Hermione had been up all night thinking of her plan, she had gone over it a million times it seemed, yet she was still nervous, what if it went wrong? Surely it wouldn't…it was less harmful then his horrid shower screen. She ran through it one more time then crawled into bed and hoped sleep would come soon.
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It was late on Tuesday night, most of the common room had gone to bed, either because they were tired or they wanted to escape homework, the latter had been Ron's reasoning.
Hermione had all the incantations in place, she just needed Fred to go to bed, and then the magic would begin. She sat trying to study, but she found she was just reading the same paragraph again and again without noticing a single word. Fred and George were busy playing a game of exploding snap with Lee over in the corner. She was just about ready to give up when Fred received a face full of the explosion and Lee laughed so hard he fell off his seat. Fred laughed along then said he was off to bed - it was show time. Hermione buried her face in her book as he walked past so that her face wouldn't give anything away.
She only had to wait about thirty minutes, until a puff of white smoke appeared above the fire place and revealed what looked like a muggle television screen, only three times its normal size set into the bricks. A few people started, Dean and Lavender looking around for what had caused it, Hermione heard one person say
'This should be good' with a laugh
'I hope so' Hermione muttered under her breath. She had set up a very complex set of charms around Fred's bed, to catch him sleep talking and broadcast it to the rest of the common room, she hoped he would say something utterly embarrassing. Surely that trickers brain would admit something he didn't want people knowing. Maybe he got top of the class in the last exams, that would certainly wreck his Trouble Maker reputation.
Everyone seemed to wait in anticipation, George struggling with himself for a second but then sat back to enjoy the mayhem.
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Yet after a good twenty minutes of Fred snoring everyone had gotten extremely bored and had gone back to their homework or wizarding games. Just when Hermione was debating whether to turn off the screen and try tomorrow Fred finally started to mutter.
'Nope, I won't let you' in a grumpy toddler sort of way, everyone looked up in delight. They waited for a moment, debating what he wouldn't let happen
'No cut hair mum' he spluttered 'gum…' he added in a smaller voice. Dean laughed along with the others.
'My bear Percy! Give it back!' he said, everyone laughed, including George
'Didn't do it…silly cat anyway' Fred muttered and George looked delighted at the memory as Lee wiped his eyes from laughing. George pulled out two butter beers from his bag for himself and Lee then kicked his feet up on the desk.
'Don't tell mum...yeah I topped charms again...no seriously...PERCY! NO! Don't tell HIM' Fred muttered in outrage 'The shame...too much'
Hermione beamed. Got him. He wasn't all bad boy now was he.
After many more stupid utterances on Fred's behalf, and a few explanations by George to the common room, Fred made a loud snore and rolled to one side away from the camera, he was quiet for a very long time, clearly falling into a heaver sleep.
'Good show' Lee called out to the room at large
'More' someone shouted and the other laughed.
As if on cue, Fred muttered something and everyone fell quiet. He made a soft moaning noise, yet only George was alerted by it. However after a few more of these noises it seemed a few more people had caught onto what Fred's dream involved and were starting to chuckle. Hermione was too busy watching the other people's reactions, trying to gage if they were laughing enough to tease Fred in the morning to notice why they were actually laughing.
'Mm' Fred moaned in a content voice 'Lower' he muttered and Lee choked on his butterbeer.
'So good' Fred said, he was still rolled away from the camera screen above the fire place 'let…kiss you' his shoulders shifted on the screen.
'Who is he…?' Lee muttered
'…so perfect…'Fred whispered 'you….amazing….mmm' he moaned again in pleasure. Hermione now knew what was exactly going on and was very nervous as to what to do, she knew this would utterly embarrass Fred, but she liked most of the girls at Hogwarts well enough not to embarrass them…
Fred let out a strangled moan and George almost fell off his chair laughing and bright red in embarrassment for his twin.
'So…tight' he muttered in his sleep, utterly unaware that an eighth of the common room was watching his talk through his sex dream, Dean shrieked with laugher.
Hermione was flicking her wand on her thigh, trying to decide how far she could let this go before the poor girls name was mentioned.
'Faster' he said in a strangled voice, and he rolled back onto his back. Yet his blankets did not lay flat, they had a significant peak in them around his waist.
'Uh oh' Lee said almost sliding to the floor in laughter
'Ok enough is enough' Hermione uttered to herself and got up to cast down the screen when...
'…Mione' Fred muttered
'Ha!' George shouted once he had recovered from falling off his chair from shock and pure laughter. He was pointing at Hermione who was rooted to the spot, looking like she had just been stunned. She acted without a second's hesitation.
'Obliviate!' she yelled at the two closest people , Lavender and Dean suddenly had a very glazed look over their faces
'Obliviate!' She said again, hitting the students in the corner so they forgot what they had just seen.
'Quick!' George pulled Lee down to the floor out of Hermione's sight. Hermione didn't stop until she had wiped everyone's memory. She waved her wand and pulled the screen down off the wall and it folded itself into nothingness. She was shaking in shock, had she really just cleared all the students' minds? Surely there was a school rule about that! And had Fred really just said HER name?...
Dean looked around the common room
'Hey where did the screen go? He was just about to say who he was thinking of!' He said annoyed
'Yeah?' Lavender muttered looking around; she saw a flick of Hermione's hair as she ran upstairs
'He said Hermione' George whispered to Lee as they hid behind the couch out of sight.
'I know! You know what this means'
'They both like each other but don't know it' George said with a grin
'Wait…Hermione likes Fred? How do you know that?'
'Why else would she have wanted to wipe everyone's memory, she doesn't want her secret out!' George grinned.
'Shame you're a trouble maker then' Lee said with a glint in his eye
'A real shame' George chuckled darkly.
