Author Chronicles: The Magic Link - Philosopher's Stone

a magical fanfic by charity236

Disclaimer: I didn't create Zelda or Harry Potter. Flames will be given to Rauru to melt his chocolate coins. So there. Oh yeah and please review, be nice :)

Bak is me! Bad gramar get, I no! Bad spulleng not 2 mentoin. ...Nah, just kidding around with ya there! Couldn't help myself. [laughs maniacally]

Anyway, sorry for the long wait for this long-waited-for chapter, I've been pretty busy with homework.

And before I forget to say again, please review, but no flames - you know what will happen... [glares at Rauru stuffing his face with chocolate coins]

Chapter 3: What The Heck?!

Link slowly got up from his bed the next morning. He rubbed his eyes before tiptoeing over to the bathroom across the room.

He washed his face and combed his hair without looking up, started brushing his teeth, then glanced at his reflection in the mirror.

What Link saw made him spit the contents of his mouth onto the mirror before screaming loudly. 'AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!'

He was seven years older. What the heck?!...

Link dashed over to his bed and pulled his sword out from under it before realising that Ron, Harry and Neville had woken up too.

Link looked at the sword in his hand. The Master Sword.

'How the hell did I...????' Link wondered.

'Morning, Link,' said Ron. He didn't seem to have noticed that anything was wrong. 'Have a good sleep?'

'L-Link,' Neville's face had gone white. 'You l-look older...'

'Your sword is different,' agreed Harry. 'And you have white leggings on or something.'

Link pretended not to hear either comment, but at the same time, he noticed something weird - the Triforce mark was on his hand AGAIN! He tried to rub it off on his tunic, but it wouldn't disappear. He kept rubbing, but all that happened was that the back of his hand went red.

'Uh-oh,' Link muttered under his breath. He unlocked his chest, found the Golden Gauntlets, and put them on. The Triforce mark just went right through the gauntlets. Well... at least I can say it's meant to be on there, Link thought.

'Hoo!' cried Kaepora with an extremely sour look. 'Hooot!'

'Kaepora, sure you can go get some breakfast,' Link said. The wise owl gave him another glare, then flew off.

Everyone stared at Link now (Seamus and Dean had woken up too).

'What?' Link yelled.

'Nothing,' said Dean with a puzzled look, and he turned away. Everyone else got changed and went down to breakfast.

Link put on his robes with difficulty. They were a few sizes too small now, and they only reached down to his knees.

'Great. Juuust great.' Link slung his sword and shield across his back again, then found his way to the Great Hall with a small amount of difficulty.

'Well look who it is, the sword boy,' yelled Malfoy from the Slytherin table as Link walked into the Hall, ignoring the comment. But even Malfoy's face held a look of disbelief.

'Hello Link,' Hermione said with a wide-eyed stare.

'Why does everyone keep staring at me?!' Link asked in annoyance.

'Well... you're different...' whispered Hermione. 'Even more different than normal, I mean.'

'Look, you want to know the truth? Then by all means come down to Hagrid's cabin later this morning,' Link muttered angrily. 'Same goes for Harry and Ron.'



After gulping down his breakfast extremely quickly, Link realised that he'd forgotten his bag. Walking as fast as he could back to Gryffindor Tower, he said the password and dashed up to his dormitory.

Link reached under the bed for his bag when there was a loud clicking noise. He looked up to find Kaepora perched on the windowsill, looking rather ticked off about something.

'Okay, what are you so angry about?' Link asked irritably to the owl.

'I want to know why you're suddenly seven years older. Would it, by any chance, have something to do with those dreams you've been having?'

'How did you know about that?!' Link yelled.

'Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies. ...Er, what I meant to say was that when I woke up in the middle of the night, your bedsheets were astray and your sword and shield were gone from under the bed.'

'I don't recall getting out of bed at all last night!'

'Well, maybe you were sleepwalking.'

'Me? Sleepwalking? Yeah right, only when Gorons fly!'

