Chapter 13: Harry's Arrival!
Kellie sat in the kitchen with Bill and Charlie, sipping on some butterbeer as they awaited for Harry's arrival from number 4 Private Drive. Ron, Fred, George and Mr Weasley had all gone to get him leaving the rest of the family, plus Hermione and Kellie at the Burrow. "I didn't think it took four people to get one wizard." Kellie hummed as she took another sip.
The flames in the fire burnt green and Fred shot out grinning. "What's so funny, little brother?" Charlie asked as Fred leaned against the side of the fire place.
"We'll just see." Fred grinned as George appeared. Fred helped his twin with the trunk and moved it out of the way as the youngest of Weasley males swam into view. "Had he taken it yet?" Fred pressed as Ron came out of the fire place in the kitchen.
"No, not at the moment. I saw it though." Ron said with an amused laugh as he went and sat next to Charlie. Across from him was the only blond in the house, and sitting on the table next to her was George, who had just placed Harry's trunk to the side with Fred.
"Saw what?" Kellie said in a warning tone as she narrowed her eyes on Fred who stayed by the fire place waiting for Harry.
"It's nothing, love." George said pulling her attention away from his twin. "Fred just dropped a ton-tongue toffe, we all knew that Harry's oaf of a cousin is on a diet, and any form of candy will get him."
"So now he's going to be traumatized once more by wizards." Kellie said rolling her eyes, "You two are-"
"Geniuses?" Fred grinned making Ron, Bill and Charlie all chuckle while George matched Fred's grin.
"Idiots are more like it." Kellie sighed, "That just makes it all worse for-" The flames erupted green once more and Harry shot out, "Harry!"
Harry toppled out of the fire place, still not use to floo, as Fred offered a hand to help up, "Did he eat it?" Fred asked excitedly, ignoring everything Kellie had been saying.
"Yeah." Harry nodded, standing up with the offered hand. "What exactly was that?"
"Ton-tongue Toffee." Fred explained brightly, "George and I invented them, and we've been looking for someone to test them on all summer..."
"Yeah, and Percy won't touch anything sweet." Bill said cheekily, and everyone around the table laughed, even Kellie, who had been disapproving of the twins actions moments before. Harry and Fred walked over towards the table, and Charlie put his hand out for Harry to shake, "How're you doing, Harry?"
"I'm doing fine." Harry replied with a smile, glad to be away from the Dursleys.
Bill got to his feet, allowing Fred to steal his seat. "Nice to finally meet you, Harry." Bill said shaking Harry's hand. Before anything else could be send, a loud popping noise came, and Mr Weasley appeared at the end of the table where George was sitting. He looked more red in the face than any of them had seen him.
"That wasn't funny, Fred!" Mr Weasley shouted, "What on Earth did you give that Muggle boy?"
"I didn't give him anything." Fred said innocently, but still held an evil grin. "I dropped it... It was his fault he went and ate it. I never told him to."
"You dropped it on purpose!" Mr Weasley roared as George and Fred grinned at each other. "You knew he'd eat it, you knew he was on a diet-"
"How big did his tongue get?" George asked, turning quickly to face his father, his grin of amusement and knowing.
"It was four feet before his parents would let me shrink it!" Everyone except Mr Weasley roared with laughter, Kellie trying her best to hold it in, and not be apart of it. "It isn't funny!" Mr Weasley silenced them, "That sort of behaivor seriously undermines wizard-Muggle relations! I spend half of my life compaigning against the mistreatment of Muggles, and my own sons-"
"We didn't give it to him because he's a Muggle." said Fred indignantly.
"Nope, we gave it to him because he's a great bullying git." George commented, "Isn't he, Harry?"
"Yeah, he is, Mr Weasley." Harry said with a small laugh.
"That's not the point." Mr Weasley continued, "You wait until I tell your mother-"
"Tell me what?" It went silent in the kitchen as Kellie slipped out of her chair and over to Mrs Weasley who had just then entered the kitchen carrying a bag of grocries. Kellie took the bag from her, since she was unable to accompany her, and the two girls to the store. Mrs Weasley's eyes were narrowed with suspicion as she then spotted Harry, her tone change to her kind motherly tone, "Oh, hello Harry, dear." She smiled at him before snapping back at Mr Weasley, "Tell me what, Arthur?"
