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Chapter 11

"That was disgusting."

After Sirius, Lupin, Tonks, Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Moody got off of the Haunted Mansion, they decided to go their separate ways. Hermione was interested in seeing the 'Jungle Cruise,' and Tonks, who decided that sounded like fun, tagged along with her, Harry and Ron. Moody separated himself from the group and was keen on investigating the shops in New Orleans Square. Sirius and Lupin, however, didn't think that the 'Jungle Cruise' sounded very exciting, and on Lupin's request, made their way towards the 'Enchanted Tiki Room.'

Lupin had thought that it might attract Voldemort, mainly due to the 'enchantment' aspect, but they soon found out that there was nothing enchanted or even remotely interesting about it at all. Sirius found it extremely frustrating to have to sit through the whole show.

"That was torture." Sirius complained. "I wish those birds would just – die!"

"I admit, it wasn't as exciting as I had hoped." Lupin said disappointedly.

He took out his map and looked it over, trying to find a promising attraction.

"How about 'It's a Small World'? Hermione told me very good things about it." He suggested.

"NO!" Sirius yelled. "Ron told me it was awful! There were creepy dolls, and annoying music, and it just dragged on!"

"Well if there are 'creepy' dolls, maybe we should see what it's all about."

"You're on your own."

"Alright we'll go on something else." Lupin scanned the map again.

"What about this one?" Sirius pointed to 'Pirates of the Caribbean.'

"Sure." He agreed.

The two of them waited in the short line until they reached the front, where there was some slight disorder in the seating arrangement, as someone had tripped while getting off the ride. But after a short and uneventful wait, the two of them got into the front row of the boat.

As they talked and waited for the start of the ride, something large and bat-like descended into their row. Sirius glanced in its direction and nearly screamed with outrage. Snape looked equally furious and attempted to exit the boat, which had, unfortunately, already left the dock.

"What are you doing here?" Sirius roared.

Lupin looked past Sirius to see what was going on, and quickly turned back, knowing that this was not going to go well.

Snape and Sirius disturbed the calm silence of the 'Blue Bayou Restaurant' area, and received a fair amount of scandalized looks from the diners and other passengers on the boat as they sailed along.

As they entered the ride, Snape thought the warning about 'dead men telling no tales' at the talking pirate skull was absolutely ridiculous, but was not at all upset when Sirius' insults were drowned out by the rushing water of the drop into the cave.

As the ride progressed, the two of them turned from each other in tense silence, and Lupin was hopeful that he had heard the last of their arguing for the time. But that was until the ride got stuck.

They were brought to a dead stop in the room where the pirates shouted about the brides on display, and where the illustrious Jack Sparrow narrowly avoided detection from behind a frilly dress. The first few times the track repeated itself were not completely unbearable – but after being stuck there for over five minutes, sparks began to fly.

Sirius was beginning to feel that this was even more painful than the disastrous experience he had had in the room the night before, and looked scathingly at Snape, who fumed next to him. At least then Snape had been on the other side of the room. Lupin sensed the growing tension with unease.

"Hey, Remus, look at that!" Sirius pointed suddenly, elbowing Snape in the face 'accidentally' as he did so.

"Why you insufferable –" Snape bellowed, clutching his injured face.

"Now what's your problem?" Sirius turned on him in frustration.

"Don't pretend that you don't know!"

"Aww… Did little Snivellus get hurt?" He taunted.

Snape burned with rage.

Grabbing Sirius' collar, he glared at him murderously before spitting out a fuming retort.

"If you dare assault me again –"

"Oh come on, Snivellus, it was only an accident."

"Don't insult me! It was just as accidental as everything else you've ever done in your miserable and wretched life!"

"Can't you accept a decent apology when you get one?" Sirius asked coolly.

"You've done no such thing!"

"Well maybe that's because your sour face greased up my clothes – It'll take forever to get this out!" Sirius examined his sleeve in disgust.

"Would you two calm down?" Lupin reprimanded sternly, as he caught the unpleasant glances of the Muggles behind them.

However both of them had gone too far to even consider calming down, and they continued their violent dispute throughout the rest of the ride, which, much to Lupin's relief, picked up again shortly.

When the ride had finally made its way back to the dock, all three of them quickly made for the exit. In the process, Sirius nearly pushed Snape into the water but was stopped by Lupin.

"What did you have to do that for, Remus? It would have looked like an accident!" Sirius whispered to Lupin as they walked back out into the park, and quickly put as much distance between them and Snape as was possible.

"Overall, that was a very nice ride. Although I would have enjoyed it a lot more if we hadn't gotten stuck," Remus ignored Sirius' comment as he pulled out his map and tried to find a new ride.

"Speak for yourself! That was even worse than that room with the birds!"

"You're only saying that because Snape was there. You should have just ignored him and then it wouldn't have been so bad."

"Are you trying to imply that this was my fault? Snape started it!"

