Chapter 26 – A day in the life of…A Muggle?
"We're What!?" Draco exclaimed in total shock and disbelief.
"We're in the muggle world mister Malfoy." Remus repeated
"Wait until my father hears about this…you'll be kicked out of Hogwarts for sure!" Malfoy exclaimed in a threatening tone.
"Oh shut it Malfoy." Dean exclaimed shocking most of the group. "What I got tired of hearing him complain."
"Professor Lupin why are we the muggle world?" Hermione asked confused
"I honestly do not know Hermione all I know is that the person who made the Clones didn't want anyone to find out so they tried to place a blocking spell on the clones. The only problem is that, that particular blocking spell brings the person to the caster. That's how we came to be here in the muggle world."
"Oh"
The group fell silent as they either watched the girl or looked around the room with curiosity. Most of the students were from pureblood families and grew up in the magical world so everything about the room was fascinating to them. Remus couldn't help but chuckle a bit as he noticed that Snape was looking around the room pretending to be watching the kids but was really staring at everything as eagerly as the kids.
"Professor." Harry interrupted Remus' thoughts.
"Yes Harry?"
"If you cast the spell on both Olivia and Constanza then how come we've only followed Olivia?"
"I may be because Olivia was the one to put the blocking spell on the clones."
"Oh…ok"
Lee moved around her room getting herself ready for school as she sang along to the music she had playing. She was applying some lip-gloss when she glanced at the clock and realized what time it was.
"Oh S***!" Lee exclaimed as she put the lip-gloss away, grabbed her purse and quickly headed down the stairs.
"Should we follow her?" Harry asked as Olivia ran out of the room.
"I think it would be wisest if we did." Remus replied as he led the group out of the room and down the stairs after Olivia.
"I was beginning to wonder if you were up yet." A woman with curly honey colored hair replied. She had chocolate brown eyes that smile at you on their own and was about 5'9".
"Yea mom I'm up although I really don't wan to be but here I am." Lee responded
"Oh Lee you act as if I'm sending you off to some type of criminal punishment." Her mother replied
"Well technically you are…at least I see school as a criminal punishment…and I haven't even done anything!"
"Yea well save the ranting for later when you get home because if you don't leave now you'll miss your bus and I really don't feel like driving you again."
"Yea, yea c-ya later."
"I love you hun."
"Love ya too mom."
With that Lee grabbed her things and headed out the front door with about 20 people silently following behind her.
* * *
"Where is she going?" Draco asked no one in particular
"Don't know but I'm sure we'll find out sooner or later." Harry replied
The group followed 'Lee' to a corner where she stopped and just stood there. A few seconds later she was joined by a boy around her age only slightly taller. 'Lee' and the boy began to talk until a big yellow thing appeared at the corner. The two got onto the contraption and took their seats among the others also on it.
"What is this?" Pansy Parkinson asked
"It's called a bus." Stated Hermione. "They use it to get around sometimes."
After they knew what it was they we're all on they relaxed a bit. They had since realized that no one could see them or hear them but they weren't really sure if anyone would feel anything if they ran into them. Remus, Snuffles and the rest of Gryffindor listened to 'Lee' as she talked to another guy while Snape and the Slytherin's were to busy looking at different things.
Once they got to school the group looked around in amazement even more. Even if this school was nothing in size or grandeur compared to Hogwarts it was still fascinating to most. They followed Lee into the school and tried not to run into too many people.
* * *
Lee entered the school and went to her locker to grab the book she would need before lunch and then headed off to find her friends. She eventually found them waiting in front of the school as usual enjoying the nice weather before having to sit inside the stuffy building all day.
"Hey Lee!" A few people yelled in greeting as they caught sight of her.
"Hey guys." Lee replied while looking for her best friends Louise and Tes. After searching for a bit she found them over near the wall talking to Jason and Sara, two of her other friends.
"Hey." Lee greeted joining the conversation.
"Lee didn't you and Louise promise to come to my show tonight?" Jason inquired
Lee paused for a second while she quickly searched her memory for any sings of agreeing to go to Jason's show that night. Since she couldn't find one thought she did the next best thing and made up her own answer.
