Way Too Hot Water Battle

"Today we expect another very warm day in this heat wave. So we warn you to stay in the shade and keep hydrated," the nasal voice of the weather man droned on the TV. This summer had been a very warm one so far and Hermione wasn't very happy with it. She had been working with the department of mysteries on the research of Lycanthropy. But the heat of the past weeks slowed down work so drastically, it almost had come to a standstill.

Hermione put her glass of orange juice down and looked across the table to the empty chair where Ronald was supposed to sit. He had returned home late at night from the joke shop and was now still in bed. Sighting she went on with breakfast listening to another man droning on about the news.

As she was cleaning up the dishes Hermione was alerted with the ring of a bell that someone was calling at the floo. 'Who could call her this early?' she wondered and walked up to the floo room. Having a floo in the house had been quite the task as electricity didn't work well with magic. The room the fireplace was in had been heavily warded to keep residue magic in.

"Morning 'Mione!" The head of Harry said cheerfully to her as she kneeled down at the fireplace. "Morning. Why the call so early in the morning?" Hermione asked. "Last time
I spoke Ginny she said you worked night shifts at the auror office."

"That is right but I got the day off because of the heat," Harry said. "Also someone from your research team asked me to let you know you have the day off. And I agree you should."

This somewhat upset Hermione as she had hoped to make some progress today. Harry noticed a frown forming on his friends face. "You and Ron both have been working on and off for days," he said accusingly, "How about we go off the the beach for the day, the weather is nice outside as you might have noticed."

Considering the offer, it didn't sound that bad to the bushy haired witch. "All right, we will go," She said with a sight. "But you will be waking up Ron," Hermione said smugly and she got up from the fireplace. "I will be ready in an hour and floo to the manor," she said and waved Harry off as he broke off the call.

In the end Hermione had to wake up Ron herself. It had been quite the task to get him to wake up and get going. She left him to get his stuff ready as she went to get dressed and pack herself some books to read. When they were ready to floo over to Harry's she made sure to go over everything. "Ron?" Hermione asked slowly. "Yes?" he replied. "Where's your towel?" she questioned, getting slightly angry. "I had asked you to pack your own towel, so where is it?"

"Sorry 'Mione, I will get one now," Ron said and went to walk out of the room only to be stopped by Hermione. "I have already packed one extra so don't bother," she clipped at him. Ron scowled at her back as she stepped through the floo. It hadn't been his idea to wake up so early and he stepped through the floo as well.

An hour and a half later both Hermione and a slightly grumpy Ron stood in the reception hall of Potter manor. They had to wait ten minutes for both the Potters to show up and off they were with an international portkey to the French coast. One time Harry had mentioned a beach house he inherited along the French coastline. After putting on the much needed sunscreen and sun repelling charms the group hit the beach.

The girls both lay down for some sunbathing while the boys went on running trough the water, splashing about the water like some dogs. That was until a certain Weasley thought it funny to splash Hermione and Ginny with some water. Making them both jump up from the unexpected cold of the water. Hermione's eyes narrowed and she shared a look with Ginny, making Ron regret his move.

In the next seconds both girls had pulled out their wands and sprayed the redhead with water from their tips, using a non-verbal Aguamenti. This quickly resulted into a fierce water duel between both pairs. Each in turn spraying the other with the various spells to conjure and move water. Around lunch time all four were exhausted and lay panting in the sand dripping wet.

'Maybe taking days off wasn't so bad after all,' Hermione thought and she let out another laugh thinking back on how ridiculous they had behaved. They were just like the kids they once were. Rolling over she made the suggestion to get something to eat and get back to their water duel after. To which the other three agreed happily.

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This fiction was written for the World Gobstones Championship and Prompt of the Day Challenges from The Golden Snitch forum.

For this fiction I used the Gobstone Aquamarine: Write about a water-fight
and prompt (dialogue) "Where's your towel?"

Word count: 836

LadyMuis, Mahoutokoro, Kaze

Extra thanks to my beta Grulnork!