HARRY POTTER :flash forward.

When they let the two know what the Headmaster had been up to they were both horrified with the old fool's actions, and eager to begin to use them to prank him. So, immediately after dinner that night, the twins ducked up to their apartment and discussed how they were going to do it. "You want to add what?" Hermione asked, horrified with one of their ideas.

"A goat and a dog," Fred, or George, smugly replied.

"It'll blow his mind!" added the other.

"Well," said Daphne, "Do what you want, so long as I don't have to hear it."

"Easy," said George. "That idea of wrapping the charms together in a silencing ward is brilliant."

Once they'd decided what they were going to do, the twins quickly set to work. Even after knowing them for as long as he had, through both timelines, Harry was still amazed with how they could easily work with one another without even talking. Finally, both stood back and gestured to Hermione to step forward while miming sticking their fingers in their ears and singing.

With a grin of her own at their antics, she stepped forward and cast the same enshrouding silencing ward over the spot to which the listening charm was affixed. Stepping back, she firmly said, "Done!"

"I wish we could see what was going on in the Headmaster's office," mused Fred, or George.

"If he's attending to his charm he'll be looking horrified about now," snickered George.

"You know he's never going to believe it, don't you?" asked Hermione.

"Oh, that's where the beauty of what we've done comes in," said George as both boys looked quite smug.

"Why? What else did you do?" asked Harry. "We added a sort of compulsion charm to the listening charm," said George.

"We weaved the compulsion into the original charm," said Fred.

"So, the longer he listens to it..." said George "The more he'll want to listen to it!" exclaimed Fred.

"And he won't be able to talk to anyone about what he hears, either," crowed George.

"That's..." began Daphne, shocked, before she gave both a quite pointed look. "How is it you two never ended up in Slytherin?"

"Oh, that's easy," replied Fred.

"We told the hat to put us in Gryffindor," added George.

"Threatened to burn it if it didn't, we did," said Fred.

As the five returned to the living room, Fred/George asked, "So, what did you do with the other listening charms?"

"We found one in the alcove just outside the door that Hermione figured out must've gone up before we left on the Express for the ride home at Christmas," replied Harry. "She figured, and we agree, that he must've used that to hear the password given to the statue of Professor Whittaker. "Then, when we left on the Express, he quickly used the password to get in. That's when he cast the charms throughout the rooms in here."

"That charm was overlaid with a gobbledegook charm to change what was said into nonsense swear words for the listening charm," explained Daphne.

"The one on the coffee table, here," she explained, indicating the table between them, "Changes what is said by whoever is in the room at the time, to be whoever is in the room planning the imminent murder of various members of staff."

Unabashedly turning and grinning at one another for a moment, they both turned back and chorused, "That's brilliant!"

"Is it doing that now?" asked Fred. Daphne smirked and nodded.

"What else?" asked George, eager to hear more.

"The one in my room has me singing a muggle ditty called Henry the Eighth," explained Hermione. "It has the sort of tempo and tune that gets into your head and won't leave. It makes you want to sing it yourself."

"It has a compulsion charm attached to it?" asked one of the twins, thinking their idea was unique.

"No," laughed Harry. "It's just the sort of tune that makes you want to sing along with it. No magic involved."

"Overlaid on that, and binding both charms together, is a silencing ward just like I cast in Harry's room," continued Hermione. "That way he won't hear anything but the ditty. I really don't want him to know what I'm up to in my room, thank you very much."

"And the one in Miss Greengrass's room?" asked one.

"Similar," explained Daphne. "Same idea, but it's the sound of a rather annoying mosquito buzzing in your ear."

Both boys almost winced. Living, as they were, very close to a creek, they were well accustomed to the sound of annoying mosquitoes."

"E-vil!" exclaimed one of the twins.

The twins hung about for a little while longer before they took their leave. Just as they were about to walk out the door, one turned back and said, "The Headmaster's going to probably try to fix his little monitors and listening charms. George and I'll see if we can come up with other ideas to tamper with them."

"It sounds like, if you can figure out how to enchant something to do it, there's a prank product or two in there somewhere," offered Harry.

Both twins grinned back before one said, "A great idea, there, Harrikins!"

The other added, "Yes. Thank you for the idea."

After the door had closed behind the twins, Hermione accused, "You know what you just did there, don't you?" "Yes," replied Harry. "Set them on the path to invent anti-eavesdropping devices. That'll be something to go hand-in-hand with their Extendable Ears."

"Extendable Ears?" asked Daphne, amused.

"The twins have... or, soon will... invent a product that looks like a human ear on the end of a long piece of string," explained Hermione. "They place the ear where they want to listen in on something, even through silencing wards, and stick the little knob on the other end of the string in their ear. They'll then hear everything as if they were where the ear is."

"What's the range?" asked Daphne, quite curious.

"No idea," replied Harry. "I know it's the length of the string that determines the range; but, I have no idea how long they can make the string. We know the ear will not go through an existing sealing ward, but we think it'll still work if the ear is in place before the ward goes up."

"Do you know if a Notice-me-not charm will work on them?" she asked.

Harry and Hermione looked at her before replying. "No idea," replied Hermione, while Harry shook his head.

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