Chapter 6

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I still couldn't believe what Hermione, Ron, and I had found as we left the shattered ruins of the castle to grace the front lawn of Hogwarts. I felt as still in a dream. It hadn't sunk in fully yet that I had destroyed Voldemort yet. My heart was just starting to slow down from the loud thumping it had been up to that point. I still half expected to find Voldemort and or death eaters as we trudged through the castle. I wanted to finally sleep, but I knew I couldn't before I found out what was going on. If there was a new terror, I had to know about it.

As we finally got to the front doors, we ran into Professor Flitwick. We asked him what was going on. He answered that he was just about to find that out. We followed him through the doors, We heard a great shout from Professor McGonagall, "Are you telling me that you aren't wizards?! That you are muggles, muggles here at Hogwarts!?"

Muggles at Hogwarts! We paused as murmurs ran through the crowd. "That can't be possible." I heard Hermione say quietly beside me. "Oh dear." said the short professor who was still slightly ahead of us. "Perhaps we should go help, yes?" he asked us.

We nodded and followed as he hurried towards where Professor McGonagall was breaking up the crowd.

"Ah Filius and Messrs Potter and Weasley as well as Miss Granger." said the professor as we came up.

"Do you need help professor?" Hermione asked. We eyed the strangers up. How could muggles get into Hogwarts?

Professor McGonagall who now had her wand firmly pointed at the Doctor and Clara gave a negative. "Filius and I can handle them."

"Are you sure Professor?" I asked. Didn't she understood that I couldn't sleep until I knew if we were in danger once again. They might be muggles, but that didn't mean that they weren't dangerous.

"You need rest Potter."

"I'll be fine professor. I wouldn't be able to sleep with strangers in the castle anyway." I explained

"Oh very well. We'll interrogate them in my office." We followed the Professor as she marched the prisoners into the castle. Professor Flitwick brought up the rear.

As we went through the castle I heard small talk from the two in front of us. There were also several gasps as they saw things such as the portraits.

"This is a splendid castle. A bit of a mess, but still grand." the old man said.

"Doctor." said the girl warningly exasperated.

"Quiet." said Professor McGonagall. I didn't like that the old man had insulted Hogwarts. Didn't he know what we had just gone through? Oh yeah, I thought, he didn't. He was a muggle. Finally we got to her office. Wait?! Her office. We were outside the headmaster's office. Oh yeah. Dumbledore and Snape were both dead. That made her headmistress. The gargoyles were still smashed so we all just went right up.

Professor McGonagall went around and sat behind the desk with her wand still trained on our muggle visitors. The rest of us stayed standing with our wands also trained on them.

"Now you will answer our questions. It would be better not to test our patience. We just went through hell and back and we will not tolerate any breaches of security."

"Oh course, my carer and I have nothing to hide, do we Clara? Clara?" the old man turned towards Clara as she didn't answer him. She was too busy looking around in awe.

"You'll have to excuse her, she would be distracted by Hogwarts." He leaned in a little closer and loudly whispered, "She teaches literature." Yah, as if that explained everything.

"Doctor!" The now named Clara loudly said. " Of course I'm distracted. We're in Hogwarts! In Hogwarts after the final battle."

"Well Clara I always did suspect that good ol' JK really came from an alternate universe where the events in her books took place."

What. Books? My shocked feelings were reflected back on the others faces as well.

"Excuse me, but did you just imply that we were characters out of a story book?" Hermione asked

"No, of course not said the doctor." We started to breath sighs of relief. "I implied that you were characters from a whole series of books."

"But...but how?" Professor McGonagall asked.

"Well you see..." and then the doctor began a tale of dimension travel and how he was an alien and it was all too much. Us characters in a book series in an alternate dimension. I couldn't believe it.

Hermione was clearly thinking along the same lines, for at the end of the story she said, "Why should we believe this story. Aliens! No one really believes in aliens."

"And I suppose magic doesn't exist either does it? Werewolves, and vampires or giants? That these past seven years were all a dream. After all seven years ago, you didn't know you were a witch."

Hermione looked like she had been slapped.

"Say we do believe you." I said slowly. Not that I was sure that I did, but it was certainly better than any explanation that I could come up with as to how muggles got into Hogwarts. "Why are you here.

He then described what went on in the cafe. "I followed disturbance that I had felt into the cafe to here. Well not necessarily here at Hogwarts, but to this dimension. Something is wrong. Someone is messing with my past and it needs to be fixed."

"What happens if it doesn't get fixed." Hermione asked.

"Worse case scenario?" He asked her. She nodded. I was kind of scared to know.

"Well, I could very well cease to exist or I could go mad. There is also the little fact that the universes could blow up."

A/N This is unbetaed.