Tegan Lily, just turned 10 years old about two months ago, was looking forward to go back to her home in Spinners End with her Dad; even though she loved Hogwarts, it sometimes got boring when the students left, they left a week after the students and would return a week before them.
Tegan didn't expect was being dragged out of her bed the first night of being home…
Tegan was sleeping in her bed, tired from the travel home. She was awoken at the sound of talking coming from downstairs. When her door was suddenly broke open she became scared, she tried backing away but was caught in her covers; she couldn't stop the silent tears from falling down her face as the strange man grabbed her roughly from her bed carrying her down the stairs where she saw her Dad seemingly to talk normally to them.
"Dad?" She asked as she struggled against large man.
"Leave my daughter out of this" he warned causing the man to allow Tegan to roughly fall to the ground with a 'thud' "Tegan, you're going to a friend's for a short time."
"Whose?" Tegan asked confused, the only 'friends' she had we're the professors at Hogwarts; she'll have to decipher his clue. She remembers him telling her, Floo to his private office then to the location he specified or the one he gave a clue for.
Snape handed Tegan her emergency packed back pack "Don't talk about dragons too much, you'll make them go gnome!" he told her pushing her into the floo network and throwing the powder in himself sending her to his office.
"Dragons? Gnomes? Charlie Weasley, he lives in a borrow… there password must be Gnome?"
Tegan place her bag on her back as she stepped into the fireplace taking a handful of floo powder and clearly stated "Weasley Borrow, Gnome" before throwing down the powder and being engulfed in green fire.
Tegan lost her balance stumbling forward out of the fireplace banging into a table and knocking something off which made a loud 'crash' and she fell on the floor with a 'bang!'
Within seconds the lights turned on revealing a cosy seating area as figures approached quickly wands raised towards her.
"Who are you?" The male asked. His wand no longer directly facing the young child, the women's wand also lowers seeing the perpetrator.
"I…I…I am Tegan Lily Snape…Is Charlie here?" she stuttered, scared.
"CHARLIE!" the male called up the stairs. The mans wand was still out while the women looked at her intensely, she was wearing purple silk PJs, her hair was a mess, she had slight bruises forming on her arms and tear stains down her cheeks.
As Charlie stepped off the last step after jumping down, obviously not having been asleep, Tegan threw herself at him throwing her arms around his waist.
"Tegan?" he asked shocked as the young girl attached herself onto him.
"May I ask what is going on?" the women; Molly Weasley asked her son.
"I don't know, this is Tegan, she's Professor Snape's daughter, we sometimes talk about dragons" he informed his parents.
"Look at her arms, do you know if this professor would hurt his daughter?" Molly asked concerned causing Tegan to spin around to face her.
"No, my Dad would never hurt, how dare you say that!" she defended him, tears falling down her face. Tegan was clearly defensive about her father, after him being the most hated teacher at Hogwarts.
Molly knelt down to her level "Can I ask how you got those bruises and why you are here?" She asked kindly
"My Dad's friends came to visit, they are mean people, and he did not know they were coming. Usually I visit somebody until they leave, but they came and dragged me out of my bed. None of the other Professors like unarranged visits from me or my Dad, they always have to be planned, so he told me to come here after getting me out of the mean mans hold. I don't know who they were though," Tegan told her freely, seeing the mother-like look she held.
"So your Dad wants you to stay here?" Molly asked
"Charlie is the only person I really talk to that isn't a Professor… I have money for you!" Tegan exclaims entering her bag bringing out a smallish bag of coins and presenting it to the women in front of her.
"You can stay here for free, you don't need to pay" she reassured the young girl.
"No, Dad told me I have to give it to you, it should sustain the cost of living here for up to a week plus a little extra, If it gets to a week and one day, I'll give you another one!" she informed the older women handing over the bag not accepting no as an answer.
"Well, you can share a room with my daughter, she's 7 years old" Molly informs her, full mother mode
Tegan scrunches up her nose a bit "7? Does she wet the bed?" she asked causing laughter to erupt from up stair, Tegan looked up and saw two identical people who looked a similar age to her.
"No, she doesn't; besides she's the only girl here."
"But, aren't you a girl?" Tegan asked now confused.
"Yes but… I share with my husband."
"Oh."
"Come on now dear, let's get you some fresh covers; Ginny has a spare bed in her room anyway" Molly states leading the girl up the stairs whilst hearing scrambling above her as her children rush back to their designated rooms.
