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The Player
User Name/Nick: Tomato
User LJ:
romanitas
AIM/IM: TheTomatoSays
E-mail: il.pomodoro[at]yahoo[dot]com
Other Characters: n/a
We are the prisoners of circumstance and consequence.
We are the generation sacrificed in self-defense.
The storm is coming in the aftermath of war --
Now can you tell me what it is we're fighting for?
The Character
Character Name: Fred Weasley
Character Journal:
unholeytwin
Canon: Harry Potter
Age: 20
From When?: Right before his death by explosion at the Battle of Hogwarts (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows). Death is a nice turning point, I would imagine. (/punches JK Rowling).
Abilities/Powers:
Magic: conjuring, transfiguration (turning an object into something else), summoning, defensive spells (like shields), and spell casting. Apparation and Disapparation (instantly transporting yourself from one place to another).
Flying: via broomsticks. Skilled Quidditch player (Beater—hitting heavy balls towards the opposing players while protecting their teammates from the same thing, all while flying on broomsticks)
Lock picking: no magic involved in this case. Just good old fashioned lock picking.
Power Limitations:
☄ cannot conjure/summon anything that does not exist in the Wood in some way, shape, or form
☄ spells that could be considered as 'gamebreaking' will not be successful
☄ chance of backfiring on spells increase with the power/scope of the spell being performed
☄ chance of ending somewhere vastly different than intended with apparition, increases with larger distances***
***ALL OF THIS MIGHT SOUND LIKE ANOTHER APP (SEE: GEORGE WEASLEY) but we did not really know how else to word the same thing for each of them.
Inventory
☄ Blue jeans
☄ trainers
☄ socks: both hand-knit, one magenta, one orange
☄ Reddish-orange T-shirt
☄ light jacket, full of pockets
☄ one wand: fifteen inches (core unknown)
☄➜ POCKET CONTENTS
☄ one fake galleon (gold coin)
☄ two small pouches of Peruvian Darkness Powder
☄ one Trick Wand (turns into a rubber chicken)
☄ scraps of parchment (very wrinkled) with varying amounts of writing
☄ one quill (Self Inking)
☄ one Extendable Ear
☄ four Decoy Detonators
☄ four Fainting Fancies
☄ three Edible Dark Marks
☄ five U-No-Poo
☄ five Ton-Tongued Toffees
☄ three Fever Fudges
☄ five Puking Pastilles
Personality: Fred Weasley, to say the least, enjoys a good prank or two or ten. His brother and twin, George, is much the same, and when together their ability to wreck chaos increases to very high levels. It is something they both enjoy greatly, whether to the amusement or chagrin of those around them (they much prefer entertainment). Success is measured by a smile. At school, though they were fully capable of receiving high marks, focused their attention towards mischief, and they were very good at it. It was what they wanted to do, and that was all the motivation they needed.
Fred, like his twin, is very smart, and they use their intelligence towards inventing and creating. Seeking an audience and seeking attention through their misadventures is quite commonplace for the both of them. Plotting is a treasure pastime. Rules are to be ignored if in the way, and if they can get away with it, all the better, but they are not afraid of trouble. They welcome it. The standards placed on them are simply an obstacle to overcome in getting at what they want for themselves, and they are driven towards their goals. Anything in their way is merely a challenge they charge at. Their primary concern is the ability to do what they want and be happy doing it.
Fred and George are men of action; they hate idleness and being told they are not allowed to do something. They approach life in a very casual matter, making light of stressful situations while recognizing moments that are indeed dire. It can be frustrating for those around them, but they aren't bothered. If anything, it only fuels them. Humor is their niche, and they twist and adapt it to every situation as needed; laughs are an ideal end line. Both have a strong sense of justice and are not afraid to speak up and voice their opinions, no matter who might be listening. They like to be involved, and they are keen to pick up on any sort of information that might be relevant to their interests.
As a twin, Fred is very like George in plans and partaking in conspiring behavior, but he is also quite different, particularly in the methods. Both of them very often toe the line, but Fred alone is okay with crossing it completely if it suits his needs. He is willing to take the extra step and push the boundaries in ways his brother is not, such as with blackmail—Fred has proven himself fine with it and capable of it, but George attempted to reel his brother back in, showing uncertainty. Fred is the more outgoing twin, but he is not the leader; they balance each other and have a very equal relationship. They are codependent on one another, although not in a negative way (and Fred might be the more dependent twin, despite his more outgoing nature).
Fred, to be blunt, can be and is more of a jerk than his brother; he is the crueler twin. He is more fluent in sarcasm. This is not to say he is a bad person—his boundaries simply stretch further; he is more willing to push the limits in what he feels he can do. He’s confident in this, confident that pushing these limits will not fail him, and it doesn’t matter how he himself looks in the process. Fred is less aware of social boundaries—what is acceptable and what isn’t. If he thinks it will work, damn the consequences. He is more likely to ignore potential risks, whereas George will be sure to take them into consideration. If they were going to produce an explosion, Fred would be excited and anxious to do it right then and there; George would say “no, over there, somebody might get hurt over here.”
This is why George is important for Fred. His twin keeps him in line, in a way that no other is able to (except perhaps their little sister, Ginny, on occasion). He has the respect and complete trust of Fred that he gives to no one else. In return, Fred brings out the extreme liveliness in George. They bounce off and play off each other very well, and because of this, they make a very able and excellent team. The Weasley Twins are often regarded as a unit, but it is their differences that make the best mischief possible.
While Fred can be a jerk, he is also quite capable of showing concern, mostly for those closest to him. He will defend his family (and friends) to any end if crossed, and he takes this loyalty quite seriously. When his brother Percy shuns the family, Fred is among those who treats Percy the worst, without remorse--he is downright mean and borderline nasty. He can be a loyal and great friend if that trust is earned (and he is not as open to new friendships as his twin--he is more content to stick with what he already knows), but he is not someone you would want to be on bad terms with--he will not show much mercy if you irk him. And while George has his own mean streaks, Fred takes it to quite a different, more extreme and merciless level, seeing loyalties in more black and white tones than grey. Fred is less likely to approach people, and he is more indifferent towards those he does not know. He will approach with jokes and sarcasm above genuine amiability.
