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A/N: Once again, I am so sorry that I haven't updated in so long. Please don't hate me! Three weeks ago was my graduation and then I had my birthday and then my sister had a show and then I went on vacation. Wow. Ok, like I promised, this chapter switches for a little while to Fred, George, Ginny and Harry. Have fun and don't forget to review.
Harry sat up in Fred and George's room. For the last two hours, He, the twins and Ginny had been trying to devise a plan to save Ron and Hermione. The Ministry of Magic was already notified of their loss and had sent out very few aurors to find them. This did not satisfy Fred and George.
"This is ridiculous!" Fred shouted to the room. "We've been up since two in the morning, trying to figure out how to rescue them, when we don't even know where they are!"
Harry and George nodded glumly.
"Well," said Harry, "how will we even figure out where they are? I mean to say, not even the bloody Ministry knows where to find Ron and Hermione."
Ginny, after sitting quietly in a dark corner for the entire time, finally spoke up.
"What we need to do, is go back to the spot where I saw the taken."
"Ginny, you prat, the Ministry already looked their and found nothing!" Fred snapped.
Harry saw tears come to Ginny's eyes.
"Look," he said angrily, "You don't have to take it out on her! She had a good idea."
Ginny smiled at Harry and his heart swelled.
"Maybe the Ministry missed something in the forest. Maybe, just maybe, they missed an important clue."
"What are you talk-" Fred started.
"No," George said, holding up his hand to Fred. "No, carrot head might have a point."
Ginny gave George a withering glare for calling her carrot head.
"What I mean to say is," George continued, "is that we should go back to the abduction spot and search around."
He turned to his brother who was still looking slightly disgruntled.
"Fred," he said. "I think it's time that we test out a few things from the shed."
Fred's face instantly lit up. "Yes, yes."
He stood up and threw open the door while shouting, "TO THE SHED!"
It took a while to actually sneak out of the house without the consent of Mr. and Mrs. Weasley, the four eventually made it out of the house and to the garden shed.
Harry stared up at the little shed and wondered why Fred and George wanted to come here and what use it would have to finding Hermione and Ron.
Fred walked up to the door, knocked it twice, tapped his wand to the doorknocker and muttered, "Opearious!" and the door flew open and the twins walked in, followed by a bewildered Ginny and Harry.
"Did you know about this?" Harry asked Ginny.
"No," she said. "They told me that when I turned sixteen I could follow in their footsteps. I'm guessing this is what they meant."
As soon as they all reached the heart of the shed, Fred and George ordered everyone to form a circle. They obeyed and Fred reached for a pulley above his head. Harry shut his eyes. From six years of knowing the Weasley's, he knew that nothing good could come from pulling the pulley.
The pulley was pulled. A trap door flew open below their feet and all four fell down a long slide to the bottom of what seemed to be some type of lab.
Harry, Ginny, Fred and George stood up.
Harry fixed his glasses back onto his nose and said slowly, "Where are we?"
Fred and George grinned at each other and said as the lights went up, "Welcome to our Joke Lair!"
Harry gaped at what he was seeing. All along the giant walls was every trick item you could imagine. There were a few things he recognized like the fake wands that turned into a rubber chicken if you waved them. Fireworks that lasted for three full days. Portable Swamps that had once filled a corridor in Hogwarts.
But there were also a few new things that he had never seen before. Glass jars that were filled with something that looked like raindrops that didn't seem to blend together. There were Quills that had fire bursting from their tops as well as what looked like a harmless chocolate frog, until it exploded when anything touched it.
"Wow!" was all Harry could manage to say.
"How long have you guys been working here?" Ginny asked astonished.
"Oh, remember the time when we discovered we had a knack for mischief?" George said slyly.
"You mean the time when you got ten detentions in a row your first year for buying Zonko's stuff and rearranging it to hound Filtch around Hogwarts? That time?" Ginny said exasperatedly.
"Yeah, the good old days." Fred sighed. "Yep, that's the time.
"Anyways, we started out buying Zonko's stuff and trying to rearrange them to do other things besides their normal jokes. The Filtch thing was our first test. Then, in our fourth year, when Ginny came, we decided to try and make our own stuff."
Fred pointed to the fake wand on the shelf behind Harry.
"That was our first invention. We had Lee Jordan help us with that. Sold it to twenty-two people, we did. After that we invented some other joking things like the Canary Creams, which by the way Neville perfected, the ill candies like the Puking Pastels and Fainting Fancies, The Everlasting Fireworks and best of all was the Portable Swamp, wouldn't you say so George?"
"Definitely our best." George agreed.
Fred suddenly looked very serious. "Soon after we joined the Order, we realized that some of our jokes could be used to help fight the death eaters. So we invented these."
He threw his arm out to show the wall opposite him where the chocolate frog along with the teardrop glass and the flammable quill.
He picked up the teardrop glass. "This is a Sleeping Drop. We invented this after the Portable Swamp. What you do is pick one up,"
Fred put his hand into the jar and pulled up a teardrop in the perfect shape.
"and toss it at a passing death eater or anyone with the dark mark on them and POOF! The fall unconscious and wake up in twenty-four hours."
