Harry Potter and the Book of Impossibility

Chapter 14 - Amstelveen

 

Next morning, when they had breakfast, they once again, carried all the stuff in the mini, and drove to the airfield.

Harry and Ron had never been on a plane, and especially Ron was fascinated by it.

"They can fly without magic! Brilliant! I bet that if we go on vacation with a plane, my father stays at the airfield all the time. Our vacation would be to the airfield!" Ron said excited, while they boarded the plane.

At the take off, Ron started to get slightly nervous, but he got over it in no time.

They saw London from above, which was very strange to them. Later they flew over the sea, and after half an hour, they were flying over Holland, soon they were descending, and they landed on Schiphol, the Amsterdam airport. Their were a lot of tourists, tax-free Dutch shops, and a McDonalds. There was a high tower, and Karlien said it was the control tower.

They rented a taxi, Schiphol was very near Amstelveen, and within ten minutes, they were in Amstelveen.

Their family lived near the highway, in a house, with a large garden, which was all white because of the snow, their neighbours on the right side, also had such a garden, but fully grown with plants, very good maintained.

"They must spend days in the garden to maintain it!" Harry said.

"They do." Karlien said.

They lived next to a school, called ‘de Piet Hein school’.

"That’s were I learned to write and read and stuff like that." Karlien said.

 

They rang the bell, and her uncle opened.

"Harry, I didn’t know you were coming, great you came! Ron, Hermione! Great you came too." His wife arrived too, and she hugged everyone.

"The kids are still in school, their holiday is starting tomorrow. Please come in. Karlien, can you give your friends a tour through the house?" She said.

"Of course." Karlien thought.

They had a muggle house, because the whole neighbourhood was muggle, and they visited them sometimes, so it would be strange to show them all wizard stuff.

They went to first floor, and entered her cousins bedroom.

It was not very big, there was a bunk bed, but the upper bed was used to dump things. The room was one big mass. The desk was also full of homework, and there was a computer.

"Is that a talivision?" Ron asked, pointing to the monitor of the computer.

"No, that’s a computer, you can do anything with it. Write, play games, Internet, play music, e-mail." Karlien said.

"Explanation please, how am I supposed to know what Internet, or e-mail is." Ron said.

Karlien explained the Internet and what e-mail was.

"Can you really find everything on the Internet? Everything?" Ron asked.

"Well, almost everything you can think of is on the Internet, except everything that has to do with magic." Said Karlien.

"Can we try?" Ron asked, curious about how a computer worked.

"Of course." Karlien said, and turned on the computer.

The computer was ready within half a minute, which was really fast, Karlien said, because her old computer was much slower.

"Windows ME?" Ron asked, "What does a computer has to do with a two thousand windows?" He asked. Karlien laughed.

"Windows is the program that runs the computer, well it doesn’t, but that the easiest way to explain, ME means Millennium, that’s the version number, you’ve got windows 95, 98, 2000, Millennium, and a lot more. This computer has Windows Millennium on it."

Ron understood, "Okay, and what’s Internet?" he asked.

She started Internet, and went to a search site.

"Okay, what would you like to search?" Karlien asked.

"Bats" Ron said.

Karlien typed ‘Bats’ on the search site, and hit enter.

There were lots of sites about bats, Ron looked at them, and was amazed.

"Why can’t wizards have something like this, this Internet contains more information then all the libraries in the whole world, and you can find information very soon! There’s no magic way to find things as fast as this. You’ll have to search all the books, page by page."

"Some wizards have a computer with Internet on it, but most don’t, don’t ask me why. It’s just one of the things muggles did smarter then we did." Karlien said.

"Is all this information in that little box next to the desk?" Ron said, pointing at the computer.

"No, it’s connected with other computers in the whole world, that’s were it gets all this information."

 

They spent a lot of time on the Internet, and after that, Karlien looked at the mp3 collection of her cousin, he had 285 mp3s, they listened some, and went to play games after that, Commandos, Age of Empire 2, Pharaoh, Caesar, Zeus, Tombraider, Total Annihilation, the Sims, they had much fun.

Then Karlien’s cousin came home from school, and they went down to talk.

