I did want to put it on a tiny cliffy. Snape smiling? SURPRISE SURPRISE!
Chapter two The meeting of the other characters
"Ron! Rick! Ginny!"
"That's the calling for dinner," said Ginny, who was writing a letter to Hermione.
"Oh, Bill and Charlie should be here," said Ron looking over to Rick who was pleased.
The three went downstairs, flying past Percy as they went down. He dropped all his notes and cursed them.
"Still on Caldron bottoms, is he?" asked Rick, as they were all off the stairs.
"Nop, he quit that a while ago. He's onto wand faults."
Rick laughed and almost bumped into what he thought was his other two brothers.
"Ok, from the books you can guess who we are," said one, who had long hair.
"You're Bill, the one Harry thought would be like Percy, but found you cool,"
Bill rolled his eyes. "It's nice to know you agree with the book."
"And you're Charlie, with the dragon burns,"
"Yeah, and Chinese one got be last week," said the other. "Shall we go in?"
"Yeah," the other three chorused.
"Oh Ron!" said Molly after they all sat down and Percy came into the kitchen with ink on his robes. "A dog has come, and it seems to understand what I say. Do you know anything about it?"
A big black dog came and sat by Rick's side, and licked his hand.
"Well I probably do," said Rick, looking over to Ron.
The dog sniffed him, and then went over to Ron, who sniffed him happily.
"He knows you for sure, and I know why," said Rick. "It's Snuffles, isn't it?"
"Yeah, and he's been cleared. Just last month, thanks to Harry. Ok Sirius, you can transform now."
The dog magically transformed from a dog to a man. "Yeah, I thought you were Ron there. I didn't hear about this all right. Twin?"
"Yep, I'm Rick,"
"I guess you've read Rowling's books," said Sirius, who was trying to control his messy hair. "I heard Harry would be here tomorrow with Herm, so I thought I might come and have a little visit before I surprise them tomorrow."
"You know Sirius, you can stay over," said Arthur, looking at Sirius from the top of his newspaper. Percy was trying to get his ink off, with Bill laughing at him. The other twins came into the kitchen, who sniggered and put on their identical evil grins.
"You made this ink non removable!" said Percy, furious.
"No, you just have to say please," said one with a jumper with an F, which was probably Fred.
"Ok then. Please." The ink disappeared.
"Percy, Percy, you have to have manners," said the other twin, George. Charlie joined in with laughter.
"Dear me, you two the new pranksters? I've been replaced." Said Sirius. "And you're the ones who found our map, didn't you?"
"What do you mean 'our'," said Fred, giving a look. "Were you one of the marauders?"
"Yes, indeed," said Sirius. "I was Padfoot. Pettigrew was Wormtail, and I don't think he deserved to be one of us." Sirius' eyes darkened. "Moony was Remus, and Potter was Prongs. Yes, Harry's dad."
"Harry's dad a prankster? No way." Bill said, looking over to the twins' faces.
~~~~~
"Hey Ron, when Hermione arrives, make sure I answer the door, ok?"
"Rick? Why?"
"Idea. Little prank, that's all. Try to sweet talk the girl, to pretend you've really changed. You'll see how much she'd like me."
Ron put on an evil grin. "That really gets a girl?"
"Yeah," said Rick, twiddling this pencil with his fingers.
~~~~~
"That's her now," whispered Ron. "I'll hide behind the wall, and probably snigger a bit, so don't mind me."
"Yeah, I got A+ in drama last year," said Rick, walking over to the door.
But what stood in front of him was Hermione, but he could have hung his mouth open.
"Err I'm sorry, I think you've got the wrong place," he said, looking over into her hazel eyes.
"Why do you say that Ron?" asked Hermione, slightly annoyed.
Rick looked down on her with his clear blue eyes. "Because you seem to be to beautiful to be around here," Hermione smiled, not realizing that Ron was sniggering behind the wall.
"Well, you seem to care," said Hermione leaning against the wall outside. Ginny was with Ron behind the wall, in which he covered her mouth as a sign to shut up.
"Oh, yeah, I guess," said Rick getting slightly nervous. "I mean, I thought you weren't you. You definitely changed . . . a lot." His voice was a whisper at the end, in which Hermione's heart started beating more. This seemed quite romantic, and Ron saw her expression as she looked up to Rick, her face looking like she wanted to kiss him. Ginny saw this too and started laughing.
