Disclaimer: I own none of the Harry Potter characters. Everything else is mine including the plot line. (If that is possible)
AN: Sorry for not posting nutty ff.n wouldn't let me. Sorry again.
Harry Potter and the Green Flame Torch: Chapter Ten
Kafuddled
Ginny was the first to speak up. The boys still had their mouths hanging open.
"I'll help you Chris, Come on Hermione. Let's help her." Ginny said with a little more than a hint in her voice.
"Okay?" said Hermione as she got up from her seat and followed Chris and Ginny up the stairs.
When they got up to Ginny's room and had shut the door, Hermione and Ginny started throwing questions left and right at Chris.
"Whoa! Slow down there girls! You're going to give yourselves a heart attack!"
"No we won't! That is practically impossible at our age. I was going through my grandfathers old medical books and is said that…"
"Hermione! It's just a figure of speech. I didn't really mean it."
"Oh, sorry."
"Now, one at a time, Ginny you go first."
"OK, how did you get Fred and George both at the same time with very little planning? And did you HAVE to throw that roll at my head?"
"Whoa Gin. That's more than one question. Anyways, I told Fred and George that I didn't want to put those stupid contacts in my eyes but they made me anyway. I told them that they would have to pay and so they did. The idea just sort of popped into my head. I have been practical joking since I could walk. Some of the stuff I've done is ten times worse than the stuff your brothers have done. Though I am not ambitious enough to start my own joke shop mind you. And the roll at your head just sort of came to mind at the time. Any other questions?"
"Yeah," said Hermione. "How did you know that Molly would react that way?"
"Easy, Molly was always watching over me during the time I spent in the attic. She thought that I was frail and could be talked into anything, so I just said that George did it and I knew that she would believe me because that is just the way she is."
"OK, I get it now. So, did you say that you wanted to try to find your stuff?"
"Yeah, I have to mentally search for it and I need some extra energy. You guys wanna help? It's really easy."
"Ok, why not?" said Hermione.
"Ok we have to sit in a circle and join hands. All you guys have to do is think about the way that you look for things. You ready?"
"Yup"
"Yeah"
They all sat there thinking about how they find their stuff when it is lost and Chris was searching for her stuff. Her mind traveled back to Remus's house and found where she had put her trunk.
Now that that was done she could summon it.
She looked up and saw that Ginny and Hermione were both sitting there sound asleep.
"Oops! I must have thought a little to hard."
Chris picked up Ginny and Hermione and put them in their beds. She walked up the stairs to where Harry and Ron's room was.
They were sitting on Ron's bed and were talking. I decided to eavesdrop on them. I couldn't help it. It was my nature as a practical joker.
"Ron why do you think she was so scared of Draco and Lucius Malfoy? And how did she know that they were coming?"
"Why are you asking me? I know just he same as you do, nothing."
"I know, but there's just something about her that makes me want to, well, I don't know, cling to her."
"You want to 'cling' to her? I want to kiss her."
"Ron, is "someone unnamable" getting a little teensy weensy crush on Chris?"
Ron face was very flushed. "Oh! Sod off!"
Harry broke into gales of laughter. Ron had never had a crush on anyone. Unless you count Fleur, but that was induced love.
"What is so funny?" Chris said. She already knew but this was the perfect time to surprise them.
Harry had immediately stopped and Ron was looking down at the floor in a very self-conscious way.
"Er, nothing," said Harry.
"Oh, ok?" said Chris in a very unsure voice. She was glancing from Ron to Harry trying to figure what was going on in their heads and trying to fight down a mad desire to laugh.
Chris walked out of the room with a quizzical glance back over her shoulder at the boys before she ran a s fast as she could down to Ginny's room where she out her face on her pillow and howled with laughter.
Downstairs…
Mr. and Mrs. Weasley were talking.
"Arthur, we can't let him bring her here. We've never met her. I mean what would we do with all these people in our house?"
"Molly darling, calm down. We will figure this out some how. Just let me think for a moment. Now, let's see, Fred and George can sleep with Harry and Ron. No. I forgot. Percy's going to have to stay at the late Mr. Crouch's to collect information. So, we can have Charlie and Bill sleep in Percy's room and Bill's girlfriend can sleep with the girls. What is her name again?"
"Amanda, Amanda Knight. Thank you for clearing that up for me. I really wanted to meet her, you know after all that Bill has told us, but I didn't want to upset the balance in the house."
"Molly, is there ever balance in this house?"
"Well, no actually not."
"I was just thinking. I haven't seen the girls since breakfast and now it's after lunch. Where do you suppose they have gotten to?"
"I'll go and check. Arthur tell Fred and George to go and de-gnome the garden please."
Molly walked up the stairs to the girl's room and slowly creaked the door open. All three girls were on their beds fast asleep. She closed the door and smiled a small secretive motherly smile to herself.
She walked up to the attic to tidy it up a bit. It was rather dirty after Chris had been up there.
She was still wondering how Fred and George had actually found her.
Later that night…
"I can't believe she got us like that!" said George.
"I know! We've never been duped like that before. How do you think we should get her back?"
"Do you think that it's possible?"