One of Fred’s biggest fears is the death of George. This especially came to light after George lost an ear; the normally talkative and jubilant Fred was confronted with the fact that his brother could have died, and it startles him in a real way that it had not before. Despite George surviving, minus one ear, the experience intensified Fred’s fear in losing his twin. It served as a trigger to intensify his dread, and the jokes he shares with his brother over being “holey” are very much a way of making both of them, but especially Fred, feel okay with the situation. He worries for the rest of his family as well, of course, but the connection he shares with George is great, and Fred would be quite lost and even destructive without George, especially since he would not be there to hold Fred back. Fred cannot imagine his life without George in it, and even the possibility of it makes him absolutely paranoid. George's missing ear is a constant reminder of this.
History: Fred Weasley was born on April the first, 1978, the younger of a set of twins and the fifth son in the Weasley family (Bill, Charlie, and Percy being the elder three brothers). He would later be followed by another brother, Ron, and a sister, Ginny. The Weasleys are a pureblood family (meaning all magical, no Muggles—a Muggle being a non-magical person) and are not very wealthy (see: poor). Nearly as soon as he could talk, and probably even before that, Fred had a knack for mischief. When he was five, he transformed Ron’s teddy bear into a spider (triggering his brother’s arachnophobia—what a good big bro he is!) after Ron broke Fred’s toy broomstick. Alongside his twin, at age seven, they nearly succeeded in tricking Ron into making an Unbreakable Vow (which cannot be broken under penalty of death). Baby brother Ron was Fred’s favorite target. One Christmas Eve, the twins set off a Dungbomb (exactly what it sounds like) under the chair of their Great Aunt Murial, who in response, wrote the two out of her will and never came back to the Weasley House for Christmas dinner again. Needless to say, their parents (Arthur and Molly) had quite a handful with the twins during their early years.
When he was eleven years old, Fred and his twin were accepted into Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry—a school for training young witches and wizards (more or less what it says on the tin). Fred was sorted into Gryffindor, alongside George, one of the four Hogwarts Houses. (Students at Hogwarts are sorted into one of four houses: Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, or Slytherin) (Gryffindor is the best, obviously; why would Fred settle for second best, I mean really). As First Years, they immediately began to earn a reputation for trouble, quickly becoming some of the most popular students at the school in the process. He and George, while undergoing one of many long-winded rants and lectures about rules from Argus Filch (the Hogwarts caretaker), snuck into a “confiscated and highly dangerous” drawer in Filch’s office, stealing what looked like a blank piece of parchment. Working to discover its secrets, they finally found out it was called the Marauder’s Map, and it was a finely detailed map of the entirety of Hogwarts, complete with secret passageways and dots that show where anyone in the school was at any given time. This map would be key to their great success, allowing them virtually unlimited access to anywhere in the school, as well as become an important plot point in their fifth year.
In his second year, again alongside George, Fred became a Beater on the Gryffindor Quidditch Team. Having played at home with their brothers all the time, both of them were always quite good at Quidditch, a wizarding sport played on broomsticks with four balls (really, the simplest way of explaining it), and they were the best Beaters Gryffindor had seen in ages. Oliver Wood, captain of the Team, described them as “Human Bludgers” (a bludger being the ball Beaters must hit and aim at other players while protecting their own teammates from them during the game). Despite their preference for trouble, the twins were rather brilliant at their classes in these early years and received very good marks.
Fred’s Third Year marked one of the most important meetings in his life. Ron was starting at Hogwarts, and his little brother would come to be the best friend of one Harry Potter (and really, if you don’t know the importance of Harry fucking Potter then I don’t know what to tell you—Boy Who Lived and all that Jazz, most famous baby wizard ever, etc). Like the twins, Ron and Harry were both sorted into Gryffindor, allowing ample time for bonding among all four of them. Fred and George would become good friends of Harry, especially as he joined the Quidditch Team as well.
The summer between Fred’s Third and Fourth year was marked by a flying car. You see, dear old Harry was trapped in his uncle’s house, quite literally through the use of bars, and Fred, George, and Ronstole borrowed their father’s car, a muggle Ford Anglia he had enchanted to fly, to rescue their friend (who was spending a miserable summer cut off from any and all letters from his friends). And that’s exactly what they did, using the car to pull the bars off the windows and take Harry safely to their home, the Burrow, where he spent the rest of the summer enjoying his time with the best family ever (that’s the Weasleys for the record).
Baby sister Ginny joined them at Hogwarts during Fred’s Fourth Year, and she, too, was sorted into Gryffindor. But it was not to be a trouble free year (it never is, when Harry Potter is at Hogwarts—that would make for rather boring books), as attacks on students led to rumors that the Chamber of Secrets had been opened and Muggleborn students were the targets (eventually even Harry's friend--and the twins' friend--Hermione Granger came to be petrified). Harry was perceived as the Heir of Slytherin, the one doing all the attacks, but Fred and George found the idea ludicrous, remaining loyal to Harry throughout the entire year. At the end of the year, Ginny was taken to the Chamber of Secrets itself (having been possessed by Voldemort--the evil guy of the series who everyone believed to have died when his killing curse reflected off Harry why don't you know this--through a diary slipped to her by Lucius Malfoy at the bookstore before the year started—oh my god it is impossible to explain the main plot of the book in so few words okay), where she would come to be rescued by Harry and Ron. Fred was most happy yaaaay.
Before their fifth year, the entire Weasley family treks off on vacation to Egypt during the summer to visit the oldest brother, Bill, who works there as a cursebreaker. When the twins start their fifth year, there are some shenanigans going on about an escaped prisoner named Sirius Black but it doesn’t really involve them, at least in a straightforward way. That infamous Marauder’s Map? They give it to Harry, telling him that he needs it more than they do, and they practically have the map memorized anyway. (Said map goes on to be extremely important to the whole Harry + Sirius thing but WHATEVER THAT’S NOT THE TWINS SO WE’RE NOT GOING INTO THAT). But their fifth year is also marked by O.W.L.s—a series of tests that determine what classes Hogwarts students can take in their final years that will also determine what sort of jobs they can have after graduation. Neither Fred nor George showed much enthusiasm for these tests, and when the results came in, Molly Weasley (dear old mum) was very disappointed that her twins had gotten such low scores (Fred received only three passable grades in his courses--Transfiguration, Defense Against the Dark Arts, and Charms), making them illegible for a lot of jobs. It didn’t bother them, especially as they turned their focus towards something else entirely: inventing.
