Response to challenge on the ADMM board:

You must, (however you wish) incorporate into a fic, the titles of every song on the Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour album in order. Other than that, it's up to you...

The titles are:
Magical Mystery Tour
The Fool on the Hill
Flying
Blue Jay Way
Your Mother Should Know
I Am the Walrus
Hello Goodbye
Strawberry Fields Forever
Penny Lane
Baby You're a Rich Man
All You Need is Love

So here is part one of my attempt…I have five songs left to do…shall I write about them on their little trip and find a way to use the last five songs?

AL

"The Magical Mystery Tour."

It was a cold, dreary, dull and gray-drizzle Wednesday, and the Hogwarts' staff members were bored. Very bored. Most of them were seated in the teacher's lounge at 8:30 that evening, and upon each Wizard or Witches arrival, he or she had to make a point of mentioning just how bored they were.

"I tell you," Professor Fillius Flitwick said with a yawn. "I do not miss the days of he-who-must-not-be-named, and I appreciate the sacrifices made by the-boy-who-lived and his parents, but at least in times of trouble, things around here are never dull."

"That is a terrible thing to say, Fillius," Minerva scolded without conviction.

"You must admit though, Professor McGonagall," Albus cut in airily, "That two years ago we would not have been spending one of the last free nights of summer moping about in this room, reading and yawning," (Flitwick yawned again at this) "And doing other such mindless things."

"We are not all doing such mindless things, Dumbledore!" She replied shooting him a clear and dangerous look. "We do not all see fit to arrange our Bertie Botts Beans by size, shape and color. Why you bother anyway, I've no idea. You do not even eat those awful candies!"

"Indeed, but one must do something to keep busy, eh?"

Across the table from the pair, Severus Snape rolled his eyes and returned them to the pages of Perfectly Potent and Potentially Poisonous Potions. Sprout laughed, Kettleburn coughed, took a sip from his large, unmarked bottle, and Poppy reached across the table to swipe four of the beans from the green pile. She handed one to Rolanda Hooch, who was sitting to her left.

"Mmm, Mint!" Exclaimed Poppy as Rolanda cursed "Damn, grass again!"

Then it was Minerva's turn to roll her eyes as she turned back to Albus. She opened her mouth to speak but was cut off by a loud and obnoxious screech. A large barn owl flew through the window and landed on the table in front of the headmaster, causing jelly beans to fly in every direction.

A red one landed just in front of Poppy, who examined it and thrust it towards Severus. "Looks like blood," she said with a devilish grin. "Hungry?"

"Sod off," was the potion masters reply, so Poppy ate the candy herself.

"Nope, it was strawberry!" She clarified, just as Hooch cursed a second time. "Dammit! I thought purple would have been grape!"

"What did it turn out to be?" Pomfrey asked, but Rolanda shook her head.

"Hell if I know for sure, but I know it's not good, and it's not grape!"

"Look, Minerva!" Exclaimed Albus upon reading the letter. "I've won!"

"Won what?" Hagrid inquired.

"Two tickets, for me and a friend to go on the next Magical Mystery Tour!"

Minerva was confused. "The what?"

"Oh, Minerva!" Rolanda exclaimed. "Haven't you heard of it? Mum and Dad took me on the tour once, when I was about sixteen. It lasts a week, and it's incredible fun!"

Poppy looked skeptical. "More fun than flying?"

Hooch rolled her eyes. "Nothing is more fun than flying, of course, traveling through the sky the blue jay way, but the tour came damn close!"

"Care to join me, Mineva?"

Half the present staff hid giggles at this invitation and Minerva's face flushed bright red.

"Albus!"

"Ad a friend, Minerva! It says 'you and a friend.' Come now, it will be fun! You need some fun Minerva."

"Why, Minerva is just full of fun," said Snape dryly, and Kettleburn snorted.

"Sure she is!" Kettleburn said, barely containing his laughter. "She's a regular comedienne!"

"Oh, shut it!" She scolded him. "Albus, let's discuss this later, shall we?" She suggested, to which Poppy replied:

"Ooh, later? As in, in private? Eh? Right?"

"Damn!" Cursed Rolanda Hooch. "Sardines!"

Later that evening, Minerva and Albus were relaxing in his office, playing a friendly game of chess.

"Tell me more about this trip, Albus."

"Well, your mother should know plenty about it."

"My mother? You're in check."

"I see that. Yes, your mother. She used to got every April when you were in school."

"That's where she disappeared to? I suppose she told you because…"

"Because I am the Headmaster, and should anything happen to you, she cannot be contacted there unless it is an emergency. No outside contact is permitted during the week, in case someone tries to cheat on the mystery."

"Interesting. And where do we leave from? That is, if I decide to accompany you. As a friend."

"Of course. We will travel to 141 Penny Lane, that's not far from Diagon Alley, and from there the entire group will travel some half a mile or so until we reach the fool on the hill, who will give us further instructions. Check."

"The fool on the hill? What on earth is that? Now you're in check again."

He squinted at the chessmen a minute, trying to figure a way out that would not simply allow her to put him in check again a moment later. With a grin, his pawn took her Queen, placing the small piece in front of the king protectively.

"Ha! Check!"

"The fool on the hill, Albus, remember?"

"Ah, yes, well that is odd, yes. I suppose we will just have to find out. If you're coming."

"Check mate! I win, Albus!"

"Are you going to join me on the mystery tour, Minerva?"

"I suppose, yes."

"Then it is safe to say that I won this round."