Elina Blossomwings EEFFD Thread! - Sa9+

[Elina Blossomwing]

About a week before Halloween, we find Harry and Ron searching through their trunks in earnest.

“I’m sure I had some of those, oh… of course, now I can’t think of the word…” Harry said, continuing to search through his trunk. He pulled out books, quills and rolls of parchment, and finally some ‘magic markers’, triumphantly.

“Whoa, Harry, I didn’t know that you even had so many school supplies” Hermione said suddenly, while observing the boys’ antics from the door way.

“What are the two of you doing, anyways?”

“Umm… nothing….” Ron replied looking impishly at Harry. Whatever it was, Hermione wasn’t sure she wanted to know anymore.

“Alright…” She replied slowly, “I’m just letting you know that Ginny and I were about to head to dinner, and it would probably be a good idea for you to come as well, since apparently, there’s been a change to the curriculum.” Hermione looked positively outraged as this last part came avalanching out of her mouth. Harry looked over at Ron and stood up.

“Do you know anything about muggles’ religious habits?” Hermione looked confusedly between the two boys. She had no idea what they were talking about. Ron shook his head at Harry, and mumbled

“Let Dumbledore deal with it.”

“Let Dumbledore deal with what? Ronald Weasley! You tell me what’s going on right now!” Hermione fought to keep her exploding temper in check. She took a deep breath in, and turned around while saying

“Let’s go boys.” She turned around and flounced out the door. Soon the four of them were walking down the corridor to the great hall. When they got to the great hall there were many people milling around in gigantic vegetable costumes. Hermione looked at them suspiciously, just as they eyed her oddly. Harry, Ron, Ginny and Hermione sat down at the Gryffindor table and waited for Dumbledore to begin his speech.

“I don’t know why we’re waiting, whatever news we here will be spread throughout the castle within minutes of it being said anyways. Dumbledore should know that since he’s the brains of the operation, even if said brains are a bit addled.” Ginny said, turning to Hermione. Hermione turned to Harry who was sitting across from her.

“Do you think it’s odd that Prof. Lupin and Snuffles are here?”

“Snuffles…? Here, what?” Harry exclaimed, looking from side to side of him, and then up to the staff table. There sat Prof. Remus J. Lupin, and curled up by his feet was a very large black dog. Harry turned to Ron and whispered something in his ear. Ron stared at Prof. Lupin, his eyes shifting to the large dog, all the while a questioning look of panic in his eyes. Ron was about to stand up to go and talk to Prof. Lupin when Dumbledore stood up and looked around at the now full house tables.

“A few of you may have noticed the wonderful guests we have at the back of the great hall.” Dumbledore said, motioning to the gigantic vegetables that lined the back wall.

"These wonderful garden agriculurites have decided to join us for this year, as each of our students receives a first hand look at the brainwashing abilities of the muggle media. They, along with our distinguished Prof. Snape will be teaching our new class, “Veggie Tales 101” It is my honor to now introduce to you, Bob the Tomato.” What looked like a large red beach ball made its way to the podium.

“Thank You Headmaster Dumbledore. Like he said, I am Bob the Tomato, and I’ve brought with me a few of my friends. I’d like to introduce you to Larry the cucumber, Junior the Asparagus, Laura the Carrot, The Gourds; Jimmy and Jerry, Mr. Lunt, and Madame Blueberry. They are only a few of the people you will meet throughout the course of this course. I now hand the… podium back to Prof. Dumbledore."

“Thank You Bob and I will now hand the podium off to Prof. Snape.” The students were getting antsy by this time, not really caring about the class, but really wanting to eat.

“Although you must all be hungry right now, as I am…” The potions/Veggie master drawled, turning subjectively to Dumbledore, “I apparently must make some sort of a speech. So I will speak on how much I am looking forward to this position. I am not particularly looking forward to teaching my students about a bunch of vegetables spreading the word of a muggle god.” He turned and walked back to his seat, where he sulked, staring past the walls and out into space. As Harry, Ron & Hermione stared at the staff table they noticed Madame Hooch staring at who was most obviously, Larry the Cucumber. Hermione gasped as she realized what that look in her eyes was.

“You guys,” she whispered, “I think… if I’m reading Madame Hooch’s face correctly, that she… loves Larry the Cucumber.” She shuddered at the fact, and turned to see what Ginny thought. Ginny was nodding her head in agreement.

“I’d know that look anywhere,” Ginny laughed to herself. She flicked her wand in Madame Hooch’s direction, muttering something under her breath. Madame Hooch started madly sneezing, and scratching her nose.

“Apparently she got an itch” Ginny said, nonchalantly. She picked up her cup of coffee and took a long sip, setting it down on her empty plate. Both boys stared at her for a moment and then went back to looking at Prof. Dumbledore, who seemed quite happy to just sit there for a little while longer. Finally Filch, angry with hunger scuffled up to the podium and clapped his hands together. Suddenly the entire room was filled with the noises of awe as the food appeared in front of them. Hermione just looked at Filch, with her mouth wide open, astounded at the squib’s fantastic show of magic. Suddenly she turned to her friends and was brought back by the reality of Ron shoveling food into his mouth. She watched as her friends ate the vegetables that had appeared on the table. She looked helplessly around the room and found a few people with the same look on their faces. What an odd year this is going to be… Hermione thought to herself as she served herself some of the glazed carrots. She wasn’t positive, but she was pretty sure she felt a few sets of veggie-eyes on her as she took her first bite.

evlpez's Dare
1. Teachers at Hogwarts add 'Veggie Tales' to the curriculum
2. It's Halloween. Dress some people up.
3. Filch casts a spell!
4. Madam Hooch falls in love.
5. Include the following: 'the brains of the outfit', a man with a dog, coffee, an observer, an itchy nose hex.
Due date: November 7th