MIDDLE WARTS

Chapter 2

The Purple Bubble

DISCLAIMER: Today I realized that I own neither Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter or Casey. I knew that Casey was owned by THECheeseTurkey but who are LOTR and HP owned by? I decided to take my question to the street. Here is my compilation of answers.

ME: Do you know who owns HP or LOTR?

JOE the LAWYER: I do not. If you are trying to say you do, I reserve the right to take you into court.

ME: Uh...no thanks!

ME: Do you know who owns HP or LOTR?

ARIANNA the SUPER MODEL: Is that the movie with Orlando Bloom?! I love him!

ME: Um...okay...go bond with Casey and Rachel, okay?

ARIANNA: OKAY!

ME: Do you know who owns HP or LOTR?

RANDY the CAKE DECORATOR: I have a really nice Harry Potter cake! When you light the candle, the Quaffle goes throw it and gets lit on fire. Then it lands in the middle of the cake!

ME: forgets original question But then doesn't the cake light on fire?

RANDY the CAKE DECORATOR: I um, haven't worked out the little details yet!

ME: Oh. Will you tell me if you ever get that...little problem figured out?

RANDY the CAKE DECORATOR: I suppose...

ME: Do you know who owns HP or LOTR?

LISA the GARDENER: Is that a flower?

ME: No..

LISA the GARDENER: Pity. Sounds really nice...

ME: They are movies. Do you know who owns them?

LISA the GARDENER: No...want a free geranium?

ME: Okay!

ME: Do you know who owns HP or LOTR?

J.R.R. Tolkien and J.K. Rowling: WE DO!

ME: Oh okay! ()()()()()()()()()()

"Would you stop screaming? I have enough of a migraine already without you adding to it, Miss Granger!" Albus Dumbledore said as he walked out of a secret passageway that seemed to have just appeared.

"Sorry sir," Hermione replied quietly, knowing that Dumbledore would erupt as soon as he looked in the potions room. Ten Muggles running around Hogwarts was never good! And what was up with all of the cave men eating chicken?

Harry quickly sized up the situation and stood as straight as he could so that Dumbledore wouldn't know about the Muggles in the Potions dungeon. Normally, Dumbledore would have laughed at this situation. But after Harry, Hermione, and Ron's latest adventure, when they lost Fawkes, Dumbledore had been angry with them. He refused to forgive them. Unless they brought back Fawkes. The three friends had searched high and low for the bird and had had no luck whatsoever.

Dumbledore frowned. These two were hiding something! But, a spark of hope was lit in his mind. Perhaps it had something to do with finding Fawkes! He had best let them go about their business.

"Very well. As long as you keep the noise level down!" Gandalf said as he turned around.

Harry and Hermione watched his slumped back retreat from them.

"I wish we could find Fawkes. He seems so lost without his bird," Hermione whispered.

"Hermione, there are a bunch of Muggles standing inside of that room instead of Ron and Neville and you're talking about a bird?!" Harry exclaimed.

"Good point!" Hermione said as she slammed open the door to the dungeon.

"Yo what's up Muggle daugs?" Harry said as he walked in.

[all stare]

"What he means is what in the world are you doing in here?" Hermione translated.

"What he means is what in the world are you doing in here?" Harry mimicked.

"What he means is what in the world are you doing in here?" Hermione mimicked Harry mimicking herself.

"What he means is what in the world are you doing in here?" Harry mimicked Hermione mimicking himself mimicking Hermione.

Gandalf strode up to the two mimickers and whacked them both on the head.

"Oww..."

"Tell us how to get home or I will curse you two into the darkest abyss known to wizard.

"What's that?" Harry asked.

"How could you be so stupid? Obviously it's some bottomless pit that we will land in." Hermione explained.

"More like Mount Doom but whatever," Gandalf said.

"Mount Doom isn't a dark abyss! Do you even know what abyss means?" Aragorn exclaimed.

"No..." Gandalf admitted.

"It means primitive! Mount Doom isn't primitive!" Aragorn yelled.

"How would you know? You chickened out before we got there!" Frodo announced to Aragorn.

"SILENCE!" Hermione screamed," Now, how did you guys get here?"

Everyone opened his or her mouth to speak.

"That obviously won't work! You, with the frizzy hair, how did you get here?" Hermione asked.

"Through the shiny mirror," Casey replied.

"Okay...and you, blondie, how did you and your friends get here?" Hermione asked.

"The television screen fell on our heads," Legolas answered.

Casey gasped, "OMG!"

"What?" Hermione said.

"You picked em and you picked Legolas! It's fate that we were meant to be together!' Casey announced as she dashed toward Legolas.

"Casey, do you remember the talk we had about personal space?" Legolas asked, "Cause you're invading mine."

"Sorry" Casey said with a sickeningly sweet smile.

"And you," Hermione said, pointing to who seemed to be the leader of the chicken-eating cave men, "How did you get here?"

""Ugga um huloom" the cave man asked as he went to his other cave men friends and bopped them on the head with his half eaten chicken leg. The group disappeared.

"Maybe they got here by eating chicken," Jackie suggested.

"Riiiiight," Hermione said.

"The point is, if Dumbledore finds out you guys are here, we are so dead!" Harry said.

"Or worse, expelled!" Hermione announced.

[all roll eyes]

"So let's start some intros!" Pippin said,"My name is Pippin!"

"Gandalf the White"

"Frodo"

"Aragorn"

"Legolas"

"What's my name again?" Kianna asked.

"Kianna," Rachel supplied," I would be the famous Rachel, or Cheesy if you wish!"

"So called famous you mean?" Jackie said as she ducked a large cheese log being aimed at her. "I'm Jackie!"

