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As soon as the name was announced, a lot of the students, including Harry and the rest of his friends, stood up from their seats and rushed over to the newspaper.

"Dufftown?" Hermione read from the paper in a worried tone. "That's not far from here."

"You don't think he'd come to Hogwarts, do you?" Neville asked fearfully.

"With dementors at every entrance?" Dean Thomas questioned.

"Fairly sure he's already there." James mumbled.

"Dementors? He slipped past them once, hasn't he." Seamus said. "Who's to say he won't do it again?"

"That's right." Bem said darkly. "Black could be anywhere. It's like trying to catch smoke. Like trying to catch smoke with your bare hands."

Ryan was looking down at Bem rather suspiciously. "Seriously who are you?"

"Why is Ryan so hung up on that boy?" Regulus questioned.

"You have to admit that's it's weird how that boy just popped up into gryffindor." Evan said.

"True." Barty Crouch Jr. nodded.

The camera moved past the students that were surrounding the newspaper and went upward towards one of the windows. As the view came closer and closer, the camera finally made contact with the glass and went through.

Instead of the outside of Hogwarts, the scene came to a clean supermarket that was lit up by bright white lights.

"Where the hell is this?" Fabian asked.

Cathy, Mary and Amelia were seen on the screen looking through the canned goods. Cathy was examining the shelves while Amelia was pushing a trolley and Mary was sitting on the end of the trolley.

"Oh! Other timeline." Gideon said excitedly.

"Muggles have made their lives so much easier." Amelia admired. "In the wizarding world it would take going to at least ten different shops to buy all this."

"That's why they call it a supermarket, I think." Mary said as she hopped off the trolley. She looked to Cathy. "What are you looking for?"

"Whole peeled tomatoes." Cathy said. She finally spotted a can of the tomatoes and when she grabbed it, on the other side of the shelve was Thomas Riddle.

"Hey it's that Riddle fella." Fleamont said.

Thomas was taking something from his side of the shelf and was a suprised when he saw Cathy on the other side.

"Oh, hi." Thomas greeted.

"Hey." Cathy smiled. "Shopping too?"

Thomas held up a bag of chips. "Snacks for a film mostly."

"Ah." Cathy nodded.

"Hmm." Thomas cleared his throat nervously. "Well...I'll just...goodbye."

Thomas seemed to rush away and Cathy looked very much relived to see him go. Cathy sighed in relief and turned to place the can of tomatoes in the trolley when she saw Amelia and Mary's faces.

"Oh I cring just from watching that." Marlene said.

"What?" Cathy demanded.

"That was hard to watch." Mary said.

"Super awkward." Amelia agreed.

"What was I suppose to say?" Cathy said. "Enjoy the snacks, which movie are you seeing, do you think if our parents did it when they were together?"