Babysitting the Weasley Twins

Chapter 2

Chapter 2

Fred and George exited potions class taught by Slughorn. Snape had survived the war, but was still recovering from the snake attack. There have been rumors thatched was going to retire. But, one could only hope.

The Weasley Twins quickly made through to the Fat Lady Portrait. Giving her the password and jumping up the stairs to their dorm they shared with Harry and Ron. They each grabbed a box from under Fred's bed in the corned of the room before defending down the stairs again, walking out the portrait hole.

They both strutted down the hallway, each with a box in hand. They passed by painting after painting, saying hello to familiar faces, before finally reaching the one they were looking for.

"Pudoris habet cum significatione sanguis amicitia floreat" George said to the older man in the picture, being the only one of the two that could properly pronounce the password. The portrait opened and the two Weasleys climbed inside the comfortable common room.

"Come on Forge" Fred called out to his twin who was lagging behind. "We are going to get this potion right, I can feel it in my prankster bones." He dramatically clenched a fist to his chest, using one hand to hold the box. George snorted at his brothers antics but quicken his pace down the hallway.

The two men stepped into the guest room and George quickly tranfigured the bed into a large table. They set the boxes down before taking out and enlarging a cauldron. They both spread the rest of the ingredients from the boxes out across the table in front of them.

Fred looked carefully over the ingredients. He grabbed a few vials containing African sea salt and Stewed Mandrake and began crushing, stirring and adding other ingredients as George handed Fred Ingredients when needed. George quickly got to work on tweaking some inventions, hoping to improve upon them. They both worked in silence, occasionally talking about progress.

"How are the Chocolate Pox coming along Georgie?" Fred asked his brother

"Good, I'm just working on the antidote. You eat the milk chocolate side and you automatically look like you've got dragon pox. Eat the white chocolate side, and their gone." George smiled proudly.

Fred smiled at his brother with a mirrored look. He was so greatful Hermione pushed him out of the way of the wall. He would be heartbroken, never being able see George again, and he knew George would have felt the same.

The boys each turned back to their own work and were silent nice again. Approximately half an hour later, George spoke up.

"Freddie, you know, I have been thinking lately" George started with a serious look on his face, turning to look at his twin.

"You know, that's dangerous Georgie" Fred said with a mischievous smile as his twin scowled playfully and whacked him on the head.

"We should do something extra special for Mione, for Christmas. After everything she did for us, she deserves it." George continued thoughtfully.

Fred nodded in agreement "We should. But you know George. You can't stay too serious, people may mistake us for prefects." Fred said, equally serious.

They looked at each other in silence before laughing deeply. Not noticing the large piece of occamy eggshell in Fred's hand get added with the tiny crushed bits. Not noticing that he was stirring the liquid in the cauldron clockwise instead of counter clockwise as it should have been. Not noticing the bright orange color instead the light lavender it was supposed to be.

Their laughter got cut short as a loud explosion knocked them to the floor. They both gagged on the smoke as it quickly disappeared. They both waved their hands in front of their faces, coughing loudly.

They both looked at each other and there jaws dropped at the sight, they watched their twin sit in a large pile of Hogwarts clothing, looking as if they were five again. Their hair was longer, covering their eyes slightly, and it was a darker shade of red. They had very noticable freckled on their nose and cheeks and they no longer had their lean, tall adult bodies. They had short, skinny ones.

They stared at each other in shock before they heard the door burst open. They turned to see Hermione stand in the doorway staring at them, the shock on her face very visible. They both gave her matching sweet smiles. They were, however, shocked at the next words that fell from her mouth. Because what she said is something they never thought they would ever hear from the girl.

"Oh Shit"