Chapter One
It was 1:30 in the morning, and the Freak Show was gathered at Kee- Kee's house for an end of the summer party. Kee-Kee, Ray-Ray, Ramo, Ara, and Kee-Kee's younger sister Chippy were sitting cross-legged in a tight circle. In the center of the circle sat a spoon, a black cloak, and a copy of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. The only thing they were missing was their dear friend Elizabeth, who had vanished without a trace the previous year.
"Harry is so lucky," Chippy grumbled, gazing at the thick blue and grey book. "School doesn't start at Hogwarts until September first! We have to go back on August twenty-fifth!"
"Can we start the ceremony now?" Ara asked, sweeping a few strands of long dark hair out of her face
Last year, out of pure boredom, the older members of the Freak Show had created a religion know as Anti-Tableism. It involved avoiding tables and preforming a ritual known as the Anti-Tableist Dance. They began the dance, swaying side to side and bobbing there heads.
"Did you feel that?" Ray-Ray demanded after a few minutes, stopping abruptly.
"What?" Kee-Kee asked.
The floor beneath the girls shuddered and a purple glow illuminated the dimly lit room.
"Whoa! Cool!" Ramo exclaimed as the circle of light that had formed beneath the group began to slowly swirl.
It spun faster and faster until the circle had completely engulfed the Freak Show.
Chippy landed hard on her back. Strange. . . She didn't remember falling. Sitting up, she saw that she was on top of a solid wooden desk. Ray-Ray was slumped against the side of the desk looking dazed, Ara was staggering to her feet, Ramo had found Order of the Phoenix and was reading Snape's Worst Memory (for the 148th time), and Kee-Kee was staring into a small mirror mounted on the wall and trying frantically to fix her golden hair.
"Where are we?" Ray-Ray asked after a few minutes of silence.
"Hogwarts!" Chippy cried, glancing up from the paper she had found on the desk.
"What?" Ray-Ray looked blankly at Chippy.
"Hogwarts!" Chippy repeated. "Look!"
The group crowded around the paper that Chippy was holding out.
A crest was stamped at the top of the document, and it looked exactly as it had been described in the Harry Potter books. Beneath the crest were the words:
Class Lists for: Professor Severs Snape,
Potions Master of Hogwarts School of
Which Craft and Wizardry
"Oh, that explains it then!" Ara exclaimed. "We must have opened some sort of portal that transported us to Hogwarts!"
"But. . . Hogwarts isn't real!" Chippy gasped.
"Maybe we're in another dimension," Kee-Kee suggested.
"Hey, do you think this really is Snape's office?" Ramo started laughing and rummaging through the desk drawers.
Ray-Ray examined their surroundings for the first time. A fireplace with an empty grate covered one wall while shelves heavily burdened with bottles and jars lined the others. The massive desk sat with its back to the fireplace and had two chairs facing it. The walls and floors were bare stone.
"Check this out!" Kee-Kee squealed. "It says here that Harry Potter is going to be in the sixth year N.E.W.T potions class! So's Hermione Granger, Draco Malfoy, and a bunch of other people we know!"
"Maybe it takes so long for new Harry Potter books to come out because J.K. Rowling has to wait to see what happens in the year and then write it all down!" Ray-Ray remarked.
Being freaks, ending up in a school from a fantasy book didn't really surprise the girls much. Lots of weird things happen to freaks.
"Shhhh! Someone's coming!" Ray-Ray hissed.
Seconds later, the wooden door creaked open. Standing there and looking utterly shocked to find the five in the office was none other than Severus Snape himself. The Freak Show let out a collective gasp. Out of all the characters in the Harry Potter series, Professor Snape had to be among their favorites. Two minutes crawled by. The Freak Show stared at Severus. Severus stared at the Freak Show.
"Uh. . . Hello," Ara said at last. "We're the Freak Show. I'm Ara, and that's Kee-Kee, Ramo, Ray-Ray, and Chippy," she pointed each girl out.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN MY OFFICE?!" Severus finally manage to shriek.
"Take a chill pill, dude," Chippy scolded.
"Well," Kee-Kee started, "we kind of hoped you could answer that for us."
"We were sitting around at Kee-Kee's, and this purple thingy started spinning under us," Ray-Ray continued.
"And then we ended up in your office," Ara finished.
Severus glared at the girls. His sallow face had turned a weird reddish color. Just like in the books, he had greasy black hair, black eyes, and a big, hooked nose. He was pretty tall too. A little over six feet, Chippy guessed.
"Come with me to the headmaster's office. Now," he seemed to have recovered from the initial shock.
Kee-Kee, Ray-Ray, Ara, Ramo, and Chippy followed him out of the office.
"What should we do to annoy him first?" Ramo whispered.
