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Playing With Granger	By : ssdawn Category: Harry Potter > Het - Male/Female > Hermione/Fred Views: 10849 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or make any money from writing this story. The honor of creating these characters goes to the great J.K Rowling.

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Playing With Granger Chapter 10
"Do you think he'll do it?" George asked skeptically shaking his head.
"How do I know? All we can do is ask and see what he does." Fred was more nonchalant about what they planned to do, even though he'd had his own doubts niggling at the back of his mind.
"But, what if he rats us out and goes to Umbridge? That would be our luck nowadays." George leaned against the wall with his arms crossed frowning at his twin.
"He won't. He hates her just as much as the rest of us." Fred shrugged his shoulders and cracked a smile. The only person that he knew of at Hogwarts that really was happy about Umbridge being there was Filch, and he really didn't count. Filch didn't like many people at the school and most people didn't like him.
"Come on. Let's go find him. He can't be that hard to find." George turned to head down the hallway, "He follows us around a lot anyhow. He likes to stir up trouble just as much as we do." The twins high-fived each other trying to stay positive about the actual dangerous thing they were planning to do.
Fred and George both knew that they were taking a chance going to Peeves for help in their next scheme against Umbridge. Peeves was the one thing in the castle, living or dead, that wasn't afraid of anyone, except Professor Dumbledore and The Bloody Baron. Other than that, the poltergeist had free reign of the castle. If anyone ended up giving Argus Filch a heart attack, it would be Peeves. He was a menace in the castle and his mischief had been causing problems in the Hogwarts castle since the year 993.
The twins were desperate and needed extraordinary help and Peeves fit that bill. They needed utter chaos at the opposite end of the castle from Umbridge's office. They already knew that Peeves had been doing many things to raise the ire of Dolores Umbridge, so asking him to do one more thing probably wouldn't be a hard sell. Peeves was synonymous with chaos and chaos was what they needed. So off they went to find the troublemaker.
Fred and George wandered around the third floor. According to fellow Gryffindor's who'd last seen him an hour ago throwing spit wads at first year's heads, he probably was close by.
"Peeves, oh Peeves?" George called out in a sing-song voice. He looked over to Fred who was craning his neck to look high up in the beams where the Poltergeist liked to lurk waiting for his next victim.
"Do you see him? I'm not seeing anything yet?" Fred kept looking up and almost ran smack into a suit of armor.
Something came zooming past Fred's nose and around George's head stirring the air. "It's Twinsies, Twinsies! What do the Wheezes want?" Peeves came to a stop in front of the boys hovering in the air. His lopsided smile, pale white skin, black eyes, and ruff of black hair made him look like an imp. He didn't look like the other ghosts at the castle with their translucent auras'.
"Good day, Sir Peeves," Fred said while they both bowed, "We are in need of your great talents my mischievous friend."
"What games do you wish to play redhead Twinsies?" Peeves face showed great excitement at the prospect of new mischief to create as he bobbed up and down in the air in front of the Weasleys.
"We need you to be our diversion, Sir Peeves, so we can create more havoc for the ugly toad who thinks she's running the school now." George grinned at the Poltergeist giving him a wink.
"You do your thing here on this side of the castle and we're going to break into the toad's office and show her how much we like her kitties." Fred could hardly tell anything to Peeves without breaking out in laughter. Just the thought of annoying the ugly woman some more made him quite cheerful.
"The big pink toad needs more grief! I'll help you Twinsies. You Wheezes are the only fun ones here in the castle." Peeves clapped his hands with glee.
"Great! We figured you'd fancy some excitement. Here's what we'll do tomorrow night." As the twins told Peeves of their plans, he kept cackling with delight at what the twins were telling him. Soon Peeves zoomed away singing a song about how they'd teach the toad to leave Hogwarts alone.
"I'm surprised! That was easier than I thought it would be," Fred said to George.
"I figured we'd have to bribe him before he'd help us. I think that he's just excited about any new chance to cause trouble for Umbridge." George laughed as he punched his twin in the arm.
"Let's go find Lee and Hermione and firm up plans with them. I can't wait to start putting in motion, Kitty Cat's-Meow. She's going to wish that she never came to Hogwarts."

