Disclaimer: all characters are JK Rowling's not mine, Ex-Lax is some med. brand, same with No
Doze, i dont own any of that. The rest is...MINE!!!!!! muahahahaha.
"So what you are telling me is that there is a potion--"
"Well its a medi-- well yeah, I guess in our world it could be considered a potion-- oh never mind yes a potion." Harry told the Weasley twins, seeing there blank expressions as he rambled on.
"So you are telling us then that this potion," George picked up where Fred had left off, "this potion will actually force a person to, erm, crap them selves?"
"Well if they don't make it to the loo in time, yes."
"Brilliant! Utterly brilliant. Harry, buddy how come you never thought to tell us this before?"
"Um, the thought never really crossed my mind."
"Well it's absolutely great. Thanks Harry."
Harry wasn't sure what to think, he didn't want to know what Fred and George would do if they
got their hands on a bottle of Ex-Lax, but he knew that he would be watching what he ate and
drank from that moment on.
***
Harry was staying again at the Weasley house that summer. The boys were sitting around the
living room discussing quidditch when Ron got up to use the bathroom. After a bit when Ron still
hadn't returned, the boys started joking about him. Harry suggested he get Ex-Lax, forgetting that
he was in a wizard house hold. The boys asked what the heck Harry was talking about. Fred and
George were extremely intrigued by this Muggle potion. When Ron returned the four boys got
into a big discussion about it. Ron was a bit miffed at first, he was the one who brought this up by
being stuck in the loo for so long, but realized the joke wasn't on him anymore, then joined in the
laughing on whose food they would put it in if they could get a hold of the stuff.
"Well," Fred said, slyly, "we're all going to Diagon Alley next week, for school, right?"
Ron and Harry nodded suspiciously, while George added, "well Fred and I know how to get to Muggle London, if you Harry could go with one of us, I mean only if you want to, we could make it alone, but with your help Harry, it would be easier, to get a hold of this stuff, this, X-Lacks."
Ron looked put off, he wouldn't have minded being asked to go too.
"Ron, you and I can stay and help stall Mom if she gets anxious about George and Harry, you know, 'oh, they popped of to the lav for a bit, they should be back any moment.'"
"Okay." Ron brightened a bit at being a part of the plan.
***
A week later the Weasleys and Harry made their way to Diagon Alley to buy their school things.
The group stopped by Gringott's first, to get their gold. They ran into the Grangers at the doors,
they were exchanging Muggle money for wizard money.
"Hey Hermione!" Harry yelled at his friend. Ron followed behind Harry. Mr. and Mrs. Granger got into conversation with Mrs. Weasley.
Ron had slowly developed a major infatuation with Hermione over the years and had just come to his senses about it that summer, he acted very shy around her at that moment.
"Ron! Hi!" Hermione said, wrapping him and Harry both up in her arms in a huge hug, "how have you two been all summer? Did you get my letters? I sent about 10, but only got 3 replies! I was worried, I mean, I wasn't sure how trusty my owl was, seeing as I had just gotten him at the beginning of summer."
"Nah, I got them all, at the beginning of the summer it was the Dursleys, they kept me quite busy, despite my Sirius threats, then I moved back into the Weasley's for the rest of the summer, with all the commotion of moving I didn't get time to write."
"Oh, sorry about the Dursleys Harry, they are just awful people who give Muggles a bad name. What about you Ron, what's your excuse?" Hermione asked with a little grin.
"Oh! Uh... I was busy working on my Potions--"
"Bull, Ron I know for a fact you haven't even touched that, it's been sitting under Pig's cage all summer."
"Shut up Harry! Okay, well before Harry came Mum was in a mad rush to clean, for who knows what reason, Harry doesn't mind, then when he came, settling in. I'm no good at writing anyhow."
"Aw, Ron, you're a fine writer, anyway you were just too lazy, huh, you have always been a bad procrastinator, I know that's all, besides your mother's cleaning."
"Yeah, yeah, well I just don't understand, Dad got a promotion and everything, but mom still won't invest in a house-elf."
"Good for her! I still think that--"
"Herm, no one cares about Spew, and no one really did." Harry said, saving everyone from a huge tirade about house elf liberation.
"Ugh, you two are hopeless."
Hermione's parents came over to the kids to tell Hermione good bye. Mrs. Weasley gave all her
children some money ("only spend it on school things!") and told everyone that she was going off
to buy some things, and to behave themselves ("no Knockturn Alley, or Muggle London!").
Ginny and Hermione went to Arrabella's Beauty Supply, while all the boys went back to
Gringott's to exchange some of their Galleons to Muggle money, and devised a quick plan.
"If Mum asks, Harry and I are in the lavs, and will be right out, but we need a few more quills, so she can just go get herself and ice cream or something."
"Sounds good."
"Ready Harry?"
"Yep."
"See you guys in a bit!"
***
The plan went smoothly and Harry and George returned with two bottles of Ex-Lax and a bottle
of No-Doze pills, along with a bottle of generic sleep aid pills, and Muggle candy. George had to
try about every kind of Muggle candy available.
***
Back at the Weasley house things went as usual, for the tail end of summer. The Weasleys were given a new car with Mr. Weasley's promotion, so the morning the kids were to go to school 7 bodies, and tons of luggage, fit smoothly and comfortably in the magically enhanced vehicle. The crew made it to the station with plenty of time, loaded the train and met up with Hermione, and set off to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
