The Missing Link (a Harry Potter reader insert story)

The Leaky Cauldren

Dream
     "Aunty? Where are we going?" You were a child again, about 4 or 5, and your aunt was taking you to someplace she said would be fun.

   "We're almost there, be patient (y/n)." Her voice sounded distant, almost as if you were underwater. She walked over to a rather large hill that was sticking out of the ground. It was green and covered with all different kinds of flowers and vines.

"It's so pretty." You looked at the scene with awe, your small mouth hanging open and revealing you missing baby teeth.

"Wait till you see inside." Your aunt looked at you with warm smile, and made a quick hand motion towards the hill. You had seen her do things like this before, so you weren't surprised when a small wooden door appeared in front of you.

"Come on." She beckoned you forward and opened the door, having to bend down because of her height. After she was inside you watched her figure disappear into the darkness of the room. You stepped forward and the door shut behind you, you were small, so you head came just below the ceiling.

"Aunty, it's dark. I can't see anything." This was true, the room was pitch black, and you were beginning to become frightened.

"Hold on dearest." And with that your aunt flicked a switch and the room lit up, reveling a small space with brown walls, and flowers growing out of the cracks.

"Are you hungry?" You aunt reached for a cabinet and pulled out a jar, then handed it to you. You opened the lid to see tiny, little different colored cookies. You looked at you aunt, confused.

"Your allowed to have some." She looked at you and chuckled, then took a yellow cookie out of the jar and bit into it. You took a blue cookie and popped the whole thing into your mouth, it tasted like blueberries. You looked back at your aunt and noticed that her previously wavy dark blue hair had turned a bright shade of yellow and she was giggling looking at you.

"Aunty! Your hair, it's yellow!" You were very surprised, you've never seen your aunt do something like this before.

"And your's is blue, dear." She was chuckling a bit harder now, and she looked at you with her dark pink eyes glistening.

"What?" You looked down at your own (h/l) hair, and saw that it had turned a light shade of blue. You looked back at your aunt and saw her hair had returned to normal, and that she was laughing at how astonished you were.

"When will my hair go back to normal? Aunty!" You couldn't help but begin to laugh with her, her happiness was contagious. So there you both sat, laughing the day away.

End dream

You woke up slowly, and sat up rubbing your tired eyes.

"Did'cha finally wake up? We're almost there you know." You looked over at the diver, who was again sitting on his stool. The bus was going at a slower pace now.

"Where are we going anyway?" You remembered that you still had no idea who this man was, or where he was taking you.

"We're going to the Leaky Cauldron." He spoke to you with a blank expression on his face.

"The what?" You looked at him with a confused expression on your face.

"You know, it's kinda like a wizard pub, there's rooms you can rent and sometimes families stay there before they gotta take their kids to Hogwarts." You still had no idea what he was talking about, wizard? Like in the movies? And what was Hogwarts anyway? Some kind of school? Your thought were interrupted by the bus slowing to a complete stop.

"Off ya go, little lady." He shooed you off the bus and directed you inside an old run-down building. Before You went in he turned to you and gave you your bag.

"Name's Chase by the way." He said with a smirk while handing you your bag. You turned around and looked at the building. Above it was a small sign that read: "The Leaky Cauldron" you assumed that this was where you were supposed to go. You hesitantly walk up to the door and pushed it open a crack. You could hear voices and music coming from inside. You pushed the door open the rest of the way and walked in. A few persons turned their heads to look at you, but otherwise continued their activities.

"Are you (y/n) (l/n), by any chance?" A man with a gruff voice spoke behind you, making you jump.

"I-I am actually." The man was very tall, and very well built. Not to mention his unruly grayish brown beard and hair.

"Alight then, you best come with me." He turned around and walked out the other direction, through a brown wooden door. You really didn't know if you could trust him, but something tells you it would be better than staying in a pub with grown men that you didn't know. You had to decide weather or not to go with him, so you pondered for a while.

Option 1: go with the strange man.
Option 2: stay at the pub/inn.

After making your choice, choose the chapter of your answer.