Chapter Seventeen; The Costume Party

The next morning Hermione woke up to the sound of Hedwig tapping on her window with her beak and hooting up a storm. "Alright Hedwig, I'm coming, just hold your horses." She told her while walking over to it and opening it up for her. She soared inside the room and landed on top of her bedpost holding up the envelope that contained Harry's response. Hermione grabbed ahold of it and ripped it open.

"I sure hope that this is from Harry." She said letting it drop down and unfold inside the palms of her hands. She placed one hand on her chest and gasped while her eyeballs nearly popped out of their sockets and then she quickly hurried out of the room to go show it to Ron.

….

"Harry's stuck inside an alternate dimension?" he questioned her once she had showed him the letter.

"That's what it says but I'm not really sure on why or how." She told him.

"I bet it was those two muggles that showed up. Or aliens, or whatever the heck they are! I bet they took Harry there and just left him there!" he spat.

"Now c'mon Ron we don't know that for sure." Hermione told him.

"No but it's a pretty safe bet. Now what the heck are we supposed to do about it!?" he cried.

"Well first I need to go talk to Ginny and Tobey like Harry wanted me to, and then I'm going to go talk to his father about it. I mean know that we know he's in trouble we can't just leave him there all alone. I'm sure that Snape will have an idea on how to get him back." She said.

"Hopefully. Or that will be the end of his dragon career. I mean he can teach anywhere, but he only has one dragon business." Ron said.

"I know but I don't want to worry about that right now." Hermione told him with a shake of her head. "Right now I'm going down to the great hall to see if I can still catch Ginny and Tobey." She said as Ron watched her turn around and leave the room.

Snape had just finished getting Teddy and Heather to bed when all of a sudden he walked back out into the living room to see a great green flash of light coming out from his fireplace. "Hermione?" he questioned as he saw her there standing before him. "What are you doing here?" he asked her.

"I'm sorry to bother you at this hour but this was the only time that I thought I could reach you. Harry's in trouble." She told him.

"What do you mean, what kind of trouble?" he asked her anxiously before she started explaining all about Tobey, The Doctor and Rose, and how Harry had tried to get back home to tell him all about it.

"So now Tobey's losing his vision and Harry's stuck in an alternate dimension and I don't know what to do about it." She told him as Snape hung his head shamefully.

"Both of my boys are in danger then. Some father I turned out to be." He said.

"Oh c'mon Dad there's no way that you could have known that this was going to happen." She told him as he perked up a little bit.

"What did you just call me?" he questioned her.

"Dad. You're my father figure aren't you? I thought that once you're a member of this family, you stay a part of this family." She said as he grinned at her.

"You know what? You're absolutely one hundred percent ride. And families stick together. Don't worry Hermione, whatever happens we're in this together. And we'll find some way to help Harry and Tobey." He told her as he wrapped an arm around her and pulled her inside his chest before kissing the top of her head and resting his chin against it.

"So are you ready to go Harry?" Jenny asked him as she came out of her bedroom wearing a long beautiful princess dress with a silver tiara with purple gems inside it on the top of her head.

"You look brilliant," Harry began as she smiled warmly at him.

"But there's one thing that I completely forgot about." He told her.

"What's that?" she asked him.

"A costume." He admitted.

"Harry, you're a wizard remember? And not only that you can do wandless magic." She reminded him.

"Oh yeah, right." He told her as he snapped his fingers and instantly changed his clothes. He was now wearing a cowboy outfit. He had a black cowboy hat on the top of his head, a red and white plaid long sleeve shirt with a black and white cow patterned vest, red bandana, black jeans with a matching belt, and a pair of black boots. He also had on a holster with a pair of silver pistols.

"How do I look?" he asked her as he squatted down. "I don't think that this town is big enough for the two of us." He said in his best American accent before grabbing both of his pistols and started twirling them around inside his hands and around his fingers and then firing them into the air and blowing the smoke away with a sly grin. Jenny giggled as he stored them away again inside his holster.