Mr Weasley was hesistant, and Kellie glanced over. She knew as well as Fred, George, Bill and Charlie, that Mr Weasley had never intended to tell Mrs Weasley what had happened. Hermione and Ginny appeared soon behind Mrs Weasley, each with bags of their own. Harry smiled at the two girls, happy to see his friends. Hermione smiled back, both unaware of what was about to unfold in the Burrow's kitchen. Ginny simply blushed madly and looked away after giving Harry a quick smile.
"Over here." Kellie said in a low voice to Hermione and Ginny as to not distract Mrs Weasley. The two girls nodded and the three of them set the bags down on the counter before unpiling the things.
"Tell me what, Arthur?" Mrs Weasley said once more, her voice quite dangerous.
"It's nothing, Molly." Mr Weasley mumbled, "Fred and George just- well I've had words with them, and-"
"What have they done this time?" Mrs Weasley said, anger evident in her voice, "If it's got to do with Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes-"
Hermione made her way towards Ron and Harry, "Why don't you show Harry where he's sleeping, Ron?"
"He knows where he's sleeping." Ron said dumbly, "In my room, just like any other time."
"We can all go." Hermione hissed hitting Ron the slightest on the back of his head.
"Oh," Ron said finally understanding, "Right."
"Yeah, we'll come too." George said, not meeting his mothers eyes.
"You stay where you are!" Mrs Weasley snarled and George froze from getting off the table.
Kelie grabbed Ginny's wrist and pulled her out of the kitchen following Harry, Ron and Hermione up the zig-zagged staircase up on the narrow hallways in the Burrow. Ron's room was at the top, and so it was quite the way to go.
"What are Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes?" Harry asked as they climbed the staircase.
Ron and Ginny both giggled while Hermione did not, "Kellie, care to explain?" She asked, looking back at the blond.
"Fred and George are inventors of practical jokes." Kellie began, "Fake wands, ton-tongue toffee, other trick sweets, loads of stuff." Harry nodded, understanding, "Well, they want to open a joke shop, and until they can get enough money to do so, they had planned on doing order sheets for mail delievery to students at Hogwarts, and in Hogsmeade. Brillant really, if I say so myself."
"That's because you help them with half the stuff they make." Ron laughed, "Mum found the stack of order forms, and burnt them. She was right out mad at them."
"We had been hearing explosions in their room for ages, but we never thought they were actually making stuff." Ginny continued, "We thought they just liked the loud noise."
"Only most of the stuff- well all of it- was pretty dangerous." Ron explained, "Mum wants them to work at the ministry like Dad, and she told them not to make any more order forms and any more of their goods."
"It's because they didn't get as many O.W.L.'s as she wanted them too." Hermione explained.
"Well when you have a best friend that's a genius, it's hard to match up to it." Ron said matter-of-factly. "I know the feeling."
"I'm not a genius." Kellie protested, "I merely know what I'm good at. Hermione, you and I, we're the same." Hermione nodded, giving Kellie an approving smile. "We just don't like to show what we're weak at."
"Exactly." Hermione said with a smile, "And you'll never know." She pointed out before Ron could ask.
A door suddenly opened on the second landing and Percy peered out, his glasses placed on his face once more. Kellie smiled simply at him while Ron and Ginny contained their fits of giggles. Percy looked quite annoyed as he looked out at them. "Hi, Percy." Harry said politely.
"Oh, hello, Harry." Percy said, "I was wondering who was making all the noise. I'm tring to work in here, you know- I've got a report to finish for the office." He huffed, "It's rather difficult to concentrate when people keep thundering up and down the stairs."
"We're not thundering." Ron said irritable all ready with his brother. "We're walking. Sorry if we've disturbed the top-secret workings of the Ministry of Magic."
