Meeting the Weasley Family

"No we gave it to him because he's a great bullying git, isn't he, Harry, Akihito?" George asked us, we of course agreed since he not only bullied us but many other's but Mr. Weasley wasn't having it, "That's not the point, you wait until I tell your mother -" however Mrs. Weasley walked in behind him asking what he wanted to tell her, "Oh hello, Harry, Akihito, dear," she said smiling at us but then her eyes snapped back to her husband, "Tell me what Arthur?" I felt bad for the man since she could be fierce which had Mr. Weasley hesitating we could tell that however angry he was with the twins he hadn't really intended to tell Mrs. Weasley what had happened. There was silence while Mr. Weasley eyed his wife nervously, then two girls appeared int he kitchen doorway behind Mrs. Weasley, one with bushy brown hair and rather large front teeth, was our friend Hermione Granger, the other one was small and red-haired who was Ron's younger sister, Ginny, both of them smiled at us making us smiled back at them which made Ginny go scarlet since she had been very taken with Harry ever since our first visit to the Burrow. "Tell me what, Arthur?" Mrs. Weasley said again getting a little agitated which was dangerous "It's nothing Molly, Fred and George just - but I've had words with them -"

He said trying to show he'd already scolded them but she didn't buy it talking about something called the Weasley's Wizard Wheezes before Hermione said that Ron should show us where we'd be sleeping which meant that like last time Harry would be sleeping in Ron's room while I would either room with Percy or the twins but Ron didn't get what Hermione was getting at so she said we could all go giving the hint we should leave so we all tried to leave but the twins were forced to stay there so we edged our way out of the kitchen sighing since it wasn't easy. "What are the Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes?" Harry asked as the climbed making me nod curious as well, it had both Ron and Ginny laughing but Hermione didn't like to, "Mum found this stack of order forms when she was cleaning Fred and George's room, great long price lists for stuff they've invented. Joke stuff, you know, fake wands, and trick sweets, loads of stuff, it was brilliant I never knew they'd been inventing all that." I smiled at that since they've been inventing this stuff since we met them, "We've been hearing explosions, out of their room for ages, but we never thought they were actually making things, we thought they just like the noise." Ginny said making me roll my eyes since there was no way they'd like that unless it was fireworks, "Only most of the stuff - well, all of it really - was a bit dangerous, and you know, they were planning to sell it at Hogwart's to make some money and Mum went mad at them, told them they weren't allowed to make any more of it, and burned all the order forms... she's furious at them anyway, they didn't get as many O.W.L.s as she expected." O.W.L.s we Ordinary Wizarding Levels, the examinations Hogwart's students took at the age of fifteen, "And then there was this big row, because Mum wants them to go into the Ministry of Magic like dad and they told her all they want to do is open a joke shop."

Ginny told us but just then a door on the second landing opened, and a face poked out wearing horn-rimmed glasses and a very annoyed expression, "Hi, Percy." Harry said while I waved at him glad to see him again, "Oh hello, Harry, Akihito, I was wondering who was making all the noise, I'm trying to work in here, you know - I've got a report to finish for the office - and it's rather difficult to concentrate when people keep thundering up and down the stairs." he said nodding to me in greeting as well making me smile. "We're not thundering, we're walking, sorry if we've disturbed the top-secret working's of the Ministry of Magic." 

"What are you working on?" Harry asked which had me looking at him nodding, "A report for the Department of International Magic Cooperation, we've been trying to standardize cauldron thickness, some of these foreign imports are just a shade too thin - leakages have been increasing at a rate of almost three percent a year -" Ron then interrupted Percy make me scowl at him since it was rude to interrupt someone mid sentence, "That'll change the world, that report will, front page the of the Daily Prophet, I expect, cauldron leaks." I just rolled my eyes as Ron said that but Percy went slightly pink, "You might be a seer Ron, but unless some sort of international flaw is imposed we might well find the market flooded with flimsy, shallow-bottomed product's that seriously endanger -" Ron ticked me off when he interrupted Percy again not carrying about this as he headed upstairs, so I turned to Percy, "Don't worry Percy I'm sure what you find will help a lot of people don't let morons like your brother stop you, no offense to Ron but he needs to smarten up otherwise he might not get a good job later." Percy nodded smiling at me when I whispered that to him, before he went back inside his room so I caught up to the others' sighing but then heard shouts from the kitchen so I knew the twins were really getting an earful right now, the room at the top of the house where Ron slept looked much as it had the last time that Harry had slept in it. The same poster's the fish at the windowsill which contained one extremely large frog, Ron's old rat Scabber's was gone since it had been discovered to be Peter Pettigrew last year making my uncle break out of Azkaban to come find him since he had the Potter parents killed along with almost killing Harry and myself since uncle was taking care of me since mom was dead and dad was no-where to be found since no one knew what happened to him. The owl that had delivered the letter to us was hopping up and down in a small cage and twittering madly, "Shut up Pig, Fred and George are in here with us, because Bill and Charlie are in their room, Percy get to keep his room all to himself since he's got to work so Akihito will be rooming with Bill and Charlie."

