Hey everyone! Here is another chapter. it's a bit shorter than my previous ones, but hey, it was the only place I could split it. its not as good as previous ones, but i managed to work through my writers block.
thanks to everyone that responded to the last chapter.
So here it is, Chapter 7!
Disclaimer: even if i sent the bat bogey hex on par to Ginny's at JKR she wouldn't give me the rights to Harry Potter. I OWN NOTHING!
Hermione blinked and was surprised to find the twins stood in front of her, physically putting themselves between her and Ron.
"Hello Ronniekins." both twins said menacingly.
Ron's eyes flickered up to Hermione from the twins and back. It didn't take him long to put two and two together.
"H-Hello everyone, what's up?"
"Ron, how could you cheat on Hermione? I thought I raised you better than that!" Molly cried after a minute breaking the rather awkward silence that had fallen in the room.
A flash of anger appeared on Ron's face that only Hermione saw as it was soon covered by a cool mask of indifference. Hermione could tell that Ron was livid with his family being on her side. Hermione silently hoped that no one, especially the twins, would do anything to him. But of course all her hoping was in vain.
"So I guess you on her side then." said Ron.
"You're an idiot Ron," sighed Fred, "of course we're going to be on her side! You cheated-"
"-on her!" continued George, "Hermione is as much a part of this family as you are, she's like my sister! And I do not let anyone, even my brother mess with my sister!"
Most of the Weasleys now had their wands pointed at Ron. One would have thought that Mrs Weasley, being one who did not like violence in her home, would be stood in between everyone. But she was so ashamed and angry with what her son had done to her almost surrogate daughter that she too was looking at him in anger.
Hermione could only look on as the first spell was cast. It came from none other than Ginny. Almost everyone that knew Ginny knew that she had a mean bat bogey hex. Hermione, having been on the end of it once or twice, knew how painful it could be.
Fred and George soon joined in with a pair of hexes that Hermione didn't recognise. But they had an interesting effect on Ron. His nose started to elongate until it was hooked. The other spell made Ron's hair grow until it was shoulder length and greasy. Ron caught a look of himself in the mirror and screamed like a girl. He looked like a ginger Snape! But Ron couldn't concentrate on his image for long as the bat bogeys were attacking him with no signs of stopping any time soon.
Hermione was even more surprised with the spell that Fred threw into the fray. It was the spell that Hermione was prone to use on Ron during their Hogwarts days; an avis charm coupled with oppugno meant that a flock of birds was now attacking Ron accompanied by the bat bogeys.
Hermione could help but giggle slightly at the Weasleys actions before frowning quite profusely. She was driving a wedge between the people in this family and she couldn't bare it. Hermione fled from the scene, tears now freely flowing.
She made it to the door before a hand on her shoulder stopped her. She turned. It was Fred.
"Fred I-"
"Mione, No."
Fred pulled Hermione into a tight hug and whispered in her ear, "Mione don't worry you are not splitting this family apart. Ron has needed to be taken down a peg for a while. We just took the chance to get at him. I repeat, you are not splitting this family apart."
Hermione instantly relaxed at his words. How on earth did he know exactly what was eating at her? Not only had Fred said exactly the right thing but he had somehow managed to completely calm her down.
He released Hermione from the hug and they turned to face the rest of the Weasleys. They had stopped hexing Ron and had been watching the two with concerned faces. Hermione's now smiling face comforted their worries. Ron, Hermione made note, had taken his family's distraction to creep back to the fireplace; his intention to floo out of there. Ron took a pinch of floo powder from the pot on the mantle place and threw it in, calling out the name of his and Harry's flat and leaving the burrow.
"So Hermione," Arthur said yet another awkward silence, "could you explain to me again the function of a rubber duck."
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