"Hey, Rosie?" George asked as he tickled her with the end of his own quill. "You know what day it is?"

"Hogsmeade?"

"Well, yes, but think again," he chuckled.

"We can actually go to Hogsmeade and not having to worry about Umbridge!" she smiled widely. "That's the day!"

"It's Valentine's Day, you silly git," he laughed and softly kissed her. "We should do something special today."

"But I don't want to go to Hogsmeade, I have work to do." she pointed at her school work. "And besides, Valentine's Day? That's a day to exploit couples in spending more money."

"It's a day to celebrate love and being in love, and well, I love love and I'm totally in love with you." He started to put away their stuff and pulled her to her feet. "Go get your coat."

Rose made her way upstairs and tossed her bag onto her bed before grabbing her coat.

"Going to Hogsmeade?" Dru asked as she was going over the charms notes while sitting on her bed.

"Yup, George is taking me." she smiled. "Fred has something for you downstairs."

Dru looked at Rose. "What does he have?" she asked as she pulled on her thigh high black boots. She had gotten them in London, but hadn't worn them yet.

"Oh something very special," Rose smiled widely and grabbed her coat. She watched Dru leave the room first and grabbed Dru's own coat. If she was going to suffer through this, then so would Dru.

"Good morning, my beautiful little firecracker," Fred said as he bowed before his girlfriend.

"Good morning." Dru said smiling. "Rose told me you had something for me?"

"I do!" Fred kissed her softly on her lips and smiled. "Happy Valentine's Day, gorgeous!"

"I don't do Valentine's Day. I told you that." Dru gave him a kiss back.

"Sorry, you do now," Fred looked at Rose who handed him Dru's coat. "You're dating a Weasley, and we Weasley's really like to be cheesy."

"You sneaky little bitch. You set me up." Dru smiling at Rose. She turned back to Fred. "Well, I got you a present." She put her arms around his neck.

"And what's that?"

"Well, your present is that you can watch me walk around in my new boots today." She laughed. "Happy Valentines Day."

"I like your new boots," Fred nodded and put his arm around her. "Let's go."

Dru put her coat on and locked her arm into Rose's, while the boys were throwing snowballs at each other. "Seriously? Valentines day?"

"Yep," Rose chuckled. "Believe me, I was surprised too, I didn't even know that it was coming."

"I hate Valentine's Day."

"I hate it too... I want to bet we're going to see all those mushy couples out there in Hogsmeade... Ick."

"Oh... Should we make a run for it?" Dru giggled. The boys were a few yards away from them.

"No, I think we should humor them," she nodded. "Who knows what might happen?"

"I still think we should make run for it, or at least try." Dru moaned. She liked Fred, but Valentine's Day was about showing your love, if you wanted or not.

"Well, I think that we should humor them, I mean, they obviously love Valentine's Day, and I love George, he won't like it if I'd run."

"Fine." Dru sulked. "Oi, are you guys going to spend Valentine's day with us or with each other." Dru called after the boys, how now even further away from them.

The boys grinned at each other and with a Crack they were suddenly walking next to the girls again.

"That's better." Dru sighed, she let Rose go and looked her arm with in Fred's arm. "So what do you boys have in mind for today?"

"We're going to be extremely cheesy and take you two to Madam Puddifoot's tea shop. It's all pink and red and frilly, and she has great tea with scones." Fred grinned. "And flying cupids and roses and all kinds of things."

"Well, you're really going to torture us, aren't you?" Dru moaned.

"Torture?" the twins chorused. "It's cheesy, not torture!"

"Besides, it's the only day in the year that being cheesy is in fashion, live a little!" George grinned and ruffled Rose's hair. "We're tempting fate by taking two not so girly girls to a very girly girl establishment."

"You better be prepared to snog my face off, else we're going to done." Dru gave Fred a kiss on his cheek.

"Oh I will," he smiled widely and put his arm around her. "And, you can have anything you want from Zonko's joke shop, well, one thing, not everything."

"Zonko?" Dru asked. "Yeah, you really are a bloke."

Rose laughed and locked arms with George as they continued walking towards Hogsmeade. She didn't like all the girly stuff, but the boys were crazy and a little bit of mocking the day didn't hurt anyone. "Let's do this, guys. Let's mock the hell out of this day!"

"That's the spirit!" George laughed.

"Fine, I'm in." Dru gave in.

"That's my girl," Fred grinned.

