Fleur turned a mischievous grin toward her bond mate. "Once or twice…..a day. And you are very very 'andsome my love," Fleur winked at Harry and started for the steps and then came up short as she thought of the scantily clad woman on the magazine cover. "I 'ave an idea," She turned around and went into Harry's Aunt and Uncle's room. She pulled open a couple of drawers until she found his Aunt's lingerie, "mmm.." She hummed as she pulled out a pair of knickers and a bra. She arranged them on the bed and pulled out her wand and said "Engorgio," The undergarments started growing until they had swelled several sizes. Fleur then changed them into a bright red color. When she had finished Fleur looked at Harry, "Which side of the bed is your Uncle's?" and when he pointed, she opened the drawer of the bed table and stuck the lingerie in it. Turning to Harry she smiled, "Now what will your Aunt think when she finds ladies underwear in your uncle's drawer zat doesn't fit 'er?" She grinned at Harry and sent him an image of herself in her underwear to him. Before he could react, she raced down the steps.
Remus and the twins were trying figure out why Harry was blushing when he followed shortly afterwards. "Just making sure my cousin's adult magazine collection is easily found," He said. "My Aunt will love finding it the next time she cleans."
Fred turned to George, "He never tells us about the good stuff."
"And we thought he was a good friend. Maybe she should take one more look in that room," George replied and they had started for the steps when Remus stopped them.
"As much as I'm sure you would appreciate perusing an in-depth female anatomy class workbook, I think you can forgo it this time," He said and then turning to Harry "While you were upstairs, we decided that though Hermione's idea has a lot of merit for the future, we shouldn't do it this trip."
"Why?"
"If they think they've been robbed, they might increase their security and make it more difficult for me to get back in to implement whatever we come up with."
"Makes sense," Harry agreed.
"Of course, that's not to say it won't happen in the future," Remus grinned. "But for now, let's just leave the few surprises we have, regroup with further ideas and come back," Remus cast the cleanup spell and when everyone was touching the rope, he activated the portkey.
"Did everything go satisfactory?" The Headmaster asked as the group disentangled themselves and stood up.
"We think we have enough to work on, plus we left a few surprises for them today, nothing serious…yet," Remus replied.
"Excellent," Dumbledore replied. "Now it's lunchtime, and afterwards I do believe you wished me to assist you in another task?"
Harry remembered the rune in the Chamber. "Yes sir."
"Very well. I've been thinking about what that might mean and I have an idea. Remus if you will come get me when you're ready, I shall make myself available."
As they were all leaving the Headmaster's office, Harry was curious about something. "Why did you two stop pestering me about Padfoot and Wormtail?" Harry asked the twins. After he originally had told them about his father being Prongs, they had asked Harry several times about the last two Marauders, but each time Harry had put them off. Finally the queries just stopped.
Fred looked at George, "We sort of figured it out Harry," Fred explained. "And we realized why you didn't want to talk about it."
"We didn't know it was a Marauder who betrayed your parents Harry," George continued, "or ended up killing the other Marauder."
"But just to finally put it to rest, is Sirius Black Wormtail?" Fred asked. "Seems like a fitting moniker of the person who betrayed your parents."
Harry looked at the twins in surprise. "How'd you do it? Find out who they were, I mean?"
George grinned at his twin brother. "You gave us enough Harry. Knowing your father was Prongs and Lupin was Moony, we distracted Filch enough to sneak in and take a look at his files."
"And it always seemed like two other names appeared anytime James Potter or Remus Lupin received detentions or other punishments, Sirius Black and Peter Pettigrew."
Harry chuckled, "I don't think people give you enough credit guys."
"And we like it that way Harry," George said. "We have the advantage when we are underestimated."
"To answer your question, Peter i..was Wormtail, and Sirius is Padfoot," Harry replied.
By then Harry and the twins had fallen behind everyone else. "Now can we ask you a question Harry?"
"What do you want to know?"
"What's going on with you and your girlfriend's sister?"
Harry looked at the two of them sharply, "What do you mean?"
"Last night at the party and all this morning she has been looking at you just like her sister does and you've been looking at both of them the same way," Fred replied.
"We don't believe the rubbish Mum and Ron go on about, but there is something going on between you and those two," George chimed in. "And it's more than just having Gabrielle as a girlfriend."
Harry pulled up short and turned toward the twins. "Look guys, it's...it's nothing. Just forget it."
"Sure," Fred said sounding a little hurt. "Look Harry, we might have spread a few rumors in our time here, all in good fun of course."
"But we have never betrayed a friend," George continued.
Harry studied the two redheads in front of him, "And no matter what I say, you'll not let it go until you are satisfied?"
"If you really want us to we will," Fred said. "But if we noticed, other people will also."
"And if there really is something you're trying to hide, having two people who happen to be very good at misinformation might help you," George continued.
"OK, I'm not saying whether you're right or wrong, but for now let it go. Please."
The twins both nodded, "Sure."
"One other thing guys," Harry said. "Moody asked me to loan him the Marauder's map a couple of months ago. Since without his help I would have been caught by Snape out after curfew, I really couldn't refuse. Now I really would like it back. Can you two, in all of your deviousness, think of a way to get it?"
"Breaking into Moody's office isn't a good idea," George replied.
"No telling what traps he might have in there," Fred agreed.
"We'll put our heads together, but it sounds like a difficult task," George said.
"Have you thought about asking for it back?" Fred asked.
"Not really, but what would I say? You monitoring security of the castle isn't as important as me having my map back? Especially since my name got put in the cup by Merlin knows who and you think they might be trying to get me killed?"
"Yeah, does sound a little weak when you put it that way," George agreed. "Is there any reason you need the map? Anything we can help you with?"
"Thanks guys," Harry said, "But not yet."
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