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This drabble has been written as part of the October Event over at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft & Wizardry (Challenges & Assignments).

Bingo Prompt: (word) Coven

Hopscotch Prompts: Zonko's (location), Ron Weasley (character), "He's going to kill you", preposterous (word)

Chocolate Frog: Bronze – Miranda Goshawk – (Prompts) Prank, Incantation, Book, Author


Breaking and Entering

"He's going to kill you," Ron whispered, following his older brothers en route to Zonko's joke shop; the shop that would be the main rival for Weasley's Wizarding Wheezes when they finally opened their own prank shop.

It was nearly midnight and the shop owner had long since locked up for the night and gone to bed; but Ron felt rather uneasy about breaking and entering into the joke shop. He should never have let his brothers convince that this was a good idea, but nowadays he had little else to do given the fact that Harry was too busy off trying to woo Cho Chang, and Hermione was probably off writing love letters to Victor Krum. It had been a long time since he felt part of their coven of friends.

"Preposterous," George cried, as he inserted the bobby pin into the lock of Zonko's door, since it was a well known fact that this shop was protected from all forms of magical intrusion whether it be apparation or an incantation.

"He'll never know," Fred said giving Ron a sly smile

"Besides, we're only doing a little bit of recon," George told him, giving Ron an equally devious smirk.

"You know seeing what the opposition is up to," said Fred.

"Getting ahead in the game," George explained.

"Okay," Ron replied, holding his hands up in mock surrender as George pushed the front door of Zonko's joke shop open.

Their trip to Zonko's yielded exactly what Fred and George expected: that all the products they were inventing far outclassed any that Zonko's had in the pipeline. They would be the author of their own downfall given how stuck in the past they appeared to be and if Fred and George continued to rewrite the book on joke products, Ron was sure that they would go on to be an immense success.

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