"Are you sure you can handle ALL of them alone?" Hermione asked Ginny hesitantly.
"Hermione, I love having the kids over. Seriously it's not going to kill me. Anyways you just get off to work and you can pick them up tomorrow. It's nice for the kids to have a family sleepover." Ginny said walking Hermione to the door.
"I know you can take care of them, it's just I have that feeling in my stomach that something is going to go wrong." Hermione stepped out to the front step of the Potter Manor.
"Hermione, it's okay. It's probably just your mind over thinking something. But you'd better go, I mean, you'll be late for work. Don't worry about me; I also have Victoire and Teddy with me." Hermione nodded with no other counter argument.
"Alright, floo me if you need anything."
"Alright, bye Hermione." Ginny said before closing the front door and sighing. She walked into her living room to take note of what the kids were doing. Teddy and Victoire were watching Roxanne and Molly playing exploding snaps. Lily and Hugo were playing a game of wizards' chess while Lucy whispered moves into Lily's ear so she didn't lose too badly. Dominique was enjoying a copy of Witch Weekly. While Rose and Albus worked on their summer homework from Hogwarts. But, Ginny's eyes drifted to Fred II, James, and Louis who were quietly talking in the corner.
Ever since they went to Hogwarts, they had been taking their pranks as serious as her older brothers George and Fred did way back when. If only their uncle, Fred, could see them now. The worst part about watching her kids prank their family was the memories it brought back. The kids had been completely oblivious of their past at Hogwarts and Voldemort's time until last year, when Headmistress McGonagall insisted on teaching about their past. She made Ginny's husband donate memories to show the students what he did.
"Alright, everyone, what do you want for lunch?" Ginny almost yelled over the many conversations.
"Um, can we have croque madams?" Dominique, Bill and Fleur's second daughter, asked innocently.
"What is that?" James, Ginny's first son, asked his cousin.
"You would know it as grilled cheese with ham and an egg on the top. But because my mum is French I grew up calling them croque madams."
"Sure, I can make you that, Dominique. Does everyone want that as well?" Ginny asked around the room.
"Mummy, can I have chicken nuggets?" Lily, Ginny's youngest child but only daughter, asked with puppy eyes, the same ones Ginny would always give her parents.
"Of course, does anyone else want either of those two?"
"Croque madam, please." Victoire, Louis and Teddy said in unison.
"Chicken nuggets!" Everyone answered in response.
"I'll make both, don't worry." Ginny left the room shaking her head. Her family definitely got their appetites from their Weasley genes.
"Good now that she's gone, we can execute our plan." James whispered to Fred II and Louis.
"Are you sure we should do this? I mean, we're going to get in a lot of trouble." Louis, Bill and Fleur's youngest child and only son, asked with his concern showing through.
"I'm positive we should do that. I mean, we take it, we'll show it off to the family, and then put it back. It's nothing more than just a little scare. What harm could that do?" James was always the best persuader of the group of boys.
"I just feel like something bad is going to happen today." Louis said holding his stomach.
"Probably just nerves. Anyway after seeing the working of one last year during Dad's memories, it's perfect to go and find it."
"But what if it's with Aunt Hermione?" Fred II, George and Angelina's first child, whispered to his prank partners.
"Then the mission would be incomplete, but I'm 99.6 percent sure that it's in Dad's study. I over heard him say something to Mum about it being in there. I think he said that he needed to bring it to the Ministry because they wanted to check it out for defects because of how old it is."
"Well, then maybe we should wait until it comes back approved with no defects. I mean what if it explodes or something while we're holding it?" Fred II asked scared.
"It won't! We'll just be patient. Come on! Before Mum comes back." James was always known to have his dad's patience, but he'd always protest the fact that he had his mum's temper. The three boys sneaked up the stairs to the second floor of the mansion. They quickly shuffled to the door that led to the forbidden room. Well, it was only forbidden to the children of the family. "Ready?" James asked looking over his shoulder to the nervous boys about five feet away. They nodded. James took out his wand and said a quick 'Alohamora' but nothing happened.
"You really don't think Uncle Harry is that thick to simply protect his study with a small locking charm, do you?" Louis asked like the answer was obvious.
"Well, if you're so clever, then you get us in." Louis stepped in front of the door and took out a safety pin from his pocket. He kneeled down to the key hole and stuck the pin inside it. "What are you doing?" James asked from behind him.
"A trick Uncle George taught me so I could steal Dominique and Victoire's diaries way back when."
"What? Dad taught that to you but not to me?" Fred II asked in shock. Louis rolled his eyes at Fred's terrible timing.
"Fred, I'll teach it to you later, okay. Let's first focus on getting inside." But then a click came from the door and it slowly swung open. James had never been in here before. It was dark and gloomy but still neat. His entire house had always stayed organized for as long as he could remember. He quickly shuffled to the cabinet that was filled with little items for his dad's work. He dug through the valuable items until he found what he was looking for. It was a gold necklace with an hour glass in the middle of the pendant.
"Alright, let's get out of here." James said quickly. The three boys ran down the stairs and into the living room.
"What are you three so happy about?" Teddy asked with his arm around Victoire.
"Oh, nothing." Louis said looking around the room like he had never seen it. Fred II was rocking back and forth on his feet and James was staring at his feet.
"You lot are definitely up to something." Victoire said getting up from the couch. "What have you done this time?"
"Look what we got! It's an important artifact of the Golden Trio themselves!" James said holding up the necklace for the entire room to see. Lily gasped as she saw the pretty necklace but she was smarter than James and knew that it was something that shouldn't be tampered with.
"Give it here James." Teddy said holding his hand out for James to set the necklace in.
"No! Catch, Fred!" James threw the gold chain to Fred and he caught it. Victoire quickly moved toward Fred II.
"No, Victoire! Catch, Louis!" Fred threw the necklace over to Louis and he caught it as well. Teddy reached out to grab Louis but he was too quick for him.
"No, Teddy! Catch, James!" Louis said quickly and threw it to James but little did they know James was a little butterfingers. The necklace fell onto the ground right in from of James. The hourglass started to spin uncontrollably and then a light gray dust filled the room.
"James, you're so dead." Lily's simple voice was heard through the smoke.