Ch 5
The next few days went by easily with nothing happening. Today, on this wonderful Thursday afternoon, Ginny and Hermione were in the living room, on the floor, talking.
"Thanks for the great description on how good a kisser my brother is, Hermione!" Ginny said, covering her ears. "Eeww!"
"Oh, right, and I wanted to know how good one of my best friends was, right?"
"You obviously had at some point....your going out with Ron."
"Shut up!"
Ginny laughed, then the two girls noticed shadows over them and looked up to find the said boys standing over them.
"Yes?" The girls chorused.
Neither of the boys had said anything but they had these grins on their faces that was kinda scary...since it wasn't too far off of a grin Fred and George would give them before they pulled a prank.
The girls stood up "What's wrong with you two?" Ginny asked.
After a few seconds of silence and thought, Hermione looked at Ron "You better not be thinking what I think your thinking of doing because if you are, you can forget about it!....Are you thinking what I think your thinking?"
He shrugged "Depends on what you think I"m thinking."
Ginny looked from Harry, to Ron, to Hermione, then back to Harry "Harry James Potter! If your thinking what I think she's thinking that he's thinking, your dead!"
Harry blinked "If I didn't know the situation here, that would have been really confusing."
The girls started to back away from their advancing boyfriends, then they turned and broke into a run. Harry and Ron just followed them, right on their heels.
After about 14 minutes of chasing, the boys decided they were going to catch the girls now and did just that.
"Ron! Put me down! Put me down! Put me down!"
"HARRY! Put me down! Put me down! Put me down!"
After getting them in the living room again, the boys put them down.
Hermione immediately tried to get away again, but failed. Ginny didn't try because she knew she wasn't going to prevail.
With that, the boys pinned the girls down so they couldn't get up and started tickling them.
....This went on for about 30 minutes before Hermione threatened to start throwing curses, hexes and anything else she could think of. Which both boys knew she knew quite a lot of them.
~*~*~
Melanie and Draco were in their shared room, both sitting on the bed, talking.
"Do you think it was that Lance dude that made you lash out like that?"
"Maybe...but how? He's only a voice in my head, right?"
"Did he say anything in particular before you went nuts?"
"That's for being so blatant, Mel."
She grinned "Your welcome!"
"Anyway, to answer you question... no."
"Ok, let's do it this way: Tell me the conversation..word for word."
He sighed and looked at her "You expect me to tell you every word that was said?"
"What? It wasn't like...bad, was it? Cause if it was something about me being sexy or whatever....no biggie. I already know." She said with a flip of her hair.
He shook his head and laughed "A little superficial, aren't we, Mel?"
"No...more like very....anyway, back to the conversation, what was it?"
He rolled his eyes "You can't drop anything can you?"
"But...you love me..." she started, then, frowning and brining on tears, finished "Right?"
"You are one of a kind, Melanie Zardou."
"Is that a yes or no?" She asked flatly "And...say my name again!" this was said in a more excited voice.
"It's a yes...and...why?"
"Cause! I like the way you say it! You've got like, this whole accent thing going on."
"Right."
"You do! Now, say it again!"
"Fine. Melanie Leigh Zardou."
She giggled and clapped "Yay!"
He was looking at her as if she had gone mad. "I think its safe to say that you really need to go to St. Mungos now."
"I know!" She said, then, with a thoughtful look added "Could you pay for the expenses sweetie?"
"One of a kind girl, one of a kind."
"I know! Isn't it fun?" She stood for a second and stretched and jumped on his lap.
"Ow That—" She cut him off by kissing him.
*Can't say I don't like this*
~I like it too!~
*Get out of my head, Lance!*
~Aww! Draco! The shows just getting to the best part!~
Then, Melanie started to undress Draco but....he pulled away.
She frowned.
"What?"
"What'sa matter?"
"Let's just say we have an audience."
Mel looked around her, thinking the others were there, "Where?!"
He pointed to his head.