"How many children do you have?" Tegan asked curiously.
"We have 7 children, Bill, Charlie, Percy, Fred, George, Ron and finally little Ginny."
"Why so many? Did you not like you first children? Is that why you had more?"
"Excuse me? No, we just like children" she replies confused by the child's statement.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to upset you" She spoke quietly looking down at her feet.
"No worries child, here we are, do you need to use the bathroom before bed?" she asked kindly spreading fresh sheets over the bed.
"No thank you" she replied spotting the sleeping girl in the bed next to it.
"Have a good sleep, I'll see you in the morning for breakfast and we can talk then, OK?"
"Ok, good night Mrs. Charlie's Mum" She replied getting into the bed as the women walked out.
A few minutes later the door creaked open to reveal the identical boys again, they peered in through the gap with curious eyes.
"Would you like to come in?" Tegan asked softly receiving smiles from the 2 boys as she snuck in and sat down on her bed next to her "you're twins,"
"We are" they both replied.
"I'm Tegan" she introduced herself.
"I'm Fred" Fred introduced.
"And I'm George" George introduced.
"Why are you here?" Fred asked.
"Does it matter?" she replied with a question making the twins once again smile.
"Answering a question with a question…" Fred started.
"…Isn't really answering a question," George continued.
"Answering a question with a supposed to be confusing statement isn't answering a question either," she added smiling slightly
"Are you trying-" Fred started.
"-To out smart us?" George continues amused.
"If I wanted to do that, I could scream and tell your mother you snuck in a scared me," she replied smiling wickedly.
"You wouldn't dare!" they were surprised when she screamed high pitched and starting shouting.
"Please don't hurt me!" before crying and hugging her knees.
"Stop, stop, stop!" both the boys chanted too late as their parent's burst through the door wands poised
"Fred! George! Back to your room now! Don't expect to be allowed to fly the whole summer!" their mother screamed as they ran out of the room. Molly then sought to comfort the young child as Arthur calmed down their scared daughter Ginny who woke up due to the screaming and was scared.
After the house was calm again and without a sound, Tegan and Ginny almost instantly fell back to sleep.
In the morning Tegan awoke to discover she was alone in the small bedroom, she collected her backpack and looked for the bathroom, which luckily she found straight away. After going toilet and brushing her teeth, she selected a cream with pink flowers at the bottom summer dress which reached her knees, white socks and her pink dolly shoes and changed ensuring she was dressed as an appropriate lady as her Dad had taught her when visiting or staying over somebody's house. She also plaited her hair to one side before returning her backpack to the room she's staying in and walking down the stairs.
As soon as she had entered the kitchen/ dining room she received shocked looks from everybody there. She was not the scared, roughed up little girl they had all met yesterday, she was a young lady of whom was dressed in clean and neat clothing.
"Good morning" she greeted timidly at the stares "Am I not dressed appropriately?"
"You look so grown up darling, come please take a seat" Molly scurried over helping Tegan to a seat and serving her some food.
"Thank you" she thanked politely; manners were not something Molly got frequently from her family.
"Your welcome, well eat it all up."
"Wow, you're actually a girl!" a boy younger than herself exclaimed; Ron.
"Yes…" she replied confused by his statements as she began to eat some of the large quantity of food in front of her.
"Sorry, you're just a girl!" he exclaimed again
"Yes and you are talking with your mouth full" she replied after swallowing.
"Ron, don't speak with your mouth full!" his mother scolded him.
Tegan giggled under her breath before eating some more food.
The twins noticed this and looked at each other with a sly smile on their faces, 'if she can dish it, she must be able to take it' they both thought, the silently agree to prank her later in revenge for getting them in trouble last night.
After breakfast Molly and Arthur Weasley took Tegan to the side to talk to her, during this time Fred and George we're planning and preparing a prank for her.
"Tegan, do you know how long you are going to be here?" Molly asked her kindly
"Sorry, I don't. If you want I don't mind contacting Professor Dumbledore, he will find me a place to stay while my Dad is … busy."
"No, don't be silly, you can stay here as long as you need to" Molly reassured her.
Tegan just nods and remains quiet turning her attention to the Weasley father.
"Tegan, the amount you save us is too much, especially for a week" he began.
"Are you sure?" Tegan asked confused.
"Yes, is there anything we should know to why it's more then the average?"
"Oh yes, it may because I'm known to break things, like the vase I broke last night when flooing, sorry about that" Tegan explains looking down.
