Chapter 3
Making an Entrance
It was the 3rd week of school, at Hogwarts School of witchcraft and wizardry, and everyone was walking into the Great Hall to eat dinner. Once everyone was seated the food appeared on the plates before them, like usual.
Suddenly a loud roar could be heard echoing through the castle. It was coming closer and closer to the Great Hall. Suddenly the doors burst open and two people on motorbikes came in. They were heading straight for the teachers' table, placed in front of the other 4 tables. The riders were going very fast and right as they were about to plow right into the table they slid out. The riders, who went between two different tables, now faced each other.
As the engines on the bikes turned off the riders dismounted. On their helmets, which covered their whole face, was an American flag. One rider took off their helmet,
"I guess we found it," said Mike.
'Smack' the sweet sound of hand meeting head.
The other rider took off their helmet, it was Jess. She shook her blonde hair to get it out of her face, there was a thud behind her and she turned around to see what it was. It was a young boy, who fell out of his seat. The boy was bright red when he sat down again. Except for being embarrassed, he was ok.
Jess turned around to face her brother and mouthed,"Ok then."
Remus stood up and looked down at them," You're late."
"Sorry we got lost on the way"Mike started to explain.
"Attention everyone," the teacher in the middle stood up, plus everyone was staring at the two that just entered." We have some new students, I would like you to welcome them and make sure they feel at home."
Jess and Mike turned to face the other students, some were smiling (mainly the guys) and some just looked confused. Remus came up behind them and put his hands on the twins' shoulders and steered them towards the door. On the way to the door Jess spotted Harry he looked confused but smiled at her, she smiled back.
When hey finally got out of the Great Hall, Remus turned them around to face him.
"Why did you two miss the train?" he asked, but never got an answer because someone came up behind him." This is Professor Dumbledore."
It was the teacher that just spoke to everyone. He was old with a long grey beard and half moon spectacles.
"Why don't we talk in my office," he pointed down a corridor.
. As they walked Jess looked outside to see it was raining cats and dogs. She also could hear the wind howling through the empty halls, this gave her a feeling of loneliness.
Rounding a corner to see a sinister statue scowling at them. They walked straight for it, Remus was still steering them. When they reached the statue Dumbledore stepped forward.
"Sugar quill," the gargoyle sprang to life and revealed a door with a moving stair case behind it.
Remus steered them on to it, it brought them to a circular office with a lot of pictures and shiny objects. Jess and Mike were both dazzled by the pictures, they weren't ordinary pictures they were moving, and the people in the pictures were moving!
"Well," Dumbledore said as he sat down in a big chair on the other side of the oak desk." Why were you two late?"
"Well-er- you see we kinda-er-," Jess didn't really know what to say.
Well her brother saw this failure and jumped right in completely making it up.
"Well, we missed the train. We did everything just like you told us to, we tried to get on platform 9 and 34, but when we tried to get through the wall ,well, it was a wall.," Mike sounded quiet confident, so he thought they believed him till he looked at Remus.
Remus looked confused as he looked at Mike. Jess wondered why; all she could see was the back of his head. Then Remus had a look of understanding as did Dumbledore.
"Did I miss something?" Jess was looking from Mike to Remus and back.
Jess saw the look on Mike's face and understood. He was worried and he almost looked sick. When Jess looked in his eyes she saw fear and misery. Mike looked away quickly after meeting his sister's eye.
"Why are you worried, bro?" Jess was still looking at him even when he was staring at his shoes.
Remus had walked around and put his hand on her shoulder for comfort. Mike stood up and walked behind her and was staring at one of the pictures. Jess was going to go to him but Remus pushed her back in the chair.
"I don't get why everyone is so worried," she had a note of panic in her voice.
"We'll explain letter. As of tonight you need to go to bed," Dumbledore had stood up and walked around the desk." Remus will show you to your rooms," he added with a smile.
"Come on you two," Remus was steering both of them to the door.
Once outside the office Jess turned around abruptly to face her brother and Remus.
"WHAT IS WRONG AND DON'T LIE?" she screamed, she doesn't like to be left in the dark.
Mike just looked at her and kept walking, Remus did the same thing. She was stunned to see this; they never walk away from her she always walks away from them. She followed them completely stunned. They walked up many flights of stairs until they got to a painting of a fat lady.
"Fairy lights," the painting swung open," you two will be in Gryffindor. It is one of the four houses of Hogwarts. Your dormitory is over there, Jess. Mike yours is over there," he was pointing to two different staircases.
They were standing in a circular room with tall narrow windows. There were chairs and sofas around the room. Along one wall there was a long table. Remus showed Mike his room, then came back and showed Jess hers. They walked by many rooms, when they finally got to a room with a sign that read,"6th year girls." They walked in, Jess could clearly see which bed was unoccupied, and it was the only one with out stuff all over the desk next to it. In front of the empty bed was her luggage.
