Klaine Advent 2018 Day 4: Deputy

Dimension two: Harry Potter

Kurt’s incredibly comfortable in this bed and these silk pyjamas. He turns around a couple of times. He’s not ready to wake up.

He lies in bed for ten more minutes before he forces himself to wake up. He sits up and he rubs the sleep out of his eyes. That’s when he realises that this is not his room.

He’s in some sort of majestic dorm room. It’s a circular room with a couple of beautiful wooden beds with blue covers. There’s stuff everywhere and Kurt doesn’t own it. There are moving photos on the wall.

This is not his loft in New York.

He gets out of bed and he walks down a spiral staircase. Everything is stone. He passes a statue of a woman and he blinks a couple of times when the sudden light of this new room hits him. It’s a large circular room, filled with furniture in different shades of blue, and there are a lot of bookshelves.

“I was about to wake you up, Kurt,” Kurt hears a voice with a British accent. But when Kurt turns around, Mike greets him.

“Wake me up for what?” Kurt asks and he frowns in confusion when he hears he has a British accent as well.

“Mate, put on your robes,” Mike says, “Breakfast’s about to start. Today’s a big day for the school.”

Kurt wants to ask what’s going on, but then he remembers what happened. He and Blaine were in space and they found this weird book from the antique shop in Kurt’s air craft. It had two new words: Harry Potter.

Kurt looks around and he sees all the blue. Then his eyes fall on the symbol on Mike’s, well, cloak. It’s a Ravenclaw symbol. Blaine is the one who knows everything about Harry Potter, but Kurt still has some basic knowledge about this series. Ravenclaw is one of the four Hogwarts Houses.

Kurt is in Hogwarts.

He knows it’s no use to protest. He tried that yesterday on the air craft, and everyone gave him weird looks. He’ll have to find Blaine and they’ll have to figure out what is going on.

Blaine.

“Where’s Blaine?” Kurt asks.

Mike raises an eyebrow. “Who?”

Oh. This is interesting.

Kurt follows Mike, Tina, Artie, and a couple of other Ravenclaws to the Great Hall. Tina is very excited about this day. Apparently, students from other wizarding schools will arrive today. Kurt looks around, hoping to spot Blaine.

Neither Mike, Tina, or Artie had heard of him, but maybe Blaine’s in another house. But then Rachel, wearing Slytherin robes, greets them at the entrance of the Great Hall, and Mike and Tina clearly know her, even though they’re in different houses. Mercedes, from Hufflepuff house, waves as well. They split up so that they can sit at the tables of their respective houses, but Kurt spots more New Directions members from different houses and they all wave or smile at him.

Blaine is nowhere in sight.

The Ravenclaw table is placed near the Hufflepuff table. Blaine’s always said that he’s a Hufflepuff, and Kurt can see Mercedes, Brittany and Sam chatting with each other, but no Blaine.

“What do you think?”

Kurt gets pulled out of his thoughts. Artie is looking at him.

“I’m sorry, what?”

Tina rolls her eyes. “Kurt, come on. Today’s the big day and we just found out that the headmaster won’t be here to welcome our visitors. I find it appalling and unprofessional. It’s not like we have some kind of deputy headmaster. We’ve got no one now!”

Mike sighs. “I agree, Tina, but we all know our headmaster is busy. We can’t expect our headmaster to be here all the time.”

“But we’re expecting international schools!”

“Wait, international schools?” Kurt asks.

“Yes, obviously!” Tina says, “We’ve been looking forward to this for a fortnight. I can’t believe our school choir is allowed to perform tomorrow. I am glad Rachel didn’t get the solo.”

Mike frowns towards Kurt. “You alright, mate? You seem a bit fazed.”

Kurt quickly says: “Had a rough night.” But then he decides to change the subject back to the international schools. He’s eager to find out what is happening. “So, is this just like when Beauxbatons and Durmstrang visited for the Triwizard Tournament, but without the Tournament?”

“Triwizard Tournament?” Artie asks, “Are you mad? The headmaster has forbidden our school from participating in that nonsense. We haven’t had a Triwizard Tournament in over a century.”

