Behind the Joker (Open)

[ROXANNE INDIGO WEASLEY]

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Roxy was a very simple girl, just giver her a cauldron and some ingredients and she could make you a potion that knocked your socks…literally. She was use to using a closed off section of her room as she had taken on of her cousin’s wands and used it to expand her closet and keep it hidden from her mother. The point being that her mother had no idea that she did this type of stuff everyday during the summer and the holidays. Unfortunately she had to admit that he closet didn’t have the proper ventilation for some of her more dangerous projects so she had to risk making them in her room she used a simple sheet for sun-light block while cutting a hole it in for air ventilation. She walked into her father shop waving at the costumers as she walked by, some of them had been in her classes and she knew most of them from school. There was the few odd firsties that looked at her with admiration after seeing some of her pranks and potions in action. It was well known that you never wanted to be on the wrong end of one of those as they weren’t easily reversible.

She said high to her dad and nodded towards the back room, pretending to listen as he droned on and on about the list of rules her mother and possibly grandmother came up with. Nodding in consent and promising not to do anything too dangerous such as level the entire alley she went about setting her stuff up. She looked around the rows and rows of potion ingredients and sighed, this was heaven for her, she had the leftover ingredients from her school kit and the kit her grandfather had given her but she didn’t have nearly enough for this prank of epic proportions. While coming in a relatively small vial a single drop would be enough to turn a table full of students into blue smurfs for four days. She had to calculate and balance the ingredients so the more drops you put the longer it lasted, if she put to much it affected the amount of people too little it became something akin to water…useless.

Sighing she took over her jacket and proceeded to tie up her hair, she had no time for it to get in the way or for one of hairs to land themselves in the potion. She had to fuse a spell and of course a number of ingredients she had and didn’t have into a cauldron in under ten minutes. Preparing the ingredients had to be the most painstaking step in potion making ever and depending on how you prepared them, depended on how the potion came out or how it functioned. She sliced the phosphorus beans and shredded the batwings…hopefully she could get in the slugs before it became explosive. She wrote down each way she prepared the ingredients as the slugs according to her notes had to be precooked. Sighing she chewed the end of her muggle pen as she flipped through her other book of notes. She didn’t add Fairy wings because they caused people to hover. The worst part about being a pranker and also a joker, no one saw the seriousness behind her work. They didn’t see how hard she worked all the time with this, or how a spoiled potion brought her to tears because of wasted ingredients or breakthroughs lost due to her mistiming or lateness.

She was jotting something after cleaning up the mess she had made before putting the ingredients when she heard her dad tell her someone was looking for her. “Just a minute” she yelled as she checked the timer and put the cauldron on the fire to simmer. Setting the timer to go off in forty minutes she skipped to the front of the shop. The best thing about the timer is that it admitted an ear piercing screech and it was charmed to her magical signature so that it would sound anywhere she was. Weren’t the costumers in for a surprise…after all what else did they come here for?
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Viona had been happily working at the Bonfire Bakery with her dad. She was like a kid in a candy store... though in actuality she was like a teen at a bakery. But anyway, no matter what she was doing- cleaning, serving customers, and even baking some herself, she was beaming with joy.

Along with helping in the bakery, she loved visiting her school friends who worked in Diagon Alley. So when it was time for her break, she wrapped up Roxy Weasley's favorite treat from the bakery and headed to Weasleys' Wizards Wheezes. Entering the store, she found Mr. George Weasley, Roxy's dad, and asked where Roxy was. He made her giggle with a silly remark and then walked her to where Roxy was, and announced to Roxy that she had a visitor. Viona had brought George's favorite treat too and handed it to him. She then looked in and smiled and waved at her friend from Gryffindor House.

"Hey Roxy!" she said. "Wow, it must be so fun here for you! I bet you get to do all your best work here. I remember that joke you pulled the last month of school. I thought I'd never stop laughing."

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[ROXANNE INDIGO WEASLEY]

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Roxy walked from the back of the store to see one of her friends she had invited over “Viona!” she said as she ran to hug her friend and housemate. She remembered her saying something about working in her fathers bakery and figured she must be having a great time.