"No, I just think that both of you should try to make an effort to be civil to each other. It would make everything a lot easier."

"That's never going to happen, you might as well accept it." Sirius said as they continued to walk through Frontierland. "Where are we going now?"

"I'm not sure. I would like to go to 'It's A Small World' but-"

"No way! I've already told you there is no way I'm riding that! Why don't we go see what that is?" Sirius asked, pointing to snow capped mountain somewhere behind the castle.

"According to the map, it's some sort of ride."

"Great, let's go." Sirius said unenthusiastically.

After a short walk, and getting lost only once or twice, they stood in line for the Matterhorn. It was considerably longer than those for 'The Haunted Mansion' and 'Pirates of the Caribbean,' but they both hoped that the ride would be worth it. They waited about 45 minutes and were then seated in one of the bobsleds as the ride began.

At first, the ride seemed to be very anticlimactic, but once they started to go down the mountain, it became much more enjoyable. They both found the snow beast to be rather amusing, and the ride, as a whole, to be well worth the long wait. Although, Sirius had definitely enjoyed it more than Remus, who felt slightly nauseous by all of the fast turns.

"That was great!" Sirius exclaimed as they made their way back into Fantasyland.

"It was pretty good," Lupin agreed. "Where do you think we should go now?"

"How about that ride with the spinning teacups? It looked like it went pretty fast when we were in line."

The two of them headed in that direction, but much to Sirius' dismay, they found that the teacups were then being repaired.

"I can't believe that! How can they be broken?"

"I'm sure it'll be fixed by tomorrow." Remus was secretly relieved that the ride was down; he had also seen it when they had been in line for the Matterhorn and thought that it looked rather nauseating.

Continuing to wander around the park, they eventually ran into Harry, Ron, Hermione, Tonks, and Hagrid, and decided to join them for dinner.

"Listen, everyone!" Voldemort hissed.

A silence fell over the Death Eaters as they finished their last bits of food.

"This morning was completely disastrous! Nothing was accomplished! I expect this to change."

"What do you want us to do?" Someone asked.

"Silence!" Voldemort shrieked. "I want you to actually achieve something! Go make yourselves useful!"

One by one, the Death Eaters disbanded and spread around the park. Much to Snape's dismay, Pettigrew had decided to tag along with him and would not leave despite his efforts to rid himself of him.

"Where do you want to go next?" Pettigrew asked nervously.

Snape ignored him and wandered into Fantasyland.

"Do you want to ride that?" He pointed excitedly to 'Alice in Wonderland.'

Realizing that he would be stuck with this nuisance for the rest of the evening, he followed Pettigrew into the line. Much to his horror, Bellatrix had beat them to it, and was standing just in front of them in the line.

"Really?" She said snidely.

Snape could not believe that this had happened to him again, and Pettigrew shook slightly with anxiety.

"Weasley, give me that map." Umbridge demanded after the three of them had eaten a mediocre meal.

Fudge had vanished into a nearby restroom, still nauseous from their earlier adventures, leaving Umbridge and Percy to themselves.

"We're going here next." She announced.

She then marched into Fantasyland, Percy trailing behind, and strode into the line for 'Alice in Wonderland.'

By some stroke of luck, they were separated from the group of Death Eaters by several caterpillars when it came time to board the ride.

Snape cringed as a blue caterpillar pulled up in front of him and stopped, waiting for them to get on. At this point they had no choice but to board their caterpillar and endure the ride. The only part that slightly intrigued Bellatrix was the murderous queen, who was intent on decapitating them, but was disappointed when they managed to escape.

"That was a complete waste of time." Snape criticized when the ride had ended.

"I kind of liked it." Pettigrew inputted.

"Shut up!" Bellatrix shouted.

Although she found the ride revolting, she still felt that it had been the most interesting thing she'd done all day.

"That was disgusting." Snape added.

"You disgust me." Bellatrix sneered as she walked away.

"I didn't think it was that bad." Pettigrew noted.

Snape glared at him and then walked away in the opposite direction as Bellatrix, to ensure that they would not meet again.

"That was completely useless." Umbridge said as she and Percy climbed out of their caterpillar. "How could anyone find that entertaining?"

"I agree." Percy tried to suck-up some more.

"I suggest we go back to the hotel now. Where's Fudge?"

"We left him in the bathroom in Frontierland." Percy answered.

After retrieving the Minister, the three of them returned to their hotel early. Entering through the lobby, they ran into a disgruntled Chloe who was sorting papers at the main desk.

"Had enough already?" She asked sarcastically.

The three of them shook their heads and ignored her, making their way to the elevators and then back to their room.

At 1:30 in the morning, they were all awakened to the loud return of Ludo, who had Apparated into the room.

"Ludo, where have you been?" Fudge demanded.

"The park closes at midnight, Minister. Look who's taking the mission seriously now!"

"It's 1:30 in the morning. Where have you been for the past hour and a half?"

"It's that late already? I got lost a couple of times."