Harry believed Pig (correction: Hedwig didn't survive the war) must have been successful in delivering all those letters the foursome wrote last week because the room was full of everybody he could recall writing. Now it was time to see whom Fred & George’s real friends were. Ginny spoke up first.
“I’m glad to see you all here. I know I was a little cryptic in my letters to you all. You lot were invited because you are good friends with my twin brothers and either went to school, worked, or played with them. You probably got pranked by them once or twice.” That last comment got over half the room laughing.
“What we want to do is save some of your memories you have with them and put them in a Pensieve for a project we are working on. You won’t lose the memory. We just make a copy. Harry will do it since he knows how. He did it a lot with Professor Dumbledore. Is that okay with everybody?”
Dean spoke up first. “What do we have to do?”
Harry replied. “I’ll go one-on-one with each of you. All you have to do is think of the memory. When you’re ready, I will use magic and my wand to extract it from your temple. We can use as many good memories you have.” Looking at Hermione, he asked, “Would you like to go first and show them?”
“Sure.” Hermione sat in the chair that was already next to him and closed her eyes. A moment later she said she was ready. Harry appeared to be mumbling something while he touched her temple with his wand. Then slowly he removed his wand that was pulling a silvery strand out of her head. When about 25cm came out, it broke off. Harry put the strand in the Pensieve.
“That’s it. One memory. Who’s next?” Harry said. After watching how easy it was the people in the room started moving around almost like they were lining up.
The Challenge story can be told in many different ways. This is just one suggestion to get your mind to start thinking of ideas.
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