Nina looked up at the sign.
"Wow. That's a long time!" she muttered under her breath.
Hermione looked at her and rolled her eyes. "Let's go in." she said breathlessly. They walked through the wood-framed door to discover mountains of boxes. Not big boxes. Small, thin boxes of different lengths all over the floor, walls, desk and some were even floating in piles.
"Mr. Ollivander!" Ron called loudly. "Sometimes he is working back there." he explained to Nina. An old man popped out of a door behind the desk.
"Well, a new person. Albus mentioned you would be here. Okay, let's start with some measurements." He pulled a small measuring tape out and it automatically began measuring her arms, nose, head and legs. Nina was appalled at where it measured. Soon, Mr.Ollivander snapped his fingers and looked at Nina.
"We'll start with a willow wand, seven inches, unicorn hair inside. Swish it." He said handing Nina a wand.
She swished it and it did nothing.
"I guess not. Here. Oak, werewolf hair, seven inches. Very rare. But we'll try." Mr.Ollivander suggested to Nina.
Nina took the wand from his hand and felt a sudden burst of energy. She swished the wand once and to her delight she was suddenly greeted with a spark of light.
"You have an awesome wand!" Harry said, smiling.
"Oh, thanks. But what do I do with it?" Nina asked.
"That's why you are coming to Hogwarts. To learn what to do with a wand." He replied.
Nina, Harry, Ron and Hermione all left after Nina paid for her wand. On the way back to the castle Harry and Ron asked a lot of questions about Nina and why she thought her family was kidnapped. Nina didn't really want to talk about it, but had no choice at all. Of course, Hermione stalked off as soon as she could to get to the castle. They eventually got back to the common room within the castle and Harry and Ron told Nina what rules you could get away with breaking-and the ones they couldn't. They pretty much explained how to stay alive in the school without getting into trouble. They mentioned staying away from the Slytherins as much as possible because they were mean, especially to muggle-borns like Nina and Hermione. Nina didn't understand Hermione. She didn't really listen to what Harry and Ron were saying, but instead thought about how to talk to Hermione. Nina eventually went up to talk to Ginny, who told her all about the next day's classes. Ginny was the same as Ron but in a girl. And of course she acted more like a girl, but she was on the same level of thought as Ron. Harry seemed mellow, unless he was talking about quiddich or something else that excited him.
The next day when Nina awoke to the sound of scuffling she was alarmed to see Ginny sleepwalking. She was mumbling and moving through the door to the hall of dormitories. She slipped out of Nina's sight, so Nina got up. She had read about muggles sleepwalking, but not wizards and decided to wake Hermione because Hermione would know what to do. When Nina lightly tapped on the dormitory door, Hermione popped her tired-looking head out through a crack.
"What do you want?" she asked.
"It's Ginny, she is sleepwalking. I didn't know if it was a different situation for wizards then muggles so I came to you. Can you help?" Nina answered.
"Thank you for coming to me in the late night, because sleepwalking is different for wizards. You didn't notice if she had her wand, did you?" Hermione asked.
"No, I just saw her back as she was leaving." Nina replied.
"Okay, just go wake up Ron and Harry. Tell him we won't need the invisibility cloak, but to bring it anyway in case we encounter Filch." Hermione instructed.
Nina nodded and left. She walked to the boys dormitories and looked at the door. It had a sign that said: Boy's dormitories, 5th year. Nina could have sworn that there were noises coming from behind the door, but thought she must have been imagining things. As she knocked on the door to the dormitory, she heard scuffling and a loud popping noise. Soon, the door was opened and a tired looking Ron opened the door a notch.
"What do you want?" he asked, stupidly.
"Hermione told me to wake you. Ginny is sleepwalking and I don't know what to do, so I went to her and." Nina said, realizing Ron was still half-asleep.
"What? Let's wake up Harry. We'll need his cloak." Ron said after a yawn. "Wait here. I'll be right back."
Nina thought that Ron looked a little too tired for his own good, but she just stood outside the door and waited. Soon, Hermione came up from behind her, and touched her shoulder. Nina jumped and spun about.
"Oh, Its you." Nina said, calming down.
"Yes, it's me. Who'd you think it would be?" Grumbled Hermione. "Do you want to go back to the common room? You can, if you are afraid of getting in trouble."
Nina replied quietly, "I know that you don't like me and I have no idea why that is. If it'll make you happy, I'll return to the common room-- and my sleep."
"Oh, I'm sorry, Nina. It's just, well, you all of a sudden came into Ron and Harry's friendship and didn't even have to work to get in. Ginny loves you, and you don't even have to talk to her, and even Professor Dumbledore says he can sense something special in you. I'm sorry, Nina. I was just so jealous." Hermione explained quickly.
"Oh. I see. I guess I was kind of intrusive. Sorry." Nina said gently. "Truce?"
