Snippets
By Siriusly Amused
Stories of the Young and Innocent
Author's Note: Hello everyone! I'm so glad you guys like these little snippets…or at least the first one. I think I surprised some of you with it being Hermione/Fred. Now, I'm an avid Good Shipper, but for some reason, awhile ago, when I was pondering HH and the snippet popped into my head, it was Fred who had Hermione's first kiss. There was really no spark there, Fred was just surprised that it was an alright kiss because it was from a freshman and Hermione, aka: his kid brother and baby sister's best friend. Anywho, I'm writing this in a new font. It's quite cool. Yeah, yeah, you guys want to get on with the story…ok…this is the story of when Draco hotwired a car so they're in 8th grade…some time in October, I think…I don't really know…it's warm out but not too warm. -shrugs-
Disclaimer: I don't own stuff you recognize from HP and I don't own stuff you recognize from the real world either.
Wired
°°°Harry°°°
"Come on, Crabbe, you almost have it. It's a vowel."
"Um…Y?"
"No, come on, there's only one vowel you haven't tried yet."
"Is B a vowel?"
The class roared with laughter. It was a Wednesday afternoon and Mr. Lupin was giving us a spelling bee over our vocabulary words for the week. Crabbe, needless to say, was forced to sit down after his blunder. Crabbe and Goyle were so stupid that they laughed along with the class, even though they didn't know what we were all laughing about. Mr. Lupin hid a smile behind his note cards. Draco Malfoy, however, looked around the class indignantly.
"Shut up!" he ordered the class while he crossed his arms over his chest and propped his Adidas shoes on his desk. "Everyone has something that they don't know. I'm sure Mr. Lupin doesn't know how to hotwire a car!"
Mr. Lupin leaned on his podium and sent a mischievous smile to Draco. "Is that so, Draco?" he asked, setting his note cards down. "Well, while you are right with the fact that no one knows everything, I can assure you that I do know how to hotwire a car and have done so many times in my youth. It's a merely a matter of cutting some wires and rubbing them against one another."
"Oh really?" Draco spat out venomously. "Which ones?"
Mr. Lupin made to answer but then saw the rest of the class. I looked around as well and every student was at the edge of his or her seat, awaiting the answer. Ron looked like Christmas had come early and I knew he was just itching to try hotwiring 'Old Betsy', Percy's car. Draco was the only one in the class who did not look anxious. He glared at Mr. Lupin with a scowl on his face.
Mr. Lupin frowned slightly and bent over to whisper the appropriate wires into Draco's ear. Draco scowled more and class went on.
°°°Ginny°°°
After school, Hermione and I sat on a bench in the front of the building and ate Fruit Roll-ups while Harry and Ron took down the flag. To our left, twenty or so kids played football in the school playground. Harry and Ron joined me and Hermione after they put the flag away and we all talked about the up and coming school dance when, all of the sudden, the kids from the playground became very loud and marched across the street to the faculty parking lot. Draco was leading them.
"Oh no," Hermione mumbled.
"What?" I asked.
"He wouldn't," Ron stated, while staring at Draco.
"What?" I asked again. Draco found an unlocked car that belonged to our science teacher and got in.
"He would," said Harry and the three of them got up and crossed the street to the parking lot.
"What's going on?" I asked Hermione as I hurried to catch up with them.
"Draco's going to hotwire a car!" Hermione explained to me. We reached the crowd and jumped from shock when the car revved up. Draco straightened and had a huge smile on his face as he gripped the steering wheel. A scared Pansy went to the open window of the car.
"Draco, don't! You don't even know how to drive yet!" she pleaded.
"Leave me alone, woman!" Draco told her. The car lurched forward and nearly ran over Colin, who squeaked a sacred, 'eep' as he jumped out of the way. Draco pulled out into the street but his turn was too wide and one tire started to go into the playground. Draco stopped, looked out the window at the car's position with confusion on his face then put the car in reverse to try to do a three-point turnabout. Reverse didn't work well for him though, and he ended up completely horizontal across the street with us behind him and the playground in front of him.
"I'll just go forward and turn around in the playground," he mumbled to himself while putting the car in drive. This might have worked just fine, but Draco pressed the accelerator too heavily and the car sped off into the playground with Draco screaming and flailing his arm along the way. Two seconds later, the car crashed into the basketball pole.
The rest of us stared at the smoking piece of metal for a few seconds before Pansy let out a frantic, "DRACO!" and we all rushed to the car. The door opened when we got there and Draco fought with the airbag for a few seconds before stumbling out. He had a slight gash on his forehead but it wasn't bleeding profusely and he was smiling. The rest of us sighed with relief.
"That was so cool!" Draco exclaimed to us as teachers rushed out. Draco was sent to the nurse and the rest of us spent the next two hours cleaning the school in detention.
End Author's Note: Not as amusing as Hermione's first kiss but I've always wondered if you guys wanted to know more about the time that Draco hotwired a car, so I wrote it out for you. Now, I'll draw a little map with letters so you guys know the layout of the school and playground and parking lot.
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Okay, the first X on the top row is the school and the second X on the top row is the playground, leaving the bottom X for the parking lot. For some reason I felt like explaining that.