Fandom: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Prompter: Guest C; Guest G
Prompt 1: Fred and or George punishing harry and Ron sometime after Hermione gets petrified in the second book. Maybe after they meet Aragog.
Prompt 2: Fred and George spanking harry and Ron for putting their lives in danger- 2nd year after Aragog

Warnings: Slight swearing
See Author's note.

Harry Potter- Spider Danger

Ron has been acting skittish, and Harry overly distracted, more so then what could be due to Hermione's petrification.
After the events of the end of last year, the twins are worried, and want to make sure everything is okay...

Two hands snaked out and grabbed the unsuspecting boys, eliciting a defensive squeak from the redhead and a startled gasp from the brunette as they were pulled into a unused classroom.

As was normal, now, the redhead he was immediately on the defensive, clumsily fishing for his wand even as he turned to face his opponents- stopping once he realized who their abductors were. The brunette merely responded with trying to shove his captors away until he too, realized who they were.

"Looks like we found them, George," Fred said jovially, his tone contrasting with the serious gaze he was pinning the younger two boys with.

"You're right Fred," George responded. "Well met Harry, and you too Ronnikins! How goes it?"

Ron glared at the two prats before him, fist clenched.

"What they bloody heck you two?! What was that all about?!"

Fred just raises his eyebrows in amusement.

"What, we aren't allowed to pull you into a room for a talk?" He turns with a thoughtfully confused look towards his twin. "Well imagine that George, they didn't like being pulled in here."

George let out a snicker. "Hmm, imagine that." Then he turns serious, facing the younger boys with a hint of concern in his eyes, but tone still jovial.

"You've been moping around so much lately, we've been unable to face the cloud surrounding you in the common room, so decided this was our best bet!"

"Both of you have been tense ever since…

"Ever since Hermione was petrified? Ron bites back sharply. Fred winces, but continues.

"Yes."

George follows. "And you, Ronnikins, have been jumping around like a snitch at the least noise, for the last few days, and-"

"We wanted to make sure you were both okay," the twins finished together.

At then mention of Ron's behavior, Ron drew himself even tighter, as if in fear, and Harry looked away, ashamed. He knew how little his best friend had been sleeping since their trip into the woods. He had blown off Ron's fear of spiders at the time, but seeing the consequences over the last few days made him realize how selfish he had been.

Seeing the matching looks of reluctance, if in different ways, on the younger boy's faces before them, Fred and George shared a look before each looping a comradely arm around one of the second years.

"Oh come on, it can't be that bad!" Fred intones.

"And if it was a prank you left us out on, well, can I just say that I am hurt," George finishes.

Ron throws off his arm angrily.

"If wasn't a stupid prank George, it was being chased by spiders the size of Hippogriffs and barely making it back to the castle alive! Is that all you can think about, pranks?! Hermione is petrified, the castle is haunted, Hagrid is in Azkaban, and we are trying to fix it all while you talk about is some bloody pranks!"

The twins look at him in horror, and Harry just drops his head in a quiet groan.

"I'm sorry, you did what?!"

The blend of quiet horror, fury of Mrs. Weasly, and disappointment of Mr. Weasley made Ron want to desperately take back his words, and, short of that, quickly escape the situation.

"Nevermind," he huffs, pushing Fred's shoulder off Harry's and grabbing his arm, attempting to drag him to the door.

"Oh no you don't," Fred grabs him and whirls him around, all humor gone from his face. "You are not going anywhere until you explain exactly what you meant by that."

Ron once more pulls his arm out of his brother's grip.

"It's none of your business, Fred!"

"On the contrary, Ron." George steps up and matches his twin's crossed arms, looking down at him sternly. "You are our little brother, and if you are putting yourself in danger at school then it is our business."

"Mom and dad told Percy to watch out for you this year," Fred continued, and George picked up.

"Especially after what happened last year."

"They didn't know that we were listening, but you scared us too, Ronnie, and you as well Harry," Fred said, turning to Harry who was standing to the side.

"So we decided to also keep an eye on you both."

"So unless you want to go talk to Percy…"

"I would suggest you start talking, now."

Harry had been standing to the side, mostly watching as he let the brothers hash it out, but as Fred turned to address him as well he suddenly had to swallow hard, and fight down the urge to run as well. I mean these were the twins, what is the worst they could do, besides take retribution with some silly prank? Although, those could be quite inventive…

Ron could only stare at his brothers in indignant amazement. He had never heard the twins sound so stern, and while he had no desire to talk to Percy about this, he didn't want to talk to the twins either!

Harry, knowing from experience of the twins badgering that they were not going to let this go, and seeing that Ron wasn't going to be explaining anytime soon, let out a heavy sigh and decided to just get this over with.

If the twins wanted to lecture them, then fine. Maybe it would even take Ron's mind off of his fear.

It's not like they would do anything else.

…Right?

Tbc... possibly?

A/N:

Alright, so here is the next prompt! Do you guys want me to continue this? I actually had two people request this prompt, so I wouldn't mind doing a part 2 where they actually discuss it all. Please let me know!

Also, I am going to continue to try and work on some of my other WIP's... I'd like to get those out of the way so I can focus more on updating one story at a time. I'm in a Creative Writing class, so that is definitely helping to keep my energy up, while also teaching me great tips and tricks for writers block, but... I also got a new job that I'm totally unprepared for, so have to do a ton of work on that, on top of school. So, we'll see how the week goes. Reviews give me energy, so please review! And thank you to all of you who already are!

Also- when I get a Guest prompter with no name, I have assigned them a letter based on the order I received their prompt. So the prompters for this one were Guest C and Guest G.

Published Jan. 26, 2020