66. 12 Grimmauld Place

**Hermione's POV**

"Why does Harry keep writing?" I asked Fred as I looked through my letters.

"I don't know, 'Mione. He won't stop writing to us either asking what's been happening" Fred said, showing me one of the letters.

"I love him, but he needs to stop writing. I know I said for you guys to write to me, but now it's gone too far!" I said putting the letters down.

"Wotcher" A voice said, opening the door.

I turned around to find Tonks.

"Hey, Tonks," I said smiling.

"Hello, Tonks," Fred said.

"Listen, we're going to pick up, Harry now. Stay here" Tonks said.

"Okay, be quick!" I said as I watched her close the door and leave.

"Brilliant, later we get to hear the woes of Harry Potter" Fred joked, making me laugh.

"We all know he will get mad that we haven't been writing to him. I hate Dumbledore making us do this!" I said collapsing on the bed.

"Ya, that's it. Let it out, 'Mione. Let it out" Fred then went to lay down next to me and patted my head.

Ginny and George then came in talking about Merlin-Knows-What.

"Excuse me, Fred, I need to talk to Hermione," Ginny said, pushing him out the door as George followed him.

"But-" Fred said before Ginny slammed the door on them.

"Ginny?" I asked.

"I need to tell you something," Ginny said, hitting the door she just slammed.

"Ow!" I heard Fred. I giggled at that.

"Go away, Fred! Girl talk!" Ginny said to him.

**Fred's POV**

"What are they talking about?" I asked George to put my ear to the door.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you," George said.

I felt a bang to the door and it hurt my ear dearly.

"Ow!" I said cupping my ear with my hand. I could hear 'Mione laughing.

Cutest laugh I ever heard. Even though it is the same laugh I hear every year.

"Go away, Fred! Girl talk!" Ginny said.

"Ugh" I said walking away with George.

"What are they talking about?" I asked curiously.

"Why do you want to know?" George teased.

"Because, I remember Ginny knows about me liking 'Mione and she might be telling her!" I said grabbing him by the shirt in fear.

"She promised she wouldn't. You know Gin always keeps her promises" George said patting my shoulder.

"Can't we just use extendable ears or something?" I asked looking through our bag of jokes.

"Nope. Ginny already took that. Nothing we can do and I'm pretty sure she put a charm on the door to keep people from listening" George said smiling.

"So you're telling me I have to sit here and wait for them to come out?!" I asked terrified Ginny to tell Mione about me liking her.

"Yep!" George said sitting in the bed and casting some spells to make mini fireworks.

"Ugh!" I said putting my hands to my face.

**Ginny's POV**

I have to tell Hermione about George knowing that she likes Fred. Brilliant. This will be easy. Sort of.

"What do you need to tell me?"

I put a charm on the door to make sure no one was listening.

"George knows you like Fred" I said to get to the point.

Hermione blushed furiously and then ran out the door.

Great.

I ran after her to find her in the twins' room.

"Oh hey 'Mione!" Fred said happily.

"Hi" Hermione said firmly.

"She knows!" I mouthed to George.

He looked at me with fear and mouthed back "Oh no."

"George!" Hermione said grabbing him by his collar and dragging him out the door.

"'Mione?" Fred asked standing up.

"Sorry, Fred. We need a quick word from George" I said, closing the door and watching Hermione drag George to our room.

I closed the door and put on the same charm as before. I sat on my bed and watched Hermione yell at George.

"George Weasley! I swear to Merlin that if you tell Fred, I will give you a Bat-Bogey hex!" Hermione threatened.

"So, it's true?!" George asked in shock, pretending to not know Hermione like Fred.

"Don't you mess with me!" Hermione said.

"Okay, okay. I've known for some time, now. Gin didn't tell me. I've seen the way you treat each other" George said smiling.

"If you're my friend then you wouldn't tell Fred!" Hermione shouted.

"Relax, Hermione. I've known forever and Fred doesn't have a clue!" George said putting a finger up to make her stop shouting.

Hermione took a deep breath and said "I'm trusting you, George. If you say anything, I will kill you."

"Okay," George said, opening the door, but we found Fred leaning on the door to listen to our conversation.

Sucks for him! I put on that charm!

