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Chapter 38
"Arghhhh!" Draco screamed in horror as he looked at his reflection in a nearby spoon. Through the shock of it all, he fell to the floor, banging his head on the table, on the way.
Fred, George and Ron stared in awe at the changed Draco. He had once again been turned into a ferret. The only difference was the cause.
"Wow! I can't…"
"Believe that it…"
"Actually…"
"Worked!"
Both Fred and George said one after the other. On hearing the screams, the family members charged into the kitchen.
First Bill and Lupin and then Ginny, Harry following after alongside Hermione. The last to come in was fleur, panting and red on the face. She wobbled through the doorway with help from Tonks.
"What on earth…" Bill started but was speechless when a pale Ron pointed a shaking finger towards the ugly ferret that was sprawled across the floor.
"Oh my! Is that…" She asked the three boys, looking from Draco to Fred, to George, to Ron and then back to Draco.
All three nodded. Hermione's face grew pale. She wasn't sure what to do, scared and horrified, she bent down, kneeling towards the ugly brute, deciding whether to touch it or not. History was repeating itself.
"D-Draco?" she didn't touch him but just whispered, scared at what might happen. He didn't wake up.
Harry and Ginny watched horrified as Draco lay on the floor. Fleur was breathing in and out deeply, with Bill rubbing her back. Tonks watched in amusement as Remus quickly moved towards Draco and pushed Hermione out of the way.
In shock, Hermione rounded on the three brothers.
"You immature brats! What have you done? How stupid can you get?" Hermione shouted at them and everyone either watched Remus work his magic on Draco or the pale faces of the trio.
"Mione…" Ron started.
"Don't Mione me Ronald!" Hermione continued shouting and Ron looked at his feet.
"He could be seriously hurt. What were you thinking?"
"It was…"
"I'll tell you what you were thinking…you weren't thinking at all!"
"It was a joke!" George quickly muttered.
"It doesn't count as a joke when someone gets hurt."
Fred was about to say something when he was disrupted. There was a loud pop and then another. They heard the distinctive voices of Mrs Weasley and Charlie.
"Hello! I'm back!" Mrs Weasley shouted from the hallway.
They heard her mutter something to Charlie. Soon she walked in, towed with shopping bags, Charlie followed after her also towed with bags.
"I was just telling Charlie…WHAT ON EARTTH HAS BEEN GOING ON HERE?" Mrs Weasley dumped the bags into the arms of the nearest person which was Bill and Tonks.
"Oh my Merlin!" Mrs Weasley said as she stood above Remus.
Remus had a glass of water in one hand and used the other hand to sprinkle water onto the ferret face.
Mrs Weasley instantly turned onto the boys. She knew it was them, the pale and horror stricken faces gave it away.
"You?" Mrs Weasley waited for her three sons to nod but when they didn't she retorted to yelling. "Well, was it you or am I talking to a couple of immature idiots?"
The three nodded making Mrs Weasley more angry and red in the face.
"What are you nodding at? At the fact that you're all immature idiots? Because I can tell you that you're more than that!"
The boys' heads ducked down even more in shame.
"I am ashamed to call you my sons. This could leave a permanent damage on poor Draco! Honestly! Get out of my sight!"
The three looked up but made no moves of leaving.
"I said out!" Mrs Weasley screamed at the top of her lungs. What she didn't see was that Draco had stirred and was fully awake when Mrs Weasley screamed.
She was about to turn around and face the poor creature when the poor creature itself whizzed past her, shrieking.
Everyone stood and watched as the ferret leaped onto Fred and George who fell on top of Ron. Draco screeched and scratched at their faces, leaving his mark and showing his anger.
The show went on until Remus remembered a counter spell to whatever the twins had put into the cookies. A blue light flew from his wand and hit Draco on the back but Draco didn't flinch.
The appearance was gone but Draco still had the Fred, George and Ron pinned down. He was pulling at their red hair and screaming. He obviously hadn't noticed his formation.
"You think that was a joke? I could have ended up like that for the rest of my life!"
"Ow! Get off Malfoy!" they all screamed in pain, wishing they'd never played a prank on him.
The brawl went on for ages until the adults decided to stop before it all got out of hand.