George walked then over to the fire quill and held it up to show to Harry and Ginny.
"Now this is a Fireball Flicker. We thought up this after the Blast Ended Screwts epidemic with Hagrid. All you have to do is hold it like a regular quill, shake it up, and flick its tip at whomever or what ever you would like to hit."
George showed them how to shake it and flick it.
Fred walked over to the wall again and picked up the Chocolate Frog and held it delicately.
"This is the newest addition of them all. It's called the Bomb Hopper. All you have to do is place it gently on the ground, aim it at whatever you'd like, and it will take a giant hop and will explode whenever it hits its target. But I won't demonstrate it for it will bring down the shed."
For the next twenty minutes, Fred and George showed Harry and Ginny every joke they would need to find and rescue Ron and Hermione. This included marbles that caused a tremendous deal of fog whenever it hit something, Pear Drops that, when placed on the ground, could emit a complete duplicate of the owner, and more. They placed all the objects into four back packs and set off out of the shed and into the forest.
"Well," Fred said while glancing around at their surroundings. "Where do we need to go?"
Ginny pointed to straight ahead and the four walked for a few minutes until they reached a clearing.
"This is where they were taken." She whispered.
"Lets look around and if anyone finds anything, call for the rest of us." Harry said and they all split up to look around.
Ten minutes passed. Twenty, then thirty. Nothing was found. Harry once found a trail of footprints, but Fred stomped on this, saying that he was following their own trail.
Finally...
"HEY! Come here! I found something." Ginny shouted excitedly.
Harry and the twins ran over, but what they saw made them stop dead in their tracks. Standing behind Ginny, were two, ten feet tall, dragons. One was a poisonous green, with a yellow belly and silver claws that matched its silver, glinting eyes. The other was blood red, with a light blue belly and had yellow claws that seemed to be glowing. This one, however, only had one yellow eye, for one was hidden under a patch.
"Ginny, get away!" Fred shouted immediately.
"No," she said calmly. "They won't hurt us."
"Won't hurt us?" George said indignantly. "Yeah, and He-Who-Must-Not- Be-Named is a kitten."
"No, George. They can help us. They're dead clever and they know where Ron and Hermione are."
"Really?" Harry said anxiously. He then looked to the dragons. "You know where our friends are?"
The green dragon nodded and laid down, the red one following suit.
The twins, Ginny and Harry took this as a hint to get onto the backs. Ginny went with Fred on the red dragon, while Harry and George got onto the green dragon. Without warning, the dragons took off into the clouded sky while Fred whooped his approval of this travel. Here we come, Harry thought to himself.
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A/N: Once again, I am so sorry that I haven't updated in so long. Please don't hate me! Three weeks ago was my graduation and then I had my birthday and then my sister had a show and then I went on vacation. Wow. Ok, like I promised, this chapter switches for a little while to Fred, George, Ginny and Harry. Have fun and don't forget to review.
Harry sat up in Fred and George's room. For the last two hours, He, the twins and Ginny had been trying to devise a plan to save Ron and Hermione. The Ministry of Magic was already notified of their loss and had sent out very few aurors to find them. This did not satisfy Fred and George.
"This is ridiculous!" Fred shouted to the room. "We've been up since two in the morning, trying to figure out how to rescue them, when we don't even know where they are!"
Harry and George nodded glumly.
"Well," said Harry, "how will we even figure out where they are? I mean to say, not even the bloody Ministry knows where to find Ron and Hermione."
Ginny, after sitting quietly in a dark corner for the entire time, finally spoke up.
"What we need to do, is go back to the spot where I saw the taken."
"Ginny, you prat, the Ministry already looked their and found nothing!" Fred snapped.
Harry saw tears come to Ginny's eyes.
"Look," he said angrily, "You don't have to take it out on her! She had a good idea."
Ginny smiled at Harry and his heart swelled.
"Maybe the Ministry missed something in the forest. Maybe, just maybe, they missed an important clue."
"What are you talk-" Fred started.
"No," George said, holding up his hand to Fred. "No, carrot head might have a point."
Ginny gave George a withering glare for calling her carrot head.
"What I mean to say is," George continued, "is that we should go back to the abduction spot and search around."
He turned to his brother who was still looking slightly disgruntled.
"Fred," he said. "I think it's time that we test out a few things from the shed."
Fred's face instantly lit up. "Yes, yes."
He stood up and threw open the door while shouting, "TO THE SHED!"
It took a while to actually sneak out of the house without the consent of Mr. and Mrs. Weasley, the four eventually made it out of the house and to the garden shed.
Harry stared up at the little shed and wondered why Fred and George wanted to come here and what use it would have to finding Hermione and Ron.
Fred walked up to the door, knocked it twice, tapped his wand to the doorknocker and muttered, "Opearious!" and the door flew open and the twins walked in, followed by a bewildered Ginny and Harry.
"Did you know about this?" Harry asked Ginny.
"No," she said. "They told me that when I turned sixteen I could follow in their footsteps. I'm guessing this is what they meant."
As soon as they all reached the heart of the shed, Fred and George ordered everyone to form a circle. They obeyed and Fred reached for a pulley above his head. Harry shut his eyes. From six years of knowing the Weasley's, he knew that nothing good could come from pulling the pulley.
