As soon as Harry entered the shop he was already getting propositioned for something. He raised a dark eyebrow at the twins across the dark ebony counter, " You want me to test what exactly?"
Seeing the two matching devious grins made him understandably nervous, especially when dealing with the premier pranksters of the century.
The pranksters in question, are Fred and George Weasley, who had just been developing new joke items for their store. With the help of Ginny Weasley joining the team they had been able to spend more time in their lab developing diabolical joke devices.
Harry glances down at the bright pink potion sitting on the counter. Along with the color, it smells almost like spun sugar.
" Oh just a new potion, as one of our silent investors we thought you might like to try it out before it goes on shelves." Fred says his grin expanding further, starting to resemble that of the cheshire cat.
Harry looks at him blankly, once again wondering if funding their joke shop was entirely the best idea.
George's grin widens to mimic his brothers, " I couldn't have said it any better Gred, but I may add that it will be one of our premier fall items this year.
"Hogwarts will be over run with it, to McGonagall's horror." The younger twins claims swirling the potion in his hand. The two Wesley twins had been horrifying the headmistress since she was just the transfiguration teacher, and even before they opened their mayhem making store. The two red heads get at least three howlers from her yearly for new prank devices that the students had gotten ahold of. This year she'd already sent two already since a student had slipped one of the dreaded joke potions into her morning pumpkin juice.
Harry just sighs rolling his eyes, " After the last potion you had me try, Im not exactly very trusting when it comes to your new potions.
That last one turned me into a bat might I add, so give me one good reason to take this potion and I might." He mentions with a slight scowl.
Harry's stomach dropped as he saw the shared look between the twins, the matching smirks making it even worse. The last time he had seen that look was right after he had taken the aforementioned potion that turned him into a lime green bat for three hours, as the twins hadn't yet come up with a cure, making him flit around the shop until Hermione could get a hold of an undoing spell.
Harry glanced at Fred to see that he had pulled out his wand and was looking his way with an intensely sinister smile. He was barely able to come to a conclusion, moving a little to the side, before he felt his arms being hooked behind his back after hearing an appariting pop.
"Oi! Bugger off! I-" he was cut off as the potion was poured into his mouth. Harry gagged at the sugary, sweet, spun sugar like taste that was in his mouth, an odd mixture after lunch.
George held a hand over his mouth keeping him from spitting the potion back out, while actively avoiding getting bitten by the smaller man. After some considerable work on the twins part, they were able to make him swallow it.
As soon as it was safely swallowed Fred released him. Harry staggering back away from the older man.
" What the bloody hell was that potion?" Harry hisses out glaring at George, running a hand through his unruly black locks.
After a considerably large pause where the twins look too far too happy with themselves about their little accomplishment, George starts to answer" well ever since we finished Hogwarts and you dumped our little sister -,"
"-We had a little bet, didn't we Forge?" Fred ends with a chuckle, picking up something fluffy to absentmindedly fiddle with it.
Harry's eyes narrow further at them, " what sort of bet?" The younger man asks fearing the worse when it comes to his "adopted" older brothers.
Just then a hurricane of red swirling hair darts past the usually pranked front door. Ginny had arrived and walked up to Harry with a smile.
" They wanted to know if you were gay Harry, so they made this little potion to prove it." She tells the irritated wizard handing him a list of the bets that had been collected. Nearly all of his friends thought that he was gay except for a few, Ron, Percy, Seamus, and Lavender being some of the few that believed him to be straight. At the top of the list you can see that they already made over 100 galleons.
Harry whirled to glare from one Weasley to another to another, "You could have just bloody well asked me!" Was his angry retort.
"And where would be the fun in that, mate? Forge thought it would be more entertaining anyway, and we have a new potion to sell in the store." Fred replies with a cheeky shrug and a wink.
Harry glares and rolls his eyes, " so what does the potion do anyway?" He asks knowing that he will dread the answer.
Fred smirks going to answer, only to be cut off by Ginny "You will be drawn to the person you find most attractive within a mile radius and the potion will make you kiss them." She mentions the last part with a smirk to equal her diabolical older brothers.
"I wanted to do a potion that makes your wet dreams hover over your head visible, but Gred thought this had more mayhem potential and I agree." The younger twin says with a flick of his wand vanishing the empty potion bottle elsewhere.
Harry shifts so he can lunge across the counter to strangle the two sadistic red heads but is stopped by the potion demanding he go outside.
Gritting his teeth Harry prepares to ignore the compulsion, but his body starts to move without his permission. He exits the shop into Diagonal Alley with three pleased Weasleys trailing behind him.
Harry looks around trying to figure which person his body was going to betray him to kiss. He pauses when his gaze lands on a head of white-blond hair shifting through the crowded area.