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 Love, Hate, and the Weasley Twins

by Nickzchick and Daydreamer
 
 

Chapter 5
Revenge is Sweet
 

    Hermione barreled down the Hogwarts corridor with Draco at her heels. Absolutely furious. That’s what she was. Her face was as red as Ron’s hair and contorted into a sort of unimaginably terrible expression. How dare they treat her like that?! They were going to get a piece of her mind, as well as several curses and hexes from her wand.

    Draco wasn’t much happier. His normally evil looking face was looking deadly and venomous. Though he hadn’t gone beet red like Hermione, his skin was several shade paler but not in a weak sort of way, more like an "I’m going to kill you" color. He stepped quickly, matching Hermione’s pace, hands clutching his wand so hard that his knuckles were turning white.

    "FRED! GEORGE!" Hermione bellowed in a voice quite unlike her normal one. "YOU’RE DEAD YOU HEAR ME?!"

    "Uh-oh," muttered Fred as he heard Hermione’s threatening voice from behind him.

    "Run," George whispered as he turned very pale, making his freckles stand out strangely on his face.

    Just as Fred and George started sprinting away, Hermione and Draco rounded the corner and saw the end of their robes disappear down the empty hallway and followed at top speed. Fred and George, deciding that their best chance was to hide, slipped into an emptyclassroom hoping that their pursuers hadn’t noticed. Draco, however, spied the door ajar and dragged Hermione in to search the room. Presently, they found two freckled culprits crouching behind the teacher’s desk.

    "Die Weasleys!" Draco welled brandishing his wand.

    With a big BANG! Fred Weasley was crouching on all fours, desperately trying to stop the slugs that he was burping. Hermione followed suit yelling "Furnunculus!" and immediately, angry boils erupted on Fred’s face. These curses were followed with screams of "Petrificus Totalus!", "Densaugeo!", "Wingardium Leviosa!", "Expelliarmus" (when the twins tried to use their own wands to retaliate), and many other incantations. Hermione and Draco were in a sort of blind rage, cursing, hexing, and jinxing Fred and George nonstop.

    When it was all over, Fred was stuck in the full body bind, burping slugs (which is very hard to do when your lips are melded together), bald from the hair-loss jinx, and bruised all over from being flown and dropped to the floor repeatedly. George’s face was covered in boils, he was talking backwards, and two huge front teeth grew from his swelling fish lips. His legs were also bound with the leg-locker curse, so neither twin could move. When Hermione and Draco had calmed down a bit, they reluctantly floated the twins through the air toward the hospital wing.

    Their strange procession ran into Ron, Harry, the cobra, and Professor McGonagall in the middle of the hallway. Apparently, the Professor had just arrived and was less than happy. With a wave of her wand, she got rid of the snake and began yelling.

    "Ms. Granger, Mr. Potter, Mr. Malfoy, and Mr. Weasleys!" she shouted. "Explain what is going on here!"

    "Oga htnom knird s’yoflaM otni noitop evol emos deppils I dna derF," George started to confess. Professor McGonagall eyed him and Fred beadily and turned to Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Draco for an explanation.

    "Don’t ask me," Ron said. "I just woke up." He cast a wary glance and Hermione and Draco.

    "See Professor McGonagall," Hermione explained, "It’s a very complicated story and perhaps we should get the twins to the hospital wing first.

    Professor McGonagall gave her a curt nod and listened to everyone’s version of the story on the way to the Hospital Wing. However, she didn’t seem so mad. Harry could have sworn that he saw a smile tug on the edges of her lips.

    After they dropped Fred and George off at the hospital wing, Professor McGonagall whisked Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Draco off into the empty History of Magic classroom.

    "From what I have heard," she began in a strict disciplinarian tone. "Certain students have been attempting illicit measures. Such actions deserve punishment."

    "Fred and George Weasley, have, I trust, learned their lesson considering their current predicament, so I will refrain from punishing them further. Likewise, Mr. Potter is innocent of any wrongdoing and will also be pardoned. Mr. Malfoy and Ms. Granger sought their revenge and broke rules simultaneously. 20 points from Gryffindor, 20 points from Slytherin, and a week of detentions. Mr. Ronald Weasley and Mr. Malfoy were dueling in the hallway. Mr. Weasley and Mr. Malfoy will each receive an additional week of detention and 20 more points from both Gryffindor and Slytherin."

    She ended her speech and gave them all a patronizing glare. None of them were very happy except Harry who, finding the situation rather funny was struggling not to laugh in front of a teacher who was obviously in a bad mood.

    After Professor McGonagall dismissed them, Harry, Ron, and Hermione headed back to the common room. Ron and Hermione were very downcast at the prospect of a week of detentions. Harry on the other hand was busy preparing for the next day’s Quidditch match against Ravenclaw.
 
 
 

A/N: it’s not over yet! There’ll be some actual romance in the next chapter. It took me pretty long to finish this chapter and I’m very sad to say that I didn’t get the BSB tickets *sob*. It’s not my fault! They were just too freakin expensive. $168 each! Or else I would have had to sit in the 3rd balcony with little binoculars. Oh well, I’ll get over it. Please, please, please review. I’ll be really depressed if you don’t. Please?
 

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