THANK YOU FOR REVIEWING!  I have over thirty reviews (thirty-one) now!  I would especially like to thank Stupid Girl of Cold!  Your enthusiastic reviews make me want to continue writing!  Again, I am sorry that I have taken so long to update.  My excuse is the usual:  school work and lack of time and inspiration. By the way, I recommend reading Wuthering Heights if you have a month to spare.  The story is excellent but you have to read everything twice because the narration is really confusing. 

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"Kindora Poppe!" Harry and Ron squealed simultaneously.  

"Yeah, people usually recognize me right away.  I did a concert in England a few months ago; I was in all the tabloids." Kindora's smile showed that she was amused, not angry at their ignorance.

"We weren't looking properly.  As you can see, we were busy with Dopey."  Harry explained.  "And we really don't get much pop culture at Hogwarts School.  The place is out in the middle of nowhere."

"Really? I would love to tap into that school age audience.  You really should have your agent give my agent a call about performing together." Kindora said.

"I don't perform." Harry said.

Ron was hanging on to every word of the conversation.  Kindora was amazing.  Hermione was watching every move Ron made.  She understood that Kindora was famous, but still, Ron should close his mouth when he stares.

"You don't perform?" Kindora was puzzled, "What do you do?  Why are you famous?"

Ginny was angrily eyeing Harry and Kindora.  They seemed to be getting along wonderfully.  Kindora was a professional:  she had practiced long and hard how to look interested in stupid things and how to hold 'intimate' conversations with interviewers and reporters. 

By the way, Charlie was rhythmically kicking Silas, just to make sure he didn't' get away. 

 "You haven't heard his story?" Ginny said; glad to make Kindora look stupid.

"Yes, he is an English celebrity trying to make in America.  A very common tale."

"No!  He is a hero!  He came to America to get away from his miserable life fighting Voldemort, the most evil wizard in the world!"

"Oh, I see. That does explain this whole situation a lot better." Kindora said, pointing to Silas, writhing on the floor in his Dopey costume.

"Yeah, and we were just about to hear Silas's story until you interrupted. Harry has real work to do." Ginny sneered.

"I am so sorry, Harry Potter" Kindora turned her attention back to Harry, much to Ginny's furiousness "I did not realize exactly who you were.  Wow.  A real live hero.  Harry, we really must collaborate now.  This could do so much for my career.  Introducing a hero to the American wizarding public, even Ogdine Nordster has never done that.  And she has done everything, if you know what I mean.  Skank-o-rama."

"Ogdine is ugly!" Ron blurted.
"Thank You!" Kindora screamed, "Ogdine has been dissing my latest record!  My sales have fallen!  I absolutely hate her!" Kindora pulled Ron into a hug

"Hey!"  Hermione shoved Kindora away from her boyfriend. 

"Oh!  I didn't realize the red head was taken.  I really meant nothing by it" Kindora apologized.

Hermione was still glaring daggers at her.  "Where are your friends, anyway Kindora?  Why are you alone?" Hermione asked.

"I was supposed to meet my friends in the Actaully Magical Kingdom.  I couldn't find the entrance so I decided to try the muggle rides until I spotted some wizards." Kindora explained coolly.

"Why can't you find the entrance?" Ginny sneered.  She did not like the way Harry was looking at Kindora.  Harry was supposed to be hers.  Not that she wanted him or anything, but still, she did not want him to kiss anyone else the way he had kissed her. 

"It seems they changed the entrance to the AMK.  All you used to have to do was go on Pirates of the Caribbean.  No muggles ever used to go on that ride, so it took wizards straight there.  But then someone made a movie about the ride and now it is packed with muggles." Kindora explained. 

"Oh."  Ginny said, feeling a little shot down.

 Ginny was angry that Kindora's response was perfect.  She was angry at Kinodra's perfect hair, perfect body, perfect smile. 

Kindora realized that Hermione had been giving the same stare that Ginny was now.   "So you must be with Harry?"  Kindora asked Ginny kindly.

