A/N: A little change here. This is from Rae's point of view! I know I say that later, but I just want to say it here so no one gets confused. Yep, if I was reading this I'd probably miss it later on.

Hey… woops… I completely forgot to say that this story has OotP spoilers. Well I put that in the summary and it's too late for the A/N's. Hmm. Let's hope people who haven't read OotP just think I've added in my own ideas or something… :( I feel guilty now though. Ah, well.

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Chapter Six – Surprising and Surprised Visitors

Friday, October 28, 2005

RAE'S POINT OF VIEW

Allison stands up suddenly.

"Where are you going?" I ask.

"I'm not feeling good," she says, and walks quickly toward the doors of the Great Hall.

"Want me to come with you?" I call after her, but she's already gone. I sigh, put down my fork, and follow her, because I'd be a lame friend if I didn't.

When I get to the hospital wing Madam Pomfrey tells me that Allison hasn't been there at all this year. I ask if she's sure Allison didn't just come here, but she replies with, "Yes, I'm sure! Don't you think I'd remember if a student had walked in here a few minutes ago! Now let me take care of my charges in peace!"

I hurriedly leave the hospital wing before she can get any more angry at me. Gosh, I was just trying to find my friend, why'd she have to get mad? Oh well, I guess I did nag a little…

Who in the world! There's a group of four teacher-looking people walking down the corridor who I've never seen before. What're they doing here? The exams aren't till the end of the year!

Curious, I walk over to them. "Hello, are you new teachers here?" I ask, trying to sound ignorant instead of rude.

The group stops and turns to face me. One lady says in an offended voice, "Excuse me? I've been teaching here since 1848!"

My mouth drops. "What? But that's a hundred and sixty years ago!" pops out before I can force my mouth to stay closed. I flinch, waiting for the teacher to get angry for what she'll probably take as an insolent comment.

"Of course it's not. It's only a hundred and twenty-five years, and that's not long for a witch," she explains.

"Huh?" I redo the math in my head and still come up with the same answer. "But it's 2005…"

Another teacher pipes up with, "Hmm? It's 1973, last time I checked the calendar."

I can hardly keep myself from laughing. This is so insane! Teachers not knowing the year—that's just funny to me. "What! That's a long time ago, when my friend's uncle Sirius and his friends were in school…"

"Sirius? You mean Sirius Black?" the first teacher asks. I nod, and she exclaims, "But he's here now! He's in my fourth-years' Transfiguration class!"

"Transfiguration? But Professor Elms teaches that," I object.

"Professor Elms? Never heard of a teacher named Elms," the second teacher comments.

"She's taught here for a long time… Are you all seriously from 1973?" I say, just making sure.

"Yes, of course."

Suddenly I have an idea. "Hmm. Did you use a Time-Turner or something?"

Every teacher says a version of, "I've never heard of a Time-Turner. What in the world is it?"

I sigh. "You don't have Time-Turners in your time? Well… hang on… did I somehow use one by accident? Wow. I have to go see what year it really is!"

After rushing back to the Great Hall, I see that people are still there for lunch. I sit down with some friends (which proves either I'm still in my time or there's been some huge problem) and ask them what year it is.

Alyssia looks at me like I'm nuts. "What're you talking about? It's only been 2005 for ten months!"

"Ah, good," I reply, relieved. "There's a bunch of teachers I just met who say it's 1973, so I was just checking that we didn't all somehow get sent there."

"Why would they think it's 1973? That's crazy!"

I nod. "Yeah, I know. What do you think happened?"

"Um… some spell that went wrong?" Alyssia suggests.

"Maybe… I don't know if a spell can do something like that, though, even if it goes wrong. Seems like you'd have to be trying to do time-travel to get a spell to work like that. I guess it could've happened though."

"Not necessarily. Let's go ask them!" Before I can remind her that the teachers are probably already sick of me, she heads off. I shake my head and follow.

We never make it, though. A different teacher is hurrying down the hallway and almost runs into us. "Sorry," she mumbles. After a few more steps she turns back and says, "Oh, I could ask you! What's the date?"

"October 28, 2005," Alyssia answers.

"Friday," I pipe up. "12:32 PM. Oh, actually now it's 12:33 PM, cause it just changed—"

Alyssia cuts me off: "Alright, we get it."

"Oh my, oh my, oh my, oh my, oh my…" the teacher mutters.

"What's wrong?" Alyssia asks.

"I—I picked this up," she said, holding out a… Time-Turner! "And a girl came running and shouted at me that it's dangerous… and then there was this really weird feeling…. I don't know what happened…. And now things are different. It was sunny before and now it's raining. It feels like I missed out on some time or something. But are you sure it's 2005? It was 1973 just then." She gestured towards the window, which showed the down-pour.

"Erm," I start. It was hard to follow her talking because she kept pausing as she tried to think of a way to say it, and she talked really fast. "That's a Time-Turner and if you turn the hourglass part, it'll bring you to the past or future. Did you turn it?"

She looks even more worried. "Yes, I didn't know it would do anything! How does it work though? I only turned it once and it brought me all this way!"

"Well, it should only bring you one hour for each turn. Maybe it's broken. I have one that works, though. You could use it to get back to 19-seventy-whatever-year-it-was."

The teacher and Alyssia follow me up to the Gryffindor Tower. I look for my Time-Turner on my table, but… it's gone! Frantically, I search for it, but it's not there.

Uh-oh. Allison's gone. What if she used the Time-Turner? I did say she could use it whenever she wanted. I pull out a scrapbook of mine and flip to a picture of Allison and me hanging out.

"You said a girl came running when you picked that up," I mention to the teacher. "Did she look anything like this?" I point to Allison in the picture.

"Yes, that's her. How do you have a picture of her?" The teacher has assumed Allison was from her time, I'm guessing.

I groan. "She's from this time, but I offered that she could use my Time-Turner if she ever wanted. She probably used it and went back to your time. That's probably the same Time-Turner you have."

"That's great," Alyssia comments sarcastically. "What do we do now? Allison's back in 1973 where they have no Time-Turners, and a bunch of teachers are somehow here with no Time-Turners to get back. Hang on. How did so many teachers come along?"

"Remember when I said this one might be broken? If it is, it could've easily brought more people than it was supposed to. I wonder how many people actually came along," I say interestedly.

"What fun."

A/N: Hi once again. So did anyone else think Rae was loony? "Loony loopy Lupin." (At least Peeves got payback… gum up the nose… haha!)

Wow. I just looked in an old chapter and one sentence said "I have to Time-Turner" instead of "I have no Time-Turner". Haha. Well sorry for any mistakes, I do typos sometimes (a lot) and don't always catch them during re-reading it.

Well. How was this chapter? It was funny, at least to me. You know… there are these wonderful things that let you comment on the story… they're called REVIEWS. Use them! I love getting 'em. Thanks for reading, makes me write more. See you all next chapter!