A.N: I am severly dishearted by the amount of reviews--or lack there of. Thank-you for those of you who bother. I'm hoping that if I update often enough, I'll remain close to the top of the list and frequent visitors to this site will get frusterated enough what with seeing it there ALL the time, that they'll read this. Odd, ain't I?

Chapter 11- Ambush

Fred looked from the bucket of water over to his twin, then back at the balloons. Suddenly he grinned. "You're evil, you know that?"

"Yeah, we might run out of water balloons though, you know."

"Oh I know. I have a plan, believe me."

"Why are we all doing yard work?" Ginny whined as she tied off a leaf-filled trash bag. She was wearing short jean shorts and a white camisole because it was beyond hot out.

"Because we all live here, "Sirius said between clenched teeth. It was obvious that he wished at the moment that he didn't live here.

Their "little" yard work party consisted of Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Fred, George, Sirius, Remus, Tonks, Charlie (home for two weeks), and poor (not) Severus Snape who had been in the wrong place at the wrong time and had been handed pruning shears by the housework Nazi, Molly Weasley.

"We'll be right back," said George as he and Fred took off their gloves (they had been weeding).

"We need to fill up our water bottles," Fred explained. "They're empty."

"Fill mine up too please," Remus said tossing his near empty water bottle at the twins.

"Jeronimo!" the twins shouted as they tossed water balloons out of one of 12 Grimmauld Place's second story windows. Fred's hit poor Ginny in the chest. She squealed, fumed (white shirt, remember?), snatched a tomato from the plant that Severus was pruning and, with amazing accuracy, lobbed it toward the window. It hit Fred in the forehead. George's first balloon hit their Potion's Professor in the back of the head.

Chaos ensued. The twins jumped out he window, armed to the fullest. While the twins used water balloons, the others resorted to tomatoes, mud, and Sirius drug out the hose (then realized it wasn't attached to anything). When they ran out of balloons, everyone discovered Fred's back-up plan---

Condiments.