She looked around the store and saw that there were a lot of costumers so she waved Viona to come behind the counter “Come on doll-face I’ll show where the magic happens”

She lifted up the counters as she excepted the box of Sticky buns from Viona “Thanks I think all that potion making and calculation left me starving. Hopefully my mom made some lunch.[She lead Viona to the back of the store to lab to see that he mother had left enough sandwiches for the both of them, along with some butterbeer.

“I think she mistakes my appetite and my brother's sometimes” She said as she looked at all the sandwiches. While Roxy loved both her parents and of course her grandparents she got this sneaky suspicion that both her mother and grandmother were trying to fatten her up.

“So, wanna help me make a potion that turns people into blue smurfs for four days?” She said while eating a sandwich and opening a bottle of butterbeer.


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As Viona...

Viona was anxious to see what Roxy did in the back so she happily followed. She beamed when she saw the sandwiches and Butterbeer. And there were some cheese and veggie sandwiches too, as if Mrs. Weasley knew she was coming over. Considering how often Viona visited Roxy, it was no surprise. Still, Viona had only visited her in the main part of the store before that.

When Roxy asked about the potion, Viona nodded.

"Sure..." she said. "What's a Smurf?"

As George...

"Little blue imp, lives in a mushroom," smirked George Weasley, who popped in to grab a sandwich. "Or rather a Muggle cartoon Roxy discovered. Cheers for the Pumpkin Cake, Viona. Tell your dad I said hello."

George watched Roxy with a smile. If anyone could make a potion that could turn someone into one of those curious blue things on Muggle tele, it was Roxy. She was a genius in the art of the joke and he was so proud of her. He saw so much of Fred in her, and she was not only his daughter, but her new partner in pranks.

He handed her a bottle with a little devilish clown face on it.

"Try a little of this, Roxy," he said. "Always peps up a the process a bit."

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[ROXANNE INDIGO WEASLEY]

it's in your eyes, a c o l o r fade out

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Roxy was about to answer when her dad came in to nick a sandwich and answered for her yeah what he said” She said while laughing most of the school would suffer from this except for her and a select few, of course they would be her friends. However he family weren’t exempt. from her pranks, and she refused to walk around like a smurf.

She nodded to her dad and cataloged the ingredient in her journal so she knew the brewing instructions for next time. After that she mixed in the estimated amounted and stirred it a couple of times before sitting back on the stool. She had pulled up a chair for Viona to sit on so they could talk. “I figured it would be an excellent prank for the beginning of term.’

She knew her pranks were a bit on the mean side but she honestly didn’t care. It was an excellent way to show off her skills and she wasn’t just targeting one person, it was everybody. Even her friends were on the other end of her pranks as to show she wasn’t biased. If she though they looked cute enough she might as well join in on the fun but not yet.

“thanks dad, you’re appreciated but you might not want to mention to mum or grandma that you helped me in my Mischief”


does it f e e l like a head to lean on?
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THE ROUGH, YOU'RE CAUGHT IN THE WIRE. WELL I'LL L I F T YOU OUT - - - - - - - - - - -

THIS POST WAS WRITTEN FOR » @viona
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THE LYRICS ARE FROM » witchcraft - pendulum
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CREDIT GOES TO » carolyn at caution.

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As Viona...

Roxy had played pranks on Viona before, but Viona didn't mind and usually ended up giggling a great deal and giving Roxy a big hug to show there were no hard feelings.

Viona said you're welcome to George about the Pumpkin Cake, promised she would tell her dad hello for him, and then sat and watched Roxy at work. The magic behind the mischief. Viona was in awe.

"Can you show me how to make something some time?" asked Viona. "Me dad and I love to pull jokes on each other at home. He put a squeaking potion in me Pumpkin Juice at breakfast yesterday morning and I talked like a wee mouse for an hour. It was a real zinger."

Viona was also have to tell her dad about Smurfs when she got home.

As George...

