Time Turner Mania!

Maliaphire: Ok yet again there was a disappointing lack of reviews, well as long as I get one review per chapter its not so bad. For anyone reading this story who also reads my Alanna goes to convent story its on hold till I go back to school and can gain access to the books but the next chapter should be up in a few weeks. Here's the story:

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Chapter 4: The Sneaky Deed

"Ok," said Ron to Harry on Sunday morning, "We've got the egg timer now all we need to do is find out how to transfigure it into a time turner. How are we going to do that just out of curiosity?"

"I thought you knew how to!" replied an exasperated Harry. After thinking for a moment he continued, "Normally I'd just say to ask Hermione, but obviously in this situation we can't so I guess we'll have to find a spell to make it look like a time turner or if we can't find one which is likely, make a spell up ourselves. The best thing to do so that Hermione doesn't get suspicious is go down to the library right now hoping Hermione isn't there at the moment and get out as many books as possible about making up your own spells and bring them up into the dorm so Hermione doesn't realize what we are doing and just thinks we have slept in or something."

"Right mate," he agreed, "but you're taking a big risk hoping Hermione isn't in the library at the moment."

"Even if she is we can just pretend we were getting books about Quidditch out and she won't say anything else about it. Besides it's the end of term feast tomorrow, what on earth would she be studying for?" Harry asked.

"Next year?" he joked, "better get to the library then!" They went out the portrait hole, along numerous corridors and down even more flights of stairs before they eventually reached the library. When they went inside Ron went over to Madam Pince when he realized that they had no idea what the limit was on the number of books each student could borrow at once having never needed to know before. The irritated librarian told them that no student could get out more than four books at once until they went into sixth and year where they would need a larger number of books for their lessons and studying. After much searching among the vast bookshelves they found only five books containing information on making up spells including a book of Latin words and wand movements to use.

"I guess Madam Pince's book limit isn't exactly going to be a problem," Harry remarked dryly to Ron before carrying the books over to Madam Pince's desk to sign the books out.

Ten minutes later they were up in their dorm each engrossed in a book instructing them how to create transfiguration spells. The hours passed slowly until Ron's stomach suddenly gave a loud grumble indicating that it was time for lunch.

"I don't think I need a watch anymore Ron;" Harry joked. "Next time I want to know how soon it is till lunch, I'll just consult your stomach!"

"I resent that!" retorted Ron, but to his stomach he said quietly; "don't worry sweetie, I'm sure the nasty boy didn't mean it." As he glared at Harry, patting his stomach absentmindedly. Harry seeing this burst into hysterical laughter and didn't stop until he saw the strange looks people in the corridors were giving him and Ron had stood on his foot.

After munching on some steak and kidney pie for lunch Harry and Ron went back to their dormitory, which was again empty, as Seamus, Dean and Neville were all in Hogsmeade celebrating the end of exams. Having read most of each of the books bar the book of Latin and wand movements, they decided - considering they would need to take Hermione's time turner that night - that they had better start on the making of the spell.

"In the books it just says to try different spell and wand movement combinations suited to your spell until you find the one that feels right," said Ron. "This is going to take a long time..." At first they tried swish and flick along with tempus volvum faceo which didn't feel very right. After along time trying many different combinations including: ego mortuus tempus accompanied with a strange wand movement where the caster twirled their wand like a majorettes baton to sumus meus non volvum this time along with a jab of the wand in mid air. They finally found the combination that felt right, the sensation was rather like when finding the right wand it gave you a warm feeling when you were doing it exactly right and golden sparks shot from their wands - the caster said tempus volvum verto and drew a circle in the air before jabbing the air at the centre of the imaginary circle.

"I guess the spell is right then now we just need to test it on the egg timer," Harry said. "Are you ready?"

"Yes, I think..." Ron answered. They both turned to the egg timer and focusing as the books had told them on what they wanted the spell to do, said tempus volvum verto! Drawing the circle and jabbing the air as they did so. Amazingly the spell worked first time, but then again they had been practising almost without breaks for the whole afternoon.

Both of them flushed with their success, they each grabbed a vial of the sleeping potion they had made the previous day and Harry put the fake time turner in his pocket agreeing that whoever was nearest to Hermione's glass should dope her drink.

When they got to dinner they found most of the school still talking about Sirius' incredible escape right under the nose of the Minister for Magic. The Daily Prophet as Fudge had predicted "had a field day". The whole magical community now knew. Harry and Ron merely sat down next to Hermione, ignoring the rumours that were getting wilder and wilder by the second, and tucked into the delicious meal before them.

Hermione, being the fastest eater out of the three of them - Ron being as greedy as he was - finished first and left the table. The boys, fearing that she might decide to go to bed early and ruin their plan, sadly abandoned their half full plates to run after her. They need not have worried since Hermione, smartest witch of her age as she was; had decided to revise all the teeny tiny mistakes she had made in her exams even if they were in connection with spelling, grammar or punctuation. Meaning that she Harry and Ron were the last ones in the common room anyway.

Finally, the two conspirators got the opportunity they had been waiting for when Hermione went to the bathroom to get a drink of water near the end of her revision. When she came back Ron "accidentally" knocked her quill off the table, giving Harry the chance to spike her drink with the sleeping potion. Within a few minutes Hermione was fast asleep.

They carefully made the switch and waited until Hermione showed signs of stirring before going up the stairs to their tower dormitory to finish packing.

The next morning when Hermione handed the time turner back to Professor McGonagall she was none the wiser, and only a little puzzled why one minute Harry and Ron were there, and when she woke up they were missing. She just assumed they had just gone to bed rather than wait until she awoke, to finish her revision.

It wasn't until they were just getting off the Hogwarts Express and leaving to return home that they told her:

"Oh Hermione by the way, you know that time turner you handed back to Professor McGonagall?" said Ron uneasily.

"Yes, what about it?" she replied good naturedly.

"Well," continued Harry. "We replaced it with a dud and took the real one in case we ever had need of one again. Anyhow see you soon!" Then he and Ron ran off, leaving an annoyed Hermione muttering under her breath; "Cowards."

Maliaphire: So how did you like it? Were they too OOC? Please review!