"What are you working on?" Harry asked, being the politer of the two boys.
"It's a report for the Department of International Magical Cooperation." Percy said quite smugly, "We're trying to standardize cauldron thickness. Some of these foreign imports are just a shade too thin- leakages have been increasing at a rate of almost three percent a year-"
"That'll change the world, that report will." Said Ron sarcastically. Ginny and Kellie stiffled their giggles by covering their mouths with their hands. "Front page of the Daily Prophet,I would expect, cauldron leaks."
Percy flushed a light pink before saying heatedly, "You may sneer, Ron, but unless some sort of international law is imposed, we might well find the market flooded with flimsy, shallow-bottomed products that seriously endanger-"
"Yeah yeah, all right-" Ron said annoyed with Percy talking, "Let's just go." He made his way once more up the stairs, the others following as Percy slammed his door shut.
From downstairs, Mr Weasley had told Mrs Weasley what had happened with the toffees, and before they had even reached Ron's room, Bill had Apparated in front of the group, pointing at Kellie, "Me? What did I do?"
"Fred and George are dragging you into it too." Bill said amused. "Mum doesn't believe it, but they're saying you did."
"Lovely bunch they are." Kellie sighed before looking up to the four, "I'll talk to you guys later."
Bill and Kellie made their way back downstairs, Percy opening his door to make a snide remark about them going up and down and need to decide where they're going to stay when he realized it was Bill and Kellie. He simply closed his door without saying a word to either of them. "He knows not to say anything to me." Bill remarked, "I'm his older brother, and know so many more spells than him that he knows it's best just to stay quiet."
"Wish I had that power." Kellie said with a small laugh as they landed soon in the kitchen.
She licked her lips before entering where Fred and George were sitting on one side of the table, Mr Weasley on the other, and Mrs Weasley standing at the very end, her face flushed of its color from her anger. Kellie could see Charlie outside catching a gnome with his wand and teasing Crookshanks by having the gnome float into the air and out of the cats reach.
"Take a seat, Kellie, dear." Mrs Weasley said, her voice more calm than what Kellie would have thought. Kellie hesitated before sitting between the twins on one side of the table.
"May I ask why I've been brought down here?" Kellie said after a small pause. Mrs Weasley had only ever yelled at her once, and that was when she came over for Christmas last year and she had gotten numerous owls about Fred and George, and had any owls about herself fowarded to the Burrow so her uncle would not see them. Fred, George and herself had gotten a month of detention for an experiment they had done which caused Kellie to be in the hospital wing for a week, and a lot of work for Dumbledore to keep quiet about to the Ministry, and Rita Skeeter.
"The boys would like to say sorry for acusing their best friend who would never do such a thing as create a sweet that would enlarge a Muggles tongue." Mrs Weasley said, her anger mostly in check.
"She's helped us with some of them." Fred argued.
"He's telling the truth, Mrs Weasley." Kellie blushed a light pink. "I've helped them with quite the number of things."
Mrs Weasley let out an exasperated sigh of defeat. "I don't know what I'm going to do with you two." She said, targeting Fred and George, "You should look up to Kellie, not have turned her into a trouble maker like you."
"Actually, Mum, Kellie helped us become who we are." George grinned, "She was the one that first came up with the idea of charmed treats." Kellie looked at George like he had gone bonkers, admitting to his mother she had assisted.
Mrs Weasley heaved a great huff as she turned from them. "Just go." She said, "Help Bill and Charlie will the tables..." Fred and George both nodded, grabbing Kellie by the arms and escorting her out of the kitchen. Mrs Weasley turned towards the sink and counter where the groceries were left at. "Arthur... how did Fred and George meet Kellie?"
"O-on the train their first year." Mr Weasley stuttered out, not ready for such a direct question. "Remember we got an owl the next day from them, telling them about the girl that we had helped find nine and three quarters. They sat on the train, and were all placed in Gryffindor."
"I know that." Mrs Weasley sighed, "But how is it that Kellie, such a bright, intellegent, well mannered young lady, become best friends with those two?"
