Self Advertising here my readers, but the Two Beacons of Red Light have some new stories for you.
Doctor Who and the Beacons of Red Light-Kate's Masters Sister
Harry Potter the Musical-Kate's Master (well, not new, but check it out anywhoo)
And finally, a new story co written by the Two Beacons entitled "The Misadventures of Sirius & Directory Enquiries". It's under Kate's Masters Sister, so please search, read and review. It would mean a lot to us. Just to interest you, it was written with us saying one word each. Now, go read.
I hope you find this story is developing, and that it is making slightly more sense as more HP characters are being introduced. Just be patient. And Beth Nelder, stop asking so many questions. I hope everyone had a great easter!
Beth was the last to walk in, and Remus shut the door behind her gently. The house smelt of old, dusty, un-kept furniture. The walls were peeling their damp, dirty wallpaper, and cobwebs hung in the corners, deserted by the spiders which had once lived in them. This was definitely 12 Grimmauld Place.
"Come through," said Remus encouragingly, gesturing towards a door down the hall. They followed him, looking around at the house and marvelling at the fact they were actually in a real story. When they reached the door, Kate turned around to see Jenny biting her knuckle, her face bright red.
"Jenny, what on earth-"
"Oh o," said Tash, grabbing Kate's arm," random outburst alert!"
"Run!" Beth shouted.
Jenny was trying desperately not to run towards Remus. Her favourite Harry Potter character was real, standing so near her. The desperate urge to explode and hug him was huge, and with all the restraining she had managed, she couldn't take much more. And then it happened.
"REMUS!"
He turned around to find Jenny pelting towards him, knocking him flat on the floor as she jumped on him and wrapped her arms tight around his waist. The paper bags he was holding flew into the air.
"What in gods name-"
She stood up quickly, wiped down her clothes and smiled sheepishly at him.
"Sorry, couldn't resist."
He raised a quizzical eyebrow at her before picking up the contents of the bag and putting them carefully back in. He turned around and carried on through the door. Her face was now bright red.
"Nice one," Tash said, suppressing the urge to laugh out loud at her friend. Jenny narrowed her eyes at her before following Remus.
"We have some visitors," Remus said when he walked into the living room. The girls followed him in, slightly taken aback by the number of eyes which met theirs. All the wizards and witches they had so often read about on white pages in thick, paper back books sat there gazing silently at them, many of them the teachers from Hogwarts. Lines of anxiousness furrowed their foreheads, and some looked pale and thin from worry.
"May I introduce the Two Beacons of Red Light, and their friend's, sorry I didn't catch your names?"
"Tash and Jenny," Tash said for him.
A witch from one of the ripped sofas stood up. She had a hawk like expression, with a pair of small glasses placed on the end of her nose. There was only one person this could be.
"Hello girls," she said, walking over to shake their hands. "We have been expecting you."
"First things first," Kate said, "We have a LOT of questions that need answering." The others nodded.
Professor McGonagall raised her eyebrow at the boldness of the young lady in front her, but she nodded. "Ask away."
"Firstly, why have you all suddenly appeared?"
They all looked at each other when she asked this.
"What do you mean?"
"You don't exist as real human beings in our world," Beth explained. "You come from books that we read, about Harry Potter."
The wizards and witches looked completely confused.
"We're from books?"
"Yes," Tash said. "So far, there have been 6 books written about your world. Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone, The Chamber of Secrets, The Prisoner of Askaban, The Goblet of Fire, The Order of the Phoenix and The Half-Blood Prince. That's how we knew to come and find you when we realised that all the characters from Harry Potter had come to life."
The Professor looked as if she were about to faint on the spot.
"Oh my word," she said quietly. "Who wrote these books about us?"
"J.K Rowling," Jenny said. " There's films based on these books as well.Though, something happened to her. 5 years ago, about 6 or 7 months after the Half-Blood Prince was released, she disappeared. No-one knows what happened to her, and no-one knows what happens after Albus Dumbledore was killed by Severus Snape because the last book was never published."
Everybody except the girls in the room gasped.
"You know about Albus?"
"Well of course!" Kate said impatiently. "We read about him."
Professor McGonagall sat down. She was white.
"There's more to come," Beth said. "Do you want a glass of water or something?"
She nodded. "Well," Beth continued, taking out the wand, "that brings us to our next question." She picked a cup from a cabinet near her and said "Aguamenti!"
The glass filled with water. She handed to the glass to Professor McGonagall, who along with everyone else in the room was speechless.
"Why can we use a wand when we're muggles, and why did it suddenly appear from nowhere?"
Remus paused before speaking. "It seems to me that even though you're muggles from a different world than ours, if you were from our world, you would be witches. Maybe that's why you can use the wand. But I don't have a clue where it came from."
"You know what," Tash said, "that's the only thing the past couple of days that has actually made sense!" The other girls smiled.
"Another question," Jenny said. "How did you know who we were?"
"It's quite strange really," a little wizard said. He was odd looking, and had to sit on multiple cushions to be the same height as the others around him. Professor Flitwick obviously, Kate thought. "After Albus' funeral..would that be at the end of your 6th book thing?"
They nodded.