It was the last DA meeting before the start of the Easter Holidays, and with the Death Eaters escaped and the possibility of Dementors showing up, Rose and Hermione had asked Harry to teach them about the Patronus. After all, he was the only one who could summon a full bodied one (and an amazing one at that) and he had fought off two Dementors during the summer last year.

"Make it a powerful memory, the happiest you can remember, allow it to fill you up." Harry's voice sounded, added by that a full bodied Patronus was the hardest one to produce, but that shield forms were also equally useful in fending off the Dementors.

Rose had never thought about learning the Patronus, she hadn't really cared much for it. After all, she used to have a grandfather who worked at the Ministry and thus she never had to think much about dealing with the guardians of Azkaban. She did know, however, that a patronus was quite personal. Harry's was a Stag, just like his father's, because he loved his parents more than anything even though he'd never met them. Rose had to admit that she was slightly frightened at the thought that either her Patronus would be something terrifying or, in the worst case, that she wasn't able to produce one at all.

A part of her felt so proud when Ginny produced a horse as a patronus. It was absolutely beautiful and she couldn't help but to look at it for a while.

"Come on, Sweetie. You try." George whispered to her, while his monkey was running around with Fred's monkey. It hadn't come as a surprise that even their patronus' were identical.

"Come Rose, give it a try." Harry was now standing next to her.

"I'm actually more than okay with just looking at what everyone produces," she smiled.

"Rose, this was your idea, now try." Harry said stern, he was really sounding like a teacher.

"Think about when we got you Dru back." George said, trying to help her along.

"That's not my most powerful memory, George," she smiled at him. Granted, she had loved it when they had gotten Dru out, but that was their show of love and affection. Rose had already realised that most of the patronus' produced had been made with a memory of love, she didn't have to be a mind reader for that one.

The look on Luna's face was sheer bliss, for example. No, she'd rather think of something else, something that was really special to her, like the day where she and George were playing in the pond at the Burrows together before Fred came and played his disrupting part. She took a deep breath. "Expecto Patronum" she said softly and was surprised at what she saw.

"Wow," Fred and George chorused. "At your first try too?"

"Excellent, Rose." Harry patted her on her shoulder as walked over to Neville, who was really struggling.

Rose stared at her lioness in disbelief as it roared.

"You really are a wonder witch." Dru giggled.

George gave Rose a kiss on her cheek. "I knew you could do it."

She looked at him just as her lioness disappeared. "That was weird," she chuckled and softly kissed him back.

"Come on, gorgeous," Fred coaxed Dru. "I showed you mine, you have to show me yours now."

Dru giggled "expecto patronum" But it was no use. Dru was struggling with hers. To be honest she wasn't that far away from Neville and she could see him struggling too. And every time someone told him to think of something happy, his gaze wandered to Dru, before failing again. She felt really guilty

"I can't do this." Dru said softly.

"Sure you can," Fred softly kissed her. "Think of something better than what you thought of just now."

"Expecto Patronum" But again nothing happened but some silver clouds.

"I have an idea." Harry said and whispered something in Fred's ear, before standing next to Dru.

"Take a deep breath and think of New Years eve." Fred smiled warmly.

Dru had to smile too. she closed her eyes and thought about Fred on the stairs kissing her. "Expecto Patronum"

This time a bird appeared and Dru realised what Harry had told Fred. The moment Dru said her spell, Fred had sneaked up behind her and put his arms around her.

"Thank you." Dru whispered as she looked at the bird fly through the room for a few seconds before it disappeared again.

"That was beautiful!" Rose smiled widely at Dru.

"Just don't let your lioness eat my bird." Dru said and she put her hands on Fred's arms that were still holding her.

Suddenly the whole room shook and all the patronus' disappeared. Someone had found them.

Dolores Umbridge was now the new headmistress after Dumbledore had vanished from sight, and had immediately initiated a few Slytherin students into the Inquisitorial Squad to make sure that all students listened to all of the new rules. Draco more than anyone tried to find ways to punish Dru.

Dru and Rose had been communicating in their own special way over the last few days to think of a plan to get their boys a great birthday present, and had finally settled on a plan to get what they wanted. Very early on April 1st, they made their way to Umbridge's office and cast a few Confundus Charms to confuse the cats on the wall, threw in some of the Weasley's whiz-bangs and used the summoning charm to get their brooms out of there without even setting foot in Umbridge's office. It was simple. Maybe a little bit too simple.

