Chapter 9: Hairbrushes
Remember in our first year when we became Nicholas Zonko's apprentices? Well once a month we always went to his shop for lessons.
What was your favorite lesson Fred?
Umm... I think it's a tie between the beard growing candies or the tongue- tiers...
Ahh... those were great ones; don't forget the hair-eating hairbrush!
How could I? Percy was bald for nearly a month!
"Ahh! Good morning Fred and George!" Zonko greeted them.
"Good morning Nick"
"What are we working on today?"
"Hair-eating hairbrushes!"
The twins grinned in excitement.
"Follow me into my workshop!" Zonko lead the way in his workshop. "Fred, please get me that crate of hairbrushes..."
"Okay"
"Now..." Zonko swept his wand, conjuring three busts with wigs on them. "What we're going to do is charm these hairbrushes so that they eat hair..."
"Ok" They nodded.
"The problem is HOW to make them eat it"
"Well you could do an animation spell...
"And then an alimentation charm...
"Yes, but the thing is that they cancel each other out... so what we're going to do is make a potion that makes these spells mix." He got out a potions book "Which I will teach you..."
After a few hours of experimenting with different charms and incantations our work was done
The hairbrushes were ready and as a reward for helping out
Zonko gave us one
We obviously decided to have a little fun with this particular piece...
"Hurry George I hear Percy downstairs!" Fred whispered loudly as George switched hairbrushes. They hurried down the staircase to the common room.
As Percy came up the staircase he bumped into the twins.
"What are you two up to?" Percy said raising an eyebrow.
"Nothing" They both replied innocently.
Percy raised an eyebrow yet again, but decided he had no time for such silliness; he had to hurry to the library.
A few minutes later confirmed that the hairbrush was a success...
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! MY HAIR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FREEEEEEEEED!!!!!!!!!!! GEOOOOOOOOOOOOORGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Fred and George burst out laughing as Percy came downstairs fuming and red as a tomato. Several people in the common room stared and others snickered, for great chunks of Percy's hair were missing.
"YOU..." Percy pointed a shaky finger at the twins.
"We..." They said calmly.
"Hey Percy... did you notice that you're nearly bald?" Fred asked politely.
"Yes, I reckon it's too much stress there big brother" George smiled "You should really stop worrying so much about O.W.L.s"
"It's only your fourth year" Fred said sweetly.
"You guys better watch out! I'm writing a letter to Mum right now!" With that Percy stormed out muttering something about them being lucky he wasn't a prefect yet (snatching a beanie hat from a fellow Gryffindor to hide his new "do").
Oh lord that was hilarious!
Yes! Percy! The amazing prat with no hair!
Glorious! Absolutely amazing!
Well we got a Howler from mum the next day; obviously she wasn't very thrilled about that...
Dad found it quite hysterical actually... Of course he had to sleep on the couch for a week...
Or so did dear little Ronniekins told us in his letter...but still
We've never seen Percy so infuriated before! Well... except when he found Dragon dung in his bag...
A/N- I finally got time to update this thing! I'm sorry for not updating sooner I was a bit busy with other stuff... I will post my new story eventually... I haven't written it on the computer yet...
