I woke up feeling weird. It felt like I was moving while still seated. I looked around and noticed that I definitely wasn't in Upton's house anymore. It was weird. It almost looked like a train. It looked like I was on a train. How was I on a train? I also noticed that my body felt weird. I felt smaller somehow and my hair felt longer. Had that floo powder actually worked? Did that mean that we on the Hogwarts Express? There was a really train, but it didn't look like we were in Florida. We definitely weren't in Universal Studios because it didn't look like anywhere I had been before.
"What the fuck happened to me? What's wrong with my voice? Why am I a girl?" A British voice interrupted my thoughts. I then looked up and saw a young girl wearing a Ravenclaw uniform. I wasn't sure who she was but she looked kind of like Upton, despite the fact that she was a young girl. I then noticed that she was looking at me. "Oh my God, Adam?"
"Upton?" I asked. I then covered my mouth. I couldn't believe it. I had a British accent. On top of that, I sounded like a girl. I then looked in the mirror and noticed that I looked like a girl, well a tween at least. I was shorter with long blonde hair. The girl in the mirror moved her hand and I was shocked. I couldn't believe it. How was I a girl? Why was I a girl? Why was Upton a girl? And why were we so young?
"What's going on?" Upton asked. "How are we girls and why am I talking like this?"
It was then that I was hit with the possibility that what was happening was happening. I knew that it was impossible, but it seemed like I had to consider it. Then looked under my seat and noticed a compartment. Inside of it was a bag. I opened the side pocket of the bag and pulled out a wand. I couldn't believe it. The floo powder had worked and we were somehow on the Hogwarts Express. And it was apparently the real Hogwarts Express. I was trying my best to process it. I had to admit that I was a little freaked out, but I couldn't show that at the moment.
"We're going to Hogwarts. We're on the Hogwarts Express." I declared. As unbelievable as it seemed, that seemed to be what had happened. It also didn't explain why we had turned into girls. "I think that we're in Harry Potter. The floo powder transported us to another world."
"That's impossible." Upton declared. "Besides, that wouldn't explain how we got younger or why our genders changed."
There had to be a reason for that. Well I was pretty sure that I understood one of the reasons. We were too old to go to Hogwarts, so we had to made the correct age, but I was pretty sure that we weren't first-years since we already have our robes.
"Maybe it's because we were too old to go to since we were 19." I suggested. I was pretty sure that we needed to figure out what we were doing and focus less on the fact that we had been transformed. It would probably be a key to getting out of here. "As impossible as it sounds, we need to find out what book we're in."
At the moment, I tried to think of whatever spells I could remember. I remembered the curses, but I wasn't supposed to do those. I also knew that because I was young, like thirteen or fourteen, there were some spells that I wasn't supposed to know yet. At the same time, I was in Ravenclaw, so there was some sort of lenience to being smarter.
At that point Emma Watson, no Hermione walked into the room or car or whatever it was called. She looked like she was barely a teenager herself. Since I was a bit disoriented from the sudden shift of reality, I blurted out the first thing on my mind.
"What are you doing here?" I asked. She probably thought that I was rude for saying that. It was kind of rude for me to just ask her that like she had no reason to be there.
"I'm checking up on my little sister." Hermione replied. Was she referring to me or Upton? "Upton, how are you? How have you been?"
"Fine, I guess." Upton answered. So, that gave us an idea of who she was. It also meant that she was a Muggle-born. I thought that Muggle-borns were rare and two to a family was extremely uncommon. It seemed a little bit contrived. It also meant that Hermione had a sister now, so we weren't just regular characters. We must have been inserted into the books rather than taking over for someone else. Also it was interesting that Upton had the same name. I was pretty sure that I didn't.
"Well I wanted to tell you all about the World Cup, if that's alright." Hermione said before glaring at me. It looked like I had accidentally made it seem like I didn't like her. I didn't have a problem with Hermione. It was Ron that I didn't like. However, I wasn't one of those people that thought Ron was a secret Death Eater while thinking Malfoy was a good guy. I just thought Ron was a bit of dumbass. I didn't like Malfoy either.
"Sure, go ahead." I replied. I then realized that she seemed to want to do it without me there.
"By the way, Adelaide, your brother was looking for you." Hermione added. Adelaide? Wasn't that like a city in Australia or something? It sound like one of those preppy Harry Potter names. Why did everyone except Harry have names that made them sound like they had millions of dollars.
"My brother?" I repeated. She probably thought that I was crazy or maybe I had been hexed or something.
"Yes, your brother, Michael." She replied. Who was Michael?
