AN: This one fought me all the way. Here's a very short addition to this story. Hope you enjoy!
Harry Potter all belongs to JK. She can keep it too.
"I just cannot believe the nerve of some people! How could they think that the Society for the Promotion of Elfish Welfare could possibly be called SPEW? It's clearly S.P.E.W!" ranted Hermione, obviously in a tizzy.
"Err, Hermione, haven't you considered that they are calling it SPEW because nobody spells out acronyms that make a word or something pronounceable?" provided Harry.
"What do you mean?"
"Well, there's NATO. No one calls that N.A.T.O, do they? There's also SCUBA, which isn't S.C.U.B.A. There is the B.B.C, but that no one wants to try to turn that into a word. Maybe you shouldn't make an acronym that makes a word with negative things connected to it?" suggested Harry.
"But that's the best name I could come up with!" exclaimed Hermione.
"What was the worst name you came up with?" Harry asked, horrified.
"Teaching Idiots how to Treat Beings like Our Outstanding Beautiful Selves." Hermione said quietly.
"TITBOOBS! Ahahahaha! How did you not notice that immediately!? I mean, honestly, TITBOOBS?" mocked Harry.
"I was focused on the message, not what it spelled!" said an embarrassed Hermione. "Fine, if you're so clever, what would you name it then?" she challenged.
"Why not name it 'Elfish Rights Association'? Or 'Elfish Civil Rights Group'? Or the much simpler 'Elfish Rights Group'?" Harry asked reasonably.
"Oh…I hadn't thought of that."
"Clearly. I don't know how it's possible someone as intelligent as you can be so stupid in this area. Honestly, did you really think anyone would call it S.P.E.W? You made it spell a word! It's even better than something like PETA or SCUBA, which are just letters that can be said as a word, because it's an actual word."
"I know Harry, you don't have to keep rubbing it in."
"Wait a second, why would we use Elfish? How did Elfish become the proper form? Elvish sounds infinitely better. As if your acronym wasn't confusing enough, someone might think you meant an L-fish, some bizarre sea creature that is formed like the letter L." Harry ranted.
"I hardly see how that's relevant, Har-" Hermione tried to say, but Harry was on a roll.
"So, that would make the new name the 'Elvish Rights Group.' Wait, no, it wouldn't, because 'Elvish Rights Group goes from 'E R G' to 'ERG' and that isn't pretty. Maybe the 'Elvish Civil Rights Group' isn't too bad. Though, I think "The Society for the Promotion of Elvish Civil Rights" sounds very prestigious and proper. SPEC-R? Pronounceable after a fashion, but not related to any negative words or ideas. How does that sound to you, Hermione? Hermione? Where did you go? Hermione?" Harry called as he walked away, searching for where his friend could have disappeared to.
Meanwhile, Hermione hurried from the scene, eager to stop being so thoroughly embarrassed by Harry because she couldn't come up with a better name than SPEW. "Wait, no, now I'm doing it! Bloody hell, Harry! S.P.E.W! THERE!"
"Are you alright, Hermione?" asked a very confused Ron. He was actually working on his homework for once, when Hermione barges in, muttering under her breath before randomly shouting. He was honestly a bit concerned for her.
"Fine, Ron. Harry just went all mental abou and got me all worked up about it. No big deal."
"Wait… Harry went mental about SPEW-"
"S.P.E.W, Ronald"
"Right, SPEW, and he got you all worked up about it?"
"Congratulations Ronald, you got it."
"Huh… isn't that supposed to be the opposite of what happens? You're supposed to drive us mental-"
"Say one more word, Ronald Bilius Weasley, and I will make it my mission to drive you to a level of crazy so far beyond the rest of us that you think that Dumbledore is the classiest and snappiest dresser that you have ever seen." Hermione said in a very quiet voice.
"Yes, Hermione."
As Hermione left the room, Ron sat back and thought to himself. He came to the conclusion that, in his own words, "Hermione was scary sometimes. Brilliant, but scary."
AN: Oh, and the acronyms are spaced out without their normal periods in between them because I've seen Fanfic do terrible things to stories that attempt to leave the periods in. People talking about their O. and N.E tests instead of their OWLS and NEWTS. Spacing it out made it simpler, in my mind, to differentiate between saying it as a whole and pronouncing the individual letters.
EDIT: Aaaaaaaaaand it did terrible things with my attempt to leave the periods out. Stupid website. Sorry for any confusion this caused.
