Born From Madness (Harry Potter Fanfic)

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Hermione and Harry popped inside the Burrow's fireplace and fumbled out of it and into the kitchen. 

"Did he eat it?" Fred suddenly asked while he was helping Hermione with brushing the ash and soot from her clothes. 

"Yeah, what was that he ate?" Harry asked while brushing off the soot from himself. 

"Ton-Tongue Toffee. George and I invented them and we've been looking for someone to test them-- Ouch! What?" Fred said till Hermione punched him against his shoulder. 

"That was an awful thing to do! Mr. Weasley is right now having to try to fight off Harry's aunt and uncle while trying to fix up your mess," Hermione shot at him. Before Fred could say another word, the room exploded with laughter. Hermione glanced over Fred to find George and Ron talking to two red-headed people that she never met before. 

"Oh! Harry, Hermione this is our older brothers, Charlie and Bill." George told them as the two waved at them. Just as Hermione and Harry were waving at them, Mr. Weasley came storming out of the fireplace. 

"That wasn't funny, Fred! What on earth did you give that Muggle boy?" Mr. Weasley shouted at him.

"I didn't give him anything... I just dropped it..." Fred tried to cover himself but Mr. Weasley wasn't buying it. 

"You dropped it on purpose! You knew he'd eat it, you knew he was on a diet---" 

"How big did his tongue get?" George cut in. 

"It was four feet long before his parents would let me shrink it!" 

Harry, Ron, and the twins burst with laughter again, which only caused Mr. Weasley to get even more furious with them. 

"Now I don't care that he's a great bullying git... wait til I tell your mother--" 

"Tell me what?" A voice behind them said. Mrs. Weasley had entered the kitchen. 

"Oh hello, Harry and Hermione, dearies," She said before turning towards her husband, "Tell me what, Arthur?" 

It was clear, Mr. Weasley really didn't want to tell Mrs. Weasley about it. 

"It's nothing, Molly... Fred and George just... but I had a word with them..." 

"It better not have anything to do with those Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes!" Mrs. Weasley growled. Mr. Weasley began to scratch the back of his head. Mrs. Weasley turned towards Harry and Hermione.

"Ron, Ginny show Harry and and Hermione where they'll be sleeping for their stay," Mrs. Weasley ordered him. Ron and Ginny didn't have to be told twice as they motioned Harry and Hermione up towards the rooms. 

"What are Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes?" Harry asked when they had climbed far enough from the kitchen. 

"Mum found this stack of order forms when she was cleaning Fred and George's room." Ron said, quietly, "great long price lists for stuff they've invented. Joke stuff, you know. Fake wands and trick sweets, loads of stuff. It was brilliant. Never knew they'd been inventing all that..." 

"Of course, we've heard explosions out of their room for ages... but we didn't think they were making actual things! Just thought they liked the sounds." Ginny added. 

"Mum went mad at them when she learned they were planning on selling the stuff, which all of it really was a bit dangerous, and told them they needed to burn it all and stop making it. She's furious at them anyway due to they didn't get as many O.W.L.s as she expected." Ron explained to them. 

"Then of course, they had a fight because Mom wanted them to go into the Ministry, but they insisted they want to open a joke shop like the one in Hogsmeade." Ginny claimed to them when suddenly a door opened and a face popped out.