TRAGEDY • Fred Weasley

PROLOUGE

Adeline Bloom lived a complicated life, one someone may call 'challenged', she was born with chocolate locks, deep hazel eyes and porcelain skin, her mother was only 17 when she had her, they had gotten by it wasn't particularly easy but they had done it. Her father had bailed she assumed, there was no memory of him ever being there, not that she really cared she supposed, it was more his loss than hers.

Willow Bloom hadn't moped over the man and so her daughter didn't either, they had been rather closely knit even when her mother had moved on and went on to have another child the bond was there. It just wasn't necessarily the same and it never seems to be once someone begins to become themself.

With a new dynamic in the household life changed, the troubles for money weren't as prominent and the world had been blessed with Ruby Bloom, this often led Adeline to feeling like a spare part. See Rubys father stuck around, he was always nice to Adeline and treated her as though his own, but she wasn't and she was aware of that. Some may say that's ungrateful or selfish and perhaps it is, but she didn't want to pretend she came from somewhere she didn't, you can't jam a jigsaw piece in the wrong space and expect it to still look perfect.

And that was pretty much how life went for the girl, until one summer a woman arrived at the house in a Halloween costume far too early into the year, on about some boarding school for Witches and Wizards, complete nutter was Adeline's first thought. This ended up in hysterics for every person involved until the lunatic, Professor McGonnagall, had given the girls mother a look that reminded her of when she hadn't made her bed in the mornings.

To this day there will not be an explanation that makes enough sense in her mind to how the eldest Bloom daughter ended up saying goodbye to her family in Kings Cross Station, but that's what happened. She was practically sent on her way into the complete unknown along with a Barn Owl called Peaches and boarded the train to Hogwarts. Whoever named the school could do with a head check in Adeline's opinion, and that was it until at least Christmas.

Once she arrived at the castle she had to go through the absolutely mortifying experience of standing in front of the whole school, sitting on a stool and putting on some musty hat, who had sorted her into Gryffindor by the way. Then once again being sent on her way, now this is where two red headed boys with the same face come into the story.

Adeline had sat at the Gryffindor table as instructed and been asked, 'Bloom is it? I don't think I've heard that name before are your parents Muggles?' The girl had obviously taken offence until she had been told what Muggle meant, and that had been how she peaked the interested of Fred and George Weasley. They had reminded her of home, of the twins that lived a couple doors down from her own house, she didn't know them at all but knew they were near her sister, her family. So being near her own twins made her feel that little bit more comfortable.

And that was how it was, wherever the two troublemakers were the girl wasn't far behind, wether she was informing them of professors close by while they were on a road to mischief, telling them about muggle life and muggle music in the common room, sneaking food in the kitchens together or sat by The Black Lake doing whatever they pleased if the weather agreed with them.

It became the normal expectation, for not just themselves but everyone around them for brunette curls to be inbetween flames of red, or a giggling Adeline to be on one of their backs. Even during Christmas and Summer there would be time they would all be together at The Burrow and letters were always exchanged a ridiculous amount.

So when they left the train the end of their fourth year with plans to write and for Adeline to join them later in the summer, it was just another normal year, until they don't get responses to their letters and when they come back from Egypt there's still not a single response waiting for them, and she doesn't show up during the summer. Their mother had reassured them that everything would be fine and that perhaps her family had gone on a pre planned trip the girl had forgotten of or simply hadn't been aware of.

The twins hadn't seen a reason to think this wasn't the truth it was the most logical explanation after all, of course they still worried it just soothed their worry some. Until they go to get their school supplies and everything gets confusing. Then they get to school and she's not there, no where to be seen, and everyone is telling them to, 'wait,' and won't tell them anything. They didn't understand, she hadn't come back to school, she hadn't spoken to them in months, she hadn't seen them since the train home and no one seemed to care. It was eerie for everyone around them, to see the twins without Adeline, they were somewhat at a loss, she'd always been with them at Hogwarts from the very start and now she wasn't and it didn't feel the same, it didn't feel right. They had even written their mother with their concerns, she'd tell them she had no answers for them, give them some motherly concern and say 'it'll get better.'

Three months down the line there is still no word from their best friend and they both feel as though they've lost a limb. Until one day in winter '93 everything gets explained yet still makes no sense at all.