𝐇𝐎𝐖 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐆𝐄𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐆𝐈𝐑𝐋, Fred Weasley (eng)

5. "...When you left her all alone..."

Tell her how you must've lost your mind
When you left her all alone and
never told her why, why

And that's how it works
That's how you lost the girl

FRED AND GEORGE LEFT HOGWARTS ON BROOMBOOKS, causing chaos at the school and with Umbridge, and soon Amalie found herself alone, everything around her as a constant reminder of what they once experienced there.

If, on the one hand, she tried not to associate everything she saw with her best friends and the memories they had made there, on the other, all the students talked about the unexpected departure of the two redheads, and how they were legends at Hogwarts.

Amalie would say she was coping well with the Weasleys leaving school, but only she would say that. Anyone who observed her could say otherwise, could take small aspects related to her — the lack of concentration in class, the continued disrespect for Umbridge, the lack of interest in anything that happened — and associate them with the absence of Fred and George at the castle.

At one point, Amalie remembered mentioning her fear for adulthood and the future to the twins, she remembered them saying that everything would be fine, Fred saying that he would always be there for her; and the next moment, those who had sworn to handle everything together with her were leaving what they had always considered a second home, leaving her there.

They had been best friends for over a decade, thirteen years ago it was "Fred, George and Amalie", and from one moment to the next it was just Amalie at Hogwarts while Fred and George built their lives outside of that.

Stone realized that it was for the best, they were following the future they idealized, looking for what they wanted, but that didn't make her feel discarded, set apart while the two lived a different life outside of Hogwarts.

It would be only for a few months, and when the wait was over, everything would go back to normal, she tried to remember that, despite understanding that, without the redheads, each day seemed to last a week.

However, perhaps the Gods had come together, heard her prayers, and, to Amalie's delight, she managed to get through the last few months as a student at Hogwarts, even though she lived in chaotic times.

On the last day of classes, Amalie said goodbye to all her classmates — she knew many of them she would never see again — and all her teachers who had always been present in her school life.

With a single tear running down her rosy cheeks, her freckles serving her company, Amalie said goodbye to Hogwarts and everything the castle meant to her.

In a few hours, she was at station nine and three quarters, in the same place she found herself every year on the first day of September — only now, she wouldn't do it again.

Lost in her thoughts and in the loneliness that the end of her journey at Hogwarts had brought her, Amalie paid little attention to the two figures that were leaning against one of the station posts, passing by them without even looking at them.

Fred and George looked at each other in alarm, realizing that they had been wrong to think that their friend had no resentment for their departure from school.

"Do you think..."

"You can only, I mean, did you see how she... "

"But maybe she doesn't have us..."

"Impossible, she really is..."

"We messed up."

"Yes, we did."