Chapter four: Strange happenings

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"You heard what I said James, we're going to see the Headmaster."

"What??? We're going to see Professor Dumbledore???? Just because a whole bunch of new students have just sprung up out of the ground????"

"Yes. Something is very wrong."

"And we're just going to leave Professor McGonagall here where the owls can poop on her, and the students can step on her?"

"Of course not! Another teacher will come. And anyway, even if they don't, we can tell the Headmaster about her, and he'll send someone out to help her. But maybe she'll come around soon anyway."

"Okay. Let's go." James hadn't been taking in a word, because of the fact that a very attractive blonde had just walked across their path.

"James!" Lily snapped. Although she didn't admit to liking James as much as she did, she still got jealous when he checked out other girls.

"Yes Lily darling dearest love of my life???" James teased.

Lily grinned, in spite of herself.

"Don't be stupid."

"Yes Lily darling dearest love of my life."

"Whatever. Now, can we MOVE?"

"Yes Lily darling dearest..."

Lily pushed him up the staircase, and they made their way up to Dumbledore's office.

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"Now, do you remember what to do???" Harry was taking Ron off to meet Melanie for the first time.

"Yes. I do not point out the obvious, and I make interesting, cool conversation. I do not talk about the weather, and I do not introduce myself as Ronald Weasley."

Harry grinned.

"Yep. You've got it."

"Is that them?" Ron went rather green as he spotted a redhead in the sea of brown and blonde.

"Yes. That's them." Harry said happily as he waved to Rachel.

Rachel saw him, grinned back, grabbed Melanie's hand, and began to wind her way over to him.

Rachel knew that they were still out of earshot, so she whispered to Melanie

"You remember everything, don't you?"

"Yes." Melanie looked incredibly shy and nervous.

Rachel saw how worried she looked, and said, "Hey, if you go all shy, how will you make decent conversation? I know you're not shy, and you've got a great personality, and you're interesting. You've got to let that show!"

"I know."

Ron saw Melanie walking up with Rachel, and he went slightly red.

"Ron, you look like Christmas! First you went green, and now you're going red!"

"Shut up. Harry, I can't do this."

"Rachel, I can't do this." Melanie whimpered.

"Don't be ridiculous." Harry and Rachel replied to their friends.

The pairs were now facing each other.

"Harry!" Rachel gave him a hug, and gave him a welcoming peck on the cheek.

"Um, we've got to talk about some stuff, so we'll just leave you two to work things out." Harry said.

"Yeah. Er, when you're finished, can you wander up to the library? We can all finish some homework, so that we can have fun later." Rachel said.

"See you." Harry and Rachel waved, and walked off together, already deep in conversation.

Ron was left alone with Melanie.

Melanie was left alone with Ron.

Ron looked at Melanie.

Melanie looked at Ron.

When Ron noticed Melanie noticing that he was looking at her, he looked away.

When Melanie noticed Ron noticing that she was looking at him, she looked away.

"So...umm..." Ron's ears started to go red.

"Yeah....so...."

There was an awkward silence.

"I was wondering....will you come to Hogsmeade with me???"

Ron looked at his feet and prayed really, really hard that she would say yes.

"Well," Melanie said slowly, "I thought that it was all worked out already." And she immediately felt bad, because Ron went even redder, and looked a bit let down.

"I guess he must be as nervous as I am." she thought.

"But we haven't worked out where yet. I know Harry must have told you the Three Broomsticks, but everyone goes there." Melanie hoped that this would start some conversation.

"Err, well, I'll go anywhere except Madam Puddifoots. That place is strange."

Melanie laughed. And cracked the ice.

"You know what? I totally agree! Madam Puddifoots is definitely the strangest place around. Even stranger than the Hog's head!"

Ron looked relieved.

"Well, we can talk on the way to the library."

"Yeah."

Ron and Melanie walked off, talking and laughing.

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Lily addressed the stone gargoyle.

"It's urgent. We need to speak to the Headmaster."

The gargoyle didn't move.

"Please! It's really important."

The gargoyle didn't move.

"PLEASE!!!! We NEED to speak to Professor Dumbledore."

The gargoyle didn't move.

"MOVE OVER YOU STUPID LUMP OF STONE!!!!!!!!!!!" Lily screamed, kicking the gargoyle, and feeling nothing but extreme pain in her toe.

"What is all the commotion?" Dumbledore arrived serenely in front of them.

"Professor!!!! Why are their so many new students??? It's not time for new students yet! Why did Professor McGonagall faint when she saw us??? Why..."

"Well. This is a nice state of affairs." Dumbledore observed them quietly.

Lily and James looked at him blankly.

"What do you mean 'a nice state of affairs'?" James asked.

Dumbledore looked at them in surprise.

"Well, as two of the most intelligent students at Hogwarts, I thought you would have guessed."

More blank looks.

"I don't suppose," Dumbledore said serenely, "That you happened to read the side effects of this certain Power-Up potion?"

Lily looked at Dumbledore guiltily.

"Professor, how do you know about that?"

Dumbledore's eyes twinkled as he looked at the pair of them.

"I have my sources. Now, did you read the side effects?"

"Err....umm.......well.............no." James said slowly.

"Well," Dumbledore said calmly, "If you happen to read the small print, it says that if the potion happens to fail, in a very specific way, the results will be a...how shall I say....well....you will be thrown forward in time. Quite amazing. Would you mind telling me where you went wrong?"

"Erm..." Lily mused, "I'm quite sure that we did everything we were meant to...ground unicorn hair....woodlice.....chocolate...." At this point, Lily's brain snapped into 'obvious mode'.

"James?" she said, sugar sweet.

"Yeeees........." James said warily.

"You DID put all of that chocolate in, didn't you? You didn't happen to EAT any of it, did you?"

James looked awkward.

"Well..............................................................." James squirmed guiltily.

"Answer the question." Lily said.

"Well, you know Lily, I was so hungry, and well...............I figured that a little piece of chocolate wouldn't make a difference."

Lily remembered to count to ten. Slowly.

She managed to wait a whole two minutes before she ripped into James.

"YOU STUPID, STUPID IDIOT!!!!!!!! OF COURSE THAT PIECE OF CHOCOLATE WOULD MAKE A DIFFERENCE!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE RECIPE CLEARLY STATED THE SPECIFIC AMOUNT!!!!!!!!!!! AND NOW WE'RE STUCK IN THE FUTURE!"

James looked at her, and put on a puppy dog face.

"James, that's not going to work. It's not, it's NOT."

James continued to look at her with big, innocent eyes.

"It's not, it's......oh, you know that I can't stay mad at you when you do that." Lily gave in.

Dumbledore had been standing silently throughout all of this.

"Lily and James, I would not recommend that you walk around Hogwarts without an Invisibility Cloak."

"Why?" Lily asked curiously.

"Because," Dumbledore said, "If any of the teachers see you, it would seem extremely strange."

"WHY????" James pressed.

Dumbledore sighed.

"It's a long story. I suggest that you both step up to my office. I will explain."

Lily and James glanced uncertainly at each other before going silently up to Dumbledore's office.

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