Neither of adults seemed to take any notice to the sign, and if they did, it didn't show. Just before Ron could finish asking "What the bloody hell" Remus herded the group into an extremely large room, at least 100 meters by 100 meters. There were large red boxes spread out randomly across the room. They hadn't noticed the woman at the front desk until she had greeted them. "Hello children, I am Brianna McGonagall, I'm sure you know my mother, she teaches up at Hogwarts. Are you ready to begin she said with a sweet smile" She seemed to be in her late 20's; she had long brown hair and a sweet face. Ron and Harry were dumfounded, as the girls responded they stood their jaws wide open, this caused not only Hermione and Ginny to scowl, but Remus, and Mr. Weasley to laugh profoundly. Brianna also giggled, "I thought this may be a problem" she smiled, and with that she gave a hard blink and a slight twitch and her face contorted and just turned in a face that was a dead ringer for her mother at a younger age. "I'm a metamorphous, everyone in my family is," she explained, "so shall we begin?" and with the nods of Harry and Ron they began. "Disapparating is very important for witches and wizards traveling. It is quite dangerous for those who are not properly taught, splinching is the second leading cause of injury of people in our world. Some one is splinched every 10 minutes." Every one gave a slight shudder from that bit of information. Brianna could tell by the grimace and look of worry on their faces, "I can assure you, no one will splinch themselves during and after taking this coarse" she said reassuringly. After this things became much more relaxed. "It is very important to vanquish all thoughts in your mind except your destination. Follow me." They did as they were told, she lead them to the opposite side of the room. Being that Ron was not in the greatest of shape he was nearly out of breath when they reached the other side of the room. Harry noticed this and let out a snikker. "OW!" Harry shout rubbing his arm from where Ron punched it "Stupid prat" Ron wheezed. Everyone found this quite amusing. " "Okay then everyone, take out your wands" she said firmly. Every one exchanged confused glances. "In the beginning, we use our wands just to focus the energy of magic it requires. Same thing applies to regular magic, Ron and Ginny, I know your mother quite well, she can cast the summoning spell in short range with out use of her wand." Ron grinned with a weird sense of pride and Ginny blushed a bit. "Any way, the incantion is 'binkinus aparatus', the wand movement is like so" she said the incantation forcefully and swatted her wand from her should to her waist, and with that, they heard the loudest crack from apparating they'd ever heard. She did it again to return. "When you are able to do it without a wand, there is much more energy and since the energy can't be used in movement, it's used in sound" she explained. Ron looked at Harry, looking like Crabbe or Goyle during reading. Harry shrugged while Hermione mouthed the word "Ohhh" and nodded. Ginny gave no signs to if she had any idea what Brianna said. By the looks on Ron and Harry's faces she could tell they were lost "It's ok, it doesn't quite matter any way" she smiled. "Now, who would like to go first?" Ron nudged Harry forward "Ah, Harry, okay, now have you got the wand movement and incantation down?" she asked, Harry nodded. "Ok then, concentrate on the space inside the box closest to us, and take a deep breath," Harry did so. "Now close your eyes and clear your mind, now envision your self in that box, that's good, now the wand movement and incantation..."
"Binkinus aparatus!" Harry shouted with a harsh batting of the wand movement, he heard a very faint crack and he felt his stomach flip and all of a sudden he was not where he was standing he began turning around in excitement "Ron I did ..." and he noticed he was about 3 feet in front of where he was standing before. "Damn"
"It ok Harry but your wand movement was too jagged, it needs to be like this" as she said 'this' she showed him the motion. "Ron would you like to give it a try?" she smiled. Ron gulped and nodded. He walked up to wear Harry had stood. He recited the incantation strongly and did the wand movements. Ron's made a louder crack then Harry's. When Ron opened his eyes, he was looking at Harry and the others and they all had a concerned look on their faces, then, he started to drop and fast and with a thud and some foul language from Ron they rushed over to him "Ron! Are you okay??" Harry asked.
"That sucked what just happened?" Ron groaned.
"Um, well you see..." Hermione started
"You disapparated onto the ceiling" Ginny let out with a giggle.
"Very compassionate Gin, Ron said in an annoyed voice, everyone began laughing. "Seriously though Ron, are you alright?" Brianna asked in a concerned tone. "I'm fine" he said in a bit of a whisper. "Well then who would like to go next?" she asked sweetly. Hermione stepped forward. "Very good then, step forward and remember, focus on your target(with these words she gave a gentle look at Ron, which caused him to blush) and make it a nice smooth. Hermione stepped up where Ron and Harry previously did. She seemed much more confident then the boys had been. "Binkinus aparatus!" she did the wand movement and Ron had flinched expecting a loud crack but no sound. They all looked to Hermione who had lost her composure "Binkius aparatus!" she cried, once again, nothing. For the third time she screamed the incantation and for the third time nothing. She burst into tears. "'Mione its ok, don't worry about it!" Ron exclaimed. Ginny rushed over and tried to comfort Hermione whose face was buried in her hands.
"Hermione it's all right, many of my students don't do nearly as well as Harry or Ron." Brianna said trying to make Hermione feel better. Ron hid his grin, he'd never done anything better then Harry, never mind most of a teachers class. After she calmed down a bit it was Ginny's turn. "Okay Ginny, just empty your mind, and close your eyes and envision yourself in that box. "Okay" Ginny said with a feeble smile.
