Chapter 3

they leave

Hobbes zipped through book one.

When he was finished, he walked over to Calvin and said "got it"

Calvin grinned. "okay now read the other five."

Hobbes read all the others and with time to spare.

"OKAY HOBBES!" yelled Calvin. ''lets go!''

Hobbes frowned. "won't your mom not want you to go to England to learn magic?" he asked.

Calvin's smile wilted "Oh yeah'' said Calvin ''she barley lets me stay at the house without magic.''

Calvin thought for a long moment.

Then grinned again. "simple!" he yelled.

He ran over to the closet and took out a large cardboard box.

Hobbes' eyes crossed.

''oh no you don't!" he yelled. ''the other two times you duplicated yourself, it resulted in udder disaster!''

Calvin rolled his eyes.

"I only duplicated myself then. if I duplicated you to..." Calvin rolled his eyes around. "you could keep him in order."

Hobbes' eyes widened and he gasped as if Calvin had gone insane.

"duplicate ME?!?!" he screamed. "are you mad?!?!"

Calvin glared at Hobbes. "I've done it twice before. it doesn't hurt!" said Calvin

"that's not what I'm worried about." said Hobbes.

Calvin pulled a can of Tuna out of his pocket.

Hobbes' eyes nearly bugged out of his head.

''on second thought'' said Hobbes eyeing the tuna. "I think I can pull it off."

Hobbes climbed into the Duplicator. Calvin pushed the button.

boink.

Hobbes stepped out. then Hobbes' duplicate stepped out.

"now gimme my tuna!" yelled Hobbes.

"oh no you don't" said the Duplicate.

"I think I should get the Tuna"

Calvin threw the can out his window.

"WHY DID YOU DO THAT?!?!" both Hobbes' yelled.

"I did that so you would Duplicate yourself."said Calvin as he stepped into the box.

boink.

Two Calvins stepped out.

"ok Hobbes," said Calvin "here's the plan..."

"HEY!" yelled the duplicate "why do YOU get to go to Hogwarts and I don't?"

"cause you didn't get a letter." said Calvin crossing his arms and sticking out his tongue.

"I AS GOOD AS! I'M YOU!" screamed the duplicate

"HA!" snorted Calvin "you're just a stupid duplicate! your intelligence is no where near mine!"

The duplicate's face turned a deep shade of red.

"what makes you so sure?" he asked through clenched teeth.

"because." replied Calvin. "the first time I did this, you got sent to the principle office everyday! EVERYDAY!"

The duplicate's bottom jaw dropped two inches.

There was a long moment of silence.

Then the duplicate jumped Calvin.

The two rolled around on the floor for a couple of minutes and fought as Hobbes and his duplicate watched.

At last Calvin got the better of the duplicate, and shoved him in the closet.

"ok Hobbes!" said Calvin locking the door. "now here's the..."

Calvin stopped and stared at Hobbes' duplicate suspiciously.

"do I have to shove YOU in the closet too?" he asked.

The duplicate of Hobbes didn't answer.

Instead he walked over to Calvin's bed, and began to read Calvin's comics.

Calvin turned back to Hobbes.

"ok! I'll turn off the time travel device on the time machine, and then we can zoom around the earth at whatever speed we choose without hitting a time warp!"

Hobbes rolled his eyes.

He never did like going into that box.

"meanwhile, while we're learning magic tricks, these two duplicates will pose as us! so mom and dad won't get suspicious!"

Hobbes rolled his eyes again

"Lets go!" Calvin yelled as he flipped the Duplicator over, making the time machine.

He turned off the time travel device, and Hobbes jumped in.

They were just about to blast off, when all at once, a loud CRACK echoed through the room.

"CALVIN QUIT BANG AROUND!" Calvin's mom called up to them.

Calvin turned his head. There standing in the middle of the room, was a small, house elf.

Calvin's eyes widened. "HEY!" He yelled. "I know you! Your that house elf, named Bobby, that used to belong to Snape."

the House Elf stared at him.

"The name's Dobby, sir, and I used to belong to the Malfoys!" he said.

Hobbes rolled his eyes skyward.

"Ah, yes," he said. "Boddy the house elf." Dobby glared at Hobbes.

"DOBBY, sir! DOBBY!" he yelled. "I must tell you, sirs, you must NOT start Hogwarts this year!"

Calvin stared at him. "I've waited all my life for a letter like that! I'm not letting a stupid Santa's little worker stop me!" he said.

Hobbes rubbed his chin.

"Has the Chamber of Secrets been opened, again?" he asked.

Dobby shook his head and bit his lip.

"Is there a gas leak?" Calvin asked, eagerly.

Dobby shook his head again, and began to twiddle his fingers.

"WELL WHAT IS IT!" they both yelled at the same time.

Dobby rolled his eyes upward.

"It is very complicated. Dobby doesn't know where to start."

Calvin rolled his eyes. "Yeah, yeah, that's what you said in the second book. NOW LETS HEAR WHAT THE HECK YOUR TALKING ABOUT!!"

Dobby made a worried look, and said,

"Calvin and Hobbes will..." Dobby didn't finish, because Calvin got sick of waiting.

The two rose into the air, and blasted off out the window.

Dobby rushed over.

"NO! SIRS MUST NOT GO!"

But Calvin and Hobbes were gone.

Dobby turned around.

"why are you so worried about them?" the Hobbes duplicate asked.

"Because, there is a plot! Hobbes and Calvin are part of it! Harry Potter AND them are in great Danger, sir!"

And with that, he disappeared with another CRACK.

The Duplicate of Hobbes let the Calvin Duplicate out off the closet.

"OK NOW TO FINISH WHAT I STARTED!"

but he was to late.

The Calvin Duplicate grumbled as he stalked down the stairs.

Calvin and Hobbes were off to Hogwarts.