MOON AND STARS, fred weasley

ten

Despite the occurrences the morning, Adhara was adamant to get to work. They'd been working on the Weasley & Weasley products for months and she was ready to finally start it up. It was named Weasley & Weasley even though all four of them were involved. Adhara figured her surname didn't have the best reputation and wanted to upkeep a positive tone to the business, whereas Lee was more than happy to stay in the background and help them create and promote.

Fred wasn't so sure they should start away. Surprisingly, he'd discouraged it, even offered to postpone.

Adhara had only smirked, "How am I supposed to piss her off if there's no products to prank her with?"

Fred laughed. After what had happened, she seemed more determined to terrorise Umbridge than ever. Guiltily, everyone had been able to listen in to her conversation with her dads, and so he knew that she promised them she wouldn't purposely antagonise Umbridge. But this was Adhara we were talking about!

There was more confidence in her step, he noticed. Even when there were whispers, she began to wear her scars with pride. She'd never been so attractive to him.

They began with the skiving snackbox's.

"Sweets that get you ill."

"They get you out of class whenever you like."

"Obtain hours of pleasure for unprofitable boredom."

Then they tested Adhara's newest invention: Pox Pellets. It was a tablet-sized sweet that instantly gave the user chicken pox-like (temporary) scars. That was enough to get you out of lessons. That one seemed particularly popular with the first years.

There was also Nosebleed Nougat, the Puking Pastilles, even the Ruckus Remote (she couldn't wait to create disturbances with that one).

They quickly packed it away when they heard the voices of two of their professors — they didn't need to be caught right away.

"Pardon me, Professor, but what exactly are you insinuating?" Umbridge's voice squeaked through the hallways.

"This is going to be good," Lee said as groups of students flocked to where the commotion was happening on the staircase.

McGonagall replied to Umbridge. "I am merely questioning that when it comes to my students, you conform to the prescribed disciplinary practices."

Fred watched her carefully, but she refused to show any reaction.

"So silly of me, but it sounds as if you're questioning my authority in my own classroom. Minerva." She went up a step.

So did McGonagall. "Not at all, Delores. Merely your medieval methods."

"I... am sorry, dear. But to question my practices is to question the Ministry and by extension, the Minister himself. I am a tolerant woman..."

Adhara rolled her eyes. Hardly.

"...but the one thing I will not stand for is disloyalty."

McGonagall moved down a step. "Disloyalty."

"Things at Hogwarts are far worse than I feared," Umbridge announced, now facing the group of them at the bottom of the stairs. "Cornelius will want to take immediate action."

PROCLAMATION
EDUCATIONAL DECREE #23
Dolores Jane Umbridge has been appointed the post of Hogwarts High Inquisitor.