Chapter Four! Please let us know what you think and enjoy this one as well!
"No magic." Tria muttered, "It's a Defense of the Dark Arts class. What do you mean, no magic? That is ridicules! No magic."
"Lighten up, Silvers!" Fred called to her as he and his brother attempted to sell their products to all the underclassman.
"And blood quills as a detention. I thought those things were outlawed in schools. We have to talk to the Ministry about this. Oh wait, we can't. Because she is part of the Ministry." Tria threw her hands back in defeat, and slumped into the bench.
"All will be well, Tria." George replied as he slipped her the money bag, and took the empty one she had next to her. Their business worked so well, especially when the professors didn't know all who were involved.
He dashed over to join his twin and added, "Get you out of class whenever you like!" The young second year looked quite happy about this thought.
"Obtain hours of pleasure from one profitable boredom." Fred continued, pretty much finishing the deal. Tria smiled cheerfully, the twins were excellent salesmen.
George turned to the boy on the other side of him whose chin inflated. "Want to try another?" He asked holding up their box and glancing at Tria, who wrote something in one of her notebook. It wasn't supposed in inflate quite that much.
"No magic." Tria started to mutter again and both the boys rolled their eyes. "Next thing you know she'll take away quidditch."
She glanced again from side to side, watching carefully for any teachers or perfects. That was basically her job in their transactions. Watch for teachers, hold the money, and write down anything that goes wrong. Then of course she had to figure out exactly what went wrong. Since today was pretty much uneventful, Tria allowed her mind to wander. Wander to Dolores Umbridge.
Dolores Umbridge had done many things in the short time that she had been here. She outlawed magic in the halls as well as in her class. Every one in the school had to look proper and she was often using magic to fix that she deemed unsuitable. Breaking her own rules. Her detention was quite painful, as the twins told her. They had gotten pushed in there multiple times, but Tria hadn't experienced it herself. But then again, Tria was one of the few Hogwarts students in their seventh year who had never gotten detention. She had fired Professor Trelawney, and made her cry quite hard. Tria had happened to like Professor Trelawney, she may have been strange, but was still nice. And the firing then put her on ends with Professor McGonagall as well as Headmaster Dumbledore
Tria had contacted the Order multiple times and every single one of them said pretty much the same thing.
Cyrus had warned to her to stay away from Umbridge and attempt to keep the others out of trouble as well. He warned her that Umbridge had a long line of broken wizards and witches behind her, but apologized saying there was nothing he could do. He promised to attempt to dig up some dirt on her new teacher, but many reporters before him and had attempted and failed.
Mr. And Mrs. Weasley had begged her to keep their children and Harry out of trouble, especially the Twins. But, there was nothing they could do.
Tonks used the whole letter saying "back in my day," even though they both knew there wasn't much of an age difference between the two. A majority of it was jokes that the two share in order to lighten the mood. And it worked. For a little.
Professor Lupin used three parchments all to apologize and kept on repeating about how he wished he could do something. He told her to tough it out, and the Order would do everything that they could.
Much to her surprise, Moody replied, but with three words. "Suck it up." Which earned a laugh from the others when she showed them this.
Again much to her surprise, Sirius Black also replied. The two of them had never really agreed on anything except for the fact that Harry should know exactly what was going on. And basically his whole letter was about Harry and watching over him. Which was understandable being his long lost godfather.
But, what could they do? The Order of the Phoenix worked outside of the Ministry, but it wasn't like they could directly oppose them. The one place they did have complete control was Hogwarts, and now they were losing that as well. What to do, what to do.
Tria snapped out of her day dream when she heard the clicking of shoes on the hallway to their left. There was only one person who walked like that. "Umbridge." She hissed, and Fred and George looked at each other frantically. George instantly packed up all of the supplies and slipped it underneath the bench that Tria was sitting under. Fred scattered the students they had been selling to, and quickly they both handed Tria the money bags. She handed them two textbooks and opened her own. They sat down on either sides of her, and not a moment too soon.
Umbridge strolled around the corner, feeling quite good about herself. She raised her wand with a flick, and tightened George and Fred's ties almost choking them, but she didn't notice the boxes carefully fitted behind Tria's feet. She just kept on strolling.