"Yea J you know we'll see your show…when have we ever missed one?"
"Ha…told you Louise."
"Sorry I guess that my memory isn't as good as it used to be."
"Sure."
"Hey Lee can I talk to you for
a second." Louise asked
"Sure."
Lee and Louise walked a little bit away from the students gathered at the front of the school.
"I thought that we were supposed to have memory of everything that happened."
"I know so did I…I think we just have to a little longer and that it'll come to us…soon."
"I sure hope so…I hate to be asked a question or have to take a test in class and fail just because I don't have the same memory.
"Does it really matter though Louise?" Lee asked
"What do you mean?"
"I mean
we're only here for a visit really. We'll go back to Hogwarts when we're done
and I doubt that passing or failing a Spanish test will really help you in
Hogwarts.'
"Hey you never know."
"Sure keep telling yourself that."
* * *
"Why do I get the feeling that we'll be here for a few days?" Snape voiced as they followed the girls back to their group of friends.
The group had taken to following Lee and had followed her when she was talking to Louise. Of course they heard the whole conversation but were a little confused as to why they were in the muggle world.
"I don't get it." Ron mused aloud
"What don't you get Weasley?" Snape practically spat out.
"Why if we're looking for Olivia and Constanza are we in the muggle world following around a girl called Lee and how does she know about Hogwarts. She's obviously not magical." Ron explained
"For once Weasley you've made an intelligent remark." Snape commented.
Remus Lupin sighed as he looked around at the group of students around him. He then looked at his two daughters and realized now why Dumbledore and Megan had no problem with them being friends at Hogwarts. He knew all the answers to Ron's questions but he wasn't really sure how to answer them all without revealing that they were his daughters. Remus was brought out of his thoughts when he heard someone talking to him.
"Hmmm…what'd you say Severus?" Remus asked. Snape shot him dagger looks before repeating his statement.
"I said that you should know all the answers since you seem to have that knowing look upon your face." Snape snapped. Once again Remus sighed and was about to start his story but was distracted when Lee began to walk away.
"Look why don't I just tell you while Lee's in class. Come on we've gotta keep up with her."
With that the whole group quickly followed Lee through the packed and narrow hallways to her first class. When they got to the room they decided to sit in the back corner to stay out of the way. Remus was about to start to tell what he knew again when a bell interrupted him.
"Good morning class today we'll be working with a select group of elements from the table and examining their reactive ness and comparing it to the notes we took yesterday." The teacher announced as she entered the room.
"What type of class is this?" Malfoy asked looking pointedly at Hermione
"I-I don't know. This is a muggle high school I have no idea what they are taught in high school." Hermione sheepishly replied.
"It reminds me of potions only with a better teacher." Harry whispered to Ron and Hermione.
"I agree mate." Ron replied.
"So Lupin on with the explanation please." Snape half demanded
"I know for a fact that Olivia and Constanza are indeed Lee and Louise. We're in the muggle world because this is where they grew up."
"But I thought they were purebloods." Pansy remarked.
"Yea a mudblood would never be sorted into Slytherin." Malfoy observed.
"As true as that might be mister Malfoy I would kindly ask you to refrain from making comments like that and let me finish explaining all that I know." Remus countered.
"Olivia and Constanza are in fact both from pureblood families but were sent to live in muggle America when Voldemort was reaching his peak of power. Their families sent them into hiding hoping to protect them. They were to stay hidden until it was safe to let them back into the magical world."
"But why would they want to come back to the muggle world?" Dean inquired
"Because this is where their family and friends are and I assume that they just wanted to visit them." Remus replied happy with himself for answering all the questions without giving too much information.
* * *
The rest of the day the group of Gryffindor and Slytherin students and professors followed Lee around to each of her classes and a few of them learned some very interesting things. The soon found out that Lee schedule went like this: Chemistry, European History, British Literature and Pre-Calc. They found that the stuff Lee was taught was confusing and not too easy to follow especially if you were just dropped into the middle of the lesson. They spent the next two days following Lee around wherever she went hoping that she wouldn't stay much longer. Remus knew that he could try and get through to Olivia but decided to wait for her to return on her own until Sirius brought his attention to moon.
