Disclaimer: It all belongs to the goddess JKR! Not me! Somehow I doubt JKR has an obsession with the defibrillator, and goes to high school….LOL
A few days later, Harry, Ron, and Hermione walked out of Honeyduke's with less money and more candy. Harry tore open a bag of Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans, and popped one in his mouth.
"Yuck! What IS this?" Harry said, pulling a brownish jellybean out of his mouth.
"Why don't we go try that virtual reality thing? We have a little more than an hour…" Ron suggested, totally ignoring Harry's question.
"I don't know Ron, it doesn't sound like something we should be doing. We're bound to get into trouble." Hermione said, but followed Ron toward the building anyway.
"With my luck, Voldemort will be the man behind the counter!" Hermione laughed, but Ron cringed at the name. The infamous trio walked into the newest edition to Hogsmeade.
"Welcome! I trust your another group of Hogwarts students of to see the muggle world?" said the friendly witch who stood behind the counter.
"Er….yes." Harry said uncertainly. Ron looked nervous, and Harry decided it was because he was afraid it would cost too much.
"How much does it cost?" Ron inquired, confirming Harry's beliefs.
"Normally ten galleons, but today, since I'm new and need customers, it's only four sickles." Ron let out a breath.
"Well guys, want to do it?" Hermione thought it would be great fun to trade with one of her old muggle friends. The slightly more evil Hermione thought it would be even more fun to trade with her original nemesis, from before Draco Malfoy.
Harry and Ron exchanged glances, and replied, "Sure."
"Great!" the witch said. "Where would you like to go? Anyone in particular you'd like to trade with?"
"Could you please hold on a second, while we discuss this?" Harry asked the witch politely.
"Sure, dear." For a brief second, Harry wondered about why the witch had called him "Dear", but quickly dismissed it. Instead, he turned to Ron and Hermione.
"Would you guys mind if we traded places with Dudley and his gang? You could be Piers, Ron…and Hermione could be Julie Johnson, Dudley's new girlfriend…" Harry's voice drifted away as her thought about what he would do to Dudley.
"That'd be great Harry!" Ron said, who had met Dudley before, and thoroughly despised him.
"I think we should be just anyone. A group of three friends, obviously…" Hermione said, pushing away her own desires to screw up her old muggle classmates' lives.
"Okay," Harry quickly agreed, not wanting to get into another accidental fight with one of his best friends. Ron quickly said yes too, for the same reason as Harry, plus another…(a/n: I leave this up to your imagination for now….although I will hint I like R/H stories…*eg*)
The witch behind the counter was eavesdropping, and she heard when they came to mutual agreement. "Ready?"
"Yes." Harry replied, closely echoed by Hermione and Ron.
"We want to be three random muggles…a group of three friends…two boys and a girl…you get the idea…" Hermione talked on and on about it for a few seconds, and the witch cut her off.
"Okay," The witch paused a moment to check her listing of muggles. Her thin, bony fingers swept through the pages, stopping on LD Johnson, Kevin Thomas, and Danielle Koto. "Will these do?"
Not knowing a thing about these muggles, Harry replied, "Yes."
Hermione was about to interrupt, as she knew she did not want to be these particular muggles. Her chance to speak was interrupted by the spell whisking her away into a cloud of green smoke. The last words she heard was, "Pay when you get back. If you get back."
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"Have you got them?"
"Yes, yes Master. They are safe and sound, in the muggle world." A nervous Wormtail fidgeted with his wand as he spoke to the old man, who was sitting comfortably while stroking his snake.
"Good. If they return, you will die. I can assure you that much."
"Yes, yes. They will never return, Lord Voldemort." Wormtail quickly exited the building before Voldemort noticed him shaking. Something had gone horribly wrong with the spell…
A/N: Sorry to kind of leave you hanging…but I got stuck and couldn't think of what to write next…I have lots of ideas, and wrote them all down. Unfortunately, they are all in my locker, and I'm sick today…and I can't seem to remember a single one! grr…I hate it when I can't think! LOL :o(
Anyway…I'd like to thank all my reviewers….(all 6 of 'em…) I realize a lot of stories get more than I do…but since I never got any responses to stories before (under different names…) it made my day! :o) Desert Butterfly, Tinabedina, Hols, Mina, Lotrfan, and Julianna Edwards! You guys are my heroes for the day! :o) :o) (I like smileys…..sorry! LOL)
