Harry could feel the anger from all of his bond mates as they saw the room they had witnessed in the bondimage and he knew that if his Aunt and Uncle were to walk back in the door at this moment, three very irate witches would hex them to pieces regardless of the consequences.
Remus picked up the frying pan and pulling out his wand he mutter a quick spell. "Well that's something small to start with," He said.
"What did you do?" Harry asked.
"Oh, just a heat dampening spell on all but the dead center of the pan." Remus explained. "Cooking eggs and bacon will never be the same for her. Most of it will cook slowly but anything right in the middle will burn."
Harry opened one of the cabinets and grabbed the cake pan, "Can you do this one also?" He asked. "She always makes a cake to take to the neighbor every couple of weeks. Mrs. Ellison can't bake very well and Aunt Petunia never misses a chance to show her up."
Remus took the pan and cast the same spell on it and Harry put it back away. Then Remus looked at the table. "How much does your Uncle weigh?"
"At least twenty stones," Harry replied. "Maybe a bit more."
"Excellent," Remus said, and he tapped his wand on each of the chair and muttered something that sounded like 'Adficio' to Harry. Remus looked up and said, "I weakened the chairs so if he sits in any of them they should collapse after a while."
Harry smiled as he imagined his Uncle plopping down heavily in a chair and having it crumble under him.
The twins were looking in the Refrigerator and the cabinets and both were grinning very broadly.
"You two look like you have some ideas," Harry said.
"Many, but we need to try a few things first. Does your Aunt by any chance hate it when cabinet doors are left open?" Fred asked.
"She can't stand it, and of course when I'm here I'm always responsible."
Fred looked at George, "We think we can make their lives a little interesting."
Harry knew the twins idea of interesting wasn't something his Aunt and Uncle were going to appreciate.
The girls had finished their inspection of the minute habitat Harry had spent a good portion of his early life living in and were looking over the living room. The noticed all the pictures of the Dursleys, especially of the overgrown whale Dudley, but not a single picture of Harry existed in the room, nor did they even remember one being in the house at all. Silently their frustrations and anger were being discussed. Hermione continued to look around the room and her eyes fell upon the television.
"Harry did you say you Aunt and Uncle have favorite TV shows?" Hermione called out.
"Definitely. Aunt Petunia has several in the afternoon she watches and they spend a lot of time watching the tele in the evenings," Harry said as he walked into the room. "Did you have anything in mind?"
By now everyone else had joined the girls in the living room, "Well at home one of the most frustrating things to ever happen to me was when power went out when there was only ten minutes left in a show I was watching and I ended up missing the ending. It didn't televise again until I was back at Hogwarts and my parents absolutely cannot program a VCR to save their lives. I still haven't seen the end of it."
The Delacours and Weasley twins did not understand most of what Hermione had just explained, and seeing that she explained further. "The tele shows stories in moving pictures, but the shows are chosen by another company that sends them to the TV. The shows usually are not shown again for some months later if ever. Now think of it as reading a book, and you get near the end and find out the last thirty pages are missing. That's what it's like not being able to see the last ten or so minutes of a TV show. Now presume the bookstore will not have a replacement book for months so you have to wait that long to find out what happens."
Fleur looked at Hermione and smiled, "So zis is ze thing your TV who comes on?"
"Yes. At my house we'll need one of these, a VCR, a very large bowl of popcorn and a bunch of rented Doctor Who tapes," Hermione replied smiling at her bond sister. She then remembered her parents. "I really hope my parents are polite to you."
"I'm sure eet will be fine," Fleur replied. "Your muzzer said she supported your decision."
"Okay, that sounds great, but can we get back to the reason we're here?" Remus asked.
"Dad says these things have problem with magic," Fred said.
"Everything that runs off electricity has problems with magic," Remus said.
George looked at Fred, "Think if we modify time tape it would work?"
"It might. Definitely something we can work on."
"Time tape?" Harry asked.
"We invented prank tape that stops working after so much time," George explained.
"Someone uses it to fix something, and after ever how long you spell the tape for, it completely stops sticking," Fred explained.
"The tape has magical properties that we might be able to activate according to a certain time schedule. It will also blend into a muggle environment so they would never notice it."
"So if the magic activates near a TV it should make it stop working for whatever duration you want," Fred finished.
Hermione was looking at the back of the TV. "Will it disrupt the TV signal, and not the TV? She held up a black cable. They have cable TV."
"What's that?" George asked.
"The TV signal or how the shows are sent to the TV doesn't come through the air here, it's sent down through this cable. The usually get more channels and it's not affected by weather," Hermione explained. "I think it would be more frustrating if the TV signal dies. Nothing like grey fuzz displaying on a TV screen."
"We can try it, if it doesn't work on the cable, we can put it on the TV itself."
Remus looked at his watch, "Do we need to see anything else?"
"What about outside?" Gabrielle asked quietly. "Ees zere anything we can do zere?"
"Well if you can make the grass die," Harry said jokily, "Having the greenest lawn on the street is one of Uncle Vernon's major goals in the summer. As long as he can make me do it that is."
"It's an idea," Remus said. "Does he put fertilizer or anything on it?"
"Yes, several times a year."
"Something else we can look into," Remus said, "Anything else?"
"What about the car?" Harry asked.
"Maybe we can ask Dad how to randomly disable a car," Fred said.
"Yeah, I bet he would know," George said.
Harry could just imagine Uncle Vernon's car not starting in the morning as he's trying to get to work and he started smiling imagining the purple face already.
"Let's take a quick peek in the garage," Remus said. When they entered the detached building a minute later, Fred saw a set of golf clubs in one corner and nudged George. They walked over and examined the set.
"Your uncle plays golf Harry?" He asked.
Harry knew that golf balls were commonly used in Quidditch practice so wasn't surprised that the Twins knew about the game.
"Yeah, he takes clients out to golf to close deals sometimes."
Fred turned to George, "Wish we had some of those golf balls Dad was talking about last year."
George looked at Harry, "Yeah they were bewitched to fly perfectly straight and go a lot further than normal."
"What's the catch?" Harry asked. "Sounds like something my Uncle would want."
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