Chapter 181 - 181-mother knows best

MOLLY'S POV

As Molly waited at the train station, she once again sighed.

Being a stay-at-home mother for seven children is hard.

You have to run the house constantly, teach your children how to behave, make food, and still be energetic enough so when your husband comes back from work he won't feel like you don't appropriate it.

Yet there was one thing worse.

Being a stay-at-home mother for seven redheaded children.

As a redheaded herself, Molly can tell you most of the rumors about redheads are lies.

They don't stink in the rain, they don't glow in the dark, and they do have a soul.

Yes, all of those are lies, but if there was one thing that is true, is that redheads have much more energy, especially in children.

Every one of her children was a little devil, accidental explosion magic, taking a broom to fly, sneaking a ghoul into the attic or creating a potion accident after sneaking into her potion ingredients cabinet, they did it all.

Except for Percy, non of them grew out of it.

Bill became a curse breaker, going around Egypt sneaking into ancient graves.

Charlie went to Romania, taming dragons for a living.

Ron's grades didn't improve and he keeps getting into trouble each year.

And Ginny keeps sneaking around to fly at night.

Even Percy, who she felt like she did right with, decided to cut connection with his family as long as they support Dumbledore's came about the return of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named

Yet, if she had to choose her greatest failure, she would have to choose the twins, who not only started selling products instead of studying, but convinced her husband to join them!

It felt like everything she tried to instilled in her kids failed.

She tried to instill a sense of duty for the ministry and responsibility for their family in her two oldest children, who as a response decided to run away from the country.

She managed in her third to install the duty for the ministry, but as a response he cut ties with his family.

And now her twins are up and about, doing whatever they want, and the worst part is their father choosing to support them, making her disapproval meaningless.

They just didn't understand that she knew what is the ending for each path.

Her grandfather was a curse breaker and she can't remember him with both ears and all fingers.

While she didn't have a dragon tamer in the family, Arthur's uncle had a famous creatures circus... until he was Easter m eaten by them.

As for opening a store?

Arthur's dream was to open one, and the failure broke his heart.

Working at the ministry is stable, it pays, and you get to keep all of your body parts!

Why don't they understand that?!

And even if it takes all summer, even if they hate her, she will make sure they stop the nonsense and make sure they study next year seriously, before starting to work at the ministry, joining their father as he reapply to his old position.

Another sigh escaped her lips as she saw the train arriving.

After all, mother knows best.

GEORGE'S POV

Getting off the train, George took one, quick look at the stormy look on his mother's face, stole a glance at his twin brother, who nodded, and steeled himself for what to come.

Since midway through the year, when their dad agreed to join them and their company, secret letters have been exchanged between the three of them.

According to their father, their mother didn't take the news of him quitting his job for a new one too well.

Firstly, he started to sleep in a different room, as she said 'she won't sleep with him until he sees reason'.

The twins seriously were shuddering when the read it.

Then she started talking about financial problems they are about to experience and her unwillingness to use a single Knut from her children.

Something that their father said he dealt with by refilling the coin jar at home everyday so she won't notice it is with that money.

And lastly, she made him promise that if they agree to work at the ministry he will go back as well.

Which meant one thing, they are about to not only get an earful like they usually get and ignore, but suffer for the rest of the holidays.

Of course, they had no intention to do such, therefore creating a contingency for such a case, which they are about to activate.

"MOM" he heard Ginny yell from his left before seeing her running to hug their mother, who hugged her only daughter back, the stormy look disappearing for a second and a smile appearing instead.

Quickly, George casted a silencing charm to make sure no one outside of them can hear what's about to happen, there was no need to embarrass their family.

"Hey mom, we missed you too." Fred said.

"Though apparently not as much as Ginny." George said getting a scowl from Ginny who finally let their mother go.

"Fred, George. I missed you two so much." She said hugging them before letting them go and her stormy look is back on. "Though that doesn't mean you aren't in trouble!"

"Trouble? What for? Didn't you see how much our behavior improved this year? We barely got detentions!"

That was true, with the work on the TV, the band, and hanging out with their friends in Gryffindor and Slytherin, the amount of pranking this year was at an all times low, and even the pranking that did happen was much more subtle then dungbombs, instead they did things like glueing toilet sits or casting a ward on the entry point of the grand all that wrote on everyone's back 'kick me', you know, sophisticated things.

"You know damn well what you did!" Their mom's voice started raising. "You not only kept selling the game after I specifically told you not to, but you convinced your father to leave his job to come work for you!"

"Dad quit his job?" Ginny asked shocked.

"Don't worry sweetie, he would get it back." Their mother didn't even looked at her daughter saying that, if she did she would see the shock quickly becomes happiness, as they all knew that while their father loved his job, his true passion is inventing new things.

"As for you two, you are grounded for the rest of the summer, and you will stop any sells and inventing! Plus, you will apply to the internship program in the ministry, where you will make connections to prepare to your future job there!"

George's eyebrows couldn't go any higher, neither could Fred's.

The fact their mother didn't realize how poorly they respond to threats made it clear she didn't know them at all.

They spent the first two years of school using all 437 band items from Flitch's list, third year by stealing all the ones he kept in his office and stealing a toilet sit.

Forth and part of fifth by becoming illegal animagus and part of fifth and six by making a business that their she forbade them from doing.

What did she think would happen when given this order.

A quick look and simultaneous nod with his twin was all that was needed for them to say at the same time ""No.""

"What do you mean no?! As long as you live at my house you will do as I say!"

"So I guess we aren't coming back home." Fred said.

George could see it shocked their mother.

"What do you mean you aren't coming home? Where would you go?" Ginny asked.

"We will be fine," George said "We have enough money from the game to buy a place."

Listening to them keep talking seemed to snap their mother out of her shock.

"Listen to me carefully!" She said in a low seething voice. "You are coming home and stop this nonsense! With the return of You-Know-Who it really isn't safe. You are still children, and you will listen to your mother!"

He could feel his blood boiling and freezing at the same time. Was it how she talked to Bill and Charlie when they made their choice of job? Or was she trying to reach those two more reasonably?

"I'm sorry mom," he could hear Fred talk in a mechanical voice. "But we had our 17 birthday months ago, though you forgot to send us anything to show you remember."

He then could hear his own voice saying. "We will open our store in two weeks, we hope we will see both of you there."

Turning around, they saw Ron and his friends walk toward them, just now leaving train.

As they four friends reached the Weasley matron, George canceled the silencing ward, hearing Ron say "Where does the twins go to?"

tears seemed to drop from his eyes as he and his twin went out of the barrier to the muggle world, both of them crying even as they reach the place where they are going to stay for the next two months, Harry's apartment.