"Well here you go," he said while pointing to her bed." The other girls will be in shortly." He walked out leaving Jess alone.
She looked around the room; there were 6 beds with 5 of them occupied. The room was circular just like the common room. She sat down on her bed she felt as if she was in a dream. She sat there for a couple of minutes thinking, then grabbed her backpack and headed downstairs. When she got there her brother was waiting.
"So what is your room like?" Mike asked as he watched her come down the stairs.
"Probably the same as yours," she sat down by the fire," Are you going to work or just stare?"
"Yah, I'll work," he sighed and sat on the other side of the room"Hey can I borrow your math book I lost mine."
"Yah, you know you're gonna have to pay for that," she slid it across the floor so it hit him in the leg.
"Thanks. And yeah I know," he took the book and started working.
Jess opened her biology book and started working. About 10 minutes later they heard voices of what she guessed to be Gryffindor. The twins glanced at each other and continued with their work.
The picture swung open and Remus was the first one in, after him was Harry. Remus looked from Jess to Mike and back.
"What are you two doing?" Remus was confused because they were quiet.
"Homework," the twins said together. A crowd of people started walking in and going to their dorms.
"You haven't been to class yet. How could you have homework?" Remus was standing between the two and in utter confusion.
"This is from our old school. Can I have the literature book, please?" Mike slid the math book across the room and hit Jess's leg. Jess grabbed the Literature book and slid it to him.
"Why are you doing homework from your old school? You don't go there any more" Most of the students came back down from their dorms carrying books and parchment.
"Because I'm going back after we're done here. And I'm planning on going to college." Jess was still working and didn't bother looking up at him.
"Why do you want to do that? You can work for the- ", but he was cut off by Jess.
"Ministry. Well I would prefer to be educated in every skill that I can get into. I want my options open. I want many career options and I plan on going to work in America not here." Jess finished without looking up from her work.
"Ok, if that's what you want," Remus was slightly confused. "How are you going to keep up with both schools homework?"
"We'll manage." Jess still didn't look up from here work. Some kids were just staring at her, but she didn't seem to notice.
Remus was still confused, but turned to talk to Harry.
"Make sure you tell them what not to do, as well as where to go. I don't want them getting lost."
Remus turned to say something to Mike, but instead he turned and left. Walking up the stairs to the boys' dorm to get something, Harry left only to return a few moments later. He was carrying a bag which Jess guessed was filled with weird books she would need in a little while. Harry sat down in a chair next to her. He motioned for two other people to follow him.
"Hey, Jess." Jess looked up from her work. "This is Ron and Hermione."
"Nice to meet you," she shook their hands and then went back to her work.
"What are you doing?" Ron asked. He had bright red hair and freckles.
"Biology," Jess said flatly.
"Biology? Isn't that really hard?" Hermione asked. She had very curly brown hair that almost stood straight up.
"Yes, it is extremely hard," Jess went back to her work. Then something hit Jess's leg. She looked and saw that it was the book Mike just had.
"I need the biology book." Mike was looking across the room at Jess.
"I'm using it. Is there something else you need?' Jess still didn't look up.
"O.K.,-er-do you have that book we're supposed to read?" Mike was thinking hard.
"Yah, sure," Jess slid the book across the floor, so it hit her brother's leg.
"Thanks sis." Mike stated reading her book.
"Might I ask why you are doing homework from a different school?" Hermione was reading over Jess's shoulder.
Jess turned around to look at her and said," Didn't you hear? I want to go to college." Jess went back to work.
"Hermione, you found someone who does more work than you," Ron looked very happy.
"No, she's not doing the work we're doing," Hermione looked flustered at the thought.
"She will be tomorrow," Ron still looked happy.
"Isn't Monday tomorrow?" Jess looked up from her work.
"Yah, don't you start tomorrow?" Harry looked confused.
"No, tomorrow we are sleeping in." Mike had just walked over ad sat down next to Jess. "You done yet?"
"Almost, just let me finish the page. Don't you have a mountain of homework over there? Cant you work on that?" Jess went back to work. Mike was looking over her shoulder at the answers.
'Smack'. Mike deserved that one.
"Fine, I'll talk to Harry then." Mike put his back to Jess and started talking to Harry. "So I would like to know about the teachers. Easy, strict, doesn't care, evil you know the works."
"Well, the most evil teacher is Snape. And strict would be McGonagall," Ron said while he was writing with a feather, this confused Mike.
"Why are you writing with a feather?
"It's not a feather it's a quill, even I know that." Jess was sill reading that biology book and Mike was getting impatient.
"Done yet?" Mike still had his back to Jess.
"Yah, here you go." Jess hit Mike on the back of the head with the textbook.
"Thanks," Mike went back to his books, rubbing the back of his head.