Chapter Four: My Parents Get Confunded
Imagine sneaking over to someone's house to watch the main marvel movies, skipping through movies like Ant-Man and Black Panther to show the important stuff and after credit scenes and ignoring the fluffy episodes of Agents Of Shield (Season 1-2 only) in one week at nighttime without waking anyone up. And trying to come up with nicknames. Being the unimaginative person we are, we went with Teleport And Ms. Superhero, seriously, we're open to suggestions. Oh, and mine is Original.
"When is there a time that we are alone outside?"
"Never? I don't know… Oh! Right after church we could go out by the little kid's playground. No one really goes that far out by the courtyard and it's close enough to hint that I am the one signaling and I will be able to hurry back so no one will see me/you/whoever."
"How are we signaling?"
"You said you could go into Harry Potter?"
Long story short the plan was to go into Harry Potter and to either get a wand or bring someone who can do spells to do some. We said maybe we could cast a patronus or maybe spell out "SHIELD, please come." or something?
"Ooh! Do you think that I can jump into books too?" Teleport asked. During our nightly sessions, we had discovered that not only could #3 jump into books, but could also sort of stop time/slow it down? For example, she could jump into Artemis Fowl, pause time for certain characters, unpause it, and when she would return, she could pick a point in time to return to, starting whenever she jumped, to the duration of when she came out. That doesn't make sense. Hold on, let me give an example. Let's say at 9:27 am Kylie jumped into Fablehaven. She spent seven hours and 3 minutes there. She can choose to come back anytime between 9:27 and 7:29. The only problem? It's a blind pick to come back. Ms. Superhero described it as a feeling, that she had a strong tug in her gut of when to come. #2 and I agree that her "spidey-sense" is wrong because she came back when mom was walking past the door. Seriously! She had to walk by at 3:18 am?
"Ooooh! Do you think I could jump in a book? Do we gain the powers/whatever is special about the person when we're in that realm? I'm gonna try!" Teleport took a Harry Potter book off the shelf. "Harry Potter, Harry Potter, Harry Potter." A portal appeared and sucked her off to another world.
"I don't think she can go into the book."
(#2's P.O.V.)
"Aw man. I guess I can't go into books. Wait. Where are the other two me's?"
The door started to open (I had landed in my room, or was it even mine?).
"Who are you?! Another wizard? Why are you here?" one of me said.
Figuring that I accidentally traveled to a new universe (I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often), I handed her the purple note I had gotten my first day of teleporting. "Read this." I proceeded to explain everything else not in the letter.
"Oooookay… How many of us are there?"
"Four, including me and you so far. Now, what makes you special? Wait. How about I bring you to the others so you (I, whatever) don't have to repeat yourself."
"I guess?"
"Here we go! Man, this portal thing is working so much easier."
(#4's P.O.V. Harry Potter books don't exist) ~~~ Flashback to Yesterday~~~
There was a knock at the door. "One moment!"
My mom opened the door to reveal… a man in blue robes? He had a long silvery white beard, a weird hat thingy, and half-moon glasses, no, these are definitely what authors describe as spectacles. "Good morning madam. I am Professor Albus Dumbledore. I am here to discuss a scholarship with you for your daughter. I've heard that she is exceptional at math and writing (totally true…)." He took out a wand(? warning bells ringing in my head now), and flicked it towards my mom, dad, and sister. "She has been offered a full ride to Hogwarts. This is actually an English school, but our sister school in America doesn't accept after a certain age, but Hogwarts has always been special. Would it be okay for me to discuss with Kylie about it some more and then you can decide whether or not she should accept." After my mom agreed (weirdly, was I the only one wondering anything about this whole ordeal?), I decided to talk to "Dumbledore" outside.
"Who are you and what did you do to my family?"
"Relax. I only put a simple confundus charm on them. Now, on to what I need to tell you. There is no simpler way to say this. Kylie, you're a wizard. Well, witch."
"Um, what?"
"Have you ever noticed any strange, unexplainable things happen to you?"
"Yeah." Several memories started flooding my brain. "It was magic wasn't it? I still want proof though. How do I know that you're not some government weirdo?"
"Accio clipboard!" My clipboard came soaring through the air and into his hand. "If you do not take me up on my offer, things will get weirder and people might get hurt if you're not trained."
"Why do I have to go to a different country?"
"The school here in America starts at age eleven. If you were born to a wizard family and somewhat familiar with wizard kind, they might have accepted you. But since they didn't realize that you were magical until now, they won't take you. They did, however, contact me, and I believe that you'll be just fine. The only catch is that this summer, you would need to stay with another witch your age that can catch you up on everything taught in the last two years. We have the perfect candidate, a muggle-born, that's what we call wizards that have nonmagical parents, and she is at the top of her class. She'll be able to help you adjust over the summer and get your magic in check. We've already talked to the government to allow the practice of magic for this summer, it's usually illegal."
"Well, it seems like you are heavily dependent on me going. I think it would be awesome, you'll just need to come up with an excuse for me to go."
"That won't be hard. And by the way, you can't tell your parents for now. It's one of the conditions for being able to use most forms of magic this summer."
I walked back into my house and with a flick of Dumbledore's wand, I was going to Hogwarts.
(Back to today)
"And that's how I got into Hogwarts."
"Awesome. Guess what you get to do before summer starts. You are going to start a new book series, Harry Potter."
