How Can It Be. . ?

Chapter 9:

They arrived at Ron and Hermione's house. It was relatively big. It had five bedrooms, three bathrooms, a dining room, a living room, a kitchen, a study and a play room. Hermione had decorated the house in pastel colours and dark wood flooring.

"Hermione!?! Ron!?! Are you there?!" Harry yelled loudly. There was a sound that sounded like Ron yelling back from upstairs. A few moments later a dishevelled Ron and Hermione appeared at the top of the stairs. Harry and Draco grinned. "Well, I won't ask about the hold up, 'cause I don't think I wanna know the details," Harry grinned at them while everyone else laughed.

"What's up, Harry?" Hermione asked once she had returned to her normal colour instead of the tomato red that she turned.

"Let's go and sit down, Hermione. What we need to tell you is a bit of a shock, but first of all meet Nikki Brown, she is resident witch of Milton Keynes, where we were on our honeymoon, she is also Draco's cousin and this is Becca Bangard, Nikki's best friend," Harry explained, Ron and Hermione shook hands with Nikki and Becca. "And this is Ronald Weasley, my best male friend and this is Hermione Granger, my female best friend."

"Pleased to meet you, Miss Granger, Mr Weasley. I hope you are well, and that we are not imposing," Nikki said in her 'high society' voice.

"No, not at all, shall we go into the living room?" Hermione answered. They all started to move towards the living room, Hermione and Ron in front, holding hands, Nikki and Becca next, holding hands (in a best friend-y sort of way) and finally, Harry and Draco with their arms around the others waist. They entered the living room and sat down on three love seats.

"So what did you want to talk to us about?" Ron said, looking at the four people sitting in front of him.

"Nikki took us to a phone spirit restaurant today. While in there, I asked one of the waiters about them, there were some questions he could not answer so he took us to see an older phone spirit that they call the elders. We were talking to him when he told us that all magical beings come from a different place called the OtherWorld. In the OtherWorld, only magical beings lived, in this world lived only non-magical beings. A powerful wizard opened the gates thousands of years ago and magical beings crept out. The catch is the gates have been closed and only three witches and three wizards can open them again and get everyone home. Those three witches are; Hermione Granger, Nicole Brown and Rebecca Bangard. The three wizards are; Ronald Weasley, Draco Malfoy and me," Harry explained quickly. Ron and Hermione looked shocked, their mouths were hanging open and they were staring at Harry with disbelief in their eyes.

"Look, I know it's a shock but Harry asked the elder if we could go back if you have any questions to ask that none of us can answer and he said that we could go back if needed," Draco explained, trying to get Ron and Hermione to breathe, blink even just to show that they we're alive and not in a catatonic state. Hermione was the first one to blink, for that Draco was grateful because at least one of them was alive. Ron blinked a few seconds after Hermione did.

"Okay, what now? What do we do?" Hermione said, her brain obviously having worked everything out.

"Erm, we can round up everything magical and be gone back through the gates, wherever they are, or we can stay here along with everything else, or we can reopen the gates for the rest of the magical world, if they want to come into this world and beings in this world to the OtherWorld. But whatever we choose we can only tell the phone spirit one choice, we open the gates and they go back home," Harry said.

"I think we should try and do it, get everyone home but we need to learn more about the OtherWorld. I think the six of us should go and speak to this elder," Hermione said.

"Okay, Hermione and Becca hold onto me. Ron and Nikki hold onto Draco. We know where we're going," Harry said, they each took the retrospective arm or offered their arms, in the case of Harry and Draco. With a quick turn, they had left Ron and Hermione's.

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They arrive at the house where the phone spirit lived and moved up to knock on the door. A female looking phone spirit opened the door.

"We were here about half an hour ago and we spoke to an elder, he invited us back if needed too speak to him some more. However, we don't know his name," Harry said to the phone spirit.

"The great ones are here again," she called into the house not taking her eyes off them. The phone spirit that Harry, Draco, Nikki and Becca had spoken to before came towards the door.

"You're back, I thought you would bring the other two great ones," the phone spirit said. He once again led them around the house, on the veranda, to the table and chairs, where two extra chairs had been put. They all sat down, Ron next to Hermione, who was next to Becca, who was next to Nikki, who was next to Draco, who was next to Harry, who was finally next to the elder. They all looked at each other for a second.

"Can you please repeat what you said to us earlier for Ron and Hermione's sakes?" Harry asked the elder. The elder obliged and filled Ron and Hermione in on what he had said earlier to Harry, Draco, Becca and Nikki.

"So we have the task of rounding up every possible magical being and plant and take them to a place we've never seen before?" Ron said slowly and disbelievingly. The elder nodded.

"It's possible, especially with you Harry, you'll get everyone's attention and we can get an extra few thousand pairs of hands," Hermione said, looking at Harry expectantly. Suddenly the elder was gone, he just vanished into thin air. He appeared a moment later with a piece of tattered parchment.

"This is a map to the OtherWorld gates, they are within Hogwarts. You must hurry, the gates in time or everything will be lost," the elder said, handing them the tattered piece of parchment he called a map.

"Okay then guys, let's go. Another big adventure for the Golden trio and friends," Draco said.

"It's going to be like the Department of Mysteries all over again," Hermione said, looking slightly worried.

"I have an easy way to sort this out," Harry said in a loud voice. They all turned to him expectantly. "What we do is find the gates and put out a notification that the public reception will be held there and as soon as we find it. We also say that we would like every magical being and plant there, as it would be very kind to us, they love me and they'll do what I ask them to."

"Well, isn't someone getting a big head?" Ron laughed, soon they all joined in when Harry started to protest. They all decided that they would go and tell their families what they were going to do and said that they would meet at Harry and Draco's house in two hours. They all Apparated home to tell family members.