A/N: Hi, everybody. First – short chapter. Very short. But important. This is, regretfully, all we're going to see of Doofy until the end of the year, but it'll be all the more funny if you don't see what he's doing til then. Also, I've been thinking that with seven (and possibly eight) Fanfictions, I might run out of characters if I do six every chapter. Just to be on the safe side, I'm cutting that down to three. I mean, I don't think anyone cares that much... it's just FYI. Now read and review! And don't forget to guess at the animal agent featured this year! Au revoir!
... or Irving or Justin Finch-Fletchly or Pinky the Chihuahua or...
"Well, well, well, Carrie the Cephalopod!"
Doctor Doofenshmirtz stood on the shores of Hogwarts Lake, but at a very safe distance from his foe's tentacles.
"It's been a year, hasn't it?" Doofenshmirtz asked. "First, I would like to thank you again for letting me go. That... that was very nice. I was surprised. Really – I was."
The large pink squid glared at him from the water.
"Would... would you let me go again? If I wanted to cross the lake?"
The giant squid's look was answer enough.
"No? Please? Pretty please, Carrie the Cephalopod?" Doof begged, clasping his hands together beseechingly.
This time, Doofenshmirtz was doused by a huge blast of water that Carrie squirted at him from the lake.
"Oh, come on!" Doofenshmirtz said angrily, shaking his dripping hands. "That was not very nice, Carrie the Cephalopod! All I want to do is cross this moat, enter the castle, and take it over for my new hideout!
"I mean, at least for a year. Is that so bad? Hmm, Carrie the Cephalopod? Is that really so bad?"
"Fine!" Doofenshmirtz answered himself, as the squid prepared to squirt more water at him. "Well, in case you've forgotten, I don't even need your help! I'll just use the tunnel that I built last year! Ha ha! See you on the other side, Carrie the Cephalopod!"
The mad scientist cackled with glee, dashing into a tunnel dug in the side of a hill.
The passageway was dark and damp from the lake above it. Doofenshimrtz had brought a flashlight, but as he continued along, the flashlight grew dimmer and dimmer, until it just stopped working altogether.
"Must be halfway across," Doofenshmirtz muttered to himself, shaking and hitting the flashlight. "All that dratted hocus-pocus in the air..."
"WHAA!"
Doofenshmirtz was suddenly thrown to the side of the tunnel, hitting one of the walls. Standing up shakily, he braced himself against the tunnel.
"Who's there?" he asked.
Another large thump from above, which sent him sprawling on the ground, was the response.
"Carrie the Cephalopod? Are you trying to break the tunnel open from up there?"
THUMP.
With this shaking, Doofenshmirtz felt a few pieces of earth fall from the tunnel ceiling. He also heard something next to the tunnel crashing.
"What? Is there another tunnel next to mine?"
Doofenshmirtz couldn't investigate, though, because Carrie thumped on the tunnel again.
Suddenly, and quite surprisingly, the floor of the tunnel caved in. Doofenshmirtz felt himself falling... falling... falling...
"AAAAAHHH !"
Thump. And that time, it wasn't Carrie attacking the tunnel.
Doofenshmirtz sat up, clutching his head.
"Wow - Okay, that hurt. I must have built the tunnel over some large, hollow cavity..."
His eyes nearly popped out just then, as he saw exactly what he'd fallen into.
"Oh, baby! Now this is more like it!"