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Chapter One
A breeze swept gently along in the fresh morning air. A bird fluttered peacefully around. All was peaceful at the Burrow… NOT!
Fred and George had awoken unusually early in the excitement of receiving a load of galleons from Harry. They set off 20 of Dr Filibusters no heat, wet start fireworks and had a pillow fight resulting in 5 burst cushions and an emptied bean bag, all happening outside Ron's bedroom, in a bid to wake him up. But their attempts were in vain. Ron's snores could still be heard on the other side of the door. But that didn't mean they hadn't woken anyone else up.
"Can you guys SHUT UP?" Ginny hollered. She emerged from her room bushy haired and scowling. Never to be taken aback, Fred and George scuttled into Ron's room to try out their new, extra special surprise for Ron. Fred pulled out a small red box and set it on Ron's face. He tapped it with his wand. A few seconds later it banged open to reveal a fake spider. Ron opened one eye, moaning loudly. Then he saw it. He gave an almighty scream and jumped out of his bed in less then a nanosecond, the spider falling off. Fred and George hurriedly apparated out of the room, before Ron could notice them. They ended up in the bathroom. Someone was in there.
"Percy!" Exclaimed George, "what are you doing?"
Percy halted, in the middle of a waltz. His face turned bright red as he mumbled an excuse before rushing to the door. George quickly whipped out his wand and locked it before Percy could leave.
"Dancing in a towel again?" Fred laughed, writing 'Perce 4 Penny' on the mirror, which was fogged from Percy's shower.
"B-but…you…how?" Percy spluttered, embarrassed to extinction.
"Don't worry Perce, no one will know… except the Minister for Magic, the milkman, the Daily Prophet and everyone else!" Fred and George said.
They disapparated before they could be knocked out by a pressurized can of deodorant.
"An awesome start to an awesome day, hey Fred?" George sniggered.
"Yeah… I smell breakfast, c'mon George," Fred said, his stomach growling like a dog. They apparated into the kitchen, grabbed some breakfast on their way to the table. Ron sat there in a state of shock. Mrs. Weasley frowned at them angrily, and then started shrieking, sounding a bit like this:
"Blah spider, blah blah, scream, blah blah, you should know better…"
They just nodded and scabbed some porridge from Ron's bowl. Luckily Ron didn't notice them. Ginny emerged as they were scraping up them remains of a large breakfast. She grabbed a bowl of porridge and plonked herself down on a chair beside Ron, who was now sufficiently recovered from the shock of the spider. Percy walked by Ginny, saying a quick hello to her.
"Aargh, Percy you STINK!" Ginny yelled.
"What? Really?" Percy said, sniffing his armpit then making a face at the smell.
"Like the new deodorant odour… dung was my personal choice," George said.
"A manly stench for a manly wizard," Fred muttered, loud enough for everyone to hear. All the blood drained from Percy's face.
"But…but, I'm seeing Penny today. You can't do that," he wailed.
"Don't worry bro, you can always have another shower," The twins grinned.
Percy stormed out in a huff, passing Mr. Weasley in the corridor.
"What's wrong with Percy?" he asked.
"Don't worry Dad, he's just being his usual self," George replied.
Luckily Mrs. Weasley had missed out on hearing about the deodorant prank. Fred and George were taking a summer apprenticeship for a week at new outlet of Zonko's in Diagon Alley. They were to leave tomorrow, even though their Mum disagreed with the whole idea. It was only after a big argument that she finally allowed them to go. Fred and George spent the rest of the morning catching gnomes to experiment on. They were testing out new magical glue they had thought of on the gnomes. It was super strength and last up to four days, depending on how long you wanted it to go for. Also you make the glue stick to certain things only, all you needed to do was tell it what to do. For example, you could put it on a chair but it will only stick to the certain person you want it to stick to. It stuck to everything they tried, in varying degrees of stickiness. Now all they needed to do was perfect their invention. Just as they were finishing off with the gnome testing Percy came out, dressed in his best robes all dressed up for Penny, even though he wouldn't be seeing her in another 4 hours.
