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Chapter 4. Sting
"You know Hermione I don't think I've ever heard you be so critical of anything since you left the Divination class room back in the third year." An amused voice behind them said. They all spun around to find a smiling Harry looking at them releasing a cloud of smoke from his mouth. Everyone in the room sat there not to sure what to do, meanwhile Dudley was taking advantage of their shock and grabbing a baseball bat that was sitting nearby. "It's alright Dudley, that won't be necessary" Harry told his cousin, "These are friends from school not clients" Dudley looked from Harry to the small party standing by the window, in fact there seemed to be a battle going on inside his head, finally after what seemed like an eternity the sensible part of Dudley's mind seemed to kick in, "alright cuz, if you say so" he said as he put the bat down. "Thanks Dud, you can go now I'll be alright" Dudley gave Harry a nod and made his exit from the room.
"Harry when did you start smoking?" Hermione asked. Ignoring the question Harry stood up and walked behind the desk on the far side of the room and sat down on the office chair, putting the blunt down in the ash tray his mood then went from laid back to business-like.
"So" he asked the party, "To what do I owe the pleasure of this visit from my favourite people in the world?" Hermione was about to answer his question when she was silenced by another blast came from the sub-woofer:
I want to get high - so high!
I want to get high - so high!
I want to get high - so high!
I want to get high - so high!
Well that's the funk elastic, the blunt I twist it
The slamafied, (buddafied) funk on your discus
Oh, what you messed with, you got to bare witness
Catch a ho and another ho Merry Christmas
Yes I smoke shit, straight off the roach clip
I roach it roll the blunt at once to approach it
Forward motion make you sway like the ocean
The herb is more than just a powerful potion
What's the commotion, yo I'm not joking around
People learning about, what they're smoking
My oven is on high, when I roast the quail
Tell Bill Clinton to go and inhale
Exhale, now you felt the funk of the power
Now feel the effects...
I want to get high - so high!
I want to get high - so high!
I want to get high - so high!
I want to get high - so high!...
"Harry do you mind turning that down!?" Hermione said to him in a voice that seemed to be dripping with an emotion that Harry could not identify in his present state of mind but decided that it was better to do as she asked less that tone warned of a lecture of some kind from Hermione, he reached to where his feet were and grabbed a remote from the surface of the desk and pointed at the top right corner of the room, all of the Weasleys who had no idea what the remote did looked at it with terror drawing their wands and trying to find cover anywhere they could in the small room, when he saw this Harry couldn't help but burst out laughing nearly choking on the smoke that he currently held in his lungs. As Harry started to explain to them what the remote was another person flew into the window and with amazing agility jumped off their broom, Harry had to make a double take when he realized who it was, Cho Chang. She hadn't seen Harry yet but she had an air of urgency about her "Trouble You Guys!" Cho said to the group.
"What is it Ron asked looking worriedly?"
"Muggle Police they were talking to Harry's aunt and uncle, they were saying something about a warrant..."
Cho's POV
While everybody had shot off at the last minute Cho had stopped her broom, her Ravenclaw mind making her use rational, and instead of flying into the room she went off and did as they had planned, she watched the street from the roof of the house. As Cho looked down on the street it gave her an eerie feeling in the pit of her stomach, the houses all looked perfect, not a blade of grass out of place, not a single piece of litter anywhere on the street, also the silence that rested on number 4 Privit Drive was unsettling, it was as if a silencing spell had been placed on the whole street. Cho decided to ignore the weird feeling in her stomach and lay down on her chest watching the street. Something just didn't feel right she stole a glance at the watch on her wrist the others had been inside the house for a long time now, too long in fact the operation that was only supposed to take ten minutes tops, had already gone on about twenty.
