Meddlesom Things

When Cileo reached the ground and landed softly on her feet, she looked up to see Snape sticking his head out cursing words she couldn’t really hear. Waving good-bye, Cileo ran towards the forest.

‘Damn it! Today was supposed to be a slow day!’ Snape thought as he pulled his head back in the window. The entire class was standing now, not believing what had just happened. Snape sighed.
“Potter, Malfoy, follow me… the rest of you…read your balls.” Snape said as he walked briskly out of the class. Harry and Draco looked at each other and quickly followed. The trio had just gotten down the stairs from the astronomy tower when they are greeted by Professor Dumbledore.
“Severus, I believe there is a new student that we need to catch up with.” Dumbledore stated as he turned and began making his way to the grounds. ‘Fuck’ Snape thought as he followed the senile old man. Severus followed Dumbledore out the door, as Draco childishly pushed Harry out of the way so he could exit first. ‘God damn it.’ Harry thought as he followed behind.


Cileo was now wondering through the forest wishing she had worn tennis shoes. Every few minutes she would stop and try to apparate again, but was only greeted by failure. She heard a few branches break behind her and turned around to see an old man with a long white beard, Snape, and two boys about her age following close behind. ‘Damn their fast’ She thought as she began to run through the trees. She heard their pace pick up as well, but she only ran faster. When she thought she was in the clear, she turned her head to look back, only to smack into a really hard wall, that flew her backwards. With a loud thud she groaned and mentally cursed herself for not watching where she was going. She looked up to see what she had ran into and saw nothing. ‘uh…that’s odd’. She laid back down on her back and groaned again. Within a second she had four figures standing above, three of them with their wands drawn.
“I didn’t think you’d be able to leave so soon. Apparently, you’re job is not finished here.” The old man said with a know-it-all attitude that Cileo found extremely
annoying. Cileo looked up at him and gave him a crossed look.
“You! That was rude! Putting an invisible wall to stop me from leaving, I mean come on. How desperate are you old man?” Cileo asked with her hand pointing an accusing finger at Dumbledore. Dumbledore cocked an eyebrow, while Harry and Draco tried to suppress their laughter.
“I am Professor Albus Dumbledore.” He spoke calmly. Cileo looked at the man with an uncaring face.
“Am I supposed to be impressed?” She got up to her feet and crossed her arms across her chest, pushing her boobs together, but of course without her knowledge. Snape sighed and turned to Dumbledore.
“What do you propose we do Professor?” He asked. “She obviously has great magical abilities beyond her peers.” He said with his back turned towards Cileo. Draco turned to Dumbledore.
“How did she get here? I thought there was no apparating on or off grounds.” He asked. Cileo looked towards the blonde guy who just spoke.
“Yeah, are we safe?” Harry asked and Cileo turned again to focus on the messy brown haired guy next to him. Draco turned to Harry and smirked.
“Scared?” Harry rolled his eyes.
“We are NOT going over this again.” Dumbledore looked to the three men infront of him, and then to the girl who turned to test the invisible boundary with a stick.
“I’m not sure how she got here yet.” He said as though he was thinking out loud. This caused Cileo to groan in frustration as she turned around and walked into the middle of the circle of men. They all stood silently as she glared them all down.
“I’m right here! Ok…now, who cares how I got here! Why can’t I leave is the more important question.” She said with anger. “I still plan on going to the beach, this country is way too depressing for my mental health! Understood? Get me out of here “Oh mighty one!”” She bowed to Dumbledore sarcastically. Dumbledore sighs and holds up his hands with his palms facing her. He began to say an enchantment that none of them understood. Cileo’s body began glow purple and looked as if she was deteriating right in front of them, but a second later she was back to normal.
“Whoa…do that again!” She said excitedly as she sat down on top of her towel. She had a hazy expression and a huge grin on her face. Dumbledore looked down at the gob smacked girl and sighed.
“It didn’t work. That’s odd. Do you have any protection talisman’s on you by any chance?” At this the stoned looking girl smiled up at a man she liked to think of as Merlin, he sure did look like him anyway.
“Yup! Two!” She smiled. The men looked at her waiting for her to continue. When she noticed they wanted details, her grin grew brighter. “OH….one’s right here,” She turned pointing to the Celtic shield tattooed on her back, “and here…” She said began reaching for her bathing suit top to pull it aside to show them her other tattoo.
“Wait! We don’t need to know!” Snape shouted putting his hands up as a surrender. Draco and Harry looked bummed.
“Well, until we can find out how to send you to your own time, you’ll just have to attend school here.” Dumbledore stated calmly as if this didn’t bother him at all. Cileo jumped up, grabbed her towel and a nearby branch and began whacking away at the invisible shield. In between each whack, the men heard her distinctly say, “I’m NOT going back to school! I’m NOT going back to school!” Snape walked calmly up to her.
“Cileo.” He said uncertain. She whipped around and put the branch in his face.
“Touch me you DIE!” She yelled. Before she could thrash at Snape’s face with the branch, Dumbledore shot a stunning spell at her, which she didn’t have time to reflect and Cileo fell to the forest floor.


‘Grandma?’ Cileo bolted up in a white bed. A middle aged woman bustled over to her handing her a glass of water.
“Careful deary, you don’t want to get light headed.” The lady said, as Cileo stared at her in shock. ‘That’s not grandma.’ Cileo looked down to the edge of the bed and saw a girls school uniform laid out. ‘Oh no no no.’ She scrunched up towards the head board shaking her head back and forth, she didn’t want to be anywhere near a school uniform.
“What is that doing here?” She asked a little panicky.
“Oh dear, get dressed, and I’ll take you down to the Great Hall. We’re going to have a special sorting ceremony since you’ve missed the first few months of school.” Cileo snapped her head up to the kind woman.
“And you are?” She asked with an attitude. The lady smiled, but you could see the glare behind that kind face.
“Madame Pomfrey, get dressed.” She stated firmly. ‘Ok, kind face…scary personality.’ Cileo thought getting up to get dressed.
“Hey! I don’t have any undergarments!” Cileo shouted to Pomfrey from behind the changing curtain.
“You have a bathing suit!” Madame Pomfrey shouted back. ‘Right she is.’ Cileo thought as she pulled the uniform on. Cileo stepped out from behind her changing curtain to be approved by Madame Pomfrey. She looked at her with a glare.
“I look like an anime addict’s wet dream.”
“Let’s go!” Pomfrey ignored her comment, grabbed her wrist and pulled her down to the Great Hall, Cileo being pulled behind trying to keep up with her flip flops still on.