Love Potion: The Weird Sisters Anthology 01 Author's Note: Been wanting to do this one for awhile, but *ahem* SOMEHOW my five pages of ideas on this were lost, and I just found out yesterday that the first page had been typed up on the comp. The rest is probably lost forever, much to my dismay, so I'm just going to have to deal with that, I guess ... at any rate, here's the fic. Hope ya love it.

**Note: This will be written in order of the songs on their first album, Love Potion - the track listing on the pages of ideas and therefore lost, but I'm gonna try to make it up the best I can. 'Kay? ( And if the pages are found, I'm going to go by THOSE, not by THIS .. so if they ARE found, please keep that in mind. ) Otherwise, enjoy the fic! :) And thanks for reading. Hopefully I'll be able to say thanks for reviewing too. ;D


Don't explain it
Or try to feign it
Just make me do the motion
Give me a
Love Potion
It's incredible
You're like gravity's pull
I'm filled with such devotion
You made a
Love Potion
Supernatural
I come when you call
My heart could hold an ocean
Yeah, of your
Love Potion

Love Potion. I'm proud to say I wrote it, the title song to our first CD .. Nora told the reporter from WWN [ author's note: Wizarding Wireless Network ] that it was her favorite out of all of our songs, and I was especially grateful to her for that. I've never been as close to Izzy, Sand or Rach as I am to her.
I guess it was Nora who thought of the idea that we should all have four letters in our names. She and I had it easy; Dana and Nora are ready made. Rachel and Isabel weren't too hard to think of nicknames either, and Sandonia was pretty easy too. Even if it hasn't done much for our image (nothing could help that -- nobody has any idea how horribly scratchy all that fake hair is .. and the torn black robes, while I admit that they're a nice touch, are also extremely annoying. I, however, should have been prepared for that the minute I joined chorus at school -- my Muggle school.
It's a well kept secret that Nora and I are both Muggles; but the talent scouts were desperate, I suppose. We were going to be called the Pretty Witches .. but that sort of fizzled out, as two of us aren't and never will be witches. The others never really gave us a hard time about it. I suppose I should be grateful for that with people like the Malfoys stirring up all this anti-Muggle feeling. Stupid. If wizards are so powerful, they should be able to have higher minds too, and trash the senseless ideas of prejudice against a people who does them no harm and doesn't even know that they exist.
But that's not where I was, was it? I was talking about how I got picked up by a talent scout. Actually, it was pretty simple: I was singing a solo at our winter chorus concert, a wizard talent scout was there to see his Squib daughter perform, fell in love with my voice, told Izzy and Rach about me, and got me in.
So how did Izzy and Rach get there? Well, they were both from the same town in Surrey and they both loved playing the guitar dearly, but neither of them liked to sing or write songs. So they played background for another band, Merlin and the Druids, for awhile, and got quite good traveling all over with them. Now, Rach's dad's best friend owned a record store, and had connections with a pretty major recording studio. This ENORMOUS good luck got them on a CD with Merlin and the Druids called 'Magic Wand' and caught the attention of a Lara Mills, a DJ on WWN.
Lara says, "Get yourself a few vocalists, a drummer, and some really good songs and I'll put you on the air." Izzy and Rach get really excited, and they talk to the guy who did their CD with Merlin and the Druids. He agrees to keep a watch out .. and that was the guy who saw my solo that night.
He also saw Nora's solo -- we went to the same school, and both had the same passions for singing and songwriting. We did not, however, like each other at all (didn't expect that, did you?). In fact, ever since I found out she liked singing and writing and vice versa, we hated each other. Each of us was always trying to top the other, and just the day before in chorus practice we'd had this tremendous fight about who should go last at the concert which ended up in this bitter rivalry and unreasonable amounts of gossip. She would scream at me on passing in the halls, and I would smile triumphantly back and say scathing things like, "You know all of the class is on my side."
I am ashamed to admit any of this. That year, I probably did more stupid things to annoy her than all the good things I'd ever done in my life. I hope that's changed now, of course!
Well, when the wizard called us together at the end of the performance and gave us both his business card, we were looking daggers at each other. We were both thinking, "She doesn't deserve ANY of this!" It wasn't until the cafe (Cacao Wonders) the next day that we really began to understand each other -- I remember most of the conversation, even to this day.
The guy kept asking us questions like, did we want to make singing and writing our career, how long had we been devoted to this, and finally the clincher: what our most thrilling dream was. Nora said exactly this (this is where my memory is clearest!): "I want to be famous, to have people respect and love what I do and all, but I don't want to be too famous. I don't want murderers after me, and I want enough time to be able to talk to my fans, sign autographs, write letters, and give them what they want to get." I was astonished. She was actually kind and compassionate; she wasn't out to just kill everybody else in the industry! It seems silly to write down this "revelation" of mine, years later, but then it was like the world had suddenly become flat. I was silent for a minute, and then I just said, "Ditto." We both started giggling crazily, and after that day we were the closest friends ever. Everybody was mystified.
So anyway, we met Izzy and Rach (also best friends!), and started to write some songs that we thought would work for us, but we really couldn't do much without a drummer. It was then that Sandonia moved next door to me .. even though I was seventeen and not supposed to be "childish" any more, I did have my nose glued to the window when the moving van drove up. When I saw the set of drums, I abandoned all caution and hesitation, and dashed over. I met her right away, and we really clicked. Sand's a really outgoing and funny person; she can still make friends with anyone, really.
I introduced her to Izzy, Rach, and Nora the very next day, and we started playing the songs we had written. Nora and I, together, had written Accio, Accio; Banish It All Away; No Time To Turn; and Dance. Dance and Accio, Accio are the only ones that got into Love Potion, our first CD, because the other two were later revealed by the recording studio as "juvenile." Whatever.
Anyway, Lara Mills did keep her promise, and soon Nora and I were locked up in one of our rooms every night writing together. We did some songs apart (I wrote Love Potion and Disapparate Away, and she did Fly, Floo Powder, and Fire), but we really did work better together. Besides being played on WWN, we still played in clubs all over the place (anywhere our parents would let us go, that is: Nora and I were the youngest band members at seventeen, Izzy and Rach were nineteen, and Sand was twenty, and so we all were under the jurisdiction of our parents legally), and we began to have a huge following. We still had time to sign autographs, though, like Nora and I desperately wanted. We actually made quite a few friends from our fans, and gave as many as we could discounts on tickets for our first concert.
Our first concert was a night to remember. We still really had the mindset of a little band, even with all our experience, and we didn't think we could compete with any of the other big names out there; it took us that night to realize we were a big name. Just the sight of the packed stadium was absolutely incredible to all of us -- we were struck with awe and amazement, and all five of us just wanted to hug the crowd five thousand times for making us feel this way. It was wonderful.