“But didn’t Harry Potter compete in one in 1994?” Kurt asks and he mentally thanks Blaine for being such a big fan, otherwise he wouldn’t have known any of this.

The others all look at each other.

“You know, with Cedric Diggory as the other Hogwarts student, and then against Viktor Krum and Fleur Delacour? There’s this whole thing about Dumbledore calmly asking Harry if he’d put his name in the Goblet of Fire.”

Tina puts a hand on Kurt’s forehead. “Kurt, did Puck prank you again with these weird potions from Zonko’s?”

Kurt swats her hand away. “Are you all looking for a laugh?” he asks, “You certainly must know of Harry Potter? He saved the wizarding world from You-Know-Who.”

“We know who?” Mike asks.

“Come on, headmaster McGonagall must’ve told you about him.”

“Who?” Artie asks, looking worried.

“McGonagall. You know, she took over from Dumbledore after Harry Potter defeated He Who Must Not Be Named.”

“Kurt, headmaster Gilbert has been the headmaster for decades,” Tina says. Then she turns to Mike. “I’m going to kill Puck for this.”

Artie wheels back from the table. “Come on, Kurt, I’m taking you back to our dorm. You know these joke potions, you need to sleep it off.”

“But…” he looks around. Still no sign of Blaine. Then it hits him. “The international students?” Blaine is nowhere to be seen, but maybe that’s because he’s not in Hogwarts.

“The students from Mahoutokoro, Ilvermorny and Uagado will still be here, Kurt,” Tina says, “Go with Artie and get some rest. You need to be able to sing or Rachel will duel you.”

Kurt has the feeling he can’t protest. If he does, the others will probably bring him to the hospital wing, so he reluctantly follows Artie to the Ravenclaw tower. Artie’s wheelchair can float over the many stairs.

Kurt’s confused. He knows he’s not as big of a Harry Potter fan as Blaine, but you don’t have to be a fan to know the story. Harry Potter is incredibly famous.

Artie leads him to the dorm and he tells Kurt to rest. Then he leaves Kurt alone. The moment Artie shuts the door, Kurt gets out of bed and he starts looking around. There’s a small nightstand with a drawer next to his bed.

In it are his wand and a couple of books. Kurt takes the wand with him and he leaves the rest. He checks if the coast is clear and after he’s certain that Artie is gone, he slips out of the dorm and he starts looking around in the common room. Kurt could go to the library to find information, but this common is room is practically a library of itself.

As expected, Kurt finds a couple of books about Hogwarts (including the famous Hogwarts: A History) and he soon finds out that the history of this Hogwarts does not line up with the Harry Potter books.

Suddenly, the door to the Ravenclaw common room flies open. Kurt tries to come up with an excuse, so that he wouldn’t worry his friends, but to his surprise, Blaine is standing in the door opening and he’s wearing a black waistcoat and brown breeches. He has his bag with him. That’s not a Hogwarts costume.

Kurt drops the book he was reading.

“Kurt!” Blaine yells out.

“Blaine!”

Blaine tackles Kurt into a hug. “I found you. I had to sneak away, but when I saw you weren’t in the Great Hall, I figured you’d might be in your common room.”

Kurt quickly kisses Blaine’s cheek and says: “Where were you?”

“I was on a magical blimp from Ilvermorny to Hogwarts with some of the Warblers. When I arrived in the Great Hall, I saw New Directions members, so I knew you had to be here somewhere. The Ravenclaw Tower is very, very high, you know that? I had to take off my robes because it got too hot to climb all these stairs. By the way, you sound great with a British accent.” Blaine smiles.

Kurt rolls his eyes, but he smiles as well. Unfortunately, they don’t have time for this.

“Blaine, this antique book… there’s something wrong with it.”

Blaine laughs. “Yeah, no kidding.”

“We saw the word ‘space’ and we get transported into a space adventure. Then the words ‘Harry Potter’ appear, and we are in a Harry Potter-esque world. It’s weird. This is clearly Harry Potter’s world, but no one’s heard of him.”

