Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry: Fairytales Assignment #3 – Write about twins that are not Fred and George. (Prompts used: (Characters) Molly and Lucy Weasley, (Creature) Unicorn, (Item) Spindle, (Food) Apple, (Word) vacant, (Word) Memory, (Location) Hogwarts, (Word) Storage, (Dialogue) "If only...", (Thing) Splinter)

Ultimate Battle Challenge 2: Sword of Gryffindor – 700 words, someone/something is lost

The 'Who?' 'What?' 'How?' challenge: Lucy Weasley, sweetener, confiscate

Gringotts:

Words Instead of Said: claimed, inquired, questioned, confessed

Verbs: took, search, find, lean, cover, explain, confiscate, is, claim, shrug, contain, roll

Nouns: parchment, homework, quill, locket, eyebrow, memory, dormitory, splinter

Adjectives: confused, serious, interesting, similar


"Molly, I give up. We're never going to find it." Lucy Weasley insisted. The twins were currently sitting in the Ravenclaw Common Room, with Molly leaning over a piece of parchment, seemingly deep in thought, while her sister was playing with her quill instead of focusing on their homework.

"Oh, come on, don't be such a pessimist." came the answer from the other girl. "I'm sure you just have to search at the right places."

"Thing is; I think I've covered the whole school. And there's no way in hell it would be anywhere else." Lucy explained. "Look, I've gone through every classroom, I asked people from various houses to look for my locket in their Common Rooms, I even went through the broom storages, but the only interesting thing I found was a goddamn spindle in the middle of a pile of glass splinters. What am I supposed to do with that?"

"Nothing, if it's not yours." Molly pointed out in a mildly monotonous tone. "When did you lose the locket, once again? Maybe you could backtrack your actions."

"Last week, if my memory serves me right." Lucy mused. "I'm pretty sure I still had it when we came back from London, but I only noticed that it was missing last Thursday, at Transfigurations class."

"Okay, what did you do before then?" Molly inquired. "Had you still had it on Wednesday?"

"Wait a minute." Lucy furrowed her eyebrows in concentration before her eyes widened. "Yes, I did, but…"

"But?" her sister asked.

"But I remember putting it in my cabinet in our dorm that evening. I did it before I went to sleep, and then the next morning, it was gone! I didn't even notice that the drawer was vacant!" she said. "But then somebody must have stolen it. I just don't understand why."

"We must have a jewelryphiliac in our dormitory, then." Molly claimed. Then, when she noticed the confused look on her twin's face, she let out a laugh.

"Is that even a word?" Lucy questioned.

"If only. It's probably not." Molly shrugged, her shoulders still slightly shaking from the suppressed laughter. "And if it's not, then I, the Great Molly Weasley, officially induct it into the world."

"Come on, sis'," Lucy rolled her eyes, though she also couldn't contain a smile. 'We're talking about a serious matter right now."

"Alright, alright." Molly said with a slight edge of disappointment. "So, you think somebody stole it. Do you have any ideas?"

"No, not really." the other twin confessed. "But if you have any better explanations, then I'm all ears." she said bitterly.

"I'm not saying it's a stupid idea." Molly pointed out. "I'm just saying that I couldn't really imagine anyone from our dorm doing it. It's not their style, to be honest."

"I guess you're right." Lucy sighed. "And we're back at square one."

"Hey, Lucy!" came a shout from the other end of the Common Room. The two twins grinned at each other for a brief moment before simultaneously turning to face the owner of the voice.

"Yes?" they asked in unison. It was a technique they developed through the years to confuse anybody who wanted to talk with the two of them. They looked too similar, and more often than not, the poor sod who wanted to talk to them would have had to just give up on figuring out which twin was which. Even their Uncle George told them that their acting was revolutionary.

There were only two people on the face of the Earth, who could see through them. Unfortunately, one of mentioned people was the one who called after them from the entrance of the Ravenclaw Common Room.

Lorcan Scamander rolled his eyes when he sighted Lucy and Molly, then he quickly paced towards the desk.

"Oh, damn." Molly exclaimed. "You're no fun to play with, Lor."

"Well, me and Lysander can't play with you two either, so I guess we're even." the boy grinned. "Mind if I sit here?"

"Nope." Lucy answered, motioning in the direction of the free chair next to herself. "But, just so you know, you're definitely not eating that in our presence." she pointed her index finger at the apple, which Lorcan was holding in his palm.

"But this is my breakfast!" the boy defended.

"Maybe, but I'm going to confiscate it if you don't put it away." Lucy exclaimed.

"Okay, just a bite." Lorcan said, then, true to his intentions, took a bite from the apple. "Well, this has lots of sweetener in it, it seems."

"I don't think they use sweetener for apples." Molly pointed out.

"Maybe they did with this one." the boy shrugged, then he threw the apple in the nearest trash can before taking a seat beside the table as well. "So, I heard that you have a problem, Lucy."

"Um, yeah, I kind of do. Why?" came the answer.

"Well, James showed me an interesting place a few days ago." he started. "Have you heard of the Room of Requirement?"

"No, not really." Molly answered.

"He also told me that in this Room of Requirement, you can find anything you want, and you just have to ask for it." he noted. "And that he once found a unicorn in it, when he needed unicorn hair for Potions class." Lorcan furrowed his eyebrows. "But that's not important. What is important is that you might find some help there."

Lucy suddenly perked up. "And where do we find this room?"

"Wouldn't you like to know?" the boy winked, and the twins awarded him with a skeptical facial expression. "Okay, okay, I'll show you. Come with me." he stood up abruptly and strolled towards the entrance. Molly then turned to her sister before she followed the boy as well.

"Scamander ex machina much?"

"Yeah. But I'm not complaining." Lucy answered.