Esmeralda to Fred's side struggled like the rest of the people who were at Hogwarts at the time. Shortly before the witch's Avada Kedavra in front of her hit her, she fell to the ground struck by someone else's spell and fainted. Fred dodged him a second earlier and saved himself.
"Stupeficium" the witch in front of them crashed into a wall and lost consciousness.
"Esme, hey" the red held the girl by the shoulders and looked around, pointing the wand everywhere.
That situation scared him, he couldn't find the twin, and the only time they separated, the other had lost his hearing in one ear, this time he hoped nothing would happen.
He shook the girl a little looking around again, and when he heard her hand shake her he looked down.
"Are you okay?" She nodded and rose with the help of her best friend.
They hid a little behind a wall waiting for Esmeralda to recover and then returned to the castle to fight.
"See George somewhere?"
"You're the only red head I see right now"
The two who protected each other's shoulders advanced more and more towards the great hall, until a scream stopped them.
"ESMERALDA" The girl turned to the voice calling her, a platinum blonde head advancing towards her followed by another boy, Draco with Blaise.
Draco ran to meet her and stood near her and Fred.
"Have you seen my brother?" She asked him with her hands on his face. "He saved me a little while ago but then I ran off with Blaise, he was with Weasley and Granger so quiet."
"Tiger? Goyle?" The blond shook his head wiping a tear, the two boys he had known all along were dead.
Blaise remained with him but he hoped Pansy and Theo were still alive somewhere.
"Fred?" He asked to find out which of the twins he was.
Fred nodded.
"Then it's George, your brother is a little further from the big room, with him there are the boy with the braids and Percy" Fred breathed a sigh of relief and along with the 3 slytherins he headed for the exit.
As soon as the threshold was crossed everything stopped, Voldemort's voice resounded throughout the school loud and clear, the Potter twins had to go to the forbidden forest.
Voldemort's followers then began to with draw from the castle, Esmeralda looked for her brother, would again prevent her from going with him, but this time she would not let him.
She saw George and the rest of the Weasley family, pointed them out to Fred who began running towards his brother.
It was a matter of a few seconds, a wall collapsed and Fred did not make time to move that fell to the ground after being hit.
A smile was raised over his face, only to disappear.
Esmeralda saw the world stop, ran to Fred like George and moved the boulders.
"Wingardium leviosa"
"Freddie" the boy did not move.
Dead.
He was no longer breathing, Esmeralda as she lost her breath, the Weasleys gathered around them, George fell to the ground on his brother's side and shook him as if he could awaken him.
Esmeralda hugged the body of his dead best friend as Draco tried to pull her away.
Fred and George were the first to talk to Esmeralda as soon as she arrived at Hogwarts with her brother.
Ron had sat in the same cabin with Harry, the twins with her instead. They had not moved away even when after the sorting she ended up among the slytherins, the girl was compatibility to the twins of course, but in particular to Fred.
She had more compatibility with him, he knew everything, how the story with Draco began, than the crush he had for himself during the first year, he was the person who consoled her every year when she tried to join the quidditch team of slytherin but punctually every time the captain sent her away because he did not want girls in the team.
In return she knew everything about Angelina, she also knew that her brother had given the twins money for the prank shop, she knew about the maradeurs map, it was as if she were the third twin Weasley, but without the red hair.
But now it was all gone.
Esmeralda wanted to defeat Voldemort, it was his fault, if Fred died it was his fault.
She awoke from her trance state and got up, wiped away tears and turned to Draco.
"I love you"
"I love you too!" he replied, kissing her.
She saw Ron approaching the family and George hugging him, just behind were Hermione and Harry, Esmeralda walked towards Harry at a decisive pace but Draco held her by the wrist. "Don't go"
He asked her in a hopeful tone.
"I love you Draco" The boy put his hands in his hair and started crying, he didn't even waste time trying to convince her, the brunette wouldn't change her mind.
She walked to the exit in front of her brother, but for the second time she was held back by the wrist.
"You don't go"
"I'm going"
"I told you no Esmeralda, you stay here"
"Stop ordering me, Fred died, he died because of him, he took my best friend, now I take his life"
She yelled at her brother.
"I go, you stay here, if I die you will have your chance, but not now."
"We go, neither of us stay here"
"No Esmeralda, you're upset now, you can't fight like that.
Esme, our parents are dead, Sirius is dead, Dumbledore is dead, Lupin is dead, Snape is dead. Do you understand that you're all I have left? Please stay here, stay safe, stay with George who needs you now, stay with Draco, come back, promise you."
"Snape?" She asked not understanding.
"I'll tell you later"
This didn't seem to have convinced Esmeralda, so Harry took her hands.
"We are the only people who can save the situation"
He kissed his sister on the forehead and headed for the exit.
"Draco" Draco raised his head and looked at Harry.
"Stay here, protect her"
"She's more likely to protect me" he said, smiling slightly and heading towards the girl.
"Potter" called Draco back, Esmeralda raised his head towards him, and Harry turned again.
"Don't die"
Harry turned around again and set off to the forbidden forest.
Esmeralda with Draco headed back to the twins, but when she looked down she noticed two other dead people to whom she was very attached. Tonks and Remus were lying on the ground on two sheets. Remus, Esmeralda's godfather was dead. 'Remus is dead' Harry obviously didn't know that Esmeralda still hadn't noticed the godfather's body. It was really just the two of them left now.
YOU ARE READING
The battle of Hogwarts /D.M.
Short StoryWhat if Harry Potter had a sister? A twin, precisely. What if Lily had protected two children that night, not one? What if a piece of Voldemort's soul, as well as ending up in Harry, ended up in his sister? Harry's life at the time he lived with the...