Chapter 3
Friend or Foe
Michael awoke to find himself sitting in what looked like a classroom. He is seated at a long table in front of him is a large chalkboard. Michael stood up, climbed over the table, and walked up to the board. There are weird pictures on it and a chart. On the top, it reads Transfiguration. Michael hears Kyle groan.
"What the hell?"
Before that question can be answered, the door swings open and a stern looking woman walks in. She looks the group over and the walks to the front of the room. After a few minutes the rest awake. The woman waits until their attention turns to her. "I am to take you to the headmaster's office." She tells them.
"Headmaster?" Liz asks. "Where are we?"
"Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry."
Liz is about to object, but Maria puts her hand over Liz's mouth.
"Liz is a scientist and we're trespassing, so she'd be better off if she just kept her mouth closed." Maria said explaining her action.
The woman smiled. "Well, Liz is about to have a rude awakening. If you will just follow me."
They followed her through the hall, up some stairs, and down another hall. She stopped in front of a large statue.
"Cookies 'n' Cream." She said.
To everyone's surprise the statue moved aside to reveal a flight of stairs. The woman led them up the stairs and into a large office. Six chairs were set up in a semi-circle in front of a large desk. Standing to their right by a window is the greasy haired man.
"Sit." The woman tells them, they do. She turns to the man, "Severus, watch them while I get Dumbledore."
The man nods his head and watches her leave. Once she is gone, he sneers at the group.
"So where to next, Maria?" Max asks after five minutes.
"Antar." Maria answers. "You can build us a space ship and go home."
"Well, this was your idea." He retorted.
"Yeah, well, if you hadn't knocked up Tess in the first place we wouldn't be here." She sneered back.
Kyle turned to Severus, while they fought to find that he seemed very interested in their little squabble. Before anyone else could speak the woman returned followed by an elderly man with a long white beard and a hat that reminded Kyle of those costume wizard hats. He sat down behind the desk, as the woman placed a patched brown hat on the shelf behind him. As the man looks at the Roswellians, his eyes widen when he sees Max, Isabel, and Michael.
"Dear Merlin." He says as he pulled out what Kyle figured is a wand. The man stands up. "Who are you?" He asks loudly, pointing the wand at the three.
The Roswellians jump to their feet. "Whoa! What-what's going on?" Kyle exclaims.
The man continues to point at the three, "you died 30 years ago."
"Excuse me?" Max asks.
"You're dead!" The man repeats.
"The donors." Liz whispers, realizing what is going on. "Your donors were wizards." She says aloud.
"Donors?" The woman asks.
"Max, we have to tell them." Liz says.
"Tell us what?" Severus asks suspiciously.
"The three of us aren't from here, well not completely. We're half alien." Isabel explains. The three adults stare at them, no one is sure what to do. Isabel continues to explain their origins to the professors. They remained quiet listening to all she had to say. She also explained why they had stowed away on the Hogwarts train. After she finished, she saw Dumbledore is smiling at her.
"So technically you three are half-wizard." He states.
"Yeah, I guess so." Isabel replies.
The other two professors look at Dumbledore with interest.
"What are your names?" He asks.
They each introduce themselves.
"Deluca?" Dumbledore asks. "Are you related to Amy Deluca?"
"She's my mom." Maria tells him.
As she says this the pacing Severus falls flat on his face. All eyes turn to him as he stands up.
"You know my mom?" Maria asked.
"I did a long time ago."
Before Maria could ask more Snape changed the subject. "So what are we going to do with them?"
"They are to become students, if they really are part wizard then they need to be schooled to be control their powers."
Both professors looked at each other with doubt.
"With all that's going on now, I really don't think…"
Dumbledore cut Snape off. "They may be able to help when the time arrives. Second I do not want any student or professor talking to Fudge about this."
Both professors nodded their heads.
"Well, if they are going to be students, should they be sorted?" The woman asked.
"It is the proper thing to do, isn't it? Severus, can you please bring one student from each house here. Meanwhile Minerva and I will start the sorting."
Snape left and Dumbledore turned around. He picked up the old, patched hat, and put it down on the desk. The Roswellians watched in awe the hat moved and then spoke. "What's going on?"
"Sorry, we have six more students to sort."
"Six? What happened, did they fall in the lake, lose their letter?"
"It doesn't matter, does it?"
"If you're going to interrupt my sleep it does."
"Never mind," the woman said as she picked up the hat. "Don't worry, this won't hurt a bit." She placed the hat on Liz's head.
"Mmm," the hat spoke in Liz's head. "Courage, strength, very smart. It's obvious where you belong. Ravenclaw!"
The woman took the hat off Liz's head and placed it on Kyle's.
"Mm. Courage, intelligence, power-not visible, but a great potential for a lot of power. Slytherin!"
Max and Isabel were also sorted into Ravenclaw. Maria is next.
"Your mother was the bridge, but upon her leave it crumbled. So now I put this task in your hands to become the bridge between the houses. Hufflepuff!"
Michael was last and the house put him into Gryffindor. The woman put the hat away as Snape arrived with four confused students, two boys and two boys.
"Tomorrow at breakfast you'll receive the class schedules, hopefully I will get some wands for you to use, and this weekend or next I will get Hagrid to take you all school supplies. And now these students will show you to your houses. Harry, raise your hand." The brown haired boy did. "Michael, go with Harry."
Dumbledore continued until only Snape and McGonagall were left.
"Albus, are you sure about this?" Professor McGonagall asked.
"Yes, and Snape, I want this to stay quiet. The students will talk for the mean time they are simply American students who haven't discovered their powers until recently."
Snape nodded his head.
Michael followed the boy out of the headmaster's office and down the hall.
"I'm Harry, Harry Potter." The boy introduced himself.
"Uh, Michael Guerin. Hey, you're the kid from the train station."
"Yeah, we thought we were going to miss it. So who was chasing you?"
"Bad people, who don't understand our power."
"Were they you-know-who's agents?"
"The government?"
"You-know-who, Voldermort?"
"Who?"
"You never heard of Voldermort, I thought all wizards did."
"I'm not a wizard."
"But?"
"Look, kid, I'm an orphan, I don't have parents. My friends and I are from the US and whoa…" Michael and Harry stopped in front of the stairs. "The stairs are moving." Michael said looking up.
"Yeah, they tend to do that." Harry said stepping up. "Just be careful where you step some are trick steps."
As they started up, Michael heard Kyle's voice, "we sleep where?"
"In the dungeon." Replied the pale white haired boy who was leading Kyle down.
"Why?"
"Because, why do you ask such idiotic questions?"
"Night, Kyle." Michael called down.
Kyle looked up and smiled. "As long as it's better than the van."
"Should be."
"See you tomorrow!" Kyle yelled as he followed the snotty blonde down the stairs.