Brooms in hand, they snuck back to the Gryffindor common room before squealing and hugging each other for a job well done.

"Come on. Let's wake them up." Dru went up the stairs of the boys dormitories and quickly found the one belonging to the 7th years. She crawled on Fred's bed, while Rose sat down on George bed.

Dru gently kissed Fred's lips. "Happy birthday."

"Huh?" Fred sounded sleepy and surprised at the same time. "What are you doing here?"

"Giving you your Birthday present, come and get dressed." She whispered and looked at Rose.

Rose softly kissed George on his head before teasingly tugging on his hair. "Wakey wakey, sleepy head."

He turned to his other side. "5 more minutes, mum."

She giggled and started to unwrap George from his blankets. "George, wake up," she whispered in his ear.

George opened his eyes. "I've died and gone to heaven, I see angels." He put his arms around Rose and pulled her next to him.

"No," she giggled and kissed him. "I'm just here to wish you a Happy Birthday and I urge you to get dressed because Dru and I have thought of something special for your 18th birthday, since it's probably not going to happen for the rest of your school year."

George got up and got dressed.

Rose and Dru waited in the common room for the boys to come downstairs, both holding a broom behind their back, which was kind of silly considering the brooms were taller than the girls were.

"Surprise!" Rose and Dru grinned as they saw their boyfriends sleepy faces walk down the stairs.

"You didn't?" George said surprised.

"We did what?" Rose asked Dru. "We didn't do anything, did we?"

"Nope." Dru smiled as she saw Fred's face when he realised she was holding his broom.

"We just found these brooms larking about in a corner in some office," Rose said as she handed George his broom. "Have fun."

"I can't believe you did this, Thank you." He gave Rose a kiss on lips and pulled her close to him. "Best birthday gift ever."

"It's your 18th, it has to be something special," she smiled and kissed him back. "Just don't you dare pull me on that thing again," she giggled.

Dru handed Fred his broom. "Just don't get caught."

Fred kissed Dru tenderly before grinning widely. "Never!"

After the boys were done kissing their girlfriends, they looked at each other and switched brooms, which had Rose and Dru in stitches. They had spent 15 minutes trying to find out which broom was whose, only to get it wrong.

The girls followed the boys outside, and it was fun to see them take off as the sun was rising. Rose put an arm around Dru and smiled. "Yep, best birthday gift ever."

"I just realised something." Dru said.

"What?" Rose asked. "That we're going to be dead, if Umbridge catches us?"

"No, we're 15 with 18 year old boyfriends." Dru giggled

"Yes!" Rose cheered and grinned. "That is absolutely true."

George landed next to the girls. "Rose, one ride please. It's my birthday. I'll take it slow. I want you to see Hogwarts from the sky." He reached out his hand to Rose.

"I'd rather have both my feet firmly planted on the ground," she smiled at him.

"Come on, please."

"Yeah, Rose, you got us our brooms, one ride is all you have to do next," Fred grinned as he stopped next to Dru. "Coming, Dru?"

Dru looked at Rose. They both hated flying. "All right." Dru got up. "Where do you want me?" She hadn't been on a broom since their lessons first year.

"Right behind me and hold on tight," Fred answered. "It's really fun, Dru. I promise."

Dru did as he said and wrapped her arms tightly around his waist. "This part is fun." she grinned.

As George watched Fred and Dru took off, he felt a bit sad. "Please, Rose." He asked. "I won't fly fast."

Rose sighed and took a deep breath before she nodded. He helped her on the broom and Rose viselike put her arms around his waist. "Okay, I'm ready..." she said with a small voice.

George took off and did what he promised. He didn't go too fast. he kept going higher before stopping and hovering in the sky. "You've got your eyes closed, don't you?"

"Yes." Rose clinged to him for dear life.

"Rose, open your eyes."

"NO, I'll fall."

"I'll never let you fall. Open your eyes, Rose. I want you see this."

"What do you think, Dru?" Fred asked her. "Beautiful, isn't it?"

"What is?" Dru had buried her face into Fred's shirt as she was still holding on to him.

"Yours got her eyes closed too?" George asked. The two brothers were now hovering next to each other.

"Yep, but she doesn't realise that I can hover all day if I have to. I'm not going down until she opens her eyes."

"No, we have to bring the brooms back, before she catches us." Rose piped.

"Then you'd better open your eyes," the brothers chuckled.

Dru slowly opened her eyes and gasped for breath. They were miles high, but she wasn't scared. The breathtaking view of the entire ground of the school was lying there beneath them.

