Chapter 3- Potter and the Musical Muggle

Harry Potter was tall, handsome and still valiant. He, Ron and Hermione had made a trip from Britian to Ireland in search of Death Eaters. The three were now official Aurors. The Aurors are an elite group of witches and wizards who battle the Dark Arts. They operate in some ways as soldiers but more often as intelligence agents, seeking out Dark wizards and defeating them, often in fierce wizard duels.

The three friends embarked a journey to fulfill the job of the famous Aurors, Alastor Moody and the Longbottoms. Their job was to search and destroy the few remaining loyal to Voldemort, just like in the 1970's, before Voldemort's return.

Harry, with seven N.E.W.T.s, was the first to become an Auror. Ron and Hermione both joined a month later, Hermione with ten N.E.W.T.s and Ron with a minimum of five N.E.W.T.s. Harry, Ron and Hermione were trained in categories such as Concealment and Disguise and Stealth and Tracking. Being an Auror was hard, tough and possibly dangerous. There were still Dark Wizards of extremely high caliber and each of the Dark Wizards were capable of death, using the Avada Kedrava curse. Ireland was currently noted to be a large temporary HQ for the Dark Wizards.

"Demolition eh?" Potter asked Hermione.

"Yes, that is the word for it." She answered.

"Hmm, what a strange word." Ron muttered.

Twirling his holly and phoenix wand and hiding it back into his pocket, Harry scanned the man whose name was Roger. Nodding, Harry stripped the man of his camouflage clothes and tossed his gas powered AK-47 in the forest. Tossing the clothes away, he sighed and nodded to move forward. Hermione and Ron continued to trudge on.

"Hmm… why did he shoot at us?" Harry thought.

"Oh well." Harry thought after a few seconds of muttering to himself.

Hermione and Ron gave Harry a strange look.

The trio were on an adventure, a perilous one. They intended to go 'round the world

Occasionally, Ron would sigh, being unaccustomed to walking a forest for closely two whole years.

"Come on Ron! Not used to walking forests since Voldemort eh?" Harry asked.

With a frightened look on his face (which was actually beginning to fade over time), Ron said, "Don't say his name! There is a chance that he can come back!"

Laughing, Harry replied, "He can never return. Stop being such a girl."

"Harry is right. Do you not remember the deadly battle at Hogwarts nearly two years ago?" Hermione provided.

"I supposed." Ron replied.

Then, Harry and Hermione sang the song Peeves had composed long ago:

We did it, we bashed them, wee Potter's the one,

And Voldy's gone moldy, so now let's have fun!

Soon, Ron joined in.

Wee Potter's the one!

Voldy's gone modly…

"Woot!" they cheered and sang once more.

The sun had fully set, when Hermione tripped on what seemed to be a rock. With a shriek, she lost balance, that is, until Ron caught her. To Harry, it seemed like a ballet. A rather splendid one as well. Chuckling, he nodded as a signal to move onward. The teenagers were aimed towards Ireland, that was supposedly the current refuge for the remaining few Death Eaters, still loyal to Voldemort. According to Hagrid, Harry's father had a long lost brother who escaped to Ireland in fear of Voldemort. Then, they had lost contact with each other. Harry's only description of his uncle was tall, probably shaggy and rude as well as obnoxious. Harry did not look forward to such an uncle, but Hagrid did mention that, his uncle was actually a great person and powerful weird. Hagrid said he would be a strong power boost on the trio's quest. Harry intended to journey as far as he can to destroy the remaining Death Eaters. That, was his long term goal.

Tears trickled down his nose and there was a lump in Harry's throat at the thought of the many friends that were "KIA" during Voldemort's "reign". As Harry tasted salt on his lip, his determination returned to him, "I will avenge all of you." Harry thought.

At about eight, the band decided to sit down and rest. While Hermione was preparing a spell, Ron discovered a portable machine of some sort, covered with dirt. Picking it up, he examined it. Only the buttons and a slight trace of the word "MP3" was seen.

He fiddled with the MP3 player until Hermione walked up to Ron and asked him, "Ron! What are you doing?"

"I discovered an unidentifiable object!" Ron remarked.

"Hmm…" Hermione nodded.

"This is a MP3. It plays music." Hermione noted.

"Music?" Ron asked, shooting a weird look at Hermione.

"Yes music," said Hermione,

Pointing to the headphones hanging down towards the ground, she commanded, "Put those in your ears."

"What?" Ron said loudly.

"Put them into your ears." Hermione repeated softly.

"Uhh okay." Was the nervous reply.

"What do you hear?" Hermione asked.

"Nothing." Ron seemed to be straining his ears.

"Let me see." Hermione said.

"Okay..." Ron said.

"Broken..." she said after a few minutes of studying.

"Reparo!" Hermione said.

"Never gonna give you up..." the Mp3 played.

"Hmm," Hemione said lost in thought...

Quite a few seconds later, she came up with conclusion, "That's it! Rick Astely!"

"Rick wha?" Ron replied.

"Rick Astely!" Hermione said anxiously "In 1987 Rick Astley sang "Never Gonna Give You Up", which was an amazing hit!"

With a definitely confused look on his face, Ron just nodded as Hermione continued with her story of the musical muggle.

Without stopping, Hermione charged on with the history of Astely.

That night, as Hermione was snoring, (which she claimed was whistling the following day) Ron pulled out the Mp3 player from Hermione's bag, to listen to the Muggle Song, which actually impressed him.

"It didn't sound too bad." Ron thought.

"We're no strangers to love

You know the rules and so do I

A full commitment's what I'm thinking of

You wouldn't get this from any other guy

…

I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling

Gotta make you understand

…

(Oooooooh, Give you up

Oooooooh, Give you UP)

Never gonna give, never gonna give

(Give you up)

Never gonna give, never gonna give

(Give you up)

…

Never gonna give you up

Never gonna let you down

Never gonna run around and desert you

Never gonna make you cry

Never gonna say goodbye

Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you"

The Mp3 played until the next morning...

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