CHAPTER TWO

"Hmm … what … who died … what happened?" asked Emma, sitting up groggily in her bed. The girls around her also began to wake up, grumbling and cursing under their breath. Cho, who shared a dorm with Emma, was standing in front of the mirror, clasping her face and looked on the verge of collapsing.

"Cho, what's going on? You'll wake the whole castle up. Who else is that screaming in the background?" Cho simply stood there, shaking and gasping, saying, "No, no, no, no, no! This can't be happening!"

"Cho, what's going on?" demanded Emma. Cho turned to face her.

"I … I … I'm not Cho. I'm Alyson!" Emma regarded her suspiciously for a moment and then said, "Cho, whatever game you're playing at, it's not funny. Look, there's still two hours 'til breakfast, maybe we can get a little bit more sleep before then …"

"I am telling you, I'm Alyson!" cried Cho. Emma simply stared at her long and hard.

"What? What are you staring at? Do you want some pizza?" yelled Cho in frustration. A shocked look passed across Emma's face.

"Oh my God! It is you! How did you get inside Cho's body?"

"Oh yeah, this is really the face of someone who knows what's going on," stated Ally sarcastically.

"So we need to find out who's in your body?" said Emma slowly.

"Ya think?" replied Ally.

"Quick, we have no time to lose!" cried Emma. With a wave of her wand, she was ready and dressed.

"Wow, how'd you do that?" asked Ally in amazement.

"I'm a fictional character," replied Emma simply. "C'mon, take my hand!" she commanded, holding out her hand.

"Emma, I like you, but not in that way," joked Ally. Emma, however, was not impressed. With an exasperated sigh, Ally took Emma's hand and, in a flash, they were in the Slytherin dorms. Alyson, or whoever was in her body, was passed out on the floor. The other Slytherin girls had just walked off and left her. Nice. Emma and Ally rushed to Ally's body and started trying to bring her around.

"What? Is it lessons time yet? Oh no, I haven't done my Arithmancy homework yet! What am I going to do? Why am I on the floor? I am going to be so late! Oh, wait, it's a Saturday; that's all right then," she mumbled. Ally and Emma looked at each other and then looked at Ally's body, struggling to get up.

""Hermione!" they both cried in unison.

"Who else would I be? What are you doing here anyway? I – oh!" Hermione stopped short of what she was saying as she caught a glimpse of herself in the mirror. "Oh, wh … what happened?"

"We're just trying to figure that out," sighed Emma. "Everybody seems to have switched bodies."

"So who are you two?" asked Hermione, getting up off of the floor.

"I'm Alyson and Emma is just herself," said Ally.

"So who's in my body? Where's Cho?" asked Hermione.

"We don't know. You'd better come with us so we can find out who has actually switched," said Emma. In another flash, they were off again, going from body to body trying to figure out who was who. In the end it looked something like this:

Alyson Cho

Cho Draco

Draco Harry

Harry Hermione

Hermione Alyson

Emma and Ron seemed untouched by this, though, as did the rest of the school. Soon, all seven of them were gathered together in the Entrance Hall, trying to figure out what to do.