Chapter 3- The New Members or You Work Too Much

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"Oh my God! Oh my God! Oh my God! Oh my God! Somebody help me!" Mrs. Weasley cried while running towards George, who was still lying motionless on the floor. "Oh, my baby!"

"Molly! Calm down! He just works too much! I told you this two days ago, after I saw him at Weasleys´ Wizard Wheezes. By the way, Fred, the Ton Tongue Toffees helped me out of a very embarrassing situation." Dumbledore said and casted a spell. Immediately, a jet of water hit George in the face. The boy opened his eyes.

"I just had the weirdest dream! Ginny, Ron, Harry, Hermione, Neville and Luna were the new members of the Order and... Hey, what am I doing on the floor?" George started saying. Meanwhile, Molly was covering his face with kisses. "Oh, I fainted! I definitely work too much. So, who are the new members?" George asked. He blushed a bit when he saw everyone looking at him. "Hey, I´m fine." he said trying to avoid Snape´s eyes.

"Er... Forge, I´m afraid it wasn´t just a dream." Fred answered his brother´s question. "Ginny and Ron ARE in the Order. So are the other four!"

George caught a glimpse of Ginny´s long red hair between the many heads staring at him.

"What? But... MOM! How could you let this happen? I mean, they´re young, they can´t fight Voldemort or his Death Eaters!" George stood up as fast as he could, "accidentally" hitting Snape´s nose. "Oh, sorry Severus, but you know, it was pretty big... I mean hard to avoid!" Snape threw an icy glance at him and walked away from the crowd surrounding George.

"Don´t worry, George! They´re safe! Being members of the Order just gives them some er... privileges." Dumbledore tried to reassure George.

"Such as?" Fred and his twin said at the same time. Even Ginny and the rest of the new members looked excitedly at the Headmaster.

"Well, let´s just say that they have access to all materials they want as long as they use those for... keeping an eye on certain students. And they won´t get expelled if they do something for the same purpose."

"But..." Snape tried to disagree but the look on Dumbledore´s face suggested the opposite.

Ginny, Ron, Harry, Neville and Luna started cheering, while Hermione was still thinking whether this was fair or not, but decided that it´s OK if it´s for a good cause.

"I wish I could go to school NOW!" Fred whispered into George´s ear.

"Let´s get back to the meeting now, ladies and gentlemen!" Dumbledore invited them over to the table. Everyone sat down on their chairs and some of them took out pieces of parchment.

"Before we get started, may I suggest something, Albus?" Snape asked and continued without waiting for an answer. "It seems that young Mr Weasley, George, to be exact, there are so many of them it´s hard to doesn't have the neither the emotional nor the physical maturity to fight the Dark Lord. You saw the way he fainted just now. It was simply pathetic." he said, a sneer flitting over his face.

George´s face turned as red as his hair.

"Severus, young Severus! When will you learn when to stop trying to get rid of the members of the Order. There´s not a lot of us anyway." Fred interrupted Snape.

"I agree with Fred, Severus. Now let´s get started. No interruptions this time!" Dumbledore bellowed at Snape.

The reports of the members were pretty boring, since Voldemort apparently decided that he had to let everyone calm down after the incident at the Department Of Mysteries before taking a next step. Some of the Aurors had spotted some Dark Marks and caught some unimportant Death Eaters, but that was pretty much everything.

"Fred, wake up!" George said quietly. Fred´s snoring was beginning to get too loud now.

"Whassup?" Fred pulled George´s arm. "Why did you wake me up? Do you think that you´re the only one who works too much?"

"...as we all know, Lucius Malfoy escaped Azkaban about two months ago and yesterday he has been seen in London..." the boys heard Tonks´ voice.

"WHAT?" Fred and George shouted at the same time. "His cute little son, Draco, visited us yesterday. Well, not quite. He didn´t really get to talk to us. Our punishment for people banned from our store didn´t allow him to really talk to us. By the way, he probably went to Mrs. Tinklebum´s new make-up shop, too. Anyway, he was alone, which happens very rarely. I expected at least his gorillas, excuse me, I meant friends, to be with him, but there seemed to be no one there. Is there any possibility that there is a second Invisibility Cloak apart from Harry´s? And what would he do in London if he´s a worldwide wanted killer?"