"ENOUGH!!"
Draco stopped what he was doing, halfway between pulling Ron and Fred's hair and kneeling into George.
"Get off each other this instant!"
Draco was reluctant from getting off but the anger on Mrs Weasley's face scared him. With a snarl, he got of them and brushed away dirt and dust from his clothes.
"I suggest you apologise to Draco." Mrs Weasley said sternly, pointing at her sons.
Fred, George and Ron looked at their mother, horrified. Weasley's apologise to a Malfoy! What has the world come to?!
"Sorry!"
"Sorry Malfoy!"
Draco looked at Ron who hadn't uttered a single word, far from an apology. Everyone's eyes were on Ron, waiting for the two words to come out of his mouth.
After a little aggression from Mr and Mrs Weasley, he apologised in a gruff way before storming out of the kitchen, slamming the door behind him.
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For days Ron had been in a bad mood. He wouldn't talk to Hermione and didn't even look at Draco. Not that the two minded. Many had started to forget about the incident but Ron never missed the chance of calling Draco a ferret.
It was four days till Christmas and a shopping trip had been planned. The girls would go their own way and the boys their own way to get Christmas presents.
Hermione woke early to find the whole house in a rush.
"Morning Hermione, quickly eat breakfast so that we can be on our way." Mrs Weasley said as she handed her a plate of cereal.
She sat down next to Draco who was eating his own breakfast over a newspaper.
"Morning." He said cheerily.
"Why are you so happy early in the morning?"
"No reason." Draco said giving her a smile and returning to his breakfast.
An hour later Hermione alongside the others were ready to go. Everyone gathered around the fireplace of the Burrow.
"Listen up everyone," Mr Weasley shouted clapping his hands to get everyone's attention.
"Once you have finished, meet back at the Leaky Cauldron, preferably around lunchtime. Understood?"
Everyone nodded their heads eagerly. One by one, starting with Charlie, they flooed out of the burrow, shouting "Leaky Cauldron" and within seconds they disappeared behind a puff of black smoke.
Draco grabbed the powder, chucking it into the fireplace, and disappeared behind the smoke. Next was Hermione, who did the same.
When Hermione appeared in the loud pub, she stumbled but was thankfully caught by Draco.
"Easy there." He said giving her a goofy grin making Hermione blush.
"Is everyone here?" Hermione heard Mr Weasley shout over the crowd. As quickly as she could, Hermione retreated from his hold and his gaze.
"Good. Off you go then, and no wandering on your own."
Hermione made her way to Ginny and Tonks, who were amiably chatting away. Hermione glanced back at met Draco's gaze and mouthed a 'See you later.'
"Come on Malfoy mate, you coming or you going to continue stare at her?!" Draco turned at the cheeky voice and found Fred and George grinning at him, knowingly.
"Shut up!" Draco said before going to join Harry and the other Weasley brothers.
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There was half an hour left before meeting everyone at the Leaky Cauldron and Hermione couldn't decide on a present for Draco. She wanted it to be perfect but was having a hard time choosing the perfect present.
"Hermione you are so fussy!" Ginny said moaning.
"I know, I'm sorry but I'm confused."
"I hope this doesn't take long because I'm starving." Tonks said from behind.
After another ten minutes Hermione was still in the same position, stuck.
"Hermione this is going nowhere, why don't you try after lunch?" Ginny asked.
"I might not a get a chance." Hermione moaned.
"I have an idea, why don't you two go and I'll meet you there?"
"Hermione, you can't go on your own!" Tonks said.
"Why not, it's not as if Voldermort's roaming around!" She said earning a glare from the other two.
"Go! I'll be fine! Send a search party if not there in half an hour!" Hermione said jokingly.
The other two left and Hermione was alone in the jewellery shop apart from the sales woman. She looked around a bit more and found the perfect thing.
A silver bracelet with a green opal in the middle. Hermione took out a piece of paper and pen and began writing something.
"Hi, erm…can I purchase that and can you send it to this place with this message inscribed on the back of the pearl?"
The woman nodded and took the paper from Hermione's hands. She smiled as she read the note making Hermione blush.
"That would be 13 galleons please." Hermione handed her the gold coins and left the old shop, a smile on her face.
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