Betting Pools and Man Eating Sheep: Behind the Scenes
Hermione felt a headache blossom under her eyes.
“Harry, why do we have a dozen sheep in the front yard?” she asked Harry, hoping for a different answer.
Harry beamed and answered, “Fon called. He said he found some and needed to get them off his hands.”
With her perfect view from the window, Hermione saw one of the sheep eat one of the chickens. Hermione felt faint.
“Harry, your sheep just ate a chicken. Whole.”
Harry blinked for a few times. “Well, he did say something about it plaguing the countryside if left alone…”
This was just like that time Fon found a few hundred parrots that needed to be re-homed. Harry had, of course, agreed. Like she always would with anything her husband asked. And then it turned out they were parrots that had eaten a magical mandrake by accident and their cries would and could kill now.
And someone in Fon’s workplace had been breeding them to assassinate his enemies before Fon’s coworker Reborn noticed and killed the man...but not before getting saddled with the impossible task of moving a hundred song-killing parrots.
Harry had agreed when Fon called and her incredible Potter luck made sure that Luna tagged along and noticed the birds strange feather mutations and identified it before the birds could kill anyone else.
But it had been exceedingly close!! No matter how much Hermione stressed this out, Harry would always just shrug off the danger. And her damned Potter luck was not helping matters! Neither was Fon. He always wound up in such strange situations and needed Harry's help. Hermione rued the day they met.
“Harry,” Hermione said in warning. She was a bit nervous about this. If this sheep could unhinge its jaws and eat a chicken whole, what else could it eat whole?
Harry nodded obligingly. “Okay, okay. I’ll take care of it. Maybe Charlie would like to have his dragons play with man eating sheep.”
Hermione whirled around to shout, “Man Eating What!” but Harry ran out of the door to corral the sheep to Romania too fast to hear her.
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Note: I updated the AO3 to include this snip, coz it just occurred to me. HAHAHAHA