"Oh my god." She whispered. "Rose, open your eyes."

"No... I'm really scared!"

"Fred, get me next to her." Dru said.

Fred did as she asked and Dru let one hand go and put it on Rose's arm. "It's okay, Rose. Once you open them, you won't be scared anymore."

She was shaking like a leaf and really didn't want to do it, but opened one eye anyway. She saw Fred and Dru and a whole lot of sky. She then looked at the castle and even though it was beautiful, she was still really scared.

"Sweetie, just relax and take in the view." George said. "I love Hogwarts best from up here and I wanted to share this with you."

"Yes, it's beautiful George, I've seen it but I'm really afraid."

"It's okay. I'll take you down." George made a gesture to his brother that it was time to go and they both descended to the ground.

"I'm really really sorry," she said as she felt the ground underneath her feet again. "I'm really..." she put her arms around herself and willed herself to calm down and stop shaking.

George put his broom on the floor, put his arms around her and lifted her in his arms. "Thank you, for coming with me." He kissed her and pulled her as close as he could. "Don't worry, unless I have to save your life, I will never ask you to come with me again." he chuckled a little.

"I spoiled your birthday now," she sulked.

"Are you kidding me? You would have spoiled it, if you hadn't come with me. You..." He kissed her again "...are my favourite birthday present, as long as you smile."

She gave him a slight smile and hugged him. "I love you."

"I love you too."

"Wasn't that bad, was it?" Fred asked Dru as he landed them.

"No." But as soon as she got off the broom, her knees gave in and Dru landed on the grass.

Fred chuckled and put his broom down before helping his girlfriend back to her feet. "Oh look at that, this beautiful girl just fell for me."

"Sorry." Dru put her hands on her head. "Flying makes me really dizzy." Dru was struggling to stay on her feet as her knees wanted to give in again. She put one hand on Fred's arms so she would fall again.

He put his arms around her and smiled. "But you flew and you saw, and that was the most important thing," he said and softly kissed her.

"Happy birthday, handsome." Dru smiled. "Now, lets get these brooms back, before anyone catch us."

The girls brought the brooms back while the boys went to the great hall. Just a few minutes after the girls had joined them, Ron and Ginny joined them as well. "Happy 18th birthday." Ron said and handed his brothers their presents.

"Thanks, Ron," the boys chorused as they opened their present.

Ginny gave the boys the presents she bought them and planted a big kiss on each of their cheeks. "So, what did you get from the other twins?"

Dru and Rose looked surprised at them, but Ron, Fred and George laughed. Dru and Rose were so inseparable, despite their occasional hiccups, that amongst the Weasleys they had gotten the nickname 'the other twins'.

"Something special." Fred grinned and kissed the top of Dru's head, who had was holding his arm and put her head against his biceps.

"Yeah, really special." George chuckled and gave Rose a kiss on her cheek. "A memory I'm never going to forget."

Both Ron and Ginny looked at their brothers in shock. "They gave up their vir-"

George hit Ron over the head. "Get your head out of the gutter."

"We're dating ladies, Ron," Fred grinned. "Although that was the best ride of my life."

George and Fred looked at each other with a wide smile. "Yeah!" they cheered as they high-fived each other.

Ron's eyes got even bigger. "What did they give you?"

Dru smiled and put her hand on Ron's as she showed them what the four of them had been doing that morning. She then showed it to Ginny too.

"I can't believe you two broke into her office." Ginny was in awe of her sisters-in-law.

"Wicked." Ron said.

As the great Hall started to fill, Umbridge was starting to her rounds again, breaking up couples as she went along.

Dru hadn't noticed her and was still leaning against Fred and Rose, who was gently playing with George's hair, hadn't noticed her either.

"Hem hem."

Dru, Rose and the twins nearly jumped ten feet in air. Rose managed to collect herself and took a deep breath. "I'm sorry Professor Umbridge, but it's their birthday..."

"I think you and your friend over there (pointing at Dru) could use a lesson in chastity."

"Ah!" Rose said and shook her head. "You didn't see us kiss, or touch each other inappropriately, we were being very chaste, professor."

"Yes, but as I told your friend before and it is clearly set in school rules, boys and girls are not allowed to be within 8 inches of each other."

"Dru and I are tiny, 8 inches is like... a mile in our world."

"Well seeing as your boyfriends are clearly letting you girls act the way you do around them, I don't think they care very much if I gave you a little detention tonight."

