Part Two:

Neville waited expectantly as the trio read their respective copies. It didn’t take them very long, as the newspaper was only one side of one bit of paper. Harry, being a speed reader, finished first and yelled “How dare you Neville? I do not have a secret stash of noodles hidden under my bed”. Harry stood and growled menacingly at Neville, then proceeded to chase Neville out of the Great Hall. Neville’s girlish screams could be heard throughout the entire school.

Ron turned to Hermione, who was being very quiet.

“What’s wrong, love muffin?”

“Am I r-really a dull and boring know it all who thinks she’s the bees knees?”

“Of course not. Neville’s just jealous – he called me a pompous windbag, but everyone knows that Percy’s the only pompous windbag in my family” said Ron, attempting to comfort Hermione. It didn’t work.

“That’s it. From now on, I’m all about having fun. I’ll be the biggest troublemaker ever.” Hermione said determinantly (sp?). She stood up and strode out of the hall, leaving Ron sitting by himself eating toast.

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Hermione’s plan began in Potions class. Snape had them concocting a tricky potion to remove odours from carpets when Hermione got out her wand, pointed it at Snape and said “Twinkelus”. Snape promptly began singing
“Twinkle twinkle little star
how I wonder what you are
up above the world so high,
like a diamond in the sky”
27 times. By that time, all the students had left the room, because Snapey doesn’t have the best singing voice.

“That was great Hermy, even better than when Dumbledore made Snape dress as Rudolph at Christmas, in that brown spandex jumpsuit. Mind you, Dumbldore did make a good Santa, and Flitwick looked the part of the elf…”

“Thanks Ron” interrupted Hermione. “Anyway, I gotta run. Tryouts start in an hour, I’ve got to get ready”

“Tryouts for what?”

“Cheerleading” Hermione said as she ran in the direction of Gryffindor Tower. Ron was perplexed, why would Hermione want to be a cheerleader? But then he realized that if she got in, he would be dating a cheerleader, and he liked that idea. He decided to go and find Harry, and go to watch the tryouts.