Rare Pair Shorts

Damn. This had to be a day when tetleythesecond was working from home and I wasn't. Now there isn't anything left for me to quote. But then, as Joe Cocker didn't sing, I can't quote, but I still do

I almost loved the imps - but even when I see their marketing value, the endless cavorting and colour-changing could soon pall.
the determined Hermione and the awkward Ron and the intense Harry and you doting, oblivious parents and the desperately-needy Angelina Such a wonderful set of cameos - and just with one or two words. Brilliant.

The whole you are fine, you are fine section. Such a perfect mix of the lies he repeats daily and that enormous pain underneath.

the last customer is gone and the last laugh is laughed, Love the parallel lines, but also love the tie-in with canon, George dying with his last laugh still on his face.

the Ministry-approved pap you were taught at Hogwarts So Fred.

the line between trouble and Trouble at the Burrow Great.

give him your standard con-man patter The whole cameo of the kid is terrific. The stickers and what they're meant to do, the certainty that it won't help, the way he brings up his Gryffindor sorting. And Fred may now think of it as 'con-man patter' and hate the whole business, but he still makes that kid feel great - a real talk, a conspiracy, almost, with Weasley Himself!

The McGonagall cameo is perfect - she might just do that, one day. Come in there. And even if it feels good to have one person who doesn't need you to be anything, in the end, Transfiguration into a pincushion might be preferable to a talk.

"Hem-hem, Gred, old boy. Guess who's been dying to see you?" Oh, my god. He would say just that - and it does make you laugh, until you realize how true it is.

why wasn't Snape (dead as well) now reunited with her? See comment above.

"You're just as much of an idiot, Weasley, when you actually complete your own sentences as you were when you had your brother to finish the other half Perfect Snape.

In case you didn't notice, I absolutely loved this!