AN: I am SOOOOOOOO sorry for not updating quickly!!! I mean I am honestly, completely, totally, utterly sorry! I was really concentrating on my other story, Me and Emily. But since it's finished now, I don't have to worry about it anymore. I just have to consider the sequel! (No, really, I'm writing a sequel!) But while I'm in the break between stories, I figured I'd update this and two other stories. Anywho, shout-outs and then the chappie!

Occasus - MY FIRST EVER REVIEWER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sweetgirl - well, I'm glad you found that it wasn't stupid!

tmrwspromise - read and see!!

auditoriumnazi - your review, yes, was entertaining. {smiles}

gihg - sorry that I didn't exactly "update soon" as you requested . . . {looks down in shame}

Maggy A. - read and your waterfall of questions just might be answered . . . {Smirks}

Daisie - they couldn't be "surprised/scared/hysterical" with Hermione right there, now could they?

nixie - how would "Hermione and etc." know about the HP series? Even if there IS a loophole, this is MY fic and I can do what I want to! {sticks tongue out} Erm . . . hehehehe . . . sorry about that . . .

lil-whitelighter111488 - my story's on your favorites! YAAAAAY!!! {does happy dance}

Eve Granger - I'd like to have a story that has no pairings for once, but I'll consider it . . .

Okies, I'm so sorry if I forgot anyone, but I don't think I did, soooo . . . on with the chappie!

Disclaimer: Let's play fill in the blank, shall we?

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After Eva handed Hermione's wand back to her, she drug Zillah back over to their spot and nearly screamed with happiness.

"Zill, can you believe it? We're witches!!! After thinking we're non- magical all our lives, suddenly we discover that our biggest wish has come true! This is so great!" she exclaimed.

"Yes, that's all well and good, and it looks like we'll be going to Hogwarts, but we don't have any of the stuff we need! Like cauldrons or telescopes or books or most importantly, wands!" said Zillah. "Plus, we have clothes that are only going to last us a week, and they aren't even robes! What'll we do?" Zillah was now wringing her hands.

"Well, it only makes logical sense to tell someone about it, so who better than Hermione? She's already suspicious, after all," said Eva.

"Right, but we can ONLY tell Hermione and Dumbledore!"

"Why Dumbledore?"

"Because he'll have to know where his two new students came from, he's the headmaster, and plus he can probably manifest some kind of way for us to get to Diagon Alley so we can buy school supplies!" said Zillah matter-of- factly.

"Okay. We'd better tell Hermione now, before Harry and Ron show up," said Eva. Zillah agreed, and the two of them walked over to Hermione, who was now trying to get her trunk on the train.

"Want some help?" asked Zillah and Eva at the same time.

"Oh, sure, thanks," said Hermione, and between the three of them, they somehow managed to get the trunk up onto the train.

"Uh, Hermione? Could we talk to you? It's kind of important," said Eva urgently.

"Sure, we might as well just get on the train, that way we'll have privacy," said Hermione. Once the three of them were settled in the compartment with their luggage and the door was closed, Zillah started.

"Okay Hermione, this is going to surprise you a bit." Hermione nodded her head. As Zillah explained all about the Harry Potter series and how Zillah and Eva had thought they were muggles and couldn't get back out of the platform, Hermione looked more and more shocked.

"So you two thought you were muggles, but discovered that you weren't by using my wand?" said Hermione.

"Yes. We don't have any kind of wizarding stuff, no robes, no wands, no nothing," said Zillah.

"Wow. Well, since you guys don't want this shared with anyone except Dumbledore, we're going to have to give you a cover. I think the best way would be to pretend you came from another wizarding school," said Hermione.

"As long as it's not Durmstrang, I'm cool with that," said Zillah.

"Me too," agreed Eva.

"Well, we could say you came from Beaxbatons," said Hermione. {AN: I don't think that's spelled right, but I can't look it up because the fourth book is at my dad's house.}

"But isn't that school supposed to be better than Hogwarts?" questioned Eva.

"True, you wouldn't be transferred to a worse school. I don't know of any more schools in Britain, the rest are in Asia and America. I don't think you guys would pass for Asians, and you don't have American accents, so no one would believe you if you claimed you were from America. The only option I see is if you guys had come from Durmstrang," said Hermione.

"Great. Well, maybe Dumbledore can come up with something?" suggested Zillah half-heartedly.

"I think he could, but you'll be meeting other people on the train before you can contact Dumbledore," said Hermione. "I think your best bet is just to tell everyone you came from Durmstrang."

"Unless we simply avoid the topic of where we came from?" said Zillah.

"Or if you avoid people altogether," said Hermione, but they never got a chance to contemplate this, because Harry and Ron showed at the door to their compartment right then, just as the train started moving.

"Hermione! We've been looking all over for you!" said Ron

"We looked for you all over the platform and couldn't find you! We thought something had happened . . ." Harry stopped his ranting as he noticed Zillah and Eva. "Who are you?" he asked bluntly. Zillah and Eva both glanced nervously at Hermione. Hermione guessed that they were asking her if they should tell Harry and Ron the truth or avoid the topic. Hermione debated this subject for a minute and then said out loud, "I think you guys should tell them the truth, they're my best friends and they have a right to know as well."

"Well, all right, but NO ONE else, no matter what," said Zillah.

"Tell us what?" asked Ron.

"Hermione, is something wrong?" asked Harry.

"Harry, Ron, you better sit down," said Eva.

"Hey, wait a minute! How do you know my name?" said Ron, but he and Harry sat down nonetheless.

"Well, you see, it's sort of like this . . ." started Zillah, and she and Eva again told the story of how they had gotten there. By the time they had finished, the train had traveled out of London and was riding past rolling hills.

