The 12th of January 2007, Edinburgh, Balmoral Hotel, Room 652
1:27 AM

"J. K. Rowling finished writing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in this room (652) on 11 January 2007". This is the message that stood on the Hermes bust, written with a marker. What, however, isn't on the bust is that that very night, at around half past one, a group of children snook into the room through the window, in a well-planned attempt to acquire the completed piece of work.

How did they come to attempt such a crime?

The answer, as always, is almost painfully simple. They were students from all around the world, with one common trait: their proficiency in english as a foreign language. They were on an organized 3-month excursion to Great Britain. That alone, however wasn't enough motivation for such an act.

In the group, there was a girl named Esha. She was from India and suffered from severe leukaemia due to a miscalculated chemotherapy years ago. It was unlikely she would live for another year if she didn't receive stem cell transplant. As queues in India usually last for years, if not decades, the only solution remained a treatment bordering on the thin line between grey and black - denucleotysed embryonal stem cell treatment. As this treatment wasn't available on the legal side, and otherwise it was hellishly expensive, a group of children on the excursion decided to somehow gather the money required to afford the treatment in one of the numerous shady hospitals of the semi-developed world.

It was then that they had an idea - mental to say at the least - that the world-famous Harry Potter book series' closing chapter, the Deathly Hallows, was mere miles away from them. It would be so easy to just break in Rowling's house and steal it. And it would fetch millions on the black market!

The plan was to be set into motion when the book was finished in January. Rowling's visit to Edinburgh luckily coincided with the group's visit. If anything, it was their chance. Under the leadership of Marco, they sabotaged the electricity and climbed up on the side of the Balmoral hotel, using the darkness of the night as a disguise.

The strange events began when they got hands on the author's laptop. She woke up, and definitely wasn't happy about the case. But, instead of calling the police and security, she began mumbling in a strange language, while a ghost-like creature - one like the genies from arabian nights - appeared, and along with Rowling, cast a spell on the burglarious children. They lost consciousness, and when they came to...

They were in a room in the Leaky Cauldron, the inn for wizards in London, overlooking the avenue of wizardry, Diagon Alley.

Thrust into the wizarding world as Hogwarts students in 2024, what awaits these now-wizards-and-witches as they struggle to uncover the true intentions of the world-renowned author J.K.Rowling and the odd parallels between the wizarding world and that of their own.