A/N: This chapter took a completely different route that I had originally planned. It was supposed to be mostly humor, with the plotline sneaking its way into a line or two. However, the Evil Plot Penguins stole the chapter away from me, made it really long, and mixed in a lot of plotty stuff with the humor. There's also a BUNCH of dialogue. But guess what… I'm really happy with the results! I hope y'all are too. ^__^
Disclaimer: All characters that you recognize belong to my heroine, J.K. Rowling. Damn it all. However, I own Lilith and Rory and half of Vicious. (Caytin owns the other half.) I also own their secret…MUHAHAHAHAHA!!! Evil Plot Penguins…
Chapter 3: The Order of Phoenix
Once inside the shop the Weasley twins led the Snape twins over to a slightly short boy with a thick head of dreadlocks.
"Oy, Lee!" yelled Fred and George, acknowledging the boy.
"Gred and Forge! To quote a certain Muggle saying… 'Wazzuuup?'" Lee answered.
The Weasleys laughed and Fred said, "I'd like you to meet our tow very lovely new friends, Lilith and Rory Snape. Lilith, Rory, this is Lee Jordan."
"Snape?!? You two are related to Professor Snape?!?!" Lee asked, shocked.
"Yes, he's our father," Rory shot back, apparently offended.
Lilith, the peacemaker of the two reached out a hand to calm her sister and said, in her quiet way, "Yes, we know that Daddy an be absolutely horrifying. We have felt his wrath many a time when we were young, as we were royal terrors. In fact, we still are such…"
"You two? You were naughty little children?" Fred asked in an amused tone. "What sort of things did you do?"
"Well there was this one time that a … so-called 'friend of Daddy's came over… Lucious Malfoy," Rory began.
"Yes, yes, we were five. And the Malfoy's son, Draco, was such an annoying little prat, that we saw fit to turn him into a pretty itty bitty pink fluffy bunny," Lilith finished.
"Daddy, however, didn't think our reasons were as justified as we thought…" Rory amused.
"Draco was a very pretty bunny though," Lilith added, amid laughs.
Fred and George doubled over with laughter at the thought of a three-year-old Draco Malfoy in a pink fluffy bunny's body. Lee was amused as well, but was still suspicious of the girls. Their father was the most loathed professor in school, and he was the head of Slytherin house! Everyone knew that house was full of nothing but malicious, conniving, rotten to the core bad apples.
"Yeah, sure, that's funny. I'm quite positive I would be laughing right now, if I weren't so sure of your real intentions in that incident," Lee answered in a sour tone.
"Real intentions? We were five years old!" Rory said, her voice raising several octaves with her anger.
Fred pulled Lee aside, where the girls couldn't hear and said, "Can you cut the crap? Professor Snape's daughters or not, they're still so hot it hurts, and I plan to replace Angelina with one or the other within the next week. I am the embodiment of lust!"
"Oh dear Merlin… Harry has introduced you to anime, hasn't he?" Lee asked, horrified.
"What the hell is anime?" Fred asked, confused.
"Never mind. Go ahead, fulfill your lust, you horny… BAS-TAAARD! I'll shut up," Lee replied with a smile.
Fred and Lee walked back over to their previous position, where George and Lilith were trying to calm Rory down.
"Um, Lilith, Rory, I'd like to say I'm sorry for what I said earlier. I acted impulsively. I should probably get to know you before I make such judgments. So, where do you two go to school?" Lee said, voicing his… somewhat… genuine apology.
Rory backed down a little, and Lilith answered, "We were going to Durmstrang, but we're transferring to Hogwarts for our seventh year."
"So, are you two fraternal twins?" Lee asked, noting their obvious physical differences. While Rory had the golden hair of her mother and obsidian eyes of her father, Lilith had her mother's piercing sapphire blue eyes, and her father's raven hair.
"Yes, I'm younger by three and one-fourth minutes," Rory replied, willing to accept the offered truce.
In an attempt to show off, Fred spoke up, "Girls, I want to show you something. See these Canary Creams? George and I invented them. After we get out of school we're going to open our own joke shop. But for now, our products are being sold here."
"We're going to call the shop Weasley Wizard Wheezes," George quietly put in.
"Oh that's nice…" Rory said, though neither she nor Lilith was very impressed. They have been inventing various wild stuff for ages.
"Let's move on to another shop," Lilith suggested.
With that, the group left the Magical Chicken and proceeded to walk the streets of Diagon Alley.
"So, do either of you play Quidditch?" Fred asked the girls.
"Oh yes! We're both Keepers. We were each on our respective house teams at Durmstrang. We really get quite competitive with each other during the games…" Lilith said excitedly.
"Yes…" Rory said quietly, as something was distracting her.
It was nearing only three o'clock, yet shops were beginning to close their doors. Mothers were hurrying their children off the streets, herding them home. No strangers would say hello in greeting, as if they were… frightened of something.
\\ But what could they be so frightened of? \\ Rory thought to herself. \\ Sure, there's Voldemort, but things haven't really gotten to the point where people were afraid to be out in the middle of the afternoon, have they? \\
Apparently, Lilith had become aware of the abnormality as well, because she suddenly asked, "Why is everyone so paranoid?"
"Where have you been the past few months?" Lee asked. "Don't you know that You Know Who has come back to power?"
"Yes, we know Voldemort is back," Rory said as the boys flinched. "Sorry, but I'm not afraid of his name and I'll say it again. Voldemort. But the war is in its early stages. Surely the world is not panicking yet!"
"You two must not get out much," Fred replied sadly. "Since he rose again at the end of the term, there have been sixteen attacks on Muggle-borns, seven attacks on pure-bloods, and twenty-two attacks on Muggles! Not only is You Know Who trying to take over our world, but the Muggles' world as well. London will fall to ruins soon, and the rest of Britain will follow it. The Muggles are becoming aware of us. This is all why Dumbledore created the…" Fred lowered his voice to naught but a whisper here… "The Order of Phoenix."
"What is this… Order of Phoenix?" Rory whispered back.
"I can't exactly tell you out in the open like this. But I expect you'll know soon enough," Fred replied.
"What do you mean by that?" Lilith cut in.
"Well, I imagine that's why Dumbledore wants you and your mother at Hogwarts. Everyone knows the Snapes are a long line of incredibly powerful wizards and witches. You yourselves used transfiguration on a person at five years old. That's almost impossible. And Lilith… I saw you use wandless magic at Florean's to pick up your spoon of the ground. You didn't recite a spell or anything, just subtly waved your hand above it, and up it came. And both of you… and your mother… there's something different about you. You have this… aura… it's almost regal. And you glow… I mean, you're literally luminescent. You're obviously absolutely full to the brim with power, and that's what Dumbledore needs for the Light, and particularly in the Order," Fred whispered in a rushed way.
"And I noticed that when you get angry, you start to change. It's very subtle… but a slight hint of red begins to show up in your hair…" Lee added.
"You figure us out so easily…" Rory said nervously as they hurried to the Leaky Cauldron.
A/N: Whew! *wipes brow* Bow to the penguins! And now.. cookies for reviewers!
Merlin Halliwell: Thanks! And… great minds think alike… *wink* ^__^