In the Kitchen

While the adults were reading,

"Can't believe this thing backfired on us." Ginny grumbled as she tried to wipe some sticky substance off the table.

"It was worth a shot." Harry said with a shrug. "How were we to know they'd move the meeting on us?"

"You two okay?" Ron asked his brothers who were hitting their wands.

"We thought we'd try the wands," Fred said.

"Since we're of age" George continued.

"But I think the adults put a ward up."

"Probably so we wouldn't use shortcuts." Hermione stated before getting her hair stuck in the bubblegum-like substance. She bit her lips to hold back a swear.

"Do we have any peanut butter?" Harry asked

"Why?" Ron asked.

"In primary school, a classmate got bubblegum in her hair and the teacher used peanut butter to get it out." Harry said

"I heard ice works." Hermione said.

"You thinking what I'm thing Gred?"

"I believe I am Feorge."

"Get the ice for the room." Hermione said knowing where the twins were going with this as Harry applied the peanut butter to her hair.

"Ron. Don't just stand there looking like a pureblood in a muggle store." Harry informed his friend. "Help me out."

"Right." Ron said with his 'muggles are WEIRD' look.

Fred, George, and Ginny used the ice in the icebox to harden the gum from their sticky-bomb they had set off in the hopes that Molly would rather clean the mess than have the meeting in the sticky room. Meanwhile, Ron and Harry were unsticking Hermione's hair and pulled once they felt it come loose.

"WHOA!" the trio exclaimed before falling on the floor, Hermione into Ron's arms causing them to blush.

"Are you two comfortable?" Harry teased from under them with a hint of a snap to silently tell them to get off of him.

"Sorry Harry" Hermione apologized as she and Ron got off their scrawny friend only to find him stuck in more of the substance.

Harry gave a 'you've got to be kidding me' sigh as his friends grabbed his hands and yanked.

However, the substance was sticky enough, the other two were pulled down and fell on either side of Harry causing the twins to laugh.

"I have to say you three…" Fred said.

"Of all the situations you three have gotten into over the years…" George added

"This is the stickiest." They chorused before laughing.

The trio groaned at the bad joke.

"If I wasn't stuck to the floor right now…" Ron threatened.

"Well, there is some good news." Ginny said after applying some ice to the floor about where the trio's heads were connected. "Only your torsos are stuck as the chairs had blocked where your legs are."

"How is that GOOD?" Harry asked

"Just slip out of your shirts and you're free." Ginny said. "I have to say Harry, that muggle shirt is WAY beyond help."

Harry grumbled silently but didn't want to admit he was wearing one of Dudley's shirts from when they were 6 and it was still too big for him.

"GINNY!" Hermione exclaimed horrified.

"You wanna lay on the floor until this stuff hardens enough for us to chip off?" Ginny asked.

"No. but I also don't want this lot to see what's under my shirt."

"Truthfully 'Mione…it's nothing I haven't seen before." Ron said.

"WHAT?" she exclaimed.

"He means that while I thought the boys were busy packing in their rooms, I came down looking for a clean shirt from the laundry with just the undergarments and Ron was in the kitchen." Ginny admitted with a giggle. "Asked me where I got them."

"You didn't have to add THAT!" Ron told his sister going Weasley red.

With a sigh, the trio carefully slipped out of their shirts and stood up earning wolf-whistles from the twins.

"Shut up!" the trio chorused as Ginny eyed them.

Ron and Hermione were trying to eye each other without looking at each other so that they wouldn't be caught, but Ginny knew her brother and her best friend well enough to know that they both had the hots for each other and were liking what they were seeing.

Hermione wasn't too thin, but was in pretty good shape while Ron…well…looked as if he played Quidditch all his life and had some fairly decent abs. Nothing the normal shallow girl would kill over, but enough to where the future Mrs. Ron Weasley would be a VERY happy woman.

Ginny then noticed Harry and saw that, while he was still pretty scrawny, years of Quidditch and last year was starting to pay off.

"We're going to go change and then we'll help chip off the stuff." Harry said.

After what seemed to be 15 minutes, the six students finished up the chipping off of the now hardened sticky stuff.

"Let's go tell the adults we're done and they can have the kitchen back." Hermione said.

The sixsome walked over to the living room and knocked on the door.

The door opened to reveal Mad-Eye and the kids entered to see the adults gathered around the coffee table and Arthur was holding a book. Sirius was looking rather pale as if he had just stepped out of Azkaban.

"The kitchen's clean." Ron said. "What are you guys doing in here?"

"We were magically sent some books to read." Sirius said. "You guys are welcome to join us."

"Wow!" Fred and George gasped at the fact that they were allowed to join. Hermione's face had brightened at the word 'books' and Harry and Ron looked skeptical. Ginny looked scared stiff as she remembered the diary.

"It's okay Ginny. These books are only about magic. They're not magical" Arthur assured her.

"We've already read Chapter 1 which was pretty dull" Tonks said.

"Then why do you look like hell when you were fine earlier, Sirius?" Harry challenged.

"Just…a really bad flashback. By the way, Remus. Remind me to get my bike back from Hagrid."

"It's not like you can ride it" Remus said.

"I didn't say I was going to ride it" Sirius whispered quietly so Molly wouldn't hear as he subtly pointed to Harry.

"Lily will come back to haunt you for that" Remus said.

"Should we explain or should I get started?" Arthur asked.

"Get started" Sirius said with a wink at the Weasley patron. The look on Harry's face was going to be classic.

Little did Sirius know, Harry wasn't the only one who wasn't going to like this chapter called 'The Vanishing Glass.'