Old Blood at Hogwarts

When Aaron came out of the fireplace again, he saw Fred pulling Harry and asked excitedly: "Has he eaten?"

"Eat it." Harry said. "What is that?"

"Fat Tongue Toffee." Fred said with excitement. "George and I invented it. All summer long, we've been trying to find someone to try it..."

There was a burst of laughter all around.Aaron looked around and found that he was now in a small kitchen.

Aaron had never been inside a wizard's home before.He looked around curiously and saw that the kitchen was small and quite crowded. The wall clock on the opposite wall had only one needle and no numbers. The clock said something like "Make tea, feed the chickens, you will be late."There are three layers of books stacked on the mantelpiece, including "Magic for Your Cheese", "The Magic of Baking Bread", "Conjure a Feast"... all kinds of magic books.An announcement came from an old radio by the pool: "Next is 'Magic Hour,' performed by the famous witch singer Celestine Warbeck..."

In the middle of the kitchen is a clean wooden table and a few chairs.Ron and George were sitting at the clean wooden table, and there were two red-haired people next to them. Aaron had never seen him before, but he knew immediately that they must be the eldest of the Weasley brothers. Two: Bill and Charlie.

"Hello, Harry and Aaron."

The one closest to Aaron among the two brothers grinned, stretched out a big hand, and shook hands with Harry and Aaron respectively.Aaron shook it and felt that his fingers were touching many calluses and blisters.This must be Charlie, who is studying dragons in Romania.Charlie was similar in stature to the twins, shorter, fatter, and stockier than the bean sprout-like Percy and Ron.He had a broad, good-natured face, weather-beaten, and covered with dense freckles, which looked almost brown-black.His arms were muscular, and one arm bore a large, shiny scar from a fire.

Bill stood up too, smiled, and shook hands with Aaron and Harry.Bill's appearance was somewhat surprising.Aaron knew he worked at Gringotts and was the boy's representative at school.Aaron originally thought he was someone like Percy.But when they met today, they found that Bill and Percy were completely different.Bill is tall, with long hair tied into a ponytail on the back of his head. He also wears an earring with a small fan-like thing hanging on it. He wears a pair of dragon skin boots on his feet. Like a hippie about to go to a rock concert.

Before anyone could say anything, there was a slight popping sound and Mr. Weasley suddenly appeared next to George.He shouted angrily: "This is no joke, Fred! What on earth did you feed that Muggle boy?"

"I didn't give him anything." Fred said with a bad smile on his face, "I just accidentally scattered it on the ground... Who told him to pick it up and eat it by himself? You can't blame me."

"You spilled it on purpose!" Mr. Weasley roared, "You knew he would eat it, you knew he was losing weight..."

"How big is his tongue swelling?" George asked eagerly.

"It was swollen until it was over four feet long, and his parents asked me to shrink it!"

Aaron, Harry and the Weasley brothers burst out laughing again.

"This is no joke!" Mr. Weasley shouted. "This behavior seriously damages the relationship between wizards and Muggles! I have dedicated my life to fighting against the mistreatment of Muggles, and as a result, my own son..."

"We didn't give it to him because he was a Muggle!" Fred said angrily.

"Yeah, we tease him because he's a bully," said George. "Really, Harry?"

"Yes, that's what he is, Mr. Weasley," Harry said seriously.

"That's not the problem!" Mr. Weasley said angrily, "Just wait, I'm going to tell your mother..."

"Tell me what?" came a voice from behind them.

Mrs. Weasley happened to walk into the kitchen.She was a short, chubby woman with a very kind face, but her eyes were squinted with suspicion at the moment.

"Hello, Harry. Hello, Aaron." She saw Aaron and Harry and said hello with a smile.Then, she turned her attention to her husband and said, "Tell me, Arthur, what's going on?"

