Shadow: I don't own anything from Harry Potter, they belong to J.K Rowling. I do own Brittany and Amber. Enjoy :)
Brittany: Merlin, that was boring...
Amber: She covered the necessities.
Brittany: Which made it boring.
Shadow: You can do it next time, if you want to.
Brittany: Yes!
Amber: Are you sure you know what you're doing?
Shadow: Of course I don't, I'm the Author. The Author never knows what their characters are going to do next.
Amber: God have mercy on us all...
Chapter 1: One Hundred Wishes
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true. ~ Leon Joseph Suenens
Seventeen year old Brittany Taylor lived in a three bed room apartment with her parents, five minutes from her high school where she was a senior. She was sitting on the couch with a bowl of popcorn watching "So you think you can Dance?" while her parents were at work. Suddenly her home phone rang. She checked the caller I.D on her phone. It was her friend Amber calling. Amber was two years older then Brittany, and lived in the same building just three floors down. Brittany ninja pounced over the arm of the chair, falling on her face in the process and answered.
"Hello?" She groaned.
"You tried jumping over the chair to answer the phone again, didn't you?" Amber asked.
"You're talking on the phone with the tooth brush in your mouth." Brittany replied. "What's your point?"
"It's not my tooth brush, it's a carrot." Amber told her.
"What ever, what's up?"
Brittany meandered into the kitchen and opened the fridge.
"I'm getting ready to watch Order of the Phoenix and you're coming over."
"And… why would I do that?"
She took out a slightly cold bottle of root beer. She could almost see Amber purse her lips.
"Because you love Harry Potter and I'm ordering you to come over."
"Alright, I'll be there in a few minutes."
Hanging up, Brittany went to her room and tossed the neon blue bag next to her door onto her bed. She knew that she would end up spending the night at Amber's. Quickly tossing in an extra pair of clothes, her Frog print PJs, and other essentials, Brittany picked up a small wire cage and walked to the second room. She paused at the hallway mirror on the way, and pulled her copper hair back in a braid.
"Wake up Pippin!" Brittany called, walking to the larger cage in one corner of the room.
A grey squirrel poked his head out of a little house. He gave a squeak and hopped out. On his feet were little brown spots that made them look like hobbit feet, hence his name Pippin. Brittany opened his cage and he scurried up her arm and perched on her shoulder.
"Good boy." Brittany said, feeding him a cashew.
She picked him up and placed him in the smaller cage. Then she picked up her bag and headed downstairs. The lift arrived after a few minutes.
"Hey Tom!" Brittany called to the ginger lift operator.
"Going to Amber's?" He asked as she got on.
"How'd ya guess?" She smiled.
"Luck?" He answered.
Pippin chattered, unhappy about being ignored.
"Hello to you too Pippin." Tom said. "Here's your floor."
"Thanks Tom." Brittany said as she exited.
"I have a few friends coming over this Saturday at seven." Tom called. "It's the fourth floor, room 467, if you wanted to come."
Brittany smiled and nodded.
"I'd love to come, thanks."
She headed over to Amber's apartment and let herself in.
"Honey I'm home!" Brittany called.
"I'm in the TV room." Amber replied. "Go make popcorn."
"Let me throw my junk in your room first, I'm letting Pippin out."
"Make sure the paper is down. I'm not cleaning up his dirt."
"I know, I know."
Brittany opened Pippin's cage and he scampered into the TV room. Then she rummaged through the cupboards until she found the popcorn. Taking out two packages, she popped them, poured them into a bowl, and headed to the TV room. Pippin, who had made himself comfortable on the arm of the couch, sat up when he smelled the popcorn. Brittany handed a bowl to Amber and pushed play on the DVD player.
She sat down on her green eyed friend's lap, but Amber pushed her off. So instead, she cuddled up between Amber's legs and munched on her popcorn. Pippin hopped down and nibbled on the popcorn. The friends quoted their favorite parts of the movie and giggled about the mayhem they could cause if they were in the Harry Potter world.
"I wish we were in the Harry Potter world." Brittany said.
"Because you and I haven't wished that hundreds of times." Amber replied.
"It hasn't been hundreds; it's only been ninety-nine." Brittany told her. "Fifty for me, fourty-nine for you. You need to wish once more."
"I wish we were in the Harry Potter world." Amber grinned.
Brittany giggled, when suddenly the lights in the apartment went out. Brittany stood up and growled about the Land Lord not fixing the fuse box. The room started shaking and Brittany fell onto Amber. A loud crack of thunder was heard and everything went still. Both girls panted in fright.
"What was that?" Amber whispered.
"I don't know, maybe an earthquake?" Brittany replied in the same volume.
They prepared to get up, but suddenly they were thrown to the ground. And instead of hitting the floor, they fell into nothingness. They landed on a hard wooden surface, the voices they heard as the landed were silenced. Five long, wooden sticks were nearly immediately pointed at the girls. They were sure, as soon as they saw them, that the sticks were wands.
"Who are you and how did you get here?" a voice demanded.
The two looked up to see a thin man with medium length black hair, and a long hooked nose. He wore black robes and had a grim look. The two friends screamed in a mixture of shock, fear, and fangirlness. After a moment the calmed down, and the man stated his question once more. Brittany grinned at him.
"I'm Brittany, and this is my bestest friend Amber!" The Copper haired girl said. "However, I'm not sure how we got here… wherever we are. We were sitting in Amber's living room watching a movie, then the lights went out and the room started shaking."
Brittany stood up and mimed everything.
"The next thing we knew is that the floor collapsed,"
She dramatically fell to the floor.
