***Author's Blab: YAY! Thanks to all of you who have reviewed so far! I got
a couple of requests to continue, so I suppose I will. Anywho, this is just
going to be a sort of "interlude" if you will. It will be the connection
between Ch1 and Ch2. Don't expect greatness, its just a sort of bridge! I'm
writing Ch3 when we get home from the store this evening. I'm going to try
to be funny again. Maybe it will work, who knows?***
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Among all of the chaos, what with Snape singing a J.Lo song and Draco and Hermione disappearing, Harry and Ron had been forgotten, and hadn't said a word through any of it. They were perhaps the only two who didn't join in the chant of "Snape is a stupid-head!" 10 minutes earlier. No, they sat there quietly and watched as Snape performed, shouted his profanities, and ran out. They waited in silence as Malfoy came up to Herm and asked to talk to her in private. Now it was their turn to speak up.
Ron: Did you see that, Harry?
Harry: *still wide-eyed * How could I miss it?
Ron: I suppose you have a point there.
Harry: *coming to his senses * I don't know about all of this, Ron. It seems to me like Snape is scheming something.
Ron: Bloody Hell! We're better hurry or we'll be late for Potions. It's double today, is it not?
Harry: I believe.
Ron: Shit.
Harry: *glumly* Tell me about it.
But to everyone's surprise (and great joy), Snape didn't turn up for Potions. Now usually, in the absence of a teacher, and especially this one in particular, you could expect to find the students wrecking havoc. Not in this case. Everyone was still so stunned by Snape's episode in the Great Hall, that other than a few paper-wads being thrown from Slytherin to Gryffindor and vice-versa, nothing very eventful went on.
When they all went to lunch, Snape didn't turn up there either, and when they asked Fred and George, he wasn't anywhere to be found for their lecture either. Now Harry, for reasons unknown to himself or anyone else around him, was starting to get worried.
When Snape didn't turn up for Dinner either, Harry had made his decision; he was going to go looking for him. He checked all of the hidden rooms in the castle that he could remember by heart, and he checked outside and all around the Lake. He even went a ways into the Forbidden Forest before turning around and coming back to the castle again. It was then that it dawned on him. Surely Snape didn't sleep inside of his office? He had to have some type of chamber. But where?
Then it hit him. The Marauder's Map. He dashed upstairs as fast as possible and opened his trunk where the map lay on top of his father's cloak. He wondered if he would need it as well. Yes, he decided. Snape probably wouldn't want to find him lurking around in his quarters, especially without permission. He then grabbed up the cloak and the map and headed for the dungeons.
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Meanwhile, nobody had seemed to notice that Hermione and Draco hadn't turned up for anything either. They were all so busy chattering on about Snape that they had completely forgotten. Now, Ron finally notices something. He decides that he is going to try and find Herm. He runs up the dormitories where he saw Harry disappear earlier and is about to ask him to come along and bring the map and cloak when he sees that Harry is not there. He sees that Harry's trunk has been left open and he decides to investigate. Upon further "investigation", he sees that the map and cloak are also missing. Now he's starting to get worried. He decides that he's going to go looking for Harry.
~*~*~*~*~
Among all of the chaos, what with Snape singing a J.Lo song and Draco and Hermione disappearing, Harry and Ron had been forgotten, and hadn't said a word through any of it. They were perhaps the only two who didn't join in the chant of "Snape is a stupid-head!" 10 minutes earlier. No, they sat there quietly and watched as Snape performed, shouted his profanities, and ran out. They waited in silence as Malfoy came up to Herm and asked to talk to her in private. Now it was their turn to speak up.
Ron: Did you see that, Harry?
Harry: *still wide-eyed * How could I miss it?
Ron: I suppose you have a point there.
Harry: *coming to his senses * I don't know about all of this, Ron. It seems to me like Snape is scheming something.
Ron: Bloody Hell! We're better hurry or we'll be late for Potions. It's double today, is it not?
Harry: I believe.
Ron: Shit.
Harry: *glumly* Tell me about it.
But to everyone's surprise (and great joy), Snape didn't turn up for Potions. Now usually, in the absence of a teacher, and especially this one in particular, you could expect to find the students wrecking havoc. Not in this case. Everyone was still so stunned by Snape's episode in the Great Hall, that other than a few paper-wads being thrown from Slytherin to Gryffindor and vice-versa, nothing very eventful went on.
When they all went to lunch, Snape didn't turn up there either, and when they asked Fred and George, he wasn't anywhere to be found for their lecture either. Now Harry, for reasons unknown to himself or anyone else around him, was starting to get worried.
When Snape didn't turn up for Dinner either, Harry had made his decision; he was going to go looking for him. He checked all of the hidden rooms in the castle that he could remember by heart, and he checked outside and all around the Lake. He even went a ways into the Forbidden Forest before turning around and coming back to the castle again. It was then that it dawned on him. Surely Snape didn't sleep inside of his office? He had to have some type of chamber. But where?
Then it hit him. The Marauder's Map. He dashed upstairs as fast as possible and opened his trunk where the map lay on top of his father's cloak. He wondered if he would need it as well. Yes, he decided. Snape probably wouldn't want to find him lurking around in his quarters, especially without permission. He then grabbed up the cloak and the map and headed for the dungeons.
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Meanwhile, nobody had seemed to notice that Hermione and Draco hadn't turned up for anything either. They were all so busy chattering on about Snape that they had completely forgotten. Now, Ron finally notices something. He decides that he is going to try and find Herm. He runs up the dormitories where he saw Harry disappear earlier and is about to ask him to come along and bring the map and cloak when he sees that Harry is not there. He sees that Harry's trunk has been left open and he decides to investigate. Upon further "investigation", he sees that the map and cloak are also missing. Now he's starting to get worried. He decides that he's going to go looking for Harry.