I give you – Weasley !
Disclaimer : You already know it by heart. JKR is the beloved creator of the HP universe and therefore everything belongs to her.
A/N : Thanks to all reviewers of Chapter 1 –
you lot are keeping me writing, so R & R ;-) , please.
Chapter 2 : With the help of books …
Fred and George Weasley were sitting in the
library leafing through books !
Miranda Celliar, a third – year Hufflepuff, had spotted them there around six o'clock. At six twenty Madam Pomfrey had to diagnose hyperventilating, paleness and trembling on her.
But whether the reason was the extra- hot chili
dinner or the sight of the twins in the library, had remained an unsolved
mystery
Unfortunately, it wasn't the only problem that
had remained unsolved.
Fred and George were sitting at a table,
bending over some books, fume coming out of their ears.
No, they weren't neither very furious nor exceptionally
exhausted, they just had been jeering themselves a bit up – with Pepper-up
candy. And that candy tended to cause some minor effects when one consumed too
much of it.
George slammed the " Big Book for the Best
Brooms" shut and sighed.
That was
definitively a mistake.
Fred put the fire out, using a small amount of
water that came out of his wand and frowned.
" I TOLD you ! No sighing, laughing, coughing nor
sneezing for two hours !"
- " Sorry, bro'. I'm just so depressed. We've
been hanging around in here for almost three days now and we still haven't
found anything ! I'm not feeling very well. It's this place – bad vibrations or
something …"
Suddenly Fred went rigid and then started
leafing through a book, muttering madly " 207, 207, 207, …".
He pointed at page 207 and yelled on top of his
voice. " Yeah, this is it ! Accelerating Charm ! We're gonna be –"
He got cut off all out of sudden.
" You are going to be nothing but
thrown out of here it you continue shouting like that ! This is a library, not
a Quidditch pitch !" bellowed Mrs. Pince, the librarian.
The twins gave her two identical innocent
smiles.
" Sorry, Mrs. Pince !" they said in unison. The
librarian shot them a sharp look and then returned to her work.
George bent over to Fred and – no, he just
managed to stop himself from sighing.
Fred had indeed found an Accelerating Charm,
but there was a problem.
Beneath the description there was a warning,
written in big red letters : ATTENTION! USE THE ACCELERATION CHARM ONLY ON
HUMANS ! DO NOT USE IT ON OBJECTS – IT MAY HAVE FATAL RESULTS !
Fred frowned once again. " Fatal results ?!
Rubbish ! What should possibly go wrong ?" he spat angrily.
" Maybe they just want to avoid objects zooming
through the air by themselves." replied George wearily and returned to his book
" A Guide to Winners" by Uli the Unsuccessful.
The twins got absorbed by their books a few
minutes after the incident.
Suddenly George looked up, wearing a thoughtful expression on his face.
" Fred ? Hey, Fred !" His brother glanced at
him, grinning, " I didn't know what sort of things you can do with a
broomstick …."
George rolled his eyes. " What I wanted to say,
and now that your mind is on the right topic again, I may start as well …."
" Spit it out, Forge !" said Fred
good-naturedly. He actually seemed to have found a book that interested him.
" OK, the point is that I think we're trying to
solve the problem in a wrong way. By now, we've only thought of an Accelerating
spell ! But wouldn't it be more effective with an Accelerating potion
?
- " You mean, like a polish or something ?"
- " Exactly, bro', you're getting the point."
Fred nodded slowly. " Yeah, that could work.
Now we just have to find such a potion, its ingredients and brew it."
- " Let's start with the potion search, ok ?
Minor details will be considered after that."
- " For once, I agree."
It seemed like George's suggestion hadn't been
bad. After two hours of exhausting search ( and some exciting moments when they
were sneaking into the Restricted Section ), the twins finally found what they
had been looking for.
Hastily, they copied the ingredients and the
description of brewing out of " Cheats
and Fiddles" by Li R. Ruin.
The potion itself wasn't complicated to brew and
the ingredients weren't difficult to get.
" Luckily. At least SOMETHING goes well these
days." Fred commented as he and George were standing in an old classroom next
to the nearly finished potion.
After a few minutes, they filled it into a
small bottle and headed for the Gryffindor Tower.
" The potion works only for an hour. That means
we will have to put it onto the brooms right before the selection starts." mused
George.
- " Yeah. Do you know how the future
players will be selected ?" Fred asked eagerly.
- " Hm. I've heard something about a race on a
special route made by Wood, but I'm not sure. He's being keeping it quiet."
- " Well, we'll see on Saturday."
- " Yeah. Let's do some practice then."
- " Actually, that's not a bad idea. How smoothening
to have such a bright brother like you are …"
Fred grinned as George hit him playfully and
the twins started walking down to the Quidditch pitch.
A/N : Chapter 3 is the selection. It'll be
coming soon…. be patient…. . And in the meantime : please review !