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Ron, Hermione and Harry raced up toward the plane. People were already lined up waiting to board the flight, checking their watches and saying, "How much later can this get?" Kids were crying, people were sighing, terrorists were holding people up...typical people boarding a typical plane.
Hermione dragged Ron and Harry up to the little desk that the flight attendant was standing at. Hermione was, anyways, the only one out of the three of them who had ever been to an airport and boarded a flight before this trip. Naturally, Ron wouldn't have, and the Dursley's letting Harry go on a plane trip to visit somewhere or something was laughable.
"Have they boarded row 32 yet?" Hermione asked.
The flight attendant jerked her head up, at just realizing that they were there, and immediately put on a fake, cheezy smile.
"Welcome to United Airlines! Well, now let me see..." she typed on her little computer keyboard so fast that Ron's head started to spin. "You are due to board...right now!" She seized her microphone thingy, and called into it in that flight attendant voice, y'know, it sounds more like a robot than a person? Phony and perfectly enunciating? "Rows 30 and up are due to board. Rows 30 and up this is your final boarding call." She gave Hermione, Ron, and Harry another corny smile, and said, "Anything else?"
"No, that'll be it thanks."
Hermione rushed Ron and Harry over to the baggage inspection. "Put your bags on and walk through the little doorway thing, ok Ron? Harry?" They nodded. Hermione went through first. Harry followed suit. Ron looked at his bag and cautiously put it on the moving black thing. He carefully watched it go through.
"Sir. Please walk through, you're holding up the line." The airport security guard stared pointedly at Ron. Ron raised an eyebrow at him and went through.
The lights on the top of the doorway went from green to red. A little beeping sound went off.
The security guard sighed. "I'm gonna have to ask you to empty your pockets, sir." Hermione nodded glumly from behind his shoulder at Ron. Ron suspiciously emtied his pockets. All he had was a couple of galleons and sickles. The security guard picked one up. "What the...? Yo, Frankie, run some tests." The rather large man behind the luggage scanner nodded his huge neck and took the money. "Hey! give that back!" Ron tried to seize his money, but Hermione glared at him, clearly saying, "stop" and he stood still, completely pissed off.
The security guard pulled out his little stick thing out and checked Ron for anymore "dangerous material."
Ron, who was still angry about his money just noticed the security guard. "Hey-What the...? Get that away from me-!" Ron punched the guard.
~*10 minutes later*~
!`Airport Office`!
"What you displayed back there was despicable behavior."
The man paced back and forth through the room. Ron sat at a desk with Hermione and Harry standing behind him. Both looked very stressed. Hermione stepped forward.
"Please, sir...he's not used to this!"
"I realize that Miss....Miss...?"
"Granger."
"Right. But I cannot let this sort of behavior pass through this airport! This is extremely serious business!"
Hermione sighed. Harry had had enough.
"Oh, this is stupid."
Harry took out his wand and stunned the guard. "Let's get out of here."
Ron stood up. "No kidding." He took his money off the man's desk. "Lets go. Invisibility cloak, Harry?"
"Gotchya."
They all ducked under the cloak, and went back to board on the plane.
Finally, after navigating their way through the crowds in the airport, and bumping into an extremely nervous flight attendant, they were safely in their seats, on the way to Hawaii.
Harry sighed. "I still don't see why we couldn't have just flown on broomsticks!"
Hermione sighed. "Harry, you know that Dumbledore told us that we had to get to our destination by the Muggle way!"
The 6th year class at Hogwarts had been assigned to pick a destination and go there by the Muggle way and research the Muggles, their buildings, and things like that. Harry, Hermione, and Ron had picked Hawaii.
"Well, cheer up, guys, at least we got on the plane without any problems!" Hermione said cheerfully.
Ron just stared.
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A/n: Finally on the way to Hawaii! What will happen next? I wonder...
Disclaimer: not mine
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