It had been another hard day at Hogwarts. Dolores Umbridge was still on a rampage trying to figure out who had cursed her chair and breakfast that miserable morning. It had taken three days for the charm on her royal highness's chair to wear off. During that time she'd eaten all of her meals in her office. It had been a nice reprieve from having her nastily staring at all of them while eating.
Now she was back and her buggy-eyed stare was becoming annoying. She was looking at every student eating their dinner as if her stare alone would show her who'd played the trick on her three days ago. Hermione sat next to Fred and Harry trying to ignore the crazy old toad and not bring any extra attention to herself or any of them for that matter. Harry had experienced a nice reprieve from her torture and they'd all been trying to convince him to stay low for a while to allow his hand to heal. His stubborn steak this year was doing him no favors.
Hermione leaned over to Fred whispering, "When will plan Kitty Cat's-Meow go into action?" She tried not to look at Fred while speaking.
"Tomorrow night is when we've told Mr.P to perform his magic." Fred looked across the table to George who overheard his twin.
"Are you still willing to help out Granger?" George whispered, "The plan is risky, but the outcome will be well worth the effort." He laughed while elbowing Lee who had been shoving dessert in his mouth and was now trying to clean up the pudding that was running down the front of his robes.
"You wanker," Lee said with a sour look on his face as he stared at the mess now staining his robes. Lee shoved George back trying to make him spill his dessert down his front. The two boys kept elbowing each other back and forth.
"Stop it you two," Hermione said with a glare their way. "The Pink Toad is looking your way. Don't give her any reason to go after either of you."
Both boys stopped their activity and tried to finish eating without a fuss. If they were going to pull off what they had planned, they'd need to lay low and hope that Peeves wouldn't betray them. Everything needed to go off without a hitch and acting like Tossers right now wasn't part of the plan.

The day had finally come when Hermione was finally able to help Fred, George, and Lee with the "surprise" for Umbridge. She was nervous as could be and her stomach was aching as soon as she got out of bed. Hermione firmly pressed her hands against her p.j.'s trying to decide whether they were pains from hunger or nerves. This wasn't like her trying to do such bold things, but hanging out with Fred seemed to give her more courage than before or stupidity, she really wasn't sure which one. She was up before anyone else in her dorm because she knew that they might be able to tell something was wrong with all jittery wasn't her typical behavior. Also, she wanted to make sure that she was out in the common room when Harry came down. Hermione needed to talk to him away from Ron or anyone else within hearing range.
Hermione sat with a book in her lap appearing to read flipping through pages, even though her mind wouldn't focus enough right now to read or study anything. Standing up and setting the book aside, she heard them before she saw Harry and Ron come bustling down the stairs as if they were on a mission. Ron, in the lead, almost pushed Hermione aside in his quest to get to the door. "I'm so hungry," Ron said with a crazed look in his eyes.
"Well, excuse me for being in your way," Hermione said knowing that her sarcasm was totally lost on Ron when he was hungry.
"Harry, I need to talk to you for a minute," her eyes begged him to stay while he watched Ron leaving the room.
"Ok, if it's only a minute. I seem to be as hungry as Ron this morning." Harry patted his stomach while Hermione wondered if she'd even be able to stomach anything today as she thought of today's planned adventure.
Hermione took Harry's arm and led him to a quiet spot in the room away from the staircase where they wouldn't be disturbed by anyone else on their way down to breakfast. Sitting down on a the nearby sofa they faced each other. Harry sat puzzled as he watched her with a furrowed brow.
"Well? What's up?" He looked agitated at her for disrupting his morning routine and keeping him from breakfast. His eyes kept glancing at the door leading out of their common room.
Hermione sighed knowing he wasn't happy with her delaying him. "Harry, I need you to do something for me today," she said. "You have to promise me that you will do nothing at all to get Umbridge angry at you. You can't end up in detention tonight. In fact, I need you to quietly spread the word that everyone needs to be on their best behavior." She placed her hands on top of Harry's and was squeezing them hard enough to make him take notice as he grimaced at how hard she was squeezing his fingers.
