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Chapter 3: O.W.L.s
It was to 21st of July and the sun was shining happily through the clouds when four owls got at the morning table of the Weasleys. Harry, Ron and Hermione opened them as soon as possible and Harry shouted in extreme surprise:
"The O.W.L. results! I. I."
"What is it, Harry?" asked Mrs. Weasley seeing his shocked expression.
"I received an 'Outstanding' in Potions!"
"What?!" Ron, Hermione, Ginny and the Weasley twins said together, trying to take the parchment from his hands. Now, that was a record!
But soon after, the other fifth graders started looking on their own parchments.
"Wow!" Harry said "9 O.W.L.s"
"I didn't get 9", said Ron looking a bit sad. "I only got 8."
"What did you fail?" asked Hermione curiously.
"Divination. Not a big surprise either. How about you, how many did you get?"
"10", she answered.
"Wow, Hermione", said an admiring Ron. "Wow!"
"What grades did you get?" asked Hermione.
"Exceeded Expectations at Transfiguration-worked a lot there-, Charms, Potions Care of Magical Creatures and History of Magic, Outstanding at Defence -see, Harry, you were a great teacher!- and acceptable at Herbology and Astronomy. Oh and a Dreadful at Divination. How about you, Hermione?"
"Well." she started saying, "Outstanding at Charms, Transfiguration, Herbology, Defence, Potions, Care of Magical Creatures and History of Magic, Exceeded Expectations at Ancient Runes, Arithmancy and Astronomy."
"Wow!" Ron and Harry said together.
"You, Harry?" she asked him blushing.
"Outstanding at Defence Against the Dark Arts, Potions, Exceeded Expectations at Transfiguration, Herbology, Care of Magical Creatures and Charms and Acceptable at Astronomy, Divination and History of Magic."
"That's it!" Fred cried outraged. "We're never going to speak to you again! How could you do such a thing?! Get 8, 9 and 10 O.W.L.s!"
"Indeed!" added George. "Ron, you are no longer our brother! First, a Prefect, now an 8 O.W.L. boy!"
"Well", said Mrs. Weasley sounding quite upset, "if you couldn't make more O.W.L.s , I don't see why your brother wouldn't!"
"Just kidding, mum", said Fred quite despaired.
"Yeah", added George.
"So. so." started Harry, "I think I'll be able to try an Auror's career."
"They're the best, Harry", said Hermione seriously." If you want to be an Auror, you must work really hard and earn great N.E.W.T's, too."
"Give the guy a break, Hermione!" Ron said exasperatedly. "He'll make it! Let's just wait 'till we get back to school with the 'what you have to do' lesson, o.k.?"
Hermione gave him a killing look and didn't say anything. After a few moments of tensioned silence, Fred said:
"Before heads will fall, would you like us to show you our newest inventions?"
"Yeah, sure!" Harry said as quickly as possible, happy that he could find a way out of the situation.
Fred and George got up and Harry, Ron and Hermione followed their example.
"You'll love them!", Fred said grinning and Mrs. Weasley looked a little terrified, but said nothing.
When they got into the twin's room, Harry realized that he had never been there. It had a lot of shelves on the walls, a cauldron with a magical fire burning under it, and a lot of things spread all over the room. The beds were lost somewhere under many other objects.
"Sorry it's a bit messy", George said.
"But we don't have enough space to put everything", Fred continued, grinning.
"A bit messy?!" mouthed Hermione, looking around.
Suddenly, the cauldron started shivering and the twins hurried towards it and put something inside.
"What is that?" asked Hermione curiously.
"You don't want to know." Ron whispered.
"That", said Fred, "is a new product!"
"One of our finest, indeed!" continued George.
"Chocolate!"
"But not just any chocolate."
"Well, it tastes like chocolate."
"Smells like chocolate."
"Looks like chocolate."
"But once eaten, it gives the eater a weird feeling."
"As if he or she would be soaking wet!"
"But that's just a feeling."
"So everybody asks why you're trying to dry yourself all the time!"
"Effect lasts half an hour!"
"And starts taking place in five to ten minutes!"
"It's one of our least dangerous ones!"
The three laughed.
"So, what else do you have?" asked Harry.
"A new type of Skiving Snackboxes!" said George proudly.
"Cough and Sneeze cake!"
