Ellis: I hate pseudocode!
Angelisa: I will teach you to read it!
Ellis: No! NEVER!
Okay, back to the story. Here's chapter 4. cheers By the way, Ellis and I don't own anything in this story except the plot.
Chapter 4: Dragon TalesHarry suddenly found himself being smothered by a mass of bushy brown hair. "It's good to see you, Hermione," Harry croaked, "but I can't breath."
She let go quickly, "I'm so sorry. Are you alright?"
"I'm fine,"
"Hey, mate."
"Hi Ron," he hugged his friend. "How was your summer?"
"It was good."
Harry noticed the bandages on Ron's arm, "What happened?"
"Nothing," Ron's face matched his hair.
Ginny laughed. "If you don't tell him, I will," she threatened.
"Fine," Ron muttered. "You'd probably exaggerate the whole thing."
He took a deep breath and started, "We went to visit Charlie in Romania last week. While we were there, he was working on hatching some of this year's eggs so he had them at his house. The week was really fun and the eggs just sat in the fireplace until the last night."
Ron paused for a long moment. Harry wondered if he should say something, but then his friend started again, "Mum fixed a huge dinner for the last night; you know how she is. Anyways, she was just about to serve dessert when we heard something breaking in the living room. Charlie went flying out of the dining room and we all followed him. When we got in the room he was pulling one of the eggs out of the fire."
At this point, Arthur and his wife caught up with their two youngest children and exchanged greetings with James and Lily.
Ron continued, "Charlie put it on the coffee table and we watched the cracks grow until the little thing finally got out. Do you know what that thing was?" he demanded.
"A baby dragon?" Harry guessed.
Ron ignored him, "It was a Hungarian Horntail! It was being all cute by rubbing on every body's hands and purring and stuff until it got over to me. Suddenly, it just shot fire at me! Then, before I could get back, it just leaped at me and started to bite and scratch at my arm!" he held his arm out for everyone to see the bandages again.
"All dragons are dangerous," James commented, "but Horntails are probably the worst."
"Especially the mothers," Harry added.
"Have you ever studied dragons?" his dad asked.
"Not really, but Hagrid had a Ridgeback in out first year, and I had to fight a Horntail during our forth," Harry shivered at the memory.
"Why on earth would you fight a dragon?" Lily demanded in horror.
Harry shrugged, "It was a task for the Triwizard Tournament."
"They let you compete in that terrible thing?"
"Not exactly. No one under sixteen was supposed to compete, but a Death Eater put my name in the Goblet of Fire so I had to." Harry paused then quietly added, "That's how I ended up in the graveyard for Voldemort's return."
"Oh you poor thing," Lily threw her arms around her son.
"Mum," he complained, both touched and embarrassed by his mother's affection.
"I'm sorry, dear," she pulled back and tried to fix his hair again.
They all headed toward the ice cream parlor. "Wait, Ron," Ginny said, "you didn't finish your story. You forgot the part where you tripped over the coat stand while running and screaming like a-"
Ron clamped his hand over his sister's mouth. "I didn't forget anything," he insisted.
Everyone laughed hysterically as Sirius reenacted the scene, as he imagined it, by throwing his hands up in the air and running down the street screaming. Several people stared at him, and when he tripped over Professor Flitwick, the whole street laughed.
James had to stop walking and lean against a shop front to keep from falling over as he gasped for breath between fits of laughter.
Remus looked at him then yelled to Sirius, "Stop trying to kill James again!"
Sirius brushed himself off. "Why can't I kill him? Peter got a turn; you can do it next time," he whined.
James was now laughing so hard that Lily had to hold him up as the walked the rest of the way to the ice cream shop.
Angelisa: I'm now going to explain the opening authors' note. Two words: computer programming. We work on this story during class, and pseudocode is the instructions on how to write the codes.
Chapter 5 coming soon!
