"MUM!"

"What is it?"

"Fred gave Ron an Acid Pop!"

"What!"

Molly had been resting in her rocking chair, reading a book but she immediately leaped into action at this announcement. Fred and George were laughing at Ron, who had his tongue sticking out, with a very large hole in the middle.

"Fred, George, where did you get an Acid Pop?"

"Charlie sent them to us." Fred said, grinning wickedly. Molly sighed and rolled her eyes. Charlie was now in his fourth year at Hogwarts and permitted to visit the village of Hogsmeade on weekends. She couldn't believe he would send his twin brothers Acid Pops, and resolved to send him a howler.

"Ronnie, come here. Ginny, will you fetch my howler parchment off the table next to Errol's cage?"

"Sure Mum." Ginny set off to do her mother's bidding, secretly elated at the fact one of her brothers would be receiving a howler. Molly took out her wand, and performed a healing spell. Almost immediately, the hole closed and Ron threw his arms around his mum.

"Thank you, Mummy."

"You're welcome Ronnie." Molly said as she hugged the seven year old.

"Mummy, here's your howler parchment."

"Thank you Ginny. Why don't you and Ron go play outside for a while? It's a lovely day."
Molly watched as her two youngest headed out the back door and towards the bright spring sunshine.

"Fred and George Weasley, why did you do that?"

"Do what?"

"DON'T ACT LIKE YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT! WHY DID YOU GIVE RONNIE AN ACID POP?"

"Oh, 'cause he was bugging us."

"THAT IS NO EXCUSE! GO TO YOUR ROOM UNTIL YOUR FATHER GETS HOME!"
Fred and George quickly retreated, not wanting to upset their mother any more than she already was. Molly proceeded to write Charlie a howler, telling him that he should never have sent Fred and George the Acid Pops in the first place and told him about the tongue fiasco. Satisfied that she had given him a sufficient telling off, she tied the letter to Errol's leg and watched as he flew off.

"Honey, who you sending a howler too?" Arthur asked as he came into the kitchen through the back door, he had seen Errol fly off with a red envelope tied to his leg and knew it was a howler.

"Charlie."

"What did Charlie do, love?" He asked, wrapping his arms around her.

"Charlie sent the twins some Acid Pops, and Fred gave one to Ron." Arthur winced; knowing the pain his youngest son went through, as his own brother, Kevin, had given him one when he was younger.

"Does Ron have a hole in his tongue?"

"He did. He's fine now. Will you please go talk to the twins?"

"Yes dear, but what do you want me to do? I'm not good at punishing them like you are."

"Just tell them what Kevin did to you, and how it made you feel. Inject some guilt into them."

"Molly, have I ever told you that you're just a tad harsher with the twins than the others?"

"No, am I?"

"Sometimes, yes."

"Well, that's probably because there are two of them, and they think alike, so I have to double the punishment."

"Just don't overdo it huh? I think you punish George for things that Fred does when George probably had nothing to do with it."

"I didn't realize I've been doing that."

"You have dear. Now I'm off to straighten out a certain Fred Weasley."