Picture Wisher
By: Lauren Freeman
Disclaimer: I do not own anything.
Colin Creevy sat miserably beside his brother Dennis on the large red couch in the Gryffindor common room.
"Ant luck?" Dennis asked also looking miserable.
"None. I think his friends are running interference." Colin sighed.
"Do you think they know were trying to get a picture of him?" Dennis asked. Colin snorted.
"How could they not? We have been running around him all week with out cameras constantly going off. They are not dumb."
"Your right. We really need that picture, what if we just tell him what's going on and ask him if we can take his picture?"
"Because the challenge said that your subject is not to know you took the picture…maybe were going about this the wrong way?" Colin sat up suddenly.
"What do you mean?"
"I mean what if we were hidden when we took the picture?"
"Where could we hide? Harry seems to know everything that's going on around him these days." Dennis say up as well.
"Where do we know he will be, and when?"
"Well he has to eat…"
"Yeah but there is to much attention there. We need someplace where he is alone, and therefore doesn't have all of his friends looking for us." There was silence for a good ten minutes.
"I know!" Dennis shouted. A few Gryffindors walking passed stopped abruptly and looked at them. Dennis waited until they left. "What if we tricked him in to leaving alone?" Colin looked at his brother in deep thought for a moment before he smiled.
"I like it…but how?" Colin asked. They sat back again in thought. "Who do we know that Harry would listen to and come when called without knowing the reason?"
"And who would call him for us without knowing the reason?" Dennis sighed.
"What about Ginny?" Colin asked but immediately shook his head. "No, she would want to know why."
"Hermione or Ron?" Dennis asked then laughed. "Yeah right."
"What about someone from the DA?" Colin stood up and ran out of the common room. Dennis followed after him.
THREE HOURS LATER
Dennis and Colin walked back into the common room with a large smile on their face. Behind them they heard a shout, and the two ran up the stairs to Dennis dorm room where they shut and locked the door.
"We did it, I can't believe we did it!" Colin grinned mischievously
"And all it took was talking to a simple house elf!" Dennis smiled as he rewound his camera of mostly failed attempts and began to develop the film.
"Luna was a genius! We were really luck to bump into her."
"How do you think she knew Harry was such good friends with that house elf?"
"Who knows, the only place I remember seeing her was in the DA, rumor has it that she went to the ministry with Harry and his friends last year."
"But how would she know about Dobby?" Dennis asked.
"Dobby? Is that the house elf's name? Hey that name sounds familiar…" They both went silent as the looked into the magical solution that was making their pictures appear onto a hard square parchment.
"There it is!" Colin exclaimed. There was a pounding on their door and yelling could be heard on the other side.
"Come on, come on finish developing!" Colin whispered. The picture finished, Harry sitting at a table in the middle of the kitchens stuffing his face with chocolate cake appeared. The startled expression was hilarious followed by Harry jumping up and running for the direction of the camera. The picture then started over. Colin made five quick copies, stuffed one into an envelope. The door burst open just as Dennis managed to throw his owl out the window. They could here it screeching indignantly outside as it flew towards it's destination.
The End
