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Thank you for taking your time to read this. I hope you enjoy it, it is my first Harry Potter FanFic and I hope to write more...

After the intensive cleaning of Grimmauld Place over the past few weeks, Harry, Ron and Hermione were thoroughly exhausted. The last day of the holidays had brought a well-earned rest for the three and as Ron and Harry slumped onto their beds for a mid-morning Quidditch discussion Fred and George apparated with a loud Crack. They had been doing this so often over the holidays that Harry and Ron had grown accustomed to it.

"Booklist's arrived!" cheered George in an alarmingly high-pitched voice that seemed to belong to a six year old. Harry noticed Fred was holding two of the cream-coloured envelopes both sealed with the Hogwarts crest. Fred handed Harry his and with a cheeky smile threw the other at Ron's head almost like a Frisbee. Harry stifled a laugh with a quick glance at Fred and Ron, rubbing his head slightly, opened his envelope with haste. Harry followed suit as Fred sat on the end of Harry's bed and George sat on Ron's. Harry was the first to register the letter and started conversation once more.

"The list's really short this year" he said as he looked between Fred and George.

"Yeah but if you look," said George as he leaned to point to the second book, Defensive Magical Theory by Wilbert Slinkhard, "That means they must have found a new Defence Against The Dark Arts Teacher".

"Must've been hard after the trouble they've had," added Fred, mostly to George than anyone else. As Harry gave a puzzled look, Fred elaborated, "You see, we 'heard', (He used quotation marks with his fingers here, clearly meaning using the Extendable Ears, thought Harry), that Dumbledore was having right trouble recruiting someone new, what with all the other fatal exists from the post" Harry nodded in agreement. He couldn't help but notice the strange silence that came from where Ron was sitting. As if he had read his mind, George had nudged Ron hard in the ribs.

"Oi! What's wrong with your face?" he said as Ron hadn't noticed the hard nudge and instead absent-mindedly held the letter over to George's face. Ron stared at the sniggering blank canvas on the wall of the dull room with his mouth hanging slightly open, a look of utmost fear on his face. Ron's usual line ("Bloody hell!") was used, this time by George as he handed the letter over to Fred. Harry sped through the letter as the first few lines were simply the same as his. He then read and re-read the last paragraph.

"Hey, that's great!" said Harry glancing at Fred's face still reading the letter before staring at Ron. Ron's eyes switched to glare at Harry with an empty look in his eyes. Immediately Fred and George had started their usual banter and gave Ron a hard time.

"Ooh! Ickle Ronnie-kins is mummy's little darling!" mocked George prancing around the room as if he were a fairy and pinching Ron's left cheek to witch Ron slapped his hand in return.

"Another prefect of the family, someone better hang out the bunting!" piped up Fred, mock enthusiastically. Ron gestured something rude to them and they both sat down as an out-of-breath Hermoine came bounding into the room like a German Shepard, her bushy hair struggling to keep up with her.

"Harry! Ron! I've just gotten the best news all holiday!" she exclaimed as she twirled on the spot. "I'm the prefect for Gryffindor this year!" She beamed at them all registering that Fred and George were in the room.

"Well that's great news!" Fred beamed sarcastically.

"Now our ickle wickle baby bwuver Ronny-kins won't be alone!" joined George. They both pranced skipping out the room miming throwing rose petals as they skipped.

"Ron…you got prefect?!" Hermoine was trying to get her head around this.

"Well, don't sound too surprised will you?" Ron replied bitterly. As Hermione rambled on to Harry about what she was planning to do in her 5th year at Hogwarts whilst she was a prefect, Ron stared glumly at his letter not knowing why he felt as down as he did.

Please Review. This is my first Harry Potter FanFic and my others didn't turn out so well. Thank you for reading!

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