A/N: Thanks to Kidarock, Aurinko, american-born-confused-desi, girl from iceland, Tartan Lioness, SherbertKitty, missmcGonagle, and sphinx12….you guys rock my world! Lol…
Chapter 3: At the Alley
"Hey Harry?"
"Yeah Ron?"
"I don't think we're at Hogwarts anymore…we must be in heaven. It's a lot louder than I expected…Wait I get it…This must be where thunder comes from"
"Oh honestly Ronald, we're at the bowling alley! Professor Dumbledore told you we were coming here!" Hermione had to wave her hand in front of Ron's face before his eyes popped back into his sockets.
Albus popped a lemon drop into his mouth as he counted all of the students to make sure that everyone was there and ready to go. "Wait a minute, where's Severus? We don't want him missing out on all of the fun."
"Don't worry headmaster, I wouldn't dream of missing such an eventful evening such as this if my short life depended on it."
"Alright then, everyone's here. Excellent. Now, Minerva, could you come help me pay for this bill, I'm having a bit of trouble with this money here."
They pulled up to the front desk as Harry led Ron over to the bowling balls so that they could pick out their right sizes. The worker behind the counter seemed like the last place on earth he wanted to be was in this alley, so, naturally Albus found the need to cheer him up a bit. "Excuse me, Bob…ahh, I see it's on your name tag, I knew a Bob once. A friend of my brother Aberforth…he also liked goats…a bit too much I believe…gotten in trouble quite a few times with those goats...I wonder where he is now…probably in Albany.."
"Umm, right, sir, how many lanes?"
"Well, two lanes will do just fine for the 15 of us? And 4 of us will be coming in a bit...Here are their names and here are everyone's shoe sizes."
"Albus, how did you know all of those shoes sizes?"
"Magic, my dear."
"Here you are, sir." Minerva handled the money and led everyone over to the lanes that they would be using.
"Ok then, everyone have their shoes?"
"Er, Professor Dumbledore, sir, my shoes are a bit too small." Hagrid seemed to be trying to fit into size 12 shoes...
"Oh that's alright Hagrid, come here...now with a bit of magic...there we are." The shoes nearly quadrupled in size to fit Hagrid's feet, but he didn't seem to mind putting them on right away anyway.
"Wait a minute Professor Dumbledore, why'd you say that there were 15 of us?" Before Albus could answer Harry's question, Mr. and Mrs. Weasley came through the doors followed by Lupin and Tonks who, on entrance, made to trip over a newspaper rack in the corner.
"Mom, Dad, what are you guys doing here?"
"Professor Dumbledore invited us. He said that the Order needed a break from all of their troubles with Voldemort and…such."
"Yes, well, you all do work yourselves silly. Especially in a time like this! Honestly, there's no need for any added stress with our worrying…we all need to have some fun. And this is exactly the solution I have been searching for."
"Well said professor, now let's eat."
"Oh honestly Ronald, is food all you can think about?"
But Professor Dumbledore was two steps ahead of him because he had already run up to the two employees at the counter and ordered a round of hamburgers, French Fries, and a can of Pepsi for everyone.
The bowling was an immediate success. Everyone, even Severus and Minerva, got so deep into the game. They even got a little competitive, in Albus's opinion a little too competitive. They were playing rounds of adults versus kids and Lupin and Tonks to even it up a bit. Severus was actually trying to make the Gryffindors and Luna lose on purpose by threatening to take away points. Minerva, in her usual on top of things form, told Severus that they were not at Hogwarts anymore, so points couldn't in fact be taken away.
Ron decided now would be a good time to shout out "That's good, so then nothing will happen to me if I accidentally…" He went around to Severus and tripped him, causing Snape to pour Pepsi all over himself and Professor McGonagall.
Snape was about to start shouting his head off and cursing Ron into next week when, surprisingly, McGonagall cut in and shouted, "DETENTION!"
"Oh, I didn't think of that."
Everything else went rather smoothly, except for Mr. Weasley getting whacked in the face by one of the bowling balls. He kept telling Molly, who had been scolding him for the last ten minutes that he "only wanted to see how it worked."
The score was very close, and it seemed that the final bowl to decide who the winners were was left up to Minerva. She put a silencing charm on everyone except for Albus, who was the only person not shouting something totally obnoxious at her. She made her way up, and shot down 9 out of the 10 pins. When she went up again she closed her eyes and pray to Merlin that she not miss, after all, Albus was watching. She tossed her ball down the lane, and it started to curve to the right but, for some reason, the ball turned back to its original position right to the pin, and knocking it down. A spare!
"So, who wants to have another round?"
"I don't think that's going to happen."
"Why not, Severus?"
"We've got company."
A/N 2: I'm not sure if 15 people would actually fit on two lanes...but if they don't, then we'll just say that Dumbledore magically altered it to suit their needs...lol..update if you want to...There will only be one more chapter, and this time I'll try to actually update soon...
