Remember Me [ Fred Weasley ]

𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐲 / 𝑾𝒂𝒓𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒊𝒈𝒏

{ Song: I Found by Amber Run }

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For the first few seconds after I have come back from the memory that I have wanted to remember ever since I knew that I had forgotten it, the lightheaded feeling doesn't match the heaviness in my mind. Even when both time and gravity begin to feel real again, the feeling that I am still floating lingers and I can't take my eyes off of the floating silver rays in the pensive.

Theo's memory hadn't simply been about a moment of drama or a curious secret between friends; it might be the key or at least an important puzzle piece to figure out what has been going on ever since I shifted, and clearly even the time before that. Seeing it and remembering all of it gave me an answer to the one question I had actually asked, but doubled the ones that I had been keeping to myself before.

"We should get back to the common room" I say quietly without taking my eyes off of the sea of memories floating in the pensive, keeping secrets and knowing the answers to questions that are being asked somewhere else.

Many hours have passed since I left the castle to go to the astronomy tower, and it is so far past curfew that the light is beginning to gradually relieve the night in the sky, casting a sheen over the halls that gives the shadows new life when they break free from the darkness. Roaming around the castle for no reason is just as stupid as it is unnecessary, not least of all because of how Theo and I are the last two people who would be able to get away with breaking as much as a single rule after the incident at the ministry.

With quiet, careful steps, we walk back to the dungeons in silence. It's a curious thing when a castle as grand as Hogwarts is asleep, and nothing and no one causes any sounds within its walls. There is a kind of peace to it, rather than just a tense kind of fear. However, that tension and fear is well and alive inside my mind, where the question with no obvious answer grows bigger by the second.

Theo and I sit down in front of the fire that is still dancing in the abandoned and quiet common room, opposite each other with the same anxious feelings but with very different thoughts.

"So that was a lot" I say quietly.

"Yeah" Theo mumbles and glances over at me with hesitation as he tries to make out whether it's a good or a bad thing, "That's why I can't let you run off by yourself again, because the last time I let you go it almost broke you"

While his explanation does make sense, it doesn't bother me any less that he hasn't told me about this until now. Had I known that he knew, I might not have felt the need to keep the secrets I have kept to myself and it might have made all the difference in the world for how things played out before. What is the most curious about the memory is how I seem to have known about what was and is going to happen even then, before I came here from a reality where it is all written down in a fictional story.

"Did they ask? About me, did they ask?" I say and he refuses to meet my gaze, "What were you thinking, Theo? That might have been important, I mean maybe it would have changed everything"

His gaze flickers unsurely, as if he knows that his first thought is not an answer good enough. After a few hesitant seconds, he makes up his mind and from the look in his eyes it isn't hard to tell that no more lies will be told. The truth has been concealed long enough to stay hidden any longer and while it has managed to remain a secret for quite a long time, building more lies in reverse won't do any good.