Melanie leaned in and said "LANCE! GET OUT OF HIS HEAD! THIS IS NOT A MOVIE! GO AWAY!"
"Oww..Mel...that was in my ear."
"Sorry...thought it might make him go away."
"He's still here."
"Oh."
"He's a voice in my head, I don't think he has any reason to be scared of you."
"Sorry." She kissed him again, slowly going into "French Class"
The couple were too busy kissing to notice everyone standing in the doorway of the room. They did, however, realize they were there when Ron sneezed. Everyone, including the rest of the family standing in the doorway, looked at him.
"Sorry."
Lori slapped him on the back of the head "You great prat! You blew our cover!"
"Pervert!" Ron yelled at his cousin.
Draco and Melanie both cleared their throats and the others all looked at them.
"How long have you been there exactly?" Melanie asked.
"Since you started yelling about getting out of his head and something about a movie." Lori answered.
"Oh! I haven't told you?"
"Told us what?"
"Oh no biggie, just...that Draco has this annoying voice his head."
"Annoying doesn't even begin to describe the experience, Mel." Draco put in.
"A voice in his head?" Lori repeated.
"Like I said in second year: Its not good to hear voices that no one else can hear...even in the wizarding world." Ron said.
"Does the voice have a name or is it just...voice?" Ginny asked.
"Lance."
"Does Lance have a last name?" Ginny asked, skeptical of Draco, of all people, to have a voice in his head.
"Yeah. Cadra."
"So that's why you asked who he was then, Melanie?" Percy, who had appeared out of nowhere really, said.
"Well....I only wanted to know who he was...I mean, come on, he's in my boyfriends head!"
"How?" Hermione asked.
"How what?" Draco counter-questioned.
"How did he get in your head? I mean, he's been dead for years! He can't just pop up out of nowhere, you know."
"Why not? He was more powerful than the Dark Lord at his highest point of power."
"Yes, but he was vanquished years ago, someone would have had to used a resurrection ceremony for him to enter your mind..." She paused and everyone was waiting for her infamous line "I read it once."
"Figures! Was it in Hogwarts: A History?" Lori asked.
"No!"
She shrugged.
"Anyway, did you ever participate in a resurrection ceremony or anything?"
"No. At least...I don't think so."
"You would know if you were in a ceremony like this. There are several witches and wizards, usually five each, and the object of possession is in the center of the circle."
"Hey, didn't you say that's what happened...when you disappeared and reappeared two days later?"
"Yeah...sort of...but I don't think I was any 'object of possession'."
"Your telling me you were in the middle of a resurrection ceremony?" Hermione said.
"...I guess...I just remember that Mel got an owl from her mum, she told her to tell me that my dad said 'the dog are barking' and...well, basically it meant I was to go home and I went.. And then..."
"Then?" Hermione pressed.
"Then, there was a circle of people, muttering something completely incoherent, and the next thing I know, I'm waking up here."
By now Hermione had come into the room, along with a few members of the Weasley family. "There wasn't anything between the time they were muttering and the time you woke up here?"
Melanie answered for him, being he had already told her "He told me that there was some sort of bluey-greenish-white light then, he's here."
He looked at his girlfriend, whom was still sitting in his lap.
"What?"
"I think that question was directed to me."
"So? I knew the answer, I never know the answer."
Hermione was quiet for a few moments, obviously thinking it all over, then, suddenly and unexpectedly she spoke up "That's it then."
"What's what when?" Draco asked, confused.
She sighed "You were the object of possession in the resurrection ceremony of Lance Cadra."
"I'm kind of confused by all this but...ok." Melanie and Draco chroused.
Lori spoke up "Yeah, I'm with them. I mean, when you resurrect someone...don't they take the form of their body?"
"Not when you've been dead for about three centuries o. You only have a spirit form and...you have to take over someone else's mind, body, or both to live. Or else they could have been mispronouncing a word in the incantation."
"Oh.."
At this precise moment, an owl made its presence known by tapping on the widow. *Tap, tap, tap, tap, tap*
Everyone turned to the widow it was tapping at.
