When We Danced: Setting the Pace and Keeping Score by Rumors
(Fred and George)
Disclaimer: Not mine, just borrowing.
When Fred and George took to the dance floor, everybody ran for cover. They would keep the beat, but nobody else could hear the music they danced too. It was truly to the beat of a different drummer or fifty. Girls learned to avoid the Weasley twins when the subject of dancing came up, or they learned why they had to. And it wasn't pretty.
After they finished the dance floor would be in ruins. Formerly happy couples would be strewn about the floor like they had been to battle, picking themselves up and suddenly hating dancing. The floor was scuffed and torn and in some places bowed or rippled. No one asked how that happened. No one wanted to know.
They couldn't be forced or cajoled into dancing in a less destructive manner, and even family gatherings weren't safe. It was speculated that they had a point system for who did the most damage, and weddings were the highest scoring events. Blushing brides were the target of choice.
Was it malice, or just plain insanity that drove them to dance like maniacs on crack? Or was it that they were just having fun, and trying to find someone who could keep up with them.
