The Haunted Mansion ride moved into a gallery with a lot of dusty books and a piano that played eerily by itself. Then they entered a long passage with big spider webs and spiders
Fred shivered, and glared at the spiders.
George gave his twin a strange look. "Stop acting like Ron," he whispered.
Fred crossed his arms over his chest. "Damn spiders," He mumbled.
Maddie nodded. "I hate them too. All hairy and creepy and just icky!"
The girls squeaked and held onto each other, and Maddie cowered in the back. Then they entered the dining room that was set for a fancy ball, a dead ball that is. There were two paintings hanging from the top, of two men involved in a duel. In the corner was a huge pipe organ that had ghosts coming out of it.
Fred raised an eyebrow. "I didn't know... That ghosts come out of organs..."
George banged on the seat ahead of him, making the three girls shriek. Fred smirked, and started to bang on it as well. "BOOOOOOO!"
"Stop," Hermione said through her giggles.
Fred smirked, and leaned back against his seat again. "You know you love it."
Ginny and Maddie playfully bopped the boys. "Meanies!" Ginny announced.
The ride vehicles exited the creepy attic and turned backwards headed toward the graveyard.
Fred gave the back of the seat a small kick as ghosts popped out in front of them, earning a screech from Tirza.
They passed what looked like a gatekeeper and his little dog.
Hermione joked, "here puppy puppy."
The twins snorted with laughter.
Tirza shook her head. "It's a creepy puppy!"
The ride vehicles suddenly stopped and a ride controller's voice said, "Please stay in your seats, the ride has stopped momentarily."
"This is weird," Tirza commented. She took the opportunity to intently survey the area where they had stopped, wondering if the ride was broken.
"Are rides always funny like this? Stopping? Is it a bad thing?" Ginny whispered to Tirza. "I've never been on muggle rides before."
Fred groaned loudly. "Aww, man." He mumbled, and sunk down in his seat. "This is lame."
George rolled his eyes. "It'll work again soon I bet."
"Why can't we just walk out?" Maddie wondered.
"Because the ride operator told us to stay in our seats," Hermione told her matter-of-factly.
As Hermione quieted, the voice came back. "The ride is malfunctioning, please stay in your seats, a host will come to get you shortly."
"Ahhhhhhhhhh!" The girls whined
"I'm betting the ride will blow up," Fred decided. He grinned widely at the shocked faces of the girls.
"Fred!" Tirza half-scolded. "If it blows up we'll die."
"Yeah?" the Weasley twins asked in unison. "Bummer."
"Or maybe not look," Hermione said pointing to something moving that shouldn't have been.
Fred gasped. "Fizzing whizbees, the ride is on FIRE!" he announce, pointing at the back of Maddie.
The young girl screamed and whirled around just as Fred started snickering. "Got ya Mad!"
"BOO!" a ghost said popping out of nowhere and rushing straight at them.
"Ahhhhh!" The girls, and George ducked to avoid the ghost. Upon sitting up, George was met with the frown of Fred.
"Shameful brother," he announced. "Hiding like the girls. If we weren't going to become rich together, I'd tell the school."
George blushed. "Better not, or they might think we both did!"
Fred shrugged, watching the ghost again. He blinked and his eyes slowly grew wider. "I-I don't think that thing should be moving."
George gulped rather loudly. "I don't think so either…"
Fred narrowed his eyes at the ghost, giving it a challenging look. "Should you be moving?"
"BOOOOOOOOOO" the ghost said laughing its head off which of course was barely there.
"That's no nearly headless Nick!" George shouted. "We're outta here!"
Fred nodded and attempted to get off the ride.
"Don't leave us!" Ginny begged.
"You come too," Fred started. "This ride is whacked," George finished for him.
Just then two dead men with bows and arrows presumably to make the twins get back in their seats, were now chasing the host, who had been trying to get to then.
The twins stopped, looked at one another, then looked back at the house. After a few seconds they smirked and started to laugh. "Alright-"
"We're staying"
In unison they sat back down in their seats, grinning wickedly, and ignoring Ginny who was looking a bit terrified.
Hermione screamed as a frightening ghost came chasing after a singing lady that reminded her of the Fat Lady who guarded Gryffindor tower. "We've gotta get out of her, this ride is all wrong!"
Tirza and Ginny dived at George, screaming and nearly knocking him completely off the ride. Maddie dove onto Fred's lap while Hermione wrapped her arms around his legs.
"Hey!" the twins whined.
"We can't see the wicked dudes-"
"Chasing the host dude--!"
"I want outta here!" the girls whined right back.
Then came a ghost like no other they had seen; sure, Hogwarts had Peeves and the Bloody Baron and all sorts of ghosts actually. Hogwarts did not, however, have a ghost like this! He was terrible looking, with a long black robe and carrying a rounded blade on top of a long stick.
"Get back!" Fred shouted at the girls. They didn't need a second invitation and all four of them dove behind the standing twins.
"Oh ho, we aren't going like this, to some ghost, are we brother?"
"Not a chance! We're going to be grand heroes! ARGH!" They shouted at the ghost, reaching simultaneously into their pockets. It was right then they remembered Snape had made them leave their wands behind!
George groaned. "Bugger."
"Double bugger; so much for being heroes!" Fred said with a frown. "What're we gonna do now?"