"Interesting", said Harry.
"We also have Horror Quills!" smiled George happily. "We worked a lot to get those!"
He took out a huge, black quill, looking a lot like Umbridge's detention quill.
"What do they do?" Harry said looking a bit afraid.
"Try it!" Fred said, grinning.
Harry took the quill and a piece of parchment and started writing on a paper with it. It seemed a lot like Umbridge's quill, too. The writing was blood red and, when he looked on his arm, he saw the same writing there, too. But this writing didn't go away. George took a napkin and wiped Harry's arm. Harry's eyes got larger and larger. The writing disappeared.
"It's red ink!" said Fred, looking quite pleased of himself. "We got the idea from Umbridge! Too bad she left, or we would have replaced her quill with this one!"
"When Lee told us how detention with her is, we decided we didn't want anything like it."
The three looked amazed. It was a great idea.
"Now we sell it on Diagon Alley", said George. "Maybe we'll go there when you'll collect your school stuff!"
After adding to the new invention list a few parchments that made the writing on them disappear after a few minutes, a few Crazy Quills that would write for themselves, like the Quick Quotes Quills, but the exact opposite of what you wanted them to, Change Frog Cards that would change the images inside them, so that you'd think you got some really rare wizards and end-up with Dumbledores, Stone Frogs that were leaping around like the chocolate ones, but were hard as rock and Red Head Hats, that changed your head's color to red when you put them on, they finally went out of the room, promising the twins to visit them on Diagon Alley. The two boys Disapparated afterwards to their shop.
"Those two guys give me the creeps, sometimes", Ron said after watching them go.
The days at the Burrow were going fast and Harry didn't want to return to Hogwarts. yet. He loved being with Ron and Hermione and Sirius's death was easier to bear with them by his side.
On the 31st of July, Harry woke up surrounded by gifts. He got a book from Hermione -what a surprise!- called 'Great Mysteries of the Wizards', a huge box of Honeydukes' chocolates from Ron, a Birthday Card from Ginny, a few pairs of self-cleaning socks from Mrs. Weasley, a Birthday Card and a few Honeydukes chocolates from Mr. Weasley and some Skiving Snackboxes and Crazy Quills from Fred and George. Life was good. That day, Mrs. Weasley made him a huge birthday cake and they all celebrated his birthday. Tonks, Lupin, Moody and the elder Weasley brothers also popped up -literally! They Apparated! - and they had a lot of fun. but somebody was still missing. Sirius.
On the 10th of August, a new set of Hogwarts letters came, this time telling them what they need for next year.
"Well, we need a few new books, don't we?" asked Hermione, checking her list. 'The Advanced Book of Spells, grade 1', by Miranda Goshawk, looks that we're at advanced Transfiguration now."
"The 'Protective Spells-Theory and Practice' by Maude Purelight.", continued Harry. "This time, I have a feeling we'll also do practice, no more DA, I guess."
"Look at the one for Potions!" said Hermione. 'A Hundred Potions for the Masters'. We're doomed, Harry!"
"Something's not right." said Ron slowly. "I also have that book!"
"What do you mean 'it's not right'?" asked Hermione. "You're taking Potions, aren't you?"
"Well, yes, but I got an Exceeded Expectations! And Snape doesn't accept anything below Outstanding!"
"It is weird", said Hermione. "Snape isn't the person to just let you in because he's nice..."
"Not at all!" said Ginny.
"Oh, well.", restarted Hermione. "'Charms for the Charmers' by Emerald Blissghoul and 'The Book of Creatures' by Polly Griffin. That's about it."
"Yep!" said Ron, looking closely at his list.
"We should go there in two days, maybe three." said Ginny.
"Maybe we'll even see your brothers' shop!" said Hermione excitedly.
Everybody was staring at her now.
"You were so against them braking rules and everything. Now, you're excited?!" said Ron, amazed.
"Well, they had great magic things. I don't agree with the things they come up, but I must admit that it is great magic!!!" she answered.
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To Naomie: I'm glad I helped ( And we will have Snape, believe me! Amala likes the guy. And Towers turns up to be one weird guy, you'll see what I mean.
To Haryyforeva: I'm glad you like it, hope you like this one.
O.K., guys, I'll be gone on vacation until September, I guess, but don't worry, I'll be back and posting when I'm home!
