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After saying goodnight to Hermione, Harry shuffled off to his own room. As Harry crept to bed, trying not to wake up Ron, he remembered the note that Malfoy had given him. On the note, Harry wrote a simple 'yes, but conditions apply, meet me at the back of train after meeting', hoping the message would convey what he needed and be vague enough to not get anyone into trouble.
The next morning after getting up early, Harry found a perfect opportunity to ask Fred and George about getting supplies. The twins were in the kitchen when Harry came in to get a glass of water.
"Good morning, Harry. Did you sleep well or did your late night rendezvous prevent you from getting any shut eye?" Fred said in a boisterous manner.
"Yeah, we heard some creaking went down in the library last night," George chimed in with a wink.
Harry felt his face flame up at the insinuations that the twins were making.
Ron glanced up from his breakfast with a questionable look on his face.
"Good morning to you guys too," Harry said when his face started to cool down.
"What were you doing in the library last night, Harry?" Ron asked while eating a mouthful of food.
"Umm, I was looking for more defensive spells," Harry said quickly, hoping to keep anyone from asking anything else.
"You will find more dark offensive spells than anything that has to do with defence in that library," Sirius chimed in.
"You don't have to be looking for more spells, Harry," Molly Weasley said shrilly, "the Order is well protected and you only have a few more days until school starts again. You should enjoy them, play something with Ron."
Harry shot Mrs. Weasley a dark look at her dismissive comment that went overlooked by most.
"Well, it is good that you are taking your studies seriously, Harry," Lupin murmured trying to defuse the tension that was suddenly in the air.
"Thanks," Harry said just shy of being sarcastic. Harry moved to leave the room but as he did he was sure to signal to the twins that he wanted to talk.
Harry made his way to the front room of the house and only had to wait a few minutes until the twins showed up.
"What can we do for you, Harry?" George asked when they made sure no one else could overhear them.
"I need a few potion ingredients that are not included in this year's normal potion kit." Harry said quickly while keeping an eye out for anyone.
"Well, we are in your debt, so what do you need?" Fred asked while sharing a look with George.
Harry handed over the list that Hermione and he had complied last night.
"Hmm, most of this stuff will be easy to get with our sources on the trip to school," Fred stated, "but the question is why do you need this stuff?"
George added, "Hairs of a grey wolf is only used in very specific potions and somehow we don't think you are going to try to brew Wolfsbane for our friend Lupin."
Harry levelled his gaze at the pair of them, debating on how much he would need to reveal to get them to help him and Hermione.
After a few moments of silence, the twins shared another look. "If you cannot tell us, that is fine, Harry," Fred finally said reluctantly.
"You do know that you can come to us for help with anything, even if you can't tell us what it is," George added.
"Thanks, guys, I do trust you but this is between Hermione and I," Harry sighed and thought, at the moment.
With Cheshire cat grins the twins asked in unison "and how is the little lady, our voluminous styled wicked witch doing after a hard night of 'studying'.
"I am exhausted, hungry and a little peeved at someone for not waking me up this morning," Hermione stated from right behind the twins. Harry was completely amused to see how fast the blood drained from their faces. The twins apologized and fled from the room as fast as their feet could carry them leaving Harry and Hermione chuckling.
"I didn't know I was supposed to wake you up, Hermione, and frankly I thought it was good for you to have a bit of a lie in," Harry said after they had caught their breath.
"You weren't, Ginny was, but were you scared that you might have angered me like the twins?" Hermione asked with a glint in her eyes.
"Of course, the twins are smart after all. You can be one scary witch when you're pissed," Harry said playfully.
Hermione swatted at him and he danced back a couple of paces.
"Missed me," Harry teased and ran away.
Hermione laughed and started to chase him, which started an epic game of tag that encompassed the house hold going so far as to even get Sirius, Remus and Tonks involved. Hermione finally won at the end of the day by tripping Harry and sitting on him when he landed on the floor.
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