The summer before Fred started his sixth year, he and his twin had begun to create new magical pranking items, mostly in the form of candies. Molly was not so keen on this (even going so far as to confiscate all their work at one point), but they were very secretive about everything, and it became increasingly hard to catch them in the act of trouble, at least in terms of inventing. That summer also marked the Quidditch World Cup, and while picking up Harry from his relatives’ house, Fred dropped a Ton-Tongue Toffee (a candy of the twins’ design) for Harry’s cousin Dudley, knowing full well he would eat it (Dudley, to put it nicely, is a glutton), and the boy soon found himself with an engorged tongue. He quickly returned to the Burrow, leaving his father to do clean up, but he and George eagerly waited to hear how it had all gone from Arthur when he finally returned home, as well.
Fred, along with the rest of his family, Harry, and Hermione, attended the Quidditch World Cup. He and George placed a bet, using all of their savings, with Ludo Bagman (an official for the Ministry of Magic who helped organize the World Cup) on the outcome of the match. They won, but Bagman repaid them with Leprechaun gold—money that disappears within an hour. Bagman continued to refuse and deny their winnings, to the point where Fred decided they needed to “play dirty” and threaten to inform the Ministry of Magic of his behavior. George was completely against it, calling it out as blackmail, and he succeeded in stopping this attempted blackmail, probably for the best as it would have undoubtedly led to some tricky legal situations (and that's terrible).
The twin’s Sixth Year at Hogwarts was also greeted with the Triwizard Tournament—a magical competition between three schools (Hogwarts, Beauxbatons, and Durmstrang) where one champion attempts to come out on top after a series of challenges. The age limit for entering was 17, and because Fred and George were only sixteen, they concocted an Aging Potion (exactly what it sounds like) that would hopefully fool the Age Line around the Goblet of Fire (Goblet of Fire being the cup that chooses each school’s champion; age line being a magical barrier to prevent anyone younger than 17 from entering). Their attempt failed, although it did give them each snazzy beards for a few hours. The Triwizard Tournament also brought about the Yule Ball around Christmas time, and Fred (quite easily, to the chagrin of Harry and Ron) asked Angelina Johnson, a classmate and fellow Gryffindor in his year, to go with him. She said yes, and presumably, there was awesome dancing and great fun at the Ball because Fred is probably one of the best dates anyone could ever have.
While the Triwizard Tournament would go on to have major effects on both wizarding and muggle world (what with the last challenge ultimately leading to the return of Voldemort aka the big bad of the entire goddamn series because Harry was chosen as a champion at the beginning of the year, all part of a grand scheme, whatever), the Weasley Twins would spend most of their sixth year beginning their attempt to sell and test some of their invented candies among their fellow students at Hogwarts. The most important part of the year, however, was receiving the one thousand Galleons Harry had won in the Tournament (Galleon being the Wizard currency), which he insisted they keep after he offered to give it to them in the hopes that they might use it to start up their planned joke shop business.
Between their sixth and seventh years, Fred and George passed their Apparation Test with a flourish—Apparation is the ability wizards and witches possess to instantly transport themselves from one location to another. They fullyabused made use of this new skill, popping around even for the simplest movement like one room to the next, much to the annoyance of their mother. Most of their summer was spent in Number Twelve Grimmauld Place, home of Sirius Black and headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix—an organization dedicated to fighting Lord Voldemort. While the adults busied themselves preparing the Order for combating Voldemort and his own forces, the twins and those underage (Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Ginny), busied themselves with cleaning up the house (the twins were forbidden from joining the Order themselves by their mum, although they expressed interest in doing so). Their invention of Extendable Ears (literally what it sounds like—a fake ear that stretches out and allows the user to hear things at a distance or even behind closed doors) allowed all the younger residents of the house to listen in on Order meetings and stay informed as to what was going on, thereby staying involved even when the adults disapproved.
Fred and George started their Seventh and final year at Hogwarts with the intent on selling and testing as many of their new products as they could out of trunks and boxes, all under the name of “Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes.” It became their priority above schoolwork and classes. Hermione proved a hurdle, as she threatened to tell their mother what they were doing if they continued to test the products on unsuspecting First Years. Despite that, they were massively successful and already making decent money.
However, their Seventh Year was also saddled with a new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor—Dolores Umbridge, who is basically one of the most evil little women you will ever meet. Working for the Ministry of Magic, she mirrored its stance that Voldemort had not returned, calling Harry and anyone who believed him a liar (the then Minister of Magic thought Dumbledore was after his job and didn't want to believe the evil son of a bitch guy with no nose--that's Voldemort for the record--was still alive). In defiance of this limit in defending students against the Dark Arts, Harry, Ron, and Hermione started an underground organization called Dumbledore’s Army (named after the Headmaster of Hogwarts, Albus Dumbledore, who was the only man Voldemort was ever afraid of which basically means he's a fucking badass), which Fred (and George) promptly joined. It served as a way to teach students to defend themselves, as Umbridge’s classes did nothing practical and were flat out dangerous in the way she continued to deny the oncoming war. Umbridge also kicked Fred, George, and Harry off the Gryffindor Quidditch team after George and Harry got into a scuffle with some Slytherins after a match because they taunted and mocked the Weasley family and Harry's mum (and by scuffle I mean punched the lights out of). Needless to say, Fred was Not a Fan of Umbridge (and really, who would be?).
Christmas that year was nearly a tragedy when Arthur Weasley was attacked by a snake (Voldemort's super special future plot point snake); it nearly killed him, sending him to St. Mungos (the Wizarding hospital) where he and his family (along with Harry) spent much of the holiday season. The only exception was brother Percy, who did not turn up at the hospital to visit his dad—he’d been estranged from his family for quite some time now, due to his ambitions within the Ministry of Magic which caused him to take the Ministry’s stance that Voldemort was not back, to the point where he had zero contact with them—and Fred saw this as only another line severed; Percy was more or less now dead to him, he didn’t care what happened to him anymore.
