A/N: I figured I could just put up the second chapter too, you know? I almost never read stories with only one chapter, especially when that chapter is this short... On with the STORY
Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter... But I do own Perenelle, so don't steal her!
Behind the VEIL?
chapter 2: New Identities-
Sirius walked quikly towards James' classroom (transfiguration), little did he know about the fight going on in the Chamber of knowledge, he'd never seen Malfoy and Hermione as anything other than very in love...
"Hey, I saw you were awake, and I need your help, it's about, you-know-what."
James' eyes went round, "What happened, why are you still here? I thought you were going to-"
Sirius cut him off, "Something went wrong, I don't know what, but I need your help with this, why don't we go down to the Chamber?"
When they arrived in the Chamber, James raised his eyebrow at his friend, he brought me here, for this? A lovers' quarrel?
"This is all your fault, if you hadn't been stupid enough to touch that stupid dimension portal, we wouldn't have been here!" A girl he recognized as Hermione Granger, one of his students, yelled at another one of his students, Draco Malfoy, her boyfriend, if the rumours were true, he was covered in a cloud of batbogey monsters. A portal, what the-?
"I'm back", Sirius anounced unneccesarily, "Now, if you could please stop fighting, I am going to introduce you to someone. Hermione, Draco, this is James Potter, James, this is Hermione Granger and-"
"I know who they are! And they know who I am! Now, what's this about a portal?"
Both Hermione and Malfoy looked at him, shocked. "B-but, you're dead!" Malfoy stuttered, "you died, like, fifteen years ago!"
"Honestly Malfoy, I told you we are in an alternate reality! When is that going to sink through your thick head?"
James eyes widened at this. They're from an alternate reality, just like Sirius...
"Maybe I'd understand better if you could remove these-, these... thingies!" At that, Hermione broke down, laughing, "Malfoy, are you telling me, that you- you- you don't know what a bat- batbogey is? Ho- honestly, that's just so...well anyway, as I was going to say, I don't think it would help, even if I could-"
"What? you can't? Aaargh, This is your fault! If you hadn't done something to that wall and made it into a portal then..."
And they went on and on like that for several minutes, James couldn't believe how long they managed to stand there and yell insults at eachother, it kind of reminded him of him and Lily when they were in school...
"So, you're from the same... place as Padfoot here?" He interrupted, "I take it you'll need new identities and stuff, right?" They both looked at him and Hermione nodded weakly "Right. Well, follow me,I know some people at the ministry who can help you with that, portus" he pointed his wand at one of the books on the shelves and it glowed blue for a second. They all grabbed it, Sirius, Hermione, Malfoy and James. James felt the familiar tug behind his navel and moments later they were standing in the departement of Internasjonal Magical Co-operation.
"Get these creatures away from my head at once! I can't be seen like this!" Malfoy shouted, suddenly panicked.
"Oh, right" James said, "I almost forgot,Finite Incantatem, sorry about that..." But he turned away so they wouldn't see him smiling..
I wonder if we'll get fake names...Hermione thought, Of course we will, she answered herself, It would be kinda strange if someone who looked exactly like me came to my school, and then had the exact same name as me...I wonder how we got here, never heard of anything like this happening, must be very unusual, but why...?
"Um, Sirius?" Harry's dad looked strangely at her as she said this, but kept quiet,"How, exacly did we get here? That is, me and ferret here, I mean Malfoy, I know that you fell through the Veil, but,it's just that, if the wall in the prefects' bathroom is always like that then how come there haven't been lots of dissapearences at Hogwarts? We did't fall through that portal, we were sucked in."
"Oh, I'm not sure why the portal opened there, but, I was the one who opened it, I tried to get home, i had just gotten hold of an ancient book with old, ceremonial magic in, spells to travel between dimensions. But what I didn't know, was that when you do one of the spells, I thinkyou have to copy it down to a piece of paper before you perform the magic, because if you don't, and just read from the book,and that's what I did,then it burns up and leaves you with only the ashes. I don't know why it opened in the bathroom though,"
"Are you sure you don't want to tell the headmaster, he probably would have an answer you know." Harry's dad interrupted.
"No, I will not tell the headmaster, I've told you before, I-"He glanced at Hermione and Malfoy, "don't want to."
Wonder what he was really going to say... She looked around, they were standing in a dimly lit corridor and there was a sign on the wall to the left of her that said, 'level five: Department of internasjonal magical co-operation'
"Why are we just standing here anyway? I thought we were going to go get new identities!"
"Yes of course you are, we should get going, she'll not be pleased to see us at this time of day, but..." He trailed of and started walking towards a portrait that Hermione hadn't noticed before, it was a picture of Amanda Hufflepuff, Helga Hufflepuff's niece and a famous diplomat, she had red hair and reminded Hermione a bit of Mrs.Weasley.