Kurt picks up the book that he had dropped. There’s no sign of the infamous Harry Potter characters like Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Hemione Granger, Draco Malfroy, Dumbledore and who else.

“Yes, I figured out that something’s wrong the moment the others didn’t know a thing about the Goldsteins. They are well-known Ilvermorny alumni. It’s as if we’re indeed transported into the setting only, but not into the actual story.”

“How do we get out of here?”

Blaine frowns. “You can’t be serious, Kurt. You know we have to find that fucking book. I think we should start at the Hogwarts library.”

The library is closed because of the festivities, but that won’t stop Blaine. He points his wand towards the door. “Alohomora.”

The door unlocks. “For such a great school, the security is pretty bad,” Kurt says as they enter the library.

Blaine laughs. “Have you ever read the books, love? Security and Hogwarts don’t go along.”

“Fair point. Lumos.”

“Lumos.”

The library is huge and dark. It’s going to take ages to find that antique book and it won’t take long before someone notices that both Kurt and Blaine are gone.

“Does the book have a name?” Kurt asks.

Blaine shakes his head. “The book has a wonderful cover, but it has no title. I mean, I can always try. Accio antique book we’re looking for!”

Nothing happens and Kurt groans in frustration. “We can’t manually go through all these books and maybe the book isn’t even in here.”

But then Blaine has an idea. “Let’s try the Restricted Section. Madam Pince, or whoever the librarian is in this version of Harry Potter, isn’t here to guard it.”

The two of them easily jump over the robe dividing the Restricted Section from the rest of the library. Security is really scarce here, but if there’s never been a war in this Harry Potter universe, then maybe there’s no need for extreme security.

And Blaine was right.

The book is lying in plain sight, as if it was waiting to be found. Kurt and Blaine do not hesitate. They immediately flip it open.

On the first page is the word ‘space’ written, with underneath the images of Kurt’s McKinley Air Craft crest and Blaine’s Dalton Space Shuttle emblem.

On the second page, the words ‘Harry Potter’ are written and underneath are two more outlines of shapes. It’s pretty obvious what they are: wands.

“So, this is what the book wants?” Kurt says, “We have to find the book and the two objects every time. And then we can go home.”

“I’m not sure if we can go home, Kurt,” Blaine sighs, “We got transported to another dimension or story or universe or whatever this is. Remember what the shop owner said? ‘If the two of you can survive the stories in this book, you two can survive everything together’. How many more stories will there be?”

“Let’s find out as soon as possible, so that we can go home?”

Kurt puts his wand on the page and as expected, it vanishes into the page only to return as an image.

But Blaine seems to hesitate.

“Blaine, put your wand on the page.”

“Do we have to leave?” Blaine asks slowly.

“Of course we have to leave. We have to go home!” Kurt says, but Blaine only tightens his grip on his wand. Kurt frowns. “Don’t you want to go home?”

“So that we can go back to barely seeing each other and snapping at each other when we do?” Blaine says sarcastically, “Wow, how much I miss that.”

“Blaine, we can’t stay here.”

“Can’t we?” Blaine says, “Or don’t you want to?”

Kurt wants to say something, but it falls silent. In a way, Kurt is right. Yes, he’s lost Blaine twice in two different dimensions, but they found each other fairly easy. They left space because Santana was about to kill Blaine otherwise, but there’s no acute reason to leave the Harry Potter setting.

But this is not their lives. If they stay here, they might have to start over again and they might loose all they have in their ‘real lives’.

Kurt tells him so. Blaine sighs and to Kurt’s surprise, Blaine puts down his wand on the page. Blaine still shakes his head as he steps back, but he takes Kurt’s hand. “Up to the next story or dimension.”

“Or whatever this is.”

“Or whatever this is,” Blaine repeats.

And besides, till now, every dimension has been fairly easy to navigate. They found each other easily. Maybe travelling through these stories won’t be so bad, because Blaine is right, they have more time for each other now. What could go wrong?

Blaine’s wand disappears into the book and it comes back as an image of the wand. Kurt turns the page and his stomach falls when he sees the new word on the page.

‘Apocalypse’.