‘Yeah, Mum’s always wishing we had a house-elf to do the ironing,’ said George. ‘Well, whoever owns him will be an old wizarding family, and they’ll be rich,’ said Fred. Can you think of anyone at school with a grudge against you?’ ( CS3) I reckon Dobby was sent to stop you coming back to Hogwarts. ‘Well,’ said Fred, ‘put it this way – house-elves have got powerful magic of their own, but they can’t usually use it without their masters’ permission. ‘So he wouldn’t even tell you who’s supposed to be plotting all this stuff?’ ( CS3) Harry tells the twins about Dobby: ‘Very fishy,’ said Fred finally. ‘A lot of wizards thin it’s a waste of time, knowing this sort of Muggle trick,’ said Fred, ‘but we feel they’re skills worth learning, even if they are a bit slow.’ ( CS3) You had to hand it to them, thought Harry, as George took an ordinary hairpin from his pocket and started to pick the lock. ( CS3)įred and George climbed carefully through the window into Harry’s room. ‘Tie that round the bars,’ said Fred, throwing the end of a rope to Harry. ‘We don’t need to,’ said Ron, jerking his head towards the front seats and grinning. Harry’s bedroom window has bars on it: ‘But you can’t magic me out either –’ ( PS12) From Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets They frog-marched Percy from the room, his arms pinned to his sides by his jumper. ‘And you’re not sitting with the Prefects today, either,’ said George. ‘I – don’t – want –’said Percy thickly, as the twins forced the jumper over his head, knocking his glasses askew. ‘P for prefect! Get it on, Percy, come on, we’re all wearing ours, even Harry got one.’ ‘You haven’t got a letter on yours,’ George observed, ‘I suppose she thinks you don’t forget your name. ‘I hate maroon,’ Ron moaned half-heartedly as he pulled it over his head. ‘Come on, get it on, they’re lovely and warm.’
‘Why aren’t you wearing yours, Ron?’ George demanded. ‘She obviously makes more of an effort if you’re not family.’ ‘Harry’s is better than ours, though,’ said Fred, holding up Harry’s jumper. ‘Hey, look – Harry’s got a Weasley jumper, too!’įred and George were wearing blue jumpers, one with a large yellow F on it, the other with a large yellow G. ‘We know Oliver’s speech by heart,’ Fred told Harry.
‘The one we’ve all been waiting for,’ said George. ‘Bet it’s that one behind the statue of Gregory the Smarmy that we found in our first week. ‘Anyway, we’ve got to go, Lee Jordan reckons he’s found a new secret passageway out of the school.’ You must be good, Harry, Wood was almost skipping when he told us.’ ‘We haven’t won since Charlie left, but this year’s team is going to be brilliant. ‘I tell you, we’re going to win that Quidditch Cup for sure this year,’ said Fred. Dumbledore conducted their last few lines with his wand, and when they had finished, he was one of those who clapped loudest. At last, only the Weasley twins were left singing along to a very slow funeral march. While the Weasley twins yelled, ‘We got Potter! We got Potter!’ ( PS7)Įverybody finished the song at different times.
Harry has been sorted into Gryffindor: Percy the Prefect got up and shook his hand vigorously, Ron: ‘… Fred and George mess around a lot, but they still get really good marks and everyone thinks they’re really funny…’ ( PS6) ‘Oh – well, I though it might be one of Fred and George’s jokes,’ said Ron. ‘Are you really Harry Potter?’ Ron blurted out. ‘Don’t, Ginny, we’ll send you loads of owls.’ ‘Don’t worry, ickle Ronniekins is safe with us.’ ‘Blown up a toilet? We’ve never blown up a toilet.’
If I get one more owl telling me you’ve – you’ve blown up a toilet or –’ ‘Now, you two – this year, you behave yourselves. ‘Hang on, I think I remember him saying something about it,’ said the other twin. ‘You should have said something, we had no idea.’ ‘Oh, are you a Prefect, Percy?’ said one of the twins, with an air of great surprise. ‘Oh, him,’ said Harry, ‘I mean, yes, I am.’ ( PS6) ‘What’s that? Said one of the twins suddenly, pointing at Harry’s lightning scar. From Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone