Harry Potter AU in which Fred and George are in different houses and they steal and wear each others ties whilst doing stupid things in hope of the others house losing points
Finally a Fred and George AU that doesn’t make me want to set myself on fire.
AU where Fred and George are in different houses and they get their hands on house ties from the other two houses as well. By the end of their first year nobody knows which house either of them is in and just take points off a random house whenever they see a redhead getting up to something.
The confusion runs so deep by the time Ron starts that Snape once takes points off Slytherin for Ron fighting with Malfoy.
There’s a few months in Fred and George’s second year when they successfully convince most of the school that they’re actually quadruplets, one in each house.
“George! Why are you wearing a Slytherin tie?”
“What? No, I’m Edward. Y'know, Slytherin’s resident Weasley?”
“Wh…huh???”
“Next you’ll be telling me you don’t know Hubert!”
“?????”
After this confusing quadruple mess, a conspiracy theory emerges that Fred and George are actually just one person, and there were never any Weasley Twins. To add fuel to this theory, Fred and George make a point to never be seen together (publicly).
When asked about this theory, Fred/George subtly insinuates that he used Polyjuice Potion so that there could be multiple versions of himself at once. This goes around the Hogwarts Rumor Mill like fire. The Weasley family says nothing to dispute it, not even Percy.
Percy makes polyjuice successfully for the first time in his fifth year, when he finally has sufficient motivation. Fred, George, Edward and Hubert walk into the great hall one morning, identical but for their school ties, and the chaos is so great that nobody realizes Percy and Ron are missing.
Sometime during their second year, they take advantage of one of their many trips to the headmaster’s office to add the names Hubert and Edward to the student registry. Hogwarts gives them a bed in every house at the beginning of their third (semi-sentient castles can have senses of humor too!). Though most of the teachers remember that only Fred and George were on any of the student lists for their classes that first year (even if dumbledork still hasn’t started labeling their student lists by house as well as year, adding to the confusion), they all work together to convince the new DADA teacher that either there is only one Weasley in their year (preferred by Fred and George, since they can get away with only turning in one assignment and split the workload in half) or that the Weasley quadruplets are the real story. One year the school managed to convince the new professor (and half of the first years) that there were actually a set of Weasley quadruplets and that the fifth was a squib/attending illvermony, depending on who you asked. Which rumor they support is decided each year at their pre-term lets get drunk before the children arrive planning meeting. They place bets on how long the new teacher will believe them for, how many different quidditch teams will get a “guest appearance” from the twin quadruplet in that house, and which of her sons Molly will send her Howelers to this year (because of course she’s in on it; she’s a big fan of their focusing on “mess-less mischief” as she calls it; as long as it’s not getting anyone in trouble or hurting anyone, she does actually like their humor), among other things. The only DADA teacher to figure it out on their own was Remus; he had his suspicions from early on (he was an expert in pranking in groups of four, and most of theirs seemed to be designed to be pulled off by two wizards instead of four), but they were confirmed when he got the Maruder’s map from snape/Harry later on. Of course, in the spirit of all good pranksters, he edited the map to give subtitled names to anyone currently under polyjuice or any other form of assumed identity; Harry had been able to tell them apart since his first year, and once people began to realize this, the map was the only way he was able to keep from ruining Hogwarts’ longest running, school-wide prank by calling them the wrong names.
this is gold