"And we were in a weird room and you all were pointing your wands at us."
"Are you witches?" another voice asked.
This one came from a tall man with pale skin, and dusty red freckles. He had shaggy, ginger hair, similar to that of his father and mother. Amber shook her head and was about to answer, but Brittany cut her off.
"Sort of." She said. "We don't have wands, but we are clairvoyant… to a degree"
"Are you working with the Dark Lord?" yet another voice asked.
The man was not tall; he had balding ginger hair and horn rimmed glasses. His stomach had a slight bulge to it, and his robes were a little old.
"Nope!" Brittany grinned. "We're on Rumble-Roar's side!"
Amber smacked Brittany on the back of the head.
"Wrong show." She said.
"Not really. Rumble-Roar is the headmaster of Pigfarts, and he knows Dumbledore and is on Dumbledore's side." Brittany replied.
"You're hopeless." Amber told her.
A cough brought them back to what was going on. Everyone but the man in the long black robe lowered their wands. A short, plump woman with ginger hair bustled over to the girls. She had a motherly look about her, and looked at the girls.
"You poor dears." She said. "Let me get you something to drink and a warm meal. You two look starved!"
She picked them up and sat them down at the table, they realized they landed in the kitchen, and set to work heating up some stew for them. The other adults sat down around the table as well. They watched the girls curiously. Brittany grinned and nudged Amber.
"We should play 'Ice-Breaker'!" She said.
"Not until you eat up." The Ginger woman said. "You two look famished."
"Thank you Mrs. …?" Amber said, acting as though they did not know who the wizards in the room were.
"It's Weasley, dear." She replied. "Now, eat up."
The girls ate the soup and pretended not to listen in on the hushed conversation the others were having. They could not hear much, but they did hear little snippets of things the Order was doing. One thing they did hear was,
"How long until the veritaserum begins to work?"
Brittany and Amber glanced at each other, and pushed their empty bowls away. Now that they knew they had been given it, they could mute the effects. But not stop them from being able to cover things up completely. They decided to let the others know they were finished so they could get the questions over with. Brittany wondered momentarily why they weren't freaking out over the fact that they were now in a fantasy world. But they could freak out later.
"The stew was delicious Mrs. Weasley." Amber said.
"Oh, I'm so glad you enjoyed it dears." She replied, whisking the dishes away with her wand.
"Let's go to the living room and we can have a nice… chat." The black robed man said, pointing his wand at the girls.
They nodded and Mrs. Weasley led them out. From the stairway they saw two flesh coloured strings being pulled up. Brittany grinned and pointed them out to Amber. She glanced at her friend and grinned as well. With both them and the twins around, the Wizarding world might just explode. The man in the black robe pointed to the couch and made them sit down.
"It's lumpy and hard!" Brittany complained.
"Sit down!" The man ordered.
Brittany and Amber sat down and looked him.
"Who are you?" He asked.
"We already told you." Brittany replied. "My name is Brittany and this is my bestest friend ever, Amber!"
"What are you doing here?"
"We don't know." Amber answered this time. "The lights went out, the room started shaking, and we landed here."
"Are you working with the Dark Lord?"
"No, we are on Dumbledore's side."
"How do you know about Dumbledore?" The pale man with the scratches asked suddenly.
"We know because…" Amber started
"Who doesn't know about the great Albus Dumbledore?" Brittany interrupted. "The only one Voldemort ever feared."
Amber glanced at her friend, and nudged her. Brittany looked at her sheepishly, and ducked her head as the others stared at her. It was a rare person who could call the Drak Lord by his name. Most of the people in the room shuddered.
"Are you sure you put the veritaserum in the soup?" the black robed man asked Mrs. Weasley.
"I put half the bottle in Snape." She replied.
"You did give us veritaserum!" Brittany exclaimed, bursting into fake tears. "I thought you like us!"
"Brittany, shut up." Amber rolled her eyes, then she turned to everyone. "Like Brit said, we… have clairvoyant abilities."
"Yeah, and I think that Fudge is a Cotton-Headed-Ninny-Muggins!" Brittany said, nodding with finality. "Dumbledore is not a liar, nor is he nuts. I believe him when he says Harry saw Voldemort come back, and so does Amber!"
Amber nodded her agreement. Several in the room winced at the name, again. Snape finally lowered his wand; however, he still had a look like someone shoved a lemon down his throat. Amber hopped up and gave him a hug. Snape froze, while Brittany fell off the couch in laughter.
"What are you doing?" He demanded.
"I'm baking cookies, what's it look like?" Amber replied.
"Are you sure you're not trying to put a bun in the oven?" Brittany asked, a grin on her face.
"Shut up, Brittany!" Amber yelled. "You pervo… you're just jealous you're not hugging Snape."
"Stop hugging me." Snape told her.
"No one loves you, and you need a hug." Brittany said. "So just accept it. Besides, hugging you makes Amber happy, and a happy Amber is the best kind."
Snape sighed, then awkwardly patted her back and requested she let go again. This time, Amber complied without saying anything. She sat back down on the couch, while Brittany still was on the ground.
"I will be informing Professor Dumbledore about your arrival." Snape said. "I shall come pick you up sometime tomorrow morning and take you to him then."
"Alright." Amber replied.
"So, can we play 'Ice-Breaker' now?" Brittany asked.
A/N: I am very happy, for college finals are done! (For this semester). Now I must go and sign up for next semester classes. I'm also nearly done with my Christmas shopping. I only need my older sister (not too hard), and my dad (most difficult person to shop for in the whole freaking world). But I am very proud of my oldest niece, she has requested the first two Harry Potter books for Christmas :)