"I don't think this households goes through one day without something getting broken" Molly told her "Now, we we're all planning on having a mini Quidditch match in the back yard, would you like to play?"
"Yes, but I haven't brought my broom with me"
"That's OK, we have a spare, come on" Arthur said taking her hand.
"Hold on, I need to change! I can't play Quidditch in a dress!" she exclaimed running up the stairs narrowly missing a bucket of water falling on her. She turned and watched the bucket come to a stop at the bottom of the stairs and the moans from above her from Fred and George who missed.
"You were moving too fast" they complained as Tegan continued her way into the room she was staying in and changed into clean tracksuit bottoms and a casual t-shirt with her trainers on before descending the stairs once again to the waiting family.
"Ready?" Charlie asked her to which she nodded enthusiastically "OK then, lets go!"
"Wait!" Molly shouts just in time stopping Tegan from pushing of the ground "Tegan, how old are you?"
"I turned ten, two months ago" she answered confused
"Let me just contact your Dad to make sure it's ok for you to fly" she says holding onto the broom lightly.
Tegan groans "Oh come on, please, I always fly" she moans
"I am responsible for you, I don't want to see you getting hurt."
"I won't get hurt! I promise! Please, just for a short while?" she begged.
"Fine, but don't go too high" Molly agreed defeated due to the girls 'puppy dog eyes' that she commonly used around her father.
"Yes! Thank you" Tegan exclaimed not giving a second hesitation as she kicked of the ground and soured into the sky levelling her up with the others. She was playing with Charlie against Fred and George.
The game only last 5 minutes until Tegan dived down following Fred to catch the snitch, before Molly stopped the match by using her wand slowly forcing Tegan down to the floor, the other 3 landed wondering what was going on.
"I'm not going to let a young lady like yourself get corrupted by children, come on, you can help me cook with Ginny away from the boys" Molly gushed leading Tegan in.
Tegan pouted sadly but forced a fake smile when Molly looked at her "What are you… we cooking then?"
"Well, it's actually nearly finished, I put it on a while ago. You can just do the sauces and extras? If that's OK?" She asked
"That's absolutely fine, where do people sit and what do they…?" She began to ask.
"It's all written on the wall sweetie, you can just sit in one of the guest spots, OK?" She offered.
"Thank you" Tegan replied politely, a plan forming in her mind to teach the twins a lesson for attempting to tip a bucket of water over her, it's time to differentiate the beginners from the experts!
Dinner later was a surprise; the twins sat in their usual spots and began eating with everybody else, although when they dipped some chips into the sauce between them they felt their mouths exploding with heat and their eyes watering like crazy.
"Water! Water!" Fred and George began exclaiming drinking their drinks at top speed.
"If you burnt your tongue, Milk works better" Tegan offered enjoying the twins' hilarious faces.
"Evil!" One of the exclaimed followed the other into the kitchen towards the fridge.
"Did you? You tricked them two?" Arthur Weasley asked before grinning like a mad dog "Fantastic! It's about time somebody got their payback!"
"Arthur, we are not to encourage this sort of behaviour!" Molly Weasley scolded her husband who didn't take it to heart and continued laughing as he watched two of his sons attempting to down the milk at the same time.
Tegan managed to successfully contain her laughter and amusement as she gracefully ate the dinner provided in front of her, all the rest of the family excluding Molly were laughing at the duo.
By the time they had returned to their seats most of the family had gone back to normal. Fred picked up some food with the intent to eat it, however as it got about an inch from his mouth, he heard Tegan shout at him to stop.
"Stop! What are you doing!" Tegan basically shouted towards one of the twins.
"Eating?" He told her a bit confused, the piece almost in his mouth.
"That's the piece you dipped into the hot sauce" she informed him causing his eyes to widen dramatically and drop the food.
"Oh" he managed to mumble with embarrassment as his twin laughed at his stupidity.
"You do know, this is war" George informed her calm before taking a bite of food.
"I gathered as much" She replied with a sneaky smile.
During the summer a range of pranks were carried out on each other, some more extreme then others and the majority of them hidden away from Molly. Tegan had sought out help from Charlie on more then one occasion during the 3 weeks she spent there. Over the time Fred, George and Tegan began working together to create pranks, which they could do at Hogwarts, of course the majority of them were tested on either the twins' younger brother Ron or their older boring brother Percy. Let's just say that this was a summer to remember and one they will always think as the beginning.
Thank you for reading :D