A/N: Sorry about the long wait. Writers Block, my imagination, and Life are the culprits as they have been holding me hostage. Now, for this next paragraph, please read.
Due to some requests, I'm trying a different format for Book 2. I will be having a poll on my profile about it. Where you see the 22, that indicates the characters are reading from the books. The poll will be if you prefer this new format that tells you when the reading commences. If so, Book 3 will have 3 3's, Book 4 will have 4 4's, and so forth. You will have until the Anniversary of the 35th anniversary of the deaths of James and Lily Potter.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything created by J.K. Rowling.
Busted Part II: Chamber of Secrets
Chapter 1: The Worst Birthday
After reading the First book, the readers decided to have an extra long break to get over the events. Then, what would have been the next morning had it not been for the fact that time had stopped, they ate breakfast and went to the living room to start Book 22.
"Out of curiosity," Tonks asked. "How bad will the next one be on Molly and Sirius' nerves?'
"Considering the title?" Harry said picking up the book "Pretty bad. And not just on their nerves. Ginny and Ron will be affected too as will probably the other Weasleys."
"How so?" Ron asked
"Remember that little nighttime stroll we took when we followed Hagrid's advice after Dumbledore was suspended?" Harry asked innocently as he showed Ron the title.
Ron paled as he remembered that eight legged Monster.
"So?" Harry asked the twins. "Who wants to read first?"
Fred and George looked at each other and Fred took the book.
"The Worst Birthday" Fred read
"Please tell me that it only goes uphill" Sirius begged
"Give it a couple of chapters." Harry hinted.
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"He CAN'T get rid of Hedwig!" Ginny exclaimed
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"She's not allowed to fly?!" Charlie gasped
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"Yes" Fred and George answered
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"Yeah." Bill said. "Your house will be covered in dead mice and owl pellets"
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"Whatever happened to 'excuse me'?" Hermione asked
"We're talking about Dudley Dursley Hermione." Harry said. "he'll never be polite or say a single nice thing about anyone. Especially to their face"
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"How big is this kid again?" Sprout asked
"It's described" Fred said reading ahead a bit and making a face
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"That's DISGUSTING!" Ron said making a face
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"Harry. Has Dudley ever said it before?" Hermione asked. "Because, if not, what makes you think he'd say it now?"
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"Just for telling their son to have some manners?" Arthur asked
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"Harry didn't say 'Mudblood'" Bill said
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"How is asking to hear the word 'please' threatening?" Flitwick asked
"Fred. Read." George instructed his twin
"Say the magic word" Fred joked
"MUM! Fred's threatening me!" George tattled teasingly
Harry had to chuckle. When it had first happened with the Dursleys, he had been grateful he had gotten off with a warning. However, now that the twins were putting it into perspective, it was rather ridiculous.
"Cut it out and read. Considering that the title of the book is 'The Chamber of Secrets' I want this book over and done with as soon as possible" Molly said
"I second that" Ginny said squished between her parents knowing that she was going to be teased mercilessly.
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"Don't remind me" Harry pouted
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"Harry!" Fred gasped
"Why didn't you tell us?" George joked
"Doesn't that mean you can do nifty things that are magical?" Fred asked jokingly
"Oooh. You said the M-word" George told his twin
"Why do I feel that they're going to do this through the whole book?" McGonagall sighed as she rubbed her temples.
"It's the way of the prankster" Remus explained. "They know that this book, for some reason, will be hard on everyone so they're trying to keep the mood light"
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"Here Here!" the students agreed.
"I AM right here" Snape spoke up.
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"Whoo Hoo!" The Quidditch players (minus Harry who realized what was coming up) cheered.
"Wait a minute!" George said.
"What is that my dear twin brother?" Fred asked.
"The castle, the passageways, ghosts, classes minus Snape, the mail, the banquets, the dorms in the tower, Hagrid, and Quidditch. I didn't hear ANYTHING about missing two VERY dashing pranksters."
"I had missed you guys too" Harry said. "If the list continued with the full extent, it would be longer than the book."
"Nice sucking up Harry" Fred said.
"We'll make a prankster out of you yet" George said.
McGonagall, Molly, Hermione, and Snape groaned.
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"THAT'S BROOM ABUSE!" the Weasleys shouted.
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"And that's animal abuse" Ginny pouted.
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"Harry! You have a mysterious past?" George gasped.
"Why didn't you tell us?" Fred asked.
"I don't have to tell anyone EVERYTHING about my life."
"We noticed that with the cupboard" Hermione said glaring at her friend.
"Though it would be greatly appreciated if you did tell one person, namely your godfather, everything about your life" Sirius said giving his godson a look.
"I'm not the only one who's been keeping quiet Snuffles" Harry said motioning around the room indicating the Slytherin themed house and the Order that's been keeping secrets from him.
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"Didn't we learn all this last book?" Ron asked.
"It's probably just a recap in case someone hadn't read the first one in a while and then picked up this book without re-reading the first." Hermione explained.
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To everyone's shock, Remus started chuckling as Sirius pouted.
"Did I miss something?" Harry asked his father's two best friends.
"Let's just say it involved dragon manure, a certain dog, me, James, Peter, your Dad's place, and a washtub of soapy water." Remus explained.
