Killing a Dream

A/N: Camera is a wizarding camera, not one of those digital ones.

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Brittany shot up from her bed. Something shocked her enough to disturb her from a very interesting dream she was having, now what was it? Oh yeah, her and her friend Samantha were in Hogwarts. Brittany smiled it had seemed so real. She allowed her eyes droop a bit, though she wasn't going to let sleep take over again. That dream was so realistic; it was something Brittany had been imaging about since she opened the first book on her birthday four years ago. Four years? Had it really been that long? Brittany smiled as she pulled back the covers of her bed. She expected to feel the fluffiness of her own carpet when she stepped down. Instead, she felt cold hard stone, the haziness of sleep abruptly left when she turned wide eyes toward the ground.

"Oh crap…" She squeaked. Thinking about being in the wizarding world was one thing actually living in it is another. She sighed, putting her head in her hands. Is it tomorrow yet?

Thoughts of her earlier conversion with dream Sam began to trickle.

"You know this is friggin' fantastic right?" Samantha only nodded her head sleepily. "And that we are actually sleeping in the same room as Hermione." Samantha opened one eye. "And that Harry and Ron sleeping not even fifteen feet away!" She whispered screamed.

At this Samantha jumped from her bed, "okay I'm up what do you want to do?" Brittany grinned evilly.

"I want a memento," Samantha raised her eyebrows.

"Such as…" Brittany rolled her eyes and sat up on her bed.

"Such as a tie, or socks, or something-gawd Sam-I can't think of everything." Sam crossed her arms.

"Brit not only are you going completely nutters you want us to steal from a main character. Hello! Wouldn't that constitute as changing the book?" Brittany looked at Samantha and sighed.

"I guess-but if it's something small-"

"It could change something big." Samantha finished with a little smirk to her friend.

"Bah humbug…." For a while Brittany looked depressed, but than she looked up. The glint in her eye was completely scary. "What if we take a picture?" Samantha thought about this for a moment.

"Picture?...you say…" Samantha smiled. "Well I don't see anything wrong with that….but where-"

"Have no fear parallel version Brittany has brought a…" Brittany turned and pulled from her bag, "camera." Samantha clapped.

"Thank you, thank you. I'm brilliant I know" Samantha stopped clapping.

"No not you I'm clapping for parallel universe Brittany. Now she's the brilliant one." Brittany gave a sarcastic smile and rolled her eyes.

Well a good idea is a good idea. Brittany thought with a smile. She lifted her head up and pulled back the curtains. Maybe living is the wizarding world won't be so bad after all.

"Oh Saaam." Brittany sung.

The events that happened in the dream occurred again. Sam grumbled and stirred. Her sleepy face emerged in-between the red velvet curtains.

"Wahat? Sleepy must sleep now."

"No bad Sam sleep bad." Sam growled.

"Okay, okay different approach. You, me, a camera, Harry, Ron, other side of tower. Any ideas." Like Dream Sam, real Sam jumped up.

"Okay I'm up now let's go." Sam began pulling Brittany toward the door.

"Hey, I've been walking for a couple of years now. I'm good."

"Sorry just excited! Yay!" Sam began fiddling with her hair.

"Sam, what are you doing?"

"Um..fiddling with my hair?"

"Why?"

"Because"

"Because why."

"Because…um…hey what that?" Brittany looked over her shoulder. "What?-Hey!" she yelled when she turned back around and saw Sam disappearing down the stairs.

The door to the fifth year boy's dorm was the only thing that separated Samantha and Brittany from the male halves of the golden trio. Brittany exhaled slowly, "this is like Christmas on your birthday with candy and sprinkles."

"What?"

"Exactly." Samantha looked to her friend for a moment.

"You're going to be okay, right?" Brittany nodded then immediately shook her head.

"I think I'm going to be sick."

Samantha grabbed Brittany and shook her, pulling her close so that they were mere inches apart. "Brit calm down, this has got to be the most exciting thing that has every happened or will happen ever in the history of the world. If you make me miss this I will personally kill you until you die."

"But if I'm dead how—"

"I don't care now in!"

Brittany and Samantha crossed the threshold and simply stared at all the sleeping boys. They both looked at each other, sharing to same thought: Woah. They walked to the middle of the room and searched for their prey. Samantha nudged Brittany and nodded to the left. Brittany gulped while pulling her camera out of her bag. She motioned for Samantha to take the picture.

"You sure?"

Brittany nodded, "My hands are shaking too badly."

While Samantha was taking discreet pictures, Brittany looked around the room. Perhaps it wouldn't be too bad to take a memento. She looked over Samantha to make sure that she wouldn't be caught….

"Harry did you borrow a pair of my socks?" Ron leaned over his trunk checking for the third for his favorite pair of Chudley Cannon socks. "I could've sworn I packed them."

Harry looked over to his friend. "You had them on the train, Ron, maybe you took them off when we changed."

"Nah I remember putting them in the trunk last night." Harry shrugged.

"Maybe they'll turn up—"

"I can't believe you took socks." Samantha shook her head, smiling.

"Well I couldn't think of anything, I was rushed. Plus Ron Weasley trunk is not something you want to dawdle in. That boy seriously needs to learn how to separate dirty from clean."

"That's what you get for putting your nose, well, hands in people's business."

"Funny, Sam, very funny—but I don't see you rushing to burn those pics you took of a certain messy haired someone." They were making their way to their first classes.

"Yeah, but I didn't steal them."

"Oh, whatever"

"You know I'm right"

"Blah"

The schedule proved extremely difficult. After leaving the last of their classes before second break for Monday, Samantha and Brittany decided to take a walk around the grounds. Samantha, who still had the camera from the night before, was taking pictures while Brittany was making the most out of a sugar quill she bought of one of the twins.

"You know what would have been really cool?"

"No…what?"

"If we had powers like in Charmed and we kicked some demon asses like they do."

"Brit, I think you've had too much sugar.

"Hey you can never have too much of that."

Sigh.

"I really didn't know how hard classes would be, JKR never really explain what hard asses these teachers were."

"Duh, what do you think she'll write about, 'Harry had another test today. The first question he answered was Snilges, he was happy about the answer. Herm—"

"Yeah I get it, I get it. But a foot of homework on something that was only a paragraph in the book! Who did they think we are, geniuses?"

"I do get your point, Brittany." Sigh. "I think we should venture to the library after classes. You know to find a way out—or at least get started on the homework."

"Hey, I wonder if the term homework applies even though we're not at home?"

"Hmm dunno, Sam, I don't think it matters what we call it. It still has to be done."

"Eh, yeah but Brittany's not good at being on top of homework…especially if it involves measuring to make sure it has the right amount of inches. Crazy magical boarding school." Brittany grumbled, stowing away her empty sugar quill. "Good thing the candy's good." She added as an after thought.

"Britt, you should really stop referring to yourself as in third person. Good idea about the library."

"Well, I have another one." She stopped and leaned against a stone pillar.

"Shoot."

"I also think we should—um, shall we say, enjoy the life—for now."

"In other words…you want to stalk Draco some more."

"ER. Well—YOU like Harry!"

"Yes but I'm not stalking him now am I?

"But you want to."

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"See."

"Fine—but if he hexes you—"

"He won't, my baby luuuvres me."

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A/n: Going to edit the previous chapters.