"What else would be new? I mean, he wouldn't be Percy if he wasn't a prat," Fred leaned back until his head was against the wall and considered the conversation. Who could have followed it except for the two of them? No one. Not really. Not even their friends who hang around them all the time - they'd always known well enough to leave it alone when they got into the rhythm of a real conversation. "Couldn't set up a floo with Hogwarts. Besides, hate to be on the Network. We'd have to go through the department-of transportation-and-having-a-thumb-up-the-Minister's-bum. Wouldn't want to steal Percy's job or anything."