Harry had seen the Twins a few times since the conversation the previous week, but the Twins had not brought the subject of Fleur back up. Harry and his bond mates had discuss the possibility of telling them but were still undecided. They trusted the two, but they all knew the more people who know a secret the more chance of it getting out. It was after a prank review session with Remus, where the Twins were pretty sure they had modified their time tape to work as needed, that they decided to let them in on the secret.
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April 1st 1995
April first was, appropriately, the Twins' birthday. Lee Jordan and the rest of the Twins' friends threw them a tremendous party in the common room.
"Thanks Hermione," One of the twins called out as they lifted the muggle jokes and pranks book she'd bought for them. "Just what we need, more pranks that can't be traced back to us because of our magical signature."
"Just what you needed, I'm sure," She replied. "Just don't terrorize the first years."
"Who us?" The twins answered in unison.
The next gift was a fairly large box wrapped in light blue paper. When they saw who it was from Fred looked at Fleur and Gabrielle. "What did the lovely ladies find for us?"
"Zere is a joke store in Paris zat 'as some unique things that I didn't see at Zonkos," Fleur explained. "I thought you might like a few of zem. My Maman sent zem."
"Thank you," George said when they looked in the box, "and thank your mother. But since this is our birthday, all seriousness must be put aside."
"What about you Harry?" Fred asked. "Nothing from you?"
"Just this," Harry replied as he handed over two envelopes. "One's from Moony, but don't open them until afterwards."
When everyone was gone, the twins reached for the envelopes. They read Harry's first. It only had two sentences.
"Time to tell you the secret you wanted to know. Tomorrow after dinner," When the twins read the letter they looked over at Harry and nodded as they grinned at him.
"I think I might scrounge you up a real present by then," Harry explained.
Remus' letter also only had two lines.
"Now that you are seventeen, I invite you to join me for a return visit to number Four Privet Drive this weekend," This brought an even bigger grin.
"You know what this means Fred?" George asked.
"Of course. Our first legal magic outside the castle is going to be pranking," Fred replied with a devilish grin.
"This very well could be the best birthday ever."
The next evening Harry and Hermione fell into step beside the twins. Fleur and Gabrielle were already in the Chamber making sure that Sirius was in his animagus form.
"Well are you two ready to learn our secrets," Harry asked as he led them to Myrtle's bathroom.
"Of course," George said.
"You know we would never…hey why are we going into a girls' bathroom," Fred said. Both of the twins looked cautiously around the loo expecting some sort of a prank.
Harry grinned. "Where else would you hide the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets guys, and where else would it be appropriate to tell you the secret except in the Chamber of Secrets."
"Cool."
"We always did want to go down there."
"But Ron and Ginny wouldn't tell us where it was."
"You couldn't get in anyway," Harry explained. "Unless you are a Parselmouth," He turned to the wall and hissed, "§Open§" and the wall section disappeared.
Fred looked at George. "The great Chamber of Secrets of Salazar Slytherin is in a girl's bathroom?"
"And I guess we can't rub the Slytherins' noses in it, can we?"
"Not yet," Harry said. "Besides, it wasn't a bathroom when he made it."
"So?" Fred replied. "It's still nose rubbing material if I ever saw any."
A few minutes later they passed the snakeskin in the tunnel. "What the bloody hell Harry?" George asked.
"It's just a skin," He replied and continued walking while the twins kept looking back at the mass of skin laying in the tunnel.
"When they got to the Chamber itself, Hermione, to the twins' amazement, hissed it open and they entered.
"Hermione's a Parselmouth too?" George said. "We didn't know that."
"Not really," Harry replied as he grinned at the twins. "She's just good at faking it," That earned Harry a tongue stuck out at him.
In the Chamber, the twins did what everyone else did when they first enter the Chamber; stare at the carcass of the Basilisk. "That's the bloody thing that you saved Ginny from?" Fred asked in awe.
"I guess. It never attacked Ginny since she was already unconscious when Riddle turned it on me," Harry replied. "I had Dumbledore's Phoenix helping me though. It was a sort of memory of Voldemort that I had to kill to save Ginny," Harry said as the twins flinched at the name.
"Bloody hell," Fred said as he and George walked around the monstrous creature.
It was only after they had thoroughly looked over the carcass before they realized there was also a Hippogriff and Harry's dog in the Chamber. "Have some kind of animal farm going down here Harry?" George asked.
"Something like that."
"Where'd you get a Hippogriff?" Fred asked.
"He's a friend," Harry replied. "I really can't tell you more than that," He looked over at Fleur and Gabrielle who were seated at the table with Remus. "Now I think we said we'd tell you a secret."
"You know Harry, you don't have to," George said.
"That's not to say we don't want to know," Fred said.
"But if it is going to cause problems with your girlfriend and her sister, we'll understand."
"It's alright guys, we've been debating it for the last week or so, and we decided to tell you," Harry said. "You have a good point about misinformation, and we are hoping for one other thing from you this summer."
"Name it Harry."
"We'll explain it after the secret," Harry replied and then continued. "You know Gabrielle is my girlfriend of course."
"A lovely choice if we must say so ourselves," Fred joked.
"Is Moody covering any magical beings in your class this year?"
"No, he's pretty much stuck on constant vigilance and how to protect ourselves by causing us as much discomfort as he can."
"Yeah, same in our class. Oh well, you know Gabrielle and Fleur are part Veela?" Harry asked and the twins nodded at which Harry continued. "Well they have the ability to develop a love bond with another person. It's a permanent connection between the Veela and her bondmate."
"And you and Gabrielle have this bond?" George asked.
"Yes," Harry said as Gabrielle walked over and put her arms around him.
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