I solemnly swear that I am up to no good

Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes, the shop he never thought he'd take a trip to. He was a pure-blood, son of Evan Rosier, a strong dead Death Eater who even proved his might by taking off some of Mad-Eye Moody's nose. He , as his son had a tradition to keep going, but the coming to this store was completly different. For what was to come for him as a future would need some aiding, that and he needed supplies for his next year school pranks. Some smelly bombs, or Peruvian Instant Darkness Powder, a couple of this and that. Though he always felt like he needed something else to help him and his two friends pull their pranks, but he never understud what.

That day, the sun was particularly shining really a lot, making Diagon-Alley a really bad place to be in. Everybody was sweating in their big wizard robes, talking to each other while making slight wind waves with their wands keeping them cold. He had his skinny dark jeans, boots and a white t-shirt, his long hair on his face, not covering any of his eyes, in more of a lion-type of hair. He sighed as he apparated in Diagon-Alley, wondering if he should play some pranks in that store as well, while he was at it. He stepped carefully along Diagon-Alley, everybody trying to get as much space from eachother as they could. He got inside the Weasleys's Wizard Wheezes and went to make his way to the Peruvian Darkness Powder shelfs.

"ANDY!" Jack hollered for the third time. Her twenty three year old employee was leaning against a shelf, running his hands through his hair as he chatted it up with a perky blonde, despite the fact that he was still in Weasley's garb. Jack usually could get to him to force him onto stage, but she was manning the register while Gary recieved a shipment in the back.

It was Kirsty who saved the day. Perhaps Andy's only enemy, as well as his best friend, it was usually up to the twenty five year old to kick Andy's arse into gear. She walked by, spotted the trouble and grabbed him by the ear. He twisted and tried to casually say his good bye to the blonde girl, but Kirsty had already flung his ear towards the stage, and the rest of him stumbled after.

Kirsty shook her head and caught Jack's eye, throwig her hands up helplessly. Jack shrugged back and looked back as she heard Gary call her name. He was slightly flushed from exertion. "Okay, Jack. It's all loaded in. I can take the till now." Jack clapped a hand on his back and said, "Good man." She stepped out and headed up to the second level, looking down with a watchful eye.

"They should really keep it down. With so many people in here trying to have a slight time of fun, all the yelling by the shop's employes are gon'na ruin it. But oh well, it's good to see such a good place with so many fun things to play with .. Maybe I could take some of this powder .. some smelly bombs .. we'll see."

James low voice couldn't be heard, since the store was in fact filled with people, most probably students and parents buying some things for their kids or the students looking to buy the materials for their next year pranks. They were doing the same thing as James, except he had no intention to take just a thing or two, he was gon'na fill his entire stock and then give some of it to his two friends since they were top pranksters and needed all that stuff. But, after all the years buying stuff from here, and specially from a store that was runned by muggle-lovers and yet he never caused a scene, he always thought he deserved a discount. He signaled the redhead employee that was yelling at the other boy, waiting for her to come next to him.

"After all the time that I've come here, and all the Peruvian Darkness Powder, can't I get a discount? It's really troublesome spending all of it in two or three days since well, me and my friends don't wan'na get caught and there's no other way of escaping or getting out of Hogwarts without this magical powder. We're trying to find another way but, we really need a big quantity of this .. Do you make slight discounts to people like this?"

James spoke calmly, in a pacific yet classy voice, though slight sadness could be spotted through his voice, maybe due to having no way to get out of Hogwarts except by spending a lot of money.

A little boy had attempted to taste test some of the merchandise but Jack caught him just in time- good thing too, because what he was trying to eat was an exploding quill. Apparently, he had mistook it for a sugar quill. And this was why kids under the age of six gave Jack the heeby-jeebies... and why she was sure she would never have any of the little monsters for herself. She continued her circle around the top levl, keeping a hawk's eye on the first floor, and using her peripherals for the one she tread on.

A motion caught her eye and she turned to see a Hogwarts-age boy motioning her over for some sort of assistance. She walked over and said "What can I do you for?" He spoke and she raised an eyebrow. The boy had a confidence that reminded her of something. He was not necessarily demanding anything, but he was strongly suggesting she do what he wanted. That was what it reminded her of. She used that technique herself many a time.

She smirked and leaned towards him. "And if there's not a discount, will I be losing a valued customer?" She was suggesting that this was not too big a worry for him, using his own technique against him. An idea floated into her head and she straightened up and said, "We only have one type of discount here and that's an employee discount." Yet another suggestion.

