'Floo powder?' You begin thinking to yourself of all the places you could be going. "With Harry here with us I don't think we should be using it. Remember what happened last time?" you ask the boys.
"Yes but he has 'matured' or so Percy says. I guess with the two previous battles hes had with You-Know -Who he would have picked up some maturity by now." George says.
" Or at least learned how to say the words 'Diagon Alley'." Fred finishes with a smirk. You laugh and roll your eyes. "I'd hate to say it, but no matter how many years you both pick up, I don't think your maturity would ever be any better than a 5-year-old's."
Both boys look you over closely and pout cutely at what you said. "Jeezus Ali, you dont have to be so mean about it. We TRY to be mature... Sometimes." Fred inquires looking at you with the cutest puppy dog face ever.
"Yeah you shouldn't be saying those mean things Ali. We might just have to tell Mum on you." George says, a childlike tone to his voice.
Shuffling around some drawers with various potions for colds, fevers, toe fungus, and other ailments, you find an old leather bag filled with a powder of some sort. Opening it gently you look at the color and consistancy, finally deciding that it is the Floo powder Molly is looking for you pocket the bag and look to the boys.
"Okay I'm sorry I haven't noticed both of your tremendous efforts at maturity. Now I found the Floo powder so lets get back to Molly because I'm dying to know where we are going, seeing as you two twits won't even give me a clue to where it is."
"Well that's because you never asked us Ali." Fred says smirking. "You automatically assumed that we wouldn't tell you. We've trained you well young one." George pats your head in time with his brothers comment.
"Wait does that mean you're still not telling me?" you say, climbing up the stairs from the cellar to the living room once again, seeing Ron sprawled out on the couch, having just woken up, keeping an eye on Ginny and Harry who are watching a movie sitting on the couch next to him.
"Nope." both boys chime together as they follow you up and into the kitchen where Molly is standing at the stove cooking what looks to be a gigantic breakfast, even bigger than usual. She always does this when Harry comes. Your stomach hurts just thinking about all the food youre going to have to eat for the next few days until school started back up. Thats right today you were going to Diagon Alley to purchase your supplies for your next year at Hogwarts. You and the twins were all going to be 5th years after all. Only three more years and then you could finally buy your shop you all were building your savings for.
"Oh my you all startled me, at least make somenoise as you enter a room!" Molly says sounding flustered as the boys stand behind her smirking. Molly walks over to you and hugs you gently. "How are you feeling today Ali?" Giving you an allknowing look you just giggle and mumble an 'I'm alright'. Molly always knows exactly whats wrong with anyone at anytime. She could help with anything and has always been an unbelievably strong woman. She was your role model. A true great witch.
You smile and hand her the little pouch of Floo powder. "Oh thank you darling, why don't you and Fred go gather everyone and tell them breakfast is ready." She smiles as she gently pushes both of you out of the kitchen, George stays behind and helps Molly set the table.
"Okay. this is our mission, I'll gather Dad and Percy, you go get the Lovebirds and Ron." You both highfive and run, obvioulsy having a race to see who could get who to the table faster. Fred took the challenge. Arthur and Percy would never participaate in a game as simple as a race. But if you even mentioned a competition to Ron, and the others, they'd come running from miles away. Accepting your not-so-big-of-a-challenge you run to the living room and drag all three to the table.
About 5 minutes later, Fred walks in looking unimpressed with his father, and brothers speed, or their even less amusement in his competition. You take a seat next to Harry and receive a little glare from Fred, whom you normally sit with.
"Oh Freddie you'll survive without me for a day. Don't worry to much about it." You laugh as he turns red from your words. Fred redirects his glare to Harry who finally caves and switches seats with him, redirecting Harry to sit directly across from Ginny, making her blush.
Fred gratefully takes his seat next to you and smirks, his hand brushing over yours, too long to be an accident, but two short to make anything of it. "So Ali, will you be my partner today for Diagon Alley? Mum still uses the buddy system, despite the fact that all of us are over the age of 6."
"Now, now, I wouldn't want any of suddenly my precious children getting lost now would I?" Molly says kissing Fred forehead as she piles fod on his plate. She make her way over to you and piles just as much food on your plate, Eggs, hashbrowns, sausages, biscuits, and muffins. Almost every breakfast food you could think of in one plate that looks like it would break by only bearing the weight of the food you'd have to shovel into your stomach to her satisfaction. You cringe in your head and pick up your fork to poke at a piece of egg, threatening to fall off of the well stacked plate.
Fred pokes your thigh with his finger, suddenly reminding you that he had in fact asked you a question. His brown eyes meet yours and you look down at your food, nodding a simple yes to his question. You take a few bites before redirecting your attention to George. "Who are you pairing with George?"
"Oh I've decided that its time me and Ickle-Ronnie-kins have a go at Zonkos. I'm gonna try to make an impression on my little brother aren't I?" Ron just sighs annoyingly and looks down. "Look I already told you either pair up with Ginny or Percy. Harry and I already had plans to meet up with Hermione at the Quidditch shop. don't go dragging me into this just because Fred begged you to be paired with- OW hey what was that for?!" Ron says rubbing his foot under the table, glaring at George sitting across from him."
"Well I guess its you and me Ginny." George says trying his best to look innocent from having just kicked his brother under the table. Harry looks down at his food disappointingly as he shoves a spoonful of eggs into his mouth.
"Alright, alright I see whats going on here. Just stay in pairs for the Floo Powder travel, we don't have enough for every single person so that is definitely in pairs. But after that you may go wherever you like, as long as you meet in front of Ollivanders promptly at 4 o'clock." Arthur compromises, trying to calm down the situation. "After all, Percy is nearly 18 now and the twins nearly 16, then Ali isn't far behind. I'm sure they can all take care of themselves, especially with Harry along with them."
Molly sighs and sits in front of her own plate, "Alright, as long as you say so Arthur. Now everyone quit your jabbering and lets finish our food so we can all have a nice time alright?"
You couldn't wait to go to Diagon Alley. It was one of your favorite places in the Wizarding World. You hurried and finished your food, feeling Fred's leg gently touch yours under the table. You honestly couldn't wait to spend some time with him.