"Maybe it was fate that Kellie met us all that day." Mr Weasley said with a small smile, "Aren't you glad they did meet?"
"Of course I am, Arthur." Mrs Weasley said with a smile of her own. Kellie was like a sister to Ginny, and Ginny had found over the years that, much unlike any of her brothers, Kellie would sit and listen to Ginny whenever she needed help, at school, or at home. Kellie helped Ron during the vacations that she was there and whenever he had homework, her or Hermione was there to help. She had met Bill and Charlie before she had met Harry, and the two had taken quick liking to her. Bill had once called her a mini him, and Charlie argued saying she was a mini him. Even Percy appriciated having Kellie around. He, like his parents, never took her as the pranking type of person, but maybe that was only because of her best friends always took the blame.
Mrs Weasley had taught Kellie how to cook over half the things she knows how too, and Kellie was always so polite and well mannered, always offering to help with anything and everything. She facinated Mr Weasley by bringing him Muggle items that she would buy around town, and give it to him in thanks for everything and as presents on all occasions. She had introduced him to a disco ball that she had bought at an 80's store before it closed.
Mr Weasley had left the kitchen before Harry, Ron, Hermione and Ginny had entered. Mrs Weasley had fallen back into the dispair of her twin boys who caused as much havoc as a bowling ball at a bowling alley. "We're eating out in the garden." She told the four as they entered. "There's just not enough room for eleven people in here." She paused, not looking from what she was doing as she spoke, "Girls, do you think you can take the plates outside?" Hermione and Ginny nodded, grabbing six plates each as they made their way from the kitchen, leaving Ron and Harry alone with the angered mother. "Bill and Charlie are setting up the tables. Knives and forks, please, you two." She spoke to Ron and Harry this time.
She pointed her wand quicker this time, and a lot more flick than she intended, the potatoes shot out of the sink, and out of their skins, bouncing off the ceiling and floors as Mrs Weasley let out a loud snap, "For heaven sake!" Harry and Ron slightly jumped at the noise. She flicked her wand at a dustpan which hopped off the sideboard and started skating across the floor, scooping up the potatoes. "Those two!"
She began to grab pots and pans from the cupboards and Harry and Ron knew she was talking about Fred and George. The two boys stayed, not wanting to get into Mrs Weasley way of wrath until she moved from the drawer that held the forks and knives. "I don't know what's going to happent to them. No ambition, unless you cound making as much trouble as they possibly can..." She slammed a large copper saucepan down on the kitchen table and began to stir, filling it with a creamy sauce.
"It's not like they haven't got brains." She continued her rant, irritably. "But they're wasting them, and unless they pull themselves together soon, they'll be in real trouble." She stirred more vigorously, "I've had more owls from Hogwarts about them than the rest of them put together. If they carry on like this, they'll end up in front of the Improper Use of Magic Office."
She summoned knives from one of the drawers, which soared between and above the two boys still standing in the kitchen, "I don't know where we went wrong with them." Mrs Weasley said, "Kellie's a brillant girl, and they couldn't take after her." She turned, setting her wand down as she grabbed out more saucepans. "It's been the same for years, one thing after another, and they won't listen to-" She grabbed her wand, attempted to do a spell, only for it to squek, "OH NOT AGAIN!" She roared slamming the wand down and grabbing her own. "Another fake wand. How many times do I have to tell them not to leave them lying around?!"
Ron nudged Harry as they were able to grab the silverware and left the kitchen, leaving Mrs Weasley to continue her frustrated rant. There came loud crash that drew Harry and Ron's attention to around the house where Bill and Charlie both had their wands drawn, two large old looking tables were floating in the air, as one table attempted to knock the other out of the air. Fred and George were cheering so brightly that no one would have guessed that they had been yelled at if not a half hour before.
Ginny was laughing in amusement while Kellie and Hermione had a conversation, attempting not to be caught with everyone else and the flying tables, although they found it much amusing. Suddenly one of the table legs was blown off by Bill's table, the leg plundering towards Hermione and Kellie, who pushed Hermione back and drew her own wand, saying a soft, "Protego." before a shield arose in front of her and the leg ricochetted off and towards the group once more.
