Once again, thanks for the positive reviews! And as you could guess, here's the next part! It took me longer then expected because I was waiting for my new computer to arrive! Yeay, I got a new one, and if I may say so, it's the cutest computer that anyone ever had! But enough about my new, cuddly cute computer…

O yea, for those of you that send me reviews for the previous two chapters, check out the end of chapter two, because I replied to some of them there!

Enjoy the third chapter! :)







Neville took a little box out of his bag.
"What's that?", Colin asked next to him.
Neville opened the box and showed Colin.
"It's a com-pu-ter game.", Neville said clearly, over-pronouncing every syllable. "The shopkeeper explained to me that you have to make lines with different-shaped cubes and stuff."
"Oh, you bought a tetris game then?", Colin replied quickly.
"Hey! How do you know that?", Neville asked amazed.
"Well, the game's a classic!", Colin said excited. "It's very addictive."
Suddenly Hermione hung over Neville's chair.
"What did you buy Neville?", she asked bossy.
"He bought a computer game!", Colin answered.
"Neville!", Hermione shouted. "Don't you remember that electronic machines don't work in Hogwarts? It's practically useless! If you would have read "Hogwarts: a history", you would have remembered! Honestly, don't you know anything?"
Neville got very red.
"I must have forgotten it…", Neville said shyly.
Hermione sighed deeply and dropped herself back on her bench.
"Well, it's not such a shame.", Colin tried to cheer Neville up. "You can still play the game here! Let me show you!"
Colin showed Neville how the game was played and after watching Colin make about a hundred lines, Neville tried too, but he was as bad at it as he was at everything else.
"Common Neville!", Colin said after a couple of minutes. "I'm sure you can make it to five lines! Just try again!"
In the back, Harry sat next to the window. Ginny was on the other window, with Hermione next to her.
"Seven… Eight…", Ginny counted slowly, looking out the window.
"Six… Blue one… Black one… Seven…", Harry was counting on his side.
"What are you two doing?", Ron asked annoyed.
"Counting red cars!", Ginny answered cheerfully. "Nine!"
"Ginny, it's unfair! I can only count parked cars on my… Eight! Side. You can also count the cars coming from the other direction!", Harry said upset.
"Ten, eleven!"
The bus was driving over some cascades now and the bus shook so hard Hermione's voice trembled.
"Ron, are you feeling all right? I haven't seen you this pale ever since you broke your leg in our third year!"
Ron groaned and sat a bit forward, with his arms against his stomach.
"Please, don't make me talk… I feel so sick…"
"Ron, are you more often bus sick or car sick?"
He shook his head.
"But then again, you've probably never taken the bus before, have you?"
Hermione didn't wait for Ron to reply and immediately tapped professor Snape on the shoulder.
"What is it now, miss Granger?", he grunted.
"Ron's bus sick, sir!"
"Tell him I feel sorry.", Snape replied sarcastically.
"But professor! Can't you do something?"
"Like what? Wave my wand and make Ron's boo boo disappear?"
"Eeuhm… Yes! As long as it works, it's fine!"
Snape sighed.
"As you may or may not know miss Granger, stomach ache can't be helped by wand-waving alone. It can be helped by potions making, and I do not mark any cauldrons in here!"
"We can't just do nothing till we arrive in London tomorrow afternoon!", Hermione said desperate. "You can't just do nothing! You're a Hogwarts professor!"
"Yes, but it's not my fault we're on this bus!", he snapped.
"It's not Ron's fault either!", Hermione snapped back.
"Well, whose fault is it then, miss Granger?"
"Twenty five!", Ginny suddenly screamed excited, making the entire bus look to see what was going on.
"Miss Weasley!", Snape hissed angrily. "Be quiet, will you? We don't want to draw the muggles' attention, now do we?"
Ginny blushed and sat down quietly in her corner of the bus. She continued counting, but only on her fingers.
"Well, it's not Ron's fault, but Ginny's and Colin's!", Hermione continued quietly. "You should help Ron!"
"Colin's fault?", Snape asked confused. "I thought he was just waiting for Potter!"
Hermione shut her mouth. Telling Snape about Colin's plan wasn't going to help anyone.
"Never mind.", Hermione sighed and she turned back to Ron. "Ron, I'm going to ask the bus driver for an aspirine."
Without waiting for Ron to respond to that, Hermione stood up and walked down the bus isle. Suddenly the bus driver slowed down so hard, Hermione would have flown out of the front window if she hadn't held on tightly to the chairs.
"Excuse me sir.", Hermione started politely. "Have you got an aspirin or something else against bus illness?"
"Are you sick?", the bus driver asked loudly and sounding angry again.
"Eeuhm, no, not me, but my friend. Have you got anything?"
"Of course not! I'm a bus driver, not a doctor!", he told her brutally. "If he vomits, you'll clean the mess!"
Hermione looked shocked because of the way he spoke to her and she returned to her seat without saying another word to the man.
"Sorry Ron, he didn't have anything. Please don't vomit."
"I can't promise anything…", Ron said dryly, still looking greenish.
"Ginny, I'm not playing anymore! I just can't win this game! All the cars are on your side of the road!", Harry said.
"Aw… But Harry!"
"No!", Harry quickly said. "Not with me! Find someone else!"
Ginny sighed disappointed, but then quickly turned to Hermione, who was sitting next to Harry.
"Hermione, do you…"
"No! I'm not counting cars! I haven't done that ever since I were five and I'm not going to start again now!"
Ginny then turned to Ron, who was sitting next to her.
"Ron, will you…"
"Ginny, he's ill!", Harry interrupted her. "He can't play games now!"
"Aw… But Ron!", Ginny urged while pulling Ron's sleeve and shaking him a bit. Suddenly Ron rose up and walked down the isle, his hand against his mouth.
"STOP THE BUS!!!", Harry and Hermione immediately shouted.