George quickly got up and lifted Dru up by her hand. They both crossed the table to take each others seats. Dru sat down next to Rose. "Is this better, Professor?" Dru tried to be polite, but she couldn't help her frustration from sounding through her voice.

Umbridge seemed to think for a moment. "Switching seats is not the issue, and neither is you back mouthing me about detention tonight. It's horrible to see such young girls being badly influenced by their older boyfriends. Tonight, after dinner, I will make sure you two won't be easy targets anymore."

Dru and Rose both stood up and started yelling at Umbridge.

"MS. LeSTRANGE, MS CROUCH." her voice boomed through the entire hall. Every student and teacher was now watching Rose and Dru fall back into their seats, their faces in horror. In the 5 years at Hogwarts no teacher, how mad he or she might have been, had ever used their real names on them. Umbridge looked at them with a smug face. "Detention, tonight, don't be late," she smiled brightly before walking off towards the teacher's table.

Immediately the hole great hall started buzzing and whispering.

"But those are deatheater names?"

"Crouch, isn't that the man who got killed last year?"

"Lestrange but they escaped prison!"

"But those people tortured the longbottom."

"Didn't she use to go out with the Longbottom Boy? Poor guy.'

"Wasn't Crouch's son responsible for that with the Lestrange's? Mighty convinient for those two to be friends then."

"I can't believe I trusted them!"

Both Dru and Rose were white as a sheet. It was so hard not to get up and started yelling at everyone. She had her hands clenched around her tea mug, and her knuckles were turning white. Running would be too easy, but staying put was even harder.

Suddenly heard even more whispering. "What's he doing?" "Is he going to yell at them?" "He's going to kill them." "Come on, kick their butts."

Rose felt two hands on her shoulder and someone place a kiss on the side of her head. When Rose looked up, she saw Neville now moving towards Dru.

"Neville, he's lost it, I'm sure that they have him under a spell!"

He put his hands on Dru's head and gave her a kiss on the back of her head, before sitting down between them. He took Dru's arm and locked in his own, before putting his other arm around Rose. He gave a weak smile to them both. "Nobody touches my girls."

"Thanks, Neville," Rose said slowly. "But they seem to have made up their minds, haven't they?"

All of a sudden a spell hit the three of them, separating them again. "You don't learn, do you?" Umbridge's voice sounded.

"Someone please take my wand before I curse her head off," Rose said bitterly.

"Are you mad?" Neville called out to Umbridge. "You're supposed to teach, give people confidence and make them feel safe, and all you do is terrify your students!" he got to his feet and took Rose's wand out of her back pocket before handing it to George. "You're even doing it to the first years! Rose and Dru have done nothing to anger you, aside from giving you lip, and your only defense is making them look bad for using different names than their own?" Neville took a breath, but he wasn't allowing Umbridge the satisfaction to speak before he was finished. "You know very well that they are one of the smartest girls of our year, they've proven time and time again that they're one of us, one of the good guys and what do you do? You destroy their lives even further than it has been destroyed. Don't you think that they're not afraid of their own family? Rose got obliviated by her father, she was cursed for two months by her grandfather. Dru forgot ME, because her family was messing about, and there is so much more, and despite all that, they're still two of the nicest girls that I know!"

"See you in detention tonight too then, Mr. Longbottom," Umbridge said with a smile.

The entire Great hall was looking at Neville as he took his seat between Rose and Dru again. "Well, at least you girls don't have to go alone."

Dru looked at Neville wide her mouth wide open. "Neville, you just..." She looked at Fred, who was looking shocked at Neville.

"Showed everyone that you're okay," Neville nodded he calmly took a piece of toast to chew on.

Dru and Rose looked at each other and both smiled. This was the Neville they both knew and loved. They suddenly simultaneously gave him a kiss on his cheeks.

"Does this mean you're not mad at me and Fred anymore?" Dru asked with a small voice.

"Still mad, but still looking out for you. I promised you that, didn't I?"

"So...We're not going to be friends again?" Dru looked at him. She had really missed her friend.

"Sure, but slowly, okay?"

"I can do that. slow, I'm good at slow. I'll be the slowest person you've ever met." Dru smiled.

Everybody at the Gryffindor table was laughing, except for Hermione of course. She had her hands clasped in front of her mouth and there were tears of joy rolling down her cheek. "Oh..Neville." she cried out.

