Arriving at the Burrow

We could hear them talking about how Ron wasn't sure if this was where to go but Fred said it was but I couldn't help but chuckle when George said that he was having the time of there lives there, before Mr. Weasley said, "Boys, boys,,, I'm trying to think what to do... Yes... only way... stand back, Harry, Akihito." Harry and I both retreated to the sofa but Vernon headed straight for it, "Wait a moment! What exactly are you going to -" Vernon bellowed at the fireplace before a loud bang was heard before the electric fireplace shot across the room as the boarded up fireplace burst outwards expelling Mr. Weasley, Fred, George, and Ron in a cloud of rubble and loose chipping's Petunia shrieked and fell backward over the coffee table. Vernon caught her before she hit the floor and gaped, speechless at the Weasley's, all of whom had bright red hair including Fred and George who were identical to the last freckle, "That's better," Mr. Weasley panted brushing dust from his long green robes before straightening his glasses, "ah - you must be Harry's aunt and uncle." when Mr. Weasley tried to shack Vernon's hand but Vernon backed away pulling Petunia behind with him while words utterly failed the man. His best suit was covered in white dust which had settled in his hair and mustache and made him look as though he had just aged thirty years, "Er - yes - sorry about that," Mr. Weasley said lowering his hand and looking over his shoulder at the blasted fireplace, "It's all my fault, it just didn't occur to me that we wouldn't be able to get out at the other end. I had your fireplace connected to the Floo Network, you see - just for an afternoon, you know, so we could get Harry and Akihito. Muggle fireplaces aren't supposed to be connected strictly speaking - but I've got a useful contact at the Floo Registration Panel and he fixed it for me. I can put it right in a jiffy, though, don't worry I'll lightly a fire to send the boys back, and then I can repair your fireplace before I Disapparate." Harry was ready to bet that the Durlsey's hadn't understood a single word of this since they were gaping at Mr. Weasley deer-struck while Petunia staggered upright again before hiding behind Vernon before Mr. Weasley turned to us.

"Hello, Harry! Akihito! Got your trunks ready?" We grinned at him, "There by the stairs." we said before Mr. Weasley told us to go get them making us smile as the twins said they'd get them for us, since they've been to our room before during our second year, but we figure it was so they could get a glimpse of Dudley since we'd been telling them all about him, "We'll," Mr. Weasley said swinging his arms slightly while he tried to find words to break the very nastily silence. "Very - erm - very nice place you've got here." As the usual spotless was now covered in dust and bricks, this didn't go down well with the Dursley's, Vernon's face paled once more and Petunia started chewing on her tongue again however they both seemed to scared to say anything to him which had me rolling my eyes knowing this was going to be our last time here if we could help it, but we knew Mr. Weasley liked what he saw since he loved being around Muggle's we could see him itching to go and see how some of the items around worked, he kept trying to get the Dursley's to talk to him but they refused so it wasn't long before Dudley appeared into the room again we could barely hear the sound of our trunk on the stairs and knew the sounds had scared him out of the kitchen. Dudley edged along the wall gazing at Mr. Weasley with terrified eyes and attempted to conceal himself behind his mother and father but unfortunately it was no where near enough to conceal him. 

"Is this your cousin, is it, Harry?" Mr. Weasley asked trying to start a conversation which had me smiling at him, "Yep, that's Dudley." Harry said while he and Ron exchanged glances before looking away so they wouldn't stop laughing which at the moment was very tempting, since Dudley was still clutching his bottom as though afraid it might fall off, Mr. Weasley however seemed genuinely concerned at Dudley's peculiar behavior. Indeed from the tome of his voice when he next spoke, Harry was quite sure that Mr. Weasley thought Dudley was quite mad as the Dursley's thought he was except Mr. Weasley felt sympathy rather than fear. "Having a good holiday, Dudley?" He said kindly but Dudley just whimpered while we saw his hands tighten harder over his massive backside, Fred and George came back into the room carrying our school trunks, they glanced around as they entered and spotted Dudley their faces cracked into identical evil grins, "Alright, better get cracking then." Mr. Weasley said as he pushed up the sleeves of his robes and took out his wand and we saw the Dursley's draw back against the wall as one.

"Incendio!" he said pointing his wand at the at the hole behind him, making flames rise at once in the fireplace crackling merrily as as though they had been burning for hours, Mr. Weasley took a small draw-string bag from his pocket and untied it before taking a pinch of the powder inside and threw it onto the flames, which then turned emerald green and roared higher than ever. "Off you go then Fred, you and Akihito's trunk." Mr. Weasley said, "Coming, Oh no - hang on -" Fred said making me smile at Fred when a bag of sweets 'accidentally' feel out of his pocket while he was carrying my trunk to the fireplace and the contents were now rolling in every direction - big, fat toffee's in brightly colored wrapper's. Fred scrambled around cramming them back into his pocket, as I helped him get my trunk to the fireplace, then gave the Dursley's a cheeky wave before stepping forward and walked into the fire calling out the Burrow, Petunia gave a little shuddering gasp then there was a whooshing sound and Fred vanished. "Right then George you and Harry's trunk." Harry helped George with his trunk to the fire before tuning it on its end so that he could get a better grip on it before with a second whoosh George called out 'the Burrow' before he vanished to making me smile since in our first year we had lost Harry when he had gone to Knockturn Alley by accident instead of Diagon Alley, so I was happy that the saying was a bit easier so that we wouldn't get lost this time.

