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Chapter 2- We're off to good 'ol Hogwarts!

Mr. Weasley was buzzing around the Dream Team, saying things like, "WOW! A Muggle Airplane!!" , "America! Gee whiz! You better take pictures Ron." and "Hey, can I come too?!?!?!?!"

They all explained that he couldn't, but Mr. Weasley looked so downcast, Mrs. Weasley told him they could go to America on a muggle plane for their vacation, and he ran off to find the muggle phone book and start planning.

At five of three, Ron, Hermione and Harry were packed, sitting at the table making very forced conversation. Each of them felt like they swallowed three Peppermint Toads ( Hop realistically in the stomach!) whole. They were nervous because Dumbledore had called it a 'mission', they would be traveling to a completely foreign (to them) country on Muggle transportation. At 3:00 on the dot, they heard honking and after saying good-bye to the entire Weasley family, they walked outside to see a Ministry Car, and a man with baby-blue eyes and a boyish face with a giddy grin plastered all over it.

"Mr. Bagman!?" Harry gasped, a look of disbelief on his face.

"Yup!" he said, bouncing on the balls of his feet, " I know this isn't exactly my area of expertise, but the Ministry said I could come with! Now, I'm going to go on an earlier flight, in case any problems arise, and you three don't arrive on time. So into the car! We have a plane to catch!"

"WE HAVE TO CATCH IT!?!?!?!" Ron said with a gasp and a look of stunned disbelieving.

"No, mate! It's just an expression.all we're going to do is walk up a ramp onto the plane..." Mr. Bagman said, with a worried expression, turning to look him in the face.

Harry and Hermione laughed at Ron's sudden outburst, and Ron blushed to the roots of his hair.

"Sorry...didn't understand.never gone on a plane before, mate." Ron muttered sheepishly.

When they arrived at the airport, Ron stared at everything they passed with an open mouth on their way to the waiting area for flight 59, Trenton, New Jersey.

When they got there, they all sat down and Mr. Bagman pulled out a map of the world. "Look kids, we only have to go this far!" he said, moving his finger from England to New Jersey on the map, "It'll only take about 5 hours."

"Yeah." Ron said, looking at the map, "At least we don't have to go to.Callie-forn-ee-uh."

Hermione and Harry both laughed at his pronunciation of California.

"What!?!" Ron said, with a robbed expression on his face.

"Nothing, It's just that it's Californ-yuh, not Callie-forn-ee-uh." Hermione answered, still giggling.

"Same thing!" He said, a slight blush creeping up his cheeks.

"FLIGHT 59 TO TRENTON, JERSEY IS HERE! I REPEAT, FLIGHT 59 TO TRENTON, NEW JERSEY HAS ARRIVED!" A loudspeaker in their waiting area crackled.

Mr. Bagman said," That's us! C'mon!"

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