A/N----I went to Edmonton for a week and mass updated so I forgot to put this before, but this chapter was co-written by the wonderfully talented GraphicxVandalism
Three of the six Weasley brothers had already started Hogwarts.
Ron, the youngest, hadn't gone yet and kept bugging Charlie and Bill for stories about Hogwarts over summer vacation, the other brother who went to Hogwarts already was Percy, but if asked for a story, he was most likely to go on in a rant about people he had caught breaking the rules, including the prefect who had hexed him out of irritation. Mind you, that one would have been funny, if Percy hadn't been the one telling it.
Now it was Fred and Georges' turn. And Hogwarts would have hell to pay.
Like any other Hogwarts student, the twins were nervous about getting sorted. Every Weasley was in Gryffindor, the house of the noble and the brave. But after the sorting ceremony (they got into Gryffindor!), the twins had nothing to worry about any more, and moved their main focus back to pranking. They had bought as much pranking gear as they could afford before going to Hogwarts in preparation of their celebration once they got sorted into Gryffindor, like they knew they would. And now, Hogwarts would have mayhem to go through.
First on the list was Peeves, the poltergeist. After the start of the year feast when the Prefects were guiding the first years to their dorm rooms, Peeves popped up behind the Gryffindor first years. Fred and George were in the very back, deciding who to prank first. The Slytherins were their first choices obviously, but they couldn't get into the common room.
And then Peeves snuck up behind the group and drenched them with water balloons, the twins taking the brunt of the attack, in the back, as they were. It was like the stars had aligned, and Peeves had signed a death warrant, they had their next target.
Slytherins were tricky, having to get into the common room and all, but a poltergeist? Now that they could work with.
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"So explosives aren't going to work."
"God! What were we thinking!"
"Even between the two of you, you couldn't figure that out?" Peeves cackled as he appeared above the twins'
"I've got a riddle for you...What's red and black and wet all over?" He asked.
Fred and George looked at each other, "We don't know" They replied.
"You two" Peeves pulled out an enormous water-filled balloon and dropped it on the unsuspecting pair. The troublesome poltergeist left, chortling to himself, amused with his actions.
"Bastard."
"So, if hardcore explosives, that had no problem demolishing the potions lab, won't work. Then what will." wondered Gred and Forge.
Unfortunately, that was the moment Snape chose to walk around the corner, catching this last snippet of information. Resulting in a red faced Snape. With greasy hair. Ew.
"You shall be dragged by your ears down to the Forbidden Forest where you will be tied up and left to rot until morning." glowered Snape.
"You can't do that! That unjust! That's--" Fred began to protest.
"That is quite unreasonable, but I can understand where you are coming from Severus." Professor Minerva McGonagull slunk out from behind the remains of the corridor.
"But as they are in Gryffindor, I will be handling their punishment. Is that alright Severus?" She asked, peering at the other professor from under her spectacles.
"I suppose, but I expect nothing less than being hung by their toenails from the ceiling in the great hall" He turned around, black robe trailing behind him like Dracula's cape.
And this was how Snape managed to get himself on the very top of the Weasley twins list, or at least until they figured out how to prank Peeves. And all right before their first class with him. During which, in their substitute class room, the students in the front row started laughing hysterically when they noticed a grotesque canker worm spinning it's way down from Snapes oblong nose.
And then the cabinets behind him erupted and canker worms pelted him and the entire front row from all sides. Everyone behind them was much luckier, and the Weasley twins in the back were perfectly safe.
Until Alicia Spinet swore to hex them into oblivion upon figuring out who had gotten her buried in canker worms, that is.
