Chapter 4- Fred and George's Many Owls
To Mr. and Mrs. Weasley:
I am writing to inform you that your sons, Misters Fred and George Weasley, first years, have been given a detention for filling the Slytherin common room with Stink Pellets. I do not know how they managed to get the password and I hope that they will never make such trouble again. Several students fainted and had to be sent to the hospital wing.
Sincerely,
Professor Minerva McGonagall
Head of Gryffindor House
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
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To Mr. and Mrs. Weasley:
I am writing to inform you that your sons, Misters Fred and George Weasley, first years, have been given a week's detention for sneaking into the forbidden forest in the middle of the night. They claimed that they got lost on their way to the bathroom.
Sincerely,
Professor Minerva McGonagall
Head of Gryffindor House
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
Molly's eyes narrowed in suspicion as she thought of all those owls she received from Hogwarts due to Fred and George. She sighed. Those boys. Well, at least they've grown up a little and have used their talent of creating chaos at their joke shop. She flipped through the thirty something owls from Fred and George's first year.
Dear Mr. and Mrs. Weasley,
I am requesting a conference for Fred and George. They have started their second year by setting off twenty Ever-Bashing Boomerangs in the Great Hall this morning and caused considerable stress to the staff as well as holding up class for thirty minutes. Several students have been knocked out and had to be sent to the hospital wing.
Sincerely,
Professor McGonagall
Hogwarts
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Dear Mr. and Mrs. Weasley,
Thank you for taking time to come to Hogwarts. Fred and George have improved their behavior considerably for exactly two weeks after you came and met them. However, this morning, they have been caught by Professor Snape in the midst of writing rude words about the Slytherin's Quiddich team on the walls in the Great Hall. They have been suspended from next week's match.
Professor McGonagall
In spite of the seriousness of the offense, Molly couldn't help laughing a bit as she shuffled through more letters.
Dear Arthur and Molly,
This year, Fred and George started the week by blowing up a toilet. Gave them three days work of detention as the mess was terrible and students had to be evacuated from Flitwick's class, which unfortunately, was right across from the bathroom in which the toilet exploding. They claimed they got the idea from you. Rest assured, they will be writing lines on their detentions as not to tell such lies.
Minerva
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Dear Arthur and Molly,
Fred and George were caught throwing snowballs at Professor Quirrell's turban. In light of the holidays, I have chosen not to give them a detention. Just thought to notify you of their mischief as required by school rules.
Minerva
'Why did I keep all of these owls?' Molly thought to herself. 'They just remind me of their troubles.' She thought about her twin sons. No matter how many detentions they received, they just continued causing mayhem.
Molly,
Fred and George have been suspended from Hogsmeade visits this year because they managed to destroy Severus's dungeon by emitting a series of exploding grime rocks. Whole thing burned down. Took the staff half the day to put the dungeon right.
Minerva
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Molly,
Thanks for the Christmas mince pies. Regrettably, I had to put your sons in detention right before the holiday break because they were caught replacing Severus's potions with their own inventions of "wart growing wizzes".
Minerva
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Molly,
Just a reminder to let you know that the Order is meeting on Tuesday evening. Also, Fred and George have been put to help Filch scrub toilets without magic because they had locked the Slytherin's captain into a broom closet right before the big match.
Minerva
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Dear Arthur and Molly,
Mr. Filch asked me to write this letter personally to let me ask you to stop your sons, Misters Fred and George Weasley, from causing mischief. Apparently, Mr. Filch caught them sneaking around in the corridors for the fourth time this week carrying what seemed to be black-market butterbeers and leaving itching powder in the Slytherin's Quiddich robes in the locker rooms.
Yours Sincerely,
Albus Dumbledore
Headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
(Order of Merlin, First Class, Grand Sorc., Chf. Warlock, Supreme Mugwump, International Confed. of Wizards)
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TO ARTHUR AND MOLLY
Due to the many bottles of ink, many scrolls of parchment and many quills being used during the last four years of Fred and George's detentions, we have developed this magic parchment which will update itself on Fred and George's detentions and reasons. Please do not throw this parchment away as it may change probably later this week or tomorrow.
FRED AND GEORGE'S REASON FOR DETENTION: Bewitching the knights in armor to sing Christmas carols replaced with foul words.
GIVEN PUNISHMENT: Helping Filch reorganize their detention records as have gotten very long.
Minerva McGonagall
That was the last owl Molly received from Minerva about Fred and George. She couldn't remember how many times the parchment updated itself. Molly laughed softly. She really did love those boys.
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