Cho suddenly became aware of something disturbing the peace though it wasn't instantly noticeable, gradually the sound came to her ears, the sound was a strange one but she instantly recognized it as the sound that the muggle police's vehicles made. No sooner had she recognized what the sound was, about four of the vehicles came down the street with strange flashing lights in the tops. The vehicles pulled up to the house and, five policemen stepped from inside of each of them from inside of each, they walked up to the front door. Cho instantly realized that what she was witnessing couldn't mean anything good she heard one of the officials say something about a warrant to search the premises to Harry's aunt and uncle but nothing more as she flew to the back to warn the others.
She noticed that the smoke was no longer billowing out of the window in thick clouds; in fact it was barely visible now. She flew inside the window skilfully jumping off of her broom as she entered the small room she looked around the room quickly taking in her surroundings and she saw that everybody was there "Trouble guys..."
Regular POV
"Shit!" Harry cried out, he had gone from being laid back and relaxed, to desperate, they watched in amazement as Harry began rushing around spraying a liquid out of a bottle whose label read Fabreez, at the same time he was dripping liquid from a small bottle that had been in his pocket into his eyes from downstairs sounds could be heard and it sounded like a group of people were coming up the stairs, by this point Harry had run into his closet and come out with three plants in his arms, his firebolt, and his invisibility cloak which he threw over himself as he flew out the window. Deciding that it wouldn't be very easy to explain what five adolescents who nobody knew were doing there, the rest followed suit flying after Harry through the window. As the small group flew out the window, despite all the noise around them they couldn't help but hear laughter from an invisible source ahead of them somewhere, "I'D LOVE TO KNOW WHAT HE FINDS SO HUMOROUS ABOUT THIS SITUATION." Ron shouted to the rest as they just barely avoided the searchlight from the police chopper that was flying around the premises. They all ascended to a height above that of the helicopter from there they looked down upon the scene below which could only be described as chaos. Ron looked at Hermione "What's a Search Warrant?" he asked her, the others looked at her with questioning expressions on their faces.
"In the Muggle world the authorities don't have the right to just raid any house like they do in the wizerding before the are allowed to proceed with the search of a person's home, or property the need to receive permission from the justice system, so in short, a search warrant is a warrant giving legal authorization for a search of the subjects property" As Hermione finished her statement, an idea cam into Cho's head
"Hey, guys, do you think that Harry's strange behaviour could have anything to do with those plants that he was holding when he flew out of the room?"
"The plants?, you really think so Cho?" Ron asked "I mean what could be so special about some plants?"
"Well think about it Ron..." Cho said "of all the things that he could have grabbed, for example, his Owl Hedwig's cage, or his school books etc., he went for the plants, never mind the fact that he grabbed three of them"
"You know what's been bothering me?..." Ginny interrupted Cho "the last time I checked Harry didn't get along with his cousin at all, in fact his cousin used to make his life miserable, but now its like his cousin was actually looking out for him, like when we were there he was acting like Harry's equivalent of Crabbe, and Goyle."
"That's it" Hermione exclaimed making the others jump.
"What's it?" Ron asked with a confused look on his face.
"It's obvious isn't it?" Fred and George said at the same time, "since we obviously aren't going to find Harry tonight because got his invisibility cloak on and he's on a broom that can out fly ours with the greatest of ease, to get to Harry, and find out what he's been up to we need to get some info from our favourite muggle test subject" the twins finished saying this with looks on their faces that could be described as nothing short of evil.
"I see!" said Cho, "Once everything calms down, down there..." she pointed to the chaotic scene below them "we go and interrogate Harry's dear cousin?"
"Exactly!" Fred and George said simultaneously, "oh this is going to be so much fun" the two said with pure glee and anticipation dripping from their voices.
A/N: Ok people hope you like the new chapter, I'm working on making my chapters longer, because I felt that the last three were rather short. Anywho I hope you like this chapter and I'll try to update sooner this time, enjoy and please read and review because I've gotten like no reviews from the last 2 chapters, as for the reviews that have received: Joge6, The Phoenix King, thank you very much and I hope that you enjoy this chapter. the song in this chapter is "I wanna Get High" by Cypress Hill (For those of you who havn't guessed, I'm a huge fan of theirs)
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