black and white ✰ g.w.

CHAPTER NINE

Olivia pulled the Extendable Ear back up with a sigh of defeat.

"Still nothing?" George questioned.

"Nope," Olivia answered.

"I guess Mum really wasn't joking about the Imperturbable Charm," Fred said.

"And of course it was my mum who found out about these." She held up the Extendable Ear. "I thought we might be in the clear, because we're not pranking anyone, but I guess I was being naïve by thinking that."

"Did she actually do it?" Ron asked, coming out of Arabella, Hermione, and Ginny's room with them, referencing Molly and her threat to put an Imperturbable Charm on the kitchen door during meetings.

"Yes," the three seventeen-year-olds grumbled.

The younger Weasley twins groaned. "How are we supposed to find out when they're rescuing Harry now?"

Olivia shrugged. "I could-" she began but quickly stopped talking when the kitchen door opened. All of them quickly went into Arabella, Hermione, and Ginny's room and pretended that they had been there the entire time, minding their own business, just in case one of their parents were to come up and check that they weren't trying to eavesdrop. No one came up, so they listened in on the voices in the hall below with ease.

"Does everyone know where we're going or do I have to repeat it again?" Moody asked.

"We all know where we're going and what we're going, Mad-Eye," Tonks told him in a bored tone. "You've been drilling it into our brains for weeks. You're lucky they haven't turned to mush."

"I'm not so sure they haven't."

"We really should be going now," Lupin said.

"Right you are, Remus. Let's go, everybody."

Next came the sound of many people leaving 12 Grimmauld Place and the door closing behind them. The teenagers who had been listening all exchanged looks.

"Are they going where I think they're going?" Arabella asked.

"I think so," Olivia responded.

"Where are they going?" Ron asked, not quite catching on.

"To get Harry!" Arabella told him. "I hope your room is ready, Ron."

"It's not."

"Why not? Mum told you last week to finish cleaning it."

"She also told you to help me, and since you didn't, it has remained unclean."

"Well maybe I would have if you hadn't told them about Draco!"

"We don't have to listen to this," George whispered to Olivia. With one glance at Fred, both of them Disapparated. She Disapparated seconds later, reappearing in the twins' bedroom.

"I don't blame Ron for telling Mum and Dad about Bella and Malfoy," Fred said, "but did he have to do it when we're all locked up here with each other with no chance of escaping until we go back to school?"