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THE DAY THAT umbridge became headmistress of hogwarts was probably one of the worst days for lily.

poor girl was not allowed to be seen in classrooms as she was a "distracting variable".

lily was only allowed in snape's classroom when he wasn't teaching and in the dining hall for meals.

to make matters even worse, draco and a few other slytherins had recently joined the inquisitorial squad that umbridge had newly created.

their ultimate goal was to find out where harry's group—dumbledore's army—is secretly practicing.

though many times draco had asked lily to help spy and figure out where they were hiding, lily politely rejected the task, as the girl wasn't even allowed out in the halls majority of the times.

now, limiting lily was one thing. but recently, a whole bunch of decrees were either published or reinforced with even stricter standards for all students.

lily felt suffocated with so many rules to keep up with. she wasn't allowed to play outside even on the grounds of hogwarts, take bubble baths in the prefects bathroom, or go on any more adventures.

"whatcha doin' there pipsqueak?", fred asked, nearly making the girl jump out of her skin.

"mm...eating my pudding", lily dejectedly responded.

"why so sad?", george asked as he sat on the other side of the girl.

"it's just so boring without you guys. professor umbridge nearly made me join detention yesterday just because I was walking slightly faster than her set speed limit", lily pouted.

"speed limit? there's a set speed limit for walking in the halls??", fred asked.

"mhm. first floor to third floor is 4 miles per hour and fourth floor to sixth floor is 3 miles per hours since it's always so crowded. and I don't know what the speed limit is for the seventh floor since I haven't attempted to break the limit yet", lily explained.

fred and george looked at each other with a confused look.

there's definitely been kids that have walked faster than that, especially when one's classroom is literally on the other side of the school and they had approximately 6 minutes to get there.

perhaps it was just a rule set for little lily, as umbridge still hadn't gotten pass the smoke bombs incident.

"don't be upset now princess", fred grinned, grabbing george's back and hovering over the little girl.

"yeah yeah! we've got a plan up our alley. it's your choice if you'd like to join", george smirked, making lily excited.

whenever the twins have her "the look", it meant that things were about to get interesting.

"okay okay!! tell me, tell me!!", lily impatiently giggled.

"well, we were thinking about taking you flying", fred said.

"like with your brooms?", lily gasped. she has never flown on a broom before, only watched, hence why she was so interested in quidditch.

"obviously!", george laughed. "so are you in?"

"mmm....". lily had to consider whether snape would approve of this or not. but technically, her father also didn't like umbridge, so spiting her would be allowed, right?

"I'm in!"

//❁//

all students in fifth-year was currently taking their o.w.l.s. exams. seventh-years, like fred, george, and cedric, should be taking their n.e.w.t.s. exams.

though obviously, the twins and a little mischievous girl was out and about, ready to create havoc.

"ready fred?"

"ready when you are george!"

"I'm ready!!", lily chimed in, making the twins grin.

lily hopped on the same broom as george, holding a bag of treats that was just waiting to be used.

meanwhile harry and ron were wracking their brains out on the 26th question—as clearly the two did not exactly read the textbook that umbridge had given them on their first day—booming was heard out in the halls, alerting the preppy woman.

umbridge hastily marched towards the door, leaving the students to watch in anticipation as umbridge slightly opened the large door, peeking side to side.

without a doubt, the weasley twins and lily laughed in excitement as they zoomed past umbridge, who nearly twisted her ankle as her heels did not support her sudden unbalanced weight.

exam papers covered the air as fireworks were lit, chasing students that weasley twins didn't particularly like (draco malfoy and his cronies).

"you may do the honors, lily", george smiled, handing the girl one of the largest fireworks and letting her aim it at umbridge.

"lily. I'm sure your father would not be pleased with this action!", umbridge warned, wobbling up.

"my papa's always proud of me", lily huffed as george proceeded to light the firework and let the explosion happen.

a wondrous burning dragon ahead appeared as it chased umbridge out the room, earning many claps and whistling.

the trio flew outside, leading everyone towards the open tower.

with fred and george saluting peeves—the poltergeist—and advertising their brand new shop, weasleys' wizard wheezes, the twins quickly took off with lily while fireworks started sprouting in the air.

"where are we going?", lily asked, not sure if her father would've appreciated two ginger clowns, as he liked to address them as, taking her off campus grounds.

"you're our first customer for our new shop, weasleys' wizard wheezes!", fred laughed.

"you mean..you guys actually opened a shop?!", lily asked in disbelief.

"of course! we've been planning this for quite a while and have been making prototypes for our products", george replied.

"and I get to be the very first one to see this?!?!", lily excitedly asked.

"obviously! now, we have a present for you since we couldn't celebrate your birthday this year", fred grinned.

"oh, you guys didn't have to—"

"of course we did! it's for our favorite little hufflepuff", george chuckled as the three landed in front of the store—at 93 diagon alley—with a large man's upper body tipping his hat constantly.

"but I'm the only little hufflepuff you know", lily muttered, meanwhile she was ushered inside the beauteous shop that had nearly everything a prankster could dream of.

fred immediately took a long rectangular box off the shelf of the cashier counter and kneeled down on one knee, presenting it to little lily.

"is this a proposal?", lily joked, making the twins laugh.

"you wish. now open it", george said.

lily hesitantly opened the box, not sure if something was going to jump out any second or make her face turn blue.

if there was one thing lily had learned while staying with the twins, it was that unless they were totally serious, nothing was safe from being a prank from them.

yet to her surprise, it was a wand. a smoothly carved silver 8 and 3/4 inched wand that had a handle that bloomed into a small lily at the very end.

"custom made weasleys' wondrous wand", fred proudly announced.

"though it may look like a normal wand, different spells are casted than the intended ones", george grinned.

lily was elated! she had never had a wand before, as she was still not of age, so this was the next best thing.

"I LOVE IT!! THANK YOU FREDDIE AND GEORGIE!!", lily squealed as she went to go hug both the twins, who just patted the girl's back with a smile.

"can you guys take me back so I can show papa?! I can't wait to try all the spells!!", lily laughed.

"for sure!", fred answered.

lily then took another few minutes to look around the store as she sneakily left her few sickles and knuts that she was given by snape on one of the potion platters and ran towards the exit.

fred and george didn't find the little pink baggie until later on, a few days later to be exact, as they shook their heads in disbelief.

"it was meant for her birthday. she didn't have to pay", fred said, even though the wand was sold for galleons.

"don't even try. last time I tried to give her back her coins since she wanted to pay me back for the butterbeer, she hid from me for nearly an entire week!", george sighed.

fred laughed as he patted his brother's back.

"I suppose we can count this as our first official sale", fred smiled, observing the sickle under the dim lights produced by the shop.

"well we did say she's our first customer".

"and a very valued one at that".

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