"Oh Ginny! You idiot." Ron pulled Ginny out.
"What the - two of you?" Hermione pinched herself. "A good one and bad one? Man, I really need to wake up from this dream."
Rick started laughing along with Ginny, who was laughing hysterically.
"What's so funny?" asked a black haired boy, who stood next to Hermione at the door. "Just came . . . two Rons?"
Rick stopped laughing, in which the other two tried to stop laughing.
"I'm Rick, and bloody hell you're Harry Potter," Rick looked at the clear red scar. "Wow, I've heard too much about you two, in the books."
"Oh, you must mean the muggle books." Harry shook Rick's hand, very gratefully. "But what's that about?"
"Oh - a little prank that's all," said Rick, looking over to Ron who was now staring at Ginny as she went all red. "Show the cute and sensitive side, trying to get Hermione all caught up. Not that I've been reading Ron's diary. Ginny's already done that for me." Ron pounced up to Rick, and covered his mouth.
"Not one word Rick," said Ron. "Hello Harry. Why don't you both come in?"
"Yeah, as long as you don't try something on me," said Hermione, seeing how much Ron had changed too. He seemed more like a gentleman, but his brother really knew how to charm a girl.
"Gin!" said Harry, and Ginny gave him a huge hug. "How are you?"
"I'm all right, you?" said Ginny, after receiving a kiss on the forehead.
"Me? Dudley hasn't killed me yet."
Ginny laughed.
"Nice one Rick, start of prankster hood,"
Sirius came in, ready to embrace his godson, who had grown a lot over the summer.
"Wow Harry! I'm if every relative has told you this, but you've grown. A lot!"
Harry smiled after receiving the hug and welcome he'd been waiting for since Voldemort's come back.
"You know, I did that to your mother too," said Sirius, patting Harry on the shoulder. "The thing is your mother could easily tell the difference between me and James, and she thought I really changed, and was ready for a proper relationship." Sirius smiled. "Well, she did have a crush on me for a few months, but it was really your father she went for. Smart, the prankster prince, and the heart of all the girls. I was a bit of a player myself, but your father had the personality to steal his crush, Lil. I remember those days. They fell for each other, to shy to tell one another. Maybe you might do that one day, Ron and Herm." Ron and Hermione frowned at each other.
"Well, shall we go upstairs?" said Ron, and took Hermione's arm with the others following them. Out of earshot of the others, Ron said, "Just to be very honest here, but you really have changed a lot." He went red, but Hermione's didn't take notice of that, but he took notice of how his blue eyes were. They seemed more noticeable than ever, and would win a girl's heart. But the eyes would need the perfect personality, like what Rick did at the door.
"Du du du duuu! The very nice room," said Ron, with Rick sniggering. "As you can see on Rick's side, there is a picture of his adoptive parents."
"Yeah, and you will seriously hate me," said Rick, picking up the picture.
"Snape?" said Harry, staring at the picture.
"You haven't seen his good side. He's really nice, and I really like having fun with him, even though it's the muggle way." He brushed the dust of the picture. "Serverus was a great dad. He gave me a Nimbus 2001 for a good bye present, and he's coming next week for a check up."
"And in the picture he's smiling?" said Hermione, seeing how bright the smile was.
Rick looked at Hermione. "Yeah. He's seemed to be the sunshine of the trio. But his sunshine is here, so I don't know how he's coping." Rick put the picture away quite sadly, and Ron understood what he meant, as well as Harry. Hogwarts to Harry was his home. Ron saw all his brothers leave home to go to Hogwarts two years before he went. Ginny was the same, but she only suffered one year, longing to meet Harry Potter. Ron and his brothers saw their two coolest brothers leave the house. Percy was leaving, for everyone not to notice apart from Molly. Fred and George were leaving soon, after this year at Hogwarts, then there would be the other twins and Ginny.
"I never realized Snape could be a good person,"
Rick smiled. "He's been good to only this family, but never to others, not even Slytherins."
Hermione tried to change the subject. "Anyone up to going in the back garden?"
"Yeah, ok," said Harry, and he went downstairs with Ginny and Ron. "Coming?"
"Hold on, I'll be a minute." Said Rick. He sat on his bed, thinking about his other parents.
