A possible moment from the Ministry Battle...

[Bob Schroeck]

I just thought of this little bit over the weekend, and it makes me giggle madly for minutes on end.  Not sure I'll actually use it, more because of the facepalm factor than anything else -- believe it or not, it actually wouldn't be over the top for what's going to be happening in that fight, but it's the kind of thing that will make a reader groan and maybe throw away the fic.

A female voice momentarily rose over the din of the battle:
"...ghostly hauntings I turn loose!  Beetlejuice!  Beetlejuice!
Beetlejuice!"

The little corner of my mind not concerned with the fight blinked
at this.  Forget where the hell she'd *heard* that, whichever of
the summoners among my students that was.  Whyinhell did
she even think it would wor--

"It's *showtime*," a deep, gravelly voice said with immense
satisfaction.

Oh.

Fuck.

-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.