Okay guys, I know that this is very close to the last chapter, which is a little (incredibly) strange for me. Only 6 days! But, as you can see, this chapter is very short. If all goes as planned, I will have another chapter up by tonight. And by tonight I mean 4 in the morning. My family is going on vacation tomorrow and we are leaving very early so that we can go pick up my brother on the way. The place where we are going has no wifi. And we are going for a week. I may or may not die during the course of said week. Anyway, I figured since I'm not going to be able to get another chapter up soon I should publish one now so you guys wont hate me when I get back. I'm going to try and set up a regular update schedule after I get back so you guys know when the new chapters are going to be up, but until then, adios!
Entering the room was made much less dramatic by Fred and George. Who felt the need to make weird ghost sounds while they were all stepping in until Hermione glared at them long enough to get them to shut up.
The room seemed incredibly messy. There was a desk shoved into the corner. On which were several magazine articles and old Daily Prophets which Hermione noticed all had something to do with Harry. So that definitely meant this room belonged to one of the twins. They had been told the first day they came that not all of these rooms belonged to Danny and Joey. They had just built on what was already within the mansion. The walls were lined with shelves with small vials of what Hermione figured must be potion ingredients because there was a large boiling cauldron in the corner resting on top of a wooden table surrounded by more empty glass vials on the floor.
However, this was not the thing that interested any of them. They were all more concerned about the object sitting in the middle of the room which was giving off a faint blue light. Which was the only thing keeping the room from being pitch black. It looked like a shallow stone basin with murky water swirling around in it.
"What is that thing?" Ron asked quietly.
"It's a pensieve." Hermione said quietly. At the curious looks they all gave her, she realized she was going to have to explain more. "It's an object used for viewing memories. And seeing as this room looks like it belongs to the twins, I would say it's the memories of either Danny or Joey."
"So, if we go in here, we could see anything that they're trying to hide?" George asked quietly.
"No." Hermione answered. "It's not necessarily something that they are trying to hide. It might even be something that they are very proud of and love watching. You can choose which memories you want to watch by removing them from your mind. But when you take them out, you're not able to remember them as clearly if you're not watching them through the pensieve. Since your taking a part of them out of your mind when you put them into the pensieve."
"Huh." Fred said. "But how can they watch it? It's so tiny."
"I don't know. That was never described in the book." Hermione said. "Well, it might've been but I couldn't really understand the concept of how they're watched and there weren't any more books with better descriptions of it in the library."
"Why, what did it say?" George asked.
"Well it said you go into the memories." She said. "But I don't see how that can be possible. Seeing as this thing is so small."
Fred started trying to look into the pensieve to see what memories the twins had put into it. Suffice to say, the rest of the group was surprised when Fred's body got pulled forward and he fell into the pensieve. They all stared at it in shock before they looked over and saw Fred right in the middle of the memory, waving at them to enter behind his.
"He's mental." Ron said. "Absolutely insane."
"Insane as he is, he still got in there first." Ginny said. "Are you guys coming?" She asked before jumping into the pensieve headfirst after George, who had already dived in.
Ron and Hermione glanced at each other before walking towards it and glancing in.
"I feel out of my comfort zone." Hermione said. "Usually it's Harry who does this sort of thing."
"I know." Ron answered back. "I feel like we're betraying him not bringing him along."
"Nonsense Ron!" Hermione said quickly, as if she had had the same fear and was trying to reassure herself as well. "He certainly would have wanted to find out all that he could about them, but what happens if these memories show something bad? He would be crushed."
"I suppose we have to go in there now huh?" Ron said after a short pause in their conversation.
Hermione looked to him and gave him a look which clearly meant that yes, they did have to go into the stone bowl sitting in the middle of a creepy dark room in the house of their best friends possibly psychotic older sisters. Then she pressed her face into the pensieve and was sucked in. Ron took a deep breath before following her in.