AN Sorry this has taken so long.

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Draco: Father…

Lucius: Be quiet, Draco.

Lucius advanced on Draco and put his hand around the celery in his ear and tugged, hard. Draco yelped, but Lucius continued to tug. He was starting to jerk the celery, but the mediwizard jumped in and dragged him off of the poor boy.

Draco glared at his father. Why was he so stupid?

Lucius: Why won't it come out??

Mediwizard: Sir, it's been permanently stuck.

Lucius: Well, your just going to have to find a way to get it permanently unstuck.

Mediwizard: But sir—

Lucius: (interrupting him) Just get out.

The mediwizard sighed exasperatedly, but walked out anyway. A tap sounded at the window as soon as he left and Lucius walked over to it. An owl was flying outside and Draco's father opened the window. The owl dropped the note into Lucius's outstretched hand and flew off.

Fred and George finished eating, and went back to the common room. They decided to wait there and try and work on some homework.

Five minutes later, they decided that they didn't want to do homework. But luckily, there was something better for them to do. For at that moment, a brilliant idea came to George.

George: We need to celebrate!

Fred: Celebrate what, pray tell?

George: (thinking) Hmmm….a celebration that Draco Malfoy is gone!

Fred: That's a great idea…no one has to know we did it…

George: Yeah! We can have it at Quidditch season pre-game party for our almost definite victory over the Slytherins!

Lucius Malfoy was mad. He was beyond mad. He stormed out into the halls screaming. The Mediwizard decided it was time to do something about him.

Meanwhile….

Snape: Dumbledore, when will I be able to start using Veritiserem?

Dumbledore: Severus, I'm not sure. I would like to continue speaking to the students to find out. I'd rather they volunteer the information, than us find out for them.

Snape: (looks unhappy) We could get the information so much quicker with the potion, Albus.

Dumbledore: No, Severus.

Fred and George were already making preparations for their pre-season party. Since all the Houses, except for Slytherin of course, were going to be there, they were going to need a lot of food. Fred went and talked to the house elves in the kitchen about their dire need for party food and the little elves were happy to provide.

George slipped out of the school occasionally through the one-eyed witch and returned with things for the party: Filibuster's Fireworks, Bouncing Balloons, and other magical decorations.

The arrangements for the party were coming along wonderfully. It was going to be the biggest party of the year! Everyone was talking about it. Fred and George continued to plan with every intention of making the party even more wonderful than everyone expected.

The Mediwizard stepped into the office.

Mediwizard: Thank you for seeing me on such short notice, sir.

Head of St. Mungo's (Bob): It's not a problem. What is the problem that you have to discuss with me?

Mediwizard: You've heard about the Malfoy boy, right?

Bob: Yes, I have. And I heard he's coming along quite nicely. Isn't that correct?

Mediwizard: Yes, sir, but his father is causing quite a problem.
Bob: Lucius Malfoy has never been someone I've liked. And I have the feeling that I'm not going to start liking him, either.
Mediwizard: What should I do about it?

Bob: (with revenge on his mind) Let me handle it.

The morning of the party dawned bright and perfect. A ray of sunlight that fell over Fred's bed and woke him up. Nothing at all can go wrong, Fred thought as he yawned and got out of bed. How wrong he was.

Fred: George!! Wake up! We still have some last minute preparations to make. (chunks a pillow at George)

George: Mmmm….leave me alone. (roles over and sticks his head under the pillow)

Fred: George, I'm going to hex you if you don't get up.

George: (jumps up) All right, I'm up!

Fred: C'mon and let's get down to the Quidditch Pitch.

Fred and George pulled on their robes and grabbed the rest of the stuff they needed for the party. The twins then woke Lee up. Lee got up and dressed and the three headed down to the Quidditch Pitch.

The Quidditch Pitch was decorated with the mastery of a professional decorator. It was decked out in the House banners, balloons (they bounced and didn't float too high), mountains of food, and right in the middle of the table of food was a huge Quidditch player ice sculpture. The ice was charmed not to melt in the fall warmth. There were tables everywhere with decorations on them so people could sit. Lee Jordan was already starting to take his position on the speaker stand

At ten o'clock everyone started arriving. The pitch was full in no time.

Lee: Welcome to the pre-season Quidditch Party!

Everyone cheered and clapped.

Lee: We have food for everyone, but before we start to dig in and chat with our friends, the people who made this party happen would like to say a few words.

Fred and George pushed back their chairs, got up, and made their way to the speaker stand.

Fred: Hello all you Quidditch fans!

George: It's nice to see you all out here today.

Fred: We put this party together just to say that we're all ready for a little 'friendly' competition and to kick off the season.

George: Okay, we're gonna give the stand back over to Lee.

Fred and George step down to tremendous claps (all except the Slytherins who were booing). Lee stepped back up and clapped along with the rest.

Lee: Thanks guys. That was Fred and George, the creators of this party. Okay now we're going to here a little from the captains of the teams. First up, Oliver Wood of Gryffindor!

Wood rose slowly, looking a little embarrassed. He walked up to the stand and cleared his throat.

Wood: Erm…hi. Sorry, guys. I'm not much for public speaking. (drums sound in the background and the crowd laughs) Anyway, we have our same line up this year. Alicia Spinnet, Katie Bell, and Angelina Johnson as Chasers, Fred and George Weasley as Beaters, me, of course, as Keeper, and Harry Potter as Seeker!

The crowd cheers.

Wood: Well, back to you, Lee.

Lee stepped back up to the stand.

Lee: Well folks, that's the Gryffindor team. (cheers from the crowd) Here's Marcus Flint of the Slytherin team.

Flint got up to cheers from the Slytherins, but all the other Houses booed. The teachers glared at the students.

Flint: Good morning! Unlike Wood, I'm fine with public speaking. (Wood glares at Flint) Our line-up this year will be Adrian Pucey, Jacob Colbert, and I as Chasers, Barry Hagen and Garret Nate as Beaters, Justin Bletchley as Keeper, and because of Draco Malfoy's unfortunate accident, Aaron Polk will be taking his spot as Chaser!

As Flint retook his seat, the Slytherins cheered and the rest of the crowd booed.

Lee: No more Draco Malfoy, thanks to Fred and George's excellent charm work!

As soon as he'd said it, Lee realized that he'd just ratted his two best friends out; he clapped his hands to his mouth. Fred and George were giving him the angriest glares they could muster. Everyone was silent. Then Pansy Parkinson stood up.

Pansy: I told you! Fred and George did it! They put Draco in the Hospital!

Dumbledore: Now, Miss Parkinson, let's just remain calm.

Pansy pouted. Harry and Ron looked at Fred and George with admiration glowing in their eyes. Hermione gave them a surprised look.

Fred: (whispers to George) I think Hermione is surprised that we were able to think of such a wonderful prank, and use all the charms that we did.

George: Now is NOT the time to joke around. We've done enough of that already.

Fred: You're right. I guess Mum will think that this is worse than blowing up a toilet and keeping the toilet seat.

George: Yeah. I think so.

Dumbledore: Everyone, the party is off. Please return to your House Common Rooms immediately.

Fred and George start to silently sneak off.