Chapter 11

Revenge Number 2

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    Dave took a deep breath. Ok, relax he kept telling himself. He panicked anyway.

    Boy, if he got caught for this, the guys would be on him like ugly on an ape (A/N: Ha ha, Spongebob!:-)). He had better be careful, and discreet.

    Dave slipped behind the giant willow tree near the school entrance. Dave took another deep breath and took his sunglasses out of his robes pocket and put them on. He put up the hood on his robes so his face would be at least partially hidden.

    Finally, after what seemed like an eternity, Dave heard familiar footsteps. Dave took yet another deep breath. He knew what he had to do.

    James Potter stuck his head behind the tree. "Dave, I thought we told you the meeting place was going to be in the Forbidden Forest!"

    Dave grinned. "Why are you guys so keen on getting in there?"

    "Duh!" shouted Sirius Black's voice. Sirius stepped next to James. "Because they're a bunch of cool dangerous thingies in there, and we wanna see 'em!"

    Dave laughed and shook his head. "Well, I didn't want to risk getting caught by Hagrid and being lectured."

    "Naw, Hagrid doesn't lecture you," said James, grinning. "He just…well, it depends on where you stand with him, really."

    "Actually," said someone. Remus Lupin appeared. "We were just coming back from there. Hagrid was chasing us, because we were going to the meeting place and we got caught."

`   A small, quivering voice said from somewhere "I was scared."

    "Aw, Pete, there's no need to be scared," said Sirius. "Hagrid wouldn't hurt a fly…well, not us, anyway. Who knows how many bar fights he's been in…"

    "SIRIUS!" shouted James. Sirius laughed.

    "I was just joking," he said.

    "I know," said James.

    "I know you know," said Sirius.

    "I know you know I know," said James.

    "I know you know I know you know," said Sirius.

    "I know you know I know you know I know," said James.

"Guys! Enough!" laughed Remus.

Dave couldn't help it. He laughed too.

Peter suddenly emerged from his hiding place. He was chuckling nervously.

"Hmm…glad you could join us Peter…coming out of your hiding place…lurking in shadows all by yourself…" said Dave frostily, giving Peter a suspicious look.

He's a traitor; I know it, thought Dave.

"Lay off him, Dave, he hasn't done anything," said Sirius. Sirius looked over Dave skeptically. "You're not still tight with Snape, are you?"

Dave shook his head fervently. "No," he said.

"You sure you want to be on our side?"

Dave nodded.

"OK! Come along then. You must perform the ritual," said James cheerfully.

"R-ritual? What ritual?" stammered Dave. Peter gave a small wail in fear.

"Oh, it's just the ceremony…so, you know, you're officially in the group," said James coolly, picking at his cuticles.

"Oh," said Dave. "Er…where is it?"

"Follow meeeeeee!" yelled Sirius, and ran off towards the Forgotten Forest.

"What do you guys call yourselves, anyway?" Dave asked Remus as they ran after Sirius.

Remus shrugged. "We don't really call ourselves anything…what about Snape? What did you guys call yourselves?"

"We didn't have a title either," said Dave. Remus grinned.

"Figures," said Remus, still grinning. "Snape wouldn't have the brain cells to form a sentence, let alone a name!"

Dave gave a hollow laugh, but inside felt really guilty. He knew Severus was extremely intelligent, but he wasn't about to say so. Remus would be offended.

At last, they reached Sirius, who was standing at the entrance to the Forgotten Forest like a distinguished gentleman. He bowed dramatically as Dave, James, Remus and Peter approached.

"Welcome, my dear, dear, dear, dear, dear, dear…" said Sirius, acting like a member of the Parliament.

"Out with it already, Sirius!" shouted James.

"Fine," sniffed Sirius. "Dave, welcome to the Forgotten Forest. This forest, it was forgotten, and we remembered it. So, here we are, standing at the gate, whilst I am rambling on and on. The forest was an old forest, long forgotten by the staff of the school, millions of years ago, yes, a very long time ago, and we looked at the old map, and we found it, and remembered it. So, you see, it is not forgotten anymore, it is remembered. So, it should really be called the Remembered Forest. I tried to get it renamed, but they wouldn't, because they said it wasn't there. I invited them to see, but they said no, that I was too hooked up on sugar, and-"

"Can it, Sirius," said James.

"And then they claimed I was insane," continued Sirius, ignoring James completely. "So I said to them, I said…I don't know what I said. But anyway, this forest, it is the Ritual Holder place, and we use it. We use it, and we remember it, not forget it. Remembering, not forgetting…"

Before Sirius could finish his pointless speech, James, pushed him out of the way and opened the gate.

"Hey, I wasn't finished!" wailed Sirius. No one paid attention.

When they got to the Ritual Grounds, Dave felt his jaw drop.

Laid out in front of him was an elaborate obstacle course, filled with bridges over murky water, key spots filled with vicious killer rabbits, and grass that was filled with man-eating cockroaches.

"Er…what do I do, exactly?" asked Dave nervously.

"Get past everything alive," said Sirius evilly.

"What if I don't?"

Sirius stared at him. "If you…never mind. Harry the Hare will help you if you get stuck in a jam."

"Literally," said Remus, pointing to the of jam that was the very first obstacle.

"Someday, I'm gonna name my son after that hare," said James dreamily.

Sirius laughed. "What, and your son is going to be the child of Lily Evans?"

James blushed. "You never know," he said.

Sirius snickered.

"And don't sweat it," said Remus to Dave, paying no heed to James and Sirius. "Besides Harry the Hare, we'll be there too."

Dave took a deep breath, and gave a weak smile. "You sure you guys are gonna be there?"

"Yeppers," grinned Remus.

"The whole time?"

"Yes, already!" shouted James. "Let's get the show on the ROAD here, people!"

Dave chuckled. "Fine," he said, and stepped onto the bridge over the jam. Harry the Hare, Remus, Sirius, James, and Peter followed him.

Dave smiled evilly, and pushed them all off the bridge over the jam (though he spared the hare).

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!" they all screamed as they plunged into the raspberry greatness of the jam.

"Bwahahahahaha!" yelled a voice from the bushes. It was Severus. Severus, Bill, Bob, Esquire, and Dan all came out of the bush, cackling with glee.

"That was excellent, Dave," gasped Bill between fits of laughter. "Slap me five." And Dave did.

"Oh, MAN, we REALLY got you good!!!!" Severus yelled at James and Company, who were spluttering at the surface of the jam, looking completely surprised. "Ha ha ha! I told you you would regret it!!!!"

"You never said that!" shouted James.

"True," admitted Severus. "But I sent you the telepathic message! It's not my fault you didn't get it!!!!" Severus then went back to his high-pitched laughter.

"Thanks for the rabbit, by the way!" Bob yelled at them as they all left the Forgotten Forest.

"It's not a rabbit, it's a hare!!!! It's Harry the Hare!!!" Sirius called after them, but they weren't listening.

"Severus, can I just ask you something?" Dave said to Severus when they were out of hearing range of James and Company.

"What?" asked Severus.

"How did you know?"  

Severus smirked. "Let's just say I have connections."

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