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Three twelve-year-olds are gathered in a bathroom, copying a diagram from a book onto the floor in chalk.
"Do you know what all this writing means?" asks the green-eyed boy.
"No," says the bushy-haired girl, "and that worries me too, but we need to find out who the Heir of Slytherin is and this ritual is the best we've got."
Eventually, one or another of them draws the last bit of the outer circle.
"I'm sure they'll be more concerned with stopping the Basilisk before anyone else is attacked."
"I mean, it wouldn't be that unreasonable for summoning like this to be an expulsion offense but 'that demon is not magical enough' would be a weird justification for that."
"Yes, we also might get expelled for trying a ritual out of a book that didn't do what we thought it did."
"Well, if I were expecting it very much anymore I wouldn't have bothered to ask, now, would I. 2179."
"I'm not saying you did it on purpose, but you should still be careful! If you're from that far ahead I guess you don't need to worry about running into your past self, but don't try to do anything that contradicts what you remember."
"Oh, no, if this is my 1992 I'm off being five years old somewhere. But I don't think it is, I'm pretty sure mine doesn't have wizards."
"Harry, I really think we have to tell a professor. We'll need help finding the basilisk and killing it, and--Cam, if if you're from another world or something, like in the Chronicles of Narnia, do you know how to get home?"
"Whichever one of you summoned me can dismiss me, but supposing this is in fact a Narnia-type situation I'd rather stay and eradicate malaria and so on first."
"We appreciate it. Alright, Hermione, we can talk to McGonagall, but if she doesn't believe us this time either we should deal with it ourselves again."
"Harry, wait. We should look around corners with a mirror first. That way if we run into the basilisk before we find McGonagall, at least we'll only be petrified and not--worse." She turns to one of the mirrors above the sink and starts trying to take it off the wall.
"- I think you can probably improve on the Perseus trick but I don't know the parameters. Colin had a camera? Harry can hear it talking? - What does it say?"
"Colin had a camera, Justin--Justin saw it through Nearly Headless Nick, Mrs. Norris saw its reflection so we know that works. And when I heard it . . . it said it wanted to kill."
Cam issues everyone including himself shades and a hand mirror. "I'm indestructible but that's not been tested against basilisks."
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