A/N: Hiya! It's Nikki again and I'm gonna complain some more because although Ginny wrote all the important stuff, she leaves the explaining to me! Oh well, I guess I'll just be quiet and let you read.

Hermione gently pulled Ginny away from Harry and sat her down in one of the big squishy chairs in front of the fire.

"Ginny calm down," she said, trying to keep her voice from shaking, "It'll be okay."

Ginny continued to sob into her hands as the other looked on worriedly. Ron moved to one of the other chairs and sat down silently, for once he couldn't find anything to say. Harry and Nikki remained standing, unable to move. Once Ginny had at least calmed down a little more, Hermione spoke quietly.

"Ginny, how did you find out that Sirius is dead?"

Harry flinched slightly at Nikki's side, as if hearing those words had hurt him physically.

"I-I-I'm not sure exactly," she said, wiping tears from her face. "It just all of a sudden came to me. I woke up and I just knew."

"Did you have a dream?" Ron prompted, thinking it might have been like what Harry had experienced with Mr. Weasley.

"No, I don't think so. I don't remember dreaming anything; I just woke up and the first thing I thought was that Sirius was dead."

"Is he really dead?" Nikki asked gently, looking from Hermione, to Ron, finally resting her eyes on Harry. He shifted his weight slightly but didn't answer.

"Yes he is," Hermione said slowly through the silence. "He died at the end of last term. I'm sorry, Harry, but they have to know," she said, looking at Harry's pained face with sympathy. He gave a short nod but remained silent.

"So, how did Ginny know but I didn't?" Nikki wondered aloud.

"Maybe it has something to do with what you were saying before, about something you read. You called it The Order of the Phoenix," Ron suggested.

"But Nikki's right, it hadn't come out before we left," Ginny said.

"What 'came out'? The Order of the Phoenix is a group that fights V-Voldemort," Hermione said.

"It's also a book," Nikki replied, sitting down. "This is gonna take awhile to explain, I would suggest you guys sit too."

With some help from Ginny, Nikki was able to explain to the trio about the Harry Potter book series.

"But when we somehow got transported to Harry Potter Land, book five wasn't out yet." Ginny concluded; her mood seemed to have lightened a bit.

"But now Ginny knows some of the things that happened in the book and I don't," Nikki said, more to herself than anyone else, "Which means we've got some kind of parallel universe thing going on."

"Parallel universe?" Ron asked.

"That means that you have two selves living in different worlds and apparently they can affect each other." Hermione responded.

"I know what it means!" Ron retorted, "I don't understand why Nikki thinks this is one!"

"I'm not sure it is, but that's the only explanation as to why Ginny knows what happens in the fifth book without it being out when we were still home."

"So you mean no one knows that we've left?" Ginny asked.

"I don't know anything Gin," Nikki replied, "I don't know why this is happening."

"Maybe we should talk to Dumbledore," Hermione suggested, "He may be able to help."

"No, I'm not going to bother him right now," Nikki said, shaking her head.

"Well then what do you want to do?"

"I don't know," Nikki said, feeling like a child who lost their parents in a strange place. She didn't know how she got here and now, she didn't know if she could get back.

(A/N: Hey, everyone, it's Ginny. Right about now, Nikki had a major brain fart, so I'll be finishing up the chapter. Ok? Ok.)

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(A/N: And I'm drawing a blank at the moment too, so we'll talk about abbreviations. Now, you may be thinking, "Abbreviations? Boring!" But you're wrong, okay? They're very interesting things. LotR, FotR, TTT, RotK, PS, CoS, PoA, GoF, OotP, IM, AOL, ATM, PMS… there are tons of abbreviations out there. It became kind of confusing for me and Nik, though, when we heard of Pirates of the Caribbean. Know why? Cuz we always called Portal to China 'ptc'… so then we had 'ptc' and 'potc'…. At least we didn't name our story Portal of the China!)

It turned out that Nikki needn't have worried about bothering Dumbledore. Ginny's screams had woken him, and he and Professors Snape and McGonagall entered the Gryffindor common room only a few minutes later. Apparently Snape never undressed, and it was just a bit odd to see up-tight McGonagall wearing a robe and nightcap. She did, however, have an official-looking piece of parchment in her hands.

The professors all took seats around the common room, and as soon as Snape had sat down, Ginny pounced on him and settled herself in his lap, looking for all the world like a three-year-old who was trying to hide the fact that she missed her mommy. Her eyes grew large and round, filling with tears, and her bottom lip began to tremble. Snape winced as Ginny's face screwed up in concentration just before letting out a loud wail and bursting into tears.

Saying Snape was uncomfortable would be like saying the Silmarillion is a bit more detailed than The Roly Poly Puppy. He looked ready to bolt, but he didn't have to. Dumbledore pulled a large spiral-y sucker out of his pocket and held it in front of the bawling girl until she noticed. She immediately stopped crying with an, "Ooo, lollipop!" and they were free to begin talking.

It was basically just a rehash of the conversation among the kids a few minutes before, so nothing was really that interesting (Dumbledore did agree with the alternate-universe thing, though). That is, it wasn't that interesting until Dumbledore changed the subject to Nikki's last name and McGonagall whipped out that parchment.

"It is stated here," the professor said, scanning the parchment through teeny tiny little spectacles, "that a midwife named Maria Spolfer delivered a girl-child to Chloe Riddle on July 12, 1981. But after that date, the child was never seen. She disappeared completely from existence." McGonagall looked over the top of her parchment at Nikki. Nikki just blinked at her. Well, what was she supposed to get out of that? That ol' Moldy Voldie had a daughter? "Miss Riddle died two months after the birth."

"And she was Voldemort's daughter but dearest daddy didn't know he had a daughter or he did and he was using her for something yadda yadda yadda. I've heard this a thousand times in fan fiction. Sorry, Professor, but what's the point?" Nikki asked.

McGonagall's eyes narrowed and she pinched her lips together in a stern line.

"The point, Miss Black," Dumbledore said calmly, eyes twinkling, "is that nine months before Miss Riddle gave birth, she was romantically involved with Sirius Black."

They had pretty much left it at that, deciding that it was too late to keep the children up any longer. Nikki thought it was a stupid idea. They had all-but-blatantly told her that they thought she was the daughter of a mass-believed murderous Marauder! Who the heck would want to go to bed after hearing that? Oh, and let's not forget that she was supposedly Voldemort's granddaughter! Geez!

Ron glared at Ginny, who was happily sucking away at an edge of her lollipop. "Will you do something intelligent for a change?" he snapped irritably.

"How many times do I have to tell people that she's smart?" Nikki exclaimed angrily.

Ginny nodded emphatically. "Yeah, I bet you didn't know that a turkey can run at twenty miles-per-hour!" Ron slumped in his seat, sulking pathetically. Ginny patted his shoulder and gave him a baby face. "What's the matter, Ronnie?"

"Nothing's wrong. I'm as happy as a lark," he said sarcastically.

"It's a little known fact that larks are pathologically depressed," Ginny stated matter-of-factly, straightening up and looking down at the boy critically. Nikki laughed. At least Ginny's life wasn't as complicated as hers.

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A/N: *looks around with a mischievous look on her face* MWAHAHA! *Nikki slaps a hand over her mouth*

Okay, folks, that's it: the plot. The beginning of it. Or the middle. Heck, the point is that we finally came up with a plot! Yey, go us!

Now be nice and review several times in succession. We need to be rewarded for our hard work.

*Ginny finally pries Nikki's hand off her mouth* Yeah! *stomps her foot to emphasize her point, but ends up losing her balance and falling over*

*Nikki shakes her head at her and then waves at the reader*