Chapter 4... Are the Weasleys back...
It was a week after the Halloween ball and the four American girls were trying hard to fit in. The problem was they
were getting very bored. Morgana would pace so much it started getting on the other girls' nerves.
Sable had started studying, Brigette was cranky and Jasmine slept when ever she wasn't in class or out with Harry.
Hermione was starting to get concerned about the Americans. Morgana and Draco were still dating, but he was busy a lot of the time with Quidditch practice. Jasmine was having the same problem with Harry. One day in particular the girls were feeling
really restless. Jasmine decided to show the others the piece of parchment that Harry had let her look at.
She took it out of her robe and unfolded it once. "I solemnly swear that I'm up to no good!" She spoke to the parchment and words instantly appeared.
"It's a map!" Sable squealed with delight.
"Yeah, and look there are a lot of secret passage ways out of the castle." Jasmine stated.
"We could go see Fred and George, they'd know how to have some fun." Morgana said as she laid upside down on one of the overstuffed chairs.
That night the four American girls crept slowly to the humped back witch and followed the tunnel all the way, winding up in Honeydukes basement. They crept up and out then headed for the Weasley twin's shop. It was late, but they hoped the twins were nearby. A twig cracked from behind them sending the girls in all directions. Morgana dove behind a bush and peeked out.
"It's just me." Ginny stated trying not to laugh at her American friends.
"What are you doing! Trying to give us heart attacks. We thought you were Snape." Sable called from behind a large tree trunk.
"Sorry, but I was lonely. I hope you don't mind me following you?" Ginny smiled.
"Nah, come on we can always use another bad seed." Morgana stated as she brushed the leaves from her clothes.
They all walked on together and soon reached the Weasley's Joke shop. The lights were out, but Ginny gestured for them to follow her around the back. Sure enough, there was a light glowing in the apartment above the back of the shop. She walked up and pulled a rope that ran to a bell in the upper story. Suddenly a window opened and two identical faces poked out.
"Who's there!" The called together.
"Fred, George, it's me Ginny. Can we come up?" Ginny called back to them.
"Yeah, wait a minute." The twins left the window and after a couple of minutes opened the back door. "Sorry, we had to take our security spell off, or you would be walking around with purple skin." The girls entered and Fred winked at George then rubbed his hands together as he smiled at the pretty Americans.
"Two a piece." George whispered to Fred after the girls had entered the back of their shop. They all walked up the narrow stairs to the apartment above.
"So, what brings you out so late?" George asked closing the door behind them.
"We are so damn bored. We thought you might be able to help us liven up things a bit." Sable stated as she sat on the foot of one of the twins' beds.
"How much do you want to liven things up. We have merchandise that will do a little or a lot." Fred answered her.
"I'd say, let's go for medium. We don't want to seriously hurt anyone." Morgana said as she leaned against the wall.
"I don't want to get thrown out, though. I like it here, Neville and I are getting really close." Brigette stated as she smiled shyly.
"No one is going to get thrown out. Harry and I are close too, but this school is so dull." Jasmine said as she picked up a box of brightly colored candies. "So are these Ton Tongue Toffees worth their price?"
"Definitely, they are guaranteed to keep you entertained." George stated in his best salesman tone.
"Okay, let's do this then. We will need, what do you think girls? Two boxes of Dung Bombs. Okay three." Sable stated as she looked at the other girls, Morgana held up three fingers and smiled innocently. "Also some screamin' weasles, a few ton tongue toffees, some spinning whizzies, jumping jimmies, Cornish pixies, fancy fainting fudges, twitching tarts, and oh yes and some wiggy pops." Sable finished and started to get out her money bag. The other girls did like wise.
"Grand, just grand. This is the biggest order we've had in months. Do want to take them with you or do you want us to send them by owl?" Fred inquired as he added up the cost.
"Send them by owl, make sure you wrap them with a special opening charm, so that no one except those on the address can open it." Jasmine stated.