"I'm Casey!"

"I'm Eliza..."

"Hey Hermione?" Jackie asked.

"Yeah?"

"Can we do magic?"

"I think so..."

"Good!" Jackie said, "dispario pistachio!"

Eliza disappeared in a puff of green smoke. A pistachio sat where she had been standing.

"Um, that didn't work!" Jackie announced, "I was trying to make it rain pistachios..."

"Oooh are we in a potion lab?" Legolas asked Harry.

"Unfortunately," Harry replied.

"Do you guys have any hair care potions?" Legolas asked.

"Yeah in the gray cupboard over there," Harry answered.

Legolas opened the cupboard and selected a potion in a star shaped bottle. He promptly sprayed it into his hair.

"You guys have no idea how hard it is to keep hair like mine looking perfect," Legolas began. He was interrupted by a ping! That seemed to have come from his head.

The group turned toward him. Every strand of hair on his head was shooting off small golden stars.

"Ow!" Casey squealed when one hit her nose. Her nose began to grow...and grow...and grow until it was the size of a watermelon

Legolas' hair continued shooting out stars that were clearly full of Skele- Gro.

"STOP THE MADNESS!" Kianna screamed.

"Dosie do!" Casey screamed as she grabbed Kianna's arm and they dosie doed.

Hermione grabbed her wand from inside her pocket and whispered a quick incantation. The stars continued to shoot out but nothing happened when you got hit.

Hermione surveyed the damage. Casey had a watermelon nose, Legolas had an extra large foot, Harry had a massive finger, Rachel's hand had swollen so that she could barely lift it, and she, Hermione, had a rather large ear.

Casey reached into her pocket and pulled out a water balloon. She walked over to the cabinet and selected a potion of bubbling green liquid. Its odor was foul and it seemed to be hissing. She filled the balloon and reached into her pocket for more balloons. Soon she had six dozen balloons filled with a different liquid each time. Everyone watched her. Casey picked up a balloon and broke it over her nose. Her nose turned purple.

"Well that's good enough for me!" Casey said happily as she walked away from the balloons.

"Was there even a point to that?" Legolas whispered to Pippin.

"I don't think so," Pippin replied.

Gandalf rolled his eyes and walked over to the rest of the balloons. Taking his staff, he poked each one. Setting down his staff he threw a balloon at Casey, Hermione, Legolas, Rachel, and Harry. They all returned to normal. With the exception of Casey who still had a purple nose.

"You guys are woohoo! I'm going to go find Dumbledore. I knew him from the old days!" Gandalf said and walked off in a huff.

"What a grumpy old man!" Kianna said.

"Look you guys. You seem really nice but...Hermione, Ron, and I are in enough trouble as it is. Could you please just...go home?" Harry asked.

"Like we wouldn't want to!" Frodo answered.

A purple mist suddenly enveloped the group. A large purple bubble appeared. Purple clouds seemed to be rolling around inside of it.

Casey stared at the bubble,"Can I touch it?" was the first question out of her mouth.

Kianna was also staring at the bubble. Unlike Casey she did not ask to touch the bubble. Kianna walked up to the bubble and poked it.

" YOU DARE TO TOUCH THE BUBBLE OF DOOM?!" the bubble said. Two red eyes appeared with evil eyebrows arching over them. A mouth popped up, set in a sneer. The bubble also had a goatee.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" Casey screamed. Windows broke.

"Calm your chickens!" Jackie added.

"NO! I am supposed to be the stupid one in this story. I do the stupid pointless things. Not her!" Casey said pointing threateningly to Kianna.

"I was here first!" Kianna said.

"I was created first!" Casey retorted.

"Well I love Legolas more!" Kianna screamed.

Legolas looked around, very confused.

"You do not! I do!" Casey replied.

"How about you both be stupid?" Aragorn suggested.

"You're brilliant!" the two chorused together.

"I have been told that!" Aragorn replied with a smile.

"SILENCE YOU PRIMITIVE BEASTS!" the purple bubble commanded.

Silence rang throughout the room.

"Now listen closely. You have been brought here today by the will of another. This person conjured me to doom you for life. In doing this, I will do random things to you to cause horrifying horror. The sole way you can stop me is to discover the secret of the castle and its grounds. To make this even tougher than it is already, I shall split you into two groups. Talking with members of the opposite group is forbidden. If you do, doom will befall you. Both groups must figure out the secret by themselves. As you attempt to find the secret, I will begin the actions of doom against you." the purple bubble finished.

Frodo wrinkled his nose,"Do we have to?"

"YES!" the bubble roared in Frodo's face. Frodo's hair went swooshed back.

"Now pick your teams! You cannot have either of those elderly guys. If they discover that these visitors are in the castle, doom will befall you." the bubble added.

"But Gandalf is one of us!" Aragorn protested.

"Fine if Dumbledore finds out that Gandalf brought friends and that you girls are here doom will befall you. Now pick your teams. It's almost time for my lunch break!" the bubble decided.

"I think me and Harry should each be captains...since we know our way around," Hermione said.

In the end, Harry's team consisted of Frodo, Aragorn, Kianna, and Rachel. Hermione's team had Legolas, Pippin, Jackie, and Casey. Jackie had also stuck Eliza the pistachio in her pocket, hoping that she would be able to change her back. The bubble disappeared in a cloud of purple smoke and the teams left the potions dungeon.

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So what do you think? Don't forget to review! If anybody wants to be in the story, e-mail me at Jackie692aol.com and tell me your name and what House you want to be from, Gryffindor, Slytherin, Hufflepuff, or Ravenclaw. Also, please make sure you read the disclaimer. I am thinking of doing a story with just things like that. Please tell me what you think!