The Wedding:
"Hello Harry." Harry looked toward the sound of his name, there stood Elise. She wore a simple gold dress that was tight, then poofed out on her waist and came just above her knees. "How did you know?" She laughed, "Well the real Harry isn't anywhere to be found and I've never seen you before." Harry extended is arm to her, "No, it's okay. Is Fred around, I'd like him too…" She muttered and shuffled her feet. Harry smiled and went to escort the rest of the veela cousins.
"I don't think you're on the list." Elise turned around to see a tall red-haired boy dressed in black dress robes. "I'm here, just in case." Fred smiled and offered his arm, "It's okay, you can sit between George and me." Elise took his arm and they walked down the aisle, "George is the good looking one right?" Fred stopped dead in the middle of the aisle making Elise jerk back. "It was a joke, Fred. Ha, ha remember you tell them all the time?" Fred glared at her and then escorted her to her seat.
Everyone was dancing merrily as the band played a fast song. Couples spinned around gracefully on the dance floor. Elise looked to Fred who was sitting at a table by himself. She sat down next to him and played with his hair, "Fred…" He couldn't hold it any longer he burst out into a fit of giggles and grabbed her wrist, "Let's dance!" They glided to the floor and danced like crazy.
Finally, they took their seats and relaxed. "Hey, are those two together?" Fred looked to where Elise was pointing. "Ron and Hermione? They have had crushes on each other for 6 years now. It's ridiculous." Elise looked at him, "Six years? What a git." Fred laughed, "I know, so do you want to dance?" Elise nodded. A slow love ballad filled the nightime air. She had missed him so much, "What happened to that adorable third year I taught different Charms too?" Fred smiled and held her closer, "He grew up and she graduated, two years ahead of him. Leaving him alone in a big scary castle." Elise laughed and rested her head on his shoulders. "You know I almost forgot about you. But when you fell into the kitchen the other night it all came back. I haven't seen you in three years. I used to read all the stuff about you in the Prophet but then I just stopped." Elise sighed, "It's okay Fred. I sort of forgot about you too. Until…well Weasley Wizard Wheezes. They are great by the way." Fred laughed and spun her gracefully. "I missed you." Elise looked up at him and smiled, "Fred I…" Suddenly a silver whisp shot through the night. The band faded out and Kingsely's loud voice took it's place.
"The Ministry has fallen, Scrimegour is dead. They are coming." The lynx patronous disappeared and panic arose. Elise turned away from a startled Fred and dashed to grab her wand, that was shoved into her little black clutch. When she had grabbed it she dashed off to find Harry and his friends.
Harry felt a sudden pull on his arm, "Get out now, apparate out of here." Harry stuttered, "But we can't the spells…" Elise shoved him toward Hermione. "Apparate now!" Hermione shook her head feverently, "We can't the…" Elise cut her off, "They have broken, can't you see?" She threw her hand out and presented the wide spread panic. People disapparating like mad.
Suddenly cloaked figures were pushing their way through the crowd. Tonks and Lupin stood up and pointed their wands, "Protego!" Hermione cried and a spell shot towards them. Then suddenly a dark hood walked toward them, his face screwed up into a wild smile. "Go now!" Elise screamed at them. The death eater threw is wand up. "Avadra Kedavra!" The man fell over dead. Elise turned back to the trio, "Get to 12 Grimmuald Place it's safest there. But don't let anyone see you!" Then just like that Ron was there and he grabbed on to Hermione's free arm, and Elise watched as she turned on the spot and vanished.
She dashed off to find the rest of the family, they were all held up in the kitchen. "Where did Harry, Ron, Hermione go!?" Mrs. Weasley screamed at her. "They left, their gone. But we can't worry about them. Okay, we're going to have to get out of here." Fleur spoke, "Me 'nd Bill can 'ake 'inny to ze cottage with us 'nd my 'arents." Mrs. Weasley burst into more tears and grabbed ahold of Ginny. "Okay, go then hurry before they come and start asking questions. They are going to notice Ron is gone and suspect something."
