Leanne and her friends love Harry Potter. (Well, who doesn't?) But it just so happens that they got three very special copies of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. If the books were read at the same time, by three different people, the people would be sucked into the book. That's exactly what happened to Leanne, Colleen, and Paige on this one September evening…
"So. I'm bored." Leanne said into the telephone.
"Same." Colleen said.
"Same." Paige said.
"I love these three-way calls." Leanne said, examining her fingernail. "It makes the night less boring. When my parents go out, I usually watch TV, but there's nothing on."
"Here, here!" Paige and Colleen said in unison.
"And since my computer is being wonky, I have nothing to do except talk to you two freaks." Leanne said, laying on her back on her bed.
"Hey, if we are freaks, you are, too!" Colleen said. Paige giggled.
"Paige, did you consume the entire contents of your sugar jar or what?" Leanne asked.
"Ha! Pink mongoose on wheels!" Paige said, starting a giggle fit.
"Ok, we need to get her blood sugar down. She needs to read a book." Colleen said.
"I've got an idea! Let's all read the fifth Harry Potter book! We can take turns reading aloud, but we can follow along in our own books!" Leanne said, leaping off her bed and rushing into her computer room to grab her book off of her messy bookshelf and jump back on the bed.
Leanne waited impatiently for her friends to get their books.
"Got it!" Colleen chirped into the phone. They waited for Paige, who had lost her book but assured them that it was somewhere in the house. After a half an hour of digging through her room, Paige found it. They all turned to the first page of the first chapter.
"Who should start?" Colleen asked.
"I will." Leanne said. "After all, my birthday is in January."
Leanne cleared her throat and started to read. "The hottest day of the summer was drawing to a close…"
"Leanne! My book is glowing!" Colleen shrieked.
"What the radish? Mine is, too!" Paige panicked.
Leanne noticed hers was too. Before she could say anything, the light blinded her. She had the strange sensation that she was falling, but she couldn't open her eyes because the light was too bright. The falling sensation stopped when her body slammed into something that felt very much like concrete. She rolled over onto her back, aching. She opened her eyes and looked around. She was laying in the middle of a sidewalk. She finally sat up and saw that Colleen and Paige were right by her feet.
"Ouch!" Colleen said, peeling herself off of Paige's stomach.
"Where are we?" Paige asked, sitting up.
"Yes, ask me, because I know all!" Leanne said, standing up and brushing the rocks and leaves off of her jeans. "Let's just call ourselves lucky that we hadn't changed into our pajamas yet. I was planning on wearing my 'yummy sushi' pajama's, which I doubt anyone would take me seriously in."
They all got up and brushed themselves off before they started walking down the sidewalk, looking for some sign of where they were. Paige and Colleen walked side by side, which left little sidewalk for Leanne, so she walked backwards in front of them. The three turned a corner and Leanne started trying to figure out what had happened.
"Well, we were just sitting there!" Leanne said.
"Leanne, watch…" Paige started, but Leanne interrupted.
"Then there was that light…" Leanne said.
"LEANNE!" Colleen and Paige said together.
"WHAT?" Leanne said. Then once again, Leanne found herself on the concrete. But this time it was because she bumped into someone. She looked up to see who she had bumped into. The boy looked about her age. He had dark, messy hair, glasses, and the most beautiful green eyes…
"Who are you? I feel like I've seen you somewhere before." Leanne asked, getting up from the ground.
"Me? I'm Harry Potter." The boy said.
"Oh…" Leanne turned to her friends. "It looks like we have bigger problems than getting home. At least we know where we are." Harry Potter stared at Leanne and her friends, wondering who they were and what they were talking about.