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Harry Potter and the… Wait a minute! Where's Harry?!

Chapter One

Harry and Ron leaned against the scarlet Hogwarts Express, laughing until they thought their ribs would crack. In the process of trying to catch his escapee frog, Neville had accidentally turned it into a frog-shaped watermelon. The only person on the entire platform who did not seem to be enjoying this hilarious display was Hermione. After a frightening glance at Ron and Harry she walked over to Neville and undid his disastrous spell. She turned back to Harry and Ron, who knew they had it coming.

"What do you think your laughing at?"

"I think we're laughing at a watermelon shaped frog!" replied Ron, before he and Harry broke out in another burst of laughter.

Hermione, seeing her lecture was going to be no use if they kept coming up with smart ass replies, turned on her heel and boarded the train. Ron and Harry soon followed.

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About an hour later Harry, Ron, and Hermione had resolved their watermelon frog issues (It had ended with Hermione agreeing that it was terribly funny and laughing with them, though she never would admit it afterward.) and were enjoying a few chocolate frogs.

" You think being a fifth year will be much harder than being a fourth year?" Ron asked.

" Well, if there's no Triwizard Tournament with me in it, which there won't be, and no attempted attacks from Voldemort, I think the year will be perfectly peachy."

"Speaking of Voldemort, I mean you-know-who," Hermione chimed in, "how are you going to deal with the possible issue of an attack.?"

" Herm, don't be worried about me. I have taken necessary precautions on reading up on defense spells and I'm going to be careful."

"Harry, when have we ever been careful?"

"Um, well, I'll start now!"

"Alright Harry, just take my advice and watch out."

" Let's drop it you guys, I'm hungry, who's up for another round of chocolate frogs, our maybe some licorice wands this time." Ron said. The conversation was just too intense and morbid for his taste. He didn't even want to think about that frightening, cruel, despicable, evil creature ever being an issue again.

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Stretching out and preparing for the last leg of their trip, Hermione, Ron, and Harry climbed stiffly out of the scarlet train. The carriages were ready to pull them up to the school, but they definitely needed to stretch out their cramped muscles. Harry walked to the edge of a group of trees, hoping they would block the cool evening breeze from his face. Ron and Hermione walked over too, waiting for everyone else to get in a carriage before they had to get into a moving object again. Harry turned toward them and tripped on a rock. He was alright, but when he patted his robes his face turned a shade of white Ron had never seen a human face turn before.

" My.. my wand! It must have fallen out!" He looked down the hill into the dark shade of the many trees. He wished there weren't so many vines and brambles in the way.

"It must not have gone far with all that stuff obstructing it. I'll just slip down a little way and find it."

" Harry, remember what you said about being careful!" Hermione pleaded.

" I will be! Just go catch a carriage, and tell one to wait for me. It will only take a moment, but I don't want you two to half to wait on your clumsy friend."

" I think Hermione is right, we'll wait for you right here."

" Just go on," He pushed them into a carriage " I'm a big boy now! I can take care of myself."

They looked skeptical, but before they could reply the carriage took off.

Harry went back to the spot where he had fallen, and carefully crawled down into the undergrowth. He looked around for a moment, and then noticed it lying not to far away. He extended his hand to grab it, but halted when he thought he heard muttering. He looked around, saw a flash of light, and then everything went dark.

Thanks for reading!!! Please please please review! I hope you liked it. I will write more soon hopefully if you agree I should even attempt to go on. Lol. If you like it I will write more as soon as I can, but there is the tiny issue of the despicable thing they call homework, so I'll do what I can.