It'd been one week since the Potter family went to visit Fred's grave, and a week since Albus headed to Hogwarts for the very first time. Harry and Ginny had taken Lily to the zoo. They had just reached the snakes when Lily saw a very familiar face.
"Mom, I thought Uncle George was with Nan and Grandad?"
"He is, Lil. Why?"
"Then how is he standing over there?" She pointed to a man who looked exactly like George, just that he had both his ears, talking with a man and woman who looked suspiciously like Remus and his wife Nymphadora.
"Wait here with dad, okay?"
"Sure." Ginny walked over to the three other them and tapped the purple haired girl's shoulder.
"Hi. Urm, just wondering why your talking with a man who looks suspiciously like my dead brother, Fred Weasley, and you look suspiciously like my Husband's friend and his godfsather's best friend, Nymphadora and Remus Lupin. What are you, death eaters in disguise?! Taking the form of dead people like that!" Ginny whisper yelled. "Harry, bring Lily over here!" They walked over. "Lil, is this the man you were talking about?"
"Yeah, he looks like Uncle George. And no way in hell is he Uncle Fred, he's dead."
"Lils, watch your language. But, you're right. He can't be Uncle Fred."
"Gin-Gin, that's where you're wrong."
"HOW DO YOU KNOW MY NICKNAME!? ONLY MY BROTHERS CALL ME THAT! YOU ARE NOT MY BROTHER!"
"Gin, come on. Calm down. I'm sure there's a perfectly good explaination for why Bellatrix, Lucius and Draco had polyjuice potion hidden away containing Tonks' Lupin's and Fred's hair for nineteen years."
"There'd better be. We've been through enough pain as it is, without someone impersonating my brother, your uncle and his wife. Well, the man who was like your uncle, anyway. Explain."
"Right, so. When you three came to visit my grave a week ago, I was listening. I heard everything. I got worried when you said Georgie hadn't smiled in years, so i asked for a second chance. I asked to be sent back. I was granted my wish. I was also told i could take two people. Harry's parents didn't know me well enough to trust me to bring us back down safely, Sirius was actually well settled and Cedric didn't want to come bck, since he'd met a new love and didn't want to leave her. Tonks and Lupin, however, were still together and wanted to come bck, so they volunteered. Since we're all so young, we were allowed to come back to watch over our loved ones. We are real. By the way, there's a muffling spell around us so the muggles can't hear us and there's a notice-me-not charm around that, so they can't see us."
"Okay, when did Harry defeat Lord Voldemort?"
"May 2nd 1998" came three voices.
"And who destroyed the final horcrux?"
"I'd died by that time. I must have. I don't remember."
"Nor me."
"Nor me."
"and what did Georgie say to Fred when Fred asked how he was feeling fter getting his ear cursed off?"
"His words were along the lines of ' Saint-Like...saint-like. I'm holey. I'm holey, fred. Get it?' and my response was 'The whole wide world of ear realted humor, and you go for 'I'm holey'? That's pathetic' and then he said 'reckon i'm still better looking than you'."
"Oh my god...it really is you...Freddie... "Ginny steeped forward and engulfed her brother in a hug. "Merlin, how I missed you...George missed you more. He named one of his kids Fred Weasley II, after you..." Harry stepped into a hug with Tonks and Remus.
"We'd better get back to the burrow, hadn't we, Lils?"
"Yea, I'm hungry!"
"You have to stop spending so much time around your Uncle Ron."
"Can he still eat for England, Ireland and Wales, as well as half of scotland?"
"Yep..." They all dissaparated to The Burrow, where they landed in the living room, where everyone else was.
"God i hate dissaparating."
"Quit being a wimp, Harry. Lils, go and play outside. We need to have an adult chat." Lily ran off to find her cousin.
"Who the hell are these impersonators, Ginevra Weasley?!" Molly screeched.
"Mum, they aren't impersonators. They proved it. Tonks, if you please?" 'Tonks' made her hair turn blue and her nose and mouth into a duck beak.
"Tonks...It really is you...Oh, Nymphadora, it's good to see you, darling." Molly rushed into a hug with Tonks.
"Good to see you too, Mrs Weasley. For the nineteen years he's been up there with us, we've been watching over little Freddie here." She nudged 'Fred's' side.
"Now, now, Tonks. They still need assurance that this is Lupin and Fred. Lupin, scars." 'Lupin' hesitantly stepped forward, the scars on his face still visible and in the exact same place as when he died.
"Remus...my dear...Welcome back, my dear boy." Molly pulled him into the hug too, so now Molly was hugging Mr and Mrs Lupin.
"And last of all, Fred."
"Alright, so, I have two things. One, the marauders map. I adjusted it to show all the people at the location of the map, so if it's at Hogwarts, it'll show Hogwarts, if it's here, it'll show here." He pulled the map out and muttered "I solemly swear that I am up to no good." The map revealed itself and, sure enough, Fred Weasley showed up exactly where the ginger man was stood. "Second of all, I have a memory of something George said when he had his ear cursed off." 'Fred' extracted the memory of Fred and George after George's ear was cursed off. It ended with Bill annoucing Mad Eye's death.
"Freddie..." George stood. He looked at Fred's face, intently, as if trying to determine whether or not it really was his twin brother.
"Georgie..." Fred whispered. "Wait, where's humungus bighead?" Fred asked, still looking at his twin. To everyone's amazement, George smiled.
"I missed you, Freddie. My partner in crime."
"I've still been doing what we do best while I've been gone, you know. The whole of the big white place upstairs is now the big orange place, I've managed to blow up four things, and I managed to sneak Merlin, Albus, Mad Eye, Remus, Tonks and Snape our famous Ton-Tounge Toffee. Snape almost strangled me, even though i was already dead. Idiot..."
"Mr dunderhead made it to Heaven?!"
"Yep. Still a miserable old bat even in death." The twins chuckled. For the first time in nineteen years, the Weasley family was whole again. Now it was just a matter of revealing to everyone else that they were back...oh boy.
This is gonna be harder than they thought...
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Harry Potter and The Return Of Fred Weasley
FanfictionWhat if, nineteen years after Fred's death, the Weasley family was still falling apart? What if, a week after Albus headed off to Hogwarts, Fred, Remus and Tonks turned up again? Back from the dead? Is that even possible? Read to find out.