Draco, immediately recognizing the owl as the Malfoy family owl, jumped up, somehow, completely forgetting Melanie was still in his lap. She was thrown to the floor, straight on her butt.
"Oooooowwww!"
"Sorry Mel."
"Apology not accepted." She said, staying where she was at the moment, crossing her arms and turning her head to look away from him.
He was about to say something when the owl started tapping and hooting.
"Alright, alright."
"Uhh! You care about some stupid owl more than you do me?" Melanie said, having turned back to him. She stood up and walked out of the room stiffly
"Sounds like someone's PMSing." Fred murrmered.
"Sounds like your IMSing." Lori retorted for her friend.
"And just what the bloody hell is that?"
"If you don't know, I'm certainly not telling you." She said.
He looked at everyone else with a 'any clue what it is' expressing.
"You sodding git!" Hermoine said "It stands for Insuf–" Lori cut her off, covering her mouth.
"Shut it, Mione! I don't want them to know!" She said as Hermione bit her hand. "Ow!" Lori said.
"DON'T CALL ME MIONE!" Hermione yelled.
Lori, trying to defend herself, said the first thing that came to mind "He get's away with it!" She said, pointing to Ron.
"He's my boyfriend! He's allowed to get away with things you can't!"
Lori shook her head and turned to Draco "So? What's the letter say?"
Draco, re-reading the letter didn't notice that Melanie had come back and didn't hear what Lori had asked.
"Hello? Draco? My friend is talking to you." Melanie said.
He didn't hear her. He was too busy staring blankly at the letter.
Melanie got up and grabbed the letter "Your supposed to read the letter, not stare at it blankly."
"Oh, your back." he said.
"Oh, your back." She mimicked him "Well, in case your wondering, this is my room! I had no where else ta go!"
"Actually...you could have gone to my room." Ron said.
Melanie looked at him as if he were mad.
"..Actually...I just remember that your no longer welcome in my room...unless I'm there."
"And why not?"
"Well.....you'd probably get my boxers and put them on a flag pole or else going around giving girls my boxers saying something like 'These are my friend's, would you like to keep them?' "
"Hmm...no....actually....never thought of that but...great idea, Ron." Melanie said grinning.
Fred and George sighed and chorused "Have we taught you nothing Ronniekins?"
"Let me think about that....actually...no, you haven't taught me anything."
"So! ANYWAYS, what's the letter say, Mel?" Lori said.
"Oh, right. Umm...lets see....ooooohhhhhh......uh...interesting..."
"What is it?"
"Well....umm....I'm not really sure...its kinda hard to make out.."
"Well what's it look like?"
"You really wanna know? Ok. I see Paris, I see France, I see Draco's underpants."
Lori laughed "Well, I'm pretty sure that, of all people, Lucius Malfoy would not say that, Mel."
"Well...you look at it!" She said, thrusting the letter to her friend.
Lori had just about been to grab the letter but Fred grabbed the letter.
"Lets see...actually....it says...." Fred started.
"I see Paris..." George said.
"I see France."
Then they chorused "I see Melanie's underpants."
"Say what?" Melanie said.
"I see Paris–"
"No! I know what you said you great prat! But when did you ever see–"
"OH! That! Well, you see...one day we were going through everyone's stuff..." George started
"To hang their underwear on the flag pole, and...."
"We came to yours and didn't find any in your drawer...."
"However! We did find some on the floor."
"What?" Melanie intervened.
"Well...." Fred continued.
"You were sort of...."
"In bed.."
"With Draco..."
Melanie turned to Draco "Draco, where was I when this all happened?"
"I'd like to know where I was."
Lori shook her head. "Oi! Surrounded by a ton of gits! What's the letter say someone who can read it?"
Draco grabbed the letter out of Fred's hand and said "It doesn't say anything remotely close to anyone here has said."
"Well then, Draco the almighty....amazing bouncing ferret, tell us what it says." Lori said.