"Moony you do realize what tomorrow is don't you?" Sirius asked
"Oh shit padfoot I completely lost track of the moon. Shit I have to get back."
"Maybe you should try communicating with Eve, or whatever name she's going by today. I would like to get back soon so that I don't permanently turn into this dog."
"Ok lemme try to get through to her."
Remus left the dog's side and moved as close to Eve as he dared with all the people around.
"Eve…can you hear me." Remus called out
"Dad?"
"Yea it's me Eve…look I really need you and Constanza to get back to the Castle as soon as possible." Remus urged.
"How do you know that we're not at Hogwarts?" Eve asked alarmed that they would get into major trouble.
"Some how Professor Snape had some suspicions and called me down to help with a complicated revealing spell to try and find out where the two of you were after I established that you had clones. And instead of revealing you it brought the whole potions class to you. We've been following you around for the last two days."
"Shit!"
"Watch your mouth young lady"
"Sorry it's just that we kinda set this up for a week. We can't get back until next Tuesday."
"What!"
"Why do you need to get back in such a hurry?"
"For one half to school has probably been looking for us and they probably think that it's a death eater attack. And second tomorrow nights a full moon I need to get back just as much as you do!"
"I see…hold on."
Remus watched as Eve walked over to her desk and take out a notebook. She flipped through a few pages before stopping and reading something intently. Eve then picked up the phone and called Louise.
"Please be home." Lee prayed under her breath. "Louise…good you're home. Look we've got a problem we've got to get back to Hogwarts immediately…. ok you work on the clones and I pick you up in ten ok…bye."
Lee hung up the phone grabbed a few things and threw them into a backpack and grabbed her keys before turning to face the general direction of the group. For now that she knew they were there she could sense it as well, she wondered how she could have missed this before.
"Alright all of you follow me we're going home."
The group gave each other questioning glares as the followed Olivia wondering how she had found out that they were there. Only Remus seemed to look at ease as he calmly followed Olivia while patting his god on the head along the way.
Lee quickly wrote a note to her mother to tell her that she had to run out and take the car, before leaving. Remus magically expanded the little car so that it could fit the group of twenty some easily and they set off to pick up Louise.
When they got to Louise's house she quickly ran out to the car and threw two big bags into the trunk.
"Are they finished?" Lee asked as Louise sat in the passengers seat.
"Yea…what's the rush?"
"I'll explain later right now we just need to get there."
"Ok"
Lee took off with great speed toward to closest park so that they could do everything without causing any muggles near by to stumble upon them. When they finally reached their destination they all climbed out of the car and Louise drug out the two clones.
"Alright lets get to work. Remember they have to be flawless." Lee reminded as each girl began to whisper an incantation and the clones began to spring to life.
After each was finished they tested the clones to make sure that they would pass before sending them off to their respective homes with the car.
"Ok what time is it?" Lee asked
"Um…10:30."
"Ok that makes it about 4:30 in the morning right?"
"Yea I guess I never was good at time differences. Why?"
"I just wanted to make sure that we wouldn't be dropping in, in the middle of dinner. No need to cause more trouble then we already have."
"True."
"Ready?"
"Sure."
Each girl pointed her wand at the other and shouted Transporto Depart. With that each was surrounded by an orange haze and snapped from sight. The group was still there when the girls had disappeared and were starting to get worried that they would be stuck where they were but they soon realized that, that was not the case. A few seconds after the girls had disappeared the group was surrounded in the white light like before and it spun at a sickening rate around them until they found themselves back in the potions classroom. Everything looked exactly the same as it had when they left.
Olivia and Constanza stood in front of them awkwardly as Olivia muttered "Oops!"
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Yea a second chapter in a matter of a few hours and look it's longer then the last one! I'm on a role now! Oh well I really have nothing to say other then sorry if the changing of names confuses anyone I'm really trying not to confuse anyone so here's something to help Lee, Olivia, and Eve are all the same person just like Louise and Constanza are the same person. I hope that helped. Anyway….ENJOY!
~Autumn