The bus driver immediately put his foot on the brakes and opened the door. Ron jumped outside and vomited there.
Harry and Hermione quickly ran after him and Snape stood up as well, against his will though.
"Are you ok, Ron?", Hermione asked carefully.
"Better.", Ron replied miserably. "At least the ice cream is no longer bothering me…"
Hermione and Harry sighed relieved when Ron smiled weakly at them.
"Ten points from Gryffindor!"
The kids turned around and saw Snape coming out of the bus.
"But professor Snape! It's not Ron's fault!", Harry said upset.
"We're trying to keep a low profile here! At least I am!", Snape said angrily. "So far all you've done has drawn the attention of the muggles!"
The bus driver came outside as well now.
"Are you planning on staying outside or what? I'm leaving again!", the mad bus driver roared.
"No, we're coming.", Snape said coldly.
"If this happens again, he'll have to get of the bus!", the bus driver added.
"Yes, and he will then too…", Snape said looking diabolically at Ron, who gulped.
They quickly got on the bus again and retook their seats.
"Are you alright, Ron?", Ginny asked carefully when the bus was driving again.
"This is all your fault!", Ron began again. "With your bloody games and your bloody ice creams!"
"I'm sorry…", Ginny quietly apologised.
"You should be!", Ron went on. "At times like these I wish I would get adopted!"
"I wish that all the time…", Harry sighed dreaming.
Everybody looked weirdly at Harry, who didn't notice a thing.
"Well, the important thing is that Ron's not feeling sick anymore!", Hermione tried to raise everybody's spirits. "And it's getting late. We should try to get some sleep."
"I'm with you on that one!", Colin said turning around. "How about you, Neville?"
"I still want to play a bit longer…", Neville said calmly, not looking up from his Tetris game. "I once already mad seven lines!"
"Well done, Neville.", Harry congratulated him laughing.
"Yes, you're breaking records here!", Ginny joked.
Neville didn't hear it though, he was too caught up in his game.
Colin rolled up his jacket and put it against the window so he could use it as a pillow. Harry, who was sitting behind Colin did the same thing. Hermione just sat up straight, her chin against her chest and her eyes closed. Ron and Ginny were shoulder to shoulder and tried to get some sleep too. Snape looked uninterested at the bunch of students grouping together to catch their night rest. He turned around again and continued watching outside. On the other side of the isle, next to him, Neville kept on playing. The lights in the bus went out and it got very quiet. They drove on for hours. Colin had been right, the game was very addictive, because Neville didn't stop until he got ninety lines, which took him hours.
"Eeuhm, professor, aren't you going to get some sleep too?", Neville yawned tired.
Snape looked at Neville as if he were insane.
"And give you brats the chance to go into mischief? Of course not!"
"You're not going to sleep then?", Neville gazed amazed. "But we'll be sleeping too! We can't do anything wrong if we're asleep, now can we?"
"I can't be sure of that.", Snape said coldly. "Now sleep!"
Neville wasn't going to argue with him and lay back and closed his eyes. Snape sniffed annoyed and kept looking outside.
It was still very dark outside when everyone suddenly got yelled awake.
"Oy bro's! Us seats are taken!"
Harry opened his eyes and saw a tall, mean-looking brown-haired boy standing in the isle, just a couple of meters before them.
"What's this all about?", Hermione whispered in a yawn.
The large boy stepped closer, followed by two younger brothers who were about the same age as Harry and the gang.
"Y'all are sittin' on us seats!", the oldest said with a loud voice.
Harry and the others gulped.? The boy looked very strong and tough. He had chains on his pants and a piercing through his eyebrow. He wore a cap of Manchester United on his head, where his hair wasn't even two millimetre long. His eyes were very vivid, compared to the now sleepy eyes of Harry and the gang.
There fell a scared silence amongst the Gryffindors.
"Y'all must be newbies!", the boy suddenly laughed cheerfull and he sat himself down in the middle of the last row, right between Ron and Hermione. The younger brothers sat down before Colin and Neville, who were still looking at them in horror.
"I'm Dan! And these other two lads with me are my younger brothers Virgil and Marc."
Dan started shaking everybody's hands. Except for Snape's. Snape wasn't even looking, but Harry noticed he was listening attentively. All the Gryffindors were confused as they introduced themselves.
"Excuse me, but what time is it?", Harry asked sleepy.
"Why! It's four in the morning!", Dan said actively. "We're in Manchester here. Me mum lives here. Me dad lives in Cambridge. That's where we're going! Where do y'all need to be?"
"London.", Hermione replied. "Why do they live so far away from eachother?"
"Oh, they're divorced since three years or so. We've been taking this bus each week ever since."
"I see…", Hermione yawned.
"Well, it's late! Or early! Better get some sleep!", Dan said and he immediately closed his eyes and fell asleep, snoring. His brothers also turned back around and closed their eyes. The teens all looked amazed at each other. Weird Manchesters… They all tried to catch some more sleep again.
Snape wasn't happy with the Manchesters. So much for the low profile, he thought. At least they would only be travelling along till Cambridge.
Snape was getting tired too, though… In his Death Eater days he had barely needed sleep, but living in Hogwarts had spoiled him and he had gotten used to it. He got startled when Neville's computer game suddenly slid of Neville's legs and fell on the floor in the middle of the isle. Snape picked it up and wanted to put it back.
He hesitated though. He cautiously looked around. Everybody was sleeping.
"Just one game!", Snape told himself and he started playing.





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