Draco glared at her for the reference of what happened in third year "I didn't like third year you know."
"Actually....I was referring to our seventh year, you remember, right?"
"How could I forget?"
"Ok! Who cares about what happened to who in which year, just tell us what the goddamn letter says!"
At the exact moment Melanie had said this, Molly walked by.
"Lori! Do you think she heard me?" Melanie whispered.
"Nope, if she had heard you, Aunt Molly would be scolding you right about now."
Melanie sighed "Thank you!"
Molly seemed to have backtracked to the doorway of the room in which everyone was in. "Is everything ok in here?"
"Umm...I don't know....is everything ok in here?"
She stood there for a moment, trying to analyze what Melanie was saying then she laughed "Oh dear! That's funny."
Melanie smiled.
"Anyway, I was looking for Percy."
Everyone just remembered that he was even in the room. They all turned to look at him.
"There you are! I've been looking for you for the past hour!"
"Sorry mum, didn't realize it."
"Didn't Melanie tell you?"
"Tell me? Tell me what?"
"She was supposed to tell you to come downstairs right away."
"No...she never told me anything."
"Sorry Mrs. Weasley, it must have slipped my mind."
"That's quite alright dear. Percy, come with me. Your boss was needing to talk to you."
As he walked by Melanie, Percy whispered "If I get fired, your dead."
Melanie simply whispered back "If your fired, that's your problem. I call it a personal problem."
With that Percy and Molly were out of sight and earshot. Melanie walked over and closed the door.
"Alright Draco, your really starting to annoy me! Just tell us what the freakin letter says!" Melanie said.
At the precise moment of now, Lance made himself noticed in Draco's head.
~Draco! How you doing?"~
Draco didn't realize he was talking out loud rather than just thinking "Go away."
~Now, now, come on! Lets be civil!~
"No! Go away!"
Everyone was staring at him.
"I hope your not talking to me because I live here." Ron said.
"Who the hell you talking to?" Lori asked.
"What?"
"Your saying crap like 'go away' and 'no! Go away.' who are you saying that to exactly?"
"Lance."
"Mel....I think its time we take your boyfriend to St. Mungos."
"No! WE need to go to St. Mungos." She said, pointing to the twins, Lori, and herself.
"Mel? We're not the ones with strange voices that no one else can hear in our heads, now are we?"
"Well...noooo....but we still need to go to St. Mungos, don'tcha think?"
Lori nodded "Yeah...more or less."
Melanie turned to Draco "So you see? If you go to St. Mungos, you'll have four people to accompany you!" She tried to put an arm around her boyfriend's shoulders, but it didn't work seeing as how he is much taller than her.
"How about you leave the arm-around-the-shoulder job to me? And...are you sure its such a good idea for me to know four people that are going to St. Mungos? Wouldn't they think we were trying to commit some kind of conspiracy with each other?"
"Oh but Draco! We are trying to commit some kind of conspiracy!" Lori exclaimed.
"Am I supposed to be in on it?"
"Uh-huh." she nodded
"Then I'd like to know what I'm getting myself into."
Lori shook her head "Your......weird...."
"Well, I need to know, one, what the conspiracy is and two, what my part of it all is."
"Can we just sort of....drop...the conspiracy topic?" Hermione said, getting a little annoyed of it all.
"Alright, fine 'Mione, be that way, ruin our fun." Melanie said, a look of mock sadness on her face.
The bushy haired girl rolled her eyes "I'm leaving now." She said as she walked out of the room in which everyone was still in.
The twins looked at their watches and then to each other and in unison said "Well, we have to go, we're late for opening the shop."
Lori shook her head and grinned "At least you own the shop, eh?"
"...Sort of...we don't exactly have complete ownership yet."
"Well go! Before whoever has the other part that you don't takes it away! Make that store yours completely!" Mel said.
The twins gave her a strange look before leaving for work.
"What? Is it so wrong to support them? They are my friends you know."
Lori laughed "Great cover, Mel."
She grinned "Thanks."
