Mother Molly
by Teddylonglong
All recognizable characters belong to J. K. Rowling, and I am not earning anything by writing this story.
I am not a native speaker of English. Please excuse my mistakes.
Bill's sleep was abruptly disturbed early the following morning, when a voice penetrated his mind.
'Bill, please get up and come out into the hall. I'm waiting for you in front of the fat lady.'
Bill lazily rubbed his eyes. The voice had sounded familiar. 'Was that Mum?' he wondered in confusion, as he scrambled out of bed and hurriedly dressed, before he left through the portrait hole. Ignoring the fat lady's complaints about getting a watch, he curiously looked up and down the corridor, only to sigh in relief, when an Unspeakable came into view.
"It's Mum. Sorry to wake you at five in the morning, but I need you to show me the room you made last night."
Bill nodded in understanding. "Hi Mum, thank you for coming," he replied, before he led her to the entrance of the Weasleys' room. 'I hope it'll appear again,' he thought, as he anxiously paced the wall where the room was supposed to be three times. Fortunately, the door appeared without further ado, and he happily entered the room, which looked exactly like the room which he had created the evening before.
His mother followed close behind.
"Bill, did you make the room just for the Weasleys or for the extended family including Uncles Fabian and Gideon and the others? Otherwise, they won't be able to see the room."
With a sense of déjà vu, Bill gave his mother a helpless look and sighed. "I'm sorry, I made the room for Weasleys, but of course I meant our extended family."
Molly nodded in apparent understanding. "Would you mind if I tried to make a new room?"
"Please do so." Bill cast his mother a grateful look and followed her out of the room.
His mother, still wearing her Unspeakable robes, began to pace the corridor, before a new door appeared in the wall. It looked more ornate than his own, and it was dark blue.
Bill eagerly stepped into the room after his mother only to stop dead in his tracks. 'This is brilliant,' he thought, as he let his eyes wander around the room. In fact, it was much larger than his own invention had been and did not only have a living room with comfortable looking sofas accompanied by some small tables. There were two other adjoining parts to the room. The first contained a huge dining table in front of an enormous bookcase that reached up to the ceiling. Next to it was what appeared to be a Quidditch pitch.
The wall opposite the door was occupied by an enormous window, which stretched over the whole length of the room and allowed the view over the grounds, including the Quidditch pitch and the lake up to the first row of trees of the forbidden forest.
"Wow, it's absolutely fantastic. Where's the fireplace though?"
His mother smirked, and before Bill knew what was happening, a door appeared right where the fireplace had been in his own room.
"This door leads diretly to the room next to the Potions lab, which is next to the prankery at Prewett Manor."
"Oh, so the whole family can easily come and visit?" Seeing his mother nod, he grinned, broadly. "That's totally cool. Thank you so much!"
"Let's meet here tomorrow morning at nine o'clock," his mother suggested, and Bill happily agreed, knowing that the following day was a Saturday.
HP
From that time onwards, the extended family with the exception of the two Hogwarts professors, made it a habit of visiting the Room of Requirement every Saturday morning. They even observed the Quidditch matches together sitting in front of the large window. On occasions, when they were not busy chaperoning Hogsmeade visits or had to attend Quidditch matches, Minerva and Severus joined them as well.
Harry and Ron as well as their older twin brothers were extremely excited at the idea of being at Hogwarts; however, much to their chagrin, they were not allowed to leave the Room of Requirement and step out into the halls of the castle.
"But Mum…"
"… we want to see Hogwarts…"
"… and it'll take ages…"
"… before we'll get to go there."
Ron and Harry cast her puppy dog looks, which were difficult to resist. However, Molly remained firm, and they knew better than to disobey.
HP
However, their older twin brothers had no such qualms. One day, during the last Quidditch match of the school year, when everyone was eagerly watching the match between Gryffindor and Ravenclaw, they quietly left the room.
Unfortunately, their older brother Percy noticed what they were doing and, quickly pondering if he should alert one of the adults or simply follow them to make sure they would be all right, he decided on the latter.