"I know you find it hard," said Hermione, putting her arm around Rick. "I found it hard being accepted into Hogwarts, as I'm a muggle born. I was such a teacher's pet and everything. You're lucky to have the twin you have." Ron heard this from outside the door, pretending he was supposed to be in the bathroom. "He's a great person, but we quarrel sometimes as we have different sides to things. You've seen the books."
Rick smiled. "Yeah, he'd kill you if I said this, but he wrote in his diary that he had a crush on you before the Yule Ball, and was kind of . . . heartbroken that you were with Krum."
Ron felt like dissolving into tears. He still cared about Hermione. He hated the memory of before the Yule Ball. He couldn't sleep well, but his friends didn't notice as he hid it very well.
"He cares about you Hermione," said Rick, continuing. "Anyways, with Krum, did you break up?"
Hermione looked to the ceiling. "Yeah, we wanted to be friends in the end, so I keep in contact." Ron smiled outside the door. "I do care about Ron but," Hermione paused. "It seems like the friend type. What you did to me at the door made me feel like you were my boyfriend." Ron raised his eyebrows. Hermione was falling for his twin? "You know how to act. I just wish that Ron was like that sometimes. Should we go down?"
"Yeah." Ron quickly sneaked downstairs, and when he got to the bottom and into the garden, he knew what to do.
~~~~~
"Rick, can you do a favour for me?"
"Err depends Ron," said Rick, putting his broomstick in the shed with the others. Ron gave him a look so the others could get out of earshot.
"I'm sorry about this, but I heard your conversation," said Ron feeling slightly guilty.
Rick smiled. "It's ok Ron. Just don't tell Hermione. Err sorry about he diary thing though."
"Well, I was really heartbroken before the ball," said Ron, turning shy a little. "I couldn't sleep for a few nights, and it was horrible. No one noticed as I lapped it up."
"I know what you mean," said Rick, showing his eyes of understanding. "If you want me to help you to be a gentleman, I see why not."
"And do you like Hermione?"
Rick sighed. "She's a very attractive girl, but you show feelings for her. The problem is that she showed signs of liking me. I'll tell you what. I won't try to be some one else, but you can show the good side of you. No competing, as I might find some other chicks at school."
Ron smiled. "I'm so glad I have a twin."
Chapter two The meeting of the other characters
"Ron! Rick! Ginny!"
"That's the calling for dinner," said Ginny, who was writing a letter to Hermione.
"Oh, Bill and Charlie should be here," said Ron looking over to Rick who was pleased.
The three went downstairs, flying past Percy as they went down. He dropped all his notes and cursed them.
"Still on Caldron bottoms, is he?" asked Rick, as they were all off the stairs.
"Nop, he quit that a while ago. He's onto wand faults."
Rick laughed and almost bumped into what he thought was his other two brothers.
"Ok, from the books you can guess who we are," said one, who had long hair.
"You're Bill, the one Harry thought would be like Percy, but found you cool,"
Bill rolled his eyes. "It's nice to know you agree with the book."
"And you're Charlie, with the dragon burns,"
"Yeah, and Chinese one got be last week," said the other. "Shall we go in?"
"Yeah," the other three chorused.
"Oh Ron!" said Molly after they all sat down and Percy came into the kitchen with ink on his robes. "A dog has come, and it seems to understand what I say. Do you know anything about it?"
A big black dog came and sat by Rick's side, and licked his hand.
"Well I probably do," said Rick, looking over to Ron.
The dog sniffed him, and then went over to Ron, who sniffed him happily.
"He knows you for sure, and I know why," said Rick. "It's Snuffles, isn't it?"
"Yeah, and he's been cleared. Just last month, thanks to Harry. Ok Sirius, you can transform now."
The dog magically transformed from a dog to a man. "Yeah, I thought you were Ron there. I didn't hear about this all right. Twin?"
"Yep, I'm Rick,"
"I guess you've read Rowling's books," said Sirius, who was trying to control his messy hair. "I heard Harry would be here tomorrow with Herm, so I thought I might come and have a little visit before I surprise them tomorrow."
"You know Sirius, you can stay over," said Arthur, looking at Sirius from the top of his newspaper. Percy was trying to get his ink off, with Bill laughing at him. The other twins came into the kitchen, who sniggered and put on their identical evil grins.
"You made this ink non removable!" said Percy, furious.
