This story is a mix of Diana Wynne Jones Chrestomanci books and the Harry Potter books.
Claire laughed, feeling rather stupid. She was at her friend's birthday party and they were all having a try at witchcraft. One of her friends had to pick a piece of paper out of a hat and hers said she had to try to put someone to sleep. Casey Ranners had been picked and Claire would have liked to knock her out. She put her hands up and concentrated pretty hard at knocking Casey out. Laughing meanly inside. Bright light shot out of her fingers, Casey ducked, the light it the mirror and rebounded to hit her. The last thing she heard before everything went dark was the screams of the other girls.
When Claire woke up, a man she had never seen before was standing over her. He was wearing a smart suit and his face was expressionless. "Hello Claire", he said.
Claire looked around and realised she was lying in her own bed. "What happened?" she asked and as she remembered the party she felt rather scared.
The man obviously saw the look on her face. "No need to be scared, I am Eric Chant though I am better known as Chrestomanci. You may not know that the world you are living in know is one of 12 worlds. These worlds are mad up of 9 series. These worlds are made when a major thing in history happens such as a war and the result can be split 2 ways. Take a war between the English and the French, in one world the French would have won and in the other world the English would have won. These two results cannot happen in the same world so there's a split and two worlds are made. There is an alternate version of a person in each different series, for some reason or other all alternate versions of you did not survive and all their talents and lives have been put into you. That makes you a very rare nine lived enchanter. There is only one more person like this and that is me."
Claire listened to all this silently. "How come I haven't heard of you then?" she asked finally.
"I live in a completely different series but I have come in search of an enchanter such as yourself as none can be found in my world. I control all the magic in my world and I need someone else like me to become the next Chrestomanci"
Claire was a little confused about this "How can I control the magic in your series if I am here? She asked.
Chrestomanci answered immediately "we can't, you and your family are coming to my series."
Claire was not leaving her friends and school and everything just to go be a stupid enchanter and she told Chrestomanci this. Her parents quieted her and she noticed some boxes packed, she wondered how long she'd been out.
"We must go soon, a rather strong colleague of mine has that I misjudged has escaped to this world and he will try to stop us leaving." Chrestomanci said.
Claire ran to say goodbye to her next-door neighbour, Ryan. He had an older sister and parents but Ryan was the only one she was really friends with in the family although he was thirteen, three years younger than her. She ran over. Ryan ran outside to greet her and she and him walked into the garage. And suddenly there was the biggest explosion and she jumped on Ryan to protect him and again everything went black.
~Dear Harry~
I am your greatest Fan. I have read all the books about you.
I only just got into this series and I would love to meet you. I can't do hand magic so maybe I'll be allowed to go to Hogwarts and learn wand magic. How are Ron and Hermione? My sisters going to be the next Chrestomanci.
Please write back
Katie (I am 14 and just got an owl!)
Harry Potter read the letter he had jus received feeling a little puzzled. What books? What series? Hand magic? And who was Katie? What a strange letter. "Was the letter from Sirius?" Hermione asked. Harry shook his head and showed Hermione the letter. "I've read about Chrestomanci, he controls all magic. And he never has to use a wand. He lives in a very secret part of England that most wand people have never stumbled upon." She announced knowledgably.
That about the book?" Harry asked. To that Hermione just shrugged her shoulders. Harry looked around the walls of the Burrow and couldn't hep but just forgot about the confusing letter and relax
Katie sat beside Claire's bed, apparently she'd lost a life when the traitor Chrestomanci had been talking about had blown up Ryan's house. Ryan had survived with minor burns because of Claire. She'd just sent an owl to Harry Potter who she had found out lived in her series. Unfortunately she did not realise that the Harry Potter books weren't in this series until later. Ryan's family had not survived, Chrestomanci had removed him from their world without bringing other lives from other worlds to their world. He was in another huge wooden room with several nurses being comforted. Chrestomanci had found out that Ryan couldn't do hand magic but would probably be suitable for wand magic. He was being sent to Hogwarts as no one at Chrestomanci castle knew anything about wand magic. Katie had begged to go, she was terribly depressed because as she could do hand magic there was no need for her to go to Hogwarts. She had nearly given up all hope of Hogwarts until Claire woke up.
"NO!" Claire said stubbornly.
"There is no need for you to go to Hogwarts, you are an enchanter" Chrestomanci explained.
"No I'm not, not unless I am allowed to go to Hogwarts and Katie with me. I can teleport or whatever every night for dinner and a lesson and I will spend all my holidays here, I refuse to be forced to be a boring old enchanter" Claire blazed angrily.
"You don't understand, your power exceeds wand power by a mile" Lila, Chrestomanci's wife explained.
But Claire raised her nose in the air and said " I'm going for the social aspects."
And that was that.
Later Katie thanked Claire " I never knew you were such a Harry Potter fan," she said
"What do I know about Harry Potter, I just want to make sure Ryan's alright" she retorted and stalked out of the room.
"Snob" Katie said.
Draco Malfoy walked through Diagon Alley, he had been separated from his father. Not that he minded, his father was such a bore sometimes. Damn it! There he was. Draco started very quickly in the other direction looking at the ground the whole time. He was so flustered that he didn't notice the girl until he had knocked her on to the red bricked pavement. It didn't take her more than two seconds to jump off the ground and smile at him. Draco looked her up and down. She had very frizzy brown hair that was all over her face and stuck out everywhere, frizzing in all directions. She had a freckled face that was brown and tanned and her eyes were a very deep blue.
"You don't go to Hogwarts do you?" he asked
"Nope, but I will this year" she answered promptly
Draco simply figured that she was an exchange student and would have been shocked to find out that Hogwarts had agreed to let her go with the first years.
"Well don't go with the Hufflepuffs, there as dippy as they come and Ravenclaws are boring little stiffs, Gryffindors alright if you want second best but Slytherin is for the 'real' people," Draco told her.
"Really? I have to get in slytherin then, I'm Claire by the way" the girl said
"Draco" Draco said
Suddenly Claire was jerked bye the arm and spun around to face Katie. "That's Draco Malfoy" Katie hissed
"I know, he's nice isn't he" Claire said.
"No, That's Draco Malfoy" Katie said pronouncing each word very slowly as if Claire was dumb.
"As if talking slowly is going to make me understand your weirdo language anymore, Draco and I are going to be in Slytherin together," She said in a jumped up voice as if she was on speed or something.
"She's and ignorant git" Katie hissed
Ryan smiled " She only acts stupid because it suits her, I think its pretty funny"
Katie rolled her eyes, "Your in denial, she's as dumb as a post as far as people go"
Katie smiled tomorrow was Hogwarts first day of school and Claire could do whatever she wanted there as far as Katie was concerned.
Chrestomanci and all Harry potter Characters belong to Dianne Wynne Jones and J.K Rowling.
Please R/R, only constructive flames. I'm open to any ideas