Summers at The Burrow - Fred Weasley

Chapter Sixty-two - Professor Dumbridge

summer passed by rather quickly seeing as we were so busy cleaning the house. we were unable to practice quidditch the entire time which was annoying and the twins and i snuck off into the night at one point and went flying for a few hours. only one person managed to figure out that we had snuck out and thankfully my cousin was more than willing to cover for us since she was a trouble maker herself.

before we knew it we were making our way to the train station. we had somehow acquired a car without its ministry official chauffeuring us around and we took that to Kings Cross. my father turned into his Animagus form and sat in the aisle of the car whilst the rest of us crammed in with our trunks shoved in the back weighing the back half of the car down even if it had magical enhancements.

once we got out of the car we raced through the station till we got to platform nine and ten then we did the usual and ran through the wall arriving on platform 9 3/4 as if we had not just run through a wall at all. it had become like second nature at this point to run through that particular wall.

as we walked many people parted way for us but i noticed that Harry and i were getting weird looks from many people. we had been quite isolated because the ministry does not know that we are staying at the old Black family manor. none of the ministry owls that carry the prophet can be trusted so we've mostly been living under a rock.

we found an empty compartment and Lee joined us. he didn't seem all to bothered about what everyone was saying about me when i couldn't hear them which i appreciated. Lee handed me a stack of newspaper clippings with articles about me, Harry, and Dumbledore since we had informed him that we were unable to receive letters or the Prophet.

"this is all a load of bat droppings." i said as i passed the stack to the twins.

"i completely agree. i know when you're having a mental break down because you don't have them all that often so i picked your side even if my parents don't agree. they think im on the ministry's side but I'd rather believe my friends." he said.

"i really appreciate it, Lee." i said patting him on the shoulder in thanks.

we continued to allow Lee to fill us in on what we had missed over the last two months and what we learned in our long train ride was more that we ever expected. noting would prepare me for the horrors that were the Department of Magical Regulation of Underage Wizards in Press. DMRUWP for short. basically they had created a new department just for Harry and i and it was entirely a gossip circle for old ladies that liked talking about young delinquents. in case your wondering like everyone else, this department is entirely useless and i will burn it to the ground if it is the last thing i do.

when we arrived at the school and sat down in the great hall, the entirety of the Gryffindor quidditch team came and gave me and Harry their support even though i already knew that the majority of the players were on our side because i had been living with them all summer.

We went up to the common room after this old lady gave a very controversial and frankly annoying speech. The twins and i started booing her and no one stopped us so we already assumed that even Snape despised her. Her name was umbridge but we had taken to calling her Dumbridge.

The next morning two things happened. (1) we discovered that we had to deal with the short pug faced teacher first period every day. (2) Angelina and George were now publicly seeing one another.

We reluctantly got up after breakfast was over and made our way to the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom. Fred and i were holding hands and nearly skipping down the halls and Angelina and George took to making fun of us by dramatically copying us. They are so adorable it makes me wonder if that is how others see Fred and my relationship. We are all so happy together.