Double Trouble Chapter 3

Disclaimer: Not mine, unfortunately, I just play with them a bit!

Detention and Different Friends.

When the boys got up to their dormitories, they found a small orange slip stating they were to serve their detention tomorrow night with professor Snape. The two grimaced; then fell into bed, exhausted.

"Hey Fred?"

"Yeah, George?"

"This is gonna be fun."

"No doubt."

The next day the two boys got up and walked into the Great Hall, excited for another day. They quickly ate breakfast, received their schedules, then ran to their first class, which happened to be Transfiguration. They walked in and glanced around, all the seats were filled but two. One was next to a fiery looking young man with a large spider crawling out of his pocket; the other was next to a girl with deep brown hair and dark brown eyes. Fred quickly walked towards the boy, and George headed to the seat next to the girl.

"Hi, I'm Fred Weasley, that there's my brother George." Fred greeted as he slipped into the seat. The other boy looked at him and grinned.

"Hi! I'm Lee Jordan. Want to see something really cool?"

"Oh, you mean that big spider that's in your pocket? I saw that ages ago, but I'd like a closer look." Lee pulled out the humongous beast and plopped it into Fred's lap. He quickly bent down and without showing Lee, pulled out a small pill and stuck it under the spider's pincers. It bit down, and some of the juice went into its mouth. He plopped it down on the desk and watched it. Slowly, almost imperceptibly, the spider began to grow. Soon it was the size of a softball, then a football, then a basketball before Lee noticed the unusual size. He glanced at Fred, who was whistling a tune and staring at a particularly interesting piece of paper on the floor. He pulled out his wand and prodded it, then jumped back when it started talking.

"Would you PLEASE stop poking me with that stick? I'm trying to grow here." Fred looked at the gigantic spider and started laughing, as did his brother a few seats down. Girls screamed and jumped on desks, and boys gathered round to see the spectacle. Above all, you could hear a very sophisticated voice asking to boys to please stop ogling at him, he wasn't a monster. Just then Professor McGonnagal walked in, glanced at the terrified girls, and stormed through the mass of boys. She took one look at the spider, waved her wand, and quickly shrunk the spider down to its original size, but try as she might, she couldn't get it to stop talking. She sent Lee to put his spider in his room, and turned to deal with the Weasleys, who were being crowded by the many boys interested in making their pets grow and talk.

"Hey George, how much are they?" a round boy asked, his eyes wide with excitement.

"Oh, I dunno. What do you say Fred?"

"I'm thinking about 5 galleons. Sound right to you?"

"Sure!!!" George turned back to the boy.

"Five galleons."

"Alright!! Here they are" The portly boy reached into his back pocket, prepared to dish out the money.

"Oh no you don't!! Mr. Weasley, that's another detention for you and your brother for disrupting the class; Mr. Summers, put your money away, you won't be buying that stuff in my class!!! Now everyone, back to your seats. Honestly, you're supposed to be old enough to act somewhat maturely. Today we will be covering what we'll be studying this year, and I will show you some small transfiguration spells."

George turned away when the teacher wasn't looking and grinned at his brother. This year was going to be fun.

The day went fast, and they were in their last class of the day; potions. So far they had lost 50 points from various classes, and gained two more nights of detention. The boys were "experimenting" with their enlarging potion they were supposed to be making, since they'd learned how to make them when inventing the "swell and tell pills". They randomly threw in ingredients, and jumped when their cauldron blew up. The class laughed as Fred's nose turned a mottled purple, and George's fingers swelled to the size of watermelons.

"Umm… sir? Can George and I go to the hospital wing? Our potion has had some nasty effects." Fred called out, grinning and laughing with his fellow classmates. Snape turned and looked at him coolly.

"I see nothing wrong. You will stay in class for the remainder of this period, and that's 30 points for interrupting the class." George glared, but said nothing. They got out, still fuming, and ran to the hospital wing, where Madam Pomprey fixed them up and sent them on their way. They went back to the common room, did absolutely no homework, and sold some more make out pills and swell and tell pills, then ran to dinner. After eating, they trudged to Snape's office for their detention.

"You're late. 20 points." Were the first words from the hated professors mouth.

"We're 10 seconds late!!! Geez, can't we get a little slack here?" Fred burst out, his eyes flashing dangerously.

"20 more points for talking back Mr. Weasley, and you were 11 seconds late. Now you will be cleaning the lavatory on both the second and third floor, and cleaning these cauldrons with a toothbrush. I shall be back in two hours, and I expect you to be done. He strode out of the room and the twins set to work.

Two hours later, the twins lay on separate desks, eyes slowly closing when the potions master strutted in. He quickly inspected their work, then nodded grudgingly.

"Good. Now leave. You shall do the same thing for the next 2 days of your detention."

They walked out, only to be met by…………….

A/N Ok, here's chapter 3!! Hope you all liked it, not much happened, but it introduced some new characters. Hopefully the next chapter should be coming soon, I'm leaving on Thursday to Nevada, but I should be home by Monday. Thanx to my reviewers, especially those who put me on their favorite and authors alert lists.

DaRkDrEaMzzz The whole 2nd chapter was my favorite part to write, and I'm glad you liked it Thanx for being a faithful reviewer!!

Atled Willy Ok, here are my replies to your corrections:

1) I've gotten several reviews about this, and here is my reasoning. My parents are the same way, but when my mom gets so frustrated that she can't handle everything, and storms out, my dad takes over. Everyone knows we are in deep trouble when dad comes, because we made mom freak. I figure it to be the same way with Arthur and Molly.

2) Bill was at school, he was in his 7th year, and Head Boy

3) I'll go read and review yours as soon as possible, things have been very hectic.

Also, I loved the ideas you gave me, you'll probably see some pop up soon. And here is your Lee and Alicia, although Alicia wasn't a big part in this one, she'll be more of a character in the next chapter.

Megano Thank you so much!! It's so nice to get reviews like yours that are just happy

Mem0rycafe I love the twins too, and Fred is my favorite also. For the Arthur vs. Molly, look at #1 under Atled Willy. Thanx for reading!!!

Hp-princess755 Thank you so much!! Don't worry, no one has told me it sux, thankfully Please come back and read more!!!