Episode 9
“One Long Island Iced Tea coming up.”
Harry watched as the man pulled strangely shaped bottles from in front of a magical mirror that reflected the man’s opposite side than the one Harry could see, mixing different colored liquids together that magically changed into a blend of the colors they had been.
He set the drink in front of Harry. The surface of the glass magically misted with wetness and water trickled down the side.
“How much is it?” Harry asked quietly.
The aproned man blatantly* blew into a handkerchief, “That’ll be five quid Mac.”
“Five quid for a glass of iced tea?” Harry cried shrilly.
“Long Island Iced Tea, kid. The best tea in the world.”
Harry picked up the magically sweating glass. “Effing better be,” grumbled Harry glumly.
“Whud you say, you little twerp?”
Harry pulled out his Olivander 6000 XL wand and wiggled it. “Stupidfly!” Since it had been quite sometime since the running gag about misquoted spells had been trotted out to take a bow.
The aproned man flew into the air flapping his arms madly. “WTF, Mac?”
Harry set the magically sweating glass on the table in front of Bumblebore. “Ah, Larry—“
“Harry.”
“Harry, my boy. You’re a wonder.” Bumbelbore took an enormously big swig of the brownishly potion then smacked his lips flagrantly and trembled slightly. “G—oo—ood. Darn that’s fine as Mississippi mud on a Louisiana day.”
“What are you yammering about?”
“Horcruxii, or have you forgotten?”
* Note: See a previous post for the difference between blatant and flagrant.
MUCH more extensive use of adverbs. You’re really getting the hang of this.
Just one small omission; Harry wiggled his wand – now how did he wiggle it? JKR (I’d call her The Master but she’s female, and The Mistress sounds wrong) would not have missed this opportunity.
Impatiently
Angrily
Resignedly
Nonchalantly
Derisively
Expertly
Amateurishly
The reader needs to know.
comminatorily perhaps?
You made that word up!
It does not exist on the internet, therefore it does not exist…
Just because I made it up doesn’t mean it is not a word. Comminatory is the adjective of commination. If there’s an adjective can an adverb be far behind?
Besides, Shakespeare made up nearly half the words he used.
Hmm, all right then, but ‘comminatorily’ hardly trips off the tongue.
More likely gets tangled in its own shoe laces, falls over and knocks itself out on the teeth.
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