Chapter 7: Hogwarts

Downstairs in the darkness. Their voices echoed throughout the room, bouncing off and on the walls.

The vision inside a room where they were locked in was gulfed in pitch blackness. There were no window, not even a little crack on the walls or holes on the stoned ground. The door was completely shut, only letting in small amount of air.

Leaning against the rough stone wall by the door, the Russo siblings and Harper sat side by side. The youngest of the Russo, Max, has fall asleep. Nevertheless, he had tried to cheer up his siblings and Harper for the past three hours. He awarded himself by sleeping. The oldest of the pack, Justin, kept glancing at the door. He had spend his times in there thinking of a plan to escape. In his mind, he set that the moment the door opens, he will pull the guard and knock him down to the ground. Then he and the others will escape. Not one of his brilliant plans though but it worth the shot. Its the only way.

The middle of the trio, Alex, was clinging to her best friend, Harper. In silence, she was crying along with Harper. In her mind, she thought that she would never get back home and see her parents scolding her. Oh how much she would do just to see or even hear them scolding at her. She would do just about anything. However, in the midst of all that, she found herself to keep thinking about her savior, Randy. She wondered how he was doing now. The last thing she remembered was that he was badly bruised and bleeding.

"Shh!" Justin breathed out, putting his index finger against his lips. He slowly got up and walked towards the door. Pressing his ear against it, he immediately said, "Someone's coming! Okay, guys, remember what I told! Just keep running!"

They nodded to him. Sound of keys clicking against each other started echoed from behind the door. There were also people talking indistinctively. They sound like they were arguing.

"Get ready!" Justin signalled to them. He stood by the door and waited.

The door opened and someone slowly came in. Just as the person walked in, Justin threw himself on the person's back and pushed him to the ground. "RUN!"

Alex, Harper and Max ran out the door, followed by Justin. Behid them, the person quickly stood up and ran after them. He was calling them, "Hey!! Wait!! What are you doing?! Stop!!"

Alex suddenly stopped.

She recognised that voice. Swiftly, she turned and found her savior standing by the door, panting. "Randy?"

"Alex, what are you doing? we gotta go come on!" Justin told her as he grabbed their wands from the nearby desk.

"But-"

Justin seized his sister's arm and pulled her along as he ran. Behind them, Randy was still running. "HEY!! DON'T RUN!!"

"Justin, stop!"

"No! We don't have time!" Justin told her. They were heading towards the door at the end of the hallway. Sadly, the door was locked. "Shoot!"

Justin tried to kick the door but it didn't worked. "Get together!" He pulled his siblings and Harper close. Raising up his wand, he recited the same spell he used back then.

Randy came running to them and called, "STOP!!"

"We are done with this violence, take us back to waverly Substation!" Justin shouted as he swung his wand to the side and waited. Nothing happened.

He tried again and still, the same result happened. "What the-" He tried the make-em-ups spell again. It still doesn't worked.

"Expelliarmus!" Randy casted. Justin's wand flew out from his hand and fell to the ground. Justin grabbed Max's wand and pointed it at Randy.

"Stand back!!" Justin shouted. "One step closer and you're will be blasted to obvilion!"

Randy slowed down his paces and said, "What are you talking about?"

"Just stand back!" Justin shouted again.

"Alright, I will..." Randy told him, slowly stepped back from them. "I don't want any of you to get into harm again. You just need to listen to me Russo. Its for you own good..."

"Listen..whoever you are..." Justin began. "We're not supposed to be here so why don't you let us go?"

"I will if only you cooperate with us," Randy stated.

"Us?" Justin asked, confused.

"I thinks it better for you to cooperate right now, Mr. Russo," said a voice. "Its for your own good."

The Russo and Harper turned and found Albus Dumbeldore standing at the door behind them. He was beaming at them, peering through his half-moon glasses. "How do you do?"

"Oh my God, its Professor Dumbeldore.." Harper nudged at Alex. "Its Dumbeldore!!"

"Yes, it is indeed me, Miss Finkle!" Dumbeldore beamed at her.

"He know my name!" Harper squealed. "Oh my God, somebody pinch me... Ouch!!" Alex retrieved her hand from Harper's arm and smirked.

"I'm sorry, sir, for the troubles. I was about to bring them to you.." Randy spoke out. He was now standing behind Max. "I have failed to complete the task that you had given me, sir."

"No matter, Gavrail, no matter." Dumbeldore softly said. He then turned to the Russo and Harper and told, "Please, come to the office with me, there's a matter that we need to discuss..."

"Professor Dumbeldore, we can't do that right now... we need to get back home... and it seemed that-" Justin tried to explain.

"It seemed that-" Dumbeldore interrupted. "Your powers are no use here, right?"

"How do you know?" Justin asked.

"I saw everything... and i think its better to explain it somewhere private... come," Dumbeldore told them. He slowly walked off to the nearby room, gesturing them to come along.

"Is it me or is he a bit weird?" Max said.

"Its you," Harper replied. "Obviously..."

All of them then followed the Hogwarts headmaster into a deserted room.

"We're going to Hogwarts? Awesome!!"

Harper started to jump up and down across the room and squealed to the top of her lungs. The young Auror, Randy, stood by the door and watched Harper weirdly. Max, not knowing whats really going on, also joined Harper in her little 'celebration'.

"Is that a school?" Alex asked the Hogwarts headmaster. "I'm not good at school and i don't think thats a good idea..."

"Alex, its obviously the only way we could get home," Justin said. "Lets just give it a try..."

"Hello, we don't have time to go to school!" Alex protested. "What if mom and dad got home by now and found out we're not there? Thats pretty much a whole month of being grounded for me and you might as well get some.."

"We need to try, Alex..." Justin said. He turned to Dumbeldore, "When do we start, professor?"

"Right away, I presume... school term starts in the next two days so we might catch up on everything... first, we need to get you all some school robes..." Dumbeldore said.

"Wait, its not a bathrobe is it?" Alex asked.

"No..." Dumbeldore replied, looking at her strangely.

"Oh, okay..."