The Third Prankster

The Burrow

A/N: Sorry, Skipping ahead to the end of the year feast.

Riley's P.O.V.

I am going to stay at the burrow this summer because Fred, and George invited me. George said that Ginny's going to love having another girl in the house, besides her mother. Cedric had to come along in order for me to be allowed to go because he doesn't feel comfortorable with me being in a house full of four boys and only one other girl without him there. But, I don't mind. It should be fun.  

Cedric and I went home, said goodbye to Mother and Father, packed, and left for the burrow through the flu network. I held up the flu powder, and shouted "The Burrow!". I came out from another fireplace, to see seven Weasley's sitting at a table. Two of them being Fred and George. I knew all the others too. There was, Molly Weasley, their mother, I think the next to her was their father (Arthur Weasley), Ginny, Ron, and Percy. I stepped out of the fire place and jumped when I heard Cedric appear right behind me. I was to busy remembering names that I almost forgot he was going to arrive right after me. Molly stood up and hugged the life out of me.

"Riley dear, it's so nice to see you again!" She exlaimed happily. I like how she's so welcoming and friendly. She looked behind me, "Oh! And you must be Riley's older brother, Cedric!" She hugged him too, and I couldn't help but laugh at the surprised look on his face. 

"Now, Cedric can stay in Ron's room. Because I doubt you'd want to be kept up all night by Fred and George's experiments, or by Percy's late night reading and studying." She said. Cedric nodded a thank you. "And Riley, you can stay in Ginny's room, obviously."

"Thank you Mrs. Weasley."  I said to her.

Ginny showed me up to her room where I could put my stuff and Mrs. Weasley brought in an extra bed.  I thanked her again and sat down. 

"So..." Ginny started.

"So what?" I asked.

"I heard you're dating George."

"Where did you hear that?" I asked.

"Well, Fred won't leave him alone about it, and decides to run through the house singing it just to annoy him."

"I'm not surprised."

"So, how did he ask you out?" She asked.

I told her the whole story about Christmas and the pin and the note.

Then she kept asking me questions and she asked if we kissed yet. She really liked asking questions but I still thought she was pretty cool for a 9 year old. So, I had to tell her the story about the Library and the book and the ladder and the faked injury with the brain threatening to fall out.

She seemed really excited to know all about Hogwarts too, so I told her some stuff that I think she would like. I was just like her when I was waiting for my Hogwarts letter.

Mrs. Weasley told us that dinner was ready. I asked Ginny where the bathroom was before I went downstairs and she told me where to go. She left down the stairs and I walked towards the bathroom. When I came out Fred and George were standing at the door.

"Ok, that's just creepy." I said, and Fred and George laughed. George picked me up and hugged me almost as tight as Mrs. Weasley. 

"Welcome to the burrow!" He said.

"You can put me down now." I told him.

"No I can't."

"Yes you can."

"No."

"I will bite you."

"No you won't"

"Yes I will."

"You're lying"

"Don't test me"

"Still won't."

I sat there for a moment, pondering, untill I said, "Cedric's very protective you know." 

He sighed in defeat and put me down. I ran down the stairs to the table yelling "FREEDOM!"

When I sat down, Fred and George came down the stairs and plopped down in the two chairs in front of me.

"How do you tell the difference?" Cedric whispered.

"I don't know, you just learn I guess."

"Uh.."

"I have a solution!" I exclaimed, I ran upstairs, grabbed a marker from my bag, ran back downstairs, and drew a tiny dot on George's cheek.

"Ok, so George has the dot."

"That's easier I guess." Cedric said.

I turned to George, who was frowning. "Why do I have to have the dot?" he asked, why can't you put the dot on Fred?"

"Because, she's not my girlfriend." Fred said. Teehee, I can't get over the fact that it rhymes.

I sat back down in between Ginny and Cedric. Mrs. Weasley placed lots of food on the table.

"Wow." I said, "that smells really good."

"Thank you." Mrs. Weasley said. She looked at George, "I like her, she's so polite."

"So what's your favorite class at Hogwarts Riley?" Mr.Weasley asked me.

"Astronomy." I answered.

"I remember when you stole my Astronomy textbook and read the whole thing in two days." Cedric told me. I smiled.

"You should have seen her in our first astronomy class, she named every constellation on that paper. There had to be about 30 or 40."  George added.

Percy almost choked on his chicken. "All of them?"

I nodded.

"In your first class? I only know about twenty so far."

"Wait. Wait, You're better at something than Percy! That's near impossible!" Fred exlaimed, shocked.

Ginny laughed. 

Percy glared at Fred and I couldn't help but chuckle. I felt so accomplished.

"I can definitely see you becoming a prefect." Mrs. Weasley said.

"So, Cedric, what's your favorite class?" Mr. Weasley asked.

"Charms." Cedric Answered.

"Do you play quidditch?" 

"Uh, yeah. I play seeker."

"Fred and George want to try out for quidditch next year,"

"We want to be beaters." Fred added.

'Then we all launched into a conversation about Quidditch. After dinner, Cedric and I offered to help Mrs.Weasley clean up and she let us. Then, I went up stairs to Ginny's room where I'm staying and sat down. Fred opened the door and said, "We're planning on having a short quidditch game out back tomorrow if you wanted to join." 

"Sure, sounds fun." I answered.

He left, and I plopped my head down on the pillow and fell asleep.