Chapter Forty-Eight: Harry, We Shrunk Ourselves
"Poor Sarah." Harry began as he started walking towards Hogsmeade with Ron and Hermione at his side. "I guess she sort of forgot that she won't be going to Hogsmeade with us for another couple of years."
"Yeah, Ginny was a bit upset too." Ron began. "At least she's got the advantage of coming with us next year." He finished as Harry remained silent as he thought about the fact that he had wished that she was with them as well as he started seeing her as another little sister.
That's when suddenly Draco cleared his throat inside his fist behind them and they stopped and turned to look at him. "Mind if I walk with you?" He wondered while Ron just simply eyed him suspiciously.
"That depends on what your motive is." He told him while he couldn't help but notice that he was getting awfully close to Hermione. However, before he could answer him that's when all of a sudden Vincent Crabbe and Gregory Goyle started heading towards them.
"So,.. hanging out with the mudblood girl again are you?" Crabbe questioned while Draco just narrowed his eyebrows and glared at him while students started walking past them and entering different Hogsmeades shops all around them.
"It's none of your damn business." Draco growled.
"Oh don't worry about it," Crabbe began while he grabbed Hermione by the shoulder and started to drag her away. "I'm starting to believe that you're right and I should give the little bitch a chance." He said while pulling Hermione into his side before she let out a scream and Draco angrily withdrew his wand and pointed it at him.
"Get off of me!" She shouted.
"Let her go!" He hollered angrily at him before Crabbe slowly turned back around to look at him.
"Are you really going to duel your best friend?" He questioned him.
"We're not friends." Draco replied before they started shooting jinxes at each other.
"This is going well." Ron said with a sarcastic screech as windows of the shops were accidentally being shattered open and that's when all of a sudden Draco drew his wand once again and gave it a wave.
"Reducio!" He cried out and pointed it at Vincent Crabbe, but Crabbe managed to get out of the way in time and avoided being caught by the curse and he shot it off a nearby building instead, and the spell rebounded back at Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Draco and they found themselves half an inch tall.
"Malfoy!? What did you do!?" Ron hollered at him in complete and utter disbelief while Harry looked uncertain, and Hermione looked terrified.
"Umm,.. oops." Draco replied as he started looking around.
"We're all smaller than fairies!" Ron cried out. "Or_" he began but before he had had the chance to finish his sentence his worst nightmare was already coming true is a little black baby spider was crawling towards them.
"Spider!" He hollered before he started to run away and hid behind Harry, but Hermione just simply rolled her eyes at him while Draco snickered.
"Honestly Ron it's just a baby. It's not going to hurt you." She told him.
"Yeah Weasley! How more pathetic can you get?" Draco questioned him with a teasing grin.
"Come here boy, I'm not going to hurt you." Hermione began as she squatted down in front of the tiny furry black creature and everybody else watched as she placed her hand on the spider's nose and it closed its eyes and made adorable little cooing noises.
"Okay, now that's just spooky. It's acting like a dog or a cat or something." Ron pointed out while Harry smiled and thought about how much Ginny would have wanted to see this and then his smile instantly faded as he thought about his own dog and wondered if he was currently freaking out without his presence.
"Spooky." Hermione said aloud to herself. "What a perfect name for him and maybe we can ride him back to Hagrid's hut. He likes spiders so much that he's bound to notice him and then us and then maybe he will be able to help return us to our regular sizes." She suggested.
"Well, why can't we just use the engorgement charm on ourselves?" Ron wondered but Hermione just simply shook her head.
"No it's too risky. We're lucky that we weren't harmed except for being shrunk since the Reducio spell is rather dangerous performed on humans." She replied before climbing onto Spooky's back and holding out her hand for Draco who took it and climbed on behind her and wrapped his arms tightly around her waist. Ron glared at him before he and Harry climbed on behind them and then Spooky scampered off down the street.
"We better not run into the rat while we're out here." Hermione said while meanwhile Patches was already busy running back to Hogwarts and scratching upon Severus' and Lily's (since she was currently a guest at the castle) dorm room door and barking frantically. That's when suddenly Lily opened the door and gathered the tiny terrier inside her arms.
"What is it Patches? Where's Harry?" She questioned out of concern while Severus walked over to them.
"Didn't he come back with him from Hogsmeade?" He inquired.
"No, apparently not and I'm starting to get worried." Lily responded.
"Me too." Severus told her while he felt his heart starting to speed up against his chest before grabbing his coat off the hook. "Stay here, I'm going to go take Patches with me and see if he can track Harry's scent as he's done it before." He instructed as Lily put Patches down and then he took off running out the door and Severus started running after him.
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"So this has turned out to be a fun day." Ron began in a sarcastic tone with a roll of his eyes. "Instead of buying candy and butterbeer in Hogsmeade to eat and drink I'll be lucky if somebody doesn't try and eat me." He finished.
"I think you should be more worried that we don't get stepped on." Harry pointed out wishing now more than ever either Sarah or Ginny was old enough to be in Hogsmeade with them so they could go tell the others what had happened to them. It was no use now though, Hagrid was currently their only hope and if he didn't find them,.. he wasn't sure if they would ever get found.
Btw, stay tuned for chapter one of Wiztanic tomorrow! :D
