In addition to being the Minister of Magic, Hermione was also the mother of two Weasley children who grew up with other Weasley children and three Potter children. It was such a struggle to ensure her children learned to make the right choice that she sometimes considered that being the minister was the easier than being the mother.
Worst happened when her husband took fancy of spending more time with his brother George as the Weasley Wizarding Wheezes became uncontrollably popular and Hugo started accompanying his father on frequent trips to the store.
While Hermione’s daughter Rose had taken after her, Hugo had somehow taken after Peeves - or so said Ron, his father. Hugo and Rose shared the room under the attic and Hugo gave a soaring competition to the ghoul in creating havoc. Even grandmother Weasley had modified her ancient magical wall clock to include a new action - ‘Doing something they should not’, where George and Hugo spent most of their time!! None the less he had grown up witty and loving. He had also inherited his grandfather’s love for the muggle artefacts.
Just before his seventh birthday, Rose and he had spent an entire month with their muggle grandparents. While coming back, Hugo had packed a lot of things that he did not carry while travelling to the place. Later under strict supervision of George Weasley, Hugo practiced to transform an electric toothbrush to an electric broom, with the help of Ron’s wand that he had helped himself with as Ron was sleeping.
A loud noise and the shake of the entire burrow was something that made everyone stop doing whatever they were. Arthur Weasley was the first one to reach Hugo’s room, from where the noise had come, and see the situation inside. A moment later he came out calmly to tell everyone that the situation is under control and it was all fine. Just as he had come, he disappeared back into the room and closed it - with magic as well as the new technology password lock Hugo was presented for his previous birthday by his muggle grandparents. It was not one lock but a combination of multiple locks. So someone would need to repeat ‘Alohomora’ a couple of times before the lock would open and this would be sufficient time for Hugo to clear away something that his sister, mother or grandmother should not see.
What Arthur Weasley saw made a smile grow on his face. The toothbrush had been magically engorged and spilling water all around while spinning at a tremendous speed. George was standing in a corner looking at the object spinning crazily in the room. His eyes sparkled like they had some idea as to its use. Hugo simply stood transfixed, unable to believe his own creation. Having spent his many years in the Misuse of Muggle Artefacts office, Arthur Weasley’s first reaction was of horror. However his retirement, George and his grandchildren had had a bad affect on him and had only spiked his spirits to experiment with muggle objects. Slowly a grin spread over his face.
The loud noise had not gone unnoticed and the voices from the room did not stop. A couple of minutes later Hermione decided to open the door anyhow. She was the Minister of Magic and if something was happening that shouldn’t, she needed to do something about it. She looked at her husband who had now woken up and was standing by her side. Taking his silence for approval, she started performing the counter spells to open the door. Ron however, had learnt to keep his distance from places where George might be involved.
The Wild noise inside had made the clicking of the locks almost inaudible. Every click only made Hermione be faster to reach the next one. She silently prayed that her son was alright in there and more importantly he wasn’t breaking any rule!
Hermione entered the room to find a wildly spinning toothbrush which was trying to clean everything and everyone inside. There was water everywhere. The ghoul was jumping in the attic to meet the rhythm that the brush was creating. Meanwhile, Arthur, George and Hugo were busy trying to spell the brush to tame it so that it follows their directions. So far, they had no luck.
In just one of these moments she wished that living in a muggle home where trace prohibited an underage wizard to perform magic was seriously better. She stood dumbstruck assessing the scene before her while Molly was shouting behind at the three people. She took Arthur and Hugo to get them cleaned and to ensure Hermione didn’t give them a hard time. George didn’t need telling. He had disapparated the moment he saw his mother. Molly Weasley had grown soft as a grandmother but she was still a very ferocious mother to her children and they didn’t step a toe out of line in front of her, atleast.
When Hugo left, Hermione saw something that he had dropped. It was a wand. She held her head in her hands not able to believe from where her son would get a wand. Then she realised that it was Ron’s wand. She looked at him, with anger. Ron, the only one in the room didn’t know where to look or what to do. Without any word, Hermione knew that it had been Ron’s carelessness that had caused the whole episode. She raised her wand slightly, pointing it right at her husband. A black flash shone and a second later there were streams of spiders following Ron as he sped wildly screaming ‘Blimey! Its school all over again! This woman is crazy! Sometimes birds and now SPIDERS!!’
Screaming, he ran out into the lawn to get away from the spiders as much as he could.
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