#Drama – 200 words – Urgh! This is the absolute worst thing possible to happen. EVER! | Rating: K+ | Genre: Humour
Hannah, Susan, Justin and Smith (he was always Smith) watched Ernie pace up and down, one wary eye on him and another on a possible escape route in case things got too heated. Which yes, had happened before. Far too many times.
"This! This just proves me right! He's all for the attention!" Ernie declared, shaking a newspaper about. "But this time he's gone too far. Struck below the belt. I mean-"
Justin hesitantly plucked the newspaper from Ernie's clenched fist and smoothed it out so he could read it.
"I'm pretty sure this isn't the kind of attention anyone wants. Let alone Harry," Justin told his friend after perusing the front page.
"Any attention is good attention."
"Oh, for Merlin's sake!" Susan exclaimed, raising her arms in exasperation.
"Hold on, Bones, I think Ernie is on to something," Smith told her.
"Of course, you do," she muttered but was ignored.
"This is Potter, we're talking about," he continued. "An attention hound. Everyone knows it."
"Exactly!" Ernie said in triumph.
"But it says he's gone bonkers!" Justin protested. "There's no good way to spin that!"
"That's what he wants you to think," Ernie replied smugly.
"Oh, brother," Susan muttered despairingly.