"I think we should go to the common room so Hermione can hug it all out," Ginny chuckled. "Before... well you know."

Hermione slapped Ginny on her shoulder. "I'm just glad they made up."

"Aren't you guys mad at us?" Dru asked a she looked at Harry, Ron, Ginny and Hermione.

"We do have eyes, you know. We saw your names on the carpet before you blasted yourself off it and Hermione kinda suspected last year when Moody turned out to be Rose's dad... we thought that eventually you'd tell us." Harry explained. "We're not mad."

"You could have told us that you knew. We've been trying so hard for you not to find out." Dru looked at Rose.

"We know, although it was a little bit of fun to see you struggle like you did," Hermione grinned.

"If anyone understands what keeping secrets means and does to you, then it's us, you know that. We were just patient." Harry added.

Dru grinned and shook her head. "I've been terrified of what you were going to think of me when you found out."

"Well, nothing really. You've been on our side the entire time, even as a Malfoy." Ron pointed out. "It's one of those cases where you shouldn't look at someone's name, but only at their actions, which, in your case, was quite hard to separate at times."

"What do you mean?" Dru asked "Hard to separate?"

"Well, you know, you were acting a little... spoiled? The first few years?" Ron didn't like the glares he was receiving from Rose, Ginny, Neville and Fred.

Dru grinned. "I am spoiled." She sighed as she looked Fred. "Sorry, that I can't celebrate your birthday tonight."

"George and I will be waiting outside her office for you."

"Wait in the common room, We don't want more detention." Rose smiled, she had seemingly found her footing again, before looking at Neville. "And Dru and I smart? I love you, Neville, but had we been smart we wouldn't have gotten detention." she snickered, before reaching for her tea.

"I've been meaning to ask you," Harry said, looking at Rose. "How did you do it?"

"Do what?" Rose asked confused. "Steal their... things?"

"No, well, yes, but when Lupin taught me, it took me awhile to get a full bodied one, you know."

"Beginner's luck," Rose shrugged. "Ugh, we've got potions today, had enough of those for a while."

"Oh come on, only the first one went really wrong, the rest of the love potion worked fine." Dru took another bite of her toast.

"Wait, what?" George and Rose chorused in shock. "What?"

"Relax, we tried them on other subjects." Fred grinned at Dru.

"Without telling me?" George blinked. "Since when did that happen?"

"Since you and Rose were too busy snogging each other's faces off, Fred and I got some work done." Dru smiled at Fred.

"We weren't that bad," Rose said. "Honestly, you and Fred snog more than we do!"

"No, we don't." Dru said defensively. She and Fred had been taking it a bit slow, Dru didn't want to make the same mistakes as she had made with Neville.

"Sorry to have to tell you this, Rose, but you're the love duffie now." Fred grinned and winked at Dru.

She shrugged and took a sip of her tea.

"Oh, you should not have said that," George sighed. "You see those little cog wheels turning inside that pretty little head of hers?"

"I see a pretty head, but no cog wheels in there, George." Dru laughed

"Nope," Rose shook her head. "It's still empty in there, I can hear my own voice echoing through my head, I don't hear the sound of cog wheels."

Dru put her head on Rose's shoulder. "I knew I should have gotten you a brain instead of a necklace a few years ago."

"I told you, but you wouldn't listen," she shrugged and took another sip of her tea.

"I hate to break up your little tea party." Snape spoke. "But you mind find it interesting to know all your classes started 5 minutes ago."

The group looked at each other in shock. "Oops!" they all said and started to collect their stuff. "Sorry Professor Snape," Ginny smiled at him.

It was just her, Dru and Neville in Umbridge's office and she was in full ranting mode on how students should respect their teachers, especially the Headmistress who was a Very Important Person in the Ministry and that from all students at Hogwarts Rose should have been the one to understand the importance of respect towards someone working at the Ministry. She then started ranting about how their parents had asked the school to lie about their last names towards other students, that it was improper for them to deceive everyone and although it was admirable from Neville, he should not have defended the girls the way he had done. She then ranted on about chastity, how it was improper for young girls dating older boys especially at their age and let the Weasley boys cloud their judgement. It was morally wrong of them to openly flaunt their relationship with the boys, even with their knack of getting into trouble and that girls should act like respectful ladies and not the way that Dru and Rose had behaving themselves.

