Experiment Gone Wrong
A/N: Characters: Fred and George Weasely; to clarify Fred is wearing a long sleeved brown shirt, tucked neatly into his khaki pants. George is wearing a long sleeved button up collar green shirt. Both brothers have their shirt sleeves rolled up to their elbows. George is the one laughing at Fred.
This is for Professor Monse, level four homework.
Due date: Dec. 29, 2011
This story is set in Order of the Phoenix after F and G flee Hogwarts during Umbridge's reign as Headmistress and before the Golden trio's visit to the Weasely twins' joke shop for the first time.
Chapter 1 Aftermath of Leaving Hogwarts
They have done it! Fred and his brother George have done the impossible! They just made an awesome escape from the clutches of Umbridge. They were free. Now they needed a place to stay, a place for a joke shop and items to sell. Fred knew they couldn't go home, well to the Burrow. Their mother, Molly Weasely would kill them for dropping out of Hogwarts, which has never happened before!
"Where to next Forge?" George asked his brother while they were flying towards Hogsmede. Thinking quickly, which doesn't happen much for this Weasely twin, Fred answered his brother with a smile, "Well Gred first things first, we need to get a place to stay since we can't go to the Burrow."
"Right so want to go to Diagon Ally? Lee told me that there's an open space for business we could look at." George called though the wind. The wind was getting unbearable to talk to each other so the boys landed in a remote place were very few people could see them.
"How does Lee know there's an open space for business in Diagon Ally?" Fred asked.
"He actually looked during the summer." George answered. Fred looked at his brother in surprise. He was even more surprised of Lee actually doing something like that for them. Talk about loyalty!
Since they were allowed to do magic outside of school, they shrunk their brooms, put said brooms into their pockets and walked on to the street towards Diagon Ally.
Two weeks later Fred and George were thriving in their joke shop. Despite the fact that school was still in session and their main customer focus was Hogwarts students, business was booming! So far customers were families with children under 11, curious enough to come into the shop and parents willing to buy items their curious children wanted.
After closing time one evening Fred and George started to work on new items they wanted to add to their shop. One of them was the love potion.
"Fred, are you sure you want to make love potions?" George asked his brother, unsure if they sold the potion, if people would actually buy it.
"Absolutely George, it'll be worth it. Besides we can test the potion on ourselves to make sure it works then sell it."
George looked at his brother still unsure of what they were about to do. "Fred, you need to think about this more carefully. Plus we need to get all of the ingredients for this potion, which will be hard to find."
Fred and George stared at each other for a full five minutes before Fred answered his brother. "I realize this George and that's not going to stop us. We can still contact Lee; he'll be able to help us. Since he's at Hogwarts he can get the ingredients we can't find in Diagon Ally."
George just shook his head, 'He's not getting it.' He thought. "That's stealing Fred. You know how I feel about stealing. We can't ask Lee to steal from Snape that'll be worse than getting caught pulling pranks on the Slytherins." George looked at Fred, who had a look on his face like he was in deep thought.
"Why don't we look for the ingredients we need in Diagon Ally, then if we can't find what we need we can askProfessor Snape if we could borrowthe ingredients we need and pay him. How's that Forge?" George smiled at his brother 'It seems like he got it after all.' George thought. "Awesome Gred, let's make a list of what we need and go get the ingredients tomorrow."
An hour later they finished making the list of ingredients they needed to buy in Diagon Ally. The brothers decided to call it a night and went to bed, thoughts of the escape from Hogwarts still fresh in their minds, both brothers had smiles on their faces as sleep came.