"You got it. That will be 33 galleons and 5 sickles, well there be anything else?" Fred smiled from the table where he had been figuring the price.
"Yeah, throw in a muting charm and we'll give you 50 galleons for the lot." Morgana answered him.
"Deal!" George stated and shook Morgana's hand. Then just for the heck of it he kissed her full on the mouth. He smiled and only noticed her fist when it came in contact with his face.
"Sorry, just a impulse reaction." Morgana stated as she help the twin up off the floor where he was kneeling, and laughing.
"Guess I won't do that again." George stated and smiled.
After they had paid the Weasley brothers they headed back towards Honeydukes, but decided to take another way which would bring them into the castle grounds and then a secret door would take them straight to the Great Hall. As they walked through the tunnel they talked and giggled about how mean Morgana was.
"I'm not mean, I just don't like to be taken advantage of." She started laughing.
"So do you and Draco still hit each other?" Sable asked.
"Yeah, its really a turn on." Morgana teased her friends.
"Your gross." Brigette stated.
"Shhhhhhhh!" Ginny pushed forward. "We're almost there, Filch is always around at this hour, and so is Mrs. Norris."
"Let's see, he's on the third floor near the Astronomy classroom." Jasmine stated as she looked at the map.
"That's Harry's!" Ginny stated abruptly.
"Yeah he let me use it." Jasmine smile quickly turned grim. "Snape's coming right at us. Mischief managed!" Jasmine tapped the wand on the map and all the writing disappeared. She folded it and stuck it in between her jeans and underpants, so Snape wouldn't notice it in her pocket. Then they all left the Great Hall in a hurry, all of them running in different directions, they would meet at the Gryffindor Tower, he couldn't chase all of them. Morgana was just about to duck behind a drape when a pair of strong hands grabbed her. Very familiar hands.
"Where are you sneaking to?" Draco asked in a smooth tone.
"Oh, I'm glad it's you." Morgana slumped against his chest and felt very at ease as he caressed her shoulders.
"You didn't answer my question." Draco stated then lifted her chin with his fingers so she was looking at him.
"We, the girls and I were sneaking out to get some food, but Snape noticed us." Morgana stretched the truth.
"Didn't make it to the kitchens, huh?" Draco kissed her on the lips then pushed her roughly against the wall. "Now don't lie, you've been outside the grounds. What are you fems planning."
"Okay, we're going to liven up the castle, it's just to boring." Morgana told the truth, not the whole truth but the truth none the less.
"Why did you lie to me?" Draco asked as he ran his hands over her body.
"I don't want you to get caught too. If you knew, they might think your helping us." Morgana smiled as he started get more intimate with his caressing. Just as he slid her top up the drape was torn open and Snape was standing glaring at them.
"I should have known! Do you two, ever stop! Get back to your dorms, now!" Snape bellowed at them, his normally pasty white face, showed a hint of embarrassment.
Draco and Morgana kissed goodnight then parted each going to their own dorms. Snape watched them go, then turned mumbling all the way back down the corridor. "I liked it better when they hated each other."
The Plan is a Success!
During breakfast the next morning, the postal owl began to arrive. A pair of large barn owls flew in over the Gryffindor table and dropped two large boxes to Morgana and the others. They quickly finished their meal and toted the fairly heavy boxes up to the tower and then their dorms.
Inside were all the things they had purchased from the Weasley's joke shop.
"Let's go try out some of these now!" Ginny told the others.
"Well, one job completed. Warping young minds." Sable stated and made an imaginary tally mark in the air.
The girls each grabbed a brown paper bag of dung bombs and their wands. They all went to different locations overlooking the foyer, then waited for some poor unsuspecting student to unknowingly wander into their trap. Five minutes later, all hell broke loose. A group of first and second years walked into the target area and the girls let the bags drop and then ran out of sight.
