Ron Weasley and the seven Professors
Chapter 5 The Professors Meet Ron
The figure named Grumpy finally arrived at the cottage's door.
"So…who's going in first?" one of them cried
"Oh…no' me!" yelled Dopey fearfully
"Shush up you big lug, don't you realise the witch might hear your great big boomin' voice?" cried Grumpy angrily and smacked Dopey over the head.
"Don't be so mean to him Grumpy, he don't know how loud his voice is," a rather small figure said comforting a sobbing Dopey
"Oh you shut up to Happy!" Grumpy replied "What's he want to get us all killed, there's a dark magic a-brewing' and he's a-jumpin' around screaming at the top of his lungs!"
"S…stop this both of you!" cried the tallest figure with the long silver beard and half-moon glasses "A…all killed you're going to all get us both!"
Wha' he say?" asked Dopey looking at Happy
"I think he meant to say you're both going to get us all killed," replied Happy smiling
"Y…Yes right quite, I mean quite right!" said the unnamed man with the long beard.
"Oh shut up all of you's, are we going to go in or just a-stand around here a-yappin' all day?" Grumpy asked angrily.
With that he opened the door and everyone pushed inside.
"Why…the house is clean!" cried Happy
"Not a speck of dust!" cried a plump cheerful looking woman wiping her chubby finger along a shelf and inspecting it.
Grumpy, true to his name, crossed his arms and glared.
"Well I don't like it!" he said "Mark my words there's trouble a-brewin'. I felt it comin' on all day!"
Suddenly the dwarfs heard a creak of a floorboard from upstairs.
"Wha' was that?" Dopey cried before burying his face in Grumpy's robes.
"Oh get off me you great prune!" cried Grumpy pushing Dopey away from him.
"Th…That sound's coming from u…up th…th…the st…stairs!" cried Seesy waving wildly in the "up" direction. "No doubt it's evil sp…spirits!" she said
"Evil spiri's….Oh no!" cried Dopey, this time cowering in Happy's robes.
Cautiously the seven little people went to investigate.
Happy slowly opened the door to the upstairs bedroom.
"Why…it's a boy!" he cried before smiling and opening the door wide.
As the figures approached the sleeping Ron, he began to stir.
"He's a-wakin' up! Hide" Grumpy yelled before ducking under a bed.
The other figures followed suit and soon were all hiding amongst the dust bunnies.
"Well…it's not clean under here!" whispered Seesy in disgust and pushing away a ball of dust.
Ron yawned and stretched before opening his eyes.
He noticed 7 little faces poking out from under the beds and screamed.
Ron screaming scared the little people and they ran out from under the beds and cowered on the floor in the middle of the room with their eyes shut tight, all huddled together.
"Don't be frightened" Ron said sitting up.
The little people opened their eyes and walked to the side of Ron's bed.
"How do you do?" asked Ron smiling
"How do you do wha'?" cried Dopey sincerely confused.
Ron laughed and said, "You must be Dopey!"
"He knows who he is!" Grumpy cried angrily "But who on earth are you?"
"Why I'm Ronald Weasley!" Ron said smiling.
"Why don't you get out of our home and go back to where you belong Ronald?" yelled Grumpy stamping his large feet.
Ron pleaded with his hosts "Oh please don't send me away! If you do, the king will surely kill me!"
"Well I don't want him a-finding you here and a-killing us all!" replied Grumpy throwing his hands in the air in annoyance.
"Oh he won't find me here, and if you let me stay I'll clean and cook and wash and…I'll do anything you wish!"
"Did you say cook?" Happy asked rubbing his belly and licking his lips eagerly.
"She stays!" cried Seesy, as if to make it final.
"I'm Bashful," cried the chubby girl figure running forward eagerly and shaking Ron's hand, before blushing ferociously.
"Doc here!" the tallest figure with the silver beard yelled before bowing so low to the ground that his crooked nose touched the floorboards.
"Sleepy…" A ghostly figure yawned.
"My…are you a ghost?" Ron asked taken aback
"Uh huh" Sleepy replied nodding his transparent head.
"I'm Happy!" cried a small figure running forward and smiling a large toothy grin at Ron
"Seesy…" said the figure with the large magnifying glasses and the many coloured shawls wrapped around her abnormally long neck.
Ron nodded and shook her jewelled hand.
"They call me Dopey…" said Dopey shyly
Everyone had introduced themselves except for Grumpy.
"You're Grumpy I presume" said Ron walking over to him and holding out his hand to shake.
"Yes I am…" mumbled Grumpy scowling.