Into Homestarrunner.com
"Where in the hell are we?" Ron asked impatiently.
"Ron you look all funny." Harry said.
"That's nothing compared to how you look." Ron taunted.
"Sort of animated?"
"And very round." Ron finished.
"Weird. Let's look around."
The boys we're exploring their surroundings, very two dimensional and very animated, as if they'd fallen into a cartoon. They had actually been blinked into homestarrunner.com by Draco's spell, the first in a long series of strange places they were bound to visit.
They did not yet realize, nor would they for a long while, but they were used to adventures and this was just par for the course.
They met along the way the main character of homestarrunner.com, Homestar Runner himself. He was a goofy looking fellow with a roundy body, no arms and a giant white star on his red shirt. He had a bit of a speech impediment and sounded like a kid Harry remembered from grade school, someone Dudley would pick on constantly.
"Hiya guys." Homestar said.
"Hi?" Ron ventured. "Where are we?"
"Oh, new in town huh? Welcome to Homestarrunner.net. It's dot com."
"I think I missed something." Ron said.
"We're in a website?" Harry yelled.
"What's a web... site?" Ron asked.
"It's a place on the internet where you can watch cartoons or send e-mails or look for information."
"Oh that's brilliant." Came a husky voice from behind them. It was Strong Bad, wearing his usual red boxing gloves and red mask.
Harry raised his eyebrows.
"I should write a song about this." Strong Bad said. "Da, da, dum. Idiots on the website. Idiots on the website. I think I'll kick the idiot in the pants. Come on everybody. I'm going to kick him in the fhqwhgads."
"What are fhqwhgads?" Ron asked flabbergasted.
Just then a tiny yellow spotted thing hopped over and started to squeek. "Get this the cheat." Strong Bad said to the creature. "They don't know what fhqwhgads are!"
Harry huffed at all the strangeness going on, but he had been on the internet once or twice before. There was some strange stuff indeed out there and this wasn't the limit.
"Come on Ron, let's try and find a way out of here." Harry grabbed his friend by the arm and continued to look around.
They spotted a door in the corner, red with a yellow knob. It looked just like everything else on the website but Harry had a feeling about it. He turned the handle and the two boys were sucked into the open the doorway and on down to the next adventure.
At least homestarrunner.com was behind them.