Fred’s return to Hogwarts after the Christmas holidays was not as pleasant as it might have been in years passed, thanks to Umbridge’s presence. To make matters worse, Dumbledore’s Army was uncovered, and Dumbledore himself took the blame, fleeing the school and leaving Umbridge as Headmistress. As her reign continued to turn the school into an almost quasi-police state, Fred and George decided they didn’t care about any rules at all anymore, vowing to cause as much chaos as they possibly could (especially now that they had the money from Harry). And it was quite possibly the best kind of chaos ever--nothing was holding them back anymore. They set off their entire stock of Weasleys’ Wildfire Whiz-bangs, enchanted fireworks that only explode into more fireworks when hit by spells to stop them. The fireworks roamed through the school for days. Next, they set off a Portable Swamp (exactly what it sounds like) that completely blocked off one of the corridors, and none of the other professors bothered to remove it (although they certainly could have). When finally confronted by Umbridge, Fred and George summoned their brooms (she had taken them earlier in the year) and quite literally flew out of Hogwarts, effectively dropping out. Fred ordered Peeves, the school’s trouble making poltergeist who usually refused to listen to anyone, to continue giving her hell—and he listened; Peeves would continue wrecking as much chaos as he could after the twins were gone (even aided by some of the other professors).
They later show up to greet Ron and Ginny when coming come from Hogwarts at the end of the year, wearing super sexy dragon skin because they are just that awesome—and rich; with the money from Harry, they were able to open up a shop in Diagon Alley (basically a plaza type place full of magical products for witches and wizards), and it was instantly successful, given they’d already done quite a bit of good advertising at Hogwarts.
Fred and George’s decision to open Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes was met with skepticism by their parents (mostly their mother), who hoped they would seek jobs at the Ministry of Magic, like their father. But WWW (as it will be referred to from here on out because I’m too lazy to continuously type the name of the store) continued to prove immensely successful, making the twins hugely wealthy—quite possibly the wealthiest anyone in their family had ever been. They even move out of their home in the Burrow into a flat above the shop. And while they certainly are pleased with their success, the most important part is that they are doing what they want and what they love. Even dear old mummy comes around, proud that her boys are doing well for all she perceived as lack of ambition.
While Harry, Ron, and Hermione were entering their sixth year at Hogwarts, Fred and George were joining the Order of the Phoenix at last, as well as keeping up a booming business. They started added defensive products to their line, such as clothes with shield charms, which were large sellers within the Ministry of Magic (it had stopped its denial of Voldemort’s return after he was witnessed, alive, at the Ministry itself at the end of what would have been Fred’s seventh year).
With Dumbledore’s death at the end of Harry’s sixth year at Hogwarts, things grew increasingly dangerous, but it did not stop the twins’ business or Order activities (it rather increased the latter). That summer, both Fred and George took part in the plot to move Harry from his relatives’ home to a safe location before his 17th birthday (Harry was safe at his aunt’s house because of some fancy magic that would go kaput when he came of age at 17). Through the use of Polyjuice Potion (a potion that allows the drinker to take on the appearance of another person), Fred became a decoy Harry Potter, one of seven in total, that would all fly in different directions in hopes of confusing Voldemort’s Death Eaters (his loyal evildoing jerkasses) from catching the real Harry. While Fred would stay unharmed through the ordeal, George lost his ear (permanently, as it was because of Dark Magic, which cannot be healed by the usual methods), and it would affect both twins. Fred was shaken and completely distraught to the point of being speechless (something that like never happens ever), only coming out of this shock when George started making jokes about how “holy” aka “holey” he was now. George continued to make light of it, and the ear jokes were as much to help himself deal with it as they were to help Fred. It was the first time Fred had been confronted in such a huge way that the possibility of losing his twin is great, and he remained constantly fearful of it in a way he never was.
Fred’s oldest brother Bill got married that summer to a witch named Fleur Delacour, and the entire family (sans Percy) helped with the preparations. Fred and George even managed to sneak in some alone time with some of her French cousins ooh la la. The wedding would have gone off with a hitch, if not for the fact that the Ministry of Magic fell completely to Voldemort, with the Minister of Magic dead and Death Eaters on their way to the Burrow (the security having been broken because of the complete infiltration of the Ministry), all relayed in a message from one of the Order members working for the Ministry. The guests and hosts, Fred included, defended each other against and held back the Death Eaters while Harry, Ron, and Hermione escaped—Harry being the target and reason the Death Eaters came to search the Burrow.
Fred and George would return to their flat after concluding Harry was not there (they also helped prepare a trick to keep Ron’s whereabouts safe by transfiguring a ghoul to resemble what could be a very, very sick and bedridden Ron, who was to be staying home from Hogwarts to all who inquired, when in reality, their brother was running about with the most wanted man in the wizarding world aka Harry Potter). They kept up the business until they were forced to go into hiding after it was finally discovered that Ron was with Harry—this discovery meant the entire Weasley family was in danger, so Fred and George were forced to leave their flat and shop, heading for cover in their Great Aunt Murial’s house. Despite being in hiding, they kept up an Owl Order Business, taking orders for WWW by owl delivery, much to Murial’s dismay.
As the war dragged on, Fred participated in Potterwatch—a secret radio program dedicated to bringing news about the resistance to Voldemort’s regime—cracking jokes to lift spirits while at the same time warning people to be careful and stay vigilant. Since the narrative strictly follows Harry, a lot is unknown about what else Fred and George get up to while underground, but it is very likely they participated in the resistance as much as they possibly could.
Nobody had any idea what Harry, Ron, or Hermione were up to throughout the year they should have been attending Hogwarts as Seventh Years, but that May, the twins received a message from one Neville Longbottom (a fellow Gryffindor and member of Dumbledore’s Army). You see, members of the old Dumbledore’s Army had fake Galleons with which they could communicate with one another, and when Harry, Ron, and Hermione arrived at Hogwarts, Neville sent out a calling through the coins. Fred and George (taking Ginny with them) were among the first to arrive back at Hogwarts, ready for battle.
