Different plans
Chapter 36-Hell
A/N: To everyone who is confused: Max and Ron asked Lily if she can send Ray(or Harry to them) a howler. Because she didn't know what she was doing she did it. The result was that Ray tried to kill himself but Tom and Hermione saved him. But due to the fact that he was wetter than wet, he got pneumonia(sorry I didn't mention that in the last chapter). To get revenge Hermione and Ginny went to number 4 Privet Drive and asked Vernon Dursley if he could send a howler to his nephew, Maximilian (the girls helped Vernon a bit by making the howler). Afterwards they went to the Burrow and made Molly Weasley believe that Ron and Max knew where the missing students are. So she also wrote a howler. This is the cause of the boys visit to the headmistress' office.
"WHAT WHERE YOU THINKING BY DOING SOMETHING SO FOOLISH? DON'T YOU HAVE BETTER THINGS TO DO THAN TRY TO KILL YOUR BROTHER, POTTER? AND YOU, WEASLEY, SHOULDN'T HAVE HELPED HIM! AND NOW TELL ME WHERE THE MISSING STUDENTS ARE!"
"WE DON'T FUCKING KNOW!" Maximilian shouted.
"How dare you shout at you Professor and swear in front of me," James said harshly as he entered the headmistress' office. "And you, Ronald, aren't any better than him."
"D-dad," Max whispered anxious as he turned to face his father. "What are you doing here?"
"Minerva called me," the man answered. "And you will be punished, as well as Ronald."
"How do you want to punish them?" the headmistress asked.
"I spoke with Molly," James said. "And we both think they should take a little holiday to calm down."
"Where?"
"At Maximilian's aunt and uncle," Potter Sr. smiled. "They will teach them to behave."
Day 1
"Potter, show your friend the way to your room," Vernon said. "And afterwards you can start your work."
"But this is meant to be a holiday!" Ron argued. "Why should we do work?"
"Rule # 1, never argue with me! Potter, what is the second rule?"
"Do as your are told," Max muttered.
"I couldn't hear you!" Vernon shouted into his face.
"Do as you are told," Maximilian said loudly, looking at his feet.
"This is a waste of time," Ron whined as he watered the plants.
"DAAAAAAAAADDY!" Dudley yelled. "Freak said that the work you gave them is a waste of time!"
"Which one did?" Max's uncle asked.
"Ron did, Uncle Vernon," Maximilian replied without looking up from painting the gate.
"Come here, boy!"
"Traitor," Ronald whispered as he stepped into the house.
"Why did you tell him?"
"Ron, in this house you do everything that you can to stay out of trouble," Max told his friend. "If you don't, then there is trouble. Believe me, I've spent some time here and it was horrible. And whatever you do, never criticize the work you are told to do or swear at Dudley."
"But he is a-"
"Shut up! We aren't at Hogwarts anymore. You don't just get detention here, you get spanked or, worse, whipped!"
"This is like hell," Ronald complained.
"It isn't like hell, it is hell," Max corrected.
Day 2
"Who spilled the milk?"
"P - Dudley did," Ron said.
"I never!" the little whale shouted.
"Duddikins doesn't spill his milk," Petunia said.
"I did," Max mumbled without thinking.
"What did you say?" Vernon asked.
"I did," the boy repeated, this time louder.
"Come here, boy," his uncle said. "You do know what's happening if you don't say it fast enough?"
"I get slapped," Max said, swallowing hard.
"Why did you say that you did it?" Ron asked, beginning to wash the dishes. "Pi-"
"Don't call him that," Max interrupted.
"Fine. Dudley pushed you. He did it."
"Never say that Dudley did anything wrong," Potter simply said, washing the kitchen floor. "Because if you do, you get in more trouble."
Day 3
"Which one of you burned the bacon?"
"I did," Ron said, grimacing.
"Ah, you are starting to learn," Vernon smirked, slapping the boy.
"How many days left?" Ron asked his friend, staring at the ceiling.
"Four," Maximilian replied, yawning.
"I'm glad when we are back at Hogwarts."
"Me too, me too..."
Day 4
"I have enough of this!" Ron yelled, throwing the paintbrush with which he had painted the shed down.
"What did you say?" Petunia asked stiffly.
"N-nothing," the boy stuttered.
"Maximilian?"
"He said that he's got enough of it," Max told his aunt.
"Freak, come here!"
"No!"
"Petunia told you to come here!" Vernon bellowed, entering the garden. "So do what you are told!"
"I hate you!" Ron shouted, still having after effects from the spanking.
"What the fuck could I do against it?" Max shouted back.
"You could've shut your mouth!"
"I've been longer here than you," Potter said, "I've been through the same as you and now shut your mouth or we both get in trouble!"
Day 5
"When is this having an end?" Ronald whined, still having a sore back from yesterday.
"Two days," Max replied.
Suddenly the back door opened and out came Dudley, licking a lolly.
"Hahaha!" he said, beginning to dance in circles around his cousin and his cousin's friend. "You've got work to do and I haven't!"
"Why you little," Ron said, getting his wand out, reading to cast a spell.
"MUUUUUUUMMY! DAAAAAADDY!" Dudley whined. "Freak's got his wand out!"
"No!" Max yelled, jumping upon his friend.
"Who has?" Vernon shouted as he came into the back yard. At that moment he saw Max getting up from the floor, a wand in his hands.
"Get in the house now!" Dursley Sr. hissed angrily, shoving his nephew towards the door.
"Sorry, mate," Ronald whispered as Max entered their bedroom. "I should have controlled my temper. Did you get spanked?"
"Whipped is more of right word, I guess," Maximilian said, grimacing with pain as he sat down on the bed.
"I try to do better from now on," his friend promised.
"Don't think about it," Max said. "I've made the same mistakes."
Day 6
"Tomorrow is the last day," Max yawned as he got up.
"When are you coming down to make breakfast?" Vernon bellowed from downstairs.
"One minute!" Ron replied, getting dressed.
"So," Uncle Vernon said once everyone sat at the table, eating there breakfast. He paused briefly before he continued, looking at the boys who wolfed down their bacon and scrambled eggs as fast as they could. "Your father, Potter, will come tomorrow and get you at three o'clock. If you haven't done every chore on your list, you're staying an extra day and so on and so on until you did it."
"B-but that could take weeks!" Ron complained.
"Of course, Uncle Vernon," Max said hastily, trying not to let them hear what his friend had said.
Day 7
Chores for Potter:
1. Clean the living room.
2. Wash the dishes
3. Clean the windows
4. Make cookies (don't forget to wash up afterwards!"
Chores for Weesley:
1. Clean the entrance hall
2. Wash the kitchen floor
3. Pack your things
4. Make tea/coffee and set the table in the living room for seven people
"You wrote my name wrong," Ronald said after he had read his list.
"What did I do wrong?"
"N-nothing," the boy said meekly.
"Good. Now get to work or you'll still be here tomorrow!"
At three o'clock...
"Thank god you did all the chores!" Petunia said.
"He's here," Vernon interrupted. "Potter, open the door."
"Max, how was your holiday?" James greeted as he entered the house.
"Nice," his son replied.
"Of course it was," Ron snorted behind everyone's back.
"Ronald, would you like to add something?" Potter Sr. asked the boy, glaring at him.
"No," he said, looking down. "Nothing."