The three of them waited until she had turned the next corner and then a few seconds after. Once the coast was clear hey all brightly smiled up at each other, as George and Fred pulled their ties back down.
"We solemnly swear that we are up to no good!" They said together with a laugh and then grabbed their things heading towards their next location.
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"How much money did we make?" Fred asked. He, George, and Tria were all sitting in the corner of the Gryffindor common room. It had been basically decaled as their corner, since their first year.
Tria, who was counting it, gave him a look and he fell silent, shifting impatiently. "43 Galleons, 8 Sickles, and 16 Knuts."
The twins looked at each beaming quite brightly. They high-fived each other.
Quickly, George started to do some calculations in his head. He smiled to his twin, "We're almost there." Fred just beamed bigger.
"Almost there for what?" Tria asked putting the money back into the bag and then handing in to George who shoved it into his pockets. The Twins just looked at each other debating and then back at her.
"You know how we are planning to open a shop?" Fred asked and Tria quickly nodded.
"Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes." Tria replied. It was the name that they were working with, but she knew very well that they boys really wanted to open their own shop as soon as they got out of school.
"Harry gave us a starting loan with the money he won with from the," George stopped, but hesitated. The tournament didn't have kind memories with Tria, she would get this look on her face whenever she thought of her friend.
"So we almost have enough to buy a shop and get started!" Fred continued filling the blank spot so Tria didn't have enough time to get emotional.
Tria sat there staring at them with her eyes wide and her mouth slightly opened. She suddenly grinned widely, and tackled the boys. They both landed on their backs, with her on top of them hugging them tightly. "That's great!" She squealed. "I'm so happy for you!"
George started to blush, but said nothing. Fred just grinned at his twin.
Another girl entered the common room and looked at the pile with a slight smile on her face. "I hate to interrupt anything, Tria." Tria looked up at her and pushed herself off the twins with a smile. "But I was in the Owlery, and you have a letter. I figured I would grab it for you, instead of you having to wait." She handed the letter to Tria.
"Thank you!" Tria commented happily and flipped it around to open it. But her hand stopped over the seal. She frowned and looked at the girl who had started to walk up the stairs already. "Sally, did you open it?"
Sally turned around and replied, "No, but I did notice that. My guess is the person forgot to seal it or your owl did something."
Tria smiled and nodded to the younger girl who continued up the stairs. She held up the envelop to the light and inspected the seal. She pulled the letter out and frantically read it. It was just a letter from her brother Cyrus, seeing how she was. Luckily nothing involving the Order or Harry. She looked at the two boys who were looking at her like she was insane. "She's reading our mail now." Both boy's mouths dropped open. Tria jumped up and grabbed a parchment and some ink and quickly wrote a response.
"What are you doing?" Fred asked.
"Warning them." Tria replied. "Between their contact with me and Professor Dumbledore, they really have to know this."
George leaned in closer, "What is such a big secret?" He asked urging her.
Tria rolled her eyes and replied, "You know I can't tell you that." Both boy sighed.
"How are you planning on doing it?" George asked turning to a much more serious topic. "If she reads whats incoming, of course she reads the outgoing." He read over her shoulder at the warning she was writing.
Tria just smiled at him and pulled out her wand. She tapped it twice and whispered something. The writing vanished into the paper.
"You have to teach us that!" Fred laughed, and Tria just smiled.
"How is he going to see it?" George asked, slightly confused.
She turned to reply to George, but immediacy stopped when she saw how close their faces were. Their noses were almost touching. Their faces both went red and George quickly turned away. Tria glanced back at her paper, and embarrassed grabbed her quill and quickly started to write the letter she was using as a cover up.
"We've been doing it since we were kids. Their a words within the letter itself that will let him know." She replied her face still a little red.
Fred just grinned widely glancing between his twin and his best friend. This was going to be fun. He would just need to find Angelina.
And that a wrap!
For the record, we didn't create Sally, her name is Sally Birchgrove and she is a gryffindor student who played in a informal Quidditch game in the next year. So yeah.
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