When the final battle started, Fred and George were placed in charge of defending the secret passageways, as no one else had the extensive knowledge of them like they did. After the Death Eaters broke through, those defending the corridor were forced into duels. Fred found himself separated from George and side by side with Percy, who had finally come back to the good side after three books of being a jackass. Fred was one of the first to forgive his brother, and they stood together defending the school against the Death Eaters. Percy made a joke about resigning from the Ministry, and Fred started laughing, clearly pleased, but one of the Death Eaters is prepared to start an explosion—
AND THEN FRED COMES TO THE WOOD AND DOESN’T DIE. YOU KNOW. LIKE WHAT SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED IN THE BOOKS (THE WHOLE NOT DYING THING, NOT THE COMING TO THE WOOD THING).
First Person Sample: This massive thread right here.
Prose Sample: over heeeeeerrreeeeeee with all that good tl;dr third person stuff
Special Notes:
User Name/Nick: Tomato
User LJ:
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AIM/IM: TheTomatoSays
E-mail: il.pomodoro[at]yahoo[dot]com
Other Characters: n/a
We are the generation sacrificed in self-defense.
The storm is coming in the aftermath of war --
Now can you tell me what it is we're fighting for?
The Character
Character Name: Fred Weasley
Character Journal:
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Canon: Harry Potter
Age: 20
From When?: Right before his death by explosion at the Battle of Hogwarts (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows). Death is a nice turning point, I would imagine. (/punches JK Rowling).
Abilities/Powers:
Magic: conjuring, transfiguration (turning an object into something else), summoning, defensive spells (like shields), and spell casting. Apparation and Disapparation (instantly transporting yourself from one place to another).
Flying: via broomsticks. Skilled Quidditch player (Beater—hitting heavy balls towards the opposing players while protecting their teammates from the same thing, all while flying on broomsticks)
Lock picking: no magic involved in this case. Just good old fashioned lock picking.
Power Limitations:
☄ cannot conjure/summon anything that does not exist in the Wood in some way, shape, or form
☄ spells that could be considered as 'gamebreaking' will not be successful
☄ chance of backfiring on spells increase with the power/scope of the spell being performed
☄ chance of ending somewhere vastly different than intended with apparition, increases with larger distances***
***ALL OF THIS MIGHT SOUND LIKE ANOTHER APP (SEE: GEORGE WEASLEY) but we did not really know how else to word the same thing for each of them.
Inventory
☄ Blue jeans
☄ trainers
☄ socks: both hand-knit, one magenta, one orange
☄ Reddish-orange T-shirt
☄ light jacket, full of pockets
☄ one wand: fifteen inches (core unknown)
☄➜ POCKET CONTENTS
☄ one fake galleon (gold coin)
☄ two small pouches of Peruvian Darkness Powder
☄ one Trick Wand (turns into a rubber chicken)
☄ scraps of parchment (very wrinkled) with varying amounts of writing
☄ one quill (Self Inking)
☄ one Extendable Ear
☄ four Decoy Detonators
☄ four Fainting Fancies
☄ three Edible Dark Marks
☄ five U-No-Poo
☄ five Ton-Tongued Toffees
☄ three Fever Fudges
☄ five Puking Pastilles
Personality: Fred Weasley, to say the least, enjoys a good prank or two or ten. His brother and twin, George, is much the same, and when together their ability to wreck chaos increases to very high levels. It is something they both enjoy greatly, whether to the amusement or chagrin of those around them (they much prefer entertainment). Success is measured by a smile. At school, though they were fully capable of receiving high marks, focused their attention towards mischief, and they were very good at it. It was what they wanted to do, and that was all the motivation they needed.
Fred, like his twin, is very smart, and they use their intelligence towards inventing and creating. Seeking an audience and seeking attention through their misadventures is quite commonplace for the both of them. Plotting is a treasure pastime. Rules are to be ignored if in the way, and if they can get away with it, all the better, but they are not afraid of trouble. They welcome it. The standards placed on them are simply an obstacle to overcome in getting at what they want for themselves, and they are driven towards their goals. Anything in their way is merely a challenge they charge at. Their primary concern is the ability to do what they want and be happy doing it.
Fred and George are men of action; they hate idleness and being told they are not allowed to do something. They approach life in a very casual matter, making light of stressful situations while recognizing moments that are indeed dire. It can be frustrating for those around them, but they aren't bothered. If anything, it only fuels them. Humor is their niche, and they twist and adapt it to every situation as needed; laughs are an ideal end line. Both have a strong sense of justice and are not afraid to speak up and voice their opinions, no matter who might be listening. They like to be involved, and they are keen to pick up on any sort of information that might be relevant to their interests.
As a twin, Fred is very like George in plans and partaking in conspiring behavior, but he is also quite different, particularly in the methods. Both of them very often toe the line, but Fred alone is okay with crossing it completely if it suits his needs. He is willing to take the extra step and push the boundaries in ways his brother is not, such as with blackmail—Fred has proven himself fine with it and capable of it, but George attempted to reel his brother back in, showing uncertainty. Fred is the more outgoing twin, but he is not the leader; they balance each other and have a very equal relationship. They are codependent on one another, although not in a negative way (and Fred might be the more dependent twin, despite his more outgoing nature).
Fred, to be blunt, can be and is more of a jerk than his brother; he is the crueler twin. He is more fluent in sarcasm. This is not to say he is a bad person—his boundaries simply stretch further; he is more willing to push the limits in what he feels he can do. He’s confident in this, confident that pushing these limits will not fail him, and it doesn’t matter how he himself looks in the process. Fred is less aware of social boundaries—what is acceptable and what isn’t. If he thinks it will work, damn the consequences. He is more likely to ignore potential risks, whereas George will be sure to take them into consideration. If they were going to produce an explosion, Fred would be excited and anxious to do it right then and there; George would say “no, over there, somebody might get hurt over here.”
This is why George is important for Fred. His twin keeps him in line, in a way that no other is able to (except perhaps their little sister, Ginny, on occasion). He has the respect and complete trust of Fred that he gives to no one else. In return, Fred brings out the extreme liveliness in George. They bounce off and play off each other very well, and because of this, they make a very able and excellent team. The Weasley Twins are often regarded as a unit, but it is their differences that make the best mischief possible.