"Whoa," was all Harry could manage to say. Ron on the other hand . . .

"You guys are saying that we're part of a fictional book series? And that pretty much the ENTIRE muggle world knows about us? And that—"

"Ron, shut up!" said Hermione. "Yes, that's what they're saying, you don't need to repeat it."

"Mental. You're both mental," he said faintly. Harry rolled his eyes.

"Don't mind him, he often takes stuff like this. I believe you. It's hard to believe, but I do," he said gently.

"Well, we'll work on Ron later. In the meanwhile, do you have any ideas as to how we could convince the rest of the school that we're NOT from the muggle world? Hermione had the idea that we could have transferred from another school, but we couldn't think of any that would make sense," said Zillah.

"Well, how about this? You guys lived in Britain until you were about 10, and then you moved to America where you went to a wizarding school there until now, and then you moved back to Britain where you were transferred to Hogwarts? That will explain your absence of an American accent," said Harry.

"Hey, that's not a bad idea! We just have to get Dumbledore to agree with it, and then we have to get school supplies," said Eva.

"Until you do get supplies, you guys can use my robes," said Hermione. "They'd fit you well enough. People would really start wondering if you didn't have robes. But you'll have to be sorted, there's no guarantee that you'll get into Gryffindor, so I'll have to remove the patches, and you'll have to wear black ties. I think I still have a couple," she said, and she opened her trunk and started rummaging through it. In the meanwhile, Zillah, Eva, and Harry turned to Ron and tried to convince him that they were telling the truth. After Hermione had produced two of her robes and removed the Gryffindor patches from them, she joined in. After 10 minutes of unsuccessful bickering, Zillah put two of her fingers to her lips and quieted everyone with a shrill whistle.

"Okay Ron, how about we tell you stuff about you and Harry and Hermione that you and him and Hermione have never even told us?" suggested Zillah, but there was anger in her voice.

"What? That's impossible!" said Ron.

"Really? You have six siblings: Ginny, who is a year younger than you and used to fancy Harry, Fred and George, who are twins and probably the best pranksters Hogwarts had eve seen besides the Marauders, Percy, who was Head Boy at Hogwarts and deserted your family when Voldemort returned to power, Charlie, who was the best Seeker on Gryffindor's Quidditch team until Harry joined and now works with dragons in Romania, and Bill, who works as a curse-breaker for Gringotts," said Eva.

"Oh yes, and the Marauders are Moony a.k.a. Remus Lupin, who is a werewolf and your third DADA teacher, Wormtail a.k.a. Peter Pettigrew, who betrayed Harry's parent's to Voldemort, Padfoot a.k.a. Sirius Black who is Harry's godfather and was murdered a few months ago by Bellatrix Lestrange, and Prongs a.k.a. James Potter who is Harry's dad and was a fabulous seeker. They created a map which is currently in Harry's possession and was given to him by Fred and George called the Marauders' Map which is a map of Hogwarts and it's secret passages and it shows all of the people in Hogwarts, no matter where they are or what disguise they are using," said Zillah.

"Draco Malfoy, who is yours, Harry's, and Hermione's rival, called Hermione a mudblood for the first time in your second year when Oliver Wood and Marcus Flint were debating over who should have the Quidditch Pitch for practice that day," said Eva.

"You tried to curse Draco for it but your spell backfired and you ended up belching slugs in Hagrid's cabin," said Zillah.

"Hermione slapped Malfoy in your third year because he was insulting Hagrid because Hagrid was sad about Buckbeak the hippogriff being executed in a couple days," said Eva.

"But Harry and Hermione went back in time on the day of Buckbeak's execution day to save Sirius and Buckbeak with the time-turner Hermione had been using all year to get to her classes," said Zillah.

"In fourth year when Harry was chosen as a champion for Hogwarts for the Triwizard tournament, you got really mad at him and wouldn't talk to him for weeks until, with Hermione's aid, the two of you made up," said Eva.

"Last year when Harry was determined to go to the Department of Mysteries to save Sirius from Voldemort, Hermione tried to make him see logic and said that there was no way the two most wanted wizards of this century could have gotten into the Ministry of Magic undetected," said Zillah.

"She tried to tell him that Voldemort was using his 'saving people thing' to lure him to the Department of Mysteries unnecessarily, but he insisted on going anyway, but he used Umbridge's fireplace to try to talk to Sirius, but Kreacher, Sirius's house elf, told Harry that Sirius had gone to the Department of Mysteries . . ." Eva showed signs of wanting to continue, but Ron cut her off.

"Okay, okay, I believe you! There is no way Hermione could have told you all that!" he said.

"Well, now that you finally believe us, do you agree with Harry's suggestion as a cover for us?" asked Eva.

"Which was?" asked Ron.

"That Zillah and Eva lived in Britain until they were about 10, and then they moved to America where they went to a wizarding school there until now, and then they moved back to Britain where they were transferred to Hogwarts," said Harry.

"Yeah, sounds good to me. Know any wizarding schools in America, 'Mione?"

"Well, there's Rutions Institution of Witchcraft, it's supposed to be about the same level as Hogwarts," said Hermione. "I've heard they have a very good history as well."

"Sounds good to me!" said Eva.

"Me as well," said Zillah.

"Well, that's settled then. Now, I think we should enjoy the rest of the train ride, don't you?" said Hermione, as she glanced out the window to see the hills turning into tree-covered mountains. Everyone else agreed, and they all started chatting about this and that and how much they all were looking forward to going to Hogwarts again (or, in Zillah and Eva's case, for the first time.)

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AN: I made this chapter a bit longer for you guys! And, again, I'm really sorry it took me this long to update, you should be expecting much more frequent updates in the future. Now, review! (Please?)