The Magic in the Insane

Chapter Two

Harley rubbed her eyes with the palms of her hands as the bright white light began to fade away, leaving black spots in its wake. The blonde criminal was utterly confused, but after several seconds she started to remember what had happened. Voldemort had done an ancient ritual turning her into an eleven-year-old and enrolled her into Hogwarts. Probably as punishment for living as a muggle, she thought. As the black spots left her sight she could see the warm colours of red and green, numerous lush trees which rushed past her as the familiar smell of chocolate frogs came to mind. Wait, chocolate frogs, she thought. The soft pigtailed platinum blonde hair flicking into the seated person next to her's face as she swung her head round.

"Hey! Watch it Harley! I swear! These pigtails are nothing but trouble, at least they aren't the tails of her old jester hat."

"Mistah J? Wait..." Harley rubbed her eyes once again as her vision began to focus. "Red? Pengy? Professah Crane? Kitty-"

"Okay Harls, we're all here and we can all see that. There's no need to say everyone's name," said a female voice, one belonging to a red-haired woman. 

"Where are we anyway? Why do I feel so dizzy?" Asked Scarecrow.

Looking around again, the rogues noticed something... They were all mini versions of themselves! While they were all still wearing their 'uniform' per say, they were a tad bit annoyed at the fact that they were stuck in eleven-year-old bodies. Any adult who would walk into the compartment would probably think that all of these kids were going trick or treating for Halloween, making them seem cute, and some of them (meaning everyone but Harley) can't be cute. Just imagine the damage to their reputations...

"Harley.... Why do I feel shorter... What the hell happened to my voice!?" Joker started to clutch his neck then started to laugh at the situation, "Oh, this is one great joke!"

He started to chuckle darkly before wrenching Harley's pigtail with his hand to be eye-to-eye with her, "But it's already starting to get old..."

Just before Joker could continue with his 'subtle' threat and Poison Ivy could smash his face in,  the compartment doors opened, revealing a grey-haired woman and a tray full of sweets but before she could say anything, several pairs of eyes turned to look at her for a few seconds, blinked and then continued with their arguments. By the end of it, a few smug looking preteens gorging on sweets and a loathing Joker and Ivy were in the compartment. Several hours rolled by in silence, everyone adjusting to the situation before Edward had just begun to realise something.

"Hey Harley, where are we actually going?" asked the Riddler, twirling his mini cane in his gloved left hand.

Still stuffing her face with a chocolate frog, she gulped then said sheepishly, "Oh yeah, you guys don't know. Well at the looks of things, we're on the Hogwarts express. And probably on the way to Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry."

"Wait, to a school of witchcraft and wizardry... But none of us even have magic, and what's up with us being turned into eleven-year-olds?" questioned Scarecrow, his eyes darting around the compartment.

"When you turn eleven, magical kids all over Britain are accepted into Hogwarts, though you can enrol if you know about it if your outside of Britain," answered Harley, not paying much attention to the others, and was instead trying to rip Dumbledore's card in half.

"But we don't have ma-"

The train came to a sudden stop making the villains jolt in their seat. As steam left the top of the scarlet train, the students of Hogwarts streamed onto the platform. Harley ran through the door shouting at her friends to hurry up, which they reluctantly did but they soon lost her as a group of first years blocked their way. Joker shoved his way through, his attitude and his pale skin and bright green hair receiving indecorous looks, with the others following behind him but soon losing each other in the crowd of all the students.

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"Why aren't you wearing your uniform? We're already here!" said a know-it-all voice, belonging to a frizzy haired girl.

"Don't have any," replied Harley, looking at the girl up and down.

"Well I'm Hermione Granger, and you are?" asked the brown haired girl, expecting an answer.

Harley blew up some gum and popped it before putting her hand out to shake, "It's Quinzel 'round here I guess, but please, call me Harley, everyone does," Hermione shook her hand and the girls smiled, but Hermione soon frowned when she spotted the platinum-blonde haired prat, Malfoy.

"Quinzel huh? Never knew that one of them would come this year. Name's Malfoy, Draco Malfoy," the boy had a confident smirk glued to his face, Hermione glared at him while Harley analysed him closely, "Why are you not in any robes? Any dignified pure-blood would wear them."

Harley smirked back,"Well Malfoy, the name's Bond, James Bond." Hermione tried, but failed, to stifle a giggle as the blonde eleven-year-old used her hands to mock a gun.*

"But I thought you're a Quinzel," Malfoy lost his confident demeanour and adopted a confused one, scratching the back of his head.

Granger continued to laugh, "You don't get it do you? It's a famous quote from a movie. Of course you wouldn't know, most if not all purebloods don't know anything about the outside world."

"What's a moovie anyway? You're a mudblood aren't you," Hermione stopped laughing after hearing him insulting her heritage but Draco continued, "Come on Quinzel, let's get away from this filth," Draco grabbed Harley's arm but before he could lead her away a threatening voice sliced through the air.

"What do ya think you're doing with my girl?" Joker had gone through the crowd of students and went up to the small group of firsties.

"Your girl? Who are you anyway you freak? What are those markings on your body anyway? You have some too Quinzel," Malfoy was still holding Harley's arm when Joker smiled and the rest of the bad guys came out behind him, some with a raised eyebrow or amused expression. Hermione gasped, which led to her gaining Joker's attention.

"Malfoy, you should probably let go of Harley's arm," Malfoy smirked, still not letting go while Harley looked on deviously, "No, really Malfoy. If you want to keep your life you should let go."

"Oh lookie here mate. The girl recognises a few faces right. Hermione right? Yeah, your totally right. J here will probably kill the prat before we get to Hoggywarts or whatevah," The Aussie flipped a boomerang in his hand as he drank a last swig of beer.

"Not unless I smash his face in first, but more likely J will kill him first," Poison Ivy looked on evilly, a smirk on her face as she stared at Draco.
"Oh come on guys, why have so little faith in me? Plus your scaring Hermione over here," pointing to Hermione she continued, "And you know my kill count ain't much further away from any of yours."

Crabbe and Goyle were behind Malfoy but they were cracking their knuckles, as if to say that they could defend the albino ferret. They would probably win against any other first year, but up against super villains who killed people and fought Batman on a daily basis? They wouldn't last a second. Harley easily slipped from Draco's grasp and twirled him around while easily stealing his wand and walking over to her friends. She rolled her eyes at the dazed look and blew some hair out of her face.

Joker looked at the robed witch and wizard but then growled softly to Hermione, "Soooo.... Where'd you hear about us huh? You know who each of us are?"

Hermione gulped before answering, "I first heard about you from the news, then I researched a bit more and eventually found out more and more about what you did and stuff..."

Harley sighed and looked ahead, "Come on guys! There's no time for any identity crisis'! We gotta get onto the boat rides! They're one of the best bits of the journey!" She ran off to catch up with the rest of the first years pulling Hermione with her while Malfoy and his goons realised what she had said and strode like a pureblood (basically they 'ran') to catch up too. The villains looked at each other before walking quickly and following their jester friend.
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So that's it for this chapter.  They finally board the train to Hogwarts and meet a few characters from the Harry Potter franchise. Which house do you want to see the villains in? Comment and see what happened next...