Hermione had grown up over the summer. That did not go unnoticed by the twins. When they met up at Flourish and Blotts they tried the best they could to distract her from fawning over Lockhart but alas, they were unsuccessful. They wouldn't let her forget it for a while especially after his first lesson where Harry, Ron, Nevill and she had gotten stuck rounding up the pixies.

After that dreadful writing on the wall, Fred and George had let Hermione in on some secret routes inside the castle. They would help her go from one place to another but were careful to never use the same route twice in a row lest she discovered all their secrets, they also throughly enjoyed confounding the brightest witch of their age.

She had told no one about the Polyjuice Potion except Fred, apart from Harry and Ron. So when she had turned into a cat, Fred would sneak up in the nights to see her. He even brought her catnip once as a joke.

She did not find it funny

His twins absences became evident to George but, he chose to ignore them. After she got out of the hospital wing, Hermione was sitting in the library helping the twins out with their homework and that's when the tension became evident. They were writing about the Goblin wars and a traitor that had led to the defeat. George had taken the opportunity to round on the both of them

"You know what traitors do guys, they keep secrets and then they betray them… What do you suppose we should do with traitors? What would you do to a person who you thought was a friend or a brother and then suddenly they weren't ,Freddie?" George's outburst had both Fred and Mione shocked.

"George, what's all this about?" Fred Asked

"I dunno Fred, cause no one will tell me…" George snapped back and then slammed his books shut and left

Fred and Hermione exchanged a look before they ran after him

"George! stop! I'm sorry it's my fault… I asked Fred not to tell you…" Minoe hollered as she ran to catch up to the tall boy…

George stopped and glared, never once had she imagined how the twins would look mad but after this, she hoped she was never the cause of it ever again. The three of them popped into an empty class room and Fred and Mione told him everything. George was really mad at first but he cracked up at the catnip incident. With all this put behind them, the three of them head out when they hear filch coming "They're gonna get you this time Potter!" Hermione wanted to run towards filch, but the Twins knew better carrying her off to Gryffindor tower. After Harry's episode with Parsleltongue in the Duelling club, they knew being caught with him would not be the best way to help him out of whatever it is he had gotten himself into this time.

Later that night, they found out that Justin Finch Fletchley and nearly headless nick had been added to the list of the prettified. The twins tried to ease the tension for everyone but mostly just for 'mione by treating Harry like the heir but sadly no one thought it was funny. Watching them play around and hiss and spit gave Hermione an Idea. She knew she couldn't go to Lockhart for another restricted section book, so she did the next best thing, she asked the Twins to help her out again. All in the name of research. With the curfews getting more strict and the boys using the invisibility cloak, Hermione used the help from the twins to sneak out of Griffindor tower and head to the library after hours. The helped but kept a firm look out on the Marauders map. At some point they must have dozed because when they woke up the little dot labelled Hermione Granger was in the hospital wing. They skipped breakfast to come see her and begged at her petrified form, to forgive them for doing something so foolish.

Later that year Harry managed to defeat the dark lord again and save both Ginny and Hermione. They realised that they had been too busy joking around to pay attention to their sister and their friend. They vowed to be more careful in the future but, they were the Twins and where they went, pranks and disaster followed.

The summer of this year was an eventful one as they took a trip to Egypt to meet their curse breaker brother Bill courtesy a lottery. The strange recipes and the ancient practices that they discovered there got them thinking about new pranks to play on people. They decided, to up their game and create something new and even began testing with spells. This was the birth of the Joke Shop Idea and who better to help than than their witty bushy haired brilliant friend. Little did they know that this little venture might prove to be phenomenally helpful in the years to come. Despite all the travelling, Hermione and the Twins kept in touch. Often sharing ideas for products and such.

Somewhere along the summer, Hermione had grown in their eyes from their brothers friend and housemate to an equal. Somewhere along the lines of the letters they had started reading between the lines and flirting harmlessly with each other and the definition of their relationship had taken a step forward without either of them noticing.


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