Paul got dressed into what passed for regular clothes around here. Actually, the only thing weird were the
wizard robes, but Harriet dressed pretty normally for a teenage girl, with a blue top and tan shorts
underneath. Paul went downstairs into what he presumed would be the Gryffindor common room to see if anyone
else, hopefully the male version of Hermione, the smart one, was awake. The common room was incredibly
spacious and beautiful, much more so than he had imagined it would be when he had read the books several years
ago. His younger sister Melissa would probably kill to be in here.
Just as Paul thought there would be, there was someone in a chair sitting right by the cold embers of the
fireplace reading a book. He had curly brown hair and a serious, studious face. Paul was a nerd among nerd's,
but he never looked serious when reading a book. He took too much joy from them to not smile.
The male Hermione looked up.
"Good morning Harriet."
"Morning." Paul didn't know exactly what the parallel reality Hermione's name would be, so he didn't risk it
lest offending him.
"What are you reading?" Paul asked.
"I'm researching about the Half-Blood Prince."
"Oh".
Paul thought internally. "Alright, so this is the sixth book. This is the one where Dumbledore dies at the
hands of Snape. Could I prevent this? I know from memory that Draco Malfoy is using that disappearing closet
thing in the Room Of Requirement to smuggle things into Hogwarts. But if I tell Dumbledore or someone else
this, there's potential that Dumbledore will get killed some other way, and if he doesn't die, Snape dies
because he made an Unbreakable Vow. I should probably just leave things going the way they are."
"Can I ask you a question?"
Male Hermione glanced up from his book and said "Shoot. What is it?"
"Do you know anything about dimensional rifts or getting stuck into alternate realities?"
Male Hermione stuttered. "N-no. I've never encountered anything like that. Why do you ask?"
"Just wondering."
Paul could only remember the body switch spell that he tried on Tim, but not the one that Tim tried on Paul or
any of the other ones since Paul didn't translate them all yet.
"Do you think Dumbledore would know?"
"Dumbledore? Who's that?" Male Hermione asked.
"Oh crap" thought Paul. "Does this mean that Dumbledore is going under a different name in this reality or
that she doesn't exist at all here?"