" Once Harry seemed to have gotten control of himself, Hermione encouraged him to talk to them. "Now tell us why that should concern you." The next ta...k is going to be in the Black Lake, and they are going to take something I will miss more than anything and put it at the bottom of the Lake for me to retrieve. The problem is, I can't swim, heck, I can't even take a bath without feeling a bit of panic." Why is that Harry? I don't think I have ever seen you panic about any danger, so why should. Then I got a surprise! She had a container of warm caramel to dip the apple slices. Before she got out of arm’s reach, I pulled her down to give her a big kiss on the lips.Instead of a blush, I got a massive smile as she went out to grab a big stack of blueberry pancakes she had them make for me.Oh, this girl is going to get more than a kiss if I can find some way to run Kelly out of here for a few minutes.I tore into my food like a Tasmanian devil, only slowing a bit because I had to chew each. Lisa had guessed what was happening. The boys had entered her room and she stood closing the door when her mother arrived. "This is my room, Mom. I want to spend some time with my brothers." With that, she slammed the door and locked it.There was no sense of victory at the Pritchard complex. Jason, Carter, and everyone else in the know was leery of some kind of clever move by the Administration. It was generally accepted that the Program had been stopped, but there had to be more to it than. It was unsettling.Melinda sighed. I saw her lips moving for a moment and recognized thestrange shapes they were making. She was casting a spell. A moment later,the sounds of the music suddenly faded into a soft, perpetual buzzingsound."There," she said. "No one can hear us and we can't hear them."I looked around, surprised by this proclomation. It was true. Not onlycould I not hear the blasting music, I also couldn't hear the two men nextto us talking, nor the DJ, who was appearently making.