"Truce." Hermione said, grabbing Nina's stuck-out hand.
"Good for you guys. Let's go find my sister." Ron said while opening the door to his dormitory. Harry was behind him, and looked rather odd. Half of his arm happened to be missing.
"Whoa. What happened to you, Harry?" Nina asked Harry.
"What do you mean? Oh, this. It's my dad's-mine rather-our invisibility cloak." Harry said, lifting an invisible something off of his arm.
He pulled it around himself and disappeared completely. When he swung it off again, he stood and bowed.
"Definitely on my want list. Let's start. We still have to find Ginny." Nina said.
"That's why we have the marauders map." Harry said.
"Marauders map? What's that?" Nina asked, looking over Harry's shoulder at the piece of parchment he was holding.
"It's a piece of paper that was enchanted by padfoot, prongs, moody and wormtail. They were students at the school a while ago. And then Fred and George had the map. But now we have it." Ron explained.
"Yeah. You can tell where every person is when they're in the castle." Harry said while tapping the parchment with his wand. "I solemnly swear I am up to no good." He finished.
Nina laughed. "Nice."
"Shhhh." Hermione said. "You're going to wake someone up."
"Look, there's Ginny." Harry said, pointing to a speck on the map labeled Ginny Weasley.
"Why's my sister walking into the boy's bathroom? The head boy's bathroom at that?" Ron asked.
Everyone shrugged.
"Let's follow her. No one will be awake."
"Except for the teachers-'' Hermione said but was cut off by Ron.
"And the prefects-''
"And Filch and Mrs. Norris." Cut in Harry to finish the whole thing.
"But we definitely won't get caught." Nina added grumpily.
They slowly left the Gryffindor Common Room at Harry's nod. The four had come to a decision about talking. No one would talk at all-because if they did they would get caught. On the way to the bathroom, no teachers happened to pass them by, or come close, and they only ran into Mrs. Norris once. Hermione sent him away with a quick spell.
"So he won't remember." She whispered quickly.
Finally they arrived at the bathroom, and opened the door to step in. There layed Ginny on their left. On their right was a cloaked person-unseen by Nina, Hermione, Ron and Harry. They were too busy rushing over to Ginny and trying to wake her up.
"Look out, I'll do it." said the voice from the man in the shadows.
All four kids jumped at this sudden voice.
"Take off that hood." Harry said, pointing his wand at the intruder.
"I think not. Your friends may be scared of the face which rests beneath it. Children are so gullible. When friends are involved, they need not worry about danger-or so they think." He said laughing a high cold, laugh.
Nina knew this voice from somewhere. She knew the uncaring sound. The hopeless arrogance.
"Voldemort!" Harry said, jumping to curse him.
"I don't think so!" said another voice suddenly appearing from the darkness beside Voldemort.
It was a deatheater, and at his arrival, four more showed up. Each had his wand pointed at the kids. Nina now had her wand out and pointing at the opposing group.
"Look, this isn't going to go very far, let's talk about it. Look at it from my point of view. We're inside a castle that has a million teachers- all trained in the arts of magic. You are very bad at anything as Harry and I have both escaped from you-" Nina began.
"-And were aided by Dumbledore and his foolish employees. Now, we are all alone in a boy's toilet and you have no one on your side. Didn't it occur to you that all of the dots were still?" Voldemort cut in.
"What do you mean by dots, Voldemort?" Hermione asked.
"Don't think I don't know about your map. I am not stupid. That's the reason you never saw me on it." Voldemort explained. "I'm getting rather tired of talking to you."
With that sentence he flicked his wand at them and said "accio wands!"
The four wands flew towards him and landed at his feet.
"Good. Take over their mind and walk them to the forest. Hagrid will deal with them there." He said to his deatheaters.
"Hagrid?" Hermione whispered to Ron and Harry.
"Who's he?" Nina asked.
Harry looked at her and laughed. "You'll see,"
The deatheaters bowed as their master left with five wands in his hands. They walked over to Nina and laughed.
"Look at this one. Should we just kill her? She got away last time." One said.
"No. Our master said to bring her to Hagrid. Let him do it." Another said.
"Fine." the first one answered.
"Ummm, would you mind telling me what this is all about? I am really bad with logic, so please explain." Nina said quickly.
It wasn't that she didn't understand what was happening, however Harry was inching his was to closer to the deatheaters. He jumped quickly towards the wand held in the opponents' hand and pulled it out of the deatheater's grasp. In the same movement, he shot two spells at surrounding 'eaters. While the confused idiots stumbled to catch him by force, Hermione, Ron and Nina all jumped for wands that were not there.
"Argh, Voldemort took them all!" Nina said quickly as Voldemort's followers grabbed her by the neck and dragged them out of the bathroom and to the field surrounding the castle.
