Ekeltricity
Ministry Worker
Floor Ferret
Naughty, Naughty
Arthur had just managed to break into the bedroom of his twin sons,
when he heard soft footsteps coming up the stairs. Quickly, he hid in
the closet, nearly knocking over a few boxes and weird machines.
The door creaked open and Ginny crept into the room. Arthur was relieved
that he had taken all the jinxes off the door before his daughter
had come. He knew that as powerful as she was she was no match for her
brothers. He soon found out that she was up to the same thing he was,
when she had started looking through the boxes.
She pried the top of the nearest crate and rummaged through it,
pulling out a teddy bear, a bowl somewhat similar to a Pensieve but
empty, and what looked like a ten year old peace of fruitcake. Setting
these items aside, she reached into the box again, only to recoil when
she was bitten.
Realizing that the last item in the crate was very much alive she
slammed the lid back down. She turned back to what she had already
retrieved. The bowl was empty, and the fruitcake wasn't very inviting,
so she picked up the teddy bear and gave it a hug.
This was the wrong thing to do because the bear squirted some purple liquid
into her hair. With a shriek, she dropped the bear and ran to the mirror.
She gave another shriek when she realized that her hair was now bright
purple and spiked. Horrified, she began to search for anything to
reverse the change. Nothing in the room seemed likely to remove nasty
changes, rather to cause more. In desperation she turned to the closet
and she made her way towards it.
Just then she heard footsteps coming up the stares. Quickly Ginny
opened the door and dashed upstairs to her room.
Fred and George seeing the door of their room open, dashed in to examine the
damage. They hastily put them everything back into the box and left
the room muttering something about "going to look for Ron".
After waiting for the twins to finish put on more hexes and listening
to them go down the stairs, Arthur slipped out of the closet to
get a look at the room for himself. First he went over to the box the
contained the teddy bear. Pulling it, Arthur studied it, finding a
label attached on the back reading.
"Washes Off"
As his wife had asked him, Arthur quickly banished all potentially
explosive material in the room, neutralized all the devious pranking
equipment, and made sure that all animals were properly fed and
cleaned up after. Not as his wife had asked him to, he took careful
notes on how each prank he destroyed had been put together.
His dread work done, he went to comfort Ginny. As he left, he added a
Slime Hurling Hex to the twins' other formidable hexes, knowing that
each would blame the other for not mentioning the new addition.
He knocked on his daughters door to here a muffled, "go away."
He pushed the door open anyway, to see her hiding her face in the pillow.
"Oh, Ginny," he said quietly, "you shouldn't use your Mother's
shampoo, you know. It has a tendency to create absolutely horrid
hairstyles. I suggest you wash it off."
"Abbawassat?" answered Ginny, looking up.
"Yes, yes," said Arthur, carefully keeping his face straight, "I know
you didn't mean to, these things happen, reaching for the wrong
bottle, you know. Had a simply dreadful day at the office, yesterday.
All those Carlfinch hexes going off- turn folks bald, you know. They
tend to work best on identical red headed twins, particularly at
breakfast."
"Which?"
"Carlfinch," repeated Arthur tapping his nose twice. "But you didn't
hear it from me. Now I must get down to help your mother with those
Snarfles that have infested the closet. She'll have my head it's not
done before breakfast."
With a wink, Arthur left her room, and went back to the kitchen to get
another cup of tea. It had been a good day.
I nearly killed myself with a toaster, and all I got was this lousy siggy.
Round Two ~ Future Ferret Challenges
evlpez Round Two ~ Future Ferret Challenges Oct 23 2004, 01:43 AM
Oct 23 2004, 01:43 AM
Note to ferrets: Remember that you are writing fan fiction as though you are the Floo-Between user you've chosen. This means that if you've chosen Snape, you are writing as though Snape is writing fan fiction, not as though he is a part of the story. Each character may write as many submissions as they wish for this challenge, as long as each submission is significantly different from their others. You must choose one of the above missions for each submission. The deadline for submissions is Wednesday December 1st.
