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The Finding of the Book
Location: Filch's Office
Year: 1
Fred and George sat in Filch's office (again), trying not to tune out the words coming out of the caretaker's mouth. They were mercifully saved the prospect of having to answer an unheard question when there came a loud crash from somewhere above them.
"PEEVES!" Filch roared, and stomped out of the office. Fred and George looked at each other and grinned. The plan was working. While George kept a lookout for the return of Filch, Fred yanked open the drawer of confiscated objects. He sifted eagerly through it, looking for something interesting. Snatching an apparently blank piece of parchment on the grounds that anything ordinary in the drawer was most likely highly interesting, Fred uncovered a leather-bound book.
Lifting it reverently from a pile of Dungbombs, Fred turned it this way and that. "Hey, George, look at this!" he said excitedly. George looked over at it. In elegant gold script was emblazoned on the cover, proclaiming the book to be The Inofficial Rulebook of Hogwarts.
"Inofficial?" George wondered, puzzled. "Isn't that misspelled?"
"Who cares? This is excellent!" Fred shot back, and stowed the parchment and book in a robe pocket. He shut the drawer quickly and returned to sitting with an apparently forlorn expression on his face as Filch returned.
With luck, they scraped by a single detention, and left Filch's office in a hurry. Reaching the Gryfinndor common room, Fred pulled the book out of his robes. Flipping it open, he discovered pages of rules, also written in an ornate script.
"Well, with this rulebook, there's only one thing we can do with it," Fred decided.
"Burn it?" George suggested. "It's a rulebook."
"Yes, George, but rules were made for us to break," Fred grinned.
"You're not getting at what I think you're getting at, are you?" George said slowly.
"Of course!" Fred's grin now began to take on an expression of insanity. "We just go through and break every single rule!"