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Harry Potter and the Portal Spell
Chapter Two
Harry and his friends were led inside the huge palace and curtly told to wait there. One of their captors ran off, while the others remained behind to keep an eye on them. The one carrying their belongings set their things down in a far corner out of their reach, not that any of them could do much reaching with their hands tied behind their backs as they were.
Meanwhile, Kiron had searched for and found his king and friend Ari-en-anethet in his study talking with his wife, Queen Nofret-te-en. Kiron waited impatiently to be acknowledged by the couple. After a few minutes, Ari and Nofret looked over at him.
"Alright Kiron, What seems to be the problem?" Ari asked.
"I was just in Avatre's pen spending some time with her, when all of a sudden a glowing doorway seemingly made of red light appeared in the far corner. Seven young strangers came tumbling out of it and fell unconscious, after which the strange doorway vanished. I had Avatre guard them for a moment while I gathered some others. We have detained the strangers and brought them here to be questioned." Kiron said, slightly fast. Ari and Nofret took a moment to digest all that they had just heard.
"Very well, I think we should go question them then, don't you?" said Nofret. Ari nodded in agreement. The three of them headed to where the seven teens were waiting. Ari examined them all closely, inwardly wondering about their bizarre apparel.
"Before we get into questions about just how you all got here, what are your names?" he asked.
"My name is Harry Potter. These are my friends, Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley, Ginny Weasley, Draco Malfoy, Neville Longbottom and Luna Lovegood." Harry said, pointing to each one as he named them. "Might we know your names in return?" Harry added.
"Very well, I am King Ari-en-anethet and this is my wife, Queen Nofret-te-en. These others are Kiron, Orest, Oset-re, Menet-ka, Ganek-at-kel-te-ronet, Ka-lenteth, Huras and Pe-atep. Now that introductions have been made, where are you from, how did you get here, and most importantly, will anyone be coming to look for you that might prove dangerous to my people?" Ari finished with a stern look at the suddenly chagrined teens.
"That's rather a lot to answer at this moment. You see, there are laws where we come from that forbid us from revealing ourselves to anyone that doesn't belong in our world. The only exceptions are if they are married to someone from our world or have a child with the right talents to be admitted to our world." Hermione said, choosing her words carefully.
"I don't think we really need to worry about that, Hermione. We both know that wherever we are is so far from our world that telling them the truth won't bring the obliviators down on them." said Draco.
"Draco's right, Hermione. We should just be honest with them and hope we can find a way home from here before we're missed." said Ginny. The others nodded in agreement and Hermione sighed in defeat.
"Alright, but if we end up getting arrested, I'm blaming all of you!" She said in resignation. Harry took over the conversation.
"We are from a place called England, though we all attend a school for magic in Scotland. How we got here is a little trickier. We were trying out a new spell that Draco had found in the library and it seems it did not go the way it was supposed to. If it had gone right, we would have ended up at Draco's home. Instead, something went wrong and we landed here. We woke up to find a red and gold creature sniffing at us. What was that thing anyway?" Harry asked. Kiron spoke in indignation.
"That thing, as you call her, is a dragon. Her name is Avatre and I am her rider!" Kiron said proudly.
"A dragon? Really? They're very different here than they are back home." said Ron.
"Oh? What are dragons like where you're from?" asked Ari, with interest.
"Well, there are many different breeds, to start with. The one thing they all have in common is that they cannot be tamed by anyone or anything. A friend of ours, Hagrid, tried to raise a dragon from the egg in his house. He named it Norbert. Needless to say, it didn't work out so well. Luckily, my and Ginny's older brother, Charlie, studies dragons at a dragon preserve and had some of his friends pick up Norbert and bring it to him so they could take care of him and put him back into the wild where he belonged. Norbert was a bloody menace. That wretched dragon bit me when I tried to feed him. We found out afterwards that he was poisonous when my hand turned green." said Ron.
"We're getting a little off track here, we can discuss dragons at a later time. For now, let's get back to the matter at hand. Whether or not anyone comes looking for us depends entirely on if anyone even knows that we are missing. I suspect that we are not in our own reality. If that is the case, if we can find a way back, we might find ourselves arriving at the very moment we left." said Hermione.
"What do you mean? How could we arrive at the same moment we left?" asked Neville
"I mean, that our absence could have left a hole that only our return could fill. Or we could find that our realities move at the same rate and however long it takes us to get back is how long we will have been gone, which means there will be some very upset people waiting for us back home." Hermione replied.
TBC…