The redhead employee which always gave the image of the boss and professor to the other employee's , she seemed to be the one that cared the most about the store, and he had known her for ever since he saw her start working at the store. Yet he never said anything, but, he was going into his 7th year, and knowing he would graduate because of beeing an excellent student in fact, he decided he needed to end the year with a bang, and he needed all the aid from the Weasleys's Wizard Wheeves that he could get. He had been searching around his head for a couple of plans for the next Hogwarts year and had now a mental list of all the material he would need for a couple of pranks, but the idea of spending all that ammount of money, a lot of times just to make a simple getaway, would be troublesome.

"You won't be only losing one the most valuable clients this store has found since the time of it's owners, since I've been coming here for 6 years in a row and the next one coming, but you'll be also making three Hogwarts Students very sad whenever they are caught playing their pranks on the professors or other students. And you wouldn't want that right? We all know about the pranks you pulled .. and the way you magically disappeared. But maybe you could open the exception and make me that discount, since I don't work here but I practicaly now this place upside down."

He didn't usually talk with other people that weren't Slytherin's or Pure-bloods like this but, the girl, whom he knew for a long time, always proved to be a faithfull servant to the store and he never wanted to cause any problems in there.

Jack stared at the boy, a look of hard scrutiny on her face. Something about him made Jack curious, made Jack feel like investing something into him. She had seen the boy there pretty much since she had taken the shop into her own hands and rebuilt it back up, it having been dilapidated until she had put her energies and focus into it. She cared for her customers, sure, but she still believed she had been the best prankster since the Weasley twins, with Keith rising to follow.

Still. The boy had potential. She looked at him, her hard expression unchanged, and then made an internal decision. She raised a hand and contracted her fingers. "Follow me." Without waiting, she turned and walked the path towards the back rooms, before slipping through a curtain that led to the employee lounge. She pushed open a door from there and entered her office. It had a small desk crammed in the corner, but mostly there were boxes of new products and a table in the center for her own little experiments. She walked around to the other side of the table and motioned to the chair opposite her for the boy.

She turned and rummaged through a few boxes before coming up with a small tube of what looked like ointment. She glanced around and grabbed her pencil cup, dumping out the pens and pencils and set it on the table, sitting. "This is new, not even released." She squeezed the tube against the cup and a dot of gel appeared. She did the same on the other. Then she took out her wand and touched both dots. She then leaned over and tapped her wand twice on the ground. With each tap, a wing sprouted from one of the gel spots and the cup floated to the ceiling. She turned her eye on the boy. "What sort of pranks could you pull with this?" Yes. Jack was testing him.

There was a really good chance for him to shine. Just moments before, the store was filled with kids trying to find things to entertain themselves with during the summer and to show their parents, even muggle-kids and James didn't care a little bit. The employee that had come to him, which name he still didn't know but that wouldn't be important for what he wanted, had signaled him into another room. The back room. He'd never been there, for all the years he was there and the girl obviously recognized him, and she knew he was one of the usual costumers as the prankster he is. And he wanted to show her that after the Weasley Twins, and her, he was the best prankster the magical world had to see, and maybe that would be the one thing that would bond him with the other muggle-borns or half-bloods, the love he had for playing pranks.

She lifted her hand and told him to follow her, then showing him through the employee's corridor after opening a curtain, and just shortly after he was at her office, most probably, since she was the owner and it seemed to be filled with new orders of things, and some of them he had never even seen. The room was quite untidy, boxes everywhere, just a table in the center and then boxes everywhere. She moved around through some of the boxes, looking for something, probably to show James. A feeling of anxiety started growing inside him, new products always fascinated him and he always liked to be one of the first to look at them, and since she was looking deeper and deeper, most probably he'd be, the first one to see it after the store's employee's, and the girl herself. She took out from one of the boxes a big tube and emptied her pencil cup, pens and pencils falling on the table centered in the room.

The tube that she had taken, had some kind of ointment inside, and she picked up the pencil cup that she had emptied and then, exactly what he was hoping it would be, something new not even released, and he would have chances to try it first hand. She squeezed the tube against the cup and a dot of gel appeared, and she did it again in another place of the cup, and tapping her wand on the ground twice, the cup gained two wings from both dots and started floating towards the ceilings. But then came the real deal. He had to tell her what kind of pranks he could pull with that, most probably to impress the girl and then she'd present some kind of prize to him for dazzling her. A lot of ideas came to his mind but none of them seemed to be acceptable for such an important product as this. It could change all the pranks that he can pull, rubbing some ointment and having something float towards him, way easier then risking himself cast a spell. But what would annoy the teachers with that kind of thing?

