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Title: Test Run
Author: kalina-blue
Rating: PG
Word Count: 496
A/N: Written for dramione ldws round 1, challenge 6. This time the Prompt was 'Weasleys Wizard Wheezes'. I had a hard time incorporating that theme into a Dramione Drabble, let me tell you.
For the purpose of the drabble, let's all assume that Fred's not dead.
Test Run
She had to resort to begging, but after two years of dating and another four months of being engaged, Hermione had finally been able to convince Draco to accompany her to Sunday lunch at the Burrow.
In her eyes, it was the test run for their wedding, which was set to be the following month. While she had been overjoyed when Draco had proposed, Hermione feared that with both the Weasley clan and the Malfoy family in attendance, their wedding was a disaster waiting to happen.
Hence, she had insisted on Draco's company at the Burrow, to test the waters so to speak.
Everything went well until 74 minutes into the lunch, when Fred 'accidentally' let a purple substance fall into Draco's pudding. The future groom, unfortunately, didn't notice as he was busy staring down his fiancée's décolleté.
At 74 minutes and 30 seconds Draco took another bite of his desert, unknowingly ingesting the newest and yet unnamed product of WWW. Another 30 seconds later his aristocratic looks were somewhat diminished by his now pink hair.
Only ten seconds after finding out why everyone had suddenly started laughing, Draco had deduced who had tempered with his food and dyed his hair this undignified colour. He was aiming to hex the twins, and merely Hermione's pleading look stopped him from starting a fight.
A later analysis of the situation by the bride-to-be and her maid of honour, Ginny, would reach the conclusion that at this point the situation could still have been defused and further escalation of the fighting might have been prevented.
Until Fred cockily remarked to George that the test run of their newest invention had gone rather smashingly and that he was very pleased with the results.
This little sentence, quite innocent when compared to Fred's earlier actions, had an astounding effect on Hermione. Completely abandoning her agenda of keeping the peace, she drew herself up to her full height, one hand at her hip, the other pointing her wand right at the troublesome duo. What then followed was neither pretty nor in any way peaceful.
The twins were treated to a 10 minute lecture on how their irresponsible behaviour when testing their new products was dangerous to the public, and how they should be brought up on charges. The speech then drew a quite unflattering parallel between Fred and George's questionable abuse of innocent first years back at Hogwarts and their most recent performance. Hermione concluded that Fred and George needed to finally learn to respect their fellow witches and wizards.
At the end of her monologue, which Mrs. Weasley couldn't have delivered with more force, Hermione quickly flicked her wand at the twins, a faint popping noise the only evidence of her wordless spell.
87 minutes after the lunch had started Hermione dragged a still pink-haired but smirking Draco away. The twins were staring after them, identical looks of horror on their faces and two bald heads gleaming in the midday's sun.