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Chapter 6: Parvati's First Trouble in Number 12
Draco was satisfied. A letter had come from Tonks saying that Voldemort had been taken to some Muggle Healer who dealt with strange behaviour.
Voldemort wouldn't be getting out for a little while. Draco grinned to himself. Now all I have to do is stay in here and not come out. And there are benefits. Mrs. Weasley's cooking is great, the house is huge, and it's been made Unplottable. I honestly think that nothing bad can happen to us here.
Well, he was right, in the sense that Voldemort wouldn't be able to kill him ruthlessly, but he forgot about one thing and how fussy that one thing was.
Can you guess, reader?
If you supposed his girlfriend, Parvati, you'd be right.
Parvati was very nice. But when she was angry, trying to calm her down was like trying to calm some sort of force of nature, such as a tsunami. You can imagine, reader.
And Parvati, though she totally supported Draco in all his endeavours to hide from Voldemort, she did not appreciate being dragged into a decrepit old Dark-wizard home.
The day started off okay. It was warm and very nice.
Parvati rose at about eight-thirty and went down for breakfast.
Fortunately, there were no recent strange occurrences around the house. Kreacher's heart had (finally) given out two years ago. Harry wasn't too sad at the loss of his house-elf, as that creature was the very (formerly) living being that had brought about the loss of his godfather, Sirius Black.
Anyway, though there were no recent strange occurrences (lizards in the bathtub, Dungbombs under the bed, etc.), there were several old things in the house that were not quite normal. Some were, to put it bluntly reader, very disgusting.
Parvati wanted a cup of tea. She skipped down to the kitchen and searched the cupboards for tea bags. Once she found some Earl Grey, she pulled out the kettle and opened it. A huge black spider scuttled out—up her arms.
"AAAAARRRRGH! GET IT OFF! GET IT OFF ME! AAAAHHHH!"
Draco came running down. "Parvati, are you okay?" He had to laugh. Parvati was dancing around wildly, with some strange, furry, black hat that was moving about on top of her head.
He came closer to see what was bothering her. Then he gasped. At the same moment, Parvati shook her head hard—and the spider flew off and landed on Draco's stomach. It began to crawl down his pants (with surprising ease for an enormous spider) towards a very significant part of Draco's body.
Draco yelled and danced around even more wildly than Parvati had.
Just then (to make things better, tee hee), Ron came down. He found it quite amusing to see Draco clutching his area (which, under the pants, looked incredibly large and somewhat fuzzy. Ron thought that a little odd) and Parvati crying.
"Erm, ahem, Draco…Parvati…what's wrong?"
Draco yelled loudly and yanked off his pants, flinging them in the air. The spider fell out and landed—
Right on Ron's face.
Ron started swearing and clawing at his face. The pants were also hanging off of him, funnily enough.
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Hermione heard some strange noises coming from downstairs. She came to the door. Something sounded weird.
That was definitely Ron's voice, shouting what sounded like unrepeatable swearing. There was also Draco, just yelling his head off. And a distant wailing sounded a little like Parvati or Padma. Hmm…
Hermione crept into the kitchen. An amusing sight lay before her.
Ron was clutching at his face, upon which a large, hairy, black spider was perched. A pair of black pants was over his red hair (not good. Typical Ron to start swearing in a crisis). Draco was yelling at Ron, saying something like, "Get it away!" and was standing on the table wearing a green sweatshirt and a pair of grey boxers with patterns of little green and golden dragons (very strange). Parvati was sitting there crying (not unexpected).
Hermione guessed the reason for the pandemonium. She decided to watch the scene for a minute, considering it was very entertaining and was the only amusement she'd had for a week. Goblins were very hard to cooperate with in her department.
After a couple minutes or so, Hermione aimed at the spider with her wand and yelled, "Petrificus Totalus!"
The spider fell to the ground. Hermione calmly moved it out the up the stairs and out the upstairs window. She was very good at Locomotion Charms.
Ron stopped swearing and looked incredibly stupid with Draco's black pants over his head.
Draco stopped yelling. But after a moment's pause, he let out a loud screech and attempted to cover his lovely little dragon-boxers.
Parvati kept wailing.
Hermione smiled.
A/N: I think I may have to change the rating on the story. But I'm not so sure. Ah well. I'll see later. I had written a poem about the ERBs and how I hated them. It was fun. Part of it is a little interesting:
Vocabulary's strange.
I don't know what they meant
When they said, "deluge".
Who says the word, "augment"?
So I kind of liked it…actually, I really liked it. I'm going to think of my next chapter now. Au revoir.