"For starters, I'm pretty sure I could flip an entire room upside-down with that kind of thing, if I had the right ammount though it'd be stupid to use that type of precious ointment on a thing like this. Is it strong enough to flip someone upside-down? I'd rub it on someone's shoes just for the fun of having him float .. Oh wait no, there's a spell for that. Hmm, what about .. Ointment on a couple of animals and have 'hem float around the castle, just like the ghosts. But , better yet, I could put some of that ointment on myself and hide myself on the ceiling if I needed to make a fast get-away with my two friends after some crazy prank we'd pull. But what would you do? I'm not really seeing anything else then lifting a teacher or two, and a couple of students yelling for help while they have spiders float around them."

Jack waited patiently. He mentioned that it was a waste- point against him; nothing was ever wasted when used for a prank. The idea of suddenly flipping a classroom over was quite a likable notion though- point for him. He suggested flipping someone over, which had been an idea of hers. Point to him. He withdrew the idea since there was a spell but she knew that there was always a counter curse for a spell- there was none yet for this. Point withdrawn. The idea of the animals won him two points; that would be great. And the quick getaway was an idea of hers too- point. The teacher and spiders earned him a point apiece.

And the boy ended up with a grand total of... five. Impressive for a newcomer; most people ended up in the negative. She leaned back watching him. "Your results are processing." She grinned. "While there is a spell to levitate people, your victim can easily cast a countercurse. These are only release by the caster tapping again." She tapped her wand and the wings burst into flames and the cup dropped to the table with a clatter. "The others are great- but you raised a good question. Would this levitate a person?"

She smirked a wide, devilish smile and handed the ointment over. "You solve this little conundrum for me so that I can advertise it properly and you can keep what you don't use." She pointed through the windows at her employee Andy. "If you wanted to try it on him, I especially wouldn't mind."

Well , apparently he hadn't done that bad indeed. He had probably gotten a high score in some kind of system the girl had and that she had aldready probably tested it on someone, though she had also reminded him of something very good that had slipped James. There was the counter-curse for the levitation spell, but for this new product that she made up, probably, there was none, and so it made it very good to use this on people or objects , animals or whatever, that the only way to release it would be tapping the user's wand, which would make a good blackmail if you get the drift. Maybe he could see himself using this on some of the mean students that are at Hogwarts, teach them a couple of lessons. The girl tapped her wand and the wings that had grown from the two wings bursted into flames and then the cup landed on the table. But she was right, James had lifted a good question, because knowing if this ointment was able to lift a person or not would be a great asset for the product and for her advertising since that way it would help pranks ,knowing what type of weight it could lift.

"I appreciate the award, and I'll most certainly try to make this work and hel you be able to advertise it properly, but still, there's my little problem. The one where I use alot of money to buy Peruvian Powder to spend it on a couple of getaways remember? But we'll discuss it after I prove it can lift someone. On him? Okay, should be fun."

Picking up the ointment that she had put down on the table next to the cup and all the pencils and pens, he started walking slowly towards the boy that was now in the employee's corridor, taking out some merchandise, probably to fill some stocks that had run out since everyone was making their holiday's shopping. He walked slowly towards the boy and faked a little trip, landing on his knees just next to his shoes. He squeezed the ointment and it covered the entire back of the shoe, the boy not noticing. He cleaned the dust from his jeans and went back to Jackles, bringing a box to her just to commit the disguise. He tapped his wand against a wall, next to her, wings, now bigger since it had been a larger ammount of ointment, growing on his shoes and starting to levitate him, slowly. Would it be able to withstand the weight?

Jack only gave a mysterious smile as he spoke and he seemed to gather that she did not want anymore talking, she wanted to see his inititiave. He caught on and took the ointment, hurrying out to get onto doing his task. She waited for him to leave before looking at a picture of herself and two others, a boy and girl, both gone for her life. The little her was looking away as the other two looked longingly at each other, and Jack's eyes followed the boy, before the mini self shouted, "Good luck."

Jack's miniature somehow having confirmed the kindred spirit between herself (in her Hogwarts days) to the boy made Jack a little more eager to see him in action. She stood and followed him in time to see him moving away. He tapped his wand and immediately, two larger wings sporuted from Andy's shoes and immediately pulled him into the air.

Andy screamed out a curse word that left all of the young kids covering their ears and Jack burst into laughter at the look on his face. He waved his hands as though he were falling, but the wings beat harder and harder to lift him higher.