 

Next day, they went to the WSA, they borrowed some skates from Karlien’s family.

It was a not very big, there were three buildings, one where they repaired broken boats, one where all the surfboards, sails and all things like that were stalled, and one clubhouse, with toilets, a bar and douches.

The boats were out the water, because it was winter, and the water was frozen.

They pulled on the borrowed skates, and Karlien and Hermione began to teach Harry and Ron how to skate.

"Man, this is difficult!" Ron said, he couldn’t keep his skates straight. Harry had the same problem, but he learned it after a while, Ron didn’t.

Soon Harry was able to skate pretty well, and he and Karlien left to skate. Hermione stayed with Ron. They left the ice, because she was sure she couldn’t teach Ron how to skate, and they went to the clubhouse. A cup of hot chocolate was waiting for them.

 

Harry and Karlien were skating on the lake. It was surrounded by trees, it was beautiful. It wasn’t very large, it was just a small lake, but it looked perfect to have fun, not to big, and not to small.

After a while, they went to a landing stage, and sat down to rest and cool down, because they got pretty hot from all the skating.

They talked to some muggles and went on skating.

Suddenly they heard a scream, and turned around, a child was gone through the ice, and was now frozen.

They hurried forward and there were some people standing around them.

Suddenly the woman next to them said.

"Harry Potter, right?" She was a witch.

"Can you make a privacy screen and cast some memory charm on the muggles? I’ll help the child."

Harry did was he was told too, and Karlien helped him with the memory charms. The woman healed the child, who was fully back to life now, they were relieved.

When everything was handled, they skated back to the WSA, the woman went after them, because she belonged there too.

"Pleasure to meet you." The woman said nervous.

"I’m Esther, your Harry Potter, and you are?"

"Karlien van Voorthuizen." She said.

 

They al had a cup of hot chocolate, and introduced Esther to Ron and Hermione.

They had a long talk about Hogwarts. Esther went there when she was in school, but she had finished Hogwarts the year before Harry entered it.

"I was in Ravenclaw, and you are in?" Esther asked.

"Gryffindor." All four of them said together.

"Fifth year." Hermione added.

* * * * *

That evening they decided to go to the movie.

"Which movie shall we go to?" Hermione asked.

"They say Pearl Harbour is very good." Karlien said.

 

They used the bus to go to Amsterdam, and soon they were on the Leidseplein, a square with a lot of pubs and a cinema. It looked very pleasant. There was a lot of Christmas decoration, there was a man doing acrobatic tricks, all the pubs were full with people.

"We’ve to get the reservations, after that, we’ll have half an hour before the movie starts." Karlien said.

There was a long queue, so they had to wait a while, finally it was their turn, and they all paid for the movie.

 

To fill the time, they walked around the Leidseplein for a while, and they got a drink in one of the pubs, a coke. It was nothing new to Karlien, but the others never drunk it before. Hermione wasn’t aloud because her parents were dentist, and thought coke was bad for her teeth. Dudley always had coke, but Harry was never allowed to drink it, and Ron had never even heard of it.

It was delicious, Ron was amazed, because he thought butterbeer was the best, but coke was almost as good.

Nobody recognised Harry, apparently there were no wizards or witches on the square except them.

 

Ten minutes before the beginning of the movie, they searched a good place to sit, and found some.

The movie began, but the first fifteen minutes, it was only stupid commercials.

"Are we paying for commercials?" Karlien said irritated.

Ron didn’t mind, he was impressed that muggles could invent something like this.

When finally the real movie had began, everybody was silent.

It was very good, Harry, Hermione and Karlien were watching it normally, but Ron was on the end of his chair, with open mouth, watching the movie.

The most funniest was when there was a shooting scene, there were also loudspeakers behind them, and Ron looked behind him in a shock when he heard a scream, but he got used to it, and watched.

Suddenly the movie stopped.

"What the…" Ron yelled.

"Easy Ron, it’s just a break, you can go to the toilet, have a drink, or get something to eat, and that’s exactly what we’re going to do." Karlien said.

 

"Can those sticks -pitsols, gans, however they call them- really kill people?" Ron asked.