Neville had to write "I must not disrespect my teachers" and the girls had to write "I must not disrespect myself" for what seemed ages. Rose found that at least for the first half hour, she could block the pain from really hurting, but by the time that Umbridge had them finish, which was close to bedtime, Rose couldn't feel her hand anymore through the pain that the charmed quill had caused. She was furious and even lashed out at Umbridge who threatened that Rose could come back for another round of detention the day after, where she'd have to write "I must not have a temper", and she was relieved when Umbridge didn't make it an order.

Dru hadn't said one word all evening. She was hardly shy for words, but she never was good at handling pain. She had been quietly sobbing all evening as she felt the blood being drawn from her hand.

Neville on the other hand didn't seem bothered by the pain at all. He just had his hands in pockets as the trio walked back to the common room. "Well, that was a entertaining evening." he remarked loftily.

"I'd rather walk barefoot over hot coals," Rose muttered as she tried to unclench her fists. She was just extremely pissed off, and it was hard not to act on it. She wanted to kick the portrait for stalling with opening to the Gryffindor common room.

"I have some ointment in my trunk to put on our hands, it numbs the pain a little, are you interested?" Neville asked.

"No."

"I heard Hermione say that she would already have some stuff ready for all of us, but thank you." Dru muttered as she was still crying a little bit.

"Hey, Sweetie, you're back." George came straight to her as he saw her walking in.

"Sorry we missed your party," she smiled brightly at him and hugged him tightly. "Did you at least have fun?"

"Nope." George said with a smile. "Fred and I decided to have our party tomorrow night instead, of do you have to go again?"

"She almost had to come back tomorrow," Neville said to George. "And don't let that shiny face fool you, either."

"Shut up, Neville," Rose shot at him and kept her arms around George.

"There's my girl," Fred said and scooped Dru up into his arms and took her to the sofa where Hermione had left some thick cream to put on Dru's hand. He softly kissed her as they sat down and started to put the cream onto her hand.

But Dru tried to get away from him. She had been called promiscuous and a slut all year and it was really starting to get to her. "Don't do that." She gently pushed Fred's face away.

"Alright, I won't kiss you," Fred said a little hurt, but kept rubbing in the cream. "You do know that you shouldn't listen to that mean old bat, don't you?"

"Yeah, well it's not just her, is it?" Dru said as she glanced at Neville and Lavender.

"And that, was just plain old bullying." He tugged on her left ear. "One ear in," he then tugged on the other. "out the other."

"I'm not in the mood for jokes, Fred." Dru said annoyed. "Everybody thinks I'm easy, you do too, admit it."

"You and easy, in the same sentence?" Fred frowned. "You're not easy. It was hard work for me to be your spare, and it's harder work for me now that I'm not your spare anymore, I mean... here I am, trying to make you feel better and you're trying to push me away."

Dru really wanted to snap at him, but she instead bit her lip very hard. She didn't want to fight with him. "I just feel so …" She looked at Neville, she had felt so worthless after he told her that it was all her fault that they went to fast. Like she was seducing him to things he didn't want to do.

"Teenagery?" Fred said with a smile. "I've been there, I'm still there, but I learned how to deal with all of that," he softly planted a kiss on her hand. "Do you think that it's fun for me and George, or even for Ron and Ginny, to hear that us Weasley's are all the same?"

"But you and George are the same." Dru said.

"I guess you don't know us that well then," Fred said. "Like everyone else."

Dru leaned her head against his shoulder. "I'm really trying to do this right, you know. To make this work. but sometimes I feel so … not good enough."

"Okay, listen... you're not supposed to be perfect, nobody is perfect, no matter how hard they try. Secondly, you're only 15, you're supposed to make mistakes. Or get bullied, or even bully people yourself. Thirdly, you're good enough for me. And good enough for Rose, and even Neville."

Dru shook her head. "He'd always say that too." She had forgotten that Neville was only four feet from them and hearing every word she was saying to Fred. "But when I did make a mistake, he dumped me straight away. And I don't want to you to dump me."

"The way I see it, what happened between you and Neville was not your fault, nor his. You see, Neville had to learn too, he had to learn that the most important thing about being with someone is to talk, to properly talk, like you and I are doing right now." He pulled her back into his arms. "And I'm not going to dump you, no way. I'd sooner die than dump you, you're great now, I'm wondering how great you'll be when you're all grown up," he smiled and planted a kiss on her neck.

She curled up against him. "I'm sorry I'm such a buzz kill. I don't take pain well, it makes me crabby."

