I do not own these characters. I am only playing around with them for my own amusement.

Chapter 1:

January 1996

It was a normal January evening in London. The weather was wet and cold, the wind was howling through the streets and the area around Grimmauld place was gray and desolate.

The Order of the Phoenix was gathered in the dingy kitchen of the Black family house, midway through a meeting about the movements of Lord Voldemort. That was until, as usual, Severus Snape decided to say something rude to his arch nemesis Sirius Black. Like always, Sirius took the bait. Snape had been doing this countless times before. Usually the fight would be interrupted by some other Order member. Alastor Moody would threaten to shrivel Snapes balls (or other body parts), Nymphadora Tonks would often call Snape an uptight tosser while Remus Lupin and Kingsley Shacklebolt would try a more diplomatic approach to end the fight.

Only this time Sirius Black had decided not to take Snape's comments anymore.

Against everyone's protests, Sirius strode up to Snape and landed a punch in his face. Snape lost balance and fell to the floor while Sirius followed him and continued to land several more blows at his tormentor.

The rest of the Order were too shocked to do anything. Deadalous Diggle, who sat closest to the brawling pair, squeaked at the sudden violence while Moody and Hagrid both growled for the two men to drop it. Both of them were on the other side of the table and too far away to reach them without trouble.

The one who got over her initial shock first was Molly Weasley.

With the experience of a mother who had raised seven boys, she strode over to the fighting heap of sorry excuses of men. With a determined and rather spiteful look on her face, she pulled out a large vial of green potion from her pocket. She pulled out the cork before she poured the content over the two men.

The effect was immediate. In the place of the two fighting men were now two shocked and speechless children.

They stared at each other in horror before they both turned to Molly.

The boy who was believed to be Snape glared at her murderously. "How dare you?! How dare you do this to me you bitch!?" he bellowed and tried to attack Molly instead. But the child was firmly held back by someone behind him. It turned out to be her son Bill Weasley who had a steel grip on his robes.

Sirius, who had moved forward with new vigor when Snape tried to attack Molly, was firmly held back by Molly herself. Snape gave up struggling against Bill's grip after a few painful seconds and turned to attack Bill instead. He couldn't do much, his arms were too short to do any harm. Bill, obviously used to handling his little siblings, put a steel arm around the boy's middle and lifted him up so he couldn't kick him. "Mum! Why did you do that!?" asked Bill over Snapes screaming and cursing.

"Suits them well," said Molly gruffly. She still held Sirius's collar with an iron grip and shook him a bit in her fury. But Sirius didn't seem inclined to throw a fit. Instead he stared at Snape, who was still cursing and screaming at Bill, with a confused frown. "If they decide to act like children, then that is what they get." Said Molly spitefully. Before Bill could stop her, she turned to Sirius and pointed her wand at him. Sirius tried to get away, but she cast a spell over him that Bill didn't know. It made his body glow bright orange for a few seconds before it faded and left a confused Sirius in its wake.

"What was that?" asked Bill and Sirius in alarm. Molly ignored them, instead she released Sirius who stumbled and fell on his bum and stomped over to the still screaming Snape to do the same spell on him.

"Mum! Tell me what that is!" demanded Bill and tried to protect the child in his arms from his mothers wrath by backing away. Snape too had a look of alarm on his face and tried even harder to get out of Bill's grip. When Bill couldn't hold him anymore Snape sprawled to the floor, but couldn't scramble away from Mollys spell. It hit him in the shoulder and he too glowed orange before it faded away.

"Mum, what are you doing!?"

"This will teach you to act like children" Said Molly relentlessly. She pulled Snape up by the collar of his robes and squatted in front of him. Bill looked uncertainly at his dad who looked just as clueless as him. Albus Dumbledore on the other hand looked alarmed.

"You know what I did, don't you?" Molly asked Snape, who both looked scared and defiant at the same time.

"You dosed us with a shrinking solution. And locked the effects for a few days." His snarl didn't sound half as menacing with his light voice.

"A week actually" said Molly matter of factly and released the boy, rather harshly thought Bill. Several of the order members came with various reactions to the news. From Tonks came a scandalized "You did not!" Hestia Jones exclaimed; "About bloody time!" while Moody gave a gleeful laugh.

"You act like children, you get to be children. Merlin knows how long I have wanted to do this!"

"Mum . . . how could you- this is not okay!"

His mother turned her glare to him instead. "You disagree, do you? Perhaps you would like to stay here and take care of these children, William Weasley?" Bill blanched. She never called him William unless she was furious with him. Last time that happened was before the twins were born.

"But-"

"It's settled then, Bill, you stay here and make sure these children behave!" She barked.

"Mum!" Bill protested, but there was no arguing with her.

"Molly!" protested her husband. "You're being too harsh. He only pointed out that your method is-"

"Perhaps you'd like to stay here with your son, Arthur? If you find my methods so outrageous, you don't need to bother coming home this evening." Then she stomped out of the kitchen. Arthur gave his eldest son an apologetic look and stormed after his wife, trying to reason with her. Albus too sent an apologetic look in Snape and Sirius's direction before he left to reason with Molly Weasley. Well knowing he'd get nowhere.

The rest of the order sat there in shocked silence, not knowing what to say. "Well" said Moody and broke the silence. "That is my cue to leave, I have some important business, and I certainly don't want to be involved in this mess." Without further ado, Moody left. Then, the order started to trickle out one by one. Tonks too told them regrettably she had to leave. "I need to be on an important mission later. I would have stayed, but I can't miss it. I'll be back on Tuesday if you need any help then." She gave Bill one last apologetic look before she left.

That left Bill and Remus, and the two boys, all standing there in awkward silence.

Bill met Remuss eyes. They both felt incredibly uncomfortable in this situation. "I'll stay," said Remus "but . . . " his eyes moved to Snape and Bill knew exactly what he meant. Remus couldn't stay in the same room as Snape. They'd only risk another fight.

That left the task of taking care of Snape on Bill . . .

The thought weighed heavily on him, but he nodded all the same. Remus gestured to Sirius to follow him out of the kitchen. Sirius hoisted his robes over his feet and followed Remus without a glance behind him.

Bill took a deep breath and turned to his former professor, dreading the week ahead.

Authors note:

Hello. So, this is a story that suddenly popped into my head randomly. I don't know how it's going to end yet, but I have some ideas. But I won't guarantee a regular update on this story. It's only something I'll be writing on as a side project to my other fic; The Well of Lives. But I'm hoping It'll be fun to read in the future.

Enjoy.