Hey sorry it's been so long again. Everything really hectic here still

Harry arrived with a giant blanket of angst. Fred and George had interrupted him screaming at Ron and Hermione, cracking bad jokes to try and distract everyone. It was awkward at best but having Harry there, even under the circumstances seemed to brighten Sirius' mood somewhat. Not much happened on the weeks leading up to the trail. The barely there Hermione and George time flew to nothing. Harry, Ron and Hermione taking their places as the golden trio again leaving the twins to work on products, Sirius would still sit with them on occasion. The three of them telling jokes and mixing potions well into the night. The two had taken it upon themselves to keep Sirius happy. A task that wasn't particularly easy, not that they could blame him. Man escapes azkaban only have a year of freedom living as a dog in a cave before he's locked away in a dirty old house.

The day of Harry's trail rolled on giving George the first Hermione time he'd had since Harry had returned into their lives. The two ended up building another fort. George much preferred the last one, small and cosy. Barely enough room for the pair to lie without cuddling. This one however spanned across most of the living room. Sirius, Fred, Ron and Ginny also joined them in it. Hermione didn't seem to mind and George didn't really.. Of course he was a bit sour that his alone time had been changed into family time but with a war brewing family time was more important than ever.

They celebrated Harry's trial with butterbeer for the children and fire whiskey for the adults. Not that Sirius didn't sneak them all a few shots of fire whiskey. Sirius fell back into his doom and gloom phase soon after. Hermione got prefect not that anyone was surprised, Ron also got his badge. Something that everyone was surprised about. George tried not to hate himself too much for loving how shocked even Hermione was that Ron got prefect. Her confused face made his heart swell as she took a few moment to congratulate his little brother. He knew he shouldn't be happy but for him and his said pinning life it was a small sign that maybe Hermione didn't feel Ron was the greatest guy on earth who she wanted to spend the rest of her life with.

Although this put Ron in a foul mood and with Sirius surlier than ever even the twins couldn't wait to return to Hogwarts. Cases packed with different items from skyving snack boxes whilst they were taking in orders from mail. They'd placed an ad in the daily profit three days before Harry arrived.

It was only after they had sent Ginny hurtling down two flights of stairs with their cases that the twins realised maybe charming their cases to fly down wasn't the best idea. The loud scream she blurted out was enough to make the twins blood run cold as the sprinted after the cases shouting Ginny's name.

George got down first, throwing both their trunks off of Ginny and lifting her up. Fred was next to the pair in a second. Slinging an arm around Ginny as she tried to hit the pair off.

"I'm fine!" Ginny snapped. Blood dripping from her temple as Mrs Weasley screamed at the twins and pulled Ginny from them.

"We're sorry gin!" The pair yelped after her.

"Bring Ginny and Hermione's things down. WITHOUT MAGIC!" Mrs Weasley shouted over the bellowing Mrs Black who had woken up during the commotion. The twins did so without question. Rushing up the stairs and grabbing the girls trunks. George dropped Hermione's trunk at the sight of the bushy haired girl sprinting up the stairs chasing her large cat. The next 5 minutes were spent with the two rushing around trying to catch the ugly thing with coo's off crookshanks spilling from their mouths. It was George who finally caught the fur ball. Managing to flick his wand and levitate the daft thing. Hermione scooped it out of the air.

"Thank you" She said happily "I'm going to check on the boys" She said, rushing off down the stairs with the ginger cat wrapped in her hands.

The first 45 minutes of the Hogwarts express was nice. The twins chatting with Lee about products. Not to mention shoving a few different ones down his throat and howling with laughter as he vomited into a bucket. They threw him the other half after a second. The boy swallowing it greedily, pulling his dreads away from his face as the magic took effect and he stopped vomiting.

"Nice work guys!" Lee said with a laugh, whipping out his wand and cleaning himself up. Another 5 minutes and Hermione popped in. George could see Ron sulking outside.

"To what do we owe the pleasure Granger" George asked.

"I just thought I'd warn you. Malfoy's been made a prefect so try not to annoy him too much. You already get too many detention's as it is" She said with a sour expression.

"Malfoy's a prefect" Lee bellowed.

"How" The three of them asked, shocked. Hermione huffed.

"He's the second in our year. Only I beat him." She said, a proud tone in her voice.

