"Happy Birthday, Fred! Happy Birthday, George!" sang Mrs. Weasly holding a birthday cake in each hand.

"Cool! We each get our own cake!" announced Fred, "What happened this year? We became so big that one cake can't cover us both?"

"Nah, it's just that this year we became rich thanks to our booming business that our dear mom was so much against!" winked George, "we can now afford a wedding cake for our birthday."

"Hey, mom, where then is our wedding cake? Why are you giving us such small cakes? We deserve more!" laughed Fred

"stop it boys, you're embarrassing yourselves in front of our guests," said Mrs. Weasly.

"What guests? It's only Hermione and Harry, and they are almost family," said George

"Yeah we're just waiting for Harry to pluck up the courage and propose to Ginny, Ron and Hermione got engaged last week, remember?" asked Fred.

Harry was blushing scarlet, but Ginny was not to be abashed, "you don't speak to Harry about courage. You couldn't even do a fraction of the things he's done – with all your pranks put together"

"Yeah I still think Harry would rather battle Voldemort again than propose to a girl" laughed Fred

"ooh! You're not afraid to say Voldemort's name, Fred?" teased Ginny, "took you long enough"

"well, now that he is definitely absolutely positively dead, I kind of stopped being afraid of him."

"Anyway," shouted Hermione over the racket "if you put your eyes back in your head you'll notice what mom meant when she said 'guests' and you will be politer"

Everyone stopped arguing and looked around.

"And who are you?" asked Fred.

"My name is Frodo Baggins," said the very short man sitting by the fire.

"Ooh, and look, he got us a birthday present" said Fred grabbing away a golden ring and puting it in his pocket, "mmmm... my preciousssss"

"Hey what is it you have got in your pocketsess Fred? That's MY birthday present!" said George "it should be MY preciousssss"

"Hey, no! I need this ring! I have to take it to the mount doom in the land of mordor!" yelled Frodo, "you can't take it!"

"Why would you wanna destroy such a great ring?" asked Fred

"what's so great about this ring?" asked Harry.

"It can make you invisible," said George.

"So you can have my invisibility cloak. Happy birthday guys," said Harry.

"But I want the ring" said george.

"No," said Ron, "the ring is from a different story, you'll just confuse everyone."

"Oh, all right then," Fred and George gave in, "so what else do we get for our birthday?"

"Oh, my! Look out the window!" yelped Bill, "looks like you got a car!"

"Really?" said fred and george together running out of the house, "what kind of car?"

"It's a DeLoean," said an old man who looked like a mad muggle scientist "it's a time machine, and it can fly too!"

"Wow!" said George eyes popping "did you get it for our birthday?"

"Well, I was waiting for my friend but as you guys are here first, mabe you should try it."

"Hey, Doc!" yelled a boy suddenly zooming towards them on a skateboard, "I'm supposed to travel through time in this DeLorean time machine!"

"NO!" shouted Fred and George together, " it's OUR birthday!"

"Well, said Hermione reasonably, "we can get you the Ford. It can fly too, and if you want time travel, just use a time turner. We cant confuse everyone. The DeLorean belongs in a different movie."

Suddenly, both birthday cakes erupted with fireworks.

Everyone looked over at the cakes.

Out of the cakes burst thousands and thousands of books and movies and a little leprechaun who announced : "happy birthday Fred and George! Here in these books and movies you can have all the rings and time machines you need! Maybe they can give you more ideas for your joke shop."

And everyone clapped, and sang,

"happy birthday to you,

happy birthday to you

happy birthday Fred and George,

happy birthday to you!"