"Well, after that, we received a strange message. We don't know who it came from, or where it came from. It was sent to us by owl as we were on our way here. It said;
The Beacons of Red Light are coming. They need help in return for theirs.
So we've been waiting here for you, not knowing who you were or why you were coming, except that somehow you would help us, and we would help you."
No-one spoke for a few seconds. Eventually, Kate replied.
"We do need your help, in fact, as soon as you can give it to us. It's our friend Emma, who is Beth's sister. A few days ago she was kidnapped, and we think it was Voldemort. Somehow, he knows who we are. A few years ago, when I was in year 10, the equivalent to the 4th year of Hogwarts, Beth was in year 9, 3rd year, and Emma was in year 11, same as a 5th year, he attacked our school. He sent the Death Eaters, and they set this terrible curse on it right, and it crumbled to the ground like breadcrumbs. We think it's because we posed a threat to him becoming so powerful, but the thing is, how did he know about us?"
"So basically," Beth continued, "we need you to help us rescue Emma."
As they all sat there thinking in silence, they heard the front door opening and shutting, and big, heavy footsteps moving towards the door. It opened, and a huge man walked in wearing a thick coat, his long, black shaggy beard matted. He had big, black, beady eyes.
"'Ello," he said, stopping and staring at the girls. "Who do we 'ave 'ere?"
There was a few moments silence before all four girls ran towards him shouting, "HAGRID!"
He was quite taken aback by the four of them hugging him. What was even more confusing was how they knew his name.
"Hagrid, meet Jenny, Tash, Kate and Beth," Remus said grinning.
"Nice to meet ye girls," he said, peeling them off. "You visitors or summit?"
"We certainly are," Jenny said, clapping her hands and jumping up and down. Anyone could agree it was very strange behaviour for a twenty-three year old girl. Though adult at appearance, all four of them were still young at heart.
"Oh, well, that's lovely is that," Hagrid said, taking off his huge coat and throwing it over a chair, which almost collapsed under its weight. " 'Ave I met you before?"
"No," said Tash, "but we know all about you."
"Eh up," Hagrid said, giving them a wary look, " 'Ow you know about me?"
"Tell you what, Hagrid," Remus said, patting him on the back. "You come make some tea with me and I'll tell you everything you've missed."
He paused but eventually nodded. "Aye, that sounds like a good idea dunnit." And the two of them walked out.
"Also, I think you should know, we saw two very important people on our way here," Jenny said. "We met Draco Malfoy and Severus Snape."
A plump witch in the corner stood up as everyone gasped again.
"Where?"
"We saw him when we were travelling through a field in North Wales, he just apparated from nowhere with Draco. I'm guessing they'd just come from Hogwarts. You see, at the end of book six, Harry chased after them both, but they got to the gates and apparated away. But..that's what's confusing see, because the events of this book happened 5 years ago for us when it was first published, so why have they appeared only just now, and why have they appeared at all?"
"We thought that something was happening to make the books continue, maybe somewhere J.K Rowling was continuing the final book about Harry Potter. But now none of us know what to think we're so confused," Beth said.
The witch ran her fingers through her tangled hair.
"I'm afraid there's not much I can say. I'm as confused as you are."
"We just want Emma back," Kate said.
"I know, I know," Professor McGonagall said sympathetically, "but at the moment there isn't much we can do. Have something to eat and a rest, you must have travelled a long way."
The four of them did actually realise how tired they were when she said that. But they still were confused and unconvinced. This was going to be hard work. How Kate longed to be 15 again and change everything so Emma wasn't kidnapped.
"Tea!" Hagrid said, walking in wearing a flowery apron and carrying a tray with a teapot, cups and a plate of sandwiches.
"Kate, are we ever going to get there?" Beth said miserably.
She sighed. "I hope so. Hang in there Beth. We'll make it."
"Perfect!" Emma said, clapping her hands together with glee. "But one problem, they're still confused."
J.K nodded. "Don't worry about that, they're 4 smart girls from what you've told me, they'll work it out."
Emma nodded reluctantly. "I suppose. Though as Kate always pointed out, Beth insisted she wasn't clever all the time because she didn't get stuff right that Kate did. It was just that she wasn't using common sense to be frank, and Kate always told her off when Beth said Kate was too clever. I hope they work this all out."
She smiled. "I'm sure your friends Tash and Jenny will help them."
"I'm praying."
They both sat in silence for a few minutes as Emma's new found friend scribbled on the paper.
"So what's next?" Emma asked.
"Next? Why, I think it's time our four savers looked up some places, friends and reinforcements. After all, judging from this place we're in, they're going to need them."
"But what's annoying is Beth and Kate KNOW this place and where it is, they just don't know we're here."
J.K nodded. "Well, we can help them with that, though as it's a story, it'll take time. We just need to make sure he doesn't realise what we're doing."
"But doesn't he WANT them to come?"
"Yes, but not the way they are at the moment. Your friends know it's a trap my fellow prisoner, but of course they're still coming to get us. They'll need help to get us out and live to tell the tale."
"Aye." Emma said, nodding. "Let's get started then."
"Indeed."
And she dipped the pen in the ink, wiped the page for dirt and began to write.