Colin Creevy looked up just as a bag was falling toward him. He held out his hands and caught one of the bags just as Professor McGonagall walked into the Foyer and got the brunt of the dung bombs all over her and the few first and second years that remained. Poor Colin Creevy was left holding the bag, literally. Professor McGonagall became enraged and grabbed the boy by the ear and drug him to Dumbledore's office. The cleanup took Filch almost four hours. All the while he glared at every student that happened to pass by.
Colin was put in detention for a week. His happy go lucky attitude got to Professor McGonagall after the second day and she canceled the rest of his punishment. Although she thought it might have been amusing to send him to Professor Snape for the rest of his detention, but the poor man couldn't take too much happiness thrown at him. It might do him irreparable harm.
During the next week, many odd things were happening. Three of the first years were sent to the hospital wing after taking a taste of ton tongue toffees, two of the Ravenclaw boys couldn't stop twitching after eating some tarts, half of the student body couldn't get their hair to stop growing and another quarter couldn't stop fainting. The Professors decided to have a meeting and talk about the possible causes; and figure out a way to end it.
"The Weasley Twins must be sending their jokes to the castle." Professor Sprout stated as she walked into the meeting in the Great Hall.
"No, I think it has something to do with those bloody American exchange students." Professor Snape added as he brushed hair off his seat.
"I wouldn't worry to much about it. The children are just having a bit of sport." Dumbledore spoke trying not to laugh.
"Something has to be done, Albus, the children are close to getting hurt. Mark my words, soon someone will be harmed." Professor McGonagall stopped her pacing long enough to communicate her thoughts.
The next two days, nothing happened. The Professors seemed to breathe a sigh of relief.
Jasmine and Sable decided to take a walk and after nearly walking the whole circumference of the castle they decided to go and visit Harry and Seamus on the Quidditch pitch. As they entered the
field they heard a lude whistle. Before they knew it they were surrounded by three Slytherins.
"Well, well, well what have we got here. Two little American chippies. Why don't you let us have a peak under those robes." A very rude boy named Blaise Zambini stated as he tried to use his broom to lift Sable's robe.
"Why don't you go running to your Potions master. You're going to be sorry." Sable stated as she jerked he robe off from the boy's broom.
"What can you do, your leader isn't even with you. You're at our mercy, so shuck those robes. We want to see if your as built as we've been led to believe." Zambini went on.
"Get away, or you'll pay!" Jasmine screamed at the boys, she was beginning to get a little scared.
"Make us." Zambini spoke through gritted teeth.
"Fine." Sable raised her wand quickly and then smiled. "Caviidae transmogrify!" POP! POP! POP! All three of the Slytherins transformed into Guinea Pigs. They looked at one another and began to squeal and run about. Just then Mrs. Norris and Crookshanks came around the corner of the castle and the chase was on.
"Oh Sable, what did you do?" Jasmine said trying to be serious, but couldn't help busting out in a gut wrenching laugh.
"They had it coming." Sable stated then turned and starting the way that the Slytherin Guinea Pigs had been chased. "Come on let's go get them before they become a snack for the cats."
"I think we had better tell the Professors, they could really get hurt." Jasmine stated then ran towards a group of professors. She spelled her guts, while Sable just looked around the grown in one small place, not caring if she really found the creeps or not.
"You what, you know this means detention?" Professor Snape stated then tried to see the small creatures. After scouring the castle and grounds they went to see Hagrid, and sure enough the gentle half giant had found the three terrified rodents cowering in his shed.
"These three little creatures are Slytherins, I can't believe it. No they're too nice to be Slytherins." Hagrid stated as he held the three rodents out to Professor Snape. He took the mangy lads and headed for the dungeons to turn them back to human form. Before he left he glared at the two Gryffindors. "Detention for a week, Miss James will be with Professor Sprout and you Miss Njehti will be with Professor Trelawney." He then turned and headed for the castle.
"Well at least we don't have to go back to the dungeons." Sable stated.
"Yeah, tell me about it." Jasmine agreed.