Harry looked at Ginny, he felt so bad that she felt bad; but at the same time, Ginny was jealous of Kindora.  Harry had put his heart on the line, he thought.  He didn't want to wait for Ginny to come around.  He needed to take some other action.  Hadn't Charlie said that jealously had worked on his second, or third, wife?  Harry looked at Kindora.  She was cute.  She was famous.  She would do.

"No. Ginny and I are not together."  Harry cut in.  Harry was not looking at Kindora as he talked.  Harry was staring at the red head who had been giving him hell.  "Ginny has a wonderful boyfriend.  His name is Dean."

"Well that's nice."  Kindora said.  "Harry and I are supposed to be dating.  You know, according to tabloids.  I just wanted to be sure that I wasn't getting in the way of anything.  I have a boyfriend by the way."

Harry looked noticeably disappointed.  Ginny smirked.

The silence was awkward.  Charlie was still keeping an eye on Silas.  Hermione was holding Ron, who was rubbing Hermione's shoulder.  Ginny's glare was even more hateful as she watched Harry blankly smile at Kindora.  

Hermione ended the silence, "So Silas, let's hear about Tom Riddle."

"Yes.  That sounds so wonderful."  Kindora said, for once relieved to have the spotlight taken off of her. 

"Is the disillusionment charm still working?" Harry asked, not wanting the infamous Disney Police to interrupt.

"Of course it is still working.  I use that charm all the time."

"Ok Silas.  So Tom Riddle disappeared after he graduated.  What happened next?" Ron asked.

"My name is Dudemort now, not Silas.  Remember?"

"Fine.  Dudemort is a stupid name anyway."

"Well I thought 'Dudemort' was more intimidating than 'Voldesurf.'  Anyway, my dad was the best wizard when he graduated.  He had tons of job offers and could have basically gone into any field that he liked.  Well, the thing that he liked the most was torturing muggles…."

"Not surprising."  Harry muttered.

"…So he went to work for a traveling theater company.  They put on really horrible modern plays.  You know those one man shows with existentialist plots?  Well Tom wrote those!  Muggles came flocking to see it because he charmed the audience to make them think it was intellectual.  They would tell their friends about it and feel smart." 

"Tom created the one man show!  My parents took me see one in London once!  I nearly died it was so boring!" Hermione screamed!

"Yeah, you really feel like you are in hell, don't ya?"  Silas continued.  "Meanwhile, he had changed his appearance so the wizard community lost track of his whereabouts.  When the theater company came to do a show in Los Angeles, he met my mother."

"Was she a muggle actress?" Kindora asked.

"No.  She was a muggle circus performer.  The bearded lady."

"Eeeewwww!"  Squealed Ginny.

"Anyway, Tom was ashamed that he had fallen in love with a muggle.  He was very against that, you know.  So he would not marry her when she got pregnant.  Instead he left his career as a play-writer, left America, and went on about his business."

"You mean he went back to muggle killing instead of muggle torture?" Harry said.

"Yeah, something like that.  Anyway, my mother never mentioned my father; she never mentioned that he was a wizard either.  Turns out I did not have any magic powers so she really did not have to worry about me ever discovering my heritage.  In fact, the first time my father ever contacted me was early this summer."

"Let me guess: He wanted to tell you to kill me?"  Harry asked.

"Pretty much.  He said a boy and friends were coming to California.  He said that if I killed you, he would take me to a baseball game and play catch with me afterwards.  That was all I ever wanted from him you know.  I just wanted my father to love me!" Silas started bawling.

"Oh my gosh" Hermione rolled her eyes, "This is pathetic."

Harry looked awkwardly at Charlie and Ron, looking for a clue as to what to do.  

"Well, Dudemort, it looks like your family is even more screwed up than mine or Harry's put together!"  Charlie said.

"And now that I did not kill Harry, my father will never love me!  He will be embarrassed of me!  Not only am I a squib, but I am a squib who can't even out-think a teenager!" Silas shrieked and then started crying again.

"Well, Harry is smarter than the average kid."  Hermione said.  Harry was shocked, that was a lot coming from Hermione.

