Harry Potter and the Heir of Gryffindor(01) - Sahits

Ron blushed and the others snickered at the memory of those horrible dress robes he'dworn at the Yule Ball. "Well . . . it's the same money we used to buy this.""Where did you get the money!" Ron shrieked, "I swear, if you two have been doingsomething illegal I'm off to tell Mum and Dad--""No, no, no!" George cried, "No Ron-- nothing illegal! Honest! You just have to swear youwon't tell mum about the store.""And why the hell not!""Because she'll fly into a rage! She wants us to go to the ministry or something like that-- if she knew we were working on this on the side, she'd probably have a heart attack!""I promise I won't tell Mum if you tell me where you got the money!"The twins looked at Harry. Harry shrugged-- it was going to come out sooner or later.Fred nodded. "Right then, Ron. Remember Harry won the Triwizard Tournament lastyear?""Think I'm daft? Of course I do!""Well. . . he gave his prize money to us."The entire company gasped."Harry!" Ginny shrieked."You didn't!" said Hermione."All of it?" said Dean."Are you mad?" Seamus demanded."He's flipping mental!" said Ron.Harry expected this. "No, I'm not crazy, Ron. What was I supposed to do with it? I knewthat Fred and George would actually be able to make something of it, more than I evercould, that's for sure. And they have! I mean, by the time they graduate, this place willbe ready to open for business and it's gonna just knock away all the competition.""That's right!" said George. "It's our dream coming true, Ron! Weasley's Wizard Wheezesis going to be a reality! It already is!""Of course," said Fred, "out bedroom is still our main invention laboratory, but wethought we'd use this as storage for the time being. Mom's always after us that we needto stop tinkering with our inventions, so we've moved a lot of them out and stored themhere---"BANG! BOOM!"Wicked!" Cried Seamus. He was standing overtop an opened brown box, his hands blackfrom ash."What was that?" asked Hermione."It was a Quill Missile," Seamus said, positively thrilled. "I mean, I just started to pretendto write me name, and it suddenly just shot off like a rocket-- bang! boom! Just like that,and then it exploded into a bright blue and red fire-- lads, that was amazing!""That one is George's invention," said Fred. "It's one of my favorites-- we've got a wholebox full of them already, look!""Hey--" a new voice filled the room. "What's going on in here?"They turned around and Parvati and Padma Patil, Hannah Abbot and Cho Chang werestanding in the doorway cautiously."Girls!" said Fred happily, "come on in! You're just in time!"They walked in cautiously, and the twins wasted no time in filling them in on the details.Dean had opened another box and in the next second he was shouting at the top of hislungs. "OUCH!"Everyone crowded around the box, eagerly, which had pink and aquamarine steam risingfrom it. Dean massaged his fingers while Fred pulled out what he called 'The Venus HandTrap.' "This is my creation. The most brilliant alarm system, if I do say so myself.Watch!"He reached into the box and pulled out. . . well, nothing. He held his palm opened asthough he were holding something, but his hand was empty. He then recited a charmand suddenly, what had appeared to be nothing, slowly revealed itself to be a smallburgundy box."You see, you put something of incredible value to you into it, the box turns invisible andany fingers that touch it which are not your fingertips are met with, well, Dean you seewhat it can do."42