Totally Awesome | George Weasley

It Wasn't THAT Bad | Chapter 10 | Book 2 Ch 4

     The five kids ran into the kitchen where Mr. Weasley sat tiredly on one of the kitchen chairs.

     " What a night!" He grumbled, trying to pour a cup of tea." Nine raids. Nine! And old Mundungus Fletcher tried to put a hex on me when I had my back turned..."

    " Find anything, Dad?" Fred asked, sitting down next to him.

     " All I got were a few shrinking door keys and a biting kettle. There was some pretty nasty stuff that wasn't my department, though. Mortlake was taken away for questioning about some extremely odd ferrets, but that's the Committee on Experimental Charms, thank goodness..."

     " Why would anyone bother making door keys shrink?" George asked, sitting down on the other side of his dad, Arwen sitting down next to him and Ron sitting beside the other twin.

     " Just Muggle-baiting. Sell them a key that keeps shrinking to nothing so they can never find it when they need it... Of course, it's very hard to convict anyone because no Muggle would admit their key keeps shrinking - they'll insist they just keep losing it. Bless them, they'll go to any lengths to ignore magic, even if it's staring them in the face - no offense, Arwen - But the things our lot have taken to enchanting, you wouldn't believe-"

     " LIKE CARS, FOR INSTANCE?" Mrs. Weasley interrupted, entering the room.

     " C-cars, Molly, dear?" Mr. Weasley stuttered.

     " Yes, Arthur, cars." She crossed her arms, daggers coming from her eyes." Imagine a wizard buying a rusty old car and telling his wife all he wanted was to take it apart and see how it worked, when he really was enchanting it to make it fly!"

     " Well, dear," Mr. Weasley said, voice strained." I think you'll find that he would be quite within the law to do that, even if - er - he maybe would have been better to, um, tell his wife the truth... There's a loophole in the law, you'll find... As long as he wasn't intending to fly the car, the fact that the car could fly wouldn't-"

     " ARTHUR WEASLEY," his wife shouted." YOU MADE SURE THERE WAS A LOOPHOLE WHEN YOU WROTE THAT LAW, JUST SO YOU COULD CARRY ON TINKERING WITH MUGGLE RUBBISH IN YOUR SHED! AND FOR YOUR INFORMATION, HARRY ARRIVED THIS MORNING IN THE CAR YOU WEREN'T INTENDING TO FLY!"

     " Harry? Harry, who?" Mr. Weasley looked around in confusion before spotting the young Black-Haired boy standing near his sons and Arwen." Good lord, is it Harry Potter? Very pleased to meet you, Ron's told us so much about-"

     " YOUR SONS AND ARWEN FLEW THAT CAR TO HARRY'S HOUSE AND BACK LAST NIGHT!" Mrs. Weasley interrupted." What have you got to say about that, eh?"

     " Did you really? Did it go alright? Who drove?" When Arwen raised her hand he began talking more excitedly." I was hoping it would work as smoothly as your Mums' car, even though it can't fly - I don't understand why, it would be a perfectly reasonable thing - I-I mean... that... that was very wrong, children - very wrong indeed."

     Mrs. Weasley looked on the verge of murdering her husband and the five kids decided it was in their best interests to sneak away at this moment.

     They snuck out of the kitchen and up the stairs, the Twins and Arwen heading through a door halfway up as Harry and Ron continued up to the top floor.

     Fred shut their bedroom door and the fourth years all let out a sigh of relief.

     " How do you think she found out?" He asked, slumping onto the bed closer to the door.

     " The clock, I bet," George muttered, sitting down on the other bed." Probably went downstairs in the middle of the night for a glass of water and saw that the clock said that we were traveling."

     " That damn clock," Arwen said, crossing her arms." Get up, I need to move those things."

     The twins sighed and got to their feet to let Arwen push the two twin beds together, allowing for a surface large enough for all three of them to lie down on, something that was typical of whenever she stayed over.

     When they were all lying down again, no one felt like opening their eyes even as the discussion continued.

     " I don't think Harry's family would have let him go with us even if we asked nicely," Arwen said." So we would have been breaking him out either way, meaning us going now didn't really make any difference."

     " Mum acts so glad that Harry's here, but she would let us break him out if she knew what we were doing," George agreed." She'd probably try to tell the ministry about it and hope they'd do something, and a fat lot of good that would do him."

    Fred grumbled a muffled "yeah" from where he was lying face-down on his pillow.

    " Mmm-hmm," Arwen managed, beginning to drift off.

     Five seconds later, snores filled the room as all three fell asleep from the exhaustion of being up all night.

A/N: FINALLY, this ONE CHAPTER of the book is over, I can move on to making a million references to the song 'Wizard of the Year' from A Very Potter Senior Year.

I hope you have an absolutely wonderful rest of your day!

- Alex