While Fred can be a jerk, he is also quite capable of showing concern, mostly for those closest to him. He will defend his family (and friends) to any end if crossed, and he takes this loyalty quite seriously. When his brother Percy shuns the family, Fred is among those who treats Percy the worst, without remorse--he is downright mean and borderline nasty. He can be a loyal and great friend if that trust is earned (and he is not as open to new friendships as his twin--he is more content to stick with what he already knows), but he is not someone you would want to be on bad terms with--he will not show much mercy if you irk him. And while George has his own mean streaks, Fred takes it to quite a different, more extreme and merciless level, seeing loyalties in more black and white tones than grey. Fred is less likely to approach people, and he is more indifferent towards those he does not know. He will approach with jokes and sarcasm above genuine amiability.
One of Fred’s biggest fears is the death of George. This especially came to light after George lost an ear; the normally talkative and jubilant Fred was confronted with the fact that his brother could have died, and it startles him in a real way that it had not before. Despite George surviving, minus one ear, the experience intensified Fred’s fear in losing his twin. It served as a trigger to intensify his dread, and the jokes he shares with his brother over being “holey” are very much a way of making both of them, but especially Fred, feel okay with the situation. He worries for the rest of his family as well, of course, but the connection he shares with George is great, and Fred would be quite lost and even destructive without George, especially since he would not be there to hold Fred back. Fred cannot imagine his life without George in it, and even the possibility of it makes him absolutely paranoid. George's missing ear is a constant reminder of this.
History: Fred Weasley was born on April the first, 1978, the younger of a set of twins and the fifth son in the Weasley family (Bill, Charlie, and Percy being the elder three brothers). He would later be followed by another brother, Ron, and a sister, Ginny. The Weasleys are a pureblood family (meaning all magical, no Muggles—a Muggle being a non-magical person) and are not very wealthy (see: poor). Nearly as soon as he could talk, and probably even before that, Fred had a knack for mischief. When he was five, he transformed Ron’s teddy bear into a spider (triggering his brother’s arachnophobia—what a good big bro he is!) after Ron broke Fred’s toy broomstick. Alongside his twin, at age seven, they nearly succeeded in tricking Ron into making an Unbreakable Vow (which cannot be broken under penalty of death). Baby brother Ron was Fred’s favorite target. One Christmas Eve, the twins set off a Dungbomb (exactly what it sounds like) under the chair of their Great Aunt Murial, who in response, wrote the two out of her will and never came back to the Weasley House for Christmas dinner again. Needless to say, their parents (Arthur and Molly) had quite a handful with the twins during their early years.
When he was eleven years old, Fred and his twin were accepted into Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry—a school for training young witches and wizards (more or less what it says on the tin). Fred was sorted into Gryffindor, alongside George, one of the four Hogwarts Houses. (Students at Hogwarts are sorted into one of four houses: Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, or Slytherin) (Gryffindor is the best, obviously; why would Fred settle for second best, I mean really). As First Years, they immediately began to earn a reputation for trouble, quickly becoming some of the most popular students at the school in the process. He and George, while undergoing one of many long-winded rants and lectures about rules from Argus Filch (the Hogwarts caretaker), snuck into a “confiscated and highly dangerous” drawer in Filch’s office, stealing what looked like a blank piece of parchment. Working to discover its secrets, they finally found out it was called the Marauder’s Map, and it was a finely detailed map of the entirety of Hogwarts, complete with secret passageways and dots that show where anyone in the school was at any given time. This map would be key to their great success, allowing them virtually unlimited access to anywhere in the school, as well as become an important plot point in their fifth year.
In his second year, again alongside George, Fred became a Beater on the Gryffindor Quidditch Team. Having played at home with their brothers all the time, both of them were always quite good at Quidditch, a wizarding sport played on broomsticks with four balls (really, the simplest way of explaining it), and they were the best Beaters Gryffindor had seen in ages. Oliver Wood, captain of the Team, described them as “Human Bludgers” (a bludger being the ball Beaters must hit and aim at other players while protecting their own teammates from them during the game). Despite their preference for trouble, the twins were rather brilliant at their classes in these early years and received very good marks.
Fred’s Third Year marked one of the most important meetings in his life. Ron was starting at Hogwarts, and his little brother would come to be the best friend of one Harry Potter (and really, if you don’t know the importance of Harry fucking Potter then I don’t know what to tell you—Boy Who Lived and all that Jazz, most famous baby wizard ever, etc). Like the twins, Ron and Harry were both sorted into Gryffindor, allowing ample time for bonding among all four of them. Fred and George would become good friends of Harry, especially as he joined the Quidditch Team as well.
The summer between Fred’s Third and Fourth year was marked by a flying car. You see, dear old Harry was trapped in his uncle’s house, quite literally through the use of bars, and Fred, George, and Ron
Baby sister Ginny joined them at Hogwarts during Fred’s Fourth Year, and she, too, was sorted into Gryffindor. But it was not to be a trouble free year (it never is, when Harry Potter is at Hogwarts—that would make for rather boring books), as attacks on students led to rumors that the Chamber of Secrets had been opened and Muggleborn students were the targets (eventually even Harry's friend--and the twins' friend--Hermione Granger came to be petrified). Harry was perceived as the Heir of Slytherin, the one doing all the attacks, but Fred and George found the idea ludicrous, remaining loyal to Harry throughout the entire year. At the end of the year, Ginny was taken to the Chamber of Secrets itself (having been possessed by Voldemort--the evil guy of the series who everyone believed to have died when his killing curse reflected off Harry why don't you know this--through a diary slipped to her by Lucius Malfoy at the bookstore before the year started—oh my god it is impossible to explain the main plot of the book in so few words okay), where she would come to be rescued by Harry and Ron. Fred was most happy yaaaay.
Before their fifth year, the entire Weasley family treks off on vacation to Egypt during the summer to visit the oldest brother, Bill, who works there as a cursebreaker. When the twins start their fifth year, there are some shenanigans going on about an escaped prisoner named Sirius Black but it doesn’t really involve them, at least in a straightforward way. That infamous Marauder’s Map? They give it to Harry, telling him that he needs it more than they do, and they practically have the map memorized anyway. (Said map goes on to be extremely important to the whole Harry + Sirius thing but WHATEVER THAT’S NOT THE TWINS SO WE’RE NOT GOING INTO THAT). But their fifth year is also marked by O.W.L.s—a series of tests that determine what classes Hogwarts students can take in their final years that will also determine what sort of jobs they can have after graduation. Neither Fred nor George showed much enthusiasm for these tests, and when the results came in, Molly Weasley (dear old mum) was very disappointed that her twins had gotten such low scores (Fred received only three passable grades in his courses--Transfiguration, Defense Against the Dark Arts, and Charms), making them illegible for a lot of jobs. It didn’t bother them, especially as they turned their focus towards something else entirely: inventing.