~*~*~
The next few days went by easily with nothing happening. Today, on this wonderful Thursday afternoon, Ginny and Hermione were in the living room, on the floor, talking.
"Thanks for the great description on how good a kisser my brother is, Hermione!" Ginny said, covering her ears. "Eeww!"
"Oh, right, and I wanted to know how good one of my best friends was, right?"
"You obviously had at some point....your going out with Ron."
"Shut up!"
Ginny laughed, then the two girls noticed shadows over them and looked up to find the said boys standing over them.
"Yes?" The girls chorused.
Neither of the boys had said anything but they had these grins on their faces that was kinda scary...since it wasn't too far off of a grin Fred and George would give them before they pulled a prank.
The girls stood up "What's wrong with you two?" Ginny asked.
After a few seconds of silence and thought, Hermione looked at Ron "You better not be thinking what I think your thinking of doing because if you are, you can forget about it!....Are you thinking what I think your thinking?"
He shrugged "Depends on what you think I"m thinking."
Ginny looked from Harry, to Ron, to Hermione, then back to Harry "Harry James Potter! If your thinking what I think she's thinking that he's thinking, your dead!"
Harry blinked "If I didn't know the situation here, that would have been really confusing."
The girls started to back away from their advancing boyfriends, then they turned and broke into a run. Harry and Ron just followed them, right on their heels.
After about 14 minutes of chasing, the boys decided they were going to catch the girls now and did just that.
"Ron! Put me down! Put me down! Put me down!"
"HARRY! Put me down! Put me down! Put me down!"
After getting them in the living room again, the boys put them down.
Hermione immediately tried to get away again, but failed. Ginny didn't try because she knew she wasn't going to prevail.
With that, the boys pinned the girls down so they couldn't get up and started tickling them.
....This went on for about 30 minutes before Hermione threatened to start throwing curses, hexes and anything else she could think of. Which both boys knew she knew quite a lot of them.
~*~*~
Melanie and Draco were in their shared room, both sitting on the bed, talking.
"Do you think it was that Lance dude that made you lash out like that?"
"Maybe...but how? He's only a voice in my head, right?"
"Did he say anything in particular before you went nuts?"
"That's for being so blatant, Mel."
She grinned "Your welcome!"
"Anyway, to answer you question... no."
"Ok, let's do it this way: Tell me the conversation..word for word."
He sighed and looked at her "You expect me to tell you every word that was said?"
"What? It wasn't like...bad, was it? Cause if it was something about me being sexy or whatever....no biggie. I already know." She said with a flip of her hair.
He shook his head and laughed "A little superficial, aren't we, Mel?"
"No...more like very....anyway, back to the conversation, what was it?"
He rolled his eyes "You can't drop anything can you?"
"But...you love me..." she started, then, frowning and brining on tears, finished "Right?"
"You are one of a kind, Melanie Zardou."
"Is that a yes or no?" She asked flatly "And...say my name again!" this was said in a more excited voice.
"It's a yes...and...why?"
"Cause! I like the way you say it! You've got like, this whole accent thing going on."
"Right."
"You do! Now, say it again!"
"Fine. Melanie Leigh Zardou."
She giggled and clapped "Yay!"
He was looking at her as if she had gone mad. "I think its safe to say that you really need to go to St. Mungos now."
"I know!" She said, then, with a thoughtful look added "Could you pay for the expenses sweetie?"
"One of a kind girl, one of a kind."
"I know! Isn't it fun?" She stood for a second and stretched and jumped on his lap.
"Ow That—" She cut him off by kissing him.
*Can't say I don't like this*
~I like it too!~
*Get out of my head, Lance!*
~Aww! Draco! The shows just getting to the best part!~
Then, Melanie started to undress Draco but....he pulled away.
She frowned.
"What?"
"What'sa matter?"
"Let's just say we have an audience."
Mel looked around her, thinking the others were there, "Where?!"
He pointed to his head.