Hermione gave Kellie a stern look before saying, "You're underaged, Kellie! You can't use magic!"
"Oh yes, I'm going to allow a leg to come flying at me and knock me to St Mungos so I miss the Quidditch Cup." Kellie said pointingly towards Hermione, "No muggles are around, it's a house full of wizards, they're not going to notice that I used a protection charm to safe my life or not."
"But that's breaking the rules!" Hermione emphasized. "You're a prefect, you shouldn't be breaking the rules."
"Rules are meant to be broken." Fred said as he and George ran over to Kellie.
"Are you all right?" George asked exaimining Kellie to make sure she wasn't hurt.
"I'm fine." She said with a smile, branishing her wand before Mr and Mrs Weasley appeared to witness it.
"Rules are to make sure nobody gets hurt."
"And so if Kellie didn't use magic, she would have been hurt." Fred argued, he did have a point, and Hermione dropped it, turning and leaving to Ginny, Ron and Harry.
"Thanks, Fred." Kellie said with a smile towards her friend.
"Anytime." Fred grinned back before he looked over, "C'mon, Mum, Dad and Percy our now out for dinner." He turned and trotted away while George looked at Kellie quite seriously. "I'm fine, George." She assured him, "See? No bruises, cuts or any other harm done to me." She gave him assuring smile and he gave a smile back before the two of them joined everyone else for dinner.
Dinner consisted of talk Quidditch, to the Ministry and Lugo Bagman, who was an old beater for the Wasps, who was in charge of the Wizarding Sports now. He was the reason why the Weasleys, Kellie, Hermione and Harry could all go to the Cup. Mrs Weasley brought up the length of Bill's hair again, and how she wished he would allow her to just trim it off.
"The ladies like long hair, Mrs Weasley." Kellie said giving Bill an approving grin. "It's what's in now."
"Thank you, Kellie." Bill said with a smile for the support. George shot Fred a look from next to Kellie as Fred occupied himself to the food in front of him. "And it's really not like the Goblins care what I look like, Mum."
"If they did, they'd all be jealous." Kellie teased as George stabbed a potato slice particularly harder than he meant too. "You okay, George?" Kellie asked, noticing the clank of the fork stabbing through the potato and onto the plate.
"Peachy." He said with a very false grin. Fred looked over and then looked to Bill who held a very amused look in his grin.
"What's wrong, Georgie?" Kellie cooed leaning on his shoulder, "Don't tell me your jealous because I'm saying Bill could get the ladies if he had the long hair, are you?" George turned a light shade of pink at the pet name he had told her their third year not to call him by, but she insisted too every time he didn't comply.
"No..." George said focusing on his plate, "The bloody potato wouldn't let me get it with the fork is all." Fred snorted at his side as Mrs Weasley shot a glare down the table at the boys.
Once dinner was over with, Mrs Weasley ushered everyone off to bed, because they would all have a very early morning coming up with the Quidditch Cup. Hermione, Ginny and Kellie couldn't get to sleep right away as they talked about what it would be like at the Quidditch Cup. Hermione and Kellie, who both had grown up as Muggles, had no idea what to expect, while Ginny had heard about it over the years from Ministry people.
"It sounds exciting." Kellie said with a smile, "I can't wait."
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A/N-I couldn't edit this one because it just wouldn't let me on here(fanfiction). So once I can edit it, I will. =) And yes, I do believe Bill is still working in Egypt at the time, and I do believe I spelt that wrong too, I'm sorry, but in here, he's working at Gringotts all ready! =) Just to make life easier on my part. I really can't remember and if anyone does, let me know. =) Thanks for the reviews, favs, and alert additions. You make my day. =) Also for some reason, if I can't edit it on Fanfiction. it'll mess up sometimes the way the paragraphing goes. So if it's confusing, let me know, and I'll try to fix it ASAP! I have no life and I'm online 24-7 since I'm not in school this semester. Thanks! And don't forget to review!