"Have you got everything, Fiona?" asked Ginny, your best friend. Even though she was a year below you, you spent most of your spare time with her, getting into all sorts of mischief, purposely sometimes, but mainly you two just liked to hang out.
"I should think so," you nodded, your other things that you needed were being sent off to Ginny's house already for you. "if not then I can always send an owl to my mother."
"Ok, I can't wait! Mum has been asking about you for ages; asking what you looked liked, whether or not you're ok, or even if you are well and healthy! Bit strange really, but that's family for you. You've already met Percy, haven't you?" you nodded as you walked with her down the train, edging your way out through the narrow gaps.
"Yeah, he helped me find my way when I was in my first year." Ginny had invited you to stay over for the weekend during the holidays, wanting to spend as much time with her best friend as possible. It took you both ages to worm your way through the tight squeeze of the train corridor, trying not to lose each other among the large crowds of students making their way off of the train.
"Look!" Ginny pointed around you towards the platform. There stood wearing a day hat and a warm smile was her mother, waiting patiently for you two and the others. Ginny quickly ran up to her mother and hugged her tightly in greeting. "Hi mum! This is Fiona." she said with a wave of her hand. You smiled kindly in greeting and held your hand out in greeting at the nice woman. Instead of shaking your hand, she pulled you in for a warm hug.
"Hello, Fiona! I'm more of a huggy sort of person unfortunately." she laughed, although you didn't mind at all.
"Nice to meet you Mrs Weasley,"
"Oh, call me Molly!" she patted your shoulder kindly with one of the most welcoming smiles spread across her face than you've ever seen before. "I'm afraid we're going to have to wait for Ron and Harry too, if Ron doesn't lose that rat of his all the time then we might have more time- oh! There you are!" There walking over to the three of you were Harry and Ron accompanied by a stern-faced looking Percy, shoving his little brother to hurry him along.
"Heya, Fiona!" Harry greeted, as did Ron. Percy just nodded with some sort of smile.
"Hi, guys." you returned with a smile.
"No Fred or George?" asked Ron once he had finished his mouthful of liquorice wand.
"Well if you remembered, Fred and George went home a little early due to their last incident with Professor Snape. When will those two ever learn that it is NOT ok to make the Professor's cape set fire!" Mrs Weasley ranted as you all began to walk. You were already really good friends with Harry and Ron, and was considered a friend by Percy, even though he always had a face like thunder these days. Hermione was another good friend of yours, in fact, she was your second best friend.
"Remind me to write that one down when we get there," you whispered to Harry, who nodded eagerly back.
"Yeah, I bet that will be good a second time round!"
"If it's pranks you want to pull, then just talk to my brothers-"
"Which we won't if we don't get a move on, now hurry up Ron before I personally drag you there!" scolded Mrs Weasley. Ron swished his head back down, watching his shuffling feet as he followed the crowd. Not long later, you all arrived at the Weasley's home an hour or two before dinner time. Percy waltzed on ahead to open the door, being to 'goody goody' he is, proudly puffing out his chest to show off his shining prefect badge. Ron rolled his eyes at his brother's action, tutting also. You were the last to enter the creative house and shut the door behind you, hearing peoples footsteps wander off into different directions as you turned back round to see the happy face of your best friend.
"So what shall we-" But Ginny was soon quickly interrupted by the sound of cheering laughter that sounded so alike it was uncanny. The sound of their laughter grew louder and louder the closer they got. You turned in curiosity in the direction of which it came, accompanied by the huff of an annoyed Ginny.
"Wa-heyyyy!" they cheered a long cheer as two identical twins came sliding down the swirly staircase banister, side by side and attempting to shove one another off their perch as they speedily slid down the slippery wood. Once they got nearer to the ground, they jumped off the edge and landed on their grey sock covered feet onto the ground with a loud thud, causing some ornaments in the room to rattle a little. They both stopped laughing when they discovered the new face staring back at them with just as much curiosity as they had. They took a few steps forward and both said in synchronisation.
"'Ello 'ello, who's this then?" they both bent down forwards a little as if to examine your face, a huge cheeky grin swept across their faces as they began to speak.
"This, my dear brother, must be the friend our little sister was talking about so often!" said one twin to the other.
"Ah, yes," began the second to the right. "indeed it is my good man!"
"A second year!" they both chimed together with a nod, as if agreeing that you were automatically a nice person in their eyes.
"Have we seen you before?" asked the twin on the left, pointing down at you.
"Don't point, it's rude!" said the other.
"Oh, right, do forgive me my lady!" he apologized in a posh sort of way which made you giggle. "And to answer your question dear brother of mine, yes, we have seen her before for she is in our house, am I correct?" you nodded with a slightly embarrassed smile. "Aha! I knew I saw this face before!"
"Well of course, she's a Gryffindor nitwit!" laughed the twin on the right again.
"Guys, seriously!" Ginny huffed, covering her ears with her hands because all this confusing speech was giving her a headache. The two very tall red heads laughed.
"We do apologise, dear sister," said the twin on the right.
"Yes, indeed!" said the left twin with a mocking look in his eye.
"Seriously!" she huffed again in annoyance.
"Apologies!" they both said in time with each other, both of them raising up their hands briefly before flapping them back down to their sides.
"Aren't you going to introduce us, little sis?" said the right twin, who had a matching grin to his brother. Ginny sighed as she pointed correctly to the right twin, although slightly uncertain.
"Fiona, this is Fred," she points over to the left twin. "and this is George." she finishes with a point over to the twin on the right.
"I'm George." said the left twin.
"And I'm Fred." said the right twin mischievously.
"No, you're not!" Ginny whined as she slapped her forehead with the palm of her hand, not wanting to go over this dilemma AGAIN. "YOU'RE Fred," she prodded the left twin firmly in the chest as she spoke. "and YOU'RE George!" she finishes by prodding the right twin in the chest as well, clearly frustrated with the whole 'pretend to be the other twin' thing. The two twins looked at each other and laughed, speaking in the exact same time again.
"Guilty!" they grinned. You laughed at their little joke and the look on Ginny's face, trying to hide it as soon as Ginny whipped her head round to face you.
"They'll always try to confuse you. Even mum still has trouble trying to tell them apart, I call them the terrible twins. It's easy enough."
"Oh, come on sis, that's a bit mean now, isn't it?" George said with a little mocking pout, which annoyed Ginny even more.
"What about," you began "the terrible troublemaker twins instead?" you said jokingly. But Fred and George looked at each other and nodded, grinning.
"Sweet."
"Alright, alright, let's go before they transform you into a prankster like them." Ginny said as she tugged on your arm.
"Now that's a good idea..." said Fred with a long hum, scratching his chin while putting on a mocking face of thought. You giggled.
"No, no, no!" Ginny whined, taking it seriously and not realising that Fred was actually joking.
"See you later then, Fiona!" waved Fred with a smile, which George also did. You smiled and also waved back to them, having Ginny drag you away from the troublesome two.
"Gosh, those two!" she huffed annoyingly.
"They're alright, seem like fun." you said with a smile.
"But honestly though, they will always try and trick you. Whether it is a prank or just making you believe that they are the other twin."
"I think I'll manage." you smiled. That's another one of your talents, you could tell twins apart like a cat from a rat. And with that, you and Ginny spent the rest of the night gossiping and her lecturing you about what the twins are capable of, things which you could not wait to see for yourself.