The pulley was pulled. A trap door flew open below their feet and all four fell down a long slide to the bottom of what seemed to be some type of lab.
Harry, Ginny, Fred and George stood up.
Harry fixed his glasses back onto his nose and said slowly, "Where are we?"
Fred and George grinned at each other and said as the lights went up, "Welcome to our Joke Lair!"
Harry gaped at what he was seeing. All along the giant walls was every trick item you could imagine. There were a few things he recognized like the fake wands that turned into a rubber chicken if you waved them. Fireworks that lasted for three full days. Portable Swamps that had once filled a corridor in Hogwarts.
But there were also a few new things that he had never seen before. Glass jars that were filled with something that looked like raindrops that didn't seem to blend together. There were Quills that had fire bursting from their tops as well as what looked like a harmless chocolate frog, until it exploded when anything touched it.
"Wow!" was all Harry could manage to say.
"How long have you guys been working here?" Ginny asked astonished.
"Oh, remember the time when we discovered we had a knack for mischief?" George said slyly.
"You mean the time when you got ten detentions in a row your first year for buying Zonko's stuff and rearranging it to hound Filtch around Hogwarts? That time?" Ginny said exasperatedly.
"Yeah, the good old days." Fred sighed. "Yep, that's the time.
"Anyways, we started out buying Zonko's stuff and trying to rearrange them to do other things besides their normal jokes. The Filtch thing was our first test. Then, in our fourth year, when Ginny came, we decided to try and make our own stuff."
Fred pointed to the fake wand on the shelf behind Harry.
"That was our first invention. We had Lee Jordan help us with that. Sold it to twenty-two people, we did. After that we invented some other joking things like the Canary Creams, which by the way Neville perfected, the ill candies like the Puking Pastels and Fainting Fancies, The Everlasting Fireworks and best of all was the Portable Swamp, wouldn't you say so George?"
"Definitely our best." George agreed.
Fred suddenly looked very serious. "Soon after we joined the Order, we realized that some of our jokes could be used to help fight the death eaters. So we invented these."
He threw his arm out to show the wall opposite him where the chocolate frog along with the teardrop glass and the flammable quill.
He picked up the teardrop glass. "This is a Sleeping Drop. We invented this after the Portable Swamp. What you do is pick one up,"
Fred put his hand into the jar and pulled up a teardrop in the perfect shape.
"and toss it at a passing death eater or anyone with the dark mark on them and POOF! The fall unconscious and wake up in twenty-four hours."
George walked then over to the fire quill and held it up to show to Harry and Ginny.
"Now this is a Fireball Flicker. We thought up this after the Blast Ended Screwts epidemic with Hagrid. All you have to do is hold it like a regular quill, shake it up, and flick its tip at whomever or what ever you would like to hit."
George showed them how to shake it and flick it.
Fred walked over to the wall again and picked up the Chocolate Frog and held it delicately.
"This is the newest addition of them all. It's called the Bomb Hopper. All you have to do is place it gently on the ground, aim it at whatever you'd like, and it will take a giant hop and will explode whenever it hits its target. But I won't demonstrate it for it will bring down the shed."
For the next twenty minutes, Fred and George showed Harry and Ginny every joke they would need to find and rescue Ron and Hermione. This included marbles that caused a tremendous deal of fog whenever it hit something, Pear Drops that, when placed on the ground, could emit a complete duplicate of the owner, and more. They placed all the objects into four back packs and set off out of the shed and into the forest.
"Well," Fred said while glancing around at their surroundings. "Where do we need to go?"
Ginny pointed to straight ahead and the four walked for a few minutes until they reached a clearing.
"This is where they were taken." She whispered.
"Lets look around and if anyone finds anything, call for the rest of us." Harry said and they all split up to look around.
Ten minutes passed. Twenty, then thirty. Nothing was found. Harry once found a trail of footprints, but Fred stomped on this, saying that he was following their own trail.
Finally...
"HEY! Come here! I found something." Ginny shouted excitedly.
Harry and the twins ran over, but what they saw made them stop dead in their tracks. Standing behind Ginny, were two, ten feet tall, dragons. One was a poisonous green, with a yellow belly and silver claws that matched its silver, glinting eyes. The other was blood red, with a light blue belly and had yellow claws that seemed to be glowing. This one, however, only had one yellow eye, for one was hidden under a patch.
"Ginny, get away!" Fred shouted immediately.
"No," she said calmly. "They won't hurt us."
"Won't hurt us?" George said indignantly. "Yeah, and He-Who-Must-Not- Be-Named is a kitten."
"No, George. They can help us. They're dead clever and they know where Ron and Hermione are."
"Really?" Harry said anxiously. He then looked to the dragons. "You know where our friends are?"
The green dragon nodded and laid down, the red one following suit.
The twins, Ginny and Harry took this as a hint to get onto the backs. Ginny went with Fred on the red dragon, while Harry and George got onto the green dragon. Without warning, the dragons took off into the clouded sky while Fred whooped his approval of this travel. Here we come, Harry thought to himself.
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