Sorry this is very, very short. But I'm under pressure to get off the computer, again, by my brother, and I want to update SOMETHING, since I haven't updated in AGES, and Beth updated her story today and I feel guilty cos I haven't. So there. Hopefully the story is starting to make more sense now. If I'm repeating myself throughout, that is because I'm either reminding you all of the plot, or I've forgotten I've already mentioned it, which is extremely typical of me.

Dedicated to Beth, because I missed her birthday. Happy Birthday ma charmante petite papillon!

"Kate, get up!"

"I am up."

"No you're not because I'm standing next to your bed and you're still in it."

"But I am up…Oh god not this again."

"What?"

Kate swung her legs over the side of the bed, rubbed her eyes and yawned. Her hair resembled something like a lions mane pulled throw a very thorny hedge backwards.

"This always happens. I dream that I've got up and I'm making my breakfast and stuff, which makes me think I am, and then I wake up and get confused. As usual."

Beth smiled.

"Besides," Kate went on while yawning, "how is it that you're up before me AND you're in a good mood?"

Beth threw a pillow at her. "Meany."

"Hey you're not arguing already are you?" Tash said as she and Jenny walked into the room.

"No time for it if they were," Jenny said, sitting at the end of the bed. "We need to discuss what to do next."

Kate groaned. "Toooo tired…" and she burrowed under her duvet. Tash pulled it off, causing Kate to squeal when the shock of the cold hit her.

"Hey!"

"Kate, shut up and get up NOW! I'll go get some tea."

"Yorkshire. Best tea there ever was."

"Whatever."

Kate pulled tongues at her back as Tash left the room.

"So," she said, picking the duvet off the floor and wrapping it around herself. "What are we going to do?"

Beth shrugged. "I have no idea."

"We need help," Jenny said.

"Obviously..but who should we go to?"

"We can't trust anyone."

"There is one person dumbos," Tash said walking in with a pot of tea and cups only seconds after she had gone to get it. Jenny someone how had the suspicion she had the wand.

They all looked blankly at her.

"Come on, isn't it obvious?"

Still they all looked at her blankly.

"Think about it!"

"Beth thinking is not a good thing you know Tash," Kate said.

"Oh shut up," Beth said, hitting her on the arm.

Tash sighed impatiently, thrusting a cup of tea into Jenny's hand.

"Come on, you of all people should know."

And then the penny dropped.

"My GOD!" Jenny said, jumping up off the bed, knocking tea everywhere and screaming madly. "Why didn't we think of this before!"

"I know!" Tash shrieked. "And I've only just realised myself. I was getting the tea when I thought : We need help. Who can give us power, backup and advice? And then I saw something very strange in the kitchen. An ornament firstly, but it was angel, with huge white wings. And then it came!"

"WHAT came!" Beth and Kate shouted together impatiently.

"STEPH!" Tash and Jenny shrieked back.

Silence as Kate and Beth's faces lit up.

"Of course!"

"She can help!"

"The Evil Empress of the world!"

"And her army!"

"Brilliant!"

Kate emptied the entire mug of tea in one mouthful. She gulped and grinned.

"Let's tell the others then!"

This so called Steph was Natasha's and Jenny's closest friend, and had been for many, many years. Her current location was a something underneath Guernsey. No-one had actually visited it yet. No-one had dared to try.

"So let me get this straight," Professor McGonagall said. "you're asking a friend of yours who has large white wings and who is supposedly a genius for help?"

"Got it in a nutshell," Kate said grinning.

"I tell you what, it's a good thing you have that angel ornament thing in the kitchen."

Eyebrows were raised. "Angel ornament?"

"Yeh," Tash said, nodding. "You know, by the kettle."

"I don't remember that."

"But it's there."

"But I don't remember it."

"Well it's there!"

"Tash!"

"WHAT!"

"She's right," Jenny said. "It ISN'T there."

"But….how-" Tash stormed into the kitchen. It wasn't there. It had gone.

"But…it was….guys I PROMISE it was!"

"I'm sure Natasha," the Professor said. "We're all having a meeting in about an hour. Maybe Molly can sort out your problem."

"Molly?" they all said, looking at each other.

"Yes. Molly Weasley."

"Well, Jenny, I can safely say I'm deaf now," Beth said as they walked towards the living room for the meeting. Jenny smiled sheepishly. After hearing the name, she had screamed madly and jumped up and down the room.

"But guys, that ornament WAS there, I swear it!"

"Tash, stop worrying!" Kate reassured her. "We believe you."

"But don't you see," Beth said, "it's happening again."

"What is?"

"Things are appearing when we need them. We needed to know who to go to, and suddenly an ornament appears just when Tash is going to the kitchen. Someone tried to help us remember we needed Steph."

"But WHO?"

They all looked at each other. WHO was it?

"Attention all," said the Professor, her glasses still perched perfectly on the end of her nose. "As you are all aware, you have been called her for a meeting following the events of the past couple of days. We originally received a cry of help from these…." She glanced over at the girls, "..young ladies. What they have told us in fact coincides with our suspicions. Would you like to inform the rest of us please girls?"

And so the four friends began to tell their story to the rest of the witches and the wizards in the room. It was amazing the listeners could even understand anything they were saying, as it was mainly Beth and Kate who spoke, and the speech was very fast, and they kept finishing each others sentences off for each other. Tash and Jenny did manage to put in an odd word here and there when it involved them. Jenny was actually turning bright red again trying to contain her excitement, after seeing Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger walk into the room.

"So basically, you're telling us that Voldemort has kidnapped your sister because you two escaped from him 5 years ago?" Molly said.

"Yes."

"And things keep appearing when you need them as well?" Remus asked gently but with seriousness in his eyes.

"Yes."

"Show me that wand please."

Tash passed it over carefully, like it was a fragile ornament.

"This definitely is a real wand, maybe even from Ollivanders," Remus said, as he inspected it.

"So someone is definitely trying to help you." Ron said.

"Or HINT to you," Hermione said.

They all looked at her enquiringly.

"Think about it. Things keep appearing as soon as you start looking for Emma. Someone's trying to help you find them. Who's an author who Voldemort would want to kidnap?"

And then the penny dropped.

"That's it!" Kate cried.

"He must have kidnapped J.K Rowling-" Beth started

"And made her start to re-write the story-"

"Or something-"

"Like that."

"Bingo," Tash said.

Meg barked, and scared the life out of everyone, because they had all forgotten she was there. She then started growling, as if to say

"GIVE ME FOOD NOW!"