"No, you just have to say please," said one with a jumper with an F, which was probably Fred.
"Ok then. Please." The ink disappeared.
"Percy, Percy, you have to have manners," said the other twin, George. Charlie joined in with laughter.
"Dear me, you two the new pranksters? I've been replaced." Said Sirius. "And you're the ones who found our map, didn't you?"
"What do you mean 'our'," said Fred, giving a look. "Were you one of the marauders?"
"Yes, indeed," said Sirius. "I was Padfoot. Pettigrew was Wormtail, and I don't think he deserved to be one of us." Sirius' eyes darkened. "Moony was Remus, and Potter was Prongs. Yes, Harry's dad."
"Harry's dad a prankster? No way." Bill said, looking over to the twins' faces.
~~~~~
"Hey Ron, when Hermione arrives, make sure I answer the door, ok?"
"Rick? Why?"
"Idea. Little prank, that's all. Try to sweet talk the girl, to pretend you've really changed. You'll see how much she'd like me."
Ron put on an evil grin. "That really gets a girl?"
"Yeah," said Rick, twiddling this pencil with his fingers.
~~~~~
"That's her now," whispered Ron. "I'll hide behind the wall, and probably snigger a bit, so don't mind me."
"Yeah, I got A+ in drama last year," said Rick, walking over to the door.
But what stood in front of him was Hermione, but he could have hung his mouth open.
"Err I'm sorry, I think you've got the wrong place," he said, looking over into her hazel eyes.
"Why do you say that Ron?" asked Hermione, slightly annoyed.
Rick looked down on her with his clear blue eyes. "Because you seem to be to beautiful to be around here," Hermione smiled, not realizing that Ron was sniggering behind the wall.
"Well, you seem to care," said Hermione leaning against the wall outside. Ginny was with Ron behind the wall, in which he covered her mouth as a sign to shut up.
"Oh, yeah, I guess," said Rick getting slightly nervous. "I mean, I thought you weren't you. You definitely changed . . . a lot." His voice was a whisper at the end, in which Hermione's heart started beating more. This seemed quite romantic, and Ron saw her expression as she looked up to Rick, her face looking like she wanted to kiss him. Ginny saw this too and started laughing.
"Oh Ginny! You idiot." Ron pulled Ginny out.
"What the - two of you?" Hermione pinched herself. "A good one and bad one? Man, I really need to wake up from this dream."
Rick started laughing along with Ginny, who was laughing hysterically.
"What's so funny?" asked a black haired boy, who stood next to Hermione at the door. "Just came . . . two Rons?"
Rick stopped laughing, in which the other two tried to stop laughing.
"I'm Rick, and bloody hell you're Harry Potter," Rick looked at the clear red scar. "Wow, I've heard too much about you two, in the books."
"Oh, you must mean the muggle books." Harry shook Rick's hand, very gratefully. "But what's that about?"
"Oh - a little prank that's all," said Rick, looking over to Ron who was now staring at Ginny as she went all red. "Show the cute and sensitive side, trying to get Hermione all caught up. Not that I've been reading Ron's diary. Ginny's already done that for me." Ron pounced up to Rick, and covered his mouth.
"Not one word Rick," said Ron. "Hello Harry. Why don't you both come in?"
"Yeah, as long as you don't try something on me," said Hermione, seeing how much Ron had changed too. He seemed more like a gentleman, but his brother really knew how to charm a girl.
"Gin!" said Harry, and Ginny gave him a huge hug. "How are you?"
"I'm all right, you?" said Ginny, after receiving a kiss on the forehead.
"Me? Dudley hasn't killed me yet."
Ginny laughed.
"Nice one Rick, start of prankster hood,"
Sirius came in, ready to embrace his godson, who had grown a lot over the summer.
"Wow Harry! I'm if every relative has told you this, but you've grown. A lot!"
Harry smiled after receiving the hug and welcome he'd been waiting for since Voldemort's come back.
"You know, I did that to your mother too," said Sirius, patting Harry on the shoulder. "The thing is your mother could easily tell the difference between me and James, and she thought I really changed, and was ready for a proper relationship." Sirius smiled. "Well, she did have a crush on me for a few months, but it was really your father she went for. Smart, the prankster prince, and the heart of all the girls. I was a bit of a player myself, but your father had the personality to steal his crush, Lil. I remember those days. They fell for each other, to shy to tell one another. Maybe you might do that one day, Ron and Herm." Ron and Hermione frowned at each other.
