Neville was walking from his room at the Leaky Cauldron when a niose from across the roadway caught his attention. He had heard a loud bang and looked over to see the the shop it had come from was none other than the shop owned by the Weasley twins Fred and George. Neville checked his watch and saw that he had just enough time to pop his head in and say hi, as well as make sure they were both still in one piece. Everyone was well aware of the twin's keen interest in using their experiments on themselves, so Neville wasn't sure what he'd find as he rang the bell and entered the shop.
"uh....Fred, George...hello...it's Neville...Neville Longbottom." He was greeted by a squat little house elf he recognized immediatley as Dobby. Dobby had been the Malfoy's house elf several years back until he had been set free by a trick that Harry Potter had played on Lucious Malfoy. He worked at Hogwarts for a spell but once Fred and George made their memorable exit from the school and the temporary Headmistress, before the end of their seventh year (much to the amusement of the student body) he has been working for the twins.
"Dobby, how are you?" he asked while looking around for matching body parts of the twins.
"Dobby is fine sir, can Dobby gets you some tea please?" he asked while bowing his head a bit to Neville.
"No thank you Dobby, uhm... are Fred and George around?"
"Yes, they is in the back sir, trying out some new stuff," he answered looking awkwardly towards a back room that now had a trail of brown and green smoke coming from it. "Dobby doesn't go back and interupts the masters when they is working sir" he said raising his hands to his face and preparing to cover his ears.
"Um that's okay Dobby, I'll come back later when it's more convenient, can you give them this note for me?" And Neville handed the house elf a note he penned that said.....
Fred and George, hi, it's Neville Longbottom, I think you might remember me as a friend of Ron and Harry's from school. I now live here in Diagon Alley in the Leaky Cauldron (until the end of the month, at least) and I work at the Garden shop. Just wanted to say hi and I will stop by later. Hope you're well.....Neville"
Neville handed Dobby the note, looked cautiously back towards the smoke which now had turned orange and turned and walked out to another loud bang from the back room.
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