Chapter 4- Movie Magic
The nine students waited until the bell rang again before they put their plan into action. Splitting up into smaller groups making it easier to slip past teachers, they headed towards assorted exits. Jen and Tricia lead Ron, Hermione, and Neville out the doors behind the cafeteria. As they ran down the hill, Tricia began to hum the Mission Impossible theme song. They cautiously peered around the corner to be sure a gym teacher or principal was not patrolling the area before making another mad dash across the bus loop.
Meanwhile, Cortney and Jenna took Harry and Draco to the exit on the south side of the building. Cortney asked her friend to create a distraction so they would be able to slip past the teacher on duty. The four students waited anxiously just out of site. Cortney's friend, a brilliant actress, pretended to fall down the stairs and 'hurt' her ankle. As the teacher rushed to help her, Jenna and Cortney sprinted towards the door dragging Harry and Draco with them. They continued running until they were out of site from the school.
By the time they reached the end of Ranger Road, the group they had left in the cafeteria was already waiting for them. They began walking towards the Loop while sharing how they had been able to get past the teachers. The group of students was talking and laughing like they had known each other for ten years, instead of ten minuets.
"What exactly is a 'Loop'?" Neville questioned, but no one seemed to notice that he had spoken. Draco and Cortney were too busy gazing into each other's eyes, Jenna was quizzing Harry on his life; Jen, Tricia and Ron were joking and laughing while Hermonie glared jealously at them. Neville loudly cleared his throat, in the hopes that he would not be ignored again. When he had someone's attention he asked again.
"The Loop is a mall, except not indoors. Basically it's like Diagon Alley for muggles," Tricia explained. The Hogwarts students gave an understanding nod at this analogy, but wondered how these muggles knew of the secret Diagon Alley.
When they arrived at the mall they decided that in order to be able to afford movie tickets for all nine of them, they would have to buy snacks at Stop & Shop instead of Wendy's. Cortney headed immediately for the Diet Vanilla Coke for her and Tricia while Jen and Jenna lead the way to the candy isle to get their traditional Twizzlers, Reeses Cups, Treasures, and M&Ms.
"Exactly what movie are we going to see again?" Hermione asked in an authoritative voice.
"Pirates of the Caribbean!" Jen enthusiastically answered in a wistful voice. At the mention of the title the girls began to wildly quote what Hermione assumed was some of the dialogue from the movie.
"You're forgetting one very important thing mate…I'm Captain Jack Sparrow!" Cortney said in a very swash-buckling voice.
"But WHY'S all the rum gone?" Whined Tricia, making a slight reference to a common liking with the great Captain which caused her friends to laugh.
"Welcome to the Caribbean Love!" Jenna managed to say between laughs.
"Savvy?" Jen asked. With this the girls stopped there quoting and simultaneously swooned. Over whom or why Hermonie didn't know. 'I bet it's some muggle heartthrob,' she thought to herself.
Son they were all seated in the theater. Harry sat between Neville and Jenna. A few seats away sat Draco and Cortney. In the row behind them sat Tricia, Jen, Ron, and Hermione.
Harry had remembered going to a movie once, and was trying to remember which one, since Jenna was bugging him about it. Draco on the other hand, had never even heard of this muggle form of entertainment. 'Why go to a theater,' he thought, 'when you can watch a disc at home? Muggels are so stupid…but Cortney is so hot. Maybe muggles aren't that bad.' Then he nonchalantly slid his arm around the dark haired girl.
Ron meanwhile was talking to Jen about how his dad was going to be so jealous that he got to experience muggle life first hand.
By now the movie had started. Tricia stopped talking so every one was able to watch the movie in peace and quiet. But that didn't really matter anyway since they were the only one's in the theater and they girls had already seen the movie at least twice. Some of the only noises that were made during the movie were their laughter at Captain Jack Sparrow followed by the girls' sighs as the swooned over him. A few giggles were heard from Cortney's direction. A curious Jenna glanced over just once. She saw Cortney sprawled over a few seats, with her head in Draco's lap. He was feeding her Reeses Cups.
When the movie ended and the lights came on they all began discussing the movie.
"That was bloody brilliant!" Ron exclaimed immediately. All of his fellow Hogwarts student's agreed with him, except for Draco.
"Hey Draco," Neville said, noticing the absence of the Slytherin's opinion in their discussion. "What did you think of the movie?"
Draco didn't answer. Wondering why he wasn't speaking to them, they all leaned forward and glanced down the aisle at him. None of them were ready for the scene that greeted them.
Cortney was seated in Draco's lap, and at the moment they were in the middle of snogging. The onlookers were stunned for a moment, but when they regained their ability to think Harry tentatively said, "Umm…Draco?…Cortney?" Neither answered but instead deepened the kiss. Harry spoke again, this time much louder and forcefully.
Draco and Cortney sprang apart guilty. "Hiya guys," she stammered. "It's over already? Hmm…well, let's go then!"
Cortney got up and quickly left the theater. Her friends followed, stiffening their giggles. 'Well, it's no wonder he didn't answer,' Jenna thought to herself. 'I would find it hard to manage a sentence with someone's tongue down my throat."
The group of students hurried back to the school to catch the bus home. When they were on the bus they began to discuss possible arrangements for the unexpected visitors. They finally agreed upon spending the night at Tricia's since her parents were out of town and it would be easy to bribe her younger brother to keep quiet.
"Yay!" exclaimed Jen. "I just love slumber parties!"
The group sighed and rolled their eyes at her display of ditzy behavior. They sat in slience for a while before they heard kissing noises.
"CORTNEY!" Jenna was shocked at the actions of her friend.
"What?" Cortney tried her best to sound confused. "I wasn't doing anything."