Sprinkles of Magic

Three

George Weasley tried to at least not cry most of the time.

He and Fred, as Molly said, rarely cried when they were babies. They would always laugh, and would cry at times, but their faces were filled with too much happiness and their eyes shone so brightly that even their cries looked joyful. As they grew up, the number of times they cried became lesser.

George remembered one time, when they were four, that he bawled his eyes out. Bill was playing with a strange thing that he found on Arthur's bag when he secretly searched it. It was an odd ball, glass with a bunch of colors, mostly dark, swirling inside of it. They were playing catch with it, while Percy simply watched them.

Charlie passed him the ball, as he was his partner (Bill said it was unfair to pair two four year olds together so the twins had to split up). When George didn't catch the ball, it fell with a loud thud beside him and exploded, thousands of color hanging on the air.

Percy, being the boy he was, immediatley called for Molly and Arthur, while the three other Weasleys helped George. He suffered some burns, Fred cried at the sight of it, and a few cuts. On that day, The Burrow was filled with noise but not on a good way.

A year later, the twins were in near tears when Charlie left for Hogwarts. Charlie was the closest to the two of them, sometimes they would pass off as triplets. George and Fred let a lone tear roll when they slept that night. It was unmanly and very unlike them, but they couldn't help it since they actually missed Bill and Charlie.

They didn't weep when Percy left. No, the next time the Weasley twins cried was when they were in first year at Hogwarts. They were in Potions, and Snape was watching them closely. The pair, as if they could read each other's minds, made the same mistake on their potion which left their eyes stinging. Tears flowed down, and even Snape, who came to minus points and fix the mess, had water coming from his eyes.

After that, they would be crying for a few times. Mostly all of them were out of joy, that was when they won their first Quidditch match and when they won the Quidditch Cup. Some when they experimented for their Skiving Snackboxes, a couple of earlier prototypes left them with a few bloody side effects.

When Cedric Diggory and Albus Dumbledore died, they didn't weep. It was more like a blanket of depression was around them and they couldn't even manage a small twitch of their lips. They were optimists, that's probably why they didn't cry.

But optimists only stay happy when there's a reason.

And George didn't have any reason to be happy the time Fred died.

When he saw his twin's body, lifeless and drained from all the happiness it possesed, he didn't even bother to stop the tears. It was flowing freely from his eyes, the tears staining his shirt but he didn't care. All he cares about was that his other half was dead and he wouldn't come back.

At Fred Weasley's funeral, George Weasley tried to at least not to cry but he failed.