i-luv - damn those bloody symbols! Someone tell me when they stop appearing, meanwhile I'll try not using quotation marks!

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Swimming in custard is not a pleasant experience. Having a mouthful of custard is bad enough - having it in your hair is really bad. But... there are... worse places...

Harry surfaced, spluttering. Everything was yellow.

~Ron?~ He called in yellow confusion. ~Hermione?~

A yellow blob rose from the general yellowness and said, yellowly: ~Arry? Wha? Mione? *cough* *cough* *splutter* *splutter* Everytins yellow!~

Yellow Hermione ascended through the yellow. ~Is everyone alright? What just happened? Is this ... no ... not ... it is ... noooooo ... CUSTARD!!!!!~

As the yellow cleared, Harry wondered yellowly what had happened to the edges of the bowl, which seemed to have disappeared.

When Hermione stopped screaming yellow murder, she yell(ow)ed ~wingardium leviosa!~ but unfortunately instead of levitating themselves out of the yellow custard, all the custard levitated into the yellowish sky, leaving them sprawled on the bottom of the bowl, which was blue.

~I wanna go home!~ wailed Hermione.

So they all clicked their heels and repeated ~There`s no place like home~ until it became obvious that nothing was going to happen. As they gave up and sat down in exhaustion, the landscape finally caught up with events and swirled around them...