"Um, no. This does NOT happen to the best of us. But when you're unexpectedly sharing a room with a friend and they notice these things first, it's embarrassing," I said, shaking my head at myself.

Suddenly, Alex started laughing his head off. Only after a few moments, when he was doubled over, did he bother explaining what he was laughing about. It was hard to understand still, but the sight of him cracking up was enough to get a full grin from me and some amused chuckles. It took him a bit to calm down enough to talk, but he confirmed that tomorrow was all right.

"Great!" I said. "We'll leave The Leaky Cauldron in the morning and go to a shopping center in London tomorrow, best place to 'accidentally' bump into someone and get hairs for the Polyjuice. Then we'll go leave messages and by the day after we should be in business and get some answers," I was confident in the time frame. Usually people were pretty reliable about answering if they thought they'd get money for it.

Alex picked up just after I asked if he was curious about anything. [i][b]"I don't have any other questions no. I'm sure whatever happens we can take care of it. Just like Neville took care of that Boggart. With Snape's help! A GREEN dress--and the hat, Bridget, the hat!"[/b][/i] he started laughing again, slapping his knee.

This time, I couldn't help it but start laughing just as hard as he was. I remembered that class, so I could picture what was going on. My laugh was pretty high pitched, a long series of laughs followed up by gasping, and repeated. Almost like a horse's whinnying.

I wasn't sure why, but remembering the look of the mink around Snape's neck was funnier than I had originally thought. I couldn't stop laughing, eventually getting hiccups, only adding to the hilarity of the situation. I ended up curled up on my side, clutching my stomach as I laughed. God knows what Alex thought of it.