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Silent Ghost

“Control yourself!” George ordered firmly, shaking Fred’s shoulders harshly. “This isn’t the end of the world. We can make a comeback.”

“No, we can’t!” Fred yelled, gesturing all around him, as if the room was suddenly about to combust. “This is war, Georgie! War!”

George rolled his eyes as he fought the urge to throttle his brother.

“Our entire reputation is ruined.” Fred continued, becoming hysterical the longer he panicked. “Have we been so caught up with our plans for the business that we allowed someone else to take our title away from us?”

“What title?” George was worried that Fred was going to go into shock and he debated about stunning him to stop this rant.

Fred let out an outraged noise and threw off George’s hands. “The title of Master Prankster. We took over the title from the Callum sisters three weeks into our first year. Not to mention held our ground when Flint thought he could challenge us during our second year.”

By the increase in volume, George knew that his brother was just getting started. Honestly, Fred was the more dramatic of the two of them and it was best to let his brother continue talking. Merlin knows what would happen if any of it became suppressed. That was an explosion he didn’t want to patent.

“It was a cute attempt, but the moron has no skill for tactical advantages.” Fred rushed through, emphasizing his point with a dramatic slap to his palm. “We went unchallenged for two more years until Davies thought that his mother’s knowledge of foreign tactics would help him uproot us.” A noise of disbelief escaped his mouth. “As if we would have fallen for that!”

“Fred.” George began softly, holding his hands up placatingly, hoping not to anger his brother. “I know all of this. What is your point?”

Fred clenched his fists angrily. “My point is that we have always been one step ahead of everyone and yet, here we are. We are losing a prank war!” His tone suggested that this was an utter travesty.

“We don’t even know who is behind them.” George pointed out, which was apparently the wrong thing to say.

“Which makes it worse!” Bellowed Fred, unclenching his fists, just to re-clench them harder. “It’s our last year at Hogwarts and we are stuck as a second-rate loser. How are we supposed to advertise for the shop if we can’t even successfully call ourselves the Master Pranksters?”

George bit his lip, feeling a flash of worry in his gut. “We don’t know that they are coming for our title.”

“George.” It was said softly and defeated, which was worse than the anger. “We end up being the target of the pranks eight out of ten times. It’s obviously personal and we are losing.”

“We have never lost like this before.” George whispered, feeling just as defeated. “We have to figure out who is behind it. Once that is out of the way, it should be easy firing back.”

Fred nodded his head firmly, choosing to use this as a motivating factor. “Right, who would want to prank us? You think it’s for revenge?”

That had George throwing himself on his bed and covering his eyes. “Fred, if this is about revenge then our list is the entire school.”

“Don’t forget the teachers.” Fred whispered helpfully.

“Stop helping.” George croaked out miserably. “This is going to take a lot of work. How do we narrow down the list?”

Fred tilted his head to the side, lost in thought. “We might not be able to, but I know someone that might.”

George lifted his head up in hope before he ran out of the room, following his brother quickly.

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Harry was pretending to do his potions essay as he nodded along to Hermione’s lecture on the proper way of holding the knife for cutting up ingredients. This was definitely the conversation he was going to replay in his mind the next time he was having a hard time sleeping.

The sound of thundering feet had Harry, Ron and Hermione looking towards the stairs and arching their brows at the sight of Fred and George panting harshly.

“Hermione!” Fred called out, dragging George with him. “You are the cleverest witch of our time.”

“What do you want?” Hermione asked with narrowed eyes and suspicion palpable in her tone.

The twins shared a loaded look before George cleared his throat. “We have a proposition for you.”

His statement did nothing to help ease her suspicion. If anything, Harry thought she looked even more wary.

“You have said repeatedly that you would appreciate if we stopped hiring testers for our projects.” Fred took over, grinning at the way Hermione leaned forward in interest.

“I’m listening.” She gestured with one hand for them to continue.

“We are willing to stop this completely.” George winced at that. “That means not even behind your back and we will stop taking first years into the forbidden forest too.”

Hermione held up a hand. “You two are taking first years into the forbidden forest?” The last bit was screeched out and had them taking a minuscule step back.

“Yes.” They answered in unison. “It’s not like you would look for us there.” When her eyes narrowed, Fred cleared his throat. “We had to test the products somewhere and you were making this difficult.”

