August 16, 1995, 12 Grimmauld Place
Today would have been utterly boring had I not decided to pick up Hermione's Daily Prophet and read the advertisement section.
As much as it pains me to say that the Prophet was my main source of entertainment today, it's the truth. I probably would have just sat up in my room all day, talking to Hermione and trying to think of tactics to finally beat Ron at chess.
But no. I read the Daily Prophet instead. You're probably wondering why this is a cause for such excitement. It's actually a rather amusing story.
I was bored, as I have already mentioned, and I saw Hermione's newspaper lying on top of her bed. I snatched it and decided to read it, at loss for a better thing to spend my time on.
So there I was, flipping through the pages, laughing at the occasional horrible punchline. I finally came to the advertisement section, and I decided to see what kind of people were trying to sell their owls and spare ink bottles via the Daily Prophet.
You can imagine my surprise when I saw an advertisement for the following:
"Weasley's Wizarding WheezesThe best joke products that money can buy!
Skiving Snackboxes, Extendable Ears, Canary Creams, and more!
Contact Fred & George for order formsHappy pranking!"
I nearly choked. Fred and George? Running a mail-service joke shop through the Daily Prophet? At first I thought it was some kind of joke, but then it all pieced together…
Fred and George are using the fact that Mum and Dad don't read the Prophet anymore to their advantage. They ran the advertisement for their joke shop through the newspaper because they know that our parents are never going to find out about it!
It's clever, really, if you ask me. But I wonder…why hasn't Hermione noticed their advertisements yet? She usually combs the entire newspaper, trying to find bogus stories on Harry so she can report them to him.
Maybe she does know, but she doesn't want Fred and George to get in trouble, so that's why she isn't telling anyone about their joke shop. But that just sounds so un-Hermione-like, so that can't possibly be it. Perhaps she just doesn't read the advertisement section.
Thank the Lord she doesn't. Knowing Hermione, she would have told Mum and Dad the instant she read the advertisement.
I wanted to go and visit Fred and George and ask them more about their joke shop, but when I went to their bedroom, their door was firmly locked and they refused to let me in. I didn't want someone to overhear me speaking about the joke shop, so I didn't "leave a message", as Fred wanted me to do. I just turned right around and went back to my own room.
I reckon that Fred and George aren't going to be studying a whole lot for N.E.W.T.s once term starts. They're probably going to spend their entire seventh year thinking of new plans for their joke shop. I mean, they've got a mail order-service going on here…who says they can't get some property and open up a real shop?
They'd need money, of course, and they obviously have money. All the ingredients and supplies for their joke products are pretty darn expensive, from what I've been overhearing in their conversations these past few days.
I still can't figure out where the twins are getting all of this money from. I mean, they're getting profits from selling their products I suppose, but they've got to have so much more if they're really running a business.
So, the discovery of Weasley's Wizarding Wheezes really spiced up my day, but that's just about the most exciting thing that happened to me today.
The rest of the day was slow, other than the fact that I thought I heard that old ghoul in the bathroom again. It was really Ron, singing some Quidditch song in the shower.
His voice doesn't exactly sound like an angel singing, let's just leave it at that, shall we?
I received another letter from Michael this afternoon. He said his usual "I miss you so much". It pains me to tell him that I won't be seeing him until term starts. But that's just the way life goes, I suppose.
Oh. Mum's calling everyone down for dinner.
I'll write more tomorrow, I promise.
-Ginny
Oh, dear. Was this one too short? I'm so sorry if it was, but I hope that everyone enjoyed it.
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