The summer before Fred started his sixth year, he and his twin had begun to create new magical pranking items, mostly in the form of candies. Molly was not so keen on this (even going so far as to confiscate all their work at one point), but they were very secretive about everything, and it became increasingly hard to catch them in the act of trouble, at least in terms of inventing. That summer also marked the Quidditch World Cup, and while picking up Harry from his relatives’ house, Fred dropped a Ton-Tongue Toffee (a candy of the twins’ design) for Harry’s cousin Dudley, knowing full well he would eat it (Dudley, to put it nicely, is a glutton), and the boy soon found himself with an engorged tongue. He quickly returned to the Burrow, leaving his father to do clean up, but he and George eagerly waited to hear how it had all gone from Arthur when he finally returned home, as well.
Fred, along with the rest of his family, Harry, and Hermione, attended the Quidditch World Cup. He and George placed a bet, using all of their savings, with Ludo Bagman (an official for the Ministry of Magic who helped organize the World Cup) on the outcome of the match. They won, but Bagman repaid them with Leprechaun gold—money that disappears within an hour. Bagman continued to refuse and deny their winnings, to the point where Fred decided they needed to “play dirty” and threaten to inform the Ministry of Magic of his behavior. George was completely against it, calling it out as blackmail, and he succeeded in stopping this attempted blackmail, probably for the best as it would have undoubtedly led to some tricky legal situations (and that's terrible).
The twin’s Sixth Year at Hogwarts was also greeted with the Triwizard Tournament—a magical competition between three schools (Hogwarts, Beauxbatons, and Durmstrang) where one champion attempts to come out on top after a series of challenges. The age limit for entering was 17, and because Fred and George were only sixteen, they concocted an Aging Potion (exactly what it sounds like) that would hopefully fool the Age Line around the Goblet of Fire (Goblet of Fire being the cup that chooses each school’s champion; age line being a magical barrier to prevent anyone younger than 17 from entering). Their attempt failed, although it did give them each snazzy beards for a few hours. The Triwizard Tournament also brought about the Yule Ball around Christmas time, and Fred (quite easily, to the chagrin of Harry and Ron) asked Angelina Johnson, a classmate and fellow Gryffindor in his year, to go with him. She said yes, and presumably, there was awesome dancing and great fun at the Ball because Fred is probably one of the best dates anyone could ever have.
While the Triwizard Tournament would go on to have major effects on both wizarding and muggle world (what with the last challenge ultimately leading to the return of Voldemort aka the big bad of the entire goddamn series because Harry was chosen as a champion at the beginning of the year, all part of a grand scheme, whatever), the Weasley Twins would spend most of their sixth year beginning their attempt to sell and test some of their invented candies among their fellow students at Hogwarts. The most important part of the year, however, was receiving the one thousand Galleons Harry had won in the Tournament (Galleon being the Wizard currency), which he insisted they keep after he offered to give it to them in the hopes that they might use it to start up their planned joke shop business.
Between their sixth and seventh years, Fred and George passed their Apparation Test with a flourish—Apparation is the ability wizards and witches possess to instantly transport themselves from one location to another. They fully
Fred and George started their Seventh and final year at Hogwarts with the intent on selling and testing as many of their new products as they could out of trunks and boxes, all under the name of “Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes.” It became their priority above schoolwork and classes. Hermione proved a hurdle, as she threatened to tell their mother what they were doing if they continued to test the products on unsuspecting First Years. Despite that, they were massively successful and already making decent money.
However, their Seventh Year was also saddled with a new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor—Dolores Umbridge, who is basically one of the most evil little women you will ever meet. Working for the Ministry of Magic, she mirrored its stance that Voldemort had not returned, calling Harry and anyone who believed him a liar (the then Minister of Magic thought Dumbledore was after his job and didn't want to believe the evil son of a bitch guy with no nose--that's Voldemort for the record--was still alive). In defiance of this limit in defending students against the Dark Arts, Harry, Ron, and Hermione started an underground organization called Dumbledore’s Army (named after the Headmaster of Hogwarts, Albus Dumbledore, who was the only man Voldemort was ever afraid of which basically means he's a fucking badass), which Fred (and George) promptly joined. It served as a way to teach students to defend themselves, as Umbridge’s classes did nothing practical and were flat out dangerous in the way she continued to deny the oncoming war. Umbridge also kicked Fred, George, and Harry off the Gryffindor Quidditch team after George and Harry got into a scuffle with some Slytherins after a match because they taunted and mocked the Weasley family and Harry's mum (and by scuffle I mean punched the lights out of). Needless to say, Fred was Not a Fan of Umbridge (and really, who would be?).
Christmas that year was nearly a tragedy when Arthur Weasley was attacked by a snake (Voldemort's super special future plot point snake); it nearly killed him, sending him to St. Mungos (the Wizarding hospital) where he and his family (along with Harry) spent much of the holiday season. The only exception was brother Percy, who did not turn up at the hospital to visit his dad—he’d been estranged from his family for quite some time now, due to his ambitions within the Ministry of Magic which caused him to take the Ministry’s stance that Voldemort was not back, to the point where he had zero contact with them—and Fred saw this as only another line severed; Percy was more or less now dead to him, he didn’t care what happened to him anymore.
