(Demented Chapter Number Sixteen)

It has been awhile, friends, but we pick up our story in the place we last left our beloved heroes -

Snape had disappeared without explanation, leaving the lardbucket and lunatic all to themselves. In order to break the akward silence that was now around them, Sirius muttered,

"So...you...like horse meat, do you?" Dudley just looked at his feet and shyly said,

"Yes. I do. I really, really do." Just then, he looked up at the middle-aged man and said,

"You know what other kind of meat I like?" Sirius, in utter mortification, tried,

"Errrm...turkey, is it?"

"No..."

"Pork?"

"Not even close..."

"Beef?"

"It's not what's for dinner." With that, Dudley lunged at the befuddled man with arms outstretched.

"I got your horse, now it's your turn!"

The cannibalistic ways of this overweight freak where enough to make the shocked man retreat.

"Screw this- I'm out." With that, he clambered down the fire escape. Not a moment later, Snape cut back in as he came through the door-

"Boy, you're a hero!"

"I want meat..."