For the One A Week Competition word count 419
"Look what I have!" Albus held up a plastic stick. "Muggles attach their phones to it to take pictures. They call it a selfie stick. Grandpa Weasley helped me make a version that works with a regular camera. We can take pictures all over Hogwarts."
"Cool!" said Scorpius. "Let's test it out!" Albus and Scorpius took a pic.
"A picture taken by yourself of yourself is called a selfie," Albus explained to Scorpius, who had very little experience with Muggle things.
"There's a Quidditch match today. Let's take selfies there!" exclaimed Scorpius.
The boys headed over to the game. It was Gryffindor playing Slytherin, and the teams were battling hard. Albus and Scorpius took lots of selfies at the game, including some with Albus's cousin Rose in the background (which Scorpius was particularly proud of.) After Slytherin won the match, they took a selfie next to the scoreboard.
"Let's get more selfies," said Scorpius, and off the boys went.
They got selfies in the forest, in the greenhouse, and in the astronomy tower. They got selfies with all sorts of creatures, including the giant squid as it swam by the window in the Slytherin common room.
The boys brought the selfie stick to Hogsmeade and took selfies in Honeydukes, Zonko's, the Three Broomsticks, and even at the Shrieking Shack.
Back at Hogwarts, Albus and Scorpius developed their pictures. They were making all sorts of faces in all sorts of locations and they laughed a lot at the memories they made.
"What should we do with these?" asked Albus.
"I have an idea," answered Scorpius, and he strung up the pictures all around their beds.
"That looks so cool!" said Albus.
But what happened the next morning was not so cool.
Albus and Scorpius woke up to find their selfies defaced. Someone drew moustaches and other things all over. Albus and Scorpius went to breakfast and couldn't believe their eyes.
Rose and Hugo were walking around with their OWN selfie sticks.
"Excuse me," said Albus. "What's this?"
"Grandpa Weasley gave us a selfie stick too!" said Hugo.
"And do you know anything about moustaches on our selfies?" asked Scorpius.
"What…no…what do you mean…" stuttered Hugo. "Ok, fine, it was me."
That night, Albus and Scorpius came up with a plan. And the next morning, Rose and Hugo woke up to their own mustachioed selfies strung across their beds. And the war continued until selfie sticks were no longer a trend.