"Wow. That's a long time!" she muttered under her breath.
Hermione looked at her and rolled her eyes. "Let's go in." she said breathlessly. They walked through the wood-framed door to discover mountains of boxes. Not big boxes. Small, thin boxes of different lengths all over the floor, walls, desk and some were even floating in piles.
"Mr. Ollivander!" Ron called loudly. "Sometimes he is working back there." he explained to Nina. An old man popped out of a door behind the desk.
"Well, a new person. Albus mentioned you would be here. Okay, let's start with some measurements." He pulled a small measuring tape out and it automatically began measuring her arms, nose, head and legs. Nina was appalled at where it measured. Soon, Mr.Ollivander snapped his fingers and looked at Nina.
"We'll start with a willow wand, seven inches, unicorn hair inside. Swish it." He said handing Nina a wand.
She swished it and it did nothing.
"I guess not. Here. Oak, werewolf hair, seven inches. Very rare. But we'll try." Mr.Ollivander suggested to Nina.
Nina took the wand from his hand and felt a sudden burst of energy. She swished the wand once and to her delight she was suddenly greeted with a spark of light.
"You have an awesome wand!" Harry said, smiling.
"Oh, thanks. But what do I do with it?" Nina asked.
"That's why you are coming to Hogwarts. To learn what to do with a wand." He replied.
Nina, Harry, Ron and Hermione all left after Nina paid for her wand. On the way back to the castle Harry and Ron asked a lot of questions about Nina and why she thought her family was kidnapped. Nina didn't really want to talk about it, but had no choice at all. Of course, Hermione stalked off as soon as she could to get to the castle. They eventually got back to the common room within the castle and Harry and Ron told Nina what rules you could get away with breaking-and the ones they couldn't. They pretty much explained how to stay alive in the school without getting into trouble. They mentioned staying away from the Slytherins as much as possible because they were mean, especially to muggle-borns like Nina and Hermione. Nina didn't understand Hermione. She didn't really listen to what Harry and Ron were saying, but instead thought about how to talk to Hermione. Nina eventually went up to talk to Ginny, who told her all about the next day's classes. Ginny was the same as Ron but in a girl. And of course she acted more like a girl, but she was on the same level of thought as Ron. Harry seemed mellow, unless he was talking about quiddich or something else that excited him.
The next day when Nina awoke to the sound of scuffling she was alarmed to see Ginny sleepwalking. She was mumbling and moving through the door to the hall of dormitories. She slipped out of Nina's sight, so Nina got up. She had read about muggles sleepwalking, but not wizards and decided to wake Hermione because Hermione would know what to do. When Nina lightly tapped on the dormitory door, Hermione popped her tired-looking head out through a crack.
"What do you want?" she asked.
"It's Ginny, she is sleepwalking. I didn't know if it was a different situation for wizards then muggles so I came to you. Can you help?" Nina answered.
"Thank you for coming to me in the late night, because sleepwalking is different for wizards. You didn't notice if she had her wand, did you?" Hermione asked.
"No, I just saw her back as she was leaving." Nina replied.
"Okay, just go wake up Ron and Harry. Tell him we won't need the invisibility cloak, but to bring it anyway in case we encounter Filch." Hermione instructed.
Nina nodded and left. She walked to the boys dormitories and looked at the door. It had a sign that said: Boy's dormitories, 5th year. Nina could have sworn that there were noises coming from behind the door, but thought she must have been imagining things. As she knocked on the door to the dormitory, she heard scuffling and a loud popping noise. Soon, the door was opened and a tired looking Ron opened the door a notch.
"What do you want?" he asked, stupidly.
"Hermione told me to wake you. Ginny is sleepwalking and I don't know what to do, so I went to her and." Nina said, realizing Ron was still half-asleep.
"What? Let's wake up Harry. We'll need his cloak." Ron said after a yawn. "Wait here. I'll be right back."
Nina thought that Ron looked a little too tired for his own good, but she just stood outside the door and waited. Soon, Hermione came up from behind her, and touched her shoulder. Nina jumped and spun about.
"Oh, Its you." Nina said, calming down.
"Yes, it's me. Who'd you think it would be?" Grumbled Hermione. "Do you want to go back to the common room? You can, if you are afraid of getting in trouble."
Nina replied quietly, "I know that you don't like me and I have no idea why that is. If it'll make you happy, I'll return to the common room-- and my sleep."
"Oh, I'm sorry, Nina. It's just, well, you all of a sudden came into Ron and Harry's friendship and didn't even have to work to get in. Ginny loves you, and you don't even have to talk to her, and even Professor Dumbledore says he can sense something special in you. I'm sorry, Nina. I was just so jealous." Hermione explained quickly.
"Oh. I see. I guess I was kind of intrusive. Sorry." Nina said gently. "Truce?"
