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Otter
I have a riddle for you: What do you get when you take several purebloods--one of them your boyfriend--and put them all in a Muggle house run by parents who aren't used to having more than two magical teenagers around?
Answer: Laughter, and lots of it.
Teri had us all over to her house after Draco got back from his mum's funeral because she has the biggest backyard and her dad is a gourmet chef. And since she'd already seen all of her and Colin's Muggle friends at the funeral and hadn't had much of a chance to see the DA at a place that was neither infested with Carrows nor depressing, me, Harry, Ron, and all of her friends from the DA went over to her house for dinner.
The first thing Ron, Ginny, Draco, Millicent, Luna, Neville and Theo did when we got there was stare at the lamp in the living room.
"What is it?"
"It's a lamp, duh!"
"Well, yeah, but how does it work?"
"Magic?"
"It's Muggle, genius."
When Mr. Greengrass came in, he was confused at first. Then, when he heard what they were all saying about the lamp, he laughed.
"It runs on electricity," he said. They all whirled around and stared at him. "If you want, I can explain it to you later on."
Introductions followed, and then we all went into the kitchen. Once again, all the purebloods stopped dead in their tracks when they saw the latest miracle of Muggle technology: the fridge.
"Whoa..."
"What is it?"
"It's a fridge," Mr. Greengrass said, laughing again. "It keeps food cold."
Theo opened the door. "Whoa...it lights up!"
Harry and I laughed along with Teri and her parents as Ron poked the light bulb, Draco played with the ice maker and tried to figure out where all the ice came from, and the rest wondered how the food stayed cold without magic.
"Don't you guys want to go get something to eat?" Teri said after a minute or two.
They agreed, somewhat reluctantly, and we all went outside. Dinner was great--Teri's dad used this special marinade with the chicken so it was AMAZING--and we sat outside talking for a while. We talked about Colin, remembering things he did that made us laugh, and we all agreed that if he could have seen it, he would've loved the prank Fred and George pulled at his funeral.
It was dark when the lightning started, so we all sat outside watching it until it started raining. It was Luna who said what we were all thinking:
"It's almost like they're here, just watching the lightning with us."
Me Against the World
Stag
I don't think Draco will be going back to his house anytime soon.
He went to get his stuff today--mostly just clothes, so he wouldn't have to become a nudist, he said. Even though several Aurors went along to make sure there weren't any lethal surprises lurking in the closets or anywhere else, he asked me, Ron, Theo and the twins to go along, too. Moral support, I guess.
His dad hadn't set up any enchantments to keep him out, which was good. We got into the house easily enough, but when we got inside, Draco just stopped in the entryway, looking around. I thought he was looking for enchantments at first, but then one of the Aurors told him that there weren't any he could find.
He kept staring into the parlor.
I followed his gaze, and I knew it wasn't any kind of charm that kept him there. Looking into the parlor, I could almost see Bellabitch threatening Hermione's life, and I knew that's what Draco saw, too. The chandelier might have been repaired, but the memories stayed the same.
"Don't you need your stuff?" one of the Aurors said. Draco shook his head, nodded, then ran up the stairs two at a time. The rest of us followed.
It didn't take long for him to pack; he just threw his clothes and a few other things into his school trunk, slammed it shut, and tapped it with his wand to make it lighter.
We got out of there as fast as we could.
