𝐁𝐔𝐓𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐅𝐋𝐈𝐄𝐒; fred weasley x fem!reader

CHAPTER NINETY; the muggleborn register

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PART FIVE
The Muggleborn Register

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" y/n's point of view "

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THE WEDDING ERUPTED into sudden chaos after everyone realized what had just happened. People were running all over the place, some guests disapparating immediately.

I was still with my friends as the crowd moved around us. I hurried back over to our table where I had - stupidly - left my wand while we were dancing.

"Y/N!" Fred ran after me and I grabbed my wand.

People had started screaming and shouting around that time. Most of it was unintelligible, but I did catch Hermione calling out Ron's name several times.

"Protego!" Two voices shouted and my head whipped to the side to see Remus and Tonks both with their wands raised.

Curses, or protective charms, were both flying through the air, and I couldn't tell what was what. Just flashes of colour soaring through the air.

The Death Eaters had gotten to the Burrow, the protective charms being broken.

While most guests managed to get away, not everyone did.

Lee and Oliver had disapparated with the crowds, while the rest of us scrambled together to fight.

There wasn't much of a fight. A few curses were thrown around, but then the Death Eaters were searching the Burrow, searching the entire house and the entire property for any sign of Harry.

They found the ghoul in Ron's bedroom, which the twins had helped Ron give red hair, freckles and a pair of his pyjamas so it looked like him.

Then, for the next however many hours, Molly, Arthur, Remus, Tonks, and everyone else who remained at the Burrow, were interrogated by the Death Eaters over and over again.

They wanted any information on Harry they could possibly get, but most of the guests didn't even know Harry was there. Only the Order knew.

By four o'clock in the morning we were no longer being interrogated, but our visitors still didn't leave.

Arthur managed to send a Patronus to Ron and the others, wherever they were, telling them everyone was safe, but not to reply because we were being watched.

Nobody slept that night.

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JUST DAYS LATER, Fred, George, Lee, Angelina, Alicia, Lewis and I all sat at the kitchen table in the flat above Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes.

There was a copy of the Daily Prophet in the middle of the table and we all stared quietly.

Not only had the Death Eaters taken over the Ministry, an Imperiused Pius Thicknesse the new Minister, but they had taken over the newspaper too.

Harry's face was taking up the front page with the headline, 'WANTED FOR QUESTIONING ABOUT THE DEATH OF ALBUS DUMBLEDORE.'

What was written on page two was just as bad. The new Ministry was introducing a 'Muggleborn Register'.

They were going to interrogate all muggleborns, and basically search their ancestry. If no magical ancestors are found, they could be imprisoned as their use of magic would be deemed theft.

After Angelina read out the article, Lewis was the first to fall silent.

He was the only one in the group who was muggleborn, the only person it would apply to.

I looked across the table at my best friend as Alicia put her hand over his, squeezing it.

"What are you gonna do, Lewis?" George was the first to ask, and Lewis slowly shrugged in response.

"I don't-" His voice croaked and he closed his mouth again, swallowing, before speaking properly. "I don't know."

"You'll have to hide." Alicia said quickly. "I'll help you, I'll-"

"No." Lewis shook his head and gripped his wand tightly. "I just... I need to go."

His chair was pushed back as he stood up. Alicia grabbed onto his arm and pulled him back down.

"Lewis... Please sit down." She told him, but he didn't look up from the table.

"No, I can't. I -" He finally looked up around the table. "Guys, if they come looking for me..."

"You can't just disappear." Angelina said.

"He's gonna have to." George said back. "They could send him to Azkaban."

Then the kitchen fell silent again.

"I need to get home." Lewis finally said. "I'll... I'll see you guys around."

Alicia jumped to her feet too. Lewis disapparated, and Alicia paused.

She looked back at us.

"I'm gonna go after him." Alicia said. "If he's packing up his things... I don't know when he's leaving..."

"Alicia- Alicia, slow down -" Angelina started, but Alicia disapparated within seconds. "Shit."

Then, the now five of us, sat in silence in our kitchen, unsure of what to do next.