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Harry walked along Diagon Ally with, what he considered a light heart given the circumstances. Ron had also done well in his OWLs and they were now going to the twin's shop to find Hermione.

They arrived at a big 3 story stone building which at face value looked just like all the other shops in the street. Harry and the rest entered rather tentatively entered the shop…expecting at any minute to be catapulted across the room or something of the sort.

He was extremely surprised to see a relatively normal shop…looking rather like a smaller version of Zonco's. The two side walls were covered in shelves with various different products and aisles supported the same. Along the back wall was a till manned by Lee Jordan whom Harry could just make out over the crowd.

Beside the till were two doors, one was normal and completely commonplace while the other was an big stone hone ornate door with a larger-than-life metal padlock and chain. He followed Ginny through the normal door into a big room which resembled one the potions labs in Hogwart's; except here there were various scorch marks on the walls and floor, and some other stains that Harry would rather not have an explanation for. Benches framed the walls, and many cauldrons adorned them. From petit cauldrons to hold ingredients to a massive black cauldron surrounded by a shimmery blue mist. Around the cauldrons were failed products for the shops, wands that randomly turned into various stuffed animals; a hand which constantly scuttled in circles; mini broomsticks which seemed intent on battering each other and a bright red fire work which flew above them haphazardly banging off one of their heads. One of the twins batted with a sweeping brush and it zoomed off to repetitively bang on one of the corners.

"Sorry mate" said the helpful twin, "We can't quite figure out how to get rid of it; don't want to stun it incase it multiplies."

"And dousing it with water just seems to give it more energy" piped up the other twin; looking extremely puzzled and eyeing it askew.

Harry laughed, "How's business going?"

"Business is blooming" announced Fred
"The adoring public just can't get enough of us" added George
"And we've being doing a little on the side" said Fred with a wink
"Which we think you would like" continued George with a friendly nudge
"So if you'll be so kind as to follow us"
"Being fully aware of course"
"That anything that should befall you"
"Is entirely your own fault"
"As we do not claim any responsibility for any-"
"Injuries"
"Pain"
"Suffering"
"Mental instability -"

"Ok guys I get the point; can we just get on with it?" broke in Harry, before the Twins got carried away.

"Harry my dear"
"We were only trying to warn you"
"Just in case you felt the need to - "
"Sue"
"Punish"
"Slander"

"He gets the point" cut in Ginny irritably, "Now can you please get on with it and stop beating around the bush?"

"But of course dear sister"
"We wouldn't want to anger you"
"And risk -" at this Ginny administered such a glare that Harry was sure both of the twins flinched

"Everything stated above of course, not won't you follow me" finished Fred with a flourish and cheeky grin.

Wondering what exactly the twins had eaten today to put them in such a chirpy mood, he followed them to the far corner of the room.

"Now here lies our true genius" boasted George
"Wouldn't want any untoward visitors snooping around; naturally" confided Fred.

George extended his hand, and placed it on one the cracks in the wall, while Fred did the same on the other side. With a conspiring glance, they both flipped some kind of switch at the same time and a audible click was heard. Harry watched intently, expecting some kind of door to open, he took an innocent step forward to examine the wall more closely when - whoosh…he was falling rapidly down a cold and dark shaft, until, 'oomph' he landed on a surprisingly soft floor. Before he had time to sit up, Ginny fell on top of him; forcing all the air out of his lungs, well, what air hadn't been displaced by his landing anyway.

One of the twins lifted Ginny up and placed her on her feet, while the other offered Harry a helping hand - accompanied by a sly wink - "Can't keep you hands off him, can ya Ginny" said Fred with a laugh, which was soon cut short but a well aimed punch in the chest. "I'm now seriously regretting teaching you that" wheezed Fred.

Harry laughed softly at Fred before turning his attention to his surroundings.
"Hermione!"

"Harry! Have you got my results? Oh please say you do?"

Harry mutely handed over the envelope and surveyed the room. It was bigger than the one up stairs, but other than that had the same basic layout, except for a square table in the middle of the room.

On this table were numerous strangely shaped object covered by a dark cloth he wandered over to it, but he was interrupted by a loud shriek. He looked over to see Hermione staring at her results in shock.

He hurried over to her and she looked up and him and whispered, "I got all Os, Os Harry!"

Harry couldn't help himself, he swept her up into a giant bear hug, "congratulations Mionie, that's wonderful"

The twins swept her up and promptly surrounded her,

"Ever considered a job in the joke business?"
"We could use a brain like yours"
"To be honest we were going to ask you anyway"
"You've show great promise my dear"
"Now don't answer straight away"
"Think about it"
"Sleep on it-"
"But not too much"
"And get back to us"

However Hermione didn't appear to be hearing what they were saying, "I must go owl my parents, can I borrow yours?"

The twins nodded and Hermione ran away, and disappeared up some stairs.

"Now Harry, my lad, we have some inventions we think that you would be interested in" said Fred rubbing his hand in a rather off putting business-like fashion.

Ginny grinned at him impishly and perched up on the table behind the cloth and the twins flanked it. With a flourish they pulled back the cloth to reveal the strangest array of objects Harry had ever seen……

There was a heap of gallons; a strange black spider shaped device; a pair of glasses that looked exactly like Harry's own; what appeared to be perfectly normal a ball of string; parchment and what appeared to be a muggle magnet.
"Ok guys, I'm not about to take any of these on face value; no matter how innocent they look I'd rather not end up being pelted by gallons or something similar."

The twins both grinned at each other and looked back to Harry, "It seems we have taught you well; but alas, all will not be revealed until our dear, sweet Herminie returns."

Harry glanced up at Ginny, who was doing her level best at avoiding his gaze.

"How did Hermione get into all this? I thought she hated your jokes?"

At this the twins looked decidedly uncomfortable and abashed.

"Well the thing is mate; some of the Order noticed some of our products and decided to enlist our help. They didn't tell us much mind you - just what they wanted us to make and after noticing how serious these things were we decided to enlist help" at this George paused and Fred took up his train.

"We decided to talk to Hermione as we had admired her ingenious DA coins; and struck an agreement with her. If she helped us we would give everything to you first and the Order second"

Harry just sat back in shock, he couldn't believe that Hermione would arrange such a thing for him, never mind see it through to the end; the devil herself then appeared.

"Thanks Guys, ready to tell Harry all?"

A/N: so, did you like it? Did I do the twins justice? please drop me a line and let me know :) thanks