"What's going on? Why would you…" He tried pulling his hands away from her firm grip with a funny look on his face.
"I can't give you details right now but you have to trust me and lay low today. Promise me, Harry James Potter, that you will help me with this." Hermione leaned forward to where her nose was almost touching his while invading his personal space to an uncomfortable level, even if they were best friends.
Harry pulled back, his eyes huge and mouth forming a perfect "O" shape, "Oh, no, they've gone and done it haven't they?" He gave her a menacing glare.
"Um...what do you mean?" Hermione asked innocently looking over his shoulder trying avoid his perceptive eyes.
"What are the twins having you do? Hermione, whatever they want you to do, tell them no. You don't want to get caught by Umbridge. This hurts like hell when she does this to you." He held out his hand where the words, 'I must not tell lies' were prominently displayed. She knew how much pain Harry had been in, night after night when he'd been punished with the Blood Quill carving into his hand.
"Don't worry about it Harry, please, just stay away from her and her office tonight. Just trust me." Hermione bit her lower lip as she gave him a pleading, puppy dog look.
Harry reluctantly nodded his head at her, giving his own huge sigh of frustration. He stood up and frowned at her, but before he left, Hermione shouted out to him,"Don't say a word to Ron or Ginny. They can't know."
"Alright, I promise. But, you be careful. Promise me that, OK?" His heartfelt words gave her the chills.Deep inside she did wonder why she was seeking out trouble on purpose. Trouble usually found her without her even trying and now she was inviting it her way.
She managed to give him a small grin, "I promise that I will be taken care of. Fred will make sure of it."
"I hope so," Harry nodded as he left the room. Hermione shivered a bit thinking about what would happen if they were caught and punished. She had to breathe deeply and dig deep to find that Gryffindor courage she knew was always there when needed. Hopefully, their plan would go swimmingly and Umbridge would get, once again,what was coming to her.
Classes seemed to drag that day and no one got into trouble. It was miraculous! It seemed that Harry had quietly spread the word that everyone needed to behave. No one received detention that evening which was exactly what was needed for tonight's events. It was hard acting normal around her roommates knowing that very soon she would be breaking every school rule that had ever been written. Harry had been told to keep Ron busy playing Wizarding Chess, and Ginny was doing 'girl' things with Lavender and Parvati so they wouldn't notice Hermione sneaking out to meet up with Fred, George, and Lee.
"Tell me again why we have to wear these?" George asked tugging at his black sweatshirt and pants.
Hermione walked up hearing his question, "It's a good color to wear while on an undercover assignment."
"Who decided that?" Lee asked, his voice raising slightly, "All we need now is to add a little green and we'd look like we belong in Slytherin house."
"Ugh," Fred pretended to vomit. Hermione elbowed him to shut him up. "I think I'll break out in hives." Fred jumped back at seeing Hermione ready to swing at him again.
"You see, at the cinema, detectives dress in dark clothing when they go out to do undercover work.." Hermione started spouting off about some film she'd watched on her last summer break from Hogwarts.
'"Hey, Love, I don't mean to interrupt your terribly fascinating story, but we're under a time frame here and need to be ready when Peeves does his worst." Fred reached out to hug her to him and gave her a quick kiss, just to let her know he wanted to listen to her, but she needed to stop talking. He'd gotten really good at shutting her up when she started to ramble. It's amazing what a kiss or two could do at times.
"Sorry, Fred, I tend to talk a lot when I'm nervous and this happens to fit that category to a tee." Hermione bent her head down looking at the floor in her embarrassment.
"There is no reason to be nervous when you have such strong and handsome men at your side," George spouted off pompously while flexing his muscles for her.
Holding in her laughter she grabbed Fred's hand in hers, "Well, let's be off then, plan Kitty-Cat's Meow is now beginning." The four Gryffindors walked off to get into place hoping that Umbridge would fall for Peeves diversion or they'd all end up in a boatload of trouble.
A/N: I'm so sorry for the delay in getting this out to you. Let's just say "Life" has not been kind lately and writing has not been happening. I hope you like this current chapter, and the next chapter will be the actual event and the fallout afterward.
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