"Truce." Hermione said, grabbing Nina's stuck-out hand.
"Good for you guys. Let's go find my sister." Ron said while opening the door to his dormitory. Harry was behind him, and looked rather odd. Half of his arm happened to be missing.
"Whoa. What happened to you, Harry?" Nina asked Harry.
"What do you mean? Oh, this. It's my dad's-mine rather-our invisibility cloak." Harry said, lifting an invisible something off of his arm.
He pulled it around himself and disappeared completely. When he swung it off again, he stood and bowed.
"Definitely on my want list. Let's start. We still have to find Ginny." Nina said.
"That's why we have the marauders map." Harry said.
"Marauders map? What's that?" Nina asked, looking over Harry's shoulder at the piece of parchment he was holding.
"It's a piece of paper that was enchanted by padfoot, prongs, moody and wormtail. They were students at the school a while ago. And then Fred and George had the map. But now we have it." Ron explained.
"Yeah. You can tell where every person is when they're in the castle." Harry said while tapping the parchment with his wand. "I solemnly swear I am up to no good." He finished.
Nina laughed. "Nice."
"Shhhh." Hermione said. "You're going to wake someone up."
"Look, there's Ginny." Harry said, pointing to a speck on the map labeled Ginny Weasley.
"Why's my sister walking into the boy's bathroom? The head boy's bathroom at that?" Ron asked.
Everyone shrugged.
"Let's follow her. No one will be awake."
"Except for the teachers-'' Hermione said but was cut off by Ron.
"And the prefects-''
"And Filch and Mrs. Norris." Cut in Harry to finish the whole thing.
"But we definitely won't get caught." Nina added grumpily.
They slowly left the Gryffindor Common Room at Harry's nod. The four had come to a decision about talking. No one would talk at all-because if they did they would get caught. On the way to the bathroom, no teachers happened to pass them by, or come close, and they only ran into Mrs. Norris once. Hermione sent him away with a quick spell.
"So he won't remember." She whispered quickly.
Finally they arrived at the bathroom, and opened the door to step in. There layed Ginny on their left. On their right was a cloaked person-unseen by Nina, Hermione, Ron and Harry. They were too busy rushing over to Ginny and trying to wake her up.
"Look out, I'll do it." said the voice from the man in the shadows.
All four kids jumped at this sudden voice.
"Take off that hood." Harry said, pointing his wand at the intruder.
"I think not. Your friends may be scared of the face which rests beneath it. Children are so gullible. When friends are involved, they need not worry about danger-or so they think." He said laughing a high cold, laugh.
Nina knew this voice from somewhere. She knew the uncaring sound. The hopeless arrogance.
"Voldemort!" Harry said, jumping to curse him.
"I don't think so!" said another voice suddenly appearing from the darkness beside Voldemort.
It was a deatheater, and at his arrival, four more showed up. Each had his wand pointed at the kids. Nina now had her wand out and pointing at the opposing group.
"Look, this isn't going to go very far, let's talk about it. Look at it from my point of view. We're inside a castle that has a million teachers- all trained in the arts of magic. You are very bad at anything as Harry and I have both escaped from you-" Nina began.
"-And were aided by Dumbledore and his foolish employees. Now, we are all alone in a boy's toilet and you have no one on your side. Didn't it occur to you that all of the dots were still?" Voldemort cut in.
"What do you mean by dots, Voldemort?" Hermione asked.
"Don't think I don't know about your map. I am not stupid. That's the reason you never saw me on it." Voldemort explained. "I'm getting rather tired of talking to you."
With that sentence he flicked his wand at them and said "accio wands!"
The four wands flew towards him and landed at his feet.
"Good. Take over their mind and walk them to the forest. Hagrid will deal with them there." He said to his deatheaters.
"Hagrid?" Hermione whispered to Ron and Harry.
"Who's he?" Nina asked.
Harry looked at her and laughed. "You'll see,"
The deatheaters bowed as their master left with five wands in his hands. They walked over to Nina and laughed.
"Look at this one. Should we just kill her? She got away last time." One said.
"No. Our master said to bring her to Hagrid. Let him do it." Another said.
"Fine." the first one answered.
"Ummm, would you mind telling me what this is all about? I am really bad with logic, so please explain." Nina said quickly.
It wasn't that she didn't understand what was happening, however Harry was inching his was to closer to the deatheaters. He jumped quickly towards the wand held in the opponents' hand and pulled it out of the deatheater's grasp. In the same movement, he shot two spells at surrounding 'eaters. While the confused idiots stumbled to catch him by force, Hermione, Ron and Nina all jumped for wands that were not there.
"Argh, Voldemort took them all!" Nina said quickly as Voldemort's followers grabbed her by the neck and dragged them out of the bathroom and to the field surrounding the castle.