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"Hey," said Harry, feeling slightly guilty for some reason and wanting to change the subject. "Want to see something cool?"

"Sure," said Sue.

While he was not renowned for providing overly humorous entertainment, most of Harry's year mates found his antics to be pretty funny, one way or the other.

"I was trying to figure out how I could contribute to this whole 'team spirit' thing-"

"Only because Professor Sprout warned you about not joining in on anything," laughed Han.

"-and I remembered seeing a football match on the television a while back at my uncle's house. The crowd did this amazing thing called a 'Mexican Wave', ever heard of it?"

Both girls nodded.

"That's the thing where everybody takes turns standing up, right?"

"Yeah. I thought it looked pretty cool, although Dudders and Vern-pig trying it on the couch was funnier, especially when the poor thing busted apart under them. Well I was thinking it would be really neat to get everybody here to do that."

"That would be pretty hard, wouldn't it?" asked Han. "I mean, how will you get the Slytherins to join in?"

"Is that who we are playing?" said Harry, ignoring the pair's exasperated look and turning to face the stands. "Anyway, I thought so too, but then I remembered that I am a wizard."

He suddenly brought his wand up and twirled it around in a flashy looking pattern before pointing it directly at a portion of the crowd in the stands.

Across from him, directly in front of his wand, the crowd suddenly leapt to their feet. As he quickly swept his wand along, the crowd obediently, and apparently involuntarily, jumped up in a rolling wave. Harry spun right the way around until he was back where he started, and then lowered his wand.

He turned to face the two awestruck girls.

"Pretty good, eh?" he asked, grinning. "You reckon Flower's will count that as contributing?"

"That was amazing," said Sue. "How in the world did you do it?"

"Stinging hex runes on the seats," answered Harry. "Probably never work again, though."

"You drew a Rune on every seat?" asked Han.

"Of course not," answered Harry, turning back to watch the amusing sight of the confused crowd trying to figure out what happened. "I got B1 and B2, those red-headed maniac Gryffs to do it for me.

"It started with a couple of magical ink stampers I bought and got a guy to help me modify to print the Rune, then I convinced the twins to do the actual stamping by telling them it was for a joke. I don't think they realised I was going to activated it one row at a time, but you've got admit, it looked damn good. Next time I might set them all off at the same moment - what do you think?"

He didn't see Sue cover her face with both hands or Han shake her head, but he knew both girls were smiling.

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