A/N I wrote this prologue ages ago and if you follow me on Tumblr you might have seen it before. It fitted in nicely with this fic and so I thought I'd include it. R&R.

Prologue

1 year previously

"C'mon Fred, we're going to be late!" George Weasley yelled to his brother who was staring oddly into the distance.

"Can you hear that?" Fred asked his twin cupping his hand to his ear, "It sounds sort of like…"

"A whooshing and a wheezing…" George said, hearing the noise for the first time.

"Exactly! And a sort of weird siren. What is that?"

George turned his back to the wall between platforms nine and ten and went to stand beside his brother, branding this strange noise to be of more interest than the wall. The noises continued for few more seconds, before all of a sudden a large blue box appeared, and the twins both took a giant leap back.

"Bloody hell." Said the pair sharing an equally bemused look,

"It nearly landed on my foot!" Fred exclaimed.

"It's not a particularly attractive foot anyway." Said George absentmindedly as he stared at the odd blue box, which was the bluest blue he had ever seen, and looked rather like a telephone box, except it said 'police box' on the top, "It's got a door, do you think we should knock?"

"Are you mental? A big blue box appears out of nowhere, surrounded by mysterious sounds and you want to knock? Nah. I reckon we just blast the doors open."

The twins both pulled out their wands and pointed them at the strange box about to magic the doors open when the doors swung open. A man stepped out surrounded by a cloud of smoke, coughing and wheezing.

"Hello!" He coughed, squinting at the twins, "Where am I? Who are you?

"You're at King Cross station-" Said Fred

"And what do you mean who are we? Who are you?" Continued George.

"Kings Cross Station… As in, on Earth? And I, am the Doctor." Said the man, straightening his bow tie with an odd look of pride and patting the box behind him with affection, "We got a bit lost."

Fred and George exchanged another look and George looked about to say something when Fred caught sight of the clock above the wall between platforms nine and ten.

"George! We've missed the train!" He said shaking his brother's arm, "Now what are we supposed to do?"

"I don't know. Maybe the wall will still let us through?" Fred asked although he knew it wouldn't.

"The wall?" Asked the Doctor looking over at the wall between platforms nine and ten, catching on quickly, "It's a wall! It's a wall but it's also a doorway onto another train platform! Brilliant! But I don't remember Earth ever progressing this far. What year is it? And I've been polite and not asked yet, but why are you both pointing wooden sticks at me?"

"1995 and they're wands." Said Fred sending a shower of sparks from the end of his wand and making the Doctor jump back and reflexively pull out a strange object from his pocket and point it at the twins, it flashed green and made a strange sound before returning to normal and leaving both the twins rather puzzled.

"What was that?" They asked.

"Sonic Screwdriver." The Doctor said, "But, I repeat my earlier question, who are you?" He paced on the spot, "Doorway to another platform, magic sticks and magic people." He muttered to himself, "Are you sure this is Earth? It's got to be the Earth. Even the Screwdriver says it is." The Doctor looked up and stared at the twins, "Well? I'm waiting, who are you? Magicians – Yes. But how?"

"Why should I tell you?" Asked George, "I should be worrying about getting the train to school, and thanks to you I missed it. You're a strange man who appeared in a blue box out of nowhere, and yet you don't know about magic?"

"I'm the Doctor." The Doctor said, as if it explained everything. "And this," he said patting the blue box behind him with affection again, "Is the T.A.R.D.I.S. If you tell me about yourselves, and let me borrow your wand for a moment to fix her, the T.A.R.D.I.S can get you to school."

Fred and George shared a grin, turning up in the great hall in a blue box out of nowhere sounded like the sort of thing that would go down in history, it would probably top Ron's trick from back in his second year. Besides, the Doctor didn't even have a wand, they could take him if they needed to.

"Alright." They grinned and the strange man clapped his hands like a child.

"Brilliant! Right then, in we go." He said and pushed open the door to the T.A.R.D.I.S so that the twins could step inside.

"Wicked!" exclaimed the twins seeing the interior of the box and the Doctor hummed to himself. These had to be the first humans who hadn't commented on the box being bigger on the inside. After the twins had cast reparo on a broken switch and explained their story to the Doctor he twiddled with some switches and set the T.A.R.D.I.S to arrive at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, a place he'd never even heard of before today. Dropping the twins off in the centre of the Great Hall to woops and cheers from the students, and a disgruntled groan from one particularly slimy haired teacher, the Doctor promised the twins he'd return soon, he wanted to learn as much as he could about that place.

"Wizards." He muttered as the T.A.R.D.I.S flew through space back onto its correct course at last, "Who knew? You learn something new every day." And then he brought up a picture of the twins on the main screen and sighed, "Ginger hair. I've always wanted ginger hair. It's not fair."