOU distract me from thinking of Wormtail of course. And also note that Sirius and Remus Lupin are the best coolest Charactors. Man, i so wanted to see him. He can be agreat father figure."
"I'll do the best as i can. And i agree." Selena said as she does a playful punch in the arm.
"In here please." McGonagall waited for the two to enter the shop, which turned out to be a robes shop. McGonagall told us to wait as she entered a separate room and didn't return until several minutes later. A yawning woman in a night gown and slippers came into the room tiredly.
"These two?" She mumbled. McGonagall nodded and waited as the woman decided their exact sizes and returned with the robes. She waved them off before yawning and returning to her body. Next they went into the book store, which ended up being similar. The owner come out in red pajamas and picked out the books tiredly and even offered to give them one free book of their choice. Jake wanted one on Animigus transformations and dark arts although McGonagall disapproves of that and Selena asked for a book of magical creature types.
After this they went to the Apothecary and left carrying huge bags filled with all of the things they needed for their Potions class. After this, they went to the wands shop because Dumbledore wanted to know what kinds of wands they had. When they arrived, they found Mr. Ollivander, the shop owner, waiting for them impatiently.
"Finally you've arrived! Come right in!" Selena and Jake walked over to the man nervously. He looked at Selena and opened his palm, waiting for her wand. She handed it to him nervously and watched as he examined it.
"I would have never thought this kind of wand would work." He muttered to himself. "Eight inches made of a yew tree entwined with an ask tree with an angel's hair string and a sprinkle of faery's dust. Its very rare and very powerful indeed." He handed her the wand again, which she looked over with more interest. Jake handed his wand over quickly, curious to know what his was made out of.
"Very interesting! Such powerful wands I have never seen and such strange combinations! Except perhaps for You-Know-Who and Mr. Harry Potter's wands, I don't think I've ever seen such things." He mumbled to himself as he moved the wand gracefully. "Nine and a half inches, and this is not a wood. This is a jewel, the diamond from a dwarf's mine tainted black from the coal from what I can tell. And the contents consist of a scale from a mermaid and the crystallized form of a phoenix tear drop." McGonagall was starring at the wands.
"But there is no such thing as a crystallized phoenix tear drop, two woods for the same wand, faery dust, a diamond wand, or . . . or . . . or any of it! How could such things perform magic?!" Selena looked up.
"Give me a spell, I wanna try it!" She said.
"Try the levitating spell." Mr. Ollivander said smugly. He seemed to want to prove to McGonagall that he was right about the wands.
Jake began. "Wingardium Leviosa!" He pointed a stack of wands and all of them floated to the air! Jake, surprised that the spell had actually worked, dropped his wand and all of the boxes came crashing to the floor! "Oops." He mumbled.
"Quite alright." Mr. Ollivander said proudly. McGonagall was starring from the stack of boxes to the wand that Jake was holding. "And now I believe that they should be returning to the school." He said. McGonagall was shocked out of her thoughts. She motioned towards the door and the two began to leave, their eyes fixed on their wands.
"Hey, who's paying for all of this?" Jake asked.
"The school. Dumbledore asked for all of it to be paid by Hogwarts since you obviously don't have any money here." McGonagall said distractedly. She began to push them back to the fireplace store. Selena took a pinch of Floo powder nervously. She threw her piece into the fire and leapt in, shouting her destination quickly and making sure to keep her elbows in securely.
Back at Hogwarts and millions of fireplaces later, Selena and Jake found themselves in the Gryffindor Tower. They walked quietly to the dorms they had been assigned to and put their things away. They were just getting ready to go to bed when the first few people began to stir. Both knew it would be useless to try to get any rest at that moment so they met at the Common Room with all of their things ready for them.
"I wonder what we're going to do today. Do you remember any of it? I don't remember what happens on the first day." Jake said.
"Well, let's look at the schedule." Selena said as she took out the Times table that McGonagall had given them a few minutes earlier. "We have Herbology and then Care of Magical Creatures. After that we have lunch and then Divination." Selena grinned ruthlessly. "I'm going to love that class."
"Swell. What's after that?" Jake asked.
"I don't think we have anything else after that. I just hope that they don't ask us to start performing all of these spells. With all of the extra lessons that the teachers want to give us, I guess that this isn't going to be the only night that we don't get any sleep." Selena began to grumble about this.
"Look, can we argue about this tomorrow? I'm tired." Jake said as he yawns and stumbles over chairs.