"Yeah, Voldemort has tried to kill me loads of times and I am still kicking."  Harry said, though he was wondering why he was suddenly trying to comfort the man in the Dopey costume.  Five minutes earlier he was kicking Silas and enjoying it.

"You guys are just saying that to make me feel better."  Silas blushed as he continued to weep.

"No, honestly, Silas.  Your dad is a powerful wizard, but he has got nothing on Harry!"  Ginny exclaimed.

Harry was now blushing. 

Kindora spoke next.  "Well, now that we've stopped trying to kill each other, what happened next?"

"I think that Silas needs to put some closure on his relationship with his father.  Having a squib son would be very embarrassing for Voldemort, am I right?"  Charlie asked.

"Yeah.  I can't wait to let the news slip out once we get back to England."
"Why wait until you get back to England?  I can cause a scandal right now if you want."  Kindora said.  "If I lift the disillusionment charm, I am sure the wizard paparazzi will come find me."

"What are you going to do to my dad?"  Silas weakly asked.

"Well, we are taking a new strategy towards killing him.  This time we will work from the inside out.  Words and feelings can hurt a lot, right Ginny" Harry said.

"Of course they can, Harry" Ginny snapped back.

"You are pretty good at making people miserable without violence."

"Get over yourself!"  Ginny angrily

"Come on Ginny!  If Voldemort can't beat me, how can Dean!"

"Save that fight until cameras come!"  Kindora hushed them.

Ron had never seen Harry actively pursue any girl.  And now Ron had to watch him hang all over his sister.  "Hermione" Ron whispered "do you think Harry and Ginny know what they are doing?"

"What do you mean?" Hermione whispered back.

"Well, it's weird, Harry and my sister having all that sexual tension.  I don't know how to help them.  I want to side with my sister, but does that make me a bad best friend for not encouraging Harry?  And should they even consider dating each other?  Would they just make each other too unhappy?"

Hermione kissed Ron on the cheek.  "I love that you are sensitive!"

"But should I interfere?"  Ron asked again, stroking Hermione's hair.

"No.  You are a Gryffindor.  You are brave enough to let something leave your control." Hermione whispered.

Kindora had lifted the disillusionment charm.  Silas was now sitting up on a bench.  Ginny and Harry were still at odds.  Ginny was more than pissed at Harry's immaturity.  Harry was still infatuated with Ginny's hair, eyes, smile, feet, etc. 

"Harry, when the cameras come, they will expect that we are here together because of the Quibbler article." Kindora said.

"But don't you have a boyfriend?" Harry asked.

"Yes, but he is a muggle.  You wouldn't know him.  Anyway, we just have to decide which rumors we want to encourage and which we don't.  We can tell the public anything we want." Kindora explained.

"Well, I do not want them to think that you and I are a couple, because that is not true."  Harry said.

"Well, I was thinking, maybe it's not my place, but you seem like you could use some help, uh, wooing Ginny over there." Kindora said quietly.

"Oh" Harry was embarrassed that his childish antics had been noticed by a celebrity, "you mean we could make her jealous?"
"We would have to be very coy so she doesn't realize we are completely playing her." Kindora said smiling. 

"We would have to make it real, but never really admit it." Harry understood.

"Oh good!  This is going to be so much fun!  It will be such great practice for when I break into acting!"  Kindora squealed.

For the next twenty minutes, Kindora led Harry, Ginny, Ron, Hermione, Silas, and Charlie around muggle Disneyland.  She showed them "It's A Small World," and they walked along the Main Street stores. 

As they were rounding the corner into Tomorrow Land, they saw a flash of light.  Then they saw about five more flashes. 

"Those were the cameras!"  Kindora said urgently, "Do you guys remember what to do?"

"Yeah" they all answered.

Harry could see wizard-cameras poking out over the bushes.  He saw a couple of reporters walking over to talk to Kindora.

But Kindora was eager to get started.  She walked over to Silas and slapped him across the face.

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(Whoa, I just re read this chapter and I made all the emotions between Harry and Ginny really confusing to understand.  So let's just say that I did that on purpose, and that it is confusing because that is how Harry and Ginny feel.  Confused?  Ok good, just checking.)