"Binkinkus apartus" Ginny said calmly and with that she gave a flick of her wand smoothly, up, then down. With a loud crack she disappeared for a short moment and ten with out warning she reappeared in none other than the square! "Ginny! How'd you do that!?" Ron said bewildered. "Fred and George showed me how to last year and I did errands around the house and they would pay me" she said. Ron's jaw dropped. "That is extremely risky, you could have really hurt yourself, I will admit Fred and George were one of the best classes I ever taught, if it had been any one else I would be more worried than I already am but still...they should not have done that." Brianna said but you could still hear the amazement in her voice.
"They never showed me! What the hell is that about?" Ron said fuming with anger. "Oh well, that's good for you Gin, congrats" Ron said supportively. "Well, that'll be all guy's I'll see you tomorrow, you guy did great. Hermione, can I talk to you for a quick moment?" Hermione nodded knowing what this was about, followed Brianna to the desk. "Harry, do you wanna go check out Fred and Georges shop?" Ron asked. "YEA!" Harry said excitedly. "I completely forgot about it. Where is it anyway, I wanna see if my donation was put to good use." Harry said with a laugh.
"Follow me Fred and George brought me by a few days after school ended" Ron explained. A few minutes later they saw a building by it self, surrounded by a swamp similar to the swamp Fred and George set off in Hogwarts. As Harry and Ron entered the store, they were greeted by Fred, George, and Lee. "Harry old chum, old pal, old money supplier" Fred said with his arm around Harry, they all laughed. They all headed to the back so they could talk. "Well you see Harry, We've figured out how to make that Marauders Map that you have, but we only sell to past and present Gryffindors, Hufflepuffs, and Ravenclaws." George explained. "We refuse service to all Slytherins. We can afford it, we've been raking in tons of business. Gryffindors get discounts, of course." Fred told them.
"Hey guys how come you taught Ginny how to disapparate and not me or Harry?" Ron asked in a hurt voice.
"Ron, if you don't act like a complete prat in the next 5 minutes we'll give you something so much better then that." George said with a smirk. "Ginny, can you please excuse us please?" Fred said in a voice didn't really seem like he was asking. Ginny knows to pick her battle and that was not the time, she left with out a fight, but not with out a large pout on her face.
"Harry, you remember how last summer, Lupin used to tell us about him, Sirius and your Dad being animagus?" George did not mention Peter Pettigrew but neither Harry nor Ron thought it to be an accident. "Yea..." Harry said prodding them to continue. "Well, we've stumbled upon some books that will aid you if you would like to pursue this" Fred said in a completely calm tone "Doesn't that tike years to learn Fred?" George asked like some one you would see in an infomercial. "No George, with the Weasley's book of Secrets and Spells" Fred said in a fake sail's mans voice.
"This must cost hundreds of gallons!" said George said in a fake out raged voice.
"Actually, it is on sale to only Weasley's and Potters, and get this, it's for free!" Fred said, "And that is our sale pitch" he finished.
"Interested? Its perfectly safe me and Fred tried it out ourselves."
"How'd it turn out?" Ron asked.
"It killed us Ron. It killed us in a most painful way." Fred said in a serious voice.
"What do you think you prat it went fine." George said punching Ron in the arm.
Rob blushed, "I know that, I meant what animals did you turn out to be?" Ron asked trying to redeem himself.
"Well, I'm a hyena and –." George started.
"I'm a monkey" Fred finished.
"How long did it take you guys?" Harry pushed on.
"Ah, right to the point Mr. Potter, right down to business, good, very good." George said in a business man like manner.
"Calm down Harry, don't be such a prat we're getting to it, but since you had to draaag it up, it took us 3 months to be able to do it with out wands. What ever you do, tell no one about this until you're finished with your year, then register at the ministry after that do hat ever you want. We are in the middle of getting it deemed 'safe' for the wizarding world. We expect it to be cleared within the decade" George said grimly.
"They said even if it does clear, we can only sell to those older then 18. That's not to big of a problem, according to Lee, 76% of our clients can pass for 18, an ignored statistic by many other businesses and shamefully so." Fred said with a sigh.
"And do us a favor while your back at school, give us some advertising, we'll give you a pack of everything we have, but you have to leave messages after everything you use. Not enough students know our address, that stunt we pulled last year, we heard it was retold so many times, people ended up in Knock Turn alley looking for us. Obviously we felt awwwful about it. So, can you do it for us mate?" George asked.
"Sure guys, how will we get it on the train with out your mum noticing though?" Harry asked enthusiastically. Already taken care of, we left trunk-full of items of this sensitive nature in the third aisle on the far right hand side under the book case. Think you can handle all that information ickle-Ronny?" Fred said noticing Ron had spaced out. After showing them all around the store including Ginny they bid Fred and George a goodbye and headed back to the Leaky Cauldron.
"Hey Hermione, how'd it go with McGonagall?" Harry said as he approached her near the fire. "It went okay, she taught me a spell to help me concentrate, on the acount of my ADD, yea I know I was surprised too but any way, the spell is called 'Ridellenus'." Hermione explained. "Wow Hermione, how is that possible, you always pay attention in class?" Harry said, hardly able to believe it.
"I've been taking the muggle version of the spell, but this spell requires more concentration than that I suppose."
"I guess we should be heading up to bed now, more classes in the morning. Night Hermione, night Ron" As Harry was heading up the stairs, he was pretty sure he heard Ron ask "What's ADD?"