When he stepped out into the corridor, the twins were long gone. 'Probably in their cat forms, which is probably safer. We don't want to attract attention,' Percy thought and transformed as well. He dashed through the deserted halls of the castle, making sure that he would find his way back to the corridor, where he had come from, at all times.
However, although he roamed what he assumed was the entire castle, until he could hear the students storm back in, realising that the Quidditch match had to be over by now, he could not find his brothers. 'I'll better return to the room, before Granny Minerva or Uncle Severus find me. They know my Animagus form,' he thought and swiftly returned to the seventh floor. Upon reaching the floor, and he was absolutely sure that it was the correct floor, he realised in shock that there was no door.
After a moment of stupor, he recalled that Bill had told them something about needing a room and pacing the corridor, when he first discovered the room nine months ago. He swiftly transformed back into his human form and began to pace the corridor.
'I've lost the twins and need to find them,' he thought over and over, only to realise in relief that an old looking door appeared in the blank wall next to him. 'Mummy will be upset,' he thought, as he reached for the handle and stepped into the room.
To his absolute horror, the room where he found himself was not the room, where the extended Weasley family used to spend their Saturdays. The room was equipped with a huge number of shelves, reaching from the floor to the ceiling, which contained all kinds of items.
Excitement penetrated his eight-year-old's mind, making him forget all about his family for the time being, and he turned to the nearby shelf and examined the books. Some were written in very old-fashioned letters, and he put a small pile of books aside to take with him for later reading, when he suddenly saw something shiny between the dusty old items.
It was some kind of crown, and while he was not interested in any kind of accessory, he made to decipher the writing on it. 'Wit beyond measure is man's greatest treasure'.
'That sounds interesting,' he thought, wondering what wisdom had to do with the crown. His curiosity peaked, he climbed a few steps up the shelf and reached out for the crown, only to pull a huge pile of other items with him, as he crashed down onto the ground. However, the crown was firmly in his hand, and he had the impression as if it was calling out to him. 'Put me on your head. I will grant you wisdom beyond measure.'
Without hesitation, he put the crown onto his head. A mere instant later, a voice penetrated his mind.
'Who are you?'
"Percy Weasley."
'Are you a Hogwarts student?'
"No, not yet, but I'll be nine in August."
All of a sudden, he felt very tired and lay down to take a nap.
HP
Meanwhile, Fred and George Weasley scurried in their feline forms down to the dungeons, knowing that the Potions classroom meant hundreds of interesting ingredients for possible pranks. Of course, the potions lab, which their Uncle Severus had built at Prewett manor together with their twin uncles Fabian and Gideon and the house-elves, was equipped with the same choice of ingredients. However, Uncle Severus had charmed the ingredients to be out of reach for them, especially the most interesting items. Here, at Hogwarts, the ingredients were supposed to be available to the students, so that they hoped to be able to lay their hands onto them.
They found the door, which was labelled 'Potions classroom', and swiftly changed into their human forms. Unfortunately, however, they had to realise that the classroom was locked, and even with two whispered "Alohomora" the door did not budge.
Exchanging a look of exasperation, they transformed back into their feline forms, deciding to watch the Quidditch match in real, not simply through an enchanted window.
Heading out onto the grounds, they made themselves comfortable on the top row of the Hufflepuff stands, which were deserted except for three students sitting in the first row.
Together, they followed the match with interest – until another Stealth cat materialised right next to them.
=What are you doing here? Does your mother know where you are?=
=Uncle Severus!= they realised in shock.
=Follow me!=
The three cats quietly ran into the castle and made their way up to the seventh floor, where the professor changed back.
The twins quickly followed his example, cringing under his glare. A moment later, a door appeared in the wall next to them, and Severus led them into the room, where everyone was still observing the match, which just ended with the announcement that the Gryffindor Seeker had caught the Snitch.
"We'll talk about this." With this whispered promise, Severus abruptly strode back through the still open door, and the twins hurriedly made their way over to where the family was just celebrating Gryffindor's victory.
tbc...
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