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Chapter 9: The New Age of Transportation
It took hours for the Order to finally get Harry and Dobby out of the room. The curse that Lucius put on the door was very strong. When they finally did, they all apparated back to Grimmauld Place, and Lupin entered with a vengeance…
"How would they have possibly known that we would be there?" He shouted.
"Could Kreacher have told someone?" Harry asked.
"No, Potter. House elves are bound by a very strict magical contract not to tell anyone about their master's secrets. The only creatures they can share it with are other House Elves." McGonagall stated.
"And under my orders the only house elf he can come into contact with is Dobby." Harry remembered.
"That's right." Moody said.
"Then how could they have known?" Harry asked realizing that everyone was out of ideas.
"I smell a rat." Lupin said glaring at Snape. "Snape, confess! You have been tipping them off from the get go. That's how they knew when Harry would be at the Burrow. You gave them the perfect time to strike. Then today at Godric's Hollow, you told them Harry would be there! Admit it!" Lupin finished, reaching for his wand.
"Remus!" McGonagall shouted. "We must not jump to conclusions. We must learn to trust each other, no matter how difficult that might be."
"You guys are back!" Fred shouted with excitement has he and George ran down the stairs.
"What's wrong? Where's Hagrid?" George said beginning to look worried.
"Lucius was there waiting for us. After letting us look for a while he attacked when Harry and Hagrid were in the back bedroom. He managed to kill Hagrid." Lupin had to stop here. He didn't realize that this would be so difficult to explain, but it had just hit him like a ton of bricks. He and Hagrid were starting to become very good friends.
"I know it will be difficult, but we can no longer let these things bother us. There will be many casualties to come. We must try our best to brace ourselves for them." McGonagall said trying to calm everyone.
"Ok." Fred said. "George and I have been working for months trying to find another way to transport ourselves from place to place."
"Yea, ever since the ministry had to close the floo powder grates things have become difficult since not everyone can apparate." Fred said.
Although Harry, Ron and Hermione were technically old enough to apparate, the only one that could was Hermione. Ron had failed his test in his sixth year and Harry never got the opportunity to take it. The Ministry, as busy as they are, simply did not have time to give out apparition test.
"We can travel through the plumbing and come out through the toilets!" George said, excitement growing in his voice.
"Yea, we call it poo powder!" Fred exclaimed.
"That's disgusting!" Hermione said looking revolted.
"Now boys, how could you have possibly made that work?" McGonagall said, laughing.
"Just trust us, come on we will show you." George said, he and Fred leading them upstairs to the bathroom.
"Now just watch." Fred said opening up a canister of brown powder and throwing it into the toilet. Just then a brown swirl emerged from the toilet, kind of resembling a dirty tornado.
"Ewww!" Hermione said. "I can not believe you two are going to jump in there!"
"Just watch." George said. "Ready, Fred?"
"Ready, George." and with that Fred jumped feet first into the toilet and disappeared.
"Where is he going?" McGonagall asked.
"Privet Drive." George laughed.
Meanwhile at Privet Drive, Vernon Dursley was just sitting down to relieve himself…
"I can't believe it!" Vernon yelled at the Newspaper.
"What is it dear?" Aunt Petunia called from the living room.
"The stock on drills went down again!"
"I'm sure it will be fine, dear."
"Ahhhh!" Vernon screamed one the most blood curling screams Petunia had ever heard.
"What is it, dear?" Petunia said, rushing into the bathroom to find a red-headed boy bobbing up and down in the toilet.
"WEASLEY!!!!" Vernon yelled now covering himself as not to be exposed.
"What's going on, Dad?" Dudley asked, emerging from the hallway holding a piece of cake, one Harry and obviously left in his bedroom, for Dudley was supposed to still be on his diet. "Ahhhh!" Dudley yelled seeing Fred in the toilet and running away.
"Hello, Dursleys!" Fred greeted.
"GET OUT OF MY TOILET!" Vernon shouted making his way toward Fred and trying to pull him out, having completely forgotten that he was supposed to be covering himself with the newspaper. Fred tossed some more poo powder into the toilet and disappeared. Vernon, not realizing Fred had gone, lunged head first into the toilet after him, not making it very far.
"Ow!" Vernon cried, having bumped his head on the inside of the toilet bowl.
Fred soon found himself back in the bathroom at Grimmauld Place, where the Order was there waiting for his return.
"See! Told you it would work." Fred said.
"Yea now all you have to do is find some more bozos that will actually be dumb enough to use it." Hermione laughed, beginning to look more repulsed than ever.
"I don't think it will be that hard." Fred said brushing dung off his shirt.
A/N: I told you I would try to make this chapter funny. I hope I didn't let you down.
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Special thanks to my beta reader Bardlover, for without her you may not be able to understand what I am writing. Another thanks to Bardlover, for with out her poo powder may have never made it into the story.