Hi! I hope all my readers haven't dropped off the face of the Earth. My reviewers seem to have. No I'm being overly critical. I think I'll just go off into a corner and cry. I'm just kidding. I hope you like this new chapter. If your sense of humor is as wierd as mine is you will.
By the way I own neither Harry Potter nor Yoohoo and if anyone can identify the cartoon the quote "You think I've got a clock in my head" is from, I'll be astounded.
Chapter Four
Wooo-ooo Yoohoo!
Later that night in the Gryffindor common room, the titanic trio was working on their Care of Magical Creatures assignment, Jackalopes: Beware the Bunny, when they heard a sound like a fog horn (Namely WOOOOOOOOOO-OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO). Harry jumped on top of the wing backed chair, which promptly fell on him, and Ron ducked under the couch, hitting his head on the wall. This gave Harry a chance to try out some of the vocabulary words he had learned from Draco, and Ron added his own. Meanwhile, Hermione had been riffling through her bag, throwing random objects on the table. Eventually, she pulled out a peanut and held it up.
"What the ?$&! was that, Hermione?" Ron said while clutching his aching head.
"Now now, Ron, you don't want me to wash your mouth out do you? As for your question this is my Ginny Monitoring Device, or GMD for short." She said holding up the peanut.
"Ok, Hermione, two things. First, that's a peanut, and, second, that's a peanut." While saying this, Harry pondered how much a psychologist would cost.
"It's not a peanut, it's a GMD!" Hermione asserted this, at the same time rocking back and forth, cuddling the peanut to her shoulder, and stroking it.
Ron had been gyrating his index finger at his temple, but when he saw Hermione watching him, he tried to pass it off that he had been twirling his hair on his finger.
"So! You think I have a clock in my head! Well I don't! I magically programmed this peanut to give a signal if Voldemort calls Ginny! Ha! So there!" Hermione fell to the floor and dissolved into insane laughter.
Ron and Harry looked at each other bemusedly. Ron scratched his head and said (that rhymes!) "She has got to lay of the Yoohoo."
Like a corpse being reanimated, the bushy haired girl raised her hands, still clutching the peanut, and sat up suddenly.
"Follow the peanu…I mean, follow the GMD! If you want to save your sister follow me."(I rhymed again! WEE!) Hermione bawled, raising the peanut aloft.
The witch marched to the door, turned around suddenly, and marched back across the common room to the boy's dormitory to get Harry's invisibility cloak. The two boys shrugged, and joined step behind the wildly sugar high girl.
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As this little melodrama was playing out, Ginny was climbing down from her window on the seventh floor of the North Tower using only chewing gum and twist ties. Also some magic. Ok mostly magic, and not much gum and twist ties, anyway, she was escaping through the window. Upon reaching the ground, she flopped onto her stomach and crawled, mainly using her elbows and knees, to the edge of the Forbidden Forest. Ginny stood up and tried vainly to wipe of some of the dirt she had accumulated.
Sighing, she said, "That was a dumb idea."
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Harry, Ron, and Hermione were hiding in the bushes watching Ginny and Voldemort talk. It was rather stupid of them to hide in the bushes because they were wearing the invisibility cloak, but whatever.
"Big Red do you copy? The rabbit is in with the fox. I repeat the rabbit is in with the fox. Over"
"I copy Gold Leader. Wait, I forgot which one's the rabbit and which is the fox?"
"Can't you both just shut up?" Hermione pleaded "You're going to give us away."
"They're on the move!" Gold Leader reported excitedly.
The trio dashed after the love-struck evil overlord and red head while trying not to make noise and stay under the invisibility cloak. They were having a bit of trouble with that.
"Oww! Ron, that's my foot you idiot!"
"Shhhh! Do you want everyone to know where we are?"
"If they can't tell by how loud you're whispering they're deaf anyway."
"Shut up you morons!"
"Who died and made you Supreme Ruler of the Universe?"
"Akk! You ran me into that tree on purpose you nimrod!"
"I did not, liar!"
"SHUT UP!"
Ron, Harry, and Hermione all dove to the ground as Ginny and Voldemort whipped around. Voldemort lit his wand and raised it up, but, seeing nothing, shrugged and continued walking.
"Ok from now on no talking. Got it?" Hermione looked from Harry to Ron. Both nodded.
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Ginny looked up at Tom's face and tightened her grip on his hand. Somewhere behind them came a sound suspiciously like a peanut exploding. Tom looked around quizically then shook his head. He glanced down at Ginny and smiled, reducing her to a gooey puddle of girl. Tom allowed himself a small smug smirk at his power over her. Some day he would rule the world and she would be by his side as Queen of the World! He stopped to ponder if this sounded too cliché. (Answer: yes.)
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The trio watched Voldemort steer Ginny into a small Japanese restaurant. They were again squatting in some bushes, this time in a park across the road from the steakhouse. In their best Mission Impossible style Hermione, Ron, and Harry snuck across the street. Ron hummed "Smoke on the Water" until Hermione whacked him on the head.
The three ducked into a back alley, and Harry packed up his invisibility cloak. Hermione looked nonplussed as Ron and Harry drew brown paper bags out of their pockets. The bags had been labeled "Disguise Kit" with a blue crayon. Ron fished around in his bag until he found a pair of glasses with a nose and mustache attached. Harry pulled out a turban and a long beard.
Hermione raised an eyebrow and said, "I'm not going to want to be seen with you two fools."
"Oh don't worry Hermione. We have one for you too." Harry said happily and pulled out a pink wig and a set of plastic vampire fangs.
"I am not wearing that!" She shook her head definitively.
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"I can't believe I'm wearing thish." Hermione muttered through her plastic prosthesis as she tried to swipe the brilliantly pink hair out of her eyes.
"Oh don't wfooo be such a fwoof stick in the foof mud, Hermione. I think you fwoo look great fooow." Ron had to keep blowing on the mustache so it wouldn't get into his mouth.
Hermione looked disbelieving, but became a bit less surly. The camouflaged conjurors crept to the enigmatic entrance. As the door squeaked open they heard the sound of a…(Pause for dramatic effect)… bell jingle. The hostess looked up, back down, and then did a double take. The odd appearance of the teens seemed to rob her of speech.
"Would kind hostess mind getting these poor travelers a table?" Harry asked in a wildly fake accent while twirling his beard.
The baffled girl turned and ran for the kitchen, returning with the burly cook. He took one look at the trio and threw them out the door.
Gingerly trying to stand, Harry said the obligatory "Well that didn't work."
Hermione stood with her arms crossed muttering something that sounded like "Understatement of the century."