"Jeez." Selena muttered. She began to make her way towards what she thought was the girl's dormitory before the portrait of the Fat Lady opened and Professor McGonagall entered sleepily.
"I'm sorry to bother you at this hour of the night, but Dumbledore has received urgent news and wishes for you to come back to his office." Jake and Selena exchanged glances.
"But he just sent us here!" Selena whined. "And I'm tired!" McGonagall yawned and then shrugged stiffly.
"He asked to see you." So once again, Jake and Selena found themselves walking through the wonderful corridors of the Hogwarts School, in the middle of the night, just about to go to a warm and very comfortable-looking bed.
"It had better be good." Selena muttered. "I'm sleepy!"
Jake yawns.
"So you know what shall happen this year do you?" The two teenagers turned sleepily to find Professor Snape and Professor Moody walking along beside them. Neither was quite sure how they had come to walk with them unnoticed.
"Yeah." Jake muttered.
"You sound as if this year is going to be dangerous." Moody commented.
"It is if you know how bad this year is going to get."
"Don't tell us!" McGonagall snapped.
"How bad?" Snape asked at the same time.
"On a scale of good to bad, end-of-the-world worse." Selena said.
"It's so bad, all hell will break loose. People won't be able to sleep for weeks bad." Jake continued.
"Hell-on-earth bad." Selena added.
"Everyone-will-fall-in-love-with-Snape bad." Jake continued. This earned each teenager a deathly glare from an annoyed Professor Snape. Selena gulped but Jake ignored the look.
"Does it involve You-Know-Who?" Professor McGonagall asked slowly.
"You know, I've always wondered what kind of mother would call their child You-Know-Who. His name is Voldemort for Christ's sake!" Jake said. McGonagall gasped and cringed. Jake leaned closer to Selena. "I've always wondered what it would be like to do that."
"He wasn't called that in the first place. He was Tom Marvolo Riddle and then changed his name to Voldemort. Which makes a good name for him." Selena snapped tiredly.
Jake smiled, "I know."
"That makes no sense."
"Sure it does. I mean would you accept a child calling himself Voldemort?"
"STOP SAYING THE NAME!" Snape shouted.
:"Geez Snape, trying to wake the dead?" Jake grinned harshly at him. Selena felt like bashing him in the head again.
"What else do you know?" Professor Moody asked gruffly. His eye was spinning around nervously. Selena and Jake took one look at him and took three visible steps away from him before continuing to follow McGonagall.
"Nothing." Selena said sweetly.
"Nothing that you would want to know about." Jake added just as sweetly.
"Dumbledore is expecting us." McGonagall commented.
"Okay! Do we get to see Fawkes?" Selena said excitedly.
"Yeah! I've wanted to see a phoenix ever since I read the second book!" Jake said. All of the teachers walking glanced between each other.
"I suppose that you will." McGonagall said.
They arrived at a stone gargoyle after a long ten minutes of walking, which was a sign for Snape and Moody to head back to their own rooms. McGonagall gave the password.
Once Dumbledore had allowed them in, he followed and sat down behind his desk. There was a soft flutter of wings before a beautiful red bird with gold feathers and golden claws flew down to rest on the back of Jake's chair! Selena and Jake immediately began to croon over the bird, which was delighted by the admiring attention it was receiving from its visitors.
"Good evening." Selena had managed to coax the phoenix onto her lap where she was petting it gently.
"Hi." Jake said with a yawn. "I thought that you sent us to bed."
"I did. I'm sorry for waking you but I thought that some things had to be discussed first." Dumbledore said. "If I can persuade you not to tell Mr. Potter or any of the other Hogwarts students what shall occur during the year, then I believe I shall allow you to join them in the Gryffindor Tower as ordinary students." Selena and Jake starred at him in shock.
"That's why you dragged us over here?" Selena demanded.
"I have other matters to discuss as well." Dumbledore said.
"I think the old man's a few knuts short of a galleon if you know what I mean." Jake said as he leaned closer to Selena. She nodded. "It's almost like he's scared that we'll tell someone about Snuffles."
"I love Sirius! He's one of my favorite characters!" Selena whispered back dreamily. "I just wish Harry had let them kill Wormtail instead of letting him go free, the basterd." Jake nodded feverantly. "I'd like to feed him to Hermione's cat!"
"Or the dragon Norbert." Jake said.
"Or the giant squid." Selena added.
"Or that giant spider from the second year." Jake continued.
"Or maybe the Basilisk that Harry killed." Selena commented.