Melanie leaned in and said "LANCE! GET OUT OF HIS HEAD! THIS IS NOT A MOVIE! GO AWAY!"
"Oww..Mel...that was in my ear."
"Sorry...thought it might make him go away."
"He's still here."
"Oh."
"He's a voice in my head, I don't think he has any reason to be scared of you."
"Sorry." She kissed him again, slowly going into "French Class"
The couple were too busy kissing to notice everyone standing in the doorway of the room. They did, however, realize they were there when Ron sneezed. Everyone, including the rest of the family standing in the doorway, looked at him.
"Sorry."
Lori slapped him on the back of the head "You great prat! You blew our cover!"
"Pervert!" Ron yelled at his cousin.
Draco and Melanie both cleared their throats and the others all looked at them.
"How long have you been there exactly?" Melanie asked.
"Since you started yelling about getting out of his head and something about a movie." Lori answered.
"Oh! I haven't told you?"
"Told us what?"
"Oh no biggie, just...that Draco has this annoying voice his head."
"Annoying doesn't even begin to describe the experience, Mel." Draco put in.
"A voice in his head?" Lori repeated.
"Like I said in second year: Its not good to hear voices that no one else can hear...even in the wizarding world." Ron said.
"Does the voice have a name or is it just...voice?" Ginny asked.
"Lance."
"Does Lance have a last name?" Ginny asked, skeptical of Draco, of all people, to have a voice in his head.
"Yeah. Cadra."
"So that's why you asked who he was then, Melanie?" Percy, who had appeared out of nowhere really, said.
"Well....I only wanted to know who he was...I mean, come on, he's in my boyfriends head!"
"How?" Hermione asked.
"How what?" Draco counter-questioned.
"How did he get in your head? I mean, he's been dead for years! He can't just pop up out of nowhere, you know."
"Why not? He was more powerful than the Dark Lord at his highest point of power."
"Yes, but he was vanquished years ago, someone would have had to used a resurrection ceremony for him to enter your mind..." She paused and everyone was waiting for her infamous line "I read it once."
"Figures! Was it in Hogwarts: A History?" Lori asked.
"No!"
She shrugged.
"Anyway, did you ever participate in a resurrection ceremony or anything?"
"No. At least...I don't think so."
"You would know if you were in a ceremony like this. There are several witches and wizards, usually five each, and the object of possession is in the center of the circle."
"Hey, didn't you say that's what happened...when you disappeared and reappeared two days later?"
"Yeah...sort of...but I don't think I was any 'object of possession'."
"Your telling me you were in the middle of a resurrection ceremony?" Hermione said.
"...I guess...I just remember that Mel got an owl from her mum, she told her to tell me that my dad said 'the dog are barking' and...well, basically it meant I was to go home and I went.. And then..."
"Then?" Hermione pressed.
"Then, there was a circle of people, muttering something completely incoherent, and the next thing I know, I'm waking up here."
By now Hermione had come into the room, along with a few members of the Weasley family. "There wasn't anything between the time they were muttering and the time you woke up here?"
Melanie answered for him, being he had already told her "He told me that there was some sort of bluey-greenish-white light then, he's here."
He looked at his girlfriend, whom was still sitting in his lap.
"What?"
"I think that question was directed to me."
"So? I knew the answer, I never know the answer."
Hermione was quiet for a few moments, obviously thinking it all over, then, suddenly and unexpectedly she spoke up "That's it then."
"What's what when?" Draco asked, confused.
She sighed "You were the object of possession in the resurrection ceremony of Lance Cadra."
"I'm kind of confused by all this but...ok." Melanie and Draco chroused.
Lori spoke up "Yeah, I'm with them. I mean, when you resurrect someone...don't they take the form of their body?"
"Not when you've been dead for about three centuries o. You only have a spirit form and...you have to take over someone else's mind, body, or both to live. Or else they could have been mispronouncing a word in the incantation."
"Oh.."
At this precise moment, an owl made its presence known by tapping on the widow. *Tap, tap, tap, tap, tap*
Everyone turned to the widow it was tapping at.
