Mal, Wes and Del all looked at each other in confused. Del was holding her crowbar at the menacing figure of Professor Snape.
"Don't you come near us!" Mal exclaimed.
Professor Snape approached.
"What did I just say?!" Mal yelled.
"I am here to take you to Hogwarts." Snape said snidely, crossing his arms as he waved his wand at the car. "There, now you have a full tank of gas, no need to thank me."
"Wait." Wes calmed the other two as they took a bite into a juicy nectarine, "Lets hear him out. He could be onto something here."
Professor Snape nodded. "I am taking you to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizadry."
Mal narrowed his eye and squinted. "How do we know you're not lying?"
Mal walked over to Snape suspiciously and inspected the three letters the man was holding... One adressed to Wes, one to Del and one to... himself?!
Mal gasped as he looked at the letters which were still folded up in Snape's hand.
"It looks pretty legit guys." Mal said.
"Maybe we should... open the letters." Del wiggled her eyebrows suggestively as she stroked her crowbar even more suggestively.
"Don't worry Del." Wes said. "I trust Mals intuition. Its never led us astray before."
"What about that time when he was the reason we all became homeless?" Del asked.
"Geez Del let it go already." Mal rolled his eyes. "I already apologized like, a bazillion times."
Professor Snape looked at them all. "We should all get into the car."
They all got into the car. Wes was in the drivers seat, and Snape, Mal and Del all sat in the back.
"You could sit in the front seat." Wes suggested, looking at the empty seat beside them and then at the three people crammed into the back.
"Nonsense." Said Snape who was squashed in the middle. "It's important we get to know each other and since most are in the back that would be a more practical place to sit."
"Im not sure how pracitcal you think it is-" Said Mal who had Snapes elbow digging into his side and was squished against the window, "But I don't think it's as practical as it actually is."
Del would have said something sarcastic and threatened to hit him with her crowbar but she was so squashed that she couldnt breathe and passed out.
"Oh shit!" Wes said. "We'd better get her to the hospital!"
They drove the car to the nearest hospital, the sat nav knew exactly where they wanted to go and led them there like an electronic breadcrumb trail, except there were no breadcrumbs so it was more like an electronic map.
The ride there was slow because they didn't want to crash. Del remained passed out because she was squeezed against the window.
When they got to the hospital Mal and Wes were pacing around outside the hospital room until they were allowed in.
"Hey guys." Said Del weakly when they came in.
She had an IV drip in her arm and looked pale and tired.
"Next time you are so sitting in the passenger seat." Mal said to Snape as he shook his head disapprovingly.
"My bad." Snape apologized as he gave Del a bunch of flowers. "These are magical flowers, they will help you regain your strength."
"I feel better already!" Del said looking less pale and pulling the IV out of her arm, "We'd better break out since we don't have insurance."
"I've got you covered." Wes winked. "I have a plan to sneak you out."
Ten minutes later Snape, Wes and Mal were standing by Del's window with a stretched out sheet.
"Now just jump! Don't be afraid!" Snape reassured her.
Del climbed out of the window and put her feet on the ground."My room is on the ground floor remember?"
"Haha oh yeah." Said Snape shyly as Wes and Mal shrugged
Suddenly, alarms went off in the hospital.
"Oh shit!" The all swore in unison as they all began to sprint away from the window. "Cheese it!" They all shouted.
Hoards of doctors began to pour from the hospital, emerging from all exits in a large mob. They brandished needles and enemas at the fleeing foursome. They were gaining on them.
Mal tripped and twisted his ankle and fell to the ground.
"Go on without me!" He shouted. The raving doctors were almost upon him, practically frothing at the mouth. He closed his eyes as a single tear rolled down his cheek. After all they'd been through... was this the end?
Suddenly, Del and Wes each grabbed one of his arms and hooked it over their shoulders. The doctors were almost there, hissing and spitting, only metres away. Their hearts pounded in their chest and Snape ran from them towards the car park.
"He's leaving us behind!" Mal said furiously. "How dare he!"
"Didn't you just tell us to leave you behind?" Del said, fending off the nearest doctors with her crowbar.
"Yes but I didn't mean it." Mal rolled his eyes.
"How about we save the conversations for when we aren't surrounded by a pack of bloodthirsty doctors?" Wes suggested.
Suddenly in the distance there was a honk.
It was Snape returning with the car!
"Get in!" He shouted from the drivers seat.
The three piled into the car and they locked the doors so that the zoctors couldn't get in. Once they saw their prey was beyond their reach, the doctors returned to the hospital all dejected to treat their patients.
"Phew! That was a close one am I right?" Mal laughed.
"You can say that again!" Wes laughed.
So Mal did.
"Phew! That was a close one am I right?"
"Yeah." Said Del.
Snape was driving the car down the road through London and Wes and Mal and Del were all in the backseat. But it was okay this time because Snape was too big and there wasn't room but it was fine now.
"It's getting late." Snape suggested.
They pulled into a run down car park of a shabby looking motel. There were lights on in some of the rooms and the front looked a bit dirty. Snape parked the car and everyone went into the motel.
"Hello." Said Mal to the person at the desk.
"We would like to have a room for the night." Snape told the receptionist.
"Okay." She said as she handed them a room key to room 68. "Your room is room 68 but unfortunately it only has one bed though."
"That's okay." Del said, clenching her crowbar which still had zoctor blood on it. "Snape can sleep in the car. But we have to keep the keys and lock him in because I don't trust him not to steal our car."
"Okay." Said Snape. He handed the receptionist a wad of cash.
"There is a couch he could sleep on." The receptionist suggested concerndely.
"Sleeping in a room with a guy?" Mal looked unhappy. "Urm, no thanks thats really gay."
Snape nodded and went to the car while Del locked him in.
"We'll be here in the morning to start Driving to Hogwarts." Del said to him.
"Okay. Can you please leave the window open a bit so I dont get too hot."
"No." Said Wes.
The three of them went to room 68 and Del laughed at the room number next door.
"Haha that room number says 67."
Then they unlocked the door to their motel room and all collapsed onto the bed. They huddled up together reminding them of the days when they had to huddle for warmth in the dump where they lived.
"Things are going to be changing." Said Mal philosophically.
"Shut up." Said Wes.
Del was already asleep, clutching her crowbar lovingly.
"Do you think we can trust snape?" Said Mal.
"I said shut up Mal I'm trying to sleep."
"It's kind of important though like what if he's going to kidnap us?"
"Shut up."
They all fell asleep.
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