"Yeah, you’ll be surprised to see what muggles invented to kill each other!" Harry said, "But wizards have counter spells to the weapons, except when your already dead. Uncle Vernon almost used one on Hagrid once, when he tried to tell me I was a wizard. Hagrid wasn’t pleased and gave Dudley a pig tail." They all laughed, even Hermione, which was strange, because she was very strict if someone broke a law.

They all got another coke, and together they bought two large popcorn.

"This is real cinema food." Karlien had said, so they bought it.

 

When the movie was over, they were all in a good mood.

"Let’s have dinner now!" Ron said, "I’m starving!"

"Where would you like to eat?" Karlien asked.

"McDonalds of course!" Harry and Ron said together.

Soon they found one, but there were a lot of people, so they had to wait before it was their turn.

They all ordered a BigMac menu Extra, with coke. It was delicious.

Harry heard Hermione say something to her self, "Not to much… to fat… only once…but it’s so good… only one solution, less food in school." Harry quietly laughed, but nobody noticed.

Once they were ready, they left as soon as possible, because people were waiting for a place to sit. They went to a bar.

It was very nice, there was music, people were laughing, but it was very hot inside. They walked to the bar and Karlien ordered a Bacardi Breezer.

"How old are you?" The man who was selling asked.

"Sixteen." She lied.

"Can I see identification?" He asked.

And she showed him a pass which said she was sixteen.

"Okay, it all right, here’s your drink." He said.

 

"Wow! How did you do that?" Harry asked impressed when the man was gone, helping somebody else.

"I magiced it when I started going out, muggle identification is so easy to fool! There’s no way a muggle can find out it’s fake, only if he asks a wizards.

My muggle friends were really jealous of it, they didn’t knew I was a witch, they still don’t" Karlien said.

They were having a great time, and talked to other people as well.

 

"I’ll be right back, gotta go to the toilet." Harry said.

When he was on the toilet, he heard Karlien in his head.

"Harry, there’s a creep next to me, flirting with me, what shall I do?" she thought.

"Ignore him, say your already occupied." He thought back.

Suddenly he heard a scream.

"DON’T TOCH ME YOUR CREEP!" It was Karlien.

Harry hurried back from the toilet, and saw a man holding a knife at Karlien. Everybody was standing as far away as possible.

Harry pulled his wand and pointed it at the man.

"Let go of her!" Harry demanded.

"Why should I, were you going to stop me?" He said in bad English.

"That was my plan." Harry said trying to stay calm.

"With that piece of wood in your hand?" the man said, "what do you think you can do with that?"

"I can do more things with this then you think. Things you can’t even dream of!" Harry said.

"O yeah? Like what?" he said.

"Accio knife" Harry yelled, and the knife flew out of his hands, towards Harry.

The man was stunned.

"This can’t be… this is magic." He stuttered.

"Indeed, it is magic. And I can do a lot more things you wouldn’t want me to do to you." Harry said. "Petrificus Totalus!" he said, and the man did the same Neville had done in their thirst year.

"Harry! Behind you!" Karlien yelled in his head.

Harry turned around, and saw another man pointing a gun at him.

Harry knew he was going to shoot, and yelled "Impedimenta!" when he said that, they man fired the gun, and the bullet stopped a few inches in front of his nose.

"Stupefy!" He yelled, and the man was hit, he lay unconscious on the ground.

Harry didn’t noticed a third man had walked towards him, and hold his gun to Harry’s head.

"A shame to kill you, I’ve never seen a wizard before. Goodbye" He said, getting ready to shoot Harry.

"EXPELLIARMUS!" Ron, Hermione and Karlien yelled together.

The gun flew away, the man did too, he hit the wall, and fell on the ground, unconscious.

 

Karlien ran to him, and hugged him.

"I was so scared!" and she gave him a kiss on his cheek.

Ron and Hermione also walked to Harry. Hermione hugged him, and Ron gave him a hi-five.

"Tid Teegrev" Hermione yelled.

"What did you do?" Ron asked.

"I modified their memories, nobody will remember the incident from now on." Hermione said.

"Let’s go home." Harry said, he didn’t feel like staying here any longer.

So they went back home, nobody ever got to know what happened that night.