George nodded quickly. “Which really means you are to blame.”

Harry coughed into his hand to hide the snort that he released, he glanced towards Ron and noticed that his friend was struggling to contain his own laughter. He didn’t dare look towards Hermione.

“I don’t believe you!” Hermione threw her hands up in the air. “Do you know how dangerous it is to—”

“Yes.” Fred interrupted, ignoring her glare. “It was terribly horrible of us and we are just awful. Can we skip the lecture and get back to the issue at hand?”

The growl Hermione released had Harry scooting his chair over, not wanting to be anywhere near that.

“What is it you want in return for you two to be decent human beings?”

Fred and George took a deep breath in unison and it had Harry wondering if they were alright.

“We need you to help us narrow down the possibilities of who could be the Silent Ghost.”

Harry snapped his eyes towards Hermione desperately.

Hermione leaned back in her chair and hummed in thought. “Well, I am honestly surprised.” She admitted with arched brows. “The Silent Ghost is just as bad as you two. Constantly throwing the school into chaos with pranks that just aren’t funny. Umbridge has already made three Educational Decrees regarding them.”

“While you only have one.” Ron piped up with a small smirk towards his brothers.

George smacked the back of Ron’s head, ignoring Hermione’s reprimand. “Which is why once we figure out who it is, we can take back over the school.”

This had Hermione biting her lip in indecision. “You two are the lesser evil.”

“I don’t know if that is a good thing.” Fred whispered to his brother. “I kind of want to be the most evil.”

“Alright.” Hermione clapped her hands together. “I’ll help you figure out who is the Silent Ghost.” She waited until they shared massive grins before continuing. “But you will sign a magical contract stating that you will cease all testing of your products on minors.”

Fred narrowed his eyes before looking to his brother. “What do you think?”

“I think that we have no choice.” George whispered low enough that no one heard him.

They turned to Hermione with solemn faces. “Deal.”

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Draco was making his way towards the dungeons, keeping an eye out for anything suspicious. One couldn’t be too careful these days. He was about to turn a corner when a warm hand clutched his arm and shoved him into an empty classroom.

Before he could utter a curse at his attacker, he noticed a familiar sight of messy black hair. “Potter, you better have a damn good explanation for this.”

Harry locked the door and placed several silencing charms around the room. “We have a problem.”

“If it’s the state of your hair, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but you are years late on the revelation that you need a makeover.” Draco smirked openly at the resigned sigh the Gryffindor released.

“I’ll have you know that I can pull off this disaster, thank you very much.”

Draco reluctantly had to agree but there wasn’t a chance in hell he would be admitting that.

“But that isn’t what I came to tell you.” Harry urged, starting to pace back and forth. “Fred and George have recruited Hermione.”

That had Draco coming to a standstill. “Granger is joining their pranks?”

“Merlin, no.” Harry shook his head rapidly. “She’s going to help narrow down the list to figuring out who is the Silent Ghost.”

Draco smirked widely, eyes gleaming in delight. Which Harry firmly told himself was not attractive. Nope. Not even a little bit.

“They are becoming desperate.”

“Yes.” Harry agreed with his own smirk forming. “They are.” He sighed heavily, head falling for a moment. “Hermione is going to be an issue though.”

Draco took a step forward until he could peer into Potter’s face. “Potter, we have bested the Weasel twins for six months at their own game.” He waited until a small smile tugged at Potter’s lips before he continued. “Even Granger won’t put a hindrance into our plans.”

Harry allowed Malfoy’s self-confidence to fill him and he nodded his head firmly. “Right. We got this.”

“Damn right we do.” Draco agreed, giving Potter a rare smile. “The Weasley twins will regret the day that they pranked us one too many times.”

“You can almost taste the revenge in the air.” Harry teased before grinning at the disgruntled look the blonde gave him.

“Revenge is what I do best.” Draco promised before he sat down on the nearest table and began discussing their next plan of attack.

One thing was for sure, by the end of the year, no one would remember who the Weasley twins were. They were going to out prank the masters.

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Another instance of not sure if anyone wants more but I will be doing it anyways! Harry and Draco teaming up to take on the Weasley twins? Hell yeah.

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