It was 1:30 in the morning, and the Freak Show was gathered at Kee- Kee's house for an end of the summer party. Kee-Kee, Ray-Ray, Ramo, Ara, and Kee-Kee's younger sister Chippy were sitting cross-legged in a tight circle. In the center of the circle sat a spoon, a black cloak, and a copy of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. The only thing they were missing was their dear friend Elizabeth, who had vanished without a trace the previous year.
"Harry is so lucky," Chippy grumbled, gazing at the thick blue and grey book. "School doesn't start at Hogwarts until September first! We have to go back on August twenty-fifth!"
"Can we start the ceremony now?" Ara asked, sweeping a few strands of long dark hair out of her face
Last year, out of pure boredom, the older members of the Freak Show had created a religion know as Anti-Tableism. It involved avoiding tables and preforming a ritual known as the Anti-Tableist Dance. They began the dance, swaying side to side and bobbing there heads.
"Did you feel that?" Ray-Ray demanded after a few minutes, stopping abruptly.
"What?" Kee-Kee asked.
The floor beneath the girls shuddered and a purple glow illuminated the dimly lit room.
"Whoa! Cool!" Ramo exclaimed as the circle of light that had formed beneath the group began to slowly swirl.
It spun faster and faster until the circle had completely engulfed the Freak Show.
Chippy landed hard on her back. Strange. . . She didn't remember falling. Sitting up, she saw that she was on top of a solid wooden desk. Ray-Ray was slumped against the side of the desk looking dazed, Ara was staggering to her feet, Ramo had found Order of the Phoenix and was reading Snape's Worst Memory (for the 148th time), and Kee-Kee was staring into a small mirror mounted on the wall and trying frantically to fix her golden hair.
"Where are we?" Ray-Ray asked after a few minutes of silence.
"Hogwarts!" Chippy cried, glancing up from the paper she had found on the desk.
"What?" Ray-Ray looked blankly at Chippy.
"Hogwarts!" Chippy repeated. "Look!"
The group crowded around the paper that Chippy was holding out.
A crest was stamped at the top of the document, and it looked exactly as it had been described in the Harry Potter books. Beneath the crest were the words:
Class Lists for: Professor Severs Snape,
Potions Master of Hogwarts School of
Which Craft and Wizardry
"Oh, that explains it then!" Ara exclaimed. "We must have opened some sort of portal that transported us to Hogwarts!"
"But. . . Hogwarts isn't real!" Chippy gasped.
"Maybe we're in another dimension," Kee-Kee suggested.
"Hey, do you think this really is Snape's office?" Ramo started laughing and rummaging through the desk drawers.
Ray-Ray examined their surroundings for the first time. A fireplace with an empty grate covered one wall while shelves heavily burdened with bottles and jars lined the others. The massive desk sat with its back to the fireplace and had two chairs facing it. The walls and floors were bare stone.
"Check this out!" Kee-Kee squealed. "It says here that Harry Potter is going to be in the sixth year N.E.W.T potions class! So's Hermione Granger, Draco Malfoy, and a bunch of other people we know!"
"Maybe it takes so long for new Harry Potter books to come out because J.K. Rowling has to wait to see what happens in the year and then write it all down!" Ray-Ray remarked.
Being freaks, ending up in a school from a fantasy book didn't really surprise the girls much. Lots of weird things happen to freaks.
"Shhhh! Someone's coming!" Ray-Ray hissed.
Seconds later, the wooden door creaked open. Standing there and looking utterly shocked to find the five in the office was none other than Severus Snape himself. The Freak Show let out a collective gasp. Out of all the characters in the Harry Potter series, Professor Snape had to be among their favorites. Two minutes crawled by. The Freak Show stared at Severus. Severus stared at the Freak Show.
"Uh. . . Hello," Ara said at last. "We're the Freak Show. I'm Ara, and that's Kee-Kee, Ramo, Ray-Ray, and Chippy," she pointed each girl out.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN MY OFFICE?!" Severus finally manage to shriek.
"Take a chill pill, dude," Chippy scolded.
"Well," Kee-Kee started, "we kind of hoped you could answer that for us."
"We were sitting around at Kee-Kee's, and this purple thingy started spinning under us," Ray-Ray continued.
"And then we ended up in your office," Ara finished.
Severus glared at the girls. His sallow face had turned a weird reddish color. Just like in the books, he had greasy black hair, black eyes, and a big, hooked nose. He was pretty tall too. A little over six feet, Chippy guessed.
"Come with me to the headmaster's office. Now," he seemed to have recovered from the initial shock.
Kee-Kee, Ray-Ray, Ara, Ramo, and Chippy followed him out of the office.
"What should we do to annoy him first?" Ramo whispered.