Baby Magic

Ginny had burnt Ron's favorite Chudley Cannon's poster.

"Mum!" he yelled franticly, "can't you fix it back?" Molly Weasley was looking at the charred remains.

"Oh, Ron, I'm sure we can replace it."

"But isn't Ginny going to get in trouble?"

Ginny was whimpering by Ron's door. "Mum, I didn't mean to," she cried. "It was an accident."

"I know, dear," Molly told her daughter. "Ron, she didn't mean to burn it up. It was accidental."

"She always gets away with everything because she's the youngest and the only girl!"

"That's not true!" cried Ginny. "I got into trouble for clogging the toilet with toilet paper last month, and for swiping Percy's wand!"

"So?" Ron retorted. "You got into trouble, but you weren't punished."

"Now Ron," Mrs. Weasley started, "Ginny, stop fighting."

"Mum!" both shouted, "Stay out of this!"

Stunned, Molly Weasley left the room. Ron picked up his broomstick and poked Ginny with it.

"Ouch!"

"I hardly touched you!"

Ginny found a plastic flower, pointed it at her brother, and shouted, "Abracadabra!"

"Ginny, that's not a real spell," claimed Ron as it started to snow inside the room.

Ginny dropped the flower in surprise, and the snow abruptly stopped. She spotted a spider traveling across the windowsill, picked it up, and dangled it in front of Ron's face.

Ron started to scream so loudly that Ginny had to drop the spider to cover her ears. Ron jumped onto the bed and started to yell, "Get it out, get it out!"

Their mother ran back into Ron's bedroom. "What's going on in here?" she demanded, noticing the wet floorboards and a panicked Ron. "Ginny, what happened in here?"

"Well, Mum, Ron poked me, so I made it snow, and then a spider came into the room," Ginny said calmly.

"Ginny put the spider in front of my face!"

"Children! Ginny, go to your room. Both of you, stay in your rooms until dinner."

At dinnertime, their behavior had been greatly discussed. However, Ginny found it the ample time to ask innocently, "Can I have a Chimaera?"