George sometimes felt that his youth ended the day that Fred died. The despair that he had sank into just after the war often washed over him.
He threw himself into the shop, determined to make Fred proud. He also made sure that his twin was remembered as co-creator.
The flings he embarked on meant nothing. Sometimes it just felt right to be held by someone, anyone.
Then, one evening, about seven years after the end of the war he walked into the leaky cauldron and saw Katie again.
It was as if she had been waiting for him.
Wake me up when September ends- Green Day
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Katie Bell came from a very old, very wealthy pureblood family. A family who considered families like the Weasleys far below them.
George didn't have much to offer her. A flat above a joke shop.
The other Weasley twin her father sneered.
Katie told him where to go. She took all of her money, all her love and took off out of the window one night to live with George amongst the crazy walls of Weasley Wizard Wheezes.
Her Dad never forgave her.
Henrietta- The Fratellis
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Katie loathed Verity. Verity liked George. She was constantly flirting with George, laughing manically at his jokes, touching him on the arm, the chest and, once, right in front of Katie, sliding past him so closely she could have kissed him.
It was all Katie could do not to hex her right there and then.
As a result, Katie would be all over George. She hadn't walked out on her family for George for this cow to steal him from under her nose.
George was bemused. But when Katie told him he laughed and told her he loved her.
Save it for the bedroom- You me at six
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George hadn't really wanted to be who he was after the war. He didn't want to be a rule-breaker, a joker, one who was up for anything because Fred was that too and he didn't want to remember that.
He began to conform, and the shop suffered. But then Katie came along. She helped him recover from grief, re-find himself.
And then he became him again. A rule breaker. A joker. Someone up for anything.
A Weasley twin.
Freak Out- Avril Lavigne
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He could see her across the room. She looked familiar. She kept glancing over at him too, like she recognised him.
Eventually she came over. "Hi George."
Her name came back with her voice. Katie.
He knew her background and tried to look right, change to impress her, but then she told him that she liked him the old way.
So he changed back. For her, anything.
Eddie's gun- The Kooks