George smirked when his daughter told him to make sure her mother and grandmother didn't know about her potion making.

"You know me better than that, Roxy," said George. "If you could imagine half the things your Uncle Fred and I kept from mum and dad when we were your age. Granted, I'm supposed to be the responsible one now, but as long as you don't blow half the shop up, we'll keep this between you, I, and Viona here."

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Roxy smiled Sure I'm positive we can come up with something she said as she wrote a reminder in her notebook, though she was good at remembering she switched from one thing to another so much she sometimes forgot simple things like that. Though she would remember this because of was a chance to invent a new potion.

We can cause him to sing everything he says for the whole day? she offered though she was sure there was a spell for that and maybe a potion wouldn't be that hard, she could probably tweek it and add dancing like lives a musical number to the side-effects.

Yeah I'm pretty sure mum would kill you if you let me level the alley, but I managed not to blow up the house....so far she said smirking, though she wasnt sure who was scarier her mother or her grandmother....probably the latter because she had to keep her dad and uncle inline.
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Viona giggled almost uncontrollably at Roxy's suggestion. Her father actually had a nice singing voice, but it would still be funny to hear him sing the whole day/

"Just not when he's working at the bakery," she said. "All the customers will think he's gone mad and leave the shop." Viona was still laughing though. Nobody could make her laugh like Roxy. "Maybe on Sunday though when we go to the park for a picnic. He can sing out 'Donalda dear, could you past the broccoli salad'?" She sang that out herself of course before giggling again.

"Miss Viona, you certainly find a lot of things funny," smiled George. "Roxy, I think you've found the perfect friend here. You do the jokes and she laughs." He winked at the two to show them he was just messing with them.

George then smirked as Roxy said that she hadn't blown up the house so far.

"Well of course not," said George. "Fred and I didn't pull that off until we were almost seventeen." He again was joking. He wouldn't live to see seventeen if he had blown up his mum and dad's home. Well he would have lived, but he wouldn't have been able to walk properly.

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"Sounds cool, we could add in dancing, im sure if we tweak the potion the a bit, no harm in experimenting" She said while adding some notes down about the prank, she was constantly jumping from idea to idea and there weren't many people that could follow the notes she took in her potions journal. Of course it was harder for people to steal ideas from her which was awesome, and everything she made was never mass produces so no-one could steal it. Just something for her to unleash on the world when she opened her own shop.

'Broccoli salad...do you eat Brussels sprouts??" she asked viona with a horrified look on her face, she knew her Friend was a vegetarian but she didn't know she at the food of evilness. She would never eat such evil things ass broccoli and Brussels sprouts...never ever.

Roxy laughed "Of course, that'll give me something to look forward to although if i level the house the shop goes to right??" she said smirking, of course Grandma Molly would've killed her father and uncle if they damaged the house in away way, Her mother would do the same bring her back to live and do it all over again if she made the slightest explosion in her room, because technically she wasn't supposed to brew in there.

'the potions almost done it just needs to boil for another hour and then we can test it out" she said smiling, there was nothing better than the feeling you got when you finished something.

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As Viona:

Viona had tears in her eyes she was laughing so hard. The idea of her dad singing and dancing all day was too much for her to bare. If she saw it for real, she'd probably pass out from laughing.

"Roxy, you're too much," she said. "But I love you anyway."

Viona then shook her head when Roxy mentioned Brussels sprouts.

"No, I don't like those," she said. "But I do like broccoli, at least when its mixed with other things or if you have dressing to dip it in."

As George:

"Broccoli's not so bad," said George. "It's cauliflower that you have to look out for. Now that's bloody disgusting."

George then nodded jokingly as Roxy spoke of the "fate" of the house and shop.

"Well of course," he said. "You want to pull something like that, you have to go all the way. If you take the neighboring shop down as well, that's a bonus."

If only his wife heard what they were discussing. She knew George joked about things a good seventy-five percent of the time, but still she probably wondered how much the man was influencing Roxy. Oh well... at least Freddie would turn out alright.

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