Well here is chapter 3. Sorry it took so long. I had to deal with the hassle of the holidays, being sick for 3 weeks, trying to make up the work from school for the 6 days I was absent, and then study for finals. My life has been hectic. Sorry if there's any spelling errors. I'm not used to typing on a laptop. And I just got one for Christmas. (Yay!)

Disclaimer: I don't own Maximum Ride or Harry Potter. If I did both series would so be different.

Chapter 3: You're Joking, Right?

"Excuse me, are we being punked?" The Gasman asked.

"I can assure you, you are not being 'punked' young man." The word punked came off her tongue as if she wasn't completely sure what it meant.

"So let me get this straight, we are at a school for witch's and wizard's and it is not a joke or prank?" Iggy asked.

"That is correct. We take in young boys and girls at the age of eleven and teach them how to control their magic. Then at the age of seventeen, the legal age in the wizardry world, we allow them to go into the world with the knowledge we taught them." The lady seemed to have a pleased look on her face.

"Prove it." Fang demanded. He had a blank look on his face so it was hard to tell what he was thinking unless you noticed how tense his body was. He clearly was not liking this new turn of events.

The lady stood up from out of her chair behind the desk, she leaped over the desk, landing completely on the other side but before she hit the ground she was a cat. The cat walked through our legs with an expression I could only determine as smug. The cat stopped at the door behind us and turned back into the lady. She looked at us one at a time to measure our reactions. When she got to me I made sure my face was passive. After looking over us she walked back to her desk and took her seat. "Is that enough to convince you?" She tried to ask like a proper lady but you could still see the smugness in her eyes. She clearly did not like to be challenged by teenagers. Just like how I did not like to be challenged by adults.

Fang and I looked at each other momentarily before looking back at the lady. "Yeah. That's enough. Now that we know your secret and you know ours, we'll be on our way. Remember not to tell people we were here and we won't tell anyone you were here. Bye." I started rushing the kids towards the door with the intention of getting out of here before any of us were turned into birds. But before we could grad door's handle there was a click signaling the door was lock. We turned towards the windows to see the shutters slam closed on them. I turned back towards the lady to see her holding some weird looking stick pointing toward the windows.

"I'm afraid I can't allow you to leave. You see, the Wizardry World is a secret from muggles, non-magical folk, and you six are from the Muggle World even if you aren't like most muggles," at this Iggy scoffed, "thus before I allow you to leave with this information the Ministry of Magic must approve you to carry this information, if not then they'll wipe your memories of what has happened and you can carry out the rest of your lives with no problems. I have already sent out the notice to the Ministry so that they can send out someone to handle the papers for you six to have permission to have this knowledge." At this I raised my eyebrows wondering when the hell she did that.

"So let me get this straight, you are holding us prisoners here until some lawyer dudes shows up to either mess with our heads or make us sign a bunch of papers that for all I know can say that we're selling our souls and we have no other choice?"

"What is your name?" she asked.

"Max."

"Max, I can guarantee you that if they erase your memories it won't affect who you are. And if you sign the papers, all the papers will say is that you have access to the Wizardry World as long as you tell no muggles about it."

"Which means nothing to me seeing as I don't even know you, lady."

"My name is Professor Minerva McGonagall; not lady."

"Alright, Minnie. Now I'm telling you to let me and my flock leave or there will be trouble." At this point the tension in the room was beginning to hit boiling point. Minnie was glaring at me, Hagrid was shifting from foot to foot, trying to decide what to do, Total was growling, the flock was now standing at ready to run or fight, Fang was looking at the window, studying what it would take to break down the shutters and windows and I was glaring right back at Minnie.

Before any of us could make a move there was a chuckle from behind Minnie. My eyes swerved to where the sound came from only to land on some painting of an old man with a long white beard, a crooked nose, and crescent moon shaped glasses. I was about to look else where when I noticed something. The painting was moving. Just not moving, laughing. How in the world is that possible?