Chapter 3: O.W.L.s
It was to 21st of July and the sun was shining happily through the clouds when four owls got at the morning table of the Weasleys. Harry, Ron and Hermione opened them as soon as possible and Harry shouted in extreme surprise:
"The O.W.L. results! I. I."
"What is it, Harry?" asked Mrs. Weasley seeing his shocked expression.
"I received an 'Outstanding' in Potions!"
"What?!" Ron, Hermione, Ginny and the Weasley twins said together, trying to take the parchment from his hands. Now, that was a record!
But soon after, the other fifth graders started looking on their own parchments.
"Wow!" Harry said "9 O.W.L.s"
"I didn't get 9", said Ron looking a bit sad. "I only got 8."
"What did you fail?" asked Hermione curiously.
"Divination. Not a big surprise either. How about you, how many did you get?"
"10", she answered.
"Wow, Hermione", said an admiring Ron. "Wow!"
"What grades did you get?" asked Hermione.
"Exceeded Expectations at Transfiguration-worked a lot there-, Charms, Potions Care of Magical Creatures and History of Magic, Outstanding at Defence -see, Harry, you were a great teacher!- and acceptable at Herbology and Astronomy. Oh and a Dreadful at Divination. How about you, Hermione?"
"Well." she started saying, "Outstanding at Charms, Transfiguration, Herbology, Defence, Potions, Care of Magical Creatures and History of Magic, Exceeded Expectations at Ancient Runes, Arithmancy and Astronomy."
"Wow!" Ron and Harry said together.
"You, Harry?" she asked him blushing.
"Outstanding at Defence Against the Dark Arts, Potions, Exceeded Expectations at Transfiguration, Herbology, Care of Magical Creatures and Charms and Acceptable at Astronomy, Divination and History of Magic."
"That's it!" Fred cried outraged. "We're never going to speak to you again! How could you do such a thing?! Get 8, 9 and 10 O.W.L.s!"
"Indeed!" added George. "Ron, you are no longer our brother! First, a Prefect, now an 8 O.W.L. boy!"
"Well", said Mrs. Weasley sounding quite upset, "if you couldn't make more O.W.L.s , I don't see why your brother wouldn't!"
"Just kidding, mum", said Fred quite despaired.
"Yeah", added George.
"So. so." started Harry, "I think I'll be able to try an Auror's career."
"They're the best, Harry", said Hermione seriously." If you want to be an Auror, you must work really hard and earn great N.E.W.T's, too."
"Give the guy a break, Hermione!" Ron said exasperatedly. "He'll make it! Let's just wait 'till we get back to school with the 'what you have to do' lesson, o.k.?"
Hermione gave him a killing look and didn't say anything. After a few moments of tensioned silence, Fred said:
"Before heads will fall, would you like us to show you our newest inventions?"
"Yeah, sure!" Harry said as quickly as possible, happy that he could find a way out of the situation.
Fred and George got up and Harry, Ron and Hermione followed their example.
"You'll love them!", Fred said grinning and Mrs. Weasley looked a little terrified, but said nothing.
When they got into the twin's room, Harry realized that he had never been there. It had a lot of shelves on the walls, a cauldron with a magical fire burning under it, and a lot of things spread all over the room. The beds were lost somewhere under many other objects.
"Sorry it's a bit messy", George said.
"But we don't have enough space to put everything", Fred continued, grinning.
"A bit messy?!" mouthed Hermione, looking around.
Suddenly, the cauldron started shivering and the twins hurried towards it and put something inside.
"What is that?" asked Hermione curiously.
"You don't want to know." Ron whispered.
"That", said Fred, "is a new product!"
"One of our finest, indeed!" continued George.
"Chocolate!"
"But not just any chocolate."
"Well, it tastes like chocolate."
"Smells like chocolate."
"Looks like chocolate."
"But once eaten, it gives the eater a weird feeling."
"As if he or she would be soaking wet!"
"But that's just a feeling."
"So everybody asks why you're trying to dry yourself all the time!"
"Effect lasts half an hour!"
"And starts taking place in five to ten minutes!"
"It's one of our least dangerous ones!"
The three laughed.
"So, what else do you have?" asked Harry.
"A new type of Skiving Snackboxes!" said George proudly.
"Cough and Sneeze cake!"
