Prompt: Slinkies
Characters: Umbridge, Harry, Hermione, Ron, and McGonagall.
Rating: T
Summary: Some people are like slinkies: Not really good for anything but still bring a smile to your face when you push them down the stairs.
Pairing: None
…Where do I come up with these prompts? First blue and now slinkies…There is quite obviously something wrong with my mind…
Disclaimer: I owned Harry Potter! But then the police caught me…
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The Golden Trio (Harry really hated that title) were just minding their business…walking through the halls of Hogwarts…not doing anything even remotely close to what would be considered unnatural or strange…Then came the worst thing imaginable.
The toad.
The toad and her damned cough that was more like a really really REALLY old teacher calling for a class to be quiet. He could see Hermione visibly cringe and Ron's face turn tomato red (It really was a funny color for a face).
Blah blah blah bad, blah blah blah wrong, blah blah blah this, blah blah blah that. Harry thought he felt himself nodding off right there while Umbridge was chewing him out. That is, until a tiny miniscule laugh that only Harry and Hermione could hear escaped from Ron, and Hermione elbowed Harry in the gut (but not too hard).
At the top of the stairs (Behind Umbridge of course) stood McGonagall. She glanced to her left and to her right and looked down at the trio (Harry really did not like that title. I mean, where had it come from anyway?) and put a finger to her lips, signaling to be quiet.
Then she glanced again to her left and her right and behind her then looked back at Umbridge (who was still deep in lecture by the way) and pressed her hands against Umbridge's back as hard as she could. The fat Toad that was Delores Jane Umbridge fell down the stairs and landed with a Thud.
Then McGonagall gave the best quote ever. A quote that Harry had heard before but never had quite understood until now. But this quote, Harry kept in his arsenal until his dying day. And once he was knocking at the Pearly Gates, the first question the guard asked him was what quote was said when a Toad fell down. Harry had immediately known the answer and smiled just thinking about it.
Quite literally the best quote in the world, it became Hogwarts' motto (thanks to McGonagall) and everyone admired it and wished they had a quote just as grand. People quoted the quote everywhere they went, and everybody loved it. There was one man who didn't and he "mysteriously" died the next day. This amazing quote just so happened to be:
Some people are like slinkies: Not really good for anything but still bring a smile to your face when you push them down the stairs.