Fred’s return to Hogwarts after the Christmas holidays was not as pleasant as it might have been in years passed, thanks to Umbridge’s presence. To make matters worse, Dumbledore’s Army was uncovered, and Dumbledore himself took the blame, fleeing the school and leaving Umbridge as Headmistress. As her reign continued to turn the school into an almost quasi-police state, Fred and George decided they didn’t care about any rules at all anymore, vowing to cause as much chaos as they possibly could (especially now that they had the money from Harry). And it was quite possibly the best kind of chaos ever--nothing was holding them back anymore. They set off their entire stock of Weasleys’ Wildfire Whiz-bangs, enchanted fireworks that only explode into more fireworks when hit by spells to stop them. The fireworks roamed through the school for days. Next, they set off a Portable Swamp (exactly what it sounds like) that completely blocked off one of the corridors, and none of the other professors bothered to remove it (although they certainly could have). When finally confronted by Umbridge, Fred and George summoned their brooms (she had taken them earlier in the year) and quite literally flew out of Hogwarts, effectively dropping out. Fred ordered Peeves, the school’s trouble making poltergeist who usually refused to listen to anyone, to continue giving her hell—and he listened; Peeves would continue wrecking as much chaos as he could after the twins were gone (even aided by some of the other professors).
They later show up to greet Ron and Ginny when coming come from Hogwarts at the end of the year, wearing super sexy dragon skin because they are just that awesome—and rich; with the money from Harry, they were able to open up a shop in Diagon Alley (basically a plaza type place full of magical products for witches and wizards), and it was instantly successful, given they’d already done quite a bit of good advertising at Hogwarts.
Fred and George’s decision to open Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes was met with skepticism by their parents (mostly their mother), who hoped they would seek jobs at the Ministry of Magic, like their father. But WWW (as it will be referred to from here on out because I’m too lazy to continuously type the name of the store) continued to prove immensely successful, making the twins hugely wealthy—quite possibly the wealthiest anyone in their family had ever been. They even move out of their home in the Burrow into a flat above the shop. And while they certainly are pleased with their success, the most important part is that they are doing what they want and what they love. Even dear old mummy comes around, proud that her boys are doing well for all she perceived as lack of ambition.
While Harry, Ron, and Hermione were entering their sixth year at Hogwarts, Fred and George were joining the Order of the Phoenix at last, as well as keeping up a booming business. They started added defensive products to their line, such as clothes with shield charms, which were large sellers within the Ministry of Magic (it had stopped its denial of Voldemort’s return after he was witnessed, alive, at the Ministry itself at the end of what would have been Fred’s seventh year).
With Dumbledore’s death at the end of Harry’s sixth year at Hogwarts, things grew increasingly dangerous, but it did not stop the twins’ business or Order activities (it rather increased the latter). That summer, both Fred and George took part in the plot to move Harry from his relatives’ home to a safe location before his 17th birthday (Harry was safe at his aunt’s house because of some fancy magic that would go kaput when he came of age at 17). Through the use of Polyjuice Potion (a potion that allows the drinker to take on the appearance of another person), Fred became a decoy Harry Potter, one of seven in total, that would all fly in different directions in hopes of confusing Voldemort’s Death Eaters (his loyal evildoing jerkasses) from catching the real Harry. While Fred would stay unharmed through the ordeal, George lost his ear (permanently, as it was because of Dark Magic, which cannot be healed by the usual methods), and it would affect both twins. Fred was shaken and completely distraught to the point of being speechless (something that like never happens ever), only coming out of this shock when George started making jokes about how “holy” aka “holey” he was now. George continued to make light of it, and the ear jokes were as much to help himself deal with it as they were to help Fred. It was the first time Fred had been confronted in such a huge way that the possibility of losing his twin is great, and he remained constantly fearful of it in a way he never was.
Fred’s oldest brother Bill got married that summer to a witch named Fleur Delacour, and the entire family (sans Percy) helped with the preparations. Fred and George even managed to sneak in some alone time with some of her French cousins ooh la la. The wedding would have gone off with a hitch, if not for the fact that the Ministry of Magic fell completely to Voldemort, with the Minister of Magic dead and Death Eaters on their way to the Burrow (the security having been broken because of the complete infiltration of the Ministry), all relayed in a message from one of the Order members working for the Ministry. The guests and hosts, Fred included, defended each other against and held back the Death Eaters while Harry, Ron, and Hermione escaped—Harry being the target and reason the Death Eaters came to search the Burrow.
Fred and George would return to their flat after concluding Harry was not there (they also helped prepare a trick to keep Ron’s whereabouts safe by transfiguring a ghoul to resemble what could be a very, very sick and bedridden Ron, who was to be staying home from Hogwarts to all who inquired, when in reality, their brother was running about with the most wanted man in the wizarding world aka Harry Potter). They kept up the business until they were forced to go into hiding after it was finally discovered that Ron was with Harry—this discovery meant the entire Weasley family was in danger, so Fred and George were forced to leave their flat and shop, heading for cover in their Great Aunt Murial’s house. Despite being in hiding, they kept up an Owl Order Business, taking orders for WWW by owl delivery, much to Murial’s dismay.
As the war dragged on, Fred participated in Potterwatch—a secret radio program dedicated to bringing news about the resistance to Voldemort’s regime—cracking jokes to lift spirits while at the same time warning people to be careful and stay vigilant. Since the narrative strictly follows Harry, a lot is unknown about what else Fred and George get up to while underground, but it is very likely they participated in the resistance as much as they possibly could.
Nobody had any idea what Harry, Ron, or Hermione were up to throughout the year they should have been attending Hogwarts as Seventh Years, but that May, the twins received a message from one Neville Longbottom (a fellow Gryffindor and member of Dumbledore’s Army). You see, members of the old Dumbledore’s Army had fake Galleons with which they could communicate with one another, and when Harry, Ron, and Hermione arrived at Hogwarts, Neville sent out a calling through the coins. Fred and George (taking Ginny with them) were among the first to arrive back at Hogwarts, ready for battle.
When the final battle started, Fred and George were placed in charge of defending the secret passageways, as no one else had the extensive knowledge of them like they did. After the Death Eaters broke through, those defending the corridor were forced into duels. Fred found himself separated from George and side by side with Percy, who had finally come back to the good side after three books of being a jackass. Fred was one of the first to forgive his brother, and they stood together defending the school against the Death Eaters. Percy made a joke about resigning from the Ministry, and Fred started laughing, clearly pleased, but one of the Death Eaters is prepared to start an explosion—
AND THEN FRED COMES TO THE WOOD AND DOESN’T DIE. YOU KNOW. LIKE WHAT SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED IN THE BOOKS (THE WHOLE NOT DYING THING, NOT THE COMING TO THE WOOD THING).
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