Draco, immediately recognizing the owl as the Malfoy family owl, jumped up, somehow, completely forgetting Melanie was still in his lap. She was thrown to the floor, straight on her butt.
"Oooooowwww!"
"Sorry Mel."
"Apology not accepted." She said, staying where she was at the moment, crossing her arms and turning her head to look away from him.
He was about to say something when the owl started tapping and hooting.
"Alright, alright."
"Uhh! You care about some stupid owl more than you do me?" Melanie said, having turned back to him. She stood up and walked out of the room stiffly
"Sounds like someone's PMSing." Fred murrmered.
"Sounds like your IMSing." Lori retorted for her friend.
"And just what the bloody hell is that?"
"If you don't know, I'm certainly not telling you." She said.
He looked at everyone else with a 'any clue what it is' expressing.
"You sodding git!" Hermoine said "It stands for Insuf–" Lori cut her off, covering her mouth.
"Shut it, Mione! I don't want them to know!" She said as Hermione bit her hand. "Ow!" Lori said.
"DON'T CALL ME MIONE!" Hermione yelled.
Lori, trying to defend herself, said the first thing that came to mind "He get's away with it!" She said, pointing to Ron.
"He's my boyfriend! He's allowed to get away with things you can't!"
Lori shook her head and turned to Draco "So? What's the letter say?"
Draco, re-reading the letter didn't notice that Melanie had come back and didn't hear what Lori had asked.
"Hello? Draco? My friend is talking to you." Melanie said.
He didn't hear her. He was too busy staring blankly at the letter.
Melanie got up and grabbed the letter "Your supposed to read the letter, not stare at it blankly."
"Oh, your back." he said.
"Oh, your back." She mimicked him "Well, in case your wondering, this is my room! I had no where else ta go!"
"Actually...you could have gone to my room." Ron said.
Melanie looked at him as if he were mad.
"..Actually...I just remember that your no longer welcome in my room...unless I'm there."
"And why not?"
"Well.....you'd probably get my boxers and put them on a flag pole or else going around giving girls my boxers saying something like 'These are my friend's, would you like to keep them?' "
"Hmm...no....actually....never thought of that but...great idea, Ron." Melanie said grinning.
Fred and George sighed and chorused "Have we taught you nothing Ronniekins?"
"Let me think about that....actually...no, you haven't taught me anything."
"So! ANYWAYS, what's the letter say, Mel?" Lori said.
"Oh, right. Umm...lets see....ooooohhhhhh......uh...interesting..."
"What is it?"
"Well....umm....I'm not really sure...its kinda hard to make out.."
"Well what's it look like?"
"You really wanna know? Ok. I see Paris, I see France, I see Draco's underpants."
Lori laughed "Well, I'm pretty sure that, of all people, Lucius Malfoy would not say that, Mel."
"Well...you look at it!" She said, thrusting the letter to her friend.
Lori had just about been to grab the letter but Fred grabbed the letter.
"Lets see...actually....it says...." Fred started.
"I see Paris..." George said.
"I see France."
Then they chorused "I see Melanie's underpants."
"Say what?" Melanie said.
"I see Paris–"
"No! I know what you said you great prat! But when did you ever see–"
"OH! That! Well, you see...one day we were going through everyone's stuff..." George started
"To hang their underwear on the flag pole, and...."
"We came to yours and didn't find any in your drawer...."
"However! We did find some on the floor."
"What?" Melanie intervened.
"Well...." Fred continued.
"You were sort of...."
"In bed.."
"With Draco..."
Melanie turned to Draco "Draco, where was I when this all happened?"
"I'd like to know where I was."
Lori shook her head. "Oi! Surrounded by a ton of gits! What's the letter say someone who can read it?"
Draco grabbed the letter out of Fred's hand and said "It doesn't say anything remotely close to anyone here has said."
"Well then, Draco the almighty....amazing bouncing ferret, tell us what it says." Lori said.