"He must hate that." Fred pointed out.

"Of course. He's been trying to beat me since first year" she said happily. "Anyway. We need to go find Harry."

"Sit with us" George said quickly. Fred and Lee rolling their eyes with fond smiles.

"I'll see you three at the feast." With that she turned and left. George watched as she and Ron wandered off down the train. The three sat in silence for a second. George opened his mouth, ready to get Lee to try a feinting fancy when Fred spoke up.

"George and Mione made out" He said suddenly. George's head flicking to him with a glare. Lee's mouth fell open.

"What! When. How. Why. Was it adorable" Lee gushed.

"A game of dares. It was brilliant mate. I swear, he had stars in his eyes" Fred cooed. George tried not to get drawn into the conversation. Pretending to act aloof, within 2 minutes however he was ranting about cinnamon and fresh parchment.

Hermione, Ron, Harry and Ginny joined them at the feast. Hermione slid into the seat next to George. Harry and Ron across from them. George turned to the grand table looking over the teachers before leaning towards Fred.

"Look at toad face" He mumbled. Fred scanned the grand table before smirking.

"Reckon she's the new Defence against the dark arts professor" Fred asked. George nodded.

"What do you reckon her fate'll be" Lee asked, leaning over from his seat next to Harry.

"£5 galleons on de" George started

"Don't say it" Hermione interrupted. Slapping a hand over the back of his head. George turned to her with a smile opening his mouth to speak when Dumbledore stood up and begun his beginning of year speech.

Umbridge did a speech. Something about her made George feel uneasy, her chanting about the ministry and what not. His eyes strayed to Harry who was outright glaring at the woman dressed in pink.

Tensions were high in the gryffindor common room. 95% seemed to think Harry was lying about voldemort returning. George wasn't sure whether or not he envied them. Living in a state of ignorance seemed nice. Being able to ignore the coming war was something George would love to do. Still, he knew. Along with a handful of other people. It felt like it was on the tip of his tongue each conversation. The twins ignored it by playing pranks and making jokes. It was easier that way. They still knew what was going on. Still couldn't ignore it but at least this way they could make those who did know laugh and forget about the troubles coming for a second.

It was in their first lesson with umbridge they found out that the woman wasn't all she seemed to be, the bright pink clothes she wrapped herself in did nothing to hide the fact she was the educational version of Voldemort. She didn't seem to appreciate Fred and George stating this in her lesson either,

Skving snack boxes were a hit. People were more happy than ever to miss classes. By the second week they were already making more products, running low on what they had bought. They started testing on first years. Paying the little runts for their services. They were in a round of testing. Fred, George and Lee watching over them as the firsties all flopped down unconscious. The twins begun quickly scribbling down on clipboards ignoring the laughed around the common room as Lee begun slipping them the second half.

"Thats enough!" Hermione's voice snapped. George's head looked up, jumping at the sudden interruption.

"Yeah, you're right" George said with a nod. "This dosage looks strong enough doesn't it" He said happily.

"You can't test your rubbish on students!" Hermione spat.

"We're paying them!" Fred said indignantly.

"I don't care it could be dangerous!"

"Rubbish" Said Fred

"Calm down Hermione. They're fine" Lee said, reassuring the book worm.

"Yeah. Look, they're coming around no!" George said, pointing out the first years who were starting to wake up. "Feel alright" George asked, looking to the small dark haired girl lying at his feet.

"I..I think so" She replied shakily.. George threw a smile at Hermione at the answer.

"Excellent" Fred said. Only for Hermione to wrench the clipboard and fainting fancies from his hands.

"It is not excellent!" Hermione growled.

"Of course it is. They're alive aren't they!" Fred snapped back. Fred begun assuring her they would be fine once again only for the girl to interrupt him.

"if you don't stop doing it. I'm going to"

"put us in detention" Fred mocked. George laughed. Looking to Hermione with a smile.

"Make us write lines" He smirked. People around the room begun laughing. George watched as Hermione started to blush. About to give in to her wishes and give up. He could deal with the fall out from Fred later.

"No. But I will write to your mother!" Hermione spat in his face before he could.

"You wouldn't!" George gasped,taking a step back in horror.

