An Affair to Remember (Fred Weasley)

47) Puzzles

"Fred, we were in the middle of work! What is so much more important that it couldn't wait?" Hermione scolded as she sat on the couch. Ron and Harry sat next to her while George was in the kitchen, cleaning up some dishes. Fred was busy dialling up Ginny, she was on tour in Switzerland so she couldn't make it to the gathering.

"Gin wait a sec, let me put this on speakerphone" Fred said, pressing a few random buttons before she was finally on speaker. He rested the telephone on the table in the living room and sat on the couch. "What the fuck Fred?" Ginny grumbled. "Language!" George joked. "This better be good" said Ron.

Fred didn't say a word, pulling out the pictures from his pocket and handing them to everyone. Harry took the bunch and started passing them along. Each of them studied the pictures carefully, their eyes widening each time they saw a new one. "Um...hello? Are you lot still there?" Ginny spoke through the phone.

"Wait a minute Gin" Fred mumbled as everyone stared at the photos, shocked. "Fred I'm going to call you back later, coach is calling me for practice" Ginny said impatiently before resting the phone down, unaware of how important the situation really was.

"No fucking way, I dreamt about this" Harry said, looking at a picture of Adrienne and Fred in the kitchen, whipped cream covering their faces, "She's the same woman from the nursery!"

"I-I dreamt about this one" Hermione said, holding up another in which Ron was carrying Oliver on his back, glitter smeared across their faces, eyeliner on their eyelids as they appeared to laugh wildly.

"And me with this one" George whispered, showing them one in which Fred hugged Adrienne and kissed her on the cheek while George popped his head into the frame, rolling his eyes. The image played over and over again. This time, when Fred looked at the picture, he could remember the happenings of in it as clear as day. He remembered that evening well but out of context, it made no sense to him.

"Adrienne knew my name back in the nursery, she was behaving quite strangely too" Hermione said. "I knew I felt as if I had seen her somewhere, I thought I was going crazy" Harry added.

"Even if you weren't no one would've believed you, you used to read mouldy Voldy's mind after all" George snickered, earning dirty glances from Harry.

"And remember that old couple that turned up at our shop? And Olivia? They seemed to know us too but we didn't know them" Fred said to George, "None of this adds up" George added.

"Is there anything you guys have with you that may have mysteriously appeared out of nowhere?" Fred asked, suddenly feeling the weight of the grapefruit charm between his collarbones.

"On the day of Christmas" Harry, George, Ron and Hermione said together before looking at each other in shock. "Me too" Fred said. 

"I found a book I'd never seen before in my bookshelf and Ron found a snow globe" Hermione said. Harry and George had found a thing each too. "It wasn't just food poisoning that happened to us on Christmas" Fred sighed.

"And remember how Draco was there that night? What had he been doing outside The Burrow out of all places on Christmas night? He was there to help us as if he knew exactly what had happened" said Ron. " Yea that was pretty strange" Harry agreed.

"All these photos, I feel like I've seen all this happen before. But I don't understand Adrienne's presence in them" said George. Hermione was staring into the distance, her mind working away on top speed. "Fred, what do you think happened?" Hermione asked.

"I think that all of us have been charmed. It's the only explanation. I see visions, so do the rest of you. We can all agree that something happened on Christmas and it all leads back to Adrienne. I keep remembering random memories but I can't seem to piece them all together. I even read letters that Adrienne and I exchanged" he showed Hermione the letter, even she was mentioned in it.