Dreamscape Chapter 4

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"I don't know. I keep appearing here in my sleep...aren't you five supposed to be at Hogwarts?" Harry asked.

"Meh. Same thing keeps happening to us but opposite." I said boredly.

"Huh..." Harry was cut off as the teacher arrived and called for quiet.

"We'll talk later, ne?" Fuzzy whispered.

Harry nodded and turned back around. As it was, we didn't get a chance to talk to him for the rest of the day and that night we got ready for bed, anticipating our next day in Hogwarts.

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I sat up quickly to find that Pansy Parkinson was hovering over me with a glass of ice water in her hand. Knowing perfectly well what she intended to do with it, I raised my eyebrow at her and she had the decency to look ashamed. To make a point, I took the glass from her and tipped it back.

"Thanks for the water Pansy dear, it was just what I needed to wake up!" I told her brightly.

She looked like she wanted to murder me right then and there so I decided it was prudent to leave the dorm at that point. Fuzzy was still asleep so I shook her awake before leaving, warning her that we only had about 45 minutes before our first class.

Class that day passed quickly with no major events. I discovered that I could talk to Tyth, which I was a little irked about because it seemed so 'mary-sue' to me, but I quickly got over it and thanked whomever was up there for the awesome gift of snake-speech. A though occured to me and I decided to ask Jade if she'd noticed Syth talking or not, Jade nodded to me and said she'd been having conversations with the snake from the moment she bought her. I gave her an exasperated glare but decided not to even bother pointing out that she should have told us.

That night at dinner, I decided to see what I could get for dinner and asked my plate pleadingly for some chicken flavored ramen. It appeared and I gave an ecstatic squeal. Bri quickly caught on to my method and asked the plate politely if it would please grant her some shrimp ramen. It did and from that night on, we decided to have every Thursday be Ramen night.

We sat at the Ravenclaw table that night, the upper years gave us uneasy looks but otherwise we didn't really meet any oposition. We'd tried to sit at the Slytherin table but they'd glared so hard that even we couldn't shrug them off.

Going to bed that night, I held onto my 'Book of Spells Yr. 1' as I slept, hoping it would transfer to my world with me like Tyth had. As my eyes slid shut and my brain shut down, I felt a peculiar tingle overtake my body. Perhaps this was the feeling of the transfer? I didn't have time for anymore thought because before I knew it I was sitting up slowly in bed in Minnesota. Book held tightly to my chest. I smiled and skimmed through the pages, making sure the words were still there. They were. I couldn't wait to show my discovery to Jade, this would give us so much more time to learn magic!

That morning I met up with Jade and told her I had a surprise for her. She stood eagerly in front of my locker as I reached in and pulled out my bag and from that produced the magic book. Jade's eyes widened to the size of saucers before she started jumping enthusiastically in circles, cradling the book to her chest. I grabbed it back and told her that it was mine and to bring her own book over. She reluctantly conceded the point and relinquished my book.

Me and Jade were already leaps and bounds ahead of all of our classes. Resident know-it-alls of the school we were. Fuzzy was just under us in knowledge and Bri just under her so we all had basically the whole school day to read books. The teachers didn't mind since we aced all the tests, though I had certain...issues turning in some of the homework asignments. I turned in perhaps 3 in every 5 that were assigned so my grades were suffering for it but I read so much that I was already about 10,000 pages over the 'You must read 1000 pages every trimester or fail English 6' requirements set by Ms. Herber for her students. She was now limiting it to 1 extra credit point every 100 pages now. I scoffed at the limit, I'd still pass her class with 105 percent or more, I was sure. Jade was in a similar situation, though she only missed about 4 asignments every month in all of her classes combined. Shelina already had 4 detentions for being late and attacking boys in the hallways and it was only about a week after school had started. She almost never turned in homework, I don't really know what she does in her spare time because I know she doesn't read. She must watch a lot of TV then. I shrugged and decided to think on that another day.

I finished reading the book by 6th hour and immedietaly turned it over and began again. You could never read a book to many times after all. (It's true. Every single book in my room I have read at least 5 times. Most are more.)

By the time I hit the pillow that night I'd read it twice through. The spells were rather basic, though there were quite a few more in it than were ever mentioned in the books. Most of them were rather useless like a 'bug-zapping' charm I' found. The passage had made reference to another spell in the later books that actually warded the area just above your skin of bugs and spiders entirely. Pretty handy, I thought, especially against Acromantulas and the like.