"Interesting", said Harry.
"We also have Horror Quills!" smiled George happily. "We worked a lot to get those!"
He took out a huge, black quill, looking a lot like Umbridge's detention quill.
"What do they do?" Harry said looking a bit afraid.
"Try it!" Fred said, grinning.
Harry took the quill and a piece of parchment and started writing on a paper with it. It seemed a lot like Umbridge's quill, too. The writing was blood red and, when he looked on his arm, he saw the same writing there, too. But this writing didn't go away. George took a napkin and wiped Harry's arm. Harry's eyes got larger and larger. The writing disappeared.
"It's red ink!" said Fred, looking quite pleased of himself. "We got the idea from Umbridge! Too bad she left, or we would have replaced her quill with this one!"
"When Lee told us how detention with her is, we decided we didn't want anything like it."
The three looked amazed. It was a great idea.
"Now we sell it on Diagon Alley", said George. "Maybe we'll go there when you'll collect your school stuff!"
After adding to the new invention list a few parchments that made the writing on them disappear after a few minutes, a few Crazy Quills that would write for themselves, like the Quick Quotes Quills, but the exact opposite of what you wanted them to, Change Frog Cards that would change the images inside them, so that you'd think you got some really rare wizards and end-up with Dumbledores, Stone Frogs that were leaping around like the chocolate ones, but were hard as rock and Red Head Hats, that changed your head's color to red when you put them on, they finally went out of the room, promising the twins to visit them on Diagon Alley. The two boys Disapparated afterwards to their shop.
"Those two guys give me the creeps, sometimes", Ron said after watching them go.
The days at the Burrow were going fast and Harry didn't want to return to Hogwarts. yet. He loved being with Ron and Hermione and Sirius's death was easier to bear with them by his side.
On the 31st of July, Harry woke up surrounded by gifts. He got a book from Hermione -what a surprise!- called 'Great Mysteries of the Wizards', a huge box of Honeydukes' chocolates from Ron, a Birthday Card from Ginny, a few pairs of self-cleaning socks from Mrs. Weasley, a Birthday Card and a few Honeydukes chocolates from Mr. Weasley and some Skiving Snackboxes and Crazy Quills from Fred and George. Life was good. That day, Mrs. Weasley made him a huge birthday cake and they all celebrated his birthday. Tonks, Lupin, Moody and the elder Weasley brothers also popped up -literally! They Apparated! - and they had a lot of fun. but somebody was still missing. Sirius.
On the 10th of August, a new set of Hogwarts letters came, this time telling them what they need for next year.
"Well, we need a few new books, don't we?" asked Hermione, checking her list. 'The Advanced Book of Spells, grade 1', by Miranda Goshawk, looks that we're at advanced Transfiguration now."
"The 'Protective Spells-Theory and Practice' by Maude Purelight.", continued Harry. "This time, I have a feeling we'll also do practice, no more DA, I guess."
"Look at the one for Potions!" said Hermione. 'A Hundred Potions for the Masters'. We're doomed, Harry!"
"Something's not right." said Ron slowly. "I also have that book!"
"What do you mean 'it's not right'?" asked Hermione. "You're taking Potions, aren't you?"
"Well, yes, but I got an Exceeded Expectations! And Snape doesn't accept anything below Outstanding!"
"It is weird", said Hermione. "Snape isn't the person to just let you in because he's nice..."
"Not at all!" said Ginny.
"Oh, well.", restarted Hermione. "'Charms for the Charmers' by Emerald Blissghoul and 'The Book of Creatures' by Polly Griffin. That's about it."
"Yep!" said Ron, looking closely at his list.
"We should go there in two days, maybe three." said Ginny.
"Maybe we'll even see your brothers' shop!" said Hermione excitedly.
Everybody was staring at her now.
"You were so against them braking rules and everything. Now, you're excited?!" said Ron, amazed.
"Well, they had great magic things. I don't agree with the things they come up, but I must admit that it is great magic!!!" she answered.
-----
To Naomie: I'm glad I helped ( And we will have Snape, believe me! Amala likes the guy. And Towers turns up to be one weird guy, you'll see what I mean.
To Haryyforeva: I'm glad you like it, hope you like this one.
O.K., guys, I'll be gone on vacation until September, I guess, but don't worry, I'll be back and posting when I'm home!