CHAPTER 1

"Ron I'm so worried that Harry will be furious with us for not writing him!" Hermione replied as they walked down the hall. "After all he's been through so much!"

"Don't worry about it!" Ron replied. "I'm sure he'll understand once we explain ourselves!"

They were passing by the twins' room when they heard one of them shout something. There was a loud thump then they heard Sirius' voice.

"MERLIN'S BEARD GEORGE WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!" Sirius exclaimed.

Ron and Hermione burst into the room to find George standing over Fred who had deep bloody gashes all over his body. His eyes were staring blankly up at the ceiling. Sirius looked pale and was trying to take his wand away.

"BLOODY HELL GEORGE WHAT DID YOU DO!" Ron exclaimed slamming the door as he and a pale Hermione withdrew their wands.

"Oh relax!" George replied pulling his wand back from Sirius. "It's just a charm we created."

"A CHARM!" Ron, Hermione, and Sirius repeated.

"Yeah watch!" George replied and pointed his wand down at Fred twice then waved it back and forth. "DIDELPHIDAE!"

As they watched Fred all the deep gashes and blood quickly disappeared along with the gashes in his clothes. A second later Fred opened his eyes and smiled.

"Did it work?" He asked as George helped him up.

"It certainly did!" George replied chuckling.

"What the hell was that!" Sirius furiously replied.

"We call it the Playing Possum charm!" George replied as he wrote something in his notebook. "You know how those possum rodent things play dead when they get scared?"

"Well we came up with this charm!" Fred began. "We cast the charm Didelphi Morphia before battle. Then if something happens we'll only look hurt or dead then when it's over we simply cast the reverse spell Didelphidae!"

"We haven't practiced it on the major curse yet!" George replied. "You know like The Kill . . . "

"NO NO NO!" Sirius exclaimed. "The charm is fantastic so far but I absolutely forbid you to try it on any of the Unforgivable Curses. Do I make myself clear?"

"Yes!" The twins replied sullenly.

"You better not let Mom see that it'll give her nightmares!" Ron replied as Sirius stormed out of the room.

"Actually she already has!" George replied sheepishly.

"She was pretty impressed with!" Fred replied. "But told us never to do it again when she was around!"


A/N: Didelphimorphia is the order name of Opossum and Didelphidae is the family name.

This is my first Harry Potter fic. What did you think?