Draco glared at her for the reference of what happened in third year "I didn't like third year you know."
"Actually....I was referring to our seventh year, you remember, right?"
"How could I forget?"
"Ok! Who cares about what happened to who in which year, just tell us what the goddamn letter says!"
At the exact moment Melanie had said this, Molly walked by.
"Lori! Do you think she heard me?" Melanie whispered.
"Nope, if she had heard you, Aunt Molly would be scolding you right about now."
Melanie sighed "Thank you!"
Molly seemed to have backtracked to the doorway of the room in which everyone was in. "Is everything ok in here?"
"Umm...I don't know....is everything ok in here?"
She stood there for a moment, trying to analyze what Melanie was saying then she laughed "Oh dear! That's funny."
Melanie smiled.
"Anyway, I was looking for Percy."
Everyone just remembered that he was even in the room. They all turned to look at him.
"There you are! I've been looking for you for the past hour!"
"Sorry mum, didn't realize it."
"Didn't Melanie tell you?"
"Tell me? Tell me what?"
"She was supposed to tell you to come downstairs right away."
"No...she never told me anything."
"Sorry Mrs. Weasley, it must have slipped my mind."
"That's quite alright dear. Percy, come with me. Your boss was needing to talk to you."
As he walked by Melanie, Percy whispered "If I get fired, your dead."
Melanie simply whispered back "If your fired, that's your problem. I call it a personal problem."
With that Percy and Molly were out of sight and earshot. Melanie walked over and closed the door.
"Alright Draco, your really starting to annoy me! Just tell us what the freakin letter says!" Melanie said.
At the precise moment of now, Lance made himself noticed in Draco's head.
~Draco! How you doing?"~
Draco didn't realize he was talking out loud rather than just thinking "Go away."
~Now, now, come on! Lets be civil!~
"No! Go away!"
Everyone was staring at him.
"I hope your not talking to me because I live here." Ron said.
"Who the hell you talking to?" Lori asked.
"What?"
"Your saying crap like 'go away' and 'no! Go away.' who are you saying that to exactly?"
"Lance."
"Mel....I think its time we take your boyfriend to St. Mungos."
"No! WE need to go to St. Mungos." She said, pointing to the twins, Lori, and herself.
"Mel? We're not the ones with strange voices that no one else can hear in our heads, now are we?"
"Well...noooo....but we still need to go to St. Mungos, don'tcha think?"
Lori nodded "Yeah...more or less."
Melanie turned to Draco "So you see? If you go to St. Mungos, you'll have four people to accompany you!" She tried to put an arm around her boyfriend's shoulders, but it didn't work seeing as how he is much taller than her.
"How about you leave the arm-around-the-shoulder job to me? And...are you sure its such a good idea for me to know four people that are going to St. Mungos? Wouldn't they think we were trying to commit some kind of conspiracy with each other?"
"Oh but Draco! We are trying to commit some kind of conspiracy!" Lori exclaimed.
"Am I supposed to be in on it?"
"Uh-huh." she nodded
"Then I'd like to know what I'm getting myself into."
Lori shook her head "Your......weird...."
"Well, I need to know, one, what the conspiracy is and two, what my part of it all is."
"Can we just sort of....drop...the conspiracy topic?" Hermione said, getting a little annoyed of it all.
"Alright, fine 'Mione, be that way, ruin our fun." Melanie said, a look of mock sadness on her face.
The bushy haired girl rolled her eyes "I'm leaving now." She said as she walked out of the room in which everyone was still in.
The twins looked at their watches and then to each other and in unison said "Well, we have to go, we're late for opening the shop."
Lori shook her head and grinned "At least you own the shop, eh?"
"...Sort of...we don't exactly have complete ownership yet."
"Well go! Before whoever has the other part that you don't takes it away! Make that store yours completely!" Mel said.
The twins gave her a strange look before leaving for work.
"What? Is it so wrong to support them? They are my friends you know."
Lori laughed "Great cover, Mel."
She grinned "Thanks."
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