"Seriously Selena you can't play with death although we can imagine him dying in my grasp. That moldering sewer rat." Jake muttered harshly and tiredly.
"I believe that you may know now why I really brought you here." Dumbledore inturrupted cheerfully. "Come. Do you know how to travel by Floo Powder? We must go to Diagon Alley in order to get your equipment if you are to start your classes tomorrow." Selena spent a moment simply picturing herself being a witch. Jake was imagining stuffing Wormtail's mouth with explosives and watching him blow up.
"Floo powder? Oh wait, I remember that stuff." Selena said. "You throw it into the fire and you say where you want to go, right?" Dumbledore nodded. "I've always wanted to try that!" She said excitedly.
"This is going to be great!" Jake said dreamily. "I'll get those fireworks from the fourth of July. I wonder how many he can fit into his mouth. Maybe I should count out a few of those firecrackers from New Years. Where could I get them in this world?" He began to rattle on about several other kinds of fireworks and which ones would probably work the best.
"Hey Jake!" Selena finally said.
"What?" Jake said, turning to her.
"We're going to Diagon Alley!" She said. He blinked.
"Really? Cool." Selena starred at him and then shrugged.
"We're going by Floo Powder." Jake's face lit up.
"That's great! I could stuff Wormtail with that instead and send him to hell!" Selena starred at him.
"Er, we're just going to get our equipment for school." Selena told him.
"Really? Okay." Jake said abashed but dark grin spreads his face.
"Come then." Dumbledore motioned towards his fireplace. "I shall call Professor McGonagall to accompany you since I would rather not leave the school while my students are sleeping."
"Yeah. You certainly don't want Voldie sneaking in unannounced." Jake said. Dumbledore grinned broadly.
"By Voldie I assume you mean Lord Voldemort?"
"Who else would we be talking about?" Selena asked curiously.
"I'm afraid no one is so bold as to call him something so . . . degrading." Dumbledore said, smiling even wider. "As a matter of fact, I'm rather fond of the name." Jake bowed slightly in his seat.
"You're aloud to use it to your heart's content." He said.
"Thank you very much." Dumbledore said warmly. He moved off down into another part of his office, leaving the two teenagers to whisper about Diagon Alley excitedly. When Dumbledore returned, Professor McGonagall entered the office as well.
"Good evening sir." McGonagall said.
"Minerva, I believe that these new students require certain equipment. From what they have told me, they already have their wands but no more. Please assist them in Diagon Alley and explain to the shop owners that I am responsible for the late notice." McGonagall glanced at the two Americans and then nodded towards the fireplace.
"Go on." She said. Jake motioned for Selena to go first.
"Meany." She muttered under her breath nervously. She took a pinch of black powder from inside a pot and threw it into the fire. Taking a deep breath, she entered the fire nervously and then barked out 'Diagon Alley' before grabbing herself in horror. She fell through endless chimneys and finally felt herself thrown out of a single one. She yelped as she fell forward and her body gave a loud thump when she hit the hard stone floor.
"Ow." She mumbled.
Before she could get up, another body came hurtling out of the fireplace and landed on top her! Both groaned loudly.
"Get off." Selena hissed.
"Sorry." Jake muttered as both got up. They were covered in ash and their elbows were ringing from where the various chimneys had bashed into them. They began to brush themselves off when Professor McGonagall walked out of the fireplace calmly without a speck of ash on her.
"Wow." Selena and Jake muttered, both still brushing off black smudges all over their bodies.
"Did you have an unpleasant trip?" McGonagall asked tenderly.
"We've never done that before." Jake admitted. "At least we didn't end up in Knockturn Alley." McGonagall nodded her agreement.
"Come along. Its late enough, we should try to get this done quickly." McGonagall said briskly as she began to herd her charges out of the fireplace and towards the door of where ever they were. It turned out that the room was actually a place for Floo travel and was always open.
As they walked out of the store and into the pitch black night, Selena and Jake couldn't help starring at all of the stores. True, there were no lights on and the shops were probably more impressive in the daytime, but neither of them cared. Diagon Alley was just a beautiful and exciting place to be.
"Oh man i so wanted to get some of those stuff at the Hogsmeade. Hey Professor McGonagall, sadly even if we don't have a signed permission slip to get to go to Hogsmeade, can there be a way we can?" Jake asked pleadingly and still tired.
"Well... alright but only in one condition. You must all follow the rules and no cruel tricks among anyone get it?"
