TRUTH ➱ Fred Weasley [on hold]

3 | 𝐃𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐄𝐑𝐎𝐔𝐒 𝐑𝐄𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐂𝐔𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒

'Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.'

chapter three
dangerous repercussions

Life at the Grimmauld Place was more than unusual, especially for Lisa who was so immersed in the fact that this all was not a dream for the beginning few days, zoning out many times a day so that either Fred or George, or Ginny and Hermione have to snap their fingers in front of her face after which she would look around embarrassed but will soon repeat the same after a few hours or a full day.

Sometimes it was that voice in her head that called out to her to make her snap out of it. She won't particularly call that voice a 'friend', because it was far from it, always giving her orders or scolding her to focus, and everytime she would try to get to talk to it, it never responded. It only came out on its own accord. And she was slowly getting used to it.

The beginning few hours there were happy and blissful, but soon she grew homesick. The floating faces of her parents, her brother, and even the neighbourhood old lady who always kept pointing out her mistakes, kept coming in front of her eyes, the sickened feeling of loneliness dawning over her. But then she would look around her, all those faces, those happy faces that she used to imagine about; the 'Harry Potter Universe' or what she was now learning to call as 'The Wizarding World'. She would draw a deep breath, a new determination filling her, as she told herself to 'live in the moment' and that her family could wait, and it's not like she would be here forever, Professor Dumbledore will figure out something soon and then she will be merrily back the way to her home. But, then again, what about saving all the people she wanted to? Also when she had now come to know that it's all real. She was in a grave dilemma.

But everyday, she would shove aside this thought, and would get all invested in cleaning the house with all the other children and Sirius, along with the occasional helping hand of Alicia, who was busy doing some work of her own (or probably some Order stuff), and Professor Lupin, Tonks and Mundungus on their special staybacks, after the Order meeting they attended, to help them make that house suitable for human occupation.

Lisa used to spend all her time either with Ginny and Hermione, naturally because they were the only other girls of her age in the house; or with the Weasley Twins who had told her about their plans for a joke shop on a memorable evening.

"What are those dead doxies for?" Lisa had questioned cluelessly when she had entered their room for the first time, and was looking around the room, observing it curiously.

"We want to experiment with doxy venom for our Skiving Snackboxes." Fred answered, sharing a look from George which said 'It's okay, we can tell her'.

"What are Skiving Snackboxes?"