Harry Potter: Love's Second Chance

"Yes…well...that's very good and I'm…yes it's good he can't do that. Not that I would ever…I mean…," Ollivander looked toward the door nervously before he turned back to Neville. "Yes...let's get Mr. Longbottom fixed up with a wand. I just remembered I have a lot of work to do," Ollivander said quickly as he looked once again at his door. He finally started picking up the wands he had dropped only to drop several of them again. He finally started handing various wands to Neville and asking him to give them a wave until finally a wand erupted in sparks.

"Thirteen inches, Cherry with a unicorn hair," Ollivander said. "I presume you don't need me to wrap it up?" The question was asked in a hurried manner.

"No sir."

"That will be nine galleons please."

Once Neville had paid for his wand he and Harry left the store. They ducked into the alleyway again so Harry could get back under the cloak. When they were back on Diagon Alley a minute later they looked back at Ollivanders only to see a sign in the front door that said 'closed'.

"I think he got the message," Harry said quietly from under the cloak.

"I think so."

"Hermione, are you there?"

"Of course Harry. So he took the warning?"

"His store is already closed. I doubt he will be around later tonight."

"Great, let's hope he gets away."

"Let's get back to Hogwarts," Harry said to Neville.

As they walked back up Diagon Alley toward the Leaky Cauldron, they passed by a large store that he hadn't noticed on the way to Ollivanders. Number ninety-three Diagon Alley had a small sign on the door proclaiming it to be the home of Weasleys' Wizarding Wheezes. "Let's go in here," Harry said nudging Neville toward the door.

There were a couple of people browsing in the store and a familiar pair of redheads could be seen also. When they entered, one of the twins looked over and got a curious look on his face. Walking over to them he asked "Neville? What are you doing here?"

"He's with me," Harry said quietly from under his cloak. "Got a place we can talk in private?"

"Harry? That you?" George whispered.

"Yes."

"Go up those steps, we have a small flat up there. I'll get Fred and we'll be up shortly. We just need to tell Verity we'll be unavailable for a few minutes."

It was a very few minutes before Harry and Neville heard the twins hurrying up the steps.

"HARRY!" Fred said. "What the hell are you doing here? Umbridge finally kick you out?"

"Uh...no. We have a way to leave the Castle undetected now."

"Wow! You found another secret passageway?"

"Even better, but that's for another day," Harry replied. "For now though don't tell anyone you've seen us. We are just here getting Neville a new wand."

"Of course," George said. "We know better. So what do you think of our premises?"

"Cool, though we walked right past it without noticing it on the way to Ollivanders."

"Well we have some plans for the front window that will guarantee no one will miss it," George said.

"Guaranteed to captivate anyone's attention," Fred agreed.

"Eye watering in fact."

"But we do sell glasses that keep your eyes from watering."

"But for now we are working on getting our inventory up to par and filling mail orders."

"We are incredibly busy."

"Great guys. So what kind of stuff have you been working on?"

"Come on down and we'll show you."

"Uh, I'd prefer not to be seen by too many people," Harry argued.

"Not a problem," Fred replied. "The good stuff is down the other staircase. Our latest inventions."

"No one else is allowed in that room." George added.

They lead Neville and Harry down a different staircase where they quickly made their way to a room that the twins obviously used for experimentation. Harry recognized some of the stuff from his tour before his sixth year.

"This might look like an ordinary hat," Fred said picking up a hat. "But it's got a shield charmed into it. It'll reflect a couple of minor to moderate hexes. Of course it won't stop an Unforgivable."

"We thought it would be a great gag, you know have a friend try to hex you and watch his face when it bounces off of you."

"Of course we got the idea from DA, so it's something else we owe you Harry."

"Anyway a senior Ministry official was in here with his youngest kid a couple of weeks ago and saw it."

"He took one of them to show his boss. We might have a huge order for these for the Ministry soon."

"If we get that order, we'll probably start looking at other things like Shield Cloaks and Gloves."

Harry looked at the hat, and thought of the upcoming Ministry battle. "Think I could buy some of these from you?"

"For you Harry, it's free."

"I need four actually. One for Hermione…"

"Let me guess, Ron and Ginny?" Fred asked.

"Actually guys, no," Harry replied. "We've had a fallen out with the two of them."

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