That Damn Weasley Charm II G.W

Part 5, Chapter 12- Extendable Ears

My friends and I decide to go out into the courtyard after lunch to get some fresh air and watch Fred and George try to sell more of their extendable ear contraptions. But before we do that we all go back to our appropriate common rooms and change out of our school uniforms.

"Good thing about NEWT years is that you only have a class a day, then you can do whatever you want after that," Emma says. She's put on a long pale lavender dress with tight sleeves so they won't move and accidentally show off her Mark. I've chosen something far more comfortable in my opinion and put on black jeans and the most recent jumper Molly has made for me. I fix my hair in the mirror and make sure that my wand is still secure on the top of my head.

"You're going to lose that wand of yours one day Violet," Walter says coming out of the boy's dorms. He's got on his standard light blue jeans, cream coloured dress shirt and a god awful sweater vest.

Walter reaches up to take my wand out of my hair but I smack his hand away, "Alright then, where do you suppose I keep it?" I say to him.

Walter pulls up his sleeve to show us some leather strap he's got around his forearm, "Father gave me his old wand holster, it comes in handy." He smiles broadly and pulls his shirt sleeve back down. He looks at Emma, "Where do you keep yours?"

Emma reaches into the pocket of her dress and pulls her wand out, "All my dresses have got wand pockets in them so I don't have to worry about it. If I'm wearing pants or something I just tuck it in between my pants and my belt like a normal person." She looks at me when she says normal.

"Haven't lost my wand once and I've been keeping it in my hair for years," I say with far more confidence than I should have. We walk out of the common room and back towards the courtyard to meet with the boys.

"No one told me it was raining," Emma says peering out of the window by the courtyard.

"Could you not hear the rain hitting the roof all Charms class?" Walter says to her.

Emma scoffs but she doesn't say anything more. I peer out the window and I can see Fred and George out in the rain talking to a group of students. "Dumbasses are going to catch a cold," I say to myself.

"You're going to make us go out there aren't you?" Walter groans.

Instead of replying I push open the door and follow along the edge of the courtyard carefully so I can stay under some form of overhead covering and not get completely drenched.

"These work fantastic! I use them all the time, comes in handy when you're parents are having a row with your brother downstairs!" I can hear Fred giving the pitch to the students.

"Or if the girl you fancy is in the common room talking with her friends, pop one of these bad boys out of your dorm and you can hear the entire conversation!" George says excitedly. The students they're talking to look at each other than nod.

"Alright yeah, how much?" One of them says.

"Five galleons each, but if you all get one then I'll cut it down to four. A group discount. Special just for you." Fred says. I watch him wink at one of the girls in the group and she bursts into giggles.

The group of students, must be about six of them all dig through their robes and pull out the money for the boys. Fred takes the money and George pulls out six brown packages from the big bag he's got over one shoulder. He hands them all out and smiles, "Pleasure doing business with you all, if you have a problem with anything let us know and we will fix it." George says.

The students say goodbye and all walk off, probably to their next class. "I'll have one of those Weasley."

Fred and George turn to look at me, "Oh yeah? What are you going to use these for?" George asks me.

"Do you really have to ask me that? Five galleons right?" I pull my coin purse out from my back pocket and pull it open.

George comes over to me with one of the extendable ears in his hand, "We aren't taking your money dude just take it."

I look at him for a moment, he nudges my arm with the brown packaging, "I'm serious Vi, you've given us enough money."

I put my coin purse away and take the package from him, "Thanks, baby. I'll repay you with something better than money later." I wrap my arms around his neck and kiss his neck.

Fred clears his throat, "You two know that I'm still here right? And that I don't want to be privy to your sex talk?"

I look over George's shoulder at Fred who looks very annoyed with the whole situation, "You're just jealous that you aren't getting any." I say to him.

Fred scoffs, "Who says I'm not getting any?"

George turns around to look at him and I take my hands off of his neck, "You're kidding, right? The only thing you're getting right now is a sock."

My eyes go wide and I cover my mouth with my hand so Fred can't see my smile, "If you weren't my business partner I swear to god G." Fred grumbles, "Come on we've got product to sell."

We watch Fred walk off and George turns to look at me again, "I think you pushed a little too far there G." I say to him.

George looks back at Fred now talking to a few other students and looks back at me, "He's still hung up on Emma."

"Yeah, I know."

George tilts his head and looks at me, "You do?"

I nod, "According to him we're best friends, I'm like his sister. And he asked me about how Emma was doing and shit because he's worried about her. He loves her, just doesn't want to admit it."

Fred waves George over, "I should probably head over."

I pull his head back to me and kiss him on the lips, "Go make some money. I'll see you later tonight."

George kisses me once more and then jogs over to his brother. I stand in the cold smiling, watching the two of them sell more of their things. I look over at the courtyard entrance and I can see Walter and Emma peering through the window staring at me. I dash through the middle of the courtyard with my hands over my head trying to shield myself from the rain. Walter pushes the door open for me and I go back inside the castle.

"Bought yourself an extendable ear did you?" Lee says looking at the package in my hand.

"Figured if they actually work, might be useful to have around my house you know?"

Lee laughs, "Trust me they work. They made me say things in a different room for about three hours to test them."

Em and I link our arms together and start to skip through the corridors, not really thinking about where we are going to end up. Lee and Walter walk behind us laughing.

"Violet!" Draco calls from the corridor ahead, "I took your advice. We're having a massive study session in three weeks." He smiles, the biggest smile I've seen on his face in a long time.

"And you've got your whole year to come?" I ask him. Emma and I stop in front of him.

The smile on Draco's face warms my heart, "Every single one of them." He glances at his watch, "I gotta get back to history, I told Binns that I was going to the bathroom."

Draco comes up to me and pecks my cheek, "Don't fall asleep in class dude! You need to focus this year!" I call after him.

Lee comes up beside me, "Draco Malfoy organizing a study party for his whole year? Did I really hear that right?"

I look over at him, "Yeah? What about it?" I say more defensively than I should have.

"No, it's just... Never thought he'd be the one to organize it all."

"He wants to make friends. You heard Dumbledore last year, the best thing to do is to be united."