Chapter 25 – The problem with Clones
Weeks passed and the cold bitter days slowly faded into bright sunny spring days as April fast approached. Most of the school had given up on trying to keep Constanza and Olivia from being friends. The trick the girls had played at the Gryffindor-Slytherin Ouidditch match had not made a lot of people happy but it had gotten people to get to know Constanza. Most of the Gryffindor's accepted Constanza as one of them only sentenced to the worst punishment in Slytherin, this didn't make the Slytherin's too happy.
As the weather got nicer and nicer out Hermione could be found in the Library studying for the approaching O.W.L.'s. Olivia and Constanza could be fund roaming the halls of Hogwarts causing all sorts of trouble and Harry and Ron could be found working out new Quidditch moves. One night as Olivia and Constanza were roaming the halls looking for some mischief to cause they began to talk of their families.
"I wonder how worried our parents are? They haven't seen us in months." Constanza voiced.
"They don't even know that we're gone." Olivia responded
"What do you mean of course they'd notice by now that we're gone? Why wouldn't they?"
"After I came to visit you on my birthday Professor Dumbledore set up a clone of me to take my place so that everyone wouldn't try to find me. I can only assume that he did the same after you came to Hogwarts."
"Oh…as weird as this is gonna sound I really do miss my family." Constanza explained.
"I know what you mean…I haven't seen my mom or dad in over six months."
"Is there anyway we could visit them?"
"I don't really think…well wait…yea there is a way. If we get caught we'll be screwed but there's still a way." Olivia replied with a gleeful look in her blue green eyes. "Come on if we wanna do this we'd better get to the library."
With that both girls redirected themselves to the Library and began to do some major researching.
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"Are you sure you want to pull this during Potions?" Constanza asked wearily.
"Yea I'm sure it's the easiest class to pull it in since we're both so far ahead in that class. Snape will never notice that we're really not there." Olivia confidently responded.
"Alright I just hope to god that this all works."
"Hey!…have a little confidence in me will ya!"
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"Today we will be concocting a potion that shows the past. This potion is used to help prevent similar situation from occurring again in the future." Snape lectured as he stalked up and down the rows of desks. "Ms. Stanton, and Ms. Vasaturo please pay attention, or I might have to try your potions at the end of class." Snape threatened.
In the back corner of the room Olivia and Constanza had keep from laughing out loud and giving themselves away.
"Oh this is defiantly going to work." Olivia thought to herself as she led Constanza out of the Potions classroom.
The class was pretty uneventful as each pair diligently worked on their potion not wanting to attract the Professor's attention and extract points from their house. That is every student except Olivia and Constanza; they always went about their potions in cheery moods with various topics of conversation. Everyone always wondered as to why Snape allowed them to behave in this way but it was soon apparent that they were the best two students in the class so he had a bit of a soft spot for them. But today was a bit of a change, after the girls decided to pay attention in class they went along their normal routine of working and talking but soon they stopped working altogether and suddenly they fell silent. This of course caught everyone's attention.
"Ms. Stanton, Ms. Vasaturo what's the meaning of this?" Snape demanded from across the dungeon.
But neither girl responded to the Professor's demanded. Instead they went back to talking and finished their potion. When they were done their potion both girls fell silent again and aid their heads down on their desks. Now this happened every class but their silence earlier caused Snape to investigate what they did after they were done their potions. So from across the classroom Snape muttered a simple reveling spell to reveal anything hidden by magic. What he found was more then he ever expected.
The spell had reveled that the girls were listening to a muggle CD player but that was only the beginning. The Gryffindor and Slytherin friends of the girls were shocked to see that they now looked exactly alike and no one could tell the difference between the two. There was also a dull white light glowing around each girl. Snape was a smart man and knew plenty of spells to help reveal dark magic and such but this he couldn't figure out and as much as he hated to he had to call in the only person who could figure this out…Lupin.
Remus Lupin was in his classroom watching over the class and grading papers as Professor Fireoza taught the classroom full of first year Ravenclaws. His thoughts were interrupted when the fireplace beside him flashed green before Snape's face appeared.
"Severus…how can I help you?" Remus asked as politely as he could muster.
"I need you down here now Lupin." Snape demanded before disappearing from the fireplace. Remus was a little confused by the Snape's demand but decided to check it out.
"Megan to you mind?" Remus asked
"No go right ahead I've got this under control."
"Ok."
Remus was about to step into the fire when he felt a tug at the hem of his robes. He turned around and looked down at the dog that was pulling him back.
"Yes snuffles you can come with me." Remus added as he and the dog entered the fire and made their way to the potions classroom.
As soon as Remus entered the classroom and had his attention directed to the two girls he suddenly found a problem. Neither of the girls was under their spells that kept them from looking lie each other and him. He said a silent pray hopping to god that no one noticed the similarity between the girls and himself and assessed the situation.
"What seems to be the problem?" Remus questioned.
"Them." Snape snapped pointing to the girls. "What's the glow around them?"
"Oh dear." Was all Remus could utter
"What?" Snape demanded
"That glow signals the use of clones. The two sitting there are clones of their makers only I don't know why they look the same…unless the same person made both clones." Remus answered as calmly as he could.
"Well where'd they go?" Malfoy demanded
"Well Mister Malfoy there's only one way to find out…I just hope that they didn't try to prevent anyone from finding out."
"Why do you say that Professor Lupin?" Hermione inquired
"Because if they did we'll all be transported to were they are and we will be stuck there until they return here."
"Oh"
"Well here goes nothing."
Remus pointed his wand at the two clones and muttered a more complicated revealing spell. The clones briefly changed back into Olivia and Constanza before the white glow engulfed the classroom and began to swirl around it with great speed. During all this Remus Lupin sighed as he realized that his daughters were to advanced for their own good some times.
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The potions class finally stopped spinning and gained their balance back before taking a look around them. What they found surprised everyone even the professors. They found themselves in a room painted a gray-silver with stars on the ceiling and a girl that looked a lot like Olivia standing in front a mirror singing along to the music that was emitting from the CD player on its stand. One look at the room told you that this was the girl's bedroom but why were they there and whom exactly that girl was no one knew. They all prepared for her to scream when she turned around to face them but she acted like they weren't even there and went along doing her own thing.
"Professor where are we?" Neville inquired in a timid voice not really caring which professor answered him.
"I believe that we've been brought to the muggle world." Professor Lupin answered as he observed the girl and all her stuff and noticed that nothing was of magical origin.
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Ok so here's the next chapter (FINALLY) I wanted to say first that I'm sorry for not getting a new chapter up last week but I was really busy and I had a bit of writers block so I took the week off. But I promise to make up for it with at least two chapters this week! Well anyway we're starting to get to the really good stuff and the chapters will start to get a little bit longer, as I start to reach the end. I know sad story I'm gonna be reaching the end soon! But I believe that I will write a sequel since I've already started to plan it out but no guarantees yet. So anyway …..ENJOY!
~Autumn