"Harry, we've been waiting for you to ask that question for more than half the term," The twins said.
"Bollocks. I asked you back in my first year." Harry scoffed at their claim.
"Of course we couldn't tell you then, because you weren't a mature master of pranks yet!" one of the twins said earnestly.
"But now you've matured, and you're ready to accept a gift from the sages of pranking," the other twin said just as earnestly.
Mature, pranking, sages...
Were they sure those three words belonged together?
With the twins' grasp of grammar, of course they weren't sure, but they were going to use them anyway!
"If you've got some interesting way to do it, hurry up and tell us. Stop keeping us in suspense," Ron, who had come with Harry, said rather dismissively.
"Is it some secret passage? I remember you saying Hogwarts had loads of secret passages."
"Yes, Hogwarts has lots of secret passages, but most of them have been blocked up. Of the ones left, Filch knows about most of them too. Getting caught by him is no joke," one twin said smugly.
"We've got something else, something ten thousand times more advanced than secret passages," the other twin said.
"It was when we'd just arrived at Hogwarts..."
"First years, stupid but adorable, ignorant and fearless, carefree and innocent..."
"Bollocks. Angelina told me you went into the forest as soon as you started school and got detention," Ron cut in.
"Ron, if you're going to be like that, you might find yourself getting a bit less pocket money next month." One of the twins glared fiercely at his tactless little brother.
The Weasley family was better off now, and Mr. Weasley and Mrs. Weasley occasionally gave the children a little pocket money.
The twins, of