Chapter Seven
Dr. Brad
Harry moved his trolley in front of the barrier between platforms 9 and 10.
"You're not going to run into that are you?" said Nagini in a worried voice.Harry started running toward the barrier.
"Okay Harry, joke's over. Harry? Harry! Ahh!"
Harry went through the barrier and came out on the other side.
"Oh." said Nagini. "Silly me. I knew about that."
"Yeah right." said Harry as he stuffed Nagini in his trunk.
Just then Ron walked up, "Hi Harry!" he said. "Your trunk is really hissing!"
"Well it umm... didn't get to bed early enough last night." said Harry.
"First your bag, now your trunk... Hey, hold on. Why do you have two trunks?"
"I'm... taking extra classes this year."
Ron laughed. "Don't be silly Harry. You and I both know that the homework would pile up faster than even Hermione would be able to help you with. It took me until half way through summer holiday to just finish all my homework from last year!"
"Actually, Hermione put a perpetual duplication spell on your homework so that it would take you months to finish it."
Ron gasped. "What! That back stabbing turkey sandwich! Why would she do that?"
"Remember that prank that you pulled on her last Halloween?"
"Ah, say no more."
Dr. Brad was swimming in the hospital pool when his secretary, Diana came to tell him that his 5 O' clock meeting had been canceled.
"Oh darn." said Dr. Brad. "I was looking forward to that."
"We all were." said Diana.
"Oh well. I guess that I'll have to marry someone else, but who?"
"Well." said Diana. "You could always marry m-"
"-Margaret from accounting! Brilliant! I shall propose at once!"
Diana sighed. Secretly she had hoped that he would pick her. That's why she had called his other fiancé and told her that he was through with her.
"Ron, what are you reading?" asked Hermione as she Ron and Harry took their seats.
"Oh, just a soap opera novel." answered Ron.
"What did you say that you were reading?" asked Harry.
"Umm... Soap goes to the opera. It's my favorite book. My mum used to read it to me before bed."
"Yeah." said Fred. "Just last night as a matter of fact."
"It's a muggle children's book." explained George.
"Oh!" said Harry an understanding voice.
"I didn't know that hospitals had pools." said Nagini who was reading it over Ron's shoulder. Ron was oblivious.
"Hey Ron," said George, "what's that hissing thing on your shoulder?"
"Oh that's just Harry's trunk." said Ron.
"Must be the new 'snake skin' type." said Fred.
"So Fred," began Harry as he grabbed Nagini and shoved her back into her trunk, "what have you and George been working on over the summer?"
"It's a secret Harry," said Fred.
"But you'll find out real soon," said George.
"You're gonna love it!"
"Our best item yet!"
"It will sell to all age groups!"
"All genders!"
"All walks of life!"
"WHAT?! PLEASE TELL ME! I MUST KNOW!!!" shouted Nagini.
Ron gasped. "They killed Margaret!!"
"In Soap goes to the opera?" asked Harry. "I thought that was a children's book."
"Not now Harry! I must find out how Dr. Brad takes it! (gasp) I bet Diana did it!"
"Wait, who is the soap?" asked Harry. "Is it Dr. Brad?"
After several long uneventful hours on the Hogwarts express, (that is, if you don't include the time that Nagini tried to strangle Fred and George to find out what they are making) they finally arrived at Hogwarts.