"Ok Professor McGonagall." Jake and Selena smiled. Though Jake is more darker.
"We have to be good ok Jake?"
"Ok. As long as YOU distract me from thinking of Wormtail of course. And also note that Sirius and Remus Lupin are the best coolest Charactors. Man, i so wanted to see him. He can be agreat father figure."
"I'll do the best as i can. And i agree." Selena said as she does a playful punch in the arm.
"In here please." McGonagall waited for the two to enter the shop, which turned out to be a robes shop. McGonagall told us to wait as she entered a separate room and didn't return until several minutes later. A yawning woman in a night gown and slippers came into the room tiredly.
"These two?" She mumbled. McGonagall nodded and waited as the woman decided their exact sizes and returned with the robes. She waved them off before yawning and returning to her body. Next they went into the book store, which ended up being similar. The owner come out in red pajamas and picked out the books tiredly and even offered to give them one free book of their choice. Jake wanted one on Animigus transformations and dark arts although McGonagall disapproves of that and Selena asked for a book of magical creature types.
After this they went to the Apothecary and left carrying huge bags filled with all of the things they needed for their Potions class. After this, they went to the wands shop because Dumbledore wanted to know what kinds of wands they had. When they arrived, they found Mr. Ollivander, the shop owner, waiting for them impatiently.
"Finally you've arrived! Come right in!" Selena and Jake walked over to the man nervously. He looked at Selena and opened his palm, waiting for her wand. She handed it to him nervously and watched as he examined it.
"I would have never thought this kind of wand would work." He muttered to himself. "Eight inches made of a yew tree entwined with an ask tree with an angel's hair string and a sprinkle of faery's dust. Its very rare and very powerful indeed." He handed her the wand again, which she looked over with more interest. Jake handed his wand over quickly, curious to know what his was made out of.
"Very interesting! Such powerful wands I have never seen and such strange combinations! Except perhaps for You-Know-Who and Mr. Harry Potter's wands, I don't think I've ever seen such things." He mumbled to himself as he moved the wand gracefully. "Nine and a half inches, and this is not a wood. This is a jewel, the diamond from a dwarf's mine tainted black from the coal from what I can tell. And the contents consist of a scale from a mermaid and the crystallized form of a phoenix tear drop." McGonagall was starring at the wands.
"But there is no such thing as a crystallized phoenix tear drop, two woods for the same wand, faery dust, a diamond wand, or . . . or . . . or any of it! How could such things perform magic?!" Selena looked up.
"Give me a spell, I wanna try it!" She said.
"Try the levitating spell." Mr. Ollivander said smugly. He seemed to want to prove to McGonagall that he was right about the wands.
Jake began. "Wingardium Leviosa!" He pointed a stack of wands and all of them floated to the air! Jake, surprised that the spell had actually worked, dropped his wand and all of the boxes came crashing to the floor! "Oops." He mumbled.
"Quite alright." Mr. Ollivander said proudly. McGonagall was starring from the stack of boxes to the wand that Jake was holding. "And now I believe that they should be returning to the school." He said. McGonagall was shocked out of her thoughts. She motioned towards the door and the two began to leave, their eyes fixed on their wands.
"Hey, who's paying for all of this?" Jake asked.
"The school. Dumbledore asked for all of it to be paid by Hogwarts since you obviously don't have any money here." McGonagall said distractedly. She began to push them back to the fireplace store. Selena took a pinch of Floo powder nervously. She threw her piece into the fire and leapt in, shouting her destination quickly and making sure to keep her elbows in securely.
Back at Hogwarts and millions of fireplaces later, Selena and Jake found themselves in the Gryffindor Tower. They walked quietly to the dorms they had been assigned to and put their things away. They were just getting ready to go to bed when the first few people began to stir. Both knew it would be useless to try to get any rest at that moment so they met at the Common Room with all of their things ready for them.
"I wonder what we're going to do today. Do you remember any of it? I don't remember what happens on the first day." Jake said.
"Well, let's look at the schedule." Selena said as she took out the Times table that McGonagall had given them a few minutes earlier. "We have Herbology and then Care of Magical Creatures. After that we have lunch and then Divination." Selena grinned ruthlessly. "I'm going to love that class."
"Swell. What's after that?" Jake asked.
"I don't think we have anything else after that. I just hope that they don't ask us to start performing all of these spells. With all of the extra lessons that the teachers want to give us, I guess that this isn't going to be the only night that we don't get any sleep." Selena began to grumble about this.