That Damn Weasley Charm II G.W

Part 4, Chapter 7- Turksty Drivers

"Arthur! Arthur! Urgent message from the ministry!" Molly screams up the staircase. Fred, George, Ron, Harry, and I jump out of his way as he races down the stairs with his robes on backwards.

"Reason number seventy-two why I never want to work for the ministry," Fred says after his father has passed by. We all laugh and head down the stairs and into the kitchen for breakfast. Molly is talking away with whoever is in the fireplace and Arthur is scrambling for a quill.

"Morning," Bill says. He, Charlie, and Ginny are sitting at the table. Ginny is siping on pumpkin juice while her older brothers are each drinking a cup of coffee.

"Morning," George says back. He sits down beside Ginny and ruffles her hair and she smiles.

"I'm going to go get changed. I'll be back." I lean down and kiss George on the cheek and Bill and Charlie whistle.

As I'm leaving the kitchen I hear Arthur going on about dustbins as he frantically takes notes about what the fireplace man is saying.

"She's way out of your league Georgie." I can hear Charlie say as I'm going up the stairs into the bathroom.

"I'm honestly surprised that you managed to get her to date you. She's like... really cute." Bill says in agreement.

"Don't talk too loud or she'll hear you and change her mind. She'll notice that I'm the mor attractive twin." Fred says.

"I hate you all." George says. I smile to myself and quickly get changed in the bathroom. By the time I'm out and back downstairs there is rain hitting the windows and Arthur is no where to be seen.

"Mad Eye? What has he been up to now?" Bill says as I get back into the kitchen.

I sit down in between Fred and George and Ginny passes me a plate with toast on it, "He said someone tried to break into his house last night." Molly says, her back turned to us as she finishes up breakfast.

"Mad Eye Moody?" George says. He spreads marmalade on his toast and passes me the jar, "Isn't he that nutter-"

Molly turns around and starts to dish out eggs and sausage to us all, "Your father thinks very highly of Mad-Eye Moody." Molly says sternly. She finishes giving us breakfast and hurries out of the room.

"Yeah well dad collects plugs doesn't he?" Fred says quietly, "Birds of a feather..." Ginny snorts, sending her scrambled eggs all over the table. She looks embarrassed but we all start laughing and soon she's laughing too.

Bill gets up from the table to grab a rag to clean up the mess, "Moody was a great wizard in his time." He says as he cleans up.

Charlie swallows his toast hard, "He's an old friend of Dumbledore isn't he?" He asks the room.

"Dumbledore's not what you'd call normal, though is he?" Fred says. It's hard to try and keep up with conversation with this many Weasleys at the table. They tend to talk very fast and all at the same time.

"Who is Mad-Eye Moody?" Harry asks.

Charlie cuts up the sausage on his plate as he responds, "He's retired, used to work at the ministry. I met him once when dad took me into work with him. He was an Auror- one of the best actually..." When Charlie notices that Harry hasn't got a clue what an Auror is he says, "A dark wizard catcher. Half the cells in Azkaban are full because of him."

I flinch at the word Azkaban and George puts his hand on my knee under the table for support. "He made himself loads of enemies though." Charlie continues, oblivious to my situation, "the families of the people he's caught mainly... and I've heard he's been getting really paranoid in his old age. Doesn't trust anyone anymore, see's dark wizards everywhere."