Title: The Great Tubing Adventure

Rated: T

Pairing: Oh, geez, I'm not even going to list them all...

Characters: Harry, Ron, Hermione, Voldemort, Luna, Draco, Snape, Blaise, Ginny, Bellatrix, Lucius, Parvati, Cho, Rodolphus, Narcissa

Type: Multi-chapter

A/N: Well, it's been *checks* about 2 years since I last updated Muggle Games, but here I am! As promised, I am writing the author's note for the sequel of one of my most popular fanfics! My writing style has progressed X10, I'd say, as has my sense of humor (I'm very hilarious), but I think you shall enjoy this story nonetheless! I'd started the story about a year ago when I was camping but I can't find that start anywhere...I think it's in one of my really old journals. Anyways, without further ado, the story you've all been waiting for - The Great Tubing Adventure!

Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter or any other recognizable material. :)

Recap: Harry, Ron, Hermione, Voldemort, Parvati, Luna, Draco, Snape, Blaise, Ginny, Bellatrix, Lucius, and Cho all found themselves locked in a room together for 3 days, unable to perform magic or to place physical harm on one another. Their only amusement for all 3 of those days was a box of muggle games, which Ron had received from his father for graduation. By the end, everyone had gone at least slightly crazy and no one was the same. Hermione fell in love with Snape, Harry and Ginny managed to stay together despite confused feelings for Parvati and Blaise (who are both now quite bitter) Draco and Luna got together, Ron and Bellatrix have a strange love/hate relationship that is mostly hate, Lucius still loves his wife, Bellatrix wants to leave Rodolphus, and Harry Potter and Lord Voldemort are best friends/brothers for the rest of their lives. When they had been rescued and were all snuggled in bed together, Harry Potter decided that the best way to relax after a traumatizing experience was to go...camping!

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The bus drove away, leaving the group in a cloud of smoke and dust and nature. All of them hacked up a storm until the dust cleared, and then Harry picked up his bags and stepped forward, getting a good look at the forest the large group now found themselves in the center of.

"Perfect!" Harry exclaimed. "Yes, this is just the forest that Dudley left me in for a week. We'll be able to survive here just fine if you all listen to every word I say!"

"And if you don't then you will most surely die," replied Lord Voldemort, stepping forward to examine the forest with Harry.

It had been only a few days since the terrifying time that had been spent holed up in that classroom, and everybody here was definitely ready for a vacation. Along with all of our favorite characters, Rodolphus, Narcissa, Crabbe and Goyle, who had both been on missions for the previous story, were here to vacation with their loved ones. Of course, they found it quite strange, the bond these people all had together, not to mention how...different they were now, after their adventure, but they were trying to accept the new friends and try to forget the old ones. They weren't so bad, really - just a little insane, and they all held grudges on certain others and were very confused and kind of lost and unsure of how to live life in the real world and they cringed whenever a door was shut and charmed themselves to be unable to speak in their sleep and they were very careful to not take drinks from anyone but themselves, and then they guarded those drinks carefully, and they also hoarded food like squirrels, but other than that they were perfectly normal people.

"Alright, let's get moving!" Harry announced, turning to look at all of his friends with a happy grin before he turned once again and headed off into the deep, dark forest somewhere in the Irish countryside. He was quickly followed by everybody behind him. Snape and Hermione held hands. Ginny ran ahead to take Harry's hand, cutting off Voldemort from Harry's right side. He glared at her but knew he couldn't do anything to hurt his best friend's mate. Besides, he wouldn't be answering to only Harry, he figured, when he noticed the Zabini boy watching on angrily as Harry leaned over to kiss Ginny's pale cheek. He looked murderous and Voldemort decided he'd really have to watch his brothers back this weekend.

Draco was trying very hard to focus on Luna, hanging a bit back from the group so they could chat quietly, but Crabbe and Goyle were making it very difficult, asking their friend to hurry up to the group or they'd get left behind every other minute. In front of them, Lucius and Narcissa were walking close together, discussing baby names for the child that wouldn't be born for another seven months. To the right of them was Rodolphus gloating away about his various victories, his arm thrown around his wife, who looked like she'd rather be tearing out her own eyes than anything. Ron stood off to the side a ways, moping, as he still had no friends. He wasn't even sure why he came along, or why he was even invited. Probably to be a target.

Parvati and Cho stood off to the side, also confused about why they'd been invited along on this trip. Harry was sure about his feelings for Ginny and so Parvati knew she would never get him, and Cho knew she was probably there so they would all have something pretty to look at in these dark, dreary woods. But nevertheless, no one seemed to really want to have anything to do with them, so they decided to stick together. Which was more than Blaise or Ron could say, because there was no way in hell either of them would be spending any voluntary time together.

After walking on for nearly a half an hour, the sound of rushing water could be heard from somewhere a bit off in the distance.

"We're almost there!" Harry exclaimed and he picked up the pace a little bit. Ginny had to run to keep up with his long strides and Voldemort was glad he could use this excuse to accidentally nudge Ginny out of the way so he could take Harry's hand and they could run up to the river just ahead, laughing as merrily as two boys had ever been known to do.

"We're here!" Harry cried as they broke into a small clearing, and everyone "ooh!"'d and "aah!"'d to their hearts content as they marveled at the stunning scenery surrounding them. Right before them, across the clearing, was a river, several feet wide, rushing wildly past them. They were surrounded on all sides by trees and foliage and flowers and Harry hoped there were myriads of small animals he could cuddle with along the way.

"Harry, it's so beautiful!" Hermione said, holding Snape's hand tighter. "I could never have imagined coming to a place like this for vacation. It's wonderful."

"I know," Harry replied. "I always make the best decisions, don't I?"

"Of course you do, Harry, m'boy," Voldemort replied, patting the scruffy head of his best friend. "Now, why don't we pitch our tent and start a fire and make some campfire food like real pals?"

"That's the best idea I've heard all day, best friend," Harry replied eagerly, a large grin plastered across his face.

Ron watched on sadly. But I'm his best friend! He wanted to shout.

It was a big mess, but with a bit of teamwork they managed to pitch an enormous muggle tent. After their 3 days without magic, they found that doing things the muggle way really wasn't too bad; The four who hadn't been trapped with them did not understand this strange fascination the group now had with muggles but they decided to endure it, at least for the weekend. At least they'd been allowed to bring their wands along. They'd managed to talk Harry out of the terrible idea of leaving them behind.

When the tent was up they started a fire (with magic, after there had been no fire with Harry trying with two sticks for nearly an hour) and crowded around, roasting food that didn't really need to be roasted and playing "What's in your milk," just like old times.

They all curled up tightly together in bed that night (including the four that hadn't been with them in the room for three days, who found this to be very strange, but they went along with it anyways), getting ready to go tubing the very next morning.

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Chapter 1 is complete! Let's see how this goes. :)