I nodded smiling as we all walked in, "Er - why are you calling that owl Pig?" Harry asked as we all sat on the beds, "Because he's being stupid, its proper name is Pigwidgeon." Ginny said, "Yeah, and that's not a stupid name at all," Ron said sarcastically, "Ginny named him, she reckons it's sweet and I tried to change it but was to late, he won't answer to anything else so now he's Pig. I've got to keep him up here because he annoys Errol and Hermes, he annoys me too come to that." He said explaining everything to us while Pigwidgeon zoomed happily around his cage hooting shrilly, we knew Ron too well to take him seriously since he had moaned continually about his old rat, Scabber's, but had been upset when Hermione's car, Crookshanks, appeared to have eaten him so we couldn't be sure if he really didn't care about the owl. "Where's Crookshanks?" Harry asked Hermione, "Out in the garden, I expect he likes chasing gnomes he's never seen one before." I took a seat on one of the beds while sighing before Harry brought up another question, "Percy's enjoying work huh?" I smiled knowing he was from the way he looked while he tried to explain it earlier, "Enjoying it? I don't reckon he'd come home if dad didn't make him, he's obsessed just don't get him onto the subject of his boss,... according to Mr. Crouch.... as I was saying to Mr.Crouch... Mr. Crouch is of the opinion... Mr. Crouch was telling me... they'll be announcing their engagement any day now." I rolled my eyes at that since everyone does that, "Relax Ron its his first real job he'll calm down soon I'm sure Charlie and Bill did the same, Fred and George are doing it now even without it being a money-making business yet." but Ron just shrugged, "Have you had a good summer Harry, Akihito? Did you get our food parcels and everything?" I smiled at Hermione brightly before I hugged her tightly, "Yes we did thanks a bunch for the help." she just laughed at me as I let go while Harry replied to, "Yeah, thanks a lot, they saved both our lives, those cakes." 

"And have you heard from -?" Ron began but a look from Hermione stopped him, we knew he was about to ask about Sirius since both had been so deeply involved with helping uncle escape from the Ministry of Magic last year and they seemed almost as concerned as we were about my uncle, however since Ginny had no idea about it we knew it would be a bad idea to tell her so we never told her about it yet. Nobody but Dumbledore and us knew about how Sirius had escaped or believed that he was innocent, but I had believed it from day one since I felt that he was innocent but couldn't do anything at the time to save him because at the time I was more worried about keeping alive than anything. "I think they've stopped arguing, shall we go down and help you mum with dinner?" Hermione said trying to cover up Ron's blunder which had me wondering why he was ever trusted with secrets to begin with, "Yeah, alright." Ron said as we all got up before heading back downstairs smiling but when we got to the kitchen we came across an extremely bad-tempered Mrs. Weasley. "We're eating in the garden," She told us when we walked in, "There's just not enough room for twelve people in here, could you take the plates outside, girls? Bill and Charlie are setting up the tables, knives and forks, you two," she said indicating Harry and Ron, "Akihito dear would you take out the cups?"

I nodded as she pointed her wand at the potatoes in the sink which then shot out of their skins so fast that they ricocheted off the walls and ceiling, "Oh for heaven's sake," she snapped directing her wand at a dustpan, which hopped off the sideboard and started skating across the floor scooping up the potatoes, "Those two!" she burst out savagely, now pulling pots and pans out of a cupboard, and we knew she meant Fred and George, "I don't know what's going to happen to them, I really don't, no ambition, unless you count making as much trouble as they can..." I smiled at that as Mrs. Weasley slammed a large copper saucepan down on the kitchen table and began to wave her wand around inside it making a creamy sauce pour from her wand-tip as she stirred. "It's not as though they haven't got the brains," She continued irritably while taking the sauce pan over to the stove and lighting it with a further poke of her wand, "but they're wasting them, and unless they pull themselves together soon, they'll be in real trouble, I've had more owl from Hogwarts about them than the rest put together. If they carry on the way they're going they'll end up in front of the Improper Use of Magic Office."

I started to tune her out until she yelled again after finding out she had a fake wand, so we grabbed what we'd been asked to before taking it outside and to where the older Weasley's were at setting up, but we had only gone a few feet when Hermione's bandy-legged ginger cat, Croockshanks, came pelting out of the garden with his bottle-brush tail held high in the air, chasing what looked like a muddy potato on legs, that we recognized as a gnome barely ten inches high, its horny little feet pattered very fast as it sprinted across the yard and dived headlong into one of the Wellington boots that lay scattered around the door. I smiled hearing the gnome giggling madly as Crookshanks inserted a paw into the boot trying to reach it with no luck, meanwhile a very loud crashing noise was coming from the other-side of the house so we took off in that direction to see that both Bill and Charlie had there wands out making to battered old tables fly high above the lawn, smashing into each other, each attempting to knock the other's out of the air.