"'Identity trouble'"James muttered, and the portrait smiled at him, her mouth started expanding, till, after ten seconds it had become a rose coulored door, a bit like the pear you had to tickle to get to the kitchens. James turned the doorknob and walked in. Hermione and the other two followed him.
Draco looked around. it was a large room. In a corner, he saw a bed, it was one of those beds that tun into a couch or a chair when you're not sleeping in it. He shudderd when he thought about the one he'd had once. After a while it started turning when he was in it too, and he would wake up in the middle of the nght, because he was suddenly sitting in a chair and his blanket had fallen off...
Potter's dad walked straight to the bed and shook the person in it awake, whoever it was, was definately not a morning person, because when Potter's dad finally succeeded in waking her up, she sendt a hex after him and he had to duck to avoid it. it hit a picture of yellow flowers that hung on the wall. It shattered, naturally.
"Perenelle! Don't be so grumpy!" Potter said cheerfully " Is that any way to greet an old friend?"
The woman in the bed just grunted, and put the pillow over her head
"WAKE UP PERENELLE; WE NEED YOUR HELP!" Black bellowed.
Perenelle groaned and got up, she was wearing a light yellow pyjamas with black spots, it was horrible in his opinion, he'd never, ever wear something like that, and it clashed badly with her extremely yellow hair.
"This better be important, Potter, I've got a meeting at seven o'clock in the morning." She snapped.
"It is, trust me, I need new identities for these two" he gestured at Draco and Granger.
"Hmph, they're only children, why would they need one?" She said after casting a glance at Draco and Granger.
"If you'd let me finish for once, you'd know why. They are from another reality, and they can't run around as themselves since there are already an Hermione Granger and Draco Malfoy at Hogwarts."
If someone had told me that they needed new identities because they were from another dimension, I would have laughed and said they should be in st. Mungo's Draco thought, but Prenelle did none of these things, she simply nodded as if it was the most normal thing in the world, walked over to her desk and found a quill and parchment.
"So. First, we need to find you new names, and then we need to make up a past for both of you. So. What do you want to be called? You first, miss Granger."
Granger thought for a while, then decided on Annie Regnarg. Draco snorted, "your last name spelled backwards? Oh, that's so clever, oh wait, no it isn't! People will suspect it!"
Granger just glared at him, and he chose not to pursue the matter. "I'll be, umm... Orion Bates." Granger had a giggling fit at this, he didn't understand what was so funny, and it must have showed on his face,
"you don't honestly mean that you wat to be called Orion? I mean, it's just- Orion?" And she started laughing even harder. He looked at the adults for some support, but he saw that they too had difficulty suppressing smiles and laughter.
He rolled his eyes."Oh all right, it's not that funny! I'll change that to... John, nice and normal, huh?"
"Right, John Bates and Annie Regnarg, miss Granger are you sure you want to be called Regnarg? You must be able to come up with something better than that!"
Granger blushed and muttered something inaudible.
"Sorry, didn't quite catch that,"Perenelle said amusedly.
Granger cleared her throat,"I said, I'll change that to Green then."
"Ahh, much better, now, we need to make up your life-stories. Why don't you start mr. Bates."
Draco's eyes widened and Granger started giggling again when they heard his name, it sounded like masturbates.
"You know what? I think I'll change my last name, again, I want to be called- Pear."
"Oh my God, Malfoy, you are horrible at inventing names! Honestly, John Pear? Oh, well not my decision..." Draco glared at her.
"Fine. But that's the last time you get to change your minds, because I'm tired of this, and I want to go back to bed."
When the two of them had, with Perenelle's help, invented a whole new life for themselves, they both fell asleep on the floor, Perenelle being her usual inconsiderate self had not bothered to conjure seats for them. While they were asleep, she changed their appearence with spells that would last for two years and could not be removed before they wore off.
Good thing they're both asleep, 'cause if Malfoy knew she'd changed his hair blue... If he's anything like the Draco of this reality he'd be so furious he'd probably hex Perenelle into oblivion... What is it with Malfoys and hair? He reembered when Ron Weasley had turned his hair pink, I thought Ron's nose would never get back to normal... When she was done, she said, loudly:
"Wake UP people, What do you think this is, a hotel? Get out of my office and come back tomorrow so I can give you your papers!"
The two teenagers woke up immediately, and Perenell contiued in a lower voice, "Here's your school papers, you're going to haev to tell the headmaster by the way, he's never going to believe that you went to a school in Indonesia, he knows when people lie, that one does, and I guess that means that you'll have to tell him your secret too, Sirius."
Sirus hands clenched. Damnit! Why didn't I think about that? "Right... We'll see... Maybe I will..." Yeah right...I'll find a way to not tell him
"I don't understand why you won't tell him Padfoot, he-"James began, but Sirius shot him a look and he shut up.
A/N: Fixed this chapter too... And, about the name-changing buisness, I don't think Hermione would normally be that giggly, but since it's in the middle of the night, I think she's probably a bit too tired, and then, at least I get a bit giggly and laugh at the most idiotic things...