"No Ron already made sure of that." Elise looked toward Fred who had the most serious look upon his face. "Then the rest of us will stay here and take whatever comes." They all nodded.
The Death Eaters exploded into the house. One Elise immediatley recognized as Travis Rewt. He looked at her and smiled, "Ah, is that little Elise hanging around with Blood Traitors? He would never approve of this. Tisk, tisk you had so much potential in the Dark Arts." Elise stood taller, "I don't need his approval and you are a disgraceful Auror!" He turned on her wand pointed at her face, "And you a disgraceful Death Eater!" Everyone in the room quieted and looked at Elise. Her eyes were cast downward and her mouth gaping. "Bet your little Blood Traitors didn't know that. That they are housing one of the most powerful Death Eaters. Bet they don't know how many filthy mudbloods you killed just years ago and you were so young too and the Dark Lord was so proud of you." Elise had tears falling down her elegent face, "Shut up." He pretended like he hadn't heard her, "And then you got put into Hufflepuff, that was so shameful. But that innocent family on the hill made up for it and then you went soft on us. You knew all of his plans and you told that stupid wizard Dumbledore…" Elise shoved him back pushing him into a mess of wooden chairs. "I said shut up!" By now tears were streaming down her face leaving her green eyes red and puffy. He stood up and walked past her out the door. "Let's go we have to round up all the Mudbloods in this area by dawn." With that they were all gone and everyone was staring at Elise.
"Death Eater?" Elise looked toward Fred. "Yes, for the millionth time, a Death Eater." Fred continued to stare at the carpet in the living room where everyone had taken refuge. "A Death Eater?" Elise stood up, "Yes I was a Death Eater! But I'm not anymore, can't you see that Fred?" She reached for his hand but he pulled it away quickly. "I thought you were my friend and I trusted you. Were you killing people when I met you?" Elise pulled her hand back, "No, I mean I was, but I wasn't killing!" Everyone looked at her with odd looks. Elise could only imagine what was going through their minds. "I think I'll go now."
She took her time getting her cloak hoping someone, anyone would stop her from leaving. But no one objected to it. She took one last look at the Weasley family and then opened the door and disappeared into the night.
'Great now where will I go? I can't go home I'm sure the Death Eaters will have destroyed the place searching for Harry and them. Grimmuald Place perhaps? I should probably make sure there aren't any Death Eaters around there…' She let her thoughts trail off as she walked solemly down the London streets. 'I can never go back there, now that they know.'
"What about Fred?" Her sudden outcry scared even her and a couple of bystanders. 'Oh Fred. He'll never forgive me.' She sighed and finally found sanction in a small wizarding pub. As she waited for the waitress to bring out her sandwhich she thought back to her days at Hogwarts.
Flashback:
"You are in trouble now! You should of thought before you put a dung bomb in a fifth years bag." A small red haired boy cowered in the corner as two large fifth years held wands at him. They raised there wands, "Your going to regret the day you messed with…" Suddenly the large boy was back against the wall grasping at his throat, his friend screamed and ran off back to the Slytherin common rooms. His croaking friend trailing behind him.
"You should know better than that." Fred looked up to see a young girl with Hufflepuff robes leaning against a statue twirling her wand in her fingers. He didn't speak but just looked toward her in awe. "Your welcome, by the way." Fred nodded and finally spoke, "How did you do that?" She looked at him, "It was a rather simple charm. You should know it, but then again I wouldn't be surprised if you didn't. You goof off to much." Fred smiled brightly at her, "Well me and my brother want to be the biggest prankster in the school." She laughed, "But you don't even know any simple charms." Fred furrowed his brow and pouted. "Oh it's okay, if you want I can teach you a couple. In case you get into anymore trouble." He gazed up at her with wide brown eyes, "Really?" She nodded, "Yeah why not."
