A.N. Hello all! Welcome to my newest Harry Potter piece, Vines and Thorns. As always don't expect updates often or at a regular pace. I'm in college now (which really sucks) so it can get in the way sometimes. I have six chapters done, so I will be posting one a week until I run out, and I'll be writing whenever I can. Questions, comments, and ideas are always welcome. The Prologue is just some back ground information, you don't have to read it, but you might get confused when Fred turns up out of nowhere later on. Or Jaz and Cas... Anywho, enjoy!
Prologue – The Beginning in the End
Once upon a time the Weasley family had been small. Arthur came from a family of three, as did Molly. Sadly, Molly had lost both of her older brothers in the first war, and would have been very lost without the rest of her family. Arthur's brothers went off; the eldest lived in America and the younger one in Asia. They rarely visited, except on important dates.
A year after they'd been married they had tiny Bill, a tiny tuft of red hair on the top of his head. Like clockwork they continued to expand their family. The three eldest boys knew their uncles, Gideon and Fabian Prewett, but they were killed just a few months short of the twins' birth. Fred and George were named after their late uncles. Determined to have a daughter before she stopped having children, they kept at it. Ron and Ginny joined them shortly afterwards. Content with her seven children, Molly sat back and awaited her grandchildren.
Bill and Fleur had graced her with young Victoire. The girl was just as pretty as her mother, all blond and blue eyed. She had just the touch of freckles over her nose. Dominique was just as lovely, some three years younger than her sister, but her hair was a pale strawberry blonde and waved ever so slightly. Where Victoire was sweet and calm, Dominique had a touch of the Prewett temper that came through her. Louis, at only seven, was chipper and energetic as all little boys are. His hair was the precise shade of his father's, but he had inherited the darker blue of his mother's eyes.
Charlie still wasn't married, and Molly thought that perhaps he never would. He dated now and then, but girls came second to his beloved dragons.
Percy's girls were just as intelligent as their father, but they were a little nicer, mostly because of Audrey's soothing temper. Molly was perhaps the exact opposite of her namesake. She had bright green eyes and chestnut colored hair, and little Lucy was blue eyed and had the tight red curls of her father. Lucy was shy, and rarely spoke up. She often got left out of the mess of cousins.
Horrified and distraught after the accident that had left Fred in a hospital bed, suspended in a magical coma, Angelina Johnson came forward that she had been seeing Fred for quite some time. This didn't shock the family, but her surprise did. Shortly before the battle of Hogwarts, Angelina had conceived twins. Jasper and Caspar were the oldest of the grandchildren, the spitting image of their father and uncle.
George had found love in Katie Bell, and when their first born, a red headed boy, had been born on the first of April, they had promptly named the baby Fred II. The original Fred seemed very happy with this arrangement upon waking from his coma, nearly two years after his birth. Roxanne, or Roxie, was the current baby of the family, having just turned four in May. Both her, and her brother, were tormentors of the Weasley crowd, and both were brown eyed red heads.
Ron and Hermione dated immediately following the war, but quickly broke up. It had been something mutual, and it had little effect on the family as a whole. They reconciled some few months before Rose was conceived and got married quickly before her birth. Rose and Hugo were unlike the rest of the family, although Molly had always thought it was because of Hermione's upbringing. Both children were sweet, but they were sneaky and a little entitled. They tended to be the leaders. Rose had the softest hair, thin and silky. It curled like her mother's, but not quite as bushy, and was the color of her father's hair. She too, had blue eyes. Hugo's hair had the same silky texture, which he liked to leave just long enough to brush in front of his big brown eyes, and it was a pale brown that had been blond when he was a baby.
Ginny and Harry's children were the perfect blend of both of their parents. James had black hair and deep brown eyes; Lily was a miniature of her mother, and Al a mini Harry. James was the prankster, and best of friends with little Fred. Lily was daddy's little princess, and had her father wrapped around many of her tiny fingers. Al was a loner for the most part, shy and quiet, he was also Rose's tag-along.
Luna's sons, Lorcan and Lysander (Lorie and Lye), dear Teddy, and clumsy Addie Longbottom were their step-grandchildren. And Molly loved them dearly, so when summer approached the end and school was about to start, Molly had thrown together a family reunion of sorts, a goodbye party for those going off to school the following week.
The family, all thirty seven of them, gathered around the Burrow. They celebrated the family, the food, the happiness that everything had worked out well in the end. Only this wasn't the end, but a whole new beginning.