"Heck yeah!" Fred motioned with his fingers for George to dome closer. George walked inconspicuously closer and Fred started whispering in his ear. George had an evil smile creeping into the corners of his face. Within the next few seconds his grin matched to equally evil grin on Fred's face.
At dinner…
Mr. Weasley banged on his water glass with the back of his fork. Getting everyone's attention required a lot of effort at this table.
"We have some news. Bill and Charlie are going to be coming home for the last two weeks before the year at Hogwarts begins. Bill is also bringing this new girlfriend that he keeps talking about."
Everyone just nodded their heads and went right back to eating. No one ever even tried to utter a word.
Chris looked at the maniacal grins on Fred and George's face and knew that they were going to try to get her back. How she knew she didn't know. She just knew. Fred and George were in for the shock of a lifetime.
Over the next few days the house was busied by the apprehension of Bill and Charlie's arrival.
Chris, Hermione, and Ginny gathered in Ginny's room again and summoned Chris's trunk. It had nearly run over Percy on his way down the stairs to lunch. He was very flustered for the rest of the day and kept commenting how Dumbledore was foolish to let the children use magic over the holidays.
Chris was very glad to have her own things back and not have to wear Ginny and Hermione's clothing.
Two days later…
It was 5:00 at night and Bill, Charlie, and Bill's girlfriend would be arriving in one hour.
Mrs. Weasley was in hysterics trying to get everything done on time and worrying about her Percy the whole time. (He was at the office) She was ordering every one this way and that.
"Ron go and clean the fireplace."
"But Mum! Ginny already cleaned it out. This house is impeccably clean. Why don't you just sit down and rest?"
This was exactly the wrong thing to say. Mrs. Weasley practically threw a fit. She yelled at Ron for five straight minutes with out interruption. The whole thing ended with Ron ducking out of the kitchen before Mrs. Weasley hit him with her frying pan.
The girls were outside setting the table and when Ron ran past them they collapsed into fits of giggles.
Fred, George, and Harry were out back de-gnoming the garden for the fourth time that day.
"This is so stupid!" said Fred with venom as he flung a pleading gnome over the hedge.
"I agree and I think Ron does too," said George as he looked over to his younger brother who was staggering to where they were.
"You told her to sit down didn't you?" said Fred with a gleeful look on his face.
"OH WOULD YOU JUST SOD OFF!" yelled Ron at his brother.
Fred, who was rather taken aback at his brother's outburst staggered backwards and fell onto a disgruntled Crookshanks who started screeching (cat fashion) and clawing at Fred's face.
Hermione, hearing her cat's distress calls came running to the back of the house. Upon seeing the scene that had presented itself she immediately called for Ginny and Chris to come and see before she collapsed into a heap of laughter.
When Ginny and Chris turned around the corner of the house they fell on to Hermione and all three were laughing so hard that their faces were red and tears were streaming down their faces.
You see Fred was on the ground trying to get Crookshanks off while George was trying to get Harry to go near them and Ron was freaking out because George had said that there was a spider on his back and wouldn't get it off him.
When they heard the girls laughing behind them they looked at each other and started chuckling including Fred who had finally gotten a very disgruntled Crookshanks off.
Then all hell broke loose and everyone broke into full-fledged laughter. It was contagious as soon as you thought you were all done laughing you would look at some one else and would look at their face and start laughing all over again.
Of course Mr. and Mrs. Weasley heard the din and came to see all seven of the children on the ground rolling with laughter.
It was such a funny sight that they had to join in too.
They must have been there for quite a long time because they heard voices…
"Gee-whizikers! What are you guys doing?" came Charlie's good-natured voice.
Every one immediately stood up and started brushing bits of grass off of their clothes.
"You guys better hurry up and get ready. Bill is going to be here any minute."
"Well if you are going to start chiding us then maybe you can help," Mrs. Weasley said.
Chris went up to Ginny's room to change her clothes along with Hermione and Ginny.
Hermione dressed herself in a lavender tee shirt, jeans, and some old, beat-up sneakers.
Ginny wore a peacock blue shirt, and some new khaki's that Fred and George had gotten her for her birthday.
Chris wore an olive green tank top and some khaki shorts. She was also wearing some old, beat-up sneakers.
They all sat in the living room waiting for Bill and his girl friend to arrive.
When the doorbell rang every single one of them popped out of their seats.
Mrs. Weasley told them all to sit down and wait for them to come in.
Fred and George grumbled but obliged.
There were mingled words at the door and then in walked Mrs. Weasley, Bill and his girl friend.
Bill said, "Everyone this is…"
"Amanda Knight," Chris finished for him.
Everyone just stared at her.
"Christine, is that really you?" Amanda asked.
Chris only nodded her head. She looked very close to tears.
Amanda rushed over and held Christine in her arms.
Amanda was close to tears too.
"Ok. That's it. Fred and George, you have A LOT of explaining to do." Mrs. Weasley looked like she was about to explode.
AN: Ha! Ha! Cliffhanger! Sorry I couldn't think of a good way to end this chapter. Now you must ask yourself, Who is Amanda? What is going to happen to Fred and George? Why did Amanda rush over? When will I ever find these things out? Well that's when ever I finish chapter eleven.
Thanx -Chris Lillith