"Oh yes I would. I can't stop you eating the stupid things yourselves but you're not giving them to first years!" She groused. Thrusting Fred's things back into her arms and stomping back over to the table. The twins and Lee stood shocked before Fred was storming upstairs spitting out insults in his wake.

It was the next day when George managed to corner the bookworm. Backing her up against a wall and putting a palm either side of her head to stop her from escaping.

"Granger" He said, false calm tone.

"Yes George."

"What in merlin's name were you doing yesterday" He asked.

"I'm a prefect and you were"

"You're the one who gave us the name for our shop. You basically told us to go ahead and do it"

"I didn't mean test it on first years. Did you even tell them what they would do."

"No but"

"Then don't get upset with me because you're taking advantage of first years." She snapped. George growled. Trying to think of something to say.

"You called our products stupid" He said.

"Well they are."

"Do you know how much work we've put into them. How much sweat and blood. Literally." George snapped.

"I know that George but I still won't condone the usage of them on unsuspecting first years." Hermione said,

"don't call our products stupid,"

"I will give your products respect when you stop using them on first years" Hermione said. George sighed, head falling as he looked to the floor.

"Now if you don't mind I really should be" Hermione started only for George to stop her by looking up with a glare.

"We'll do what we want with our last year at Hogwarts. No prefect has stopped us yet. Don't think you'll be any different just because you know our mother." George said hotly.

"Do not turn this into an argument George."

"You're the one who turned this into an argument." George snapped. "You could have confronted us in private rather than shouting at us in front of the entire gryffindor common room." George pointed out.

"What so you two could just make some stupid jokes."

"Will you stop calling us stupid." George bellowed.

"Well maybe I wouldn't if you got more than three O.W.L's" Hermione retorted. George freezing to glare at her. The two spent a few second like that. Her still locked against the wall as they stared each other down. Hermione took a deep breath. Before she sighed "I didn't mean that. I'm sorry, you're not dumb at all I just. You can't do things like that okay. I can't just sit and turn a blind eye to it." Hermione said softly. "If you at least tell them what product you're testing and tell me about it first so I can be there then maybe I will let you do it."

"Oh come on Granger."

"that's the best you're going to get." Hermione said. George sighed but gave a small nod. They would just have to do it somewhere other than the common room.

George looked back up, ready to move away from her only to freeze eyes falling on her lips.

Will she still taste like cinnamon He wondered. Eyes flicking up to her eyes for a second, his body was swaying closer before he could stop himself, everything felt like it was slow motion. His hands splaying out against the cold wall before clenching as he took a step closer. Bodies pressing against each other. His eyes didn't leave her's for a second. He was waiting for her to slap him or push him away. Make some excuse to run off. When she didn't George moved another inch forwards. Head ducking slightly. Eyes moving back to her lips.

"Can I" George didn't get to finish the question as he was suddenly flying to the other side of the corridor. Back slamming against the wall with a painful slap.

"Mr Weasley." A pinched voice said. George looked up from where he had slid down the wall, catching the eyes of toad face marching towards him. His eyes flicked to Hermione who was staring at him with wide eyes. "Detention. Come by my office tomorrow lunch time" She said with a little smile.

"What for" George asked, standing up and dusting himself off.

"Indecency in the halls" She said calmly.

"Indecency" Hermione repeated with a scoff "we were talking" She argued. George looked to the girl. Seeing no trace of a lie in her features.

Does she not know I was about to kiss her He wondered.

"It didn't seem like that Miss Granger. If you don't want a detention as well I suggest you be quiet."

"It's fine Granger" George snapped. Glaring at umbridge. "I'll see you tomorrow professor." George said before he was walking past her, Resisting the urge to slam his shoulder into hers. Her heard Hermione following after him. Once they were far enough away the girl started ranting about abuse of power.

"I mean honestly. Indecency. Is talking indecent now, she gave Harry a detention for telling the truth yesterday as well."

"Of course she did. She a ministry worker. They're all burying their heads in the sand." George said sourly. Hermione huffed before mumbling about getting to class and running off. George watched her go. A sigh audible on his lips. Wondering if she was really so stupid she didn't realise what George was going to do or if she was just trying to save him the embarrassment of rejection. Either way. George knew he wouldn't be trying that again any time soon.

Sorry it's really short.

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