Saving Him/Fred Weasley

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Hermione looked perplexed at the girl sitting in front of her, she seemed quite serious.

"What did you just say?" she asked, and Sara looked at the empty chair beside them again, sighing.

"I can see Fred" Hermione just looked at her with her eyes wide open and her lips a little bit parted "I know it's crazy okay?" Sara began saying, but Hermione cut her off.

"No no no, it's not crazy, it's insane"

"Alright, yes, is insane, I agree. Trust me when I first saw him, I also thought that I was going insane, but then Mary explained to me about the third eye and everything made sense"

"Wait, wait" said Hermione lifting her hand to stop the girl "Who's Mary? And what is a third eye? What are you talking about Sara?!" Sara was starting to regret telling all this to Hermione, now that she thought about it, the girl was the least likely of her friends to believe her, her mind was too rational, but if she was going to help her, she had to know the truth. Sara took a deep breath and explained to Hermione everything, she told her about Mary and her son Benjamin, and how she had informed her about the third eye. She tried her best to explicate what exactly the third eye was, she didn't understand it completely herself.

"So, you're saying that now you can see all kinds of ghost?" Hermione asked incredulously.

"Well, I'm not sure myself, Benjamin said that now that my third eye's been open, I'll be able to see other spirits besides Fred, but I have no idea how to recognize them so I'm not sure I've already seen more. I knew Benjamin was one because he was never there before, it was the first time that Mary introduced him, and he was actually there" Sara explained, and Hermione still looked rather unconvinced. Between the girls Fred was tapping his hands against his legs, looking bored, and Sara looked at him for help. "Isn't there something that you know about Hermione that I don't? That I could tell her so she can believe me?"

Hermione's eyes widened, right in front of her, her friend was looking at the space in the empty chair that was between them as if she were talking to someone who was sitting there. "What?"

"No, not you" Sara said. So definitely she was talking to the "space".

"Are you trying to tell me that you're speaking to Fred right now?" the bushy haired girl asked, and Sara nodded.

"Well?" she asked impatiently. Fred thought for a moment.

"I don't think so" he said "We never were that close" Sara sighed.

"What?" Hermione asked.

"Nothing, he said that you two never were close so he can't think of anything" Sara answered looking down at her pumpkin juice "I swear Hermione, I'm not crazy"

"I don't believe you're crazy Sara, but I don't exactly believe Fred's here right now with us "she said looking at the girl.

"I don't understand"

"Well, maybe you do see him, but what if the pain you're feeling is so deep that your mind is playing you? Maybe you are grieving too hard and that's why you believe you can see Fred"

"That's bullshit" Fred commented with a frown between his eyebrows.

"That's the same thing as being crazy" Sara said frowning too.

"No, it's not, because when your grieve passes away or is less intense, then maybe you'll stop seeing him"

"And how do you explain that I can see Benjamin now too?" she asked.

"I'm not sure" Hermione responded while putting her head in hand and tilting it slightly "Maybe he is alive"

"Oh no, I can assure you Hermione, he's pretty dead, I've seen Mary's record, and why she was admitted to St. Mungo's, it was her husband who said that she was "seeing and talking"" Sara made a gesture with her fingers "to her late son"