American Teen [George Weasley Love Story]

Bonding

After dinner I met up with the twins in the Gryffindor common room. We sat around doing homework (or I was-I have no idea what they were doing) until everyone left. Once the last person left for their dorm, Fred pulled out a piece of parchment from his bag.

"So now you decide to do homework" I comment.

"Oh Mags, if only you knew the secrets this here parchment contains. We lent it to Harry last year but decided it would be quite useful for tonight" Fred said back.

"I solemnly swear that I am up to no good" George tapped the parchment.

I quickly realized this was a map of Hogwarts that could show where anyone is at any time. Woah.

"Where did you find this?" I asked while closely examining the map. I saw Filch and Mrs. Norris prowling around the first floor.

"Nicked it our first year from Filch's office. We've had it memorized since then, but we decided it would be very useful for someone like you." George replied.

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First we snuck into the teacher's lounge and replaced the bowl of candy in the middle with the twin's supply of what they called Ton Tongue Toffees. They make your tongue grow to a very uncomfortable length. Apparently they developed them for their dream joke shop, which I think is a really cool idea. 

Once we made sure Filch was far away from his office we broke in, which is quite easy to do in the wizarding world. Alohomora and boom you're in if they didn't think to put any spells on the door. So simple. It's a wonder theft isn't more common among wizards. Anyways, once we entered we replaced all his tea cups with the ones that bite, turned his favorite chains into snakes, and shoved fanged frisbees in all his drawers so when he opens them he'll be met with a little surprise.

After we were done placing some strategic dungbombs, we snuck down to the kitchens for a late night snack. We grabbed butterbeer and pumpkin pasties and some other snacks and snuck back into the common room. This was the most fun I've had in a long time, and we were determined to make it last all night. We decided to play some exploding snaps while learning more about each other.

"Tell me about yourselves." I said. 

"What do you want to know?"

I shrugged. "Anything really. Do you play quidditch?" 

"We're beaters. Have been since second year. You play?"

"Yup. I'm a chaser. I was the lead scorer back at Ilvermorny."

"If only Wood could hear that. He's be ecstatic." Fred said. 

"Tell me about your family" 

"Well our family is quite large. In order goes Bill, Charlie, Percy, Us, Ron, and Ginny. Bill is a curse breaker for Gringotts, the bank. Charlie works in Romania taming dragons. Percy graduated last year and works for the Ministry like our dad. Ron is two years younger than us. Ginny is three years younger. Both are also in Gryffindor."

"Dang. That's a lot of siblings. But they sound pretty cool."

"They are. Except for Percy and Ron. Well, actually, Ron's pretty cool. He's friends with Harry Potter and helped with a bunch of his...adventures."

"Adventures?"

The twins started telling me about all of Harry's 'adventures'. In first year when he stopped Voldemort from getting something called a 'sorcerer's stone; in second year when they defeated something called a Basilisk and freed Ginny, who was apparently possessed by part of Voldemort's soul. And last year when they apparently helped a mass murderer escape. 

"Well...that's a lot. And that all happened in three years?"

"Yup."

"Wow. Nothing that exciting ever happened at Ilvermorny. Though I guess not almost dying every single year is a perk."

"Enough about us. Tell us about you" George said. 

"Err...okay. I moved here with my mom a few weeks ago from the US. We lived in New York. You should visit if you've never been there before. I'm an only child. And a half-blood; my father is a muggle." I told them about Rue and the summers that I used to spend at her lake house. Those are my happiest memories. I use them when I'm making my patronus, which is a black swan. We talked about products for their future products and I decided to help them make the antidote for the nosebleed nougats. When I mentioned my potions expertise, their eyes grew wide as a grin spread across their faces.

"Say Mags, do you think you can brew an aging potion?" Fred asked me.

I scoffed. I've been able to make an aging potions since second year. "Of course I can. It's not hard at all. Why do you need one?"

"Isn't it obvious," George replied. "We're going to use it to enter the Triwizard tournament. After all we will be 17 in April, so it's only fair."I chuckled because I knew it was highly unlikely that the potion would work, but I agreed to it anyways. 

"Do you know how you're going to get your friend back for the howler earlier?" George asked me. 

"No, but it has to be something an OWL can carry across the ocean. Something light and compact." I sat thinking. It'll be hard to win this prank war when we're so far away, but that's not going to stop me. When I finally pulled myself out of my thoughts, I noticed a mischevious grin on the twins' faces. 

"Margaret, you know about our joke shop."

"And how we developed the ton tongue toffees"

"well that's not the only candy we've developed" Fred pulled out a pile of colorful candies from his pockets. 

"What are those"

"Well they're a variety of things"

"That we developed for our skiving snackboxes"

"In order to help you get out of class"

"we have puking pastilles"

"nosebleed nougats"

"fever fudges"

"And fainting fancies"

"Of course we only have the antidote for puking pastilles"

"the others you just kind of have to suffer through"

Their intense back and forth left me a little dazed. But I was incredibly intrigued by these sweets. "Elaborate."

"Well, when you eat a puking pastille"

"You start throwing up until you take the antidote."

"They're pretty self explanatory."

"Think you can give me a batch? Consider my friends at Ilvermorny your test subjects. I can play them off like cool British sweets that I found."

"No problem" George smiled at me. Fred handed me some puking pastilles for me to send to Rue. 

"You know, for payment I can probably help you develop the antidotes for the other sweets if you want."

Their eyes grew wide. "Really!" 

"That's be amazing" George engulfed me in a hug that caused me to fall over. It didn't hurt since I was already sitting on the floor. But now he was practically on top of me with our faces inches away from each other. Fred coughed, causing George and I to blush. 

By the end of the night we have devised a formula for more skiving snackbox treats and their antidotes and thought up an extendable ear, which can be used to eavesdrop on many people. 

By this time people had started coming out of their dorms for the day ahead, and I began to regret staying up all night once I realized that in the UK they primarily drink tea and not coffee. I despise tea-its just hot water and hot water is disgusting. It's like sparkling water where it smells so good but then tastes like tv static and nothing like the fruit it was labelled. Strawberry? More like transported in a crate next to a basket of strawberries. If you disagree with my opinion, you can keep it to yourself. I will not be swayed.