I saw Hermione laughing and I said "Nice try, Fred, but I put a charm on the door."

We all went to Ron's room and we found him playing with whatever.

Fred and George left to do something, but I didn't bother to ask. I then left, too.

**Fred's POV**

"What did 'Mione ask?" I asked George.

"I don't know what you're talking about," George said.

"Come on!" I said putting my hands on his shoulders pushing him back and forth.

"Will you stop! I'm getting dizzy!" George said, putting his hand on his head to help his dizziness.

"What did 'Mione and Gin ask?" I asked again.

"Look. All I did was tell them to leave me alone and then I opened the door and then you fell out of nowhere" He said, sounding serious.

**George's POV**

I begged him to fall for it. I'm begging him to fall for it.

"Okay" Fred said calmly.

I let out a sigh in relief and I heard Harry's voice.

"Is that Harry?" I asked Fred.

"I guess so," He said.

"We should go say hi," I said, opening the door.

"Or maybe we can have some fun" Fred said smiling.

"I love the way we think," I said, smiling the same way.

"You mean the way I think."

"You may have forgotten that we have the same minds. Now off we go" I said Apparating with Fred.

**Hermione's POV**

After a while, Harry came into the room and Hermione gave him a hug.

"Harry!" I said hugging him.

I let go and said "Are you alright? We overheard them talking about the Dementor attack. You must tell us everything."

"Let the man breathe, Hermione," Ron said smiling.

"And this hearing at the Ministry. It's just outrageous. I've looked it up. They simply can't expel you. It's completely unfair" I said watching Harry walk to the other side of the room to the beds.

"Ya. There's a lot of that going 'round at the moment. So, what is this place?" Harry asked looking at Ron and I.

"It's headquarters," Ron said.

"Of the Order of the Phoenix. It's a secret society. Dumbledore formed it back when they fought You-Know-Who" I explained.

"Couldn't have put any of this in a letter, I suppose?" Harry asked.

I looked at Ron and he looked at me.

"I've gone all summer without a scrap of news."

"We wanted to write, Mate. Really, we did. Only" Ron said.

"Only what?" Harry asked.

"Only Dumbledore made us swear not to tell you anything." I said quickly.

"Dumbledore said that? But, why would he keep me in the dark? Maybe I could help. After all, I'm the one who saw Voldemort return, the one who fought him, who saw Cedric Diggory get killed-" Harry said.

Pop!

"Harry," Fred said, patting his shoulder as he and George Apparate into the room. I smiled at them.

"Thought we heard your dulcet tones" George said sitting on the bed.

"Don't bottle it up, though, Mate. Let it out" Fred encouraged him and Fred smiled at me and sat next to George.

"Anyways, if you're all done shouting-" George started.

"Do you wanna hear something a little more interesting?" Fred asked.

He got out his Extendable Ears and we walked to the staircase and Fred lowered one ear down.

"If anyone has a right to know, it's Harry. If it wasn't for Harry, we wouldn't even know Voldemort was back! He's not a child, Molly" We heard Sirius' voice from the Ear we still had.

"But he's not an adult either. He's not James, Sirius" Mrs. Weasley said.

"He's not your son, either" Sirius argued.

"He's as good as. Who else has he got?" Mrs. Weasley asked.

Ginny then came and Harry said "Hey, Ginny."

I looked at Ginny and she smiled.

"He's got me," Sirius continued.

"How touchingly paternal, Black. Perhaps Potter will grow up to be a felon, just like his godfather" Snape said.

"Now, you stay out of this, Snivellus!" Sirius snapped back.

"Snape's part of the Order?" Harry asked.

"Git Ron muttered.

A while later, Crookshanks came and looked at the Ear. Fred and George saw him and they started to talk.

Crookshanks then tackled the Ear.

"Get off it!" George whispered trying to pull up the Ear.

"Quick!" Fred said.

"Get it up!" Ron said.

"Crookshanks, stop it!" I said.

"Get off, you bloody cat!" Ron said.

"Crookshanks, leave it alone!" I said.

"Get it up!" Fred said, trying to hurry George.

"I can't!" George said, trying to get it up.

Then, the Ear broke off.

"Hermione, I hate your cat," Ron said.

"Bad Crookshanks."

Ron started to chuckle and I hit him in the chest.