"Ron you next." Ron nodded to his dad before he looked at the Dursley's, "See you." then he smiled broadly at us before he stepped into the fire shouting out the Burrow before vanishing, now it was just us, the Dursley's, and Mr. Weasley so Harry turned to them, "Well... 'bye then." but they didn't say anything at all as he moved to the hearth while I moved to stand next to him not wanting to stay in this place more than I had to but Mr. Weasley held out his hand stopping Harry but Mr. Weasley was looking at the Dursley's, "Harry said goodbye to you, didn't you hear him?" I smiled at Mr. Weasley since he was trying to make them be more family like when they weren't. "It doesn't matter, honestly, we don't care." I nodded my approval since they have never cared about us at all but Mr. Weasley didn't remove his hand. "You aren't going to see your nephew's till next summer, surely you're going to say goodbye." Mr. Weasley said to Vernon with mild indignation but Vernon's face worked furiously since the idea of him being taught consideration by a man who had just blasted away half his living room wall seemed to be causing him intense suffering, but Mr. Weasley's wand was still in his hand and Vernon's tiny eyes darted to it once before he said. "Good-bye then." 

Which had us both saying, "See you." before putting one foot into the green flames smiling but then a horrible gagging sound erupted behind us along with Petunia's scream's so we both wheeled around to see Dudley was no longer standing behind his parents but kneeling beside the coffee table and he was gagging and sputtering on a foot-long, purple, slimy thing that was protruding from his mouth, one bewildered second later - we realized that the foot-long thing was Dudley's tongue and that a brightly colored toffee wrapper lay on the floor beside him. Petunia hurled herself onto the ground beside Dudley seized the end of his swollen tongue, and attempted to and attempted to wrench it out of his mouth, unsurprisingly, Dudley yelled and sputtered worse than ever trying to fight her off. Vernon was bellowing and waving his arms around and Mr. Weasley had to shout to make himself heard, "Not to worry, I can sort this out!" he yelled out advancing on Dudley with his wand outstretched but Petunia screamed worse than ever before throwing herself on top of Dudley shielding him from Mr. Weasley, "No, really, it's a simple process - it was the toffee - my son Fred - real practical joker - but it's only an Engorgement Charm - at least, I think it is - please, I can correct it -" but they were more panic stricken, Petunia kept trying to pull Dudley's tongue out while Dudley appeared to be suffocating under the combined pressure of his mother and his tongue.

Vernon who had lost control completely seized a china figure from on top of the sideboard and threw it very hard at Mr. Weasley who ducked causing the ornament to shatter in the blasted fireplace, "Now really! I'm trying to help!" bellowing like a wounded hippo Vernon snatched up another ornament, "Harry, Akihito, go! Just go! I'll sort this out!" Mr. Weasley shouted at us but we didn't want to miss the fun but Vernon's second ornament narrowly missed Harry's left ear making me growl at him but we thought it would be best to leave this to Mr. Weasley so he stepped into the fire before calling out the Burrow properly making me sigh watching him vanished before I stepped in to do just the same but I did see Mr. Weasley blast another ornament from Vernon, before I called out, "The Burrow!" before feeling that weird feeling of everything spinning before the Dursley home vanished before I felt myself going through the Floo Network feeling sick everytime but when I felt myself slowing down I took on steady step forward before carefully walking out of the fireplace releasing the breath I had been holding, to see everyone standing around us, "Did he eat it?" I heard Fred helping Harry to his feet, I just smiled shaking my head as Harry confirmed he had while asking what it was. "Ton- Tongue Toffee, George and I invented them, and we've been looking for someone to test them on all summer..."

The tiny kitchen exploded with laughter, so we looked around and saw that Ron and George were sitting at the scrubbed wooden table with two red- haired people we'd never seen before, though we knew they had to be Bill and Charlie the two eldest Weasley's children, "Just a head's up the Durlsey's didn't take it to well so your dad might not be to happy about it when he gets here since they were literally throwing things at him." they nodded gulping but they other's just started asking us questions while shacking out hands, Charlie had calluses on his hands since he worked in Romania with dragons, since that's how we were introduced to him in our second year. While Bill's was different since he worked for Gringotts there was an air of mystery around him since unlike Charlie he had his hair long and pulled back into a ponytail but looked like an older version of Percy but he was cool, he also had a fang earring and dragon hide boots while his clothes looked like those for a rock concert. But before anything else could be done or said Mr. Weasley appeared out of thin air at George's shoulder looking angrier than we'd ever seen him, "That wasn't funny, Fred! What on Earth did you give that Muggle boy?" I looked at Harry glad that someone wanted to get revenge for us from all the abuse we've gone through, "I didn't give him anything." Fred said with another evil grin, "I just dropped it... it was his fault he went and ate it, I never told him to." however Mr. Weasley didn't by it, "You dropped it on purpose, you knew he'd eat it, you knew he was on a diet -" I sighed knowing that stupid diet was the cause of a lot of things, but George interrupted him, "How big did his tongue get?" 

"It was four feet long before his parents would let me shrink it!" It was shortly after that when we all started laughing but Mr. Weasley didn't like it to much since he yelled out that it wasn't funny, "That sort of behavior seriously undermines wizard-muggle relations! I spend half my life campaigning against the mistreatment of Muggles, and my own sons -" however this time it was Fred who interrupted him, "We didn't give it to him because he's a Muggle!"