'Well as far as I know, you played your Ocarina in the middle of the night and warped to the Temple of Time and back without thinking about the consequences. But you WERE sleepwalking...' Kaepora shrugged and flew off, probably to get some breakfast.

Link decided he'd better put the Master Sword back again, so he warped to the Temple of Time, shoved the Sword into the Pedestal, and went back to Hogwarts before grabbing his bag and setting off for Hagrid's cabin.



'Epona! There you are!!' Link yelled as he neared the cabin. He climbed over the fence and ran over to pat his beloved palomino horse. 'Were you nice to Hagrid? I know he's not Malon or I, but he'll take care of you while we're here, don't worry.'

'Link! There you are! Where were you?' Hermione, Ron and Harry ran over to him.

Link ignored this question and instead looked at Epona. 'Like my horse? She's called Epona.'

'Since when do you have a horse? HERE?!' Ron asked.

'Never mind, let's just go see Hagrid,' Link said quickly as he knocked on Hagrid's front door.

'Hello Link! Hello Harry! Do yeh want to come in?' Hagrid asked cheerfully.

'Of course! That's why we're here,' said Harry.



After everyone had sat down in the small cabin and introductions were given, Hargid turned to address Link.

'Yeh gonna spill the beans or what?' Hagrid asked.

'If you're talking about Magic Beans, then here you go,' Link said sarcastically, tipping his pouch of Magic Beans onto the wooden floor.

'No, I mean... why the sword an' the horse an' everythin'? God, I reckon yer owl talks fer cryin' out loud!'

'That's because Kaepora CAN talk,' Link grumbled, and everyone stared at him lop-sidedly.

'Why can he talk then?' Harry asked after a long silence, which had been broken by Fang trying to eat Link's spilt Magic Beans, Hagrid's continous attempts to stop his dog, and Link eventually picking the Beans up.

'Look, I'm definitely not telling you my whole goddamn life story. But I'll tell you the most important parts. See, as you've guessed by now, I'm not from around here. In fact I don't even know what country this is.'

'England,' Ron informed.

'Oh. Anyway, I come from a place called Hyrule - it has magic and swords and monsters and stuff...'

'What magic do you have there?' Hermione asked.

'Um... well I have three magic arrows, three magic crystal things and a magnifying glass that sees the truth. And my sword can release magic waves when charged.'

'So do they have cars an' umbrellas in Hyrule, by any chance? I know I already asked tha', but...' Hagrid asked sarcastically, grinning.

~I can fill that one,~ came a very familiar voice.

'Au-THOR!!' Link moaned.

'Who's Author?' everyone except Hermione, Link and Author asked.

'She's this really annoying person who won't go away. And I've never seen her. Or at least I can't remember ever seeing her.'

~No, there are no cars in Hyrule,~ Author answered Hagrid's question. ~And I'm not sure about umbrellas since I don't have a copy of Majora's Mask to call my own - have to rent it from Blockbuster all the time... really annoying... have to use my pocket money...~

'Uh-huh,' Link nodded doubtfully, wondering what Author meant about "a copy of Majora's Mask" and "Blockbuster".

~Link, you'll find out soon enough what I mean [HINT HINT]. And yes, I can read your mind,~ Author exclaimed.

'Well that's helpful. Now would you please GO AWAY?!'

There was a small POP and then Author was gone again.

'Man I hate her. Now where were we?... oh yeah, Hyrule. Um... well, there's a lot of races - the Hylians, they're just normal people only they have pointy ears; the Gorons are large brown humanoid people with fetishes for rocks; Zoras are part-fish, they obviously like to swim; the Sheikah act as the Royal Family's guardians, though as far as I know there's only one still alive; the Gerudo are theives that hail from the desert; and then there's Kokiris, they're kids that live in the forest and are protected by the Great Deku Tree.'

'So you're a Kokiri?' Harry asked, remembering the talk they'd had on the Hogwarts Express.

'No, I'm a Hylian, but I thought I was Kokiri for years - until the Great Deku Tree sent me on a quest to save him, which ultimately started my quest to save Hyrule from Ganondorf.'