I tried to think of any Michaels from Harry Potter before I eventually remembered one. It was the minor character Michael Corner that Ginny dated briefly. I was pretty sure that he wasn't even in the movies. How the hell was I supposed to find him when I didn't even know what he looked like? This was going to suck.
"I guess I'll go look for him then," I responded before I went out into the hall. I then went back into the cabin. I then realized that maybe I should get some sort of clue in order to find out where he was so I wouldn't just be looking all throughout the train. "Where did you see him again?"
"He was in the dining car." Hermione answered. I wasn't even aware that they had a dining car on the train.
So, I left them to find my brother that I still didn't know what he looked like, in a dining car that I didn't know where to find. Fortunately, there was a sign that pointed in the direction of the dining car. That was pretty convenient. Now if I only knew what my new brother looked like.
I finally made it to the dining car. I looked around for anyone who looked like they were looking at me. I had no idea what I was doing.
I didn't immediately find anyone, at least not anyone male. Instead, I found a redhead with her hand in the air.
"Addie, come sit with us." Ginny declared. I looked at her in surprise. Everything that was happening was so surreal. Based on the fact that Hermione mentioned the Quidditch World Cup, I was in The Goblet of Fire. So, I was a little bit surprised to see Luna sitting next to her. I probably shouldn't have been considering that she was always there even though she hadn't been created yet. I supposed that the name Addie wasn't too far off from my own name, even though it sounded pretty girly. I liked Ginny, even though I thought that the movies did a pretty poor job of developing her. I was also upset that she barely appeared in The Prisoner of Azkaban because it would have been nice to see how the previous book had affected her.
"I can't." I replied. I was still getting used to hearing the accent come out of my mouth. "I have to find my brother."
"Your brother can wait." Ginny replied. She sounded like she was pretty assertive and she already had more personality than the movies had given her. I also wondered if she knew what my brother looked like. "Come sit with us."
I decided to take a seat next to them considering that I still didn't know what my brother looked like. There was also the fact that Ginny was probably my favorite character. Luna was another one of my favorite characters since she seemed to be the only Ravenclaw whose existence wasn't solely to be someone's girlfriend. Yeah, she was a little bit weird, but that was part of her charm.
"So how was your summer?" Ginny asked. I didn't know how to answer that because I didn't know if anything had happened to me during the summer. It was going to be hard being a character while simultaneously knowing nothing about myself.
"It was fine." I answered. That had to be an acceptable answer. Hopefully she wouldn't ask me about anything specific. "I really didn't do anything all that exciting."
I could have, but I didn't know anything about the character that I was. It was tough being in a situation where pretty much everyone knew who you were, but you didn't even know yourself. I basically had friends and a brother that I had only read about, and on top of that I didn't even know anything about my brother. I didn't know what it would be like to have an older brother. In fact, I didn't even know where I lived because the character who was my brother had absolutely zero development.
"Well my summer was great." Ginny declared. Thankfully, she seemed to be taking the attention away from me. "My family, Harry and Hermione went to see the Quidditch World Cup and it was so much fun, aside from the part where my brothers were briefly injured but that didn't last very long. Of course, after everything was over, things got dangerous."
"I heard about that. Didn't Death Eaters attack or something?" I questioned. It was nice to actually know something that was going on because for the first time since I had arrived in this world, I wasn't flying blind. At least we were in one of the better books.
"I heard that they were after the Nargles and the vampires from Transylvania." Luna replied. I wasn't even sure if there any vampires in the Harry Potter universe and I was pretty sure that Nargles didn't exist either."
"Luna, how many times do I have to tell you? Just because you dad writes something doesn't make it true." Ginny pointed out. I wasn't sure if she was gullible or a conspiracy theorist, but I also knew that she had to be smart since she was in Ravenclaw. I also wished that the movies hadn't downplayed Luna and Ginny's friendship.
"Weren't you scared when all of that was happening?" I questioned. I even knew that things were going to be alright in the end and I still didn't know if I would be able to take it. I couldn't help but wonder how much I was going to have to prepare myself for. I didn't know how involved in the plot Upton and I were going to be.
"Of course not. I'm a Gryffindor." She joked. I couldn't help but laugh a little at it. "But in all seriousness, no I knew that I would be fine because Harry was there and there was also plenty of defense from the Ministry of Magic."
"Well why were Harry and Hermione with you?" I questioned. I wasn't sure if I should know that.
"I thought Upton would have told you that Harry and Hermione stayed with us for the summer." Ginny remarked.
"Well, you know it's not the easiest to talk to her with her Muggle parents and all." I told her.
