Chapter 4
The Final Boo- Boo
Harry, magazine in hand, bounded up the stairs to the bedroom and burst through the door.
"Ron, wake up!!" he said grabbing his shoes. Ron mumbled something incoherent and rolled over with his back to Harry. Harry lifted a foot and kicked Ron in the behind knocking clean out of the bed and into the floor. Ron sat bolt upright,
"I didn't do it, Hermione, it's all Harry's fault!" He shouted the clone giggled
"Thanks a lot, turncoat," said Harry rolling his eyes, "Get dressed, we've got another problem."
"What," asked Ron pulling on his clothes.
"This," said Harry sitting down next to Ron and handing him the Magazine, the clone came over and plopped down in Harry's lap laying her head on his shoulder.
"Thanks to Rita Skeeter, her infernal rant rag, and our Hormonal clone Hermione is now bucking for centerfold!!" Harry administered a sleeping drug to the clone and laid her back under the cloak.
Just then a boy walked up behind them and was looking at the picture he gave a low wolf whistle.
"Now that's what I call a cover page." Harry and Ron Immediately flipped their fists backwards and caught him right in the nose.
"Uh, I think I'm going to leave now!" he said holding his nose.
"Harry what are we going to do now?" asked Ron frantically, "Has Hermione seen this yet?" no sooner were the words out of his mouth than they both heard the sound of a chair being smashed against the wall making a horrendous CRASH!!
"She's seen it," said Ron answering his own question. Suddenly Harry jumped up.
"Of course," he said, "why didn't I think of it before!"
"Think of what," said Ron.
"The last time I talked with Dumbledore he started reminiscing about his younger days in Gryffindor and he showed me a secret potion of his that he used to use to play pranks on Professor McGonagall. Harry pulled out his medicine pouch and began to mix the herb into a potion that Ron had never seen before. Then he reached into the drawer and pulled out several strands of Rita Skeeter's hair.
" I was planning on pulling this trick on her for Halloween," he said, "but I guess I'll just have to move my time table up a little bit." With that he dropped the hairs into the brew and stirred it for a few seconds. Then he took an eye- dropper and filled it with the potion.
Ron was beside himself with curiosity,
"What does the potion do?" he asked
"This," replied Harry, " he dropped a few drops onto the cover of the magazine and immediately the picture changed to one of Rita Skeeter in a Leopard skin bikini.
"Now," said Harry, "Every magazine for this month with have that picture on them and Skeeter will recall them faster than you could say what happened and I also added a little something that will cause them to forget about the picture of the Hermione clone."
In less than 2 hours all the copies of the magazine had been confiscated and Rita was having a conniption fit. Wanting to know what bumbling idiot put that picture in instead of the one she had assigned and Hermione was laughing again.
"That was pretty clever Harry," said Hermione, "Thank you."
"Thank, Dear ole Dumbledore for that one." Said Harry who then stepped out to the lavatory to dispose of the rest of the potion.
"Ron," said Hermione, "where did I leave that book I was reading last night?"
"On the table at the top of the stairs I believe," replied Ron without even looking up from the Quidditch Magazine he was reading.
"Thanks," said Hermione heading for the stairs. Harry came through the door into the common room just in time to hear a blood- curdling scream from the top of the stairs. Harry and Ron looked at each other, paled, and ran to the top of the stairs. There was the clone in the doorway Leading to the boys dorm and Hermione on the floor in a dead faint.
"Ron," said Harry, "I told you to double the amount of sleeping drug in that dose that you made for me."
Just then they heard a crowd of Gryffindors returning from Hogsmeade Harry picked up the still unconscious Hermione and carried her into closet nearby where he, Ron, Hermione and Hermione2 waited for the students to pass by. Then throwing his enlarged invisibility cloak around himself and the others they slipped out and went to the room of requirement. Just as Ron shut the door Hermione began to wake up.
"Harry," she said, "I could have sworn I saw myself in the doorway to the boys dormitory wearing one of you shirts and your red boxer shorts."
"Hermione," Harry began slowly, suddenly he stopped, "Hey, just how is it that you recognize my boxer shorts?" Hermione turned red as an apple when she realized what she said. Then she caught sight of her clone staring at her curiously at her.
"I wasn't a dream." She said, "What is going on here?" Ron Shrugged
"Harry cloned you," he answered nonchalantly.
"HE WHAT!!" thundered Hermione she grabbed Harry by the throat Jumped on his chest and began to bang his head against the floor.
"Her-Hermione," said Harry in a strangled voice. He grabbed her hands and wrestled them away from his throat, surprised at how strong Hermione was.
Gasping for air he said,
"It was an accident the charm I was using backfired, we were going to fix it ourselves, but your clone kept getting loose."
"THANKS TO THAT CLONE I GET A CHOURUS OF WHISTLES AND AT LEAST THREE MARRIAGE PROPOSALS EVERYTIME I WALK DOWN THE HALL!!" Hermione snapped then in a calmer voice she said, "You boys wait outside I'll deal with the clone."
Harry and Ron paced back and forth in the hallway out side the room. After a few minutes the door opened just a crack.
"Harry," said Hermione sheepishly, "there has been a problem." Harry froze and his face paled.
"Hermione," said Harry slowly, "what did you do?" suddenly the door was pulled open wide and instead of one Hermione, Harry found himself face to face with Five Hermiones! Harry took one look and the come hither looks on there faces, then turned and bolted down the hallway. Suddenly there was a tremendous crash. Ron and five Hermiones looked down hallway and saw a Harry-shaped hole in the wall.
"Bummer," said Ron, "Looks like he got away."
"You forget," said Hermione smiling wickedly over her shoulder as she and the other for Hermiones started down the hallway, " I know all of his hiding places."
-The End-
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