Two Years Later:
"I can't believe your leaving." The girl looked away from her book and up at him. He was leaning out of the astronomy tower window. The moonlight reflecting off of his red hair. "Well believe it, because after tomorrow I will no longer be enrolled at Hogwarts." He looked down at her, she had her hair pulled up and her Hufflepuff uniform on. "But who will help me invent new products?" She sighed and returned to her book, "I don't know Fred, your brother?" He laughed but then fell silent, "I'll miss you Elise." She nodded, "We can see each other over the summer Fred. It isn't the end of the world." She stood up and leaned out of the window with him. "You over react you know that? I think I'am the only person in the world who knows the true Fred Weasley. I don't think even George knows about this side of you." She jabbed his arm slightly.
He smirked and looked at her, "Your going to be a really famous Auror you know that?" Elise laughed and grabbed her bag off of the stone floor. "Yeah right." Fred turned to her, "No seriously you are I can just tell. Promise you won't forget me when you are bringing order to the wizarding communtiy." She placed her hand over her heart, "For ever prankster I catch I shall think of you, for every wizarding prank that goes aray, I shall think of you. For every…" Fred grabbed her hand, "Yeah, yeah, yeah that's enough." Elise laughed and then quieted, "Fred I should tell you something before I go I…" Fred suddenly leaned in and the next thing she knew he had pulled her into a deep embrace. After what felt like forever he finally let go. "What were you saying?" He was staring at her with deep brown eyes. "Um…nothing. Well I'm going to go finish packing. Goodnight Fred! See you over the summer!" Elise hurried away from the tower, screaming at herself in her head for not telling him.
She never did see him that summer, or the next summer and the next thing she knew it had been three years since she had last spoken to him. Their last moments together in that tower felt like an old movie. The details became hazy, she could barley remember what he said or what he looked liked. It wasn't until Umbridge came back to the Ministry after her stint as a Professor at Hogwarts with a tale about two red-haired boys that had fled the school on their broomsticks, that Elise remembered Fred at all.
"It was horrible, they used this THING that caused this giant swamp…" Elise snorted. Umbridge cleared her throat, "Is there something the matter?" Elise shook her head and tried to contain her laughter. "They were horrible boys, Aruthur Weasley is their father come to find out. Perhaps I should send him an owl…" Elise looked at her with disgust, "If you want I can take care of him." Umbridge smiled from behind her desk, "I knew I could always trust you dear." Elise stood up and as she closed the door behind her she turned to the door and uttered under her breath.
Umbridge's cries of terror pierced the quiet hallways of the Ministry. Elise threw open the door, "Is there something wrong?" Umbridge remained in her chair but a thick green goop made her barley recognizable. "Oh my, I think a swamp has fallen on your head Ms. Umbridge." She wiped away the goo from her eyes and shot a death glare toward Elise. "You might want to clean yourself up." Elise shut the door and hurried quickly away from her office. 'I knew he would use that spell sooner or later.'
Three Weeks Ago:
"I'm going to need you to keep an eye on the Weasley family." Elise looked up, "I thought you were going to do that?" Mad Eye shook his head, "I don't think I will be able to." Elise looked at him with questioning eyes, "What do you mean?" Mad Eye stood up and hobbled toward the door of her office, "I just don't think I'll be able to make it. Just keep an eye on them." Elise nodded. "You are going to see him again." Elise looked up at him and nodded. "You never told him did you. About your past?" Elise was silent, Mad Eye sighed and Elise watched as he gently closed the door behind him. She didn't realize it then but that was the last time she would ever see him again.
End Flashback
She sat in silence finishing her sandwhich, she watched as a couple wizards walked in and out of the pub. She stood up and tossed a couple of coins onto the table and walked out. 'Might as well go to Grimmualds Place to make sure everythings okay…' She turned down a dark alley and after a loud pop she was gone.