We went through this routine for the next month. After my discovery with the book, Fuzzy had tried to sleep with her wand on her and bring it through. It worked and Shelina, ever prone to evading homework, searched for a charm that would set a quill to writing down whatever she said out loud. This cut down on our time spent on homework by almost 80 percent and it insured that we always turned all our asignments in in both worlds. Shelina's teachers were suspicious at first when she suddenly went from turning in no homework to turning in all homework but had apparently decided not to look a gift horse in the mouth so to speak.

Fuzzy had been using her wand to clean her house when her mom wasn't home, which was very frequently since Marie worked two jobs. Thus being paid a large amount every time Marie came home to find another room cleaned spotless. Of course, Fuzzy was doing it all in about 5 minutes with the 'Scourgify' charm that she'd looked up and practiced for just this purpose. Fuzzy had also learnt a specific 'wave' of her wand that would make things return to their proper places. It had been exceedingly difficult at first, but she'd practiced it diligently for many hours and could now do it with ease.

Shelina got more detentions in a week than there were days for them to be held on. It was to the point where we were escorting her to and from classes so she wouldn't be late or beat up anymore boys. (She appeared to have a vendetta. I know not why, so don't ask.)

Jade and me were reading none stop, both up to almost 30,000 pages on the reading charts. Yes, we were bookworms. So? It was fun to read up on real magic instead of fables and myths. Bri just did her own thing, keeping up with her drum lessons and reading about half as much as me and Jade.

Halloween passed, the same event with the troll happening. Though this time I saw that Hermione was more distant with Ron after the encounter. Good girl, don't be buddy buddy with the jerk that almost got you killed in the first place!

Fuzzy, finally having enough of the simpering Prof. Quirell had taken to throwing odd projectiles at his head when it was turned. We had resolved to make the bastard as edgy as possible that year, wondering if and if so, how five 1st years seemed to know his 'deepest, darkest' secret.

It was nearing Christmas now and we didn't know what we wanted to do. Stay or go to Hogwarts. Since our parents in this dream of ours were several thousand miles away, we decided to stay. Especially since we would still see them in the waking world.

"Oh my god, guys you know this means we get two Christmas's, right?" Shelina said suddenly.

I smiled and nodded, the thought had crossed my mind. As we left the Great Hall, I decided it'd been far to long since we'd done anything to freak out/irritate the student body and so began to hum a death march while smiling serenely. Jade picked up the tune after the second repetition and soon we were all humming the eery tune. Fuzzy took it one step further and skipped through a group of second year students that hadn't noticed our brilliant show yet. Not long after, we'd been given detention by Snape for disturbing the peace. Bri laughed at him and told him to his face that she was proud he was growing out of his petty tendencies and actually giving frivolous dententions for a reason now. We were awarded another detention for her trouble, which we shrugged off, far to used to manual labor by now to really care.

Later that night, I was using the scribe spell that Shelina had found to dictate my homework to my favorite quill when Draco decided it'd been too long since he'd come to attempt to intimidate Fuzzy and I.

"Ah, what are the mudbloods up to tonight?" He said as he sauntered over. One thing stood out here though, his bodyguards were absent.

I sighed and shook my head but didn't stop whispering to my quill. Fuzzy glared at him and threw a paper weight that had been sitting on the desk aimed at his shin. It just barely missed as he jumped to avoid it and his glare increased. Him and Fuzzy began to trade insults, getting louder and louder until (to my dismay) my quill started writing garbled half words combined with garbled insults. I canceled the spell and used a tiny 'Scourgify' spell on the parchment to erase the last four or so lines before I stood up and told them politely, to stop.

"Oi, Ferret. Leave us alone or favorite quill or no, I'm going to shove my quill through your eye."

He got the message and left us alone for the rest of the evening.

The next week was the start of Christmas Break. I went to sleep that night with an arm load of books and woke up in my real bed surrounded by them. I yawned and got up, putting the books on the shelf and taking others off so I could return them to the dream world when I slept next.

"Diana! Get up, we've got to start cleaning the house. Get down here!" My dad called.

"I'm up..." I shouted before grumbling explatives under my breath, "I'm so glad I have a wand."