"That's great, where did you learn how to do that?" she asked him.

"My mum was obsessed with those old western movies. We always used to watch them together." He explained.

"Wow, that's cool! But you do realize that you can't take them with you to the high school right?" she questioned as Harry snapped his fingers and made them disappear while tucking his cross inside his shirt with the other hand.

"No problem." He said. "Now do you want me to drive?" he asked her but she just simply grinned at him.

"Actually I had something better in mind." She told him.

….

"Are you sure that this is going to work?" Jenny asked him once they had both made it outside again and she had mounted her broomstick.

"It's worth a try, Hedwig was able to travel between worlds so my Firebolt should be able to." Harry told her before tilting his head back towards the sky and placing two of his fingers in-between his teeth he gave a loud and sharp whistle. A few seconds later they saw a broomstick shooting down from out of the sky soaring down towards the ground towards them. Harry grinned before he quickly grabbed ahold of the handle, mounted it, and raced a crossed the ground with Jenny before the two of them kicked off of it and shot up into the sky.

Jenny giggled and started squealing with excitement and delight as Harry just simply turned his head and smiled warmly at her with the stars twinkling inside his eyes. Then he turned his head back around as they rose higher into the air. "Woohoo!" Jenny shouted continuing to squeal and giggle.

"Yeah, woohoo!" Harry echoed while they continued flying into the distance for a few moments before they saw the high school building in front of them and gently aimed their brooms towards the ground before their feet touched it again and they hopped off of them.

"That was great Harry, I love being able to fly." She began before she held up her hand and turned to whisper inside his ear. "It's one of my favorite things about being a witch." She told him. Harry was about to ask her if any of her friends knew that she was really a witch when suddenly he saw two other girls exiting the school building. The first one had long brown hair with brown eyes and freckles all over her face, while the other one had thick black hair like Harry's tied up into a pony tail, dark eyes, and peached skin. The one with brown hair was dressed up like a black cat while the other girl was dressed as an angel.

"Hey Jenny." The girl with the black hair said.

"Hey Morgan." Jenny replied. "Morgan, Meghan, this is my new friend Harry." She told them. As Meghan met Harry's eyes she smiled warmly at him.

"Ah hullo Harry." She spoke softly.

"Nice to meet you Harry." Morgan began. "Wow Jen, you've got a really cute boyfriend." She told her with a grin.

"We're not boyfriend and girlfriend we're just friends." Jenny began. "Besides, Harry's already got a girlfriend." She told them.

"Well then she's a lucky girl." Morgan began as they entered the building together. "So Harry, where do you live?" she asked him.

"Um,.." he began.

"He's just visiting actually, he's from out of town." Jenny told her while they entered the gymnasium. "C'mon Harry, let's go get something to drink." She told him.

"Alright." Harry said with a nod while she led him over to the refreshment table.

"Do you like punch?" she asked him.

"Yeah." He replied with another nod as they both started scooping up some ice and punch from the punchbowl and poured it inside their plastic cups and started to drink. That's when suddenly the lights turned off and Cotton Eye Joe came on.

"Oh my God I love this song!" Jenny exclaimed while she placed her cup back on the table and started jumping up and down excitedly. "C'mon Harry, you have to dance with me!" she cried.

"But_" Harry began but she quickly grabbed ahold of his hands and dragged him away before he had had a chance to finish his sentence. "Maybe this isn't a good idea, I don't know how to do this!" he hollered over the music so that she could hear him.

"Don't think, just go with it!" she shouted back as they exchanged grins before they wrapped their arms around each other and started doing a little do-si-do and spinning each other around before starting to laugh. Then they quickly let go of each other and turned around. Jenny lifted up the hem of her dress while Harry grabbed ahold of the sides of his pants and hoisted them up while he started doing a country western step dance. Then he let go of one side while raising his fist into the air and spinning it around continuing to laugh and grin. It was the first time in a long time that he had remembered having so much fun.