Seeing Filch clutching that page and turning to leave with Mrs Norris, Fred and George hurriedly called after him. "Filch, you're just leaving like that?"
"You've all gotten yourselves out of trouble..." Filch said helplessly. "Can I catch you again now? Would you fall for it?"
Fred shook his head decisively. "Well said! Of course not!"
George sounded rather gratified. "Filch, you really do know us well!"
Filch glanced at the page again. "Then why won't you let me leave?"
"Since you know us so well..." Fred continued, "we actually know you pretty well too..."
"What you're thinking right now..." George looked at the page. "You must be thinking about gathering the ingredients listed on it, right?"
"What are you planning?" Filch's eyes turned wary as he quickly stuffed the page into his robes.
Fred smiled. "Ever thought about speeding things up?"
George added, "For example... getting all the ingredients sooner, then starting to bathe in the moonlight?"
"Oh? You have a way?" Wizet was curious. "The hardest ingredient to collect should be uncontaminated dew."
"Wizet, look at this!" Fred said with a smile, taking a paper packet from his pocket.
Wizet opened the packet to find several Canary Creams inside.
Canary Creams were a prank food developed by Fred and George. They looked and tasted much like egg custard biscuits, but their effect was to turn someone into a canary for roughly a minute.
When sold to the public, these biscuits had cost seven Silver Sickles each. Recently, however, Fred and George had adjusted the price, lowering it from seven Silver Sickles apiece to four.
The full Animagus training process encompassed three magical disciplines: Charms, Potions, and Ritual Magic. Some of the principles used in Canary Creams came from the potion-making aspect of Animagus training.
Beyond that, Fred and