Mr. Weasley hesitated.Aaron could tell that, although he was angry with Fred and George, he had no real intention of telling Mrs. Weasley.Mr. Weasley looked at his wife nervously, and for a moment no one spoke.Just then, two girls appeared in the kitchen doorway behind Mrs. Weasley.One had very thick brown hair and two large front teeth. This was Hermione Granger.The other, short with red hair, was Aaron's classmate Ginny Weasley.

"Come on, Arthur, what's going on?" Mrs. Weasley asked again, her tone a little scary.

"It's nothing, Molly." Mr. Weasley said vaguely, "Fred and George just... I already taught them a lesson."

"What did they do again this time?" Mrs. Weasley said, "If it has anything to do with Wes's magic tricks again..."

"Ron, can you take Harry and Aaron to see where they sleep?" Hermione said at the door.

"Harry knows where he sleeps," said Ron. "In my room, he slept there last year..."

"Let's all go take a look," Hermione said sternly.

"Oh." Ron finally understood, "Okay."

"By the way, let's go too." George said.

"Don't move!" Mrs. Weasley yelled.

Aaron, Harry and Ron carefully slipped out of the kitchen, and together with Hermione and Ginny, walked through the narrow passage and came to a set of uneven stairs.The staircase twists and turns, leading to the upper floors.

As they ascended the rickety stairs, Aaron asked Hermione, "When did you get here."

"I came yesterday afternoon," Hermione replied.

"What is Weasley's Wizard Wheeze?" was Harry's question.

Ron and Ginny both laughed, except Hermione.

"When Mum was cleaning Fred and George's room, she found the stack of orders," Ron whispered. "It was a long price list with several pages of gadgets they invented. Funny gadgets. , you know. Fake wands, magic candies, a whole bunch of stuff. It's so cool, I never knew they were inventing all the time..."

"For a long time, we always heard the sound of explosions in their room, but we never thought they were actually making things." Ginny said, "We thought they just liked the noise."

"However, most of those things... well, actually all... are a bit dangerous." Ron said. "You know, they plan to take these things to Hogwarts and sell them to make a fortune. . When my mother heard about it, she went crazy. She warned them not to do this kind of thing again, and burned all their order sheets... She had been angry with them all the time, and their OWLs results also made her unhappy. disappointment."

"It was a big fight that time," Ginny said. "Mum wanted them to work at the Ministry of Magic, like Dad, but they told her they just wanted to open a joke shop."

At this moment, a door on the second floor platform opened, and a face stuck out from it, wearing horn-rimmed glasses with a very impatient expression.

"Percy, hello."

"Hello, Percy."

Aaron and Harry greeted Percy.

"Oh, hello, Aaron, Harry," said Percy, "I don't know who made all this noise. You know, I'm working here. I have to rush to write a report for the office, but There were always people rumbling up and down the stairs, making it hard for me to concentrate."

"We're not rumbling around," said Ron angrily. "We're walking. Sorry if we're disturbing the Ministry's top secret work."

"What are you busy with?" Aaron asked.

"Write a report for the International Magic Cooperation Department." Percy said proudly, "We are going to test the thickness of the crucible according to the standard. The bottom of the crucible of some foreign imported products is too thin, and the leakage rate is almost three percent per year. The velocity is growing.”

"It's amazing. This report will change the world," Ron said. "I think the Daily Prophet will have a front-page headline: Leaking Crucible."

Percy's face turned pink.He said excitedly: "You can be sarcastic, Ron. But some kind of international law must be enacted, otherwise we will find that the market is flooded with inferior products, with thin bottoms, fragile and fragile products, and serious harm..."

"Okay, okay." Ron said and walked upstairs again.

Percy slammed the bedroom door.

Aaron, Harry, Hermione and Ginny followed Ron and climbed three more flights of stairs until they came to a door with peeling paint and a small sign on the door that read "Ron's Room".Even here, Aaron could hear the shouts coming from the kitchen below.It seems that Mr. Weasley has told Mrs. Weasley about the toffee.