Mission #3

Sell Girl Scout Cookies

"Sell Girl Scout Cookies?!" the Ravenclaw Prefect gasped as the two of them chilled in the Ravenclaw common room.  "How can we possibly do that?!  We're not even GIRLS!"

"Well…we'll have to dress up as girls!" Aragog declared.

"You're kidding, right?" the Ravenclaw Prefect said, raising his eyebrow.

"No." Aragog replied.  "We have to get dresses somehow…"

"Aha!  I know who we could steal them from!!" said the Ravenclaw Prefect.

"PERCY!!!" Aragog interrupted.

"Um…no." said the Ravenclaw Prefect.  "Percy's a guy so I doubt he has any dresses."

"SNAPE!!" Aragog yelled.

"No…"

"MALFOY-SAMA!!!"

"NO!!!!" screamed the Ravenclaw Prefect.  "ALL YOU'RE SUGGESTING IS MEN!!"

"Malfoy-sama's a guy?" Aragog asked.

"Silence." Said the Ravenclaw Prefect.  "Can I say my intelligent idea now?  I think we could steal dresses from…oh I don't know…CHO CHUNG AND PENELOPE CLEARWATER!!!"

"GASP!!!" yelled Aragog.  "RAVENCLAWS WITH NAMES!!!"

"AND FEMALE AT THAT!!!" the Ravenclaw Prefect said, pointing his finger up in the air.

"Sounds like a good idea!" said Aragog.  The two of them ran up the stairs but then crashed into some confused first years.

"We can't find the common room!" they whined.

"Just continue down the stairs and you'll be there in about ten seconds." Said the Ravenclaw Prefect.

"THANKS PREFECT!!!" they HOLL-ered as they ran down the stairs.

"Okay, Aragog, you go in to make sure there aren't any girls in there." Said the Ravenclaw Prefect as they stood outside the girls' room.  "And if there are any, just scare them away."

"All right." Said Aragog as he opened the door and started tromping around.  A few Ravenclaw females without names came out of their room screaming at the mere sight of Aragog since he's a giant spider and females are wimpy.  Then Aragog called for the Ravenclaw Prefect to come in.

"We can't very well steal from these Ravenclaws without names but it'll be fine if we steal from Cho Chung and Penelope Clearwater." Said the Ravenclaw Prefect as he rummaged through Cho Chung's drawers.

"I don't think Penelope Clearwater's clothes will fit me." Said Aragog as he held up a dress.

"Um…well that's all right." Said the Ravenclaw Prefect as he pulled out some pink ribbon and tied it around Aragog's head, making it a pretty bow.  "None the wiser.  If I didn't know you were a guy, I'd date you!"

"Wow!  Thanks Ravenclaw Prefect!" said Aragog.

Then the Ravenclaw Prefect changed into Cho Chung's dress and then they left the girl's room.

"Where are we going to get cookies to sell?" Aragog asked suddenly.

"Um…I guess we'll have to steal them too." Said the Ravenclaw Prefect.  "But it'll be okay, though, because we'll give the money we get from selling them back to the school."

"Okay!" said Aragog.  Then they went to the place where they keep all the food and started looking through all the cabinets for cookies.  It took them a while to find any but they finally did!  HURRAH!!

They decided to go to the Great Hall first since that's where a lot of people were lounging around.

Harry and Ron were playing Wizard's Chess.

"Do you guys wanna buy some of our cookies?" asked the Ravenclaw Prefect.

"Queen to E5!" said Ron confidently as he queen took out a bazooka and shot at Harry's knight.  But since it was a bazooka, the queen wiped out nearly all of Harry's pieces.

"Hey!" said Harry.  "That's cheatin'!"

"That's Wizard's Chess." Said Ron with a grin.

"Um…so you guys want to buy any?" coaxed Aragog.

"Buy any what?" Harry asked.

"Girl scout cookies!" Aragog yelled.

"What are girl scout cookies?!?!" Ron said ALL to enthusiastically.

"Well Ron, girl scout cookies are cookies that little girl muggles sell!" said Harry all-knowingly.

"WOW!!" said Ron.  "Dad'll love them!  But…I'm all set." Then he pointed at his cheeks and they all saw that he probably had dinner from last night, breakfast from this morning as well as lunch all packed in there.

Aragog and the Ravenclaw Prefect stared at him with raised eyebrows.

"Come on, Ron, you can send them home to your dad!" said Harry.

"YEAH!!!" said Ron excitedly.  "But…I don't have any money."

Harry paused and then pulled some money out of his pocket.  "We'll take the whole lot!!"