"Ooo… look at who's all dressed up for a certain someone," the twins said, their smiles widening.
Percy ignored their jibes and moved swiftly away from them before he was attacked. He unfortunately stepped in some leftover glue. He tried to move his foot but it wouldn't budge. He tried harder, but still no success.
"Fred, George, you will pay for this!" he threatened, working out who the culprits were. He started jumping around madly, looking very ridiculous.
"Percy, have you ever thought of taking your shoes off?" the twins asked laughingly.
"Oh, err, yes." Percy replied, untying his shoe, and then hobbling back to the house to get another pair of shoes on. Unknown to Percy, Fred and George had managed to take a few photos of him flailing around in the air. They quickly ran to their room to develop their snapshots, so by the time Penelope came they would be on full show in the Burrow.
5:00 pm came (the time that Penelope was to arrive) and the twins quickly rushed back to the burrow after playing Quidditch with Ron. Unfortunately for them Percy had already left. Unable to show their new photos of Percy off, they decided to reprint them and owl them around instead. They went to have dinner and afterwards discussed the new idea they had for a way to get out of class.
"We need to make some kind of pill to make people sick, and once they're out of class they can have an antidote to make them better again," George said.
"Spot on!" was the reply. The idea stuck to them like their new glue. For the next hour they planned every minute detail for these pills.
Percy returned Penelope-less, much to Fred and George's disappointment. He obviously had the foresight not take her to the burrow, knowing what his brothers were like. Just as Percy got comfortable an owl fluttered in, from the Ministry of Magic. It strutted around pompously, rather like Percy, and dropped the letter into his eager hands. Percy was evidently expecting a letter from the Ministry. He looked at the address like it was the world to him. He tore it open and read it as fast as he could.
"Yes…YES!" Percy yelled, war dancing around the room, looking like his pants were on fire.
"Looks like Percy's finally cracked," George observed. Fred nodded in agreement.
Percy called for everyone to come and hear his fantastic news. When all the family was clustered around him, worried looks on their faces at the way Percy was acting, he told them the good news.
"I've been promoted!" he hollered.
Ron let out a sigh of relief, "I thought he was having a fit," he said.
"Like it's unusual…" Fred said.
"Fred!" Mrs. Weasley warned, then turning to Percy she said, "Well done Percy, where have you been promoted to?"
"Junior Assistant to the Minister, I get to work in the Minister's office," Percy said, proudly puffing out is chest. Mr. Weasley didn't seem to appreciate the at all.
"Percy, you know fudge isn't handling the You-know-who thing very well. I think its best not to get too close to him right now. I heard today that there's an opening for someone like you in the Wizarding Vampire relations office, wouldn't that be a better choice?"
"DAD!" Percy said, getting angry.
"It would be better then sitting around listening to some of the jargon Fudge has been saying lately," Mr. Weasley returned with as much anger as Percy.
"Just because you'd never get to work alongside someone as great and inspiring as Fudge doesn't mean I can't."
"That's beside the point!"
"It is NOT! Dad, your reputation holds me back in whatever I do. I'm always the 'poor, ambitious Weasley boy.' I could be better then you, but you can't handle that!"
All the other Weasleys were in a state of shock. Mrs. Weasley generally did the yelling so Mr. Weasley's out burst really scared them. Fred and George were fuming. How dare Percy attack his own family?
"Don't you believe what Harry said about You-know-who's return?"
"Do you expect me to believe him? Harry is lying. I'm amazed you could be so stupid."
"Don't be a fool!"
"You're the foolish one Dad. If you are going to be so ignorant of the truth then I'm leaving and I don't want to see any of you again. GOODBYE!" Percy yelled and apparated off, then he apparated back again a few seconds later, running upstairs to his room because he forgot to pack his bags. The Weasleys were in to much shock to do anything.
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