"You could just call her." Ginny quipped. Did wizards use phones? They seemed not to like technology. "We have something called a telephone that still works even if it's not as efficient as magic."
"But the phone company charges you money for long-distance." I replied. I knew that was a thing in the 90s. I was pretty sure that there was some kind of magic phone, but I didn't think Upton had one. I was pretty sure that Hermione lived in London, but I had no idea where I was supposed to be from since I was not an expert on British accents. "Also, I don't even know her number."
"Well you should probably get it from her." Ginny proposed. There were two reasons why I couldn't do that. One: I was pretty sure that she didn't know it, and two: I wanted to get out of this world before it became relevant."
"Well look who decided to grace us with her presence." A blonde girl in a Ravenclaw robe interrupted. I had never seen her before, even in the background, so I had no idea who she was. She looked like she was the same age as age, so I knew that I was supposed to know who she was, but I didn't. "You usually just spend the trip in your cabin."
"I got kicked out and I was looking for my brother." I explained. I hoped that she was someone that I was friends with and she wasn't the Ravenclaw version of Malfoy. I did really wish that I knew her name though. Hopefully someone else would mention it.
"Hi, Mandy." Luna replied. "How was your summer?"
"Well I learned a new language." Mandy answered. "I know speak fluent elf. Of course the house elves want me to talk to them even they speak a different language than regular elves."
"You always have to a new accomplishment, don't you, Mandy." Ginny teased. So, it seemed like Ginny was close to a lot of Ravenclaw girls. It kind of made me wish that she was in Ravenclaw because it meant that I would get to spend more time with her.
"So, Addie, is it true that you want to try out for seeker on Quidditch team this year?" Luna asked.
"Yeah, it is." I answered without thinking. I was beginning to think that maybe I shouldn't think too much about things, especially since these girls were my friends. I knew enough about Quidditch to understand. Plus, seeker was probably the easiest position to understand. You just had to find and grab the golden snitch and then you win. If I was going to be the seeker, then I had to be an important character because the seekers had been the more important people from their houses…except for in Ravenclaw. I was pretty sure that I didn't even know who the Ravenclaw seeker was.
"By the way, Addie, your brother was looking for you." Mandy remarked. I already knew that. "I told him that you were probably in your cabin."
"Well I came here to look for him," I reiterated. I still couldn't help but wonder what he wanted. It couldn't have been that long since we talked. I never knew how long the train took to get to Hogwarts, but it couldn't be that long. There was no way that it could take a whole day to get there or anything. There probably were some hardcore fans that could tell me that, but I wasn't that much of a nerd.
"I'm surprised that you weren't all over him, Mandy." Ginny remarked. "You had the biggest crush on him last year."
Even though I didn't actually have a brother, I had seen how characters act when other girls talked about their brother and I decided that it would be a good idea to say something.
"Ew, can you stop talking about my brother like that?" I requested. At least the banter was still fairly tame since we were only thirteen and I imagined that none of us had even been in any relationships. I hoped that I sounded convincing as a thirteen-year-old girl since I had no absolutely no experience being one.
"We can't help it if your brother is cute." Ginny replied as I blushed. "At least you have a cute brother. I have too many brothers to count."
I couldn't help but laugh at that. I couldn't help but wonder why the Weasleys had so many kids.
At that point, a guy with dark brown hair came over to me. He looked like he was looking for me. I assumed that he was Michael. The fact that Mandy blushed when he came over only did more to further that assumption. I supposed he was a little cute.
"There you are. I have been looking everywhere for you." He said. I didn't really know what to do. At least Upton had Hermione as a sibling, meaning it would be easy to connect with her.
"Why?" I asked because I couldn't think of anything else to say.
"You left this with Mum and Dad." He declared as he handed me a slip of paper. I appeared to be my permission slip to go to Hogsmeade. I forgot that was something that third-years got to do. "They wanted me to give it to you. You were in such a hurry to get on the train."
"Well I just can't wait to go to school." I declared. I was looking forward to it a little, even though I had no idea what I was doing. I was excited about being at the school because I would get to learn real magic. I couldn't help but wonder if there was a spell to turn me back into a guy, but I didn't know if I would learn anything like that. There was probably some significance to Upton and I being girls, so maybe it would be best not to mess with it.
"Well you're in luck because we've arrived." Michael declared as the train came to a stop. I looked outside and there it was in the distance: Hogwarts.
So Adam is now Addie and Upton is still Upton, just a girl. Upton is played by Danielle Campbell and Mandy is played Sammi Hanratty. Please don't forget to review.