"Good point, boys! I thought he might be trying to make us look for him in London. That shows that he´s afraid we might find him and therefore that we got pretty close to him and possibly Voldemort during the last week." Dumbledore said and looked at the twins with a smile on his face. "Harry also told me that he had some visions of Voldemort talking to the Death Eaters in a forest. Though he already had false visions, I rather doubt that Voldemort thinks we would fall for that trick again. However, I will start teaching Occlumency to Harry and his friends myself this year, because more damage than just false visions could be made by Voldemort. Lupin, Tonks and Mad-Eye, you search the area you searched last week and its surroundings again. The rest of you continue their usual jobs. Today´s meeting is over." Dumbledore stood up and so did the others.

Fred and George marched up to the new members.

"That´s why you told us we´re going to see each other sooner than we thought. Well, congratulations and take good care of yourselves. Do you plan on making some Polyjuice Potion again this year? Now that you have everything you want." the twins asked the teenagers.

"How do you know about THAT?" Hermione asked completely surprised.

"Erm... I sort of let it out during my third year." Ron said looking guilty. "But they... they told me they´d put some nasty spells on me if I didn't tell them how I knew that Malfoy wasn't Slytherin´s heir."

"It´s okay, Ron! But don´t mention it to Snape, guys! And that thing with the Polyjuice Potion got old. We need something new! Something exciting! Something that will become a school legend..." Ginny said dreamily.

Hermione rolled her eyes and yawned. How could Ginny be so childish?

"Fred, George, could I have a word with you two?" a deep voice spoke to the twins.

Dumbledore was standing behind them. His eyes seemed very playful and the mischievous grin on his face proved that he was up to something. Fred and George exchanged quizzical looks and then followed Dumbledore into the kitchen.

"What was it that you wanted to talk to us about, Professor?" they asked.

"You boys work too much!" Dumbledore said to the twins that absolutely didn't expect that from him.

"Er... Yes, we know, Professor! But it´s the last week before school starts and we can´t just take close the shop for one day!"

"I didn't ask you to! Tomorrow morning, however, don't even bother waking up early in the morning. You know, I've always wanted to own a joke shop!" Dumbledore continued. The twins didn't expect that either.

"What are you trying to say, Professor?"

"What I´m trying to say is that I´m willing to replace you, of course no one can replace you, to run your shop for at least a day!" Dumbledore said with a big smile crossing his face.

"Professor, we can´t! You have so much work to do!" Fred and George said astonished.

"I ought to take a day off, too, from all the excitement!" Dumbledore tried to convince the twins still grinning.

Fred and George thought about it for a moment. Undoubtedly, Dumbledore was the best man for this job, having his enormous sense of humor he had worked too much, too. He should take a break.

"Agree!" the boys said. "But we have one condition!"

"That is...?" Dumbledore said. He didn't expect that.

"You will never, ever pay anything for whatever you want to buy from our store!"

"That sounds fair! More to me than to you two, evidently. Now go home and have a nap! You deserve it!" Dumbledore said happily and left for the joke shop.

The twins left, too, but not before giving Ginny some advice on how to play some tricks on Malfoy and making her promise to write at least one letter a month to them.

Finally, when they arrived home, they buried themselves between the sheets on their beds (or couches) and fell asleep immediately.

"Wake up you lazybones!" Dumbledore shouted into George´s ear. George pulled out his wand, opened his eyes and looked into Dumbledore´s eyes.

"Professor! What are you doing here?" he asked putting his wand back aside.

"Well, you didn't tell me what spell you put on the lock at the store." Dumbledore said slightly amused.

"Oh, it was a Unlock-with-wand spell! Damn, I have to unlock it myself." George said and stood up.

"Oh, no, don´t worry! I happen to have a couple of tricks of my own, and now that I know which spell you used, I´ll be able to unlock the door without your wand! Go back to sleep now, you sure were tired!" Dumbledore said heading for the door.

"I could barely sleep, though, Professor!" George tried to defend himself.

"That´s funny, because I could barely wake you up!" Dumbledore said and disapparated.

A/N: I hope you liked it! I'll get more into the plot and the characters in the next chapters, which I have already written! Right now I'm just setting the stage...