The Ice Queen [s.b.]

↠thicker than thieves, 1.36

February 22nd.

"Careful, Annie," Fabian warns. He bites his lip, narrowing his eyes, "You have to do it more like... this!"

The dungbombs soar through the air, one hitting McGonagall, Flitwick, and Filch each.

"Go, go, go, go," Gideon giggles, rushing his twin and Anna away as the now-stinky professors look around for the culprits.

Just as the three's eyes fall on the two redheads and platinum blonde, the three slip out of the Great Hall. James and Sirius roll their eyes, Peter sighs, and Remus continues reading his book.

Lily, Marlene, Dorothy, and Regulus all snicker from the Slytherin table.

The three troublemakers run through the castle, Filch on their tail. The twins pull Anna into a side room.

"Whoa," she breathes as she looks around. "Count on you guys to find this place."

The twins exchange looks.

"This face, Gideon, is what makes me so proud of what we do," Fabian says, putting two hands over his chest.

"Your heart's on the other side, Fabian," Anna stage-whispers.

Fabian glares and quickly adjusts.

Gideon grabs a nearby camera and carelessly snaps a picture that's most likely of the overhead light. As he does so, he comments, "And that face, Annie, is what makes me so happy to be permanently connected to my idiot brother."

Anna laughs. "You two are ridiculous."

In unison, the twins say, "But you love us!"

"I wouldn't go that far. Anyways, what is this place?" Anna asks curiously, eyes darting around the huge, red room.

"We call it..." Fabian begins.

Gideon declares, "The Muggle Room. We didn't put it on the map, though. Don't need the Marauders lounging in it all of the time."

"Wait, wait, wait. What map?" Anna asks, but not diverting her eyes from the room around her.

"You didn't know? We helped Peter, James, Sirius, and Remus make it. It tracks everybody in the castle," Fabian surmises.

"That's so bloody intrusive!" Anna exclaims. "No wonder they could always find me. I just thought Sirius learned how to do legilimency, or something."

"Legilimency?" the twins ask in unison.

"Mind reading," Anna says absent-mindedly, ruffling through the various.

"Let me guess, you can do it?" Gideon deadpans.

"Yeah. I'm better at occlumency, though. It's protecting your mind against legilimens," she continues, completely nonchalant. "So what all is in here?"

"With each technological development in the muggle world, it appears in here. The telephone and email don't work, but the fax machine does. There's a popcorn machine, projectors, projector screens, floppy discs, and a digital camera! Our brother-in-law, Arthur, discovered it," Fabian exclaims, pulling each of the items out as he says them, but tossing the telephone behind him. 

Anna's mouth drops open, "Wow. Do you have any Disney movies?"

Together, the redheads grin and say, "All of them."

Needless to express, the three skip class and have a Disney movie marathon.

Afterwards, Anna gasps.

"I forgot! I want to dye my hair! Purple! I need an elixir! I want to dye my hair!" she rapid-fires. Gideon waves his wand and a bottle appears in his hand. He smirks.