"And my so-called friends asking Mrs. Potter to body-bind the poor innocent dog so they could give him a bath and her asking where I was and why there was a mutt covered in her fertilizer."
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"They actually remembered?" Tonks asked.
"What do YOU think?" Harry asked.
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"Of course" Hermione said sarcastically. "Gotta make enough money to feed your son who has already eaten enough to feed 10 third world countries."
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"You're kidding" Sprout gasped. "They SCRIPT-OUT their dinner parties?"
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"And this was your BIRTHDAY?" Sirius asked his godson
"They had to make sure I wasn't around to do magic" Harry said before turning to the twins. "DON'T start."
The twins were pointing at him looking ready to tattle about Harry using the M-word.
"You'll have plenty of things to tease me about later" Harry said.
"And me" Ron pouted remembering all the time he had spent in the girl's toilet.
"And me" Ginny added thinking of her Valentine to Harry.
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"Ooh!" George said jumping in his seat. "you should put on your invisibility cloak, sneak downstairs during drinks, and turn off the oven so that when 8:15 rolls around, dinner WON'T be ready!"
"only one small problem" Harry said. "The cloak was in my trunk which was locked in my old bedroom"
"That wasn't a bedroom Harry" Hermione said.
"More of a torture chamber" Tonks added.
"Just wait until later" Ron said remembering the bars.
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"And how did you hear of him before?" McGonagall asked with an eyeroll as the students laughed at how ridiculous Dudley (read by Fred) sounded
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"At least you don't mmph!" Sirius started before having his mouth covered by Remus who was leaning over Harry.
"Don't say it Sirius" Remus said. "You'll jinx it"
"Professor. You know my luck by now. You KNOW what's coming"
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"That's so sad it's pathetic" Bill said.
"I've been doing it since I learned the song. Just…the year before, I had been a BIT preoccupied with the half-giant knocking down the door to tell me that I was a wizard" Harry said.
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"What about us?!" Fred and George exclaimed indignantly.
"And we blew up a toilet for him" George huffed.
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"And why is that?" Sirius said glaring at said friends.
"There was a reason which will be explained either this chapter or the next" Harry assured his godfather.
"Yes" Arthur added. "Ron wrote so many letters, we ran out of parchment three times."
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"Wow that's desperate" Tonks muttered.
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"I'd hate to hear this summer's nightmares after seeing him come back" Sprout said
"Not pretty" Ron said. "I lost track of the number of times I've woken up to him screaming OW!"
Harry had thrown a throw pillow right at Ron's face who had been separated from his best friend by only Sirius.
"Nice shot. You'd make a fair chaser too" Ginny praised "Especially at that angle."
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"Is it anything dangerous?" Molly asked
"Depends on your definition of dangerous" Ron said as Sirius turned for an answer for himself
"It's explained later" Harry said. "It's not…TOO dangerous. Heart's in the right spot…weird way of showing it. Say…I wonder if we can bring him here to listen to these stories with us"
"I can hear it now" Ron said before fake sobbing. "Dobby is not worthy of listening to the Great Harry Potter's life story!"
Hermione grabbed the throw pillow Harry had thrown earlier and whacked Ron hard in the face with it.
"Ooh!" Everyone winced at Ron's yelp of pain.
"Looks like Hermione would…"
"…make a fair beater herself" the twins pointed out.
"Thanks Hermione" Harry said.
"I dink you boak my nose" Ron said.
"Let me see" Molly said getting up and examining her son. "Nope. Just bruised"
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"And he's 122?" George asked.
"We learned that when we were…what? Four?" Fred asked.
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"Incendio" Flitwick said.
"I was just freaking him out" Harry said.
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"Huh?" the purebloods asked as the muggleborn and muggleraised laughed.
"Lame 'magic spells' Harry" Hermione said.
"For the Dursleys, any weird word is considered 'magical'" Harry said.
"So 'Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious' would be considered 'magical' to them."
"Maybe not magical" Harry said as he had heard it on the playground when he was younger and knew what she was talking about. "But trouble was involved if it was said."
"And here I thought it was supposed to keep you OUT of trouble" Hermione sighed.
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"WHAT!?" all the adults (and everyone else but Harry and Dumbledore) shouted.
"She missed" Harry defended as Dumbledore looked highly concerned.
"It's the intent that counts" Hermione said.
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"That's not true Harry." Hermione said "You'll always have friends at Hogwarts whether it's me, Ron, Ginny, Fred, George, and Neville. Maybe even Dean and Seamus. Not sure about Pavarti after the Ball incident."
"And I'm sure you and Luna would get along well" Ginny said.
"Luna?" Ron asked.
"My Potions partner, Luna Lovegood of Ravenclaw" Ginny said.
"You have Potions with Ravenclaw!?" Ron gasped. "No fair!"
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"Actually," Hermione interrupted "It might do the world some good. I mean, it shows that you're just like everyone else and you don't get special treatment."
She said that last part with a look towards Snape.
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"All that work for bread and cheese?" Ron gasped.
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"Who?" Charlie asked
"Let's find out." George said taking the book "Dobby's warning"
"I guess we'll find out who this Dobby character is" Remus told Sirius who was still seething about the Dursleys' treatment of his godson.