Now there was a barrage of questions coming in Link's direction.

'Who's Ganondorf?'

'Why did the Deku Tree need saving?'

'Why did you think you were Kokiri?'

Link sighed. It was going to be a long day. 'Ganondorf is - er, WAS - the Gerudo King; the Deku Tree needed saving because Ganondorf put a curse on him; and I thought I was Kokiri 'cause I was living in that forest for most of my life.'

'Why the forest?'

'Curse?'

Link sighed again. It was going to be a VERY long day. 'Ganondorf put a curse on the Tree because he wanted the Spiritual Stone of the Forest so he could open the Door of Time to get to the Sacred Realm.'

'Sacred Realm?'

'Door of Time?'

'Spiritual Stone?'

Link sighed for the third time. It was going to be an EXTREMELY long day.



By lunchtime (yes, I saved you from having to read a lot of boring questions which you probably know the answer to anyway), Link had answered most of his new friends' questions, though he ignored any in which he considered the answers to be "too secret, confidential or personal". He also didn't bother to mention his Return to Hyrule. [A/N: If you haven't read that, then go read it right now, it's the start to this whole Author Chronicles series!! And yes I KNOW I haven't finished it... but I'm getting there.]

'So let me get this straigh',' Hagrid stated after the questions had died down, 'yer the Hero o' Time an' yeh saved Hyrule an' Termina an' them other two places which I forgot already...'

'Holodrum and Labrynna,' Link muttered under his breath.

'...and now yeh come 'ere for no apparent reason, tha's a bit odd, ain't it?'

Link shrugged.

'Well enough talk, how's abou' some lunch?' Hagrid offered, picking up a large plate.

'Erm, what's that?' Hermione asked, quavering, not sure about the contents of the food.

'Beef casserole,' Hagrid nodded, but when Ron found a large black feather in it, everyone rather lost their appetites.



'Well that was an interesting visit,' Harry smiled as the four of them walked back up to the castle for dinner.

'I'm amazed that you did all that stuff, Link,' Hermione complimented.

'Aw, it was nothing,' Link said.

After lunch in Hagrid's cabin, the talk had turned to Harry, Ron, Hermione and their families. When Ron had opened his mouth, Hagrid had said, 'Yer a Weasley, aren't yeh? I can tell, spent half me time chasin' yer twin brothers away from the Forest.' Ron's ears had gone red at that.

But now the four friends were starving (they'd given the rest of the so-called "beef" casserole to Fang) so they entered the Great Hall for some proper food.

'Yo, pointy-ears! Hey, look over here!' Malfoy jumped about from the Slytherin table. 'Look at me, I'm a fairy! Lah-di-dah!'

Link tried to keep a straight face as he walked past, but when he reached the Gryffindor table, he, Harry, Ron and Hermione all burst out laughing.

'That's even worse than Tingle!' Link laughed at Malfoy's taunting.

A few hours later, Link and his friends were gathered in the Gryffindor common room, talking (or in Hermione's case, memorising her textbooks).

The grandfather clock in the corner struck ten.

'Ten already? That time flew by past,' Hermione said, startled. 'I think I'll go to bed...' She closed her Transfiguration book and stood up from her chair.

'Geez, you're right,' Link said with a yawn. 'Goodnight Hermione.'

'Goodnight everyone,' said Hermione as she stumped up the girl's staircase.

Back in the dormitory, Kaepora said he'd make sure Link wouldn't sleep-anything.

'Thanks Kaepora. Night, guys,' Link said as Harry and Ron slipped into their beds. He shoved his bag into his chest, pushed the Kokiri Sword and Hylian Shield under the bed and got into his own bed. He wondered what the next day's lessons would be like...

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Sorry that chapter was so short, I had a bit of writer's block for a while, but reading Harry Potter again (and playing some more OoT) fixed that. I promise the next chapter will be longer.

Next Chapter: Magic Lessons Aren't As Easy As You'd Think

This is going to be interesting... I wonder how Link'll go doing magic?

Please review! It makes me feel special, so be nice :)

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