SPEAKING OF WEASLEYS
Harry went to the Weasleys on July 3rd for two main reasons: one to avoid talking with his extremely disgruntled Godfather, and second to tell Ron about his recent discoveries. He also brought his mobile phone to call Hermione while he was with Ron.
“Morning Molly!” Harry said as he made his way through the floo
“oH hello Harry, dearest. Ron is at the Quidditch pitch with Ginny. Take a broom from the shed”
“Thank you Mrs weasley!”
He made his way to the shed, saying hello to Percy, who was reading something in the living room.
He took one of the brooms and took off flying
“DOWN FOR A GAME?” he yelled at Ron and Ginny.
The two turned to him, surprised but happy and thus commenced an impromptu game of how many scores can Harry and Ginny make, and how many can Ron block? (Ginny beat them by an extremely long shot)
They played together for hours and enjoyed the hot summer day together. When they finally tired themselves out they landed under an old tree to catch their breaths
“So how did the gala go?” Ron asked, despite the fact that he knew what had happened, as he had been checking on his friend the entire night
“Great! Sirius didn't get us thrown out, I didn’t create any international scandals. I'd wager it went well”
Ron looked at him, like he knew he wasn't telling him something, so Harry conceded
“I’ve invited Neville here so his grandma will let him come with us to the Quidditch cup. Also Umbitch will be our DADA teacher next year” he said it all at once, so Ron had barely enough time to process one of the things
“Umbitch? Are you joking?”
“Alas I am not” he answered dramatically as he laid down on the grass. GInny was looking at both of them, without saying anything.
“Okay we need a plan for her, we might….wait Neville is coming here?” he asked surprised
Harry smiled up at him from where he laid on the grass “If he survives four afternoons here with us, he will go to the cup. Come oooon, don’t say no ``Harry said pleadingly but also jokingly.
Ron sighed but said “Fine, but you’re staying with us, so we can manage to actually not kill him” he said looking at him pointedly.
Harry had the guts to only cheekily smile.
Ron though decided to take matters into his hands
“We also have a much bigger problem at hand here. We need some way to track the bitch down, and not just with the Map, we can’t be looking at it 24/7 and we most certainly can’t be caught with it. We need some way to know if her or anyone in league with her comes near us, so we can pretend we’re doing nothing wrong…” Harry sat up straight, but he only began to talk as Ron said the same thing at the exact same time
“Fred and George” they said together. GInny only had the time to ask “What?” because Ron was already standing up
“We’re going back inside, do you want something?” he asked her, and she shook her head. In a few seconds Harry was on his feet as well
“Let’s go” and the two ran back to the Burrow leaving GInny to look at them like they were completely crazy.
Harry and Ron arrived at the burrow and went straight upstairs: as soon as they reached Fred and George's room they entered.
The two of them were obviously in the middle of an experiment that involved potions because they were looking at a boiling cauldron, but as soon as they came in they both jumped in front of the cauldron to cover it
“What
are
you
doing
here?” they asked. They were on their guard, ready to defend themselves and their work
“We’re here with a request” answered Ron as he closed the door
“We’re busy,
come back another day” they said sarcastically
“Pleeease! we won’t tell anyone you were making potions in your room!” Harry said, then seemed to think about it
“And really, you shouldn’t. The air is going to be too dense with potions fumes, you can’t sleep in here!” he said, then smelled the air and as an afterthought added
“It needs more ashwood by the way” The twins looked at each other and George carefully added some ashwood to the mix and it gave a little explosion but immediately changed colour from dark blue to light purple. The twins looked at each other in surprise, then at Harry.
“So you’ll help us?” Ron asked. Fred sighed and sat on his bed
as the fell on his back he said
“Ask away”
“We need a tracking device” said Harry
“Something that will warn us if a specific person is too close to us or to anyone connected with whatever you come up with” specified Ron. George raised an eyebrow
“Next year DADA teacher is a bitch, and with Harry’s history with teachers we want to be prepared” Ron explained
“And it could be useful to you too. You could even sell it if you want” hinted Harry. The twins looked at each other again.
“Alright
We’ll see
what we can do” then George ushered them out.
Harry and Ron high fived as soon as the door closed behind them
“We need to tell Hermione” said Harry showing his mobile phone
“That thing is obsolete” said Ron with a disgusted look on his face
“It came out last week!” said Harry outraged
“Yeah I’ve also seen 2001 technology and I like it better. Come on” he said making his way to his room