"Well, shall we go upstairs?" said Ron, and took Hermione's arm with the others following them. Out of earshot of the others, Ron said, "Just to be very honest here, but you really have changed a lot." He went red, but Hermione's didn't take notice of that, but he took notice of how his blue eyes were. They seemed more noticeable than ever, and would win a girl's heart. But the eyes would need the perfect personality, like what Rick did at the door.
"Du du du duuu! The very nice room," said Ron, with Rick sniggering. "As you can see on Rick's side, there is a picture of his adoptive parents."
"Yeah, and you will seriously hate me," said Rick, picking up the picture.
"Snape?" said Harry, staring at the picture.
"You haven't seen his good side. He's really nice, and I really like having fun with him, even though it's the muggle way." He brushed the dust of the picture. "Serverus was a great dad. He gave me a Nimbus 2001 for a good bye present, and he's coming next week for a check up."
"And in the picture he's smiling?" said Hermione, seeing how bright the smile was.
Rick looked at Hermione. "Yeah. He's seemed to be the sunshine of the trio. But his sunshine is here, so I don't know how he's coping." Rick put the picture away quite sadly, and Ron understood what he meant, as well as Harry. Hogwarts to Harry was his home. Ron saw all his brothers leave home to go to Hogwarts two years before he went. Ginny was the same, but she only suffered one year, longing to meet Harry Potter. Ron and his brothers saw their two coolest brothers leave the house. Percy was leaving, for everyone not to notice apart from Molly. Fred and George were leaving soon, after this year at Hogwarts, then there would be the other twins and Ginny.
"I never realized Snape could be a good person,"
Rick smiled. "He's been good to only this family, but never to others, not even Slytherins."
Hermione tried to change the subject. "Anyone up to going in the back garden?"
"Yeah, ok," said Harry, and he went downstairs with Ginny and Ron. "Coming?"
"Hold on, I'll be a minute." Said Rick. He sat on his bed, thinking about his other parents.
"I know you find it hard," said Hermione, putting her arm around Rick. "I found it hard being accepted into Hogwarts, as I'm a muggle born. I was such a teacher's pet and everything. You're lucky to have the twin you have." Ron heard this from outside the door, pretending he was supposed to be in the bathroom. "He's a great person, but we quarrel sometimes as we have different sides to things. You've seen the books."
Rick smiled. "Yeah, he'd kill you if I said this, but he wrote in his diary that he had a crush on you before the Yule Ball, and was kind of . . . heartbroken that you were with Krum."
Ron felt like dissolving into tears. He still cared about Hermione. He hated the memory of before the Yule Ball. He couldn't sleep well, but his friends didn't notice as he hid it very well.
"He cares about you Hermione," said Rick, continuing. "Anyways, with Krum, did you break up?"
Hermione looked to the ceiling. "Yeah, we wanted to be friends in the end, so I keep in contact." Ron smiled outside the door. "I do care about Ron but," Hermione paused. "It seems like the friend type. What you did to me at the door made me feel like you were my boyfriend." Ron raised his eyebrows. Hermione was falling for his twin? "You know how to act. I just wish that Ron was like that sometimes. Should we go down?"
"Yeah." Ron quickly sneaked downstairs, and when he got to the bottom and into the garden, he knew what to do.
~~~~~
"Rick, can you do a favour for me?"
"Err depends Ron," said Rick, putting his broomstick in the shed with the others. Ron gave him a look so the others could get out of earshot.
"I'm sorry about this, but I heard your conversation," said Ron feeling slightly guilty.
Rick smiled. "It's ok Ron. Just don't tell Hermione. Err sorry about he diary thing though."
"Well, I was really heartbroken before the ball," said Ron, turning shy a little. "I couldn't sleep for a few nights, and it was horrible. No one noticed as I lapped it up."
"I know what you mean," said Rick, showing his eyes of understanding. "If you want me to help you to be a gentleman, I see why not."
"And do you like Hermione?"
Rick sighed. "She's a very attractive girl, but you show feelings for her. The problem is that she showed signs of liking me. I'll tell you what. I won't try to be some one else, but you can show the good side of you. No competing, as I might find some other chicks at school."
Ron smiled. "I'm so glad I have a twin."