Alex and Katie went to the great hall the next morning; Alex got what she wanted a good night's rest. When the girls arrived in the hall they spotted Harry, Ron, Hermione, Neville and Ginny all having breakfast so Alex decided to go sit with them.
"Hey guys!" Alex said as she sat down opposite Ron, Harry and Hermione,
"Hey" Came the reply from them all,
"You seen Fred or George this morning?"
"No, they're probably off sorting out some prank knowing them" Hermione said, not once looking up from her copy of the Daily Prophet, then right on que the twins ran into the hall with their hands in their robes clearly hiding something, they obviously had to dodge the goblet, they hadn't drunken the potion yet so the spell would not work. They slipped onto the seat beside Alex.
"We've done it!" Exclaimed George,
"What already?" Alex said, rather surprised that they had the potion finished already.
"It's actually quicker to do than we thought" Said Fred, Alex shrugged her shoulders as a response and carried on eating her bacon and eggs.
"So what's the plan?" Alex asked, through a mouthful of bacon.
"Tonight at precisely six o'clock we're going to drink the potion," Started Fred,
"Then all we have to do is jump over the age line and quickly put all three of our names in" Finished George smiling, Alex nodded,
"Ok then sounds great!"
"It's not going to work" Said a satisfied voice which seemed to come from behind the Daily Prophet, together Fred and George shared a look and pushed Hermiones' paper down so they could talk to her face.
"Oh yeah and why's that Granger?" Asked George,
"You do know Dumbledore drew that line himself?" She replied, the boys looked behind them.
"So?" Replied Alex, Hermione gave her a surprised look.
"So, a genius like Dumbledore could not possibly fooled by something so pathetic and dim-witted as an aging potion.
"Ah, but that's why it's so brilliant," Started Fred,
"Because it's so pathetically dim-witted!" Finished George, the twins and Alex high fived each other as Hermione got up and left the room in a huff, surprisingly Alex's brother Justin started chasing after Hermione, with a look of concern all over his face. George nudged Alex. "Hello, hello, hello what's all this then?"
"I rather think your brother is taking a shine to 'Mione" Smiled Fred,
LATER THAT NIGHT.
It was six o'clock sharp and Alex had just arrived in the great hall, she was greeted by Harry and Ron,
"Shame isn't it? Three years from now and we're old enough to be chosen" Said Ron, Alex simply smiled and stood next to them.
"Yeah rather you than me" Harry replied causing both himself and Alex to laugh. Just then roaring laughter and loud booming voices calling "YES" could be heard entering the great hall, Fred and George came running in and high fiving everyone who cheered. Then moved over to Alex.
"Got it!" They sang together, Alex smiled and patted them on the back.
"Great work guys!" Alex congratulated them, the boys smiled and stood on a nearby bench and began shaking the viles containing the potions.
"Ready Fred?"
"Ready George" The lids popped off of the top and they began to drink the slickly green, lumpy liquid, they paused for a moment until they felt their bodies tingle something told them that the spell had worked, so without a moment's hesitation they jumped over the line and into the centre and landed just next to the goblet they froze for a few seconds making sure it had actually worked when it appeared that it had everyone cheered and clapped.
The boys ran around the inside of the age line jumping and dancing with glee, then they came to a hault. "Ready?" They asked each other at the same time, with both smiles and nods they reached up and put their names and Alex's name into the goblet, again feeling victorious they high fived each other while the crowd applauded them.
Just then the fire flew out of the goblet and crashed into the twins throwing them high into the air and then slinging them over where the staff table rest, they both landed face first and the whole hall turned deathly silent unaware as to if the boys were injured. Fred and George sat up for brief moment, Alex was worried for them so she ran to the front of the crowd to catch a glimpse of them then suddenly.
"HAHAHAHAHA you guys look ridiculous!"She cried out, the boys turned their heads to the crowd where Alex had called from then saw the laughter on the faces of their classmates. They looked to each other then saw the gray hair and long beards.
"You said," Started Fred,
"YOU SAID!" continued an enraged George as the twins had their first ever (physical) fight on the floor, Alex had seen enough.
"Alright, alright stupefy!" She called out, the spell did not hit the boys it merely caused a bright light in between them as it hit the headmasters chair far behind them, the boys looked up. "Hermione, little help here?" She called back, Hermione stepped forward and in an unpronounceable language said a spell and waved her wand. In an instant the boys beards and gray hair was back to normal. Cedric walked over and placed three names into the goblet and turned to Alex.
"Thanks Cedric" She smiled up at him as sweet and innocent as a child did to get what they wanted. Fred and George stood up quite shocked but then before they could say a word to Cedric he walked off. The boys approached Alex, but first noticed the bunch of pupils still staring at them.
"Alright go back to your knitting, nothing left to see here!" Ordered Fred, everyone turned away and most left the room as Fred and George spoke with Alex.
"You asked Diggory to put your name in the goblet?" George asked, slightly confused as to why.
"Not just my name, yours too" She smiled and ran off upstairs with Hermione and Katie. Fred looked to his brother.
"Well our plan didn't work" Fred said disappointedly.
"Well at least our names are in the goblet" George replied glumly, the boys shrugged off the thought and went up to the common room to seek out what pranks they could pull.
