Ron finally chose Sugar Quills and Harry purchased them.

"Let's take them to the Shrieking Shack," said Hermione suddenly, "I wonder if they…you know…sort of…remember it."

"Alright," agreed Harry, looking over at Seamus and Parvati, who also agreed.

But just as they headed for the Shrieking Shack, it began to rain.

"Maybe we better not," said Hermione, "Come on…we better get somewhere dry so Ron and Lavender don't get sick."

The closest dry place was the Hogs Head. So the two "families" went in and sat down at a table. Harry gave Ron a Sugar Quill and then ordered drinks for himself and Hermione while Seamus ordered drinks for himself and Parvati.

Hermione was getting out parchment and crayons for Ron when Harry came back with the drinks and asked,

"So what do you guys think? Why would Josh steal the babies?"

"Not for revenge," said Seamus, "I mean…they won the quidditch game."

"Yeah," said Parvati, "I was just thinking that."

"It makes no sense," agreed Hermione as Ron began to color with the crayons.

They all discussed it for a while until Hermione noticed Ron getting bored with coloring. He pulled something out of his pocket. It was a slip of paper that Hermione took from him and read out loud:

I, Professor Regor Kelarpie, give Josh Richardson permission to go into Hogsmeade village to perform a task for me. Please if he is caught by a teacher bring him to me and I shall excuse him from punishment.

"That kinda explains it," said Seamus after a long pause.

"What a sneak!" Harry exclaimed, looking at Ron, "I wonder how he got that from Josh."

"Me, too," added Hermione slowly.

"What?" asked Harry, "What is it now?"

"Well," said Hermione, "This sort of explains…maybe Josh was asked to take Ron and Lavender away from us."

And as they returned back to the castle they saw a sign on the notice board that caused some slight relief to most students:

Next Extra Credit class tomorrow (November 13th) at 1:30 p.m.

"I bet that will explain the whole Josh situation," said Seamus.

"And hopefully it means that they got some more Aging Potion," added Hermione hopefully.

"Yeah, hopefully," said Harry, "Sooner we get Ron all grown up the better."

"Why?" asked Hermione, handing the sleeping Ron over to Harry.

"Because I'm sick of not having both of my best friends around," replied Harry, "And I need to have Ron to throw off homework with."

"We can only hope," said Hermione with a smile.

I'm skipping the lyric. I had to get this up fast.