"George and I decided to fully celebrate our birthday tomorrow anyway," he shrugged. "And you're not a buzz kill, I'm glad that you're showing that you are insecure, just like me."

Dru put her hand on his cheek. "You? Insecure? Why?"

"I'm not as good as George, in many ways. He's the better beater, he's the better student, he's got brilliant ideas for our joke shop, and sure, I have my own stuff, but sometimes, I'm a little bit jealous of my brother. Ginny makes me feel like I'm an idiot, most of the time but that's just sibling love isn't it?"

"You're silly, You and George have the same grades and you both are great beaters 'cause you're a team. And about the joke shop? We've been working on great stuff without George. And Ginny, well she makes us all feel like idiot sometimes. You, Fred Weasley, are perfect.." She gave him a kiss in his neck. "And you're my favourite Weasley."

"Ugh," George said as he sat down on the nearest chair with Rose on his lap. "Look at that, so sweet it makes me feel ill."

"You're just jealous, because Fred is the sexy one of you two." Dru smiled. "Not the sexiest of the family, but surely the sexiest of the two of you."

"Wait, who's sexier than me?" Fred wondered out loud.

"That's a secret between me and Rose." Dru winked at Rose.

"Oi, Rose, tell me." George said

"It's Bill," Rose said as she put her head on George's shoulder. "It's the hair."

George looked at Fred. "Why do all the pretty girls pick Bill?"

Rose reached for the cream and got a fair amount of it to put on her hand before she rested her head on George's shoulder again. It was almost as if she was in some faraway place and she had been ever since she set foot back into the common room. "It's an easier name to say than George," she quipped. "But you know, it's good that the pretty girls always pick Bill, because that left you free to ask me to the ball."

"I would have always asked you to the ball, you are the prettiest girl in the whole school." George gently started kissing her neck.

"No, she's not." Fred said and threw a pillow at his brother.

Rose flinched when the pillow hit her in the head instead, disrupting her somewhat zen-like moment. She picked the pillow up from the floor and handed it to George. "His aim is a little off," she said with a little smile and got up from George's lap before softly kissing his lips. "I'm tired, I'll see you in the morning."

"Oi." He pulled her back on his lap. "Don't I get one proper birthday kiss?" He grinned.

"Well you had one this morning?" she countered with a smile and gently pat him on the head.

"It's my birthday, I want one before I go to sleep." he pulled her close. "Don't you want me to have a good end to my birthday?"

She softly kissed him again and caressed his hair before getting off his lap again. "Good night," she smiled.

"Good night, Sweet pea." George walked her to the stairs and gave her a kiss on her hand, before going upstairs too. He and Fred had been talking about skipping their NEWTs and create mayhem before focussing on their store, and he was going to take up inventory. One session with the old bat had turned his girlfriend in something other than his girlfriend, as if she was in some faraway land, battling some invisible foe, and he didn't like it.

The common room was nearly empty. Dru was sitting in Fred's lap. "I can't believe we're not going to be in school together anymore. It'll be strange not seeing you and George fooling around."

"Oh we'll fool around," Fred grinned. "Just not here, even though I really love Hogwarts."

"But I've never been at this school without you here too. It'll be weird. I'll hardly get to see you."

"Well, I was here without you," he countered. "Well, that was before I knew you... but... still, I had Georgie, you and Rose will be okay."

"You know..."Dru bit her lip as she couldn't believe she was going to fess this up. "... I had a bit of a crush on you in my first year."

"Yeah? What happened?"

"Ron." Dru giggled

"Ron? You had a crush on him too?"

"No, you silly boy. Do you remember that he and Draco got into a fight during the last Quidditch match?"

"Yeah... it wasn't pretty."

"Yeah, well it was Draco, Crabbe and Goyle against your brother, until... Neville started to help him. Then I had a crush on the both of you. But you never noticed me and Neville did." she looked down and played with Fred's hand.

"You were eleven... I was thirteen... I mean, the moment I saw you on the train it was like... I don't know, I was just smitten, but it was weird and George kept teasing me because of it... and then Neville... well, I thought I'd lost my chance, so instead, I became the spare, and a good friend."

"I'm a bit glad for that. That we waited so long to get together."

"Yeah, that was a good thing, no rush," he smiled.

"And now I've learned from my mistakes with Neville and I can do it right with you."

"We're both going to do this the right way," he softly kissed her. "It's not all up to you, there's two people in a relationship, not one."

"Yeah." Dru looked at him with a smile. "From now on it's the two of us."