"So how are you and your lover doing?" Fred asked casually to Ginny.
She took the broom in her hand and whacked her brother on the head. He jumped and pointed his wand at his sister. "Let's not forget which one of us can use magic without getting kicked out of school."
She grumbled a "Sorry." George looked up at Fred and the two burst out into laughter.
Changing the subject, Ginny asked "So are we fulfilling the plan tonight?"
George grinned and said "Of course, seeing as we go back to Hogwarts tomorrow."
"And we just perfected the cookies last night." Fred said proudly.
Ginny snorted and said "What did mum say when she noticed you were baking cookies?"
"Well she was quite suspicious until we let her try one." Said Fred.
Ginny's eyes widened and she said "You let her try one! What did she say?"
Fred and George both rolled their eyes and said "She just went on and on about dad. It was quite annoying actually. When she got to his eyes and how they glowed with love whenever they held hands we had to draw the line." Fred said.
"So you created an antidote?" Ginny asked.
"It's just a powder that you put into a glass of milk." George said with a grin.
"You guys are Genius's." Ginny said in awe at their invention.
"We know that, darling sister." Fred said. "Now why don't you find that boy with the scar on his forehead and snog him or something."
She stood up and said "I think I will." And she strut out of the room.
"Do you think we need to have a talk with Harry?" George asked as he watched his little sister leave the room.
"Eh, I don't think we really have much to worry about with Harry." Fred said, "He knows just about as much as Ginny knows about guys when it comes with girls."
George laughed loudly and the two boy's walked away from the curtain they were cleaning and walked upstairs to go over the plan for tonight one last time.
When Fred, George and Ginny had tried to come up with a plan they knew it had to make Hermione upset with Ron. They needed to break up in order for Fred to get with her. As they thought in silence Fred noticed Ginny's eyes light up. She told him about Ron getting a letter from Lavender Brown and about how he talked about how pretty she was.
When Ginny left his room he tried to think of what he could do and then an invention struck him: Crush Cookies.
Basically you would give a cookie to someone and they would begin talking about someone they fancy and what they fancy about them. He was going to give everyone a cookie, but Ron would get one that was really a crush cookie. He would start talking about Lavender and Hermione would break up with him.
It would be great.
So that night when Mrs. Weasley called them down to dinner, Fred and George prepared the cookies and put the Crush Cookie on top.
Dinner went by normally and quickly…until Crookshanks came along.
The cat could smell the cookies in the basket and she was trying to get one. Fred kicked at the cat, but it didn't stop scratching the basket.
"Damn cat." He said angrily. Hermione looked under the table and saw Crookshanks.
"Oh my! I'm sorry!" she said as she came over and picked up her cat. She noticed the basket and saw the cookies inside. "Cookies?" she said with a laugh and picked them up.
Mrs. Weasley smiled and said "Fred and George made some last night, and I tried one and let me tell you, they were delicious."
Hermione grinned and grabbed a cookie. " Do you mind?" as she held the cookie.
George looked at Fred with wide eyes. What were they supposed to say? NO! Only Ron can have that cookie! That sounded stupid even to Fred. So as he watched Hermione stick the cookie in her mouth he prayed to Merlin that she didn't pick the cookie that he thought she picked.
His worst fears came true when she said "Wow this cookie is great! Want to know who else is great?-"
Then Fred did the only thing he could think of. "Silencio!" Then he passed Hermione a glass of milk that she drank in confusion. When the antidote reached her and she realized what she was about to say she stormed out of the room.
Mrs. Weasley was looking at Fred in confusion with suspicion lying in there. Fred walked out of the room and went after her.
"Hermione!" he yelled when he saw her storming down the hallway.
She spun around and he could see anger storming in her eyes. "What do you want?" she asked harshly. "Embarrass me? Do you realized what I was about to say."
"I suspected you were going to say Ron's name." Fred said.
She blushed and said "Goodbye Fred." And stormed out of the room. Fred just stared there trying to think of what in Merlin's pants just happened.
In his state he didn't even notice Ron come into the hallway and say "Where did 'Mione go?"
Ron cleared his throat and even though Fred heard him this time he pretended he didn't, not really in the mood to talk. Ron walked away and Fred walked up to his and George's room. Things were supposed to go right tonight. Tonight I was supposed to get Hermione.
These were the thoughts that stayed in his mind that night as he drifted off to sleep.