"Whoa!!" said Ron.

"Um…okay." Said the Ravenclaw Prefect as he dropped the cookies in front of Harry and Ron and then swiped the money from Harry.  Sure, Harry and Ron got about four cookies for an absurdly large amount of money but does that matter?!  NO!!

"Look how much we've got already!" said Aragog.

"Let's get our second batch of cookies and sell them to the professors." Said the Ravenclaw Prefect.

"Let's NOT go to Professor Snape." Said Aragog.

"Yeah, I don't want any more points taken away from Ravenclaw even though it doesn't really make a difference." Said the Ravenclaw Prefect.

They went back to the kitchen to get more cookies to find that there was no more in the cabinets.  So they walked around the corner to see Percy with his sleepy hair slaving over a batch of cookies.

"What are you doing?" asked the Ravenclaw Prefect.

"Well, when I wake up, I like to make some cookies." Percy replied.

"How convenient!" said Aragog.  "Just what we needed!"

"No, these cookies are for ME!" said Percy.

"We'll buy them from you!" the Ravenclaw Prefect tempted.

"My cookies are priceless." Said Percy stubbornly.

"Well, we'll just take our disturbingly large sum of money and leave." Said Aragog as they started walking away but Percy suddenly cleared his throat.

"Just HOW disturbingly large is your sum of money?" he asked.

"EXTREMELY." Said the Ravenclaw Prefect and Aragog at the same time.

So, after a bit of bargaining, Percy left with a WHOLE Knut for all dem cookies!

"What a chump!" laughed the Ravenclaw Prefect as he and Aragog marched off to Professor Flitwick's room.  They knocked on the door only to have it swing open immediately and have Professor…SNAPE standing there!!

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" yelled Aragog and the Ravenclaw Prefect because they were expecting the knavish levitation teacher only to be faced with the knavish potions teacher.

"Now what are you two doing inside on a day like today?" Snape asked in an extremely suspicious fashion.

"Um…we thought this was Professor Flitwick's room." Said Aragog.

"It is." Said Snape angrily.

"Then what are you doing here?" asked the Ravenclaw Prefect.

"That is of no concern to you!" screamed Professor Snape as he slammed the door shut.

Aragog and the Ravenclaw Prefect looked at each other.  "Well, at least he didn't subtract any points from Ravenclaw." Said the Ravenclaw Prefect with a shrug.

Then the door swung open.  "Oh and TEN points from Ravenclaw for cross-dressing!!" said Professor Snape as he slammed the door again.

"What a doosh-bag." Said Aragog.

"I don't appreciate being called a doosh-bag as if I'm not even here!" said Professor Snape because much to Aragog and the Ravenclaw Prefect's dismay, he had slammed the door but had stepped in the hallway before he had.  That had clearly not occurred to Aragog.  "THIRTY points from Ravenclaw!!"

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!" bellowed the Ravenclaw Prefect as they ran away as fast as they could as if that would solve anything.  But as they turned the corner, they crashed into Harry, Ron and Hermione who were also running as fast as they could.

"Ah!" said Harry as he writhed around on the ground and Hermione and Ron stood up.  "My scar!  It burns!"

"Where are you guys going in such a hurry?" asked Hermione.

"We were running away from Professor Snape because, oddly enough, he was in Professor Flitwick's room."  Aragog replied.

"Now what's he doing in there?" Harry asked, standing up because he was fine.

"Seems awfully suspicious!" said Ron. "I bet he's using Professor Flitwick's room for the ancient ritual that will bring the Jewel of Life back into existence."

"Did you bring the Invisibility Cloak, Ron?" Hermione asked, not even trying to figure out what Ron had just said.

"I always do!" said Ron as he held up the cloak.  Then he threw it over the three of them and they hurried off.  They could, however, hear Harry continue to complain and moan about his scar burning.

"Okay…what now?" asked Aragog.

Just then, Snape stomped over.

"How DARE you run away from me like that!!" he yelled.  "You go back to your common room RIGHT NOW!!!"  He grabbed Aragog and the Ravenclaw Prefect by their ears, dragged them to the Ravenclaw common room and tossed them in.

"OH NO!!" said the Ravenclaw Prefect sadly.  "Now we have all of Percy's cookies and all this money and nothing to do with them."

"We could eat the cookies and spend the money." Said Aragog.

"Oh all right.  But that kind of defeats the whole purpose of our mission." Said the Ravenclaw Prefect.  "We did more stealing than selling so I would have to say…"

"We failed?" Aragog suggested.

"Yes." The Ravenclaw Prefect replied.

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