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"DRACO!!!"

I wake up suddenly from my dream/nightmare. I need to stop having these Harry Potter dreams. They've been going on for three years now! Am I that obsessed? But this one seemed so real.

I fumble for my glasses as I get out of bed and stretch. As I start to get dressed for the day, I feel something cold around my neck.

"What is this?" I ask myself as I walk over to my mirror.

No. It can't be! There on my neck is the exact same necklace that Draco gave me in my dreams. I don't ever remember buying it, but those had to be just dreams, right?

"Ashley…. ASHLEY!" I scream nervously as I run out of my room and franticly knock on the bedroom door that's right next to mine.

"What is it?" she asks as she sleepily rubs her eyes and stretches.

"I had this really intense dream last night that you, me, and Liz all went to Hogwarts. I was dating Draco and he gave me this beautiful necklace, which just happens to be on my neck right now, but I don't remember buying it. It was just a dream right? Am I hallucinating things?" I ramble on.

"Wait! You had that dream? But I had a dream just like it. I dreamt that I jinxed Draco's hair to be Gryffindor colors with a sign blinking above him saying that Gryffindor's are #1!" Ashley states.

"Whoa. That's exactly what happened in mine. You don't think that all of this might have actually happened?"

"I'm starting to believe it did."

My cell phone suddenly rings. I walk over to my bed and pick it up.

"Hello?" I ask as I answer the phone.

"Hey Rachel. It's Liz."

"Hi, Liz. What's up?"

"Well I just had this crazy dream about us."

"Don't tell me it's about us going to Hogwarts," I say wearily.

"Yeah it is! How did you guess?" Liz exclaims.

I drop the phone on the bed as I sit down in complete shock.

"Rachel…Rachel are you there? What's going on?" I hear Liz call from the other end of the line.

Ashley stares at me from my doorframe and I give her a slight nod. She understands exactly what I mean and gulps. She picks up my phone and tells Liz to come over as quick as possible.

"But this can't be! I mean Harry Potter is fake, isn't it?" I question still in disbelief.

"I guess anything is possible with magic," Ashley tries to explain to me.

There's a knock on the door and Ashley lets Liz into the apartment.

"Hey guys. I got here as soon as I could. Now would someone please tell me what's going on?"

"Well it's just that Rachel and I also had the same dream as you did. We're thinking that everything that happened in our dreams actually happened in some alternate reality."

"Really? Wicked," Liz exclaims.

"Yeah, I guess it is," I say. "Wait does this mean I actually had sex with the Slytherin sex God, Draco Malfoy, himself?" I ask as I come to my senses.

"It seems so," Ashley giggles.

"Sweet!" I say with a huge grin on my face.

"I wonder if we changed anything in the books," Liz states.

"Well we can always check. Why don't you and I look through the books and Rachel, you check any and all Harry Potter websites."

"Okay."

The three of us spend the next hour delving through everything that is Harry Potter related.

"It seems like nothing changed. There's not even a mention of us," Ashley sighs.

"Well this sucks!" Liz declares. "I thought at least some of our pranks would end up in there."

"Hey guys, J.K. Rowling is coming to Philly to do some kind of press release. We should totally go and try to meet her," I read off of .

"Wait, haven't we already sort-of met her?" Ashley asks us.

"What do you mean?"

"Well if what we have dreamt about is real, shouldn't J.K. actually be Harry in disguise?"

"You're right!" Liz exclaims.

"We have to see him!" I state. "We can ask him how everyone is doing. I can ask about Draco!" I say dreamily.

"I can ask about the Weasleys," Liz says.

"And I can ask about Severus!" Ashley declares.

"Umm…Ash…You do realize that Snape is dead, right?" I say carefully, not wanting to hurt her feelings.

"Oh man, I totally forgot to tell you guys! While you two were busy fighting, I snuck away to the Shrieking Shack. I healed Severus of his snakebites just in time. He wanted me to hide him away so no one would bother him and I was sworn to secrecy. The only people that know about it are me, him, and Harry, since he helped me move him."

Liz and I stare at her with equally shocked looks.

"What? It never actually says he dies in the book. It's just sort of implied," Ashley explains to us.

"Well good job," I say still trying to digest the information.

"So when is 'J.K.' coming to town?" Liz asks me trying to change the subject.

"Hold on, let me look," I say turning back to my computer screen. "She'll be at the Philadelphia Convention Center on Saturday, April 28th from 12pm to 5pm. Wait that's tomorrow!"

"Nice. We'll just have to pay Harry a visit," Ashley states with a gleam in her eyes.