"Go away!" Maddie shouted at the ghost as it came closer.
"Come on, do something!" Ginny prodded at the twins.
Fred and George could only look at each other and shrug, but did keep the girls behind them. "Our dead bodies can shield you, ok?" George offered.
"Too bad we weren't allowed to bring our joke supplies," Fred grumbled.
"YOU!" Tirza shouted at the worker who had been sent to help them out. "Get us the bloody crap outta here!"
Both boys looked over their shoulders at her.
"You said-"
"Bloody. You haven't-"
"Said that before!" they finished in perfect unison.
The worker looked frustrated as he tried to lose the ghosts with bows and arrows that were hot on his tail. "What has gotten into these ghosts!" he yelled uselessly.
"My mommy's a lawyer!" a little boy up a few seats called out. "If I throw up all over, my mommy is gonna sue your butt!"
Tirza and Hermione giggled softly at that. "Sue for throwing up, right," Hermione snickered.
"It's not the ride!" the host yelled pathetically. "Something's malfunctioning!"
"I wish I was at Hogwarts," Maddie squeaked, having gone pale. She was petrified. She loved the Hogwarts ghosts, even Peeves, just because he was so funny. But these ghosts were worse then anything!
Fred squared his shoulders and looked quite brave; he stalked over towards the host. "Listen here mister! Get us the bloody hell out of here or else! There's little kids in here, and we're responsible for four of em! If they get eaten by a ghost or something, the father of one of them will come after me in death and kill me forever!"
"We're not little!" Ginny squeaked, still cowering behind George.
"Yeah, we're like 12!" Maddie added quickly.
The host sighed, as if he was being abused by the redheaded teenaged boy. "Just follow me but watch where you step there are a lot of cords on the floor."
Carrying Ginny and Maddie, one on his back, and one in his arms, George made his way carefully to follow the worker. Hermione and Tirza held hands, with Tirza holding one of Fred's.
Fred narrowed his eyes as every one of the ghosts. "This ride. Is terrible. If all the other rides are like this, then they stole Snape's galleons… err… gallons of money I mean!" He quickly covered for his slip.
"Thank Merlin!" Severus said loudly as he saw his group exiting the ride and coming outside. His usage of Merlin in place of more common words earned several looks, which were of course pointedly ignored. "They said the ride went haywire."
"DAD!" Tirza shouted.
She, Hermione, Ginny and Maddie ran towards Severus intend on getting a well-deserved hug. Only they all dived at the same time, knocking Snape over onto his butt on the ground. The girls ignored the "Oof!" he made and all clamored into his lap and as close to it as they could.
Fred shivered, and George sighed happily.
"I can't… breathe!" Severus said, laughing. "I'm so glad you all are safe, even you boys," he told them sincerely.
George beamed at Severus, and laughed at the girls.
"We are NOT riding that again. I... I forbid it!" Fred shouted, almost triumphantly. He looked at George and each of the girls, affirming that they felt the same.
After buying everyone an ice and hearing the horror stories of the ride, Severus looked at his group. "Well, what is up next?"
"Hey Mr. Snape ready for the space ride?" Hermione asked
"It doesn't have any ghosts, does it?" Tirza asked.
"No, its about space travel, not anything like this last ride," Hermione promised after glancing at her guide book.
"Alright then," Severus agreed. "Which way to this space?"
"Mione's the map girl," Maddie pointed out, making Hermione beam proudly. "Which way do we go?"
Hermione led them through the land with dumbo and gazillion kiddos to the land of tomorrow. "This is it guys, but there's a line there," she pointed. "Come on, let's hurry and get a place."
Tirza and Ginny each took one of Snape's hands and ran, pulling him along with them; they were followed by Maddie, Hermione and the twins running to the line as well. Even after they got a place, there was still a load of people behind them waiting.
"It must be very popular," George speculated.
"Woo…" Fred decided, looking up at the ride.
"It reminds me of space, like landing on the moon. Rather cool and interesting," Hermione told Maddie.
"Ooh, like Star Trek," Tirza piped up with a giggle.
"Nah, Star Wars!" Maddie teased.
"Woot, we're with Maddie. Star wars!" Fred pumped a fist in the air. His twin gave him a curious look.
"What's Star Wars?" George whispered.
Fred merely shrugged. "Sounds cool enough."
Tirza began teaching Ginny and Hermione how to do the Vulcan hand sign while Maddie pretended to cross herself. "Oh, the horrors!"
"Whatever guys," Severus laughed. "The lines moving and we aren't."
Tirza and Ginny took his hand and pulled him forward with them as they ran. "Dad--- you do know this whole trip will make u go down in the school's history, right? More then you already are?"
"Yeah, we need loads of pictures," Hermione commented.
The twins shared a smirk and whispered, "Blackmail," to one another.
Severus shook his head and growled, "Better not!"
"Ah, we're just teasing Mr. Snape. Pictures maybe, because mum wants a load of them for her scrapbooks and things," George smiled. "You're cool, but I NEVER said that if anyone EVER asks!"
Fred smirked slightly. Would he blackmail his own brother? Of course...
George smacked Fred lightly upside the head. "I know what you were thinking and don't" he laughed
Fred looked at him, and smiled innocently. "Whatever do you mean dear brother?"
George rolled his eyes. "Come on, let's get in a seat."