DISCLAIMER: i don't own Harry Potter or anything else, just the cocktail. (but not the ingredients)

Chapter 4: One Week After

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One week after the pact of giving up something for Easter, everyone began to act extremely weird. Fred and George were eliminated after shaving Percy when he was a rooster.

Harry was watching outside as birds flew all around, wishing he was up there with them. Ginny was trying as much as possible to avoid Harry, talking to him only essentially and slowly when she did. Hermione kept reciting all of the books she could remember. Mrs. Weasley tried sitting on her hands to stop herself trying to clean or fuss about anything. Mr. Weasly had locked all his muggle things in a magically time sealed safe, so he kept asking Harry and Hermione for something to inspect.

The person who seemed to be cracking the most at the moment, though, was Ron. He had never gone more than one day without chess, and with the others playing it to pass the time, he was absolutely pressurized, like a mouse under four elephants. Eventually, Ron stormed off accidently knocking over the chess board at the same time, Mrs. Weasley saw the mess and couldn't stop herself, she picked them all up and set them for a new game. She thought while she picked up the chess board, no-body saw her, so she started to clean the whole Burrow. However, unaware she WAS being watched Harry immediatly wrote her name off the list.

'I am too good!' exclaimed Harry, marvelling at his own stealthy-ness. Ginny bumped into Harry on the stairs, and taking a deep breath first said, 'Sorry.' Then she blushed and ran up the rest of the stairs.

Errol, Ron's owl, bumped into the window. Harry ran and let it in, while he was downstairs, he mixed himself up the cocktail, which he had named 'Poison' (goes without explaining). The letter Errol had was for Mrs. Weasley, Harry called her and left it on the table. A few minuets later, Mrs. Weasly, who was still under the impression that no-body saw her, turned down the offer on the letter, a 'latest upgrade charm for your cleaning broom' convention.

All in all everyone was getting rid of their original flaws and gaining new ones, which in a way wasn't making the tension any better. In laymens terms, you could cut the tension with a spoon.

They were trying not to irritate anyone too much, so the most anybody could do was sit. And sit, and one more thing, sit. Everyone wanted something to do, so Harry thought of something that would entertain everyone in the house apart from Mr. Weasley.