Percy and the Twins

[Cathy Drolet]

No: HPFGUIDX 137023

Betsy Hp:
>>They sold to Death Eaters.  

CathyD now:
Who says?  Do you think for a second that Fred or George would have taken Malfoy into the back of the store?  I don't.  Not unless they were Imperiused.  Or that they would have taken anyone else back there that they suspected of being on the other side?  Not me.  Crabbe and Goyle wouldn't even get a peek in there...nor Montague or Flint, or anybody else F&G know are Slytherin/DE.  At this point, not even Percy would get a peek behind that curtain.  

Perhaps someone they know and trust was in there, under an Imperious curse (or under an invisibility cloak?), and bought or nicked the stuff.  " '--- pocket anything, you, and you'll pay in more than Galleons!' George added warningly to a small boy who hastily whipped his hand out of the tub labelled: Edible Dark Marks...  George pushed back a curtain beside the Muggle tricks and Harry saw a darker, *less crowded room*.  The packaging on the products lining these shelves was more subdued."  Less crowded because only friends/well known customers are in there?  They took Harry back there...not Ron.  Not because they didn't want Mum to know; Dad would know already.   Verity didn't send the customer looking for a joke cauldron to the back to find Fred and George...she went to get them.  

Ron's only guessing it was F&G's Peruvian Instant Darkness Powder, and how many times has he been wrong?  If Fred and George can import the stuff from Peru so can lots of other people...those down Knockturn Alley perhaps?

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