The (Mis)adventures of the Death Eaters

Declaimer: Maybe in another universe, I would own Harry Potter. Here, I don't even own the Death Eaters.

The Halibut and the Order of the...?

"My faithful minions!" Voldemort addressed his Death Eaters at an important meeting. "Even though 'Alibut Dumbledore is dead,"

"At least he remembered," Snape muttered. "Wait, WHAT?"

"What?" Voldemort asked.

"'Alibut Dumbledore?" Snape asked incredulously.

"Oh, right. Even though Halibut Dumbledore is dead--"

"That's not his name!" Snape cried in desperation.

"What is it, then?" Voldemort demanded in desperation.

"Albus," Lucius and Snape yelled together.

"Fine, even thought Albus Dumbledore is dead, the Order of the... I can't say it!" Voldemort snarled suddenly.

"Say what?" Lucius asked.

"F--F--"

"You mean phoenix?" Snape asked.

"Yes, that! So, the Order of the..."

"Phoenix," Lucius reminded him.

"Shut up!" Voldemort snarled. He snatched a piece of paper and scrawled "Fenicks."

"That's not how you spell 'phoenix,'" Snape said snidely.

"Oh, right," Voldemort said. He scratched that out and wrote "Fennix,"

"That's still wrong," Snape commented.

"Fine, you write it then, if you're so clever," Voldemort cried, throwing the piece of paper and pencil across the table to Snape. Snape wrote, in his neat cramped handwriting, the word "pheniks," and held it up.

"That looks wrong," Bellatrix commented, squinting at it.

Snape flushed and wrote "phenix" instead.

"Oh, give me that," Bellatrix demanded and wrote "phoenicks" in a large, square hand. She handed the paper to Voldemort.

"So, as I was saying. Even though Albus Dumbledore is dead, the Order of the-" he held up the piece of paper, "is still at large,"

"Hang on," Lucius said, "that still looks wrong..."