The Woes of Harry Potter

Chapter Seventeen

Harry Potter and the Muggle Crossovers

Disclaimer: Nothing you might recognise belongs to me

It was the day before Graduation and the Golden Trio and their year mates were currently getting ready for their Graduation Ball that evening. Typically, Ron and Harry were waiting until the last minute to throw on their dress robes and clean their faces. Hermione and Ginny (who Harry had invited as his date) had disappeared up the stairs hours ago and there had been no sign of them since.

The boys had bagged one of the computers that were in the Gryffindor Common Room and were once again searching for more fanfiction. They had stumbled across a fanfiction called 'Harry the Voldemort Slayer' and were very confused.

"Who's this Buffy girl?" asked Ron, "I've never heard of her in my life!"

"I don't know. I thought these stories were supposed to be about us!" said Harry,

"Maybe one of the girls will know," suggested Ron and stood up. He crossed over to the girl's stairway and bellowed up. "HERMIONE!"

"What?" yelled back a voice,

"Come down. We…need….to…ask…you…something!" Ron shouted,

"I can't! I'm getting ready!" said Hermione, "you can't see me!"

"I don't care! Just come down, please!"

There was no reply but a minute later, the boys looked up to see Hermione and Ginny wrapped in dressing gowns with towels over their hair coming down the stairs.

"What?" asked Hermione, breathlessly, "why aren't you two changed yet?"

"Hermione, the ball doesn't start for another two hours!" said Ron, in exasperation,

"Anyway, Hermione do you know who this Buffy character is?" asked Harry, gesturing to the computer screen.

Hermione frowned, leaned forward to read the summary of the story and then began to laugh.

"What's so funny?" asked Ginny,

"It's a crossover!" spluttered Hermione, "Buffy's a character out of an American Muggle TV show called Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I watch it when I'm home!"

"That explains the title," said Ron, "Harry the Voldemort Slayer"

"Very original," said Hermione, "let's look for more Muggle crossovers!"

She nudged Harry off the computer chair and sat down. Then she entered in a search and they all read the results.

"Oooh there's Phantom of the Opera! It's a very famous musical. I've been to see it… Oh and look, there's Charmed! That's a TV programme that features some witches. I've never really watched it though…"

Ginny and Ron looked confused and Harry looked as if he vaguely recognised what she was talking about.

"Xmen! What a great film that is! I wonder how they've incorporated the theme into Harry Potter…Wow! Final Fantasy! That's a whole series of video games! I've got some at home. They're really good!"

Hermione carried on for an entire half hour,gasping as she came across a new crossover that some Muggle writer had inserted into their story. Ginny, Ron and Harry were only listening with one ear and getting thoroughly bored. It had been fun to start with but now it was getting very dull.

All of a sudden, Lavender and Parvati came running down the stairs.

"Hermione! Ginny! Where are you? There's only just over an hour left to the ball and you're not even dressed yet!"

The response was immediate. Hermione leapt up with a gasp and frantically checked the common room clock.

"Come on Ginny!" she squealed, "We're going to be late! See you guys later!"

And in a rush, the four Gryffindor girls disappeared up the steps.

Thanks to No Longer Alone, sarah, CherryIzzy, drbowler, caillion, Queenlover, Hermoine-Hermine, Piella (what! Someone dared to take your name?), gl2004, petites sorcieres, korrd, littleflower2004, Supi-chan and Lizzie-baka, Trish Shakespeare, preshuzz, I am a banana, E.K Kropp, maliaphire, tweets, Lanfear1, HarryMioneSamJackLukeLorelai (hmm nice mental image), Nixinox, jynkyg, the-geek, GaryLovesPickles, Eos and HGShipper.

I really am a bad author, I didn't update again yesterday! Sorry. But it's here now.

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