"I have never seen Minerva get so riled up youngsters. Which is saying something seeing as she has worked here for many years .Now, why don't we all calm down. We don't mean you harm. This is just how we work. It shouldn't take the Ministry to long to send someone out with the papers. While you wait why don't we have some house elves bring up some food for you?" Ok, how does one respond to a talking portrait? I mean, how is it even talking?

My head turned down to look at Angel who was tugging on my arm. "I want to stay. I want to see what is here." She started giving me a mix of the bambi eyes and crocodile tears. I raised my eyes to get away from hers only to meet the eyes of Gazzy, Iggy, and Nudge. They were doing the same thing. Oh, no. They were serious. I turned to Fang only for him to shrug. He sure was a lot of help. What am I supposed to do now?

I looked back at the lady and let out a long sigh. "Fine, we'll wait for this guy to come with the papers but we're leaving as soon as they are signed." At this part I looked back at the flock. But I could tell my words just went into one ear and out the other except for the part we would stay.

"Very well then, it will take a few hours before anyone comes because our Ministry has been going through a bit of a transition. You are more than welcome to explore the castle as long as you don't disturb any of the classrooms and its students. Oh and don't go into the Forbidden Forest. You were lucky you didn't run into anything else while you were in there. The forest is really dangerous." I just rolled my eyes. "I'll summon one of our house elves to be your guide. Poppy!" There was a pop and then right in front of us was this thing that was shorter that Angel, with grayish tan skin, and long ears and nose. "This is Poppy, one of our house elves. She will show you around the castle." Poppy gave the lady a quick bow then walked straight to the door not even looking at us. "One more thing, make sure your dog doesn't use the castle as a toilet and doesn't disturb the students with its bark."

I looked down at Total to see how he would respond. "Yeah, yeah. I got it. And my name is Total, not dog." I took great pleasure in their surprised faces before closing the door behind me.

We were walking around with Poppy pointing things out to us and telling us how the school worked including the four houses. I think I wouldn't mind being in Gryffindor. As long as the so called brave weren't actually so stupid to think they were brave like the saying "You're really brave or really stupid.' Did what I just say make any sense?

"Mostly." Angel answered me.

"And down there is the Quidditch Stadium where the four houses can compete for house points."

"What's Quiditich?" Iggy asked.

"It's just the most popular sport in the Wizardry World. It's done riding on brooms. The point of the game of for chasers to get the quaffles into one of the rings while beaters try to stop them with the bluggers. The keeper protects the goals from the quaffels. And in order for the game to end the seeker has to catch the snitch before the other seeker and the team who catches the snitch is awarded one hundred fifty points. But the team who catches the snitch isn't always the team who wins. In order to move forward in the tournament you need to win the most points total."

Ok, I think I got all of that.

"Sounds like our kind of game." Iggy declared.

As the guys talked about the game I looked around at our surroundings. There was a lot of space for us to easily take off at a moments notice. There was also a lot of windows for us to break. All I had to worry about was making sure we didn't get trapped in the dungeons.

I looked over to the Forbidden Forest to try to see what was so dangerous about it to have my eyes land on a cat by some type of willow tree. The cat was making small crying noises. It seemed as if its paw was stuck in something. I might as well help it out. I can't leave it like that.

I was kneeling down by the cat trying to pry the paw out of what looked like a tiny hole when there was a shout from behind me. I looked up in time to see what looked like the tree's branches coming at me. The next thing I knew I was on my back five feet away from where I was with a burning sensation in my side. Definitely a few bruised ribs. I could hear the flock telling me to move for above me there was a branch at least three feet thick coming to flatten me into a Max-pancake. Before the branch could reach me though something fell on top of me and forced me to roll over before impact. When I finally had the courage to open my eyes all I could see was green and I could feel this weight pushing down on top of me.

"Harry!"

"Harry!"

"Oh, dear!"

The green moved away till the point I could see the owner of the green eyes. It was a boy a few years older than me with black hair. The thing that really caught my eyes though was the lightning bolt scar on his forehead. I could already feel a flush building on my face.

Who was he?

Sorry it took so long I promise I'll try to put up a new one soon.