✓ Dragons #wattys2016

eleven

❝The only intercourse possible between the knight and the dragon is battle❞

-Steven Pressfield

Ringing the doorbell, her mum and her stood there waiting and soon they could hear the pattering of feet and voices and then the door was thrown open and two identical redheaded boys stood there with large grins.

"Hullo," one of them said.

"You must be Elisha," The other said and Ellie could practically see her mum gushing.

"It's just Ellie," she answered, "But yes. Is Charlie here?"

"Yeah. Just a minute."

And then, the door was slammed in their faces and they could hear yelling. Ellie glanced back at her mum, slightly confused before the door was thrown back open.

"Elisha!" a more familiar redhead shouted, obviously delighted to see her. He sounded slightly out of breath. "Come in. And you must be Mrs. Wood. So glad to finally meet you."

He closed the door behind them and a redheaded older woman popped her head around the corner.

"Are they he-Oh why hello!" The woman said coming all the way into the room and revealing herself as a plump woman. A little redheaded girl was latched onto her leg as another redheaded boy followed her out. "Oh Ginny. Ginny!"

"What mommy? What? What do you want mommy?"

"Let go of me this instant."

"You didn't say please, mommy. Say please, mommy."

The woman let out a sigh. "Please let go of me Ginevra Weasley."

The little girl let go and went squealing out of the room. "Fred! George! Come here! Come play with me! Show me that trick again!"

"Sorry about that," the woman said with a smile as she wiped her hands on her apron. "You must be Elisha. It so nice to finally meet you."

"It's just Ellie."

The woman smiled again and seemed about to gush on when Ellie gestured to her own mum. "This is my mum." And at once, the two women were talking. Charlie tapped her hand and with a nod to her mum, she was slipping out behind him and up to his room.

"So far I've seen four of these redheads you've mentioned," she said with a grin as the little girl ran giggling past them. She tripped, but was up in a second and running again. They continued up only to have the two identical boys run into them.

"Sorry," the one said as he continued on, but the other one stopped.

"Hey you're the girl from the door." The other boy stopped as well.

"These are the twins-" Charlie began, but was interrupted by said twins.

"Gred-"

"-and Forge."

They took off running again before Ellie could respond and she turned to Charlie as they began back their trek back up the stairs. "Is that really their names?"

Charlie shook his head. "No. It's Fred and George. Have the hardest time telling them apart. They're eleven so they'll be starting their first year at Hogwarts this fall."

She nodded.

"Ginny was the little girl. She's the only girl and the youngest. Pretty sure the reason there's seven of us is because mum really wanted a girl and wasn't about to give up until she got one," Charlie said with a small laugh as he ran a hand through his hair. "Ron was the boy behind my mum downstairs. He's a year older than Ginny. Percy's in the same grade as Oliver. And Bill is the oldest. He was Head Boy this year and just finished up school."