(A/N) thekecmaster: I don't own the Harry Potter series nor any of the characters.
Chapter 07 – Enter Fun Time
Gluttony was in a chaotic fight with Crabbe Sr. and Goyle Sr. Food and utensils were being tossed everywhere. The few kitchen elves who tried to break up the fight got knocked out and stayed down for the count. The rest had all dived for cover. After attempting to duel the dumb eaters with toasted breadsticks, Gluttony finally grabbed a pan filled with food and hurled it at his two adversaries. As the two adversaries tried to clear their eyes of food, Gluttony whacked both of them on the top of the head, finally knocking them out. The house elves in the kitchen first informed Gluttony that there was no more food left for the moment, and that he would have to return later. After Gluttony left, the house elves quickly bound the two death eaters and shrunk them. Then, they placed the dumb eaters in a little hamster cage, where the dumb eaters were stuck on a wheel chasing food. After magically sealing the cage, they took the cage to Professor McGonagall, who placed the cage on her desk and then ran off to find the headmaster.
Meanwhile, Gluttony walked away and walked straight into the good version of The Harry Potter Capture Unit. Gluttony immediately asked Luna if she had any food. Thinking quickly, Luna replied, "There will be some food in Professor McGonagall's room at 4:02PM."
Gluttony replied, "Awesome. Do you want to join me? I'll share some of my food with you."
Luna replied, smiling, "I'll be there, don't worry."
With that, Gluttony skipped off, trying to busy himself or find more food until the appointed time of food with Luna in Prof. McGonagall's classroom.
Ron asked, "Why did you agree to eat with him?"
Luna replied, "I have no problem joining up with Harry or any of his sins. However, I never actually said that I would eat with him."
Ron countered, "But you said…"
Hermione whacked him on the top of the head, "Ron, pay attention. She said she will be there. She never said she would eat with him."
Ginny turned to Luna and commented, "You do realize that Gluttony would eat you out of house and home, right?"
Luna smiled at the thought of sharing a house with Harry, and said "He might, but not if we restore Harry back. Then Harry and I can do other things in addition to eating together."
Hermione glared at Luna immediately and asked, "And just what do you plan to do to Harry?"
Luna smiled and replied, "That is one of the things you cannot look up in a book you took; it is also one of those rare things you are not meant to know."
With that, Luna dragged Sloth by the wrist and everyone else followed. Sloth just shrugged at being dragged along; he couldn't really think of anything else to do, and breaking Luna's grip would take unnecessary physical energy.
Pride still danced and moved gracefully around as he taunted MacNair and Dolohov. He led them back up the stairs to the Great Hall, where he ended up right smack in-between the death eaters.
Pride yelled, "I have you now! Surrender and I will go easy on you."
MacNair shouted, "Surrender??"
Dolohov countered, "Never!"
As they shouted, the two death eaters looked around Pride and right at each other. The two death eaters tried to institute the quick silent count. Unfortunately for them, Pride saw Dolohov mutter a mouthless "3-Count." After the third mouth movement, he quickly jumped into the air. When Dolohov and MacNair both fired on the silent "Three", Pride was already in the air. Each death eater's spell hit the other, and they knocked each other out.
At that point, Gluttony ran into Pride. Pride and Gluttony then compared stories of their recent death eater encounters. As the argument over whose story was better raised in volume level, Pride then asked Gluttony when was the last time he ate. At the mention of food, Gluttony ran off, looking for some more food to eat.
Meanwhile, Pride decided to search the castle for the Creevey boys or anyone else willing to hear some more tales of Potters vs. the Rotters, as he decided to call them.
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Luna dragged Sloth all the way to the 3rd floor, with Ron, Hermione, Ginny, and Neville in some pursuit. She had an idea, and did not want to stop pursuit until she reached her target. She had noticed Greed stalking off to the trophy room, possibly to count up his wealth.
Luna threw open the doors to the trophy room, dropping Sloth's hand to rush to Greed. Sloth fell down from the imbalanced position he was left in and decided to stay down. This, of course, caused quite a stir. The other four Harry Potter seekers were caught moving so fast, everything was a blur. They did not see Sloth down on the floor – they all tripped over him. Down on the ground, they did not want to run anymore.
Greed was quite disturbed that he was being interrupted while he tried to count what he had, and he thought of what he would do when he hypnotized the intruder. The problem was the intruder, for it was Luna Lovegood, not just the only non-Harry person he did not want to hypnotize, but also the only one he knew that saw things for what they are.
Luna strode up to him and asked him if he wanted to drink some felix felicis potion and win a few muggle lotteries. Greed made the quick connection between muggle lotteries and money, and his eyes lit up pretty quickly. Luna used the opportunity to tell him to go to Professor McGonagall's room at 4:05PM, when the lucky potion would be ready.
After Greed left, Neville asked Luna, "What's a lottery?"
Luna replied, "It's basically a gambling game. People buy tickets, trying to guess the numbers that will be drawn. Whoever gets all the numbers right wins a lot of money."
Ron countered, "Why are you trying to help Greed?"
Ginny asked Hermione, "Could you please smack my brother?"
Hermione replied, "Gladly." Whap!
"What was that for?"
"Use your brain, Ron! That was so Luna could get Greed into the room later!"
"Oh. Right."
Luna stated, "I think I have to find both Pride and Wrath myself."
Ginny, "Why?"
"Because if all of you come with me, they may be tougher to draw into the Professor's room."
Neville asked, "But how will we get back to Gryffindor Tower safely?"
Luna replied, "Dobby will take you all back."
At the mention of his name, Dobby appeared.
"Dobby has some news for you, Miss Luna. You have 4 visitors awaiting you on the 5th floor broken bathroom."
"I see. Could you take the group back to Gyrffindor tower safely, including Sloth?"
"No problem, Miss Luna."
Everyone followed Dobby's lead to the door, except Sloth, who was still lying on the ground. This time, he looked like he was sleeping.
Luna walked up to Sloth and said, "You know Sloth, if you don't go with them, I'm going to start tickling you to keep you awake."
With a speed rivaling the Road Runner, Sloth jumped up and ran to Dobby's group. He may be immune to pain, but he was definitely not immune to tickling, and he did not want to fight off a tickling attack. Luna called out to Sloth, "Stay with them, and follow their orders, or else."
Then, Luna lent Dobby the Marauder's Map. "Use this as a guide. Avoid any of the other sins and any of the teachers. Then come back to me with the map. I'll use the DA coin to alert them as to when you'll fetch them."
With that, Dobby lead Sloth, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, and Neville back to Gryffindor Tower. After a few minutes, Luna disillusioned herself and took off for Moaning Myrtle's Bathroom.
Voldemort was pretty angry; it was already 2:50PM and still none of his death minions showed up. He decided to take a walk around the castle and rescue anyone on his side who was down for the count.
He first took a lateral move to the base of the Astronomy Tower, where he found Rodolphus and Bellatrix, both bound and gagged. While Rodolphus was knocked out in shock, Bellatrix was sleeping with a smile on her face. Voldemort quickly unbound and ungagged the two. Rodolphus and Bellatrix told their tales of what had happened, with total shock appearing on the men's faces as Bellatrix described what had happened between her and Lust.
Rodolphus tried to initiate some small talk, but Voldemort was way too angry to let him finish.
"We are here to kill Harry Potter, not engage him in any other activity!"
Bellatrix looked a bit sheepish, but nonetheless followed Rodolphus and Voldemort after getting promises from her husband that some fun time would be coming after the mission.
(A/N) thekecmaster: I'll post updates on my profile. Thank you for taking the time out of your day to read this chapter.
