Charlie Bone and the Library of Fantasy

Chapter Three: We're murderers!

Author's Note:

This chapter is a bit dodgy. Thanks for the reviews.

Story:

They hit the ground with a soft 'thud'. They opened their eyes.

"Guys, where are we?"

They looked around to see that they were in some sort of graveyard.

They saw all these hooded, masked people in the distance. A bald man with slits for eyes was holding a stick, as was a teenager with a mop of black hair and a lightning bolt scar.

"Where are we?" Gabriel said, standing up slowly.

"Avada Kedavra!"

"Expelliarmus!"

"Is it just me or does this seem awfully familiar to the fourth Harry Potter book?" Olivia asked.

"It's not just you." Tancred said.

"Whoa…we've been teleported into a book…" Fidelio murmured.

"This is…cool…" Charlie said slowly, unsure.

"How do we get out of here? Do you know?" Lysander asked Emma.

"I remember that, in the few sentences I read about the teleporting symbol, you need to use the teleporting symbol to get out of where it brought you - but it may not bring you directly to where you originally were."

"So, we may have to find it and use it a lot of times before we get back to our world?"

"Yep"

"Oh snap."

"Don't worry! I have a hunch. I'll tell you later." Charlie said quickly, interrupting Emma and Lysander.

"That's good. So, now we need to concentrate on how we can get out of this graveyard! I don't want to see if it's possible for us to be killed in here" Emma indicated to the Death Eaters and Voldemort.

They saw that something was happening (Gabriel whispered 'Priori Incantem') and decided to move.

"How will we get out of here?" Gabriel panicked.

"The portkey!" Charlie said, with wide eyes.

Everyone turned and looked at him.

"In this book, the triwizard cup is a portkey! Remember? Harry uses it to get away, just after he cuts off the Priori Incantem, doesn't he?" Charlie expanded.

Everyone started looking around for the triwizard cup, wondering how Charlie had remembered that. Was he a Harry Potter fanatic? Or did he just tend to remember things very well when it's possible for him to die? None of the others had remembered the portkey.

"There it is!" Olivia shouted, with joy and relief.

At the sound of someone shouting, the Death Eaters, Harry Potter and Voldemort all turned and saw the seven of them.

"Err…hi…hehehe…" Olivia said, nervously.

"Nice…um…weather…" Emma said, even more nervously.

"Hehe…hehe…Run!"Tancred shouted the last word.

They ran and grabbed the portkey. They felt the weird sensation of a hook pulling them.

Then, they found themselves on the ground, groaning in pain.

They jumped up to see themselves outside a castle.

"Wow…Hogwarts is beautiful! A lot nicer looking than it looks in the movies!" Olivia said in awe.

The rest of them nodded.

"Oh snap! I think we just killed Harry Potter and doomed the muggle, as well as the magical, race!" Charlie said.

At first they gave him a questioning look. Then the others realised what Charlie had realised.

"Oh no! Without the portkey to escape back to Hogwarts, how's Harry gonna survive?" Emma groaned.

"Well, at least he's only a book character." Tancred shrugged.

"Yeah but we're in this book! It will ultimately affect us!" Fidelio stated.

"C'mon" Emma said hurriedly, "Let's search Hogwarts for the symbol! The sooner we get it, the safer we'll be! Let's search inside first – it's bigger!"

They rushed about in Hogwarts blindly – not having the slightest clue where they were going.

"You said you had a hunch – what was it?" Fidelio asked.

"Erm…oh yeah! Remember how the symbol landed on a pile of books Manfred has read or has been reading? The fourth Harry Potter book was on top of that pile. My hunch is that when we find the symbol again, we'll either be teleported back to our world, or we'll be teleported to the next book in the pileand that will keep happening until we reach the end of the pile– what was the next book in the pile again?"

"Um…don't remember" Lysander answered.

Everyone murmured similar responses.

A quite irrelevant thought suddenly occurred to Lysander.

"Hey, Tancred, have you felt angry, upset or frightened since we landed in the graveyard?"

"Um, yeah, why?"

"Because there hasn't been any weather caused by you, not even the slightest breeze…"

They all noticed Lysander was correct.

They tried all their endowments.

No matter what, Tancred couldn't cause any weather, Lysander couldn't summon his ancestors, Emma couldn't turn into a bird, Olivia couldn't imagine things, Gabriel couldn't feel or see things by wearing other people's clothes and it was assumed that Charlie couldn't hear or go in photographs or pictures or paintings – he couldn't really tell since the paintings and portraits and photographs ACTUALLY talked.

They didn't like this – they were pretty much defenseless.

They hurried their search. They'd searched almost the entire castle! They'd even gone into the Room of Requirement!

They were stumbling in a corridor now, panicking. They couldn't defend themselves, they couldn't get back home if they didn't find the symbol, they could die…

They stumbled into another room. It was a bathroom. A girls' bathroom.

"Let's get out of here. I don't like girls' bathrooms. They give me the creeps." Tancred said.

Emma and Olivia glared at Tancred. Suddenly, they stopped. They were staring at something behind Tancred.

"What?" Tancred asked.

"Oh…of course! Typical! No one ever cares about poor, miserable, moping, moaning Myrtle's feelings! First you didn't knock, then you call my bathroom creepy and THEN you all STARE at me and one of you points out how unimportant I am by asking why the rest of you are staring at me – like I'm not special enough to be stared at!"

"Moaning Myrtle" Charlie, Fidelio, Gabriel and Lysander groaned.

"Oh no! No, no, no! I wasn't asking why they were staring at you as if you're not special enough to be stared at! No, no! I was asking what they were staring at because I didn't see you 'cause you're behind me and 'cause you're kinda hard to notice…"

Tancred wasn't making anything better.

"I already know I'm a ghost! I don't need to be reminded of it 24/7!" Myrtle let out a high pitched shriek and dived into the nearest toilet – getting Tancred sopping wet with toilet water. Fortunately, it was clear toilet water.

They ran out of the room, Tancred groaning about how disgusting he felt.

They continued their search when a voice behind them called, "Looking for this?"