Oh, The Things They'll Do!
Disclaimer: I own nothing but the party. This is a true story. It was an adventure with some friends of mine. See if you can guess which person I am in this one!
"I'm bored," stated Draco Malfoy.
"Come on, guys! The party's only started!" Hermione jumped out of his chair. "I'm gonna go start the barbeque!"
"What's a barbeque?" The answer came simultaneously from everyone except Hermione and Harry, who, having grown up as muggles, knew what a barbeque was.
"It's a kind of stove thing that uses fire to grill stuff." Harry answered. "I think Hermione got burgers for us."
Hermione's muggle aunt and uncle were away for the day, and they gave Hermione permission to have a party in their backyard while they were gone as long as they didn't torment the goat, and they cleaned up after themselves.
When it got dark, Ron played with the matches again (like father, like son), and eventually got a fire started. Because of the paper they were burning, anything they tried to roast over it turned a funny colour, so they just ate raw marshmallows. After that, they all took the fun to the bean field next to the fire pit so that they could run around.
Ginny had gotten hold of a muggle cell phone (in Europe, I believe they're called 'mobiles', or something like that), and she held it up in the air after turning on the glowing lights on it. "If this light goes out, you know I'm in trouble!" She yelled.
Everyone kept an eye on the bouncing glow of the phone. It dropped to the ground, and everyone ran over to check on Ginny.
"Wow! There are like, no weeds in here! Do they have people come and weed these, or do they somehow magically never grow weeds?"
"You have never been to a farm before, have you Ginny? My aunt and uncle spray the fields, and it kills the weeds".
"Oh".
Everyone burst out into laughter.
"Who eats all these beans, anyways?"
"The cows." Everyone looked at Draco.
"Oh." Ginny was oblivious to the surprised looks everyone was giving Draco around her. She sat with the light of her phone trained on the bean plant and continued poking it, petting it, and basically being Ginny.
"What? My cousin lives on a farm – he's in a bit of trouble, and he's trying to keep a low profile."
"A Malfoy, in trouble? Never!" Ron replied sardonically.
"I've read every book known to man. I must have seen it somewhere." Hermione was puzzled.
"What??" Draco exploded. "Do you really think that we're going to just let people know about this kind of thing? Yeah right! We erased him from everything that's ever mentioned him."
"Ah."
"This is a lot of beans for the cows to eat. What about the wheat field? Hey Hermione, want to put on peasant dresses and run through it like in those cheesy movies we watched?" Ginny had completely ignored everything that had been said before she cut in.
"Oh my Lord, Ginny."
Yes, I WAS Ginny… 'Nuff said. I really need to grow up. No I don't. That party was sweetness! Thanks a lot to henry-jay-henry for hosting it!!!!!
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