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The Lies We Were Told
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Chapter 10
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Fred and Hermione appeared across the road from a loud and blinking lighted area. The couple ran across the road and Hermione saw the cause of it. They were at the local fair. She turned and smiled at Fred.
"I haven't been to the fair since I was little. How did you know?" asked Hermione, excitement in her voice.
"Dad heard the muggles talking about it on the street. I thought it would be fun. I had some wizard money traded to muggle money. So no problems." Fred told her paying the man at the gate and getting tickets that would make a six year old jealous.
The couple stepped onto the fair ground and Fred looked around in awe. He had never seen anything like it in all his life. The rides. The lights. The music. The games. The food stands.
The rollercoaster was seven stories high with curves, loops and large drops that would make anyone scream. The largest was the fairiswheel. It was lit with lights that over looked the entire ground. The bumper cars. The carousel with the yellow lights around it, painted in blue with many colors of horses to blue, green, white, pink, yellow, red and orange that went around, up, and down. A large fun house. The tunnel of love.
The booths ranged from balloon darts, ball throw to knock down the pins. The football toss. The duck shoot. The water dunk. Arm wrestling. A cake walk. Horse shoes. Fortune Teller, clowns and gymnasts.
The food stands ranged from hot dogs, hamburgers, fries, fish, chili and much more. The candy from cotton candy, cakes, ice cream and much more.
"I've died and gone to heaven." said Fred.
Hermione laughed and took his hand. "Where to first?" she looked at her watch. "Let's eat first. I'm starving."
"A witch after my own heart." he whispered, causing her to blush.
They walked up to one of the many food stands. Hermione ordered a hot dog, fires and a coke. Fred read the menu and his heart did a leap at all the choices. He had no idea at what to order so he got the same as his date. They found a spot at a panic table that was lit with lamps hanging on a stream of cords above them.
Hermione could only smile at Fred. It was like Christmas had come early. She laughed when he picked up the ketchup bottle. He turned it side to side. She took it from him and squeezed it over his fries. Fred picked it up and took a bite of it. The taste surprised him.
"Good?" said Hermione. Fred only nodded his head. They discussed what to do next. "We have all night."
"We've got plenty of tickets." said Fred and took a sip of coke.
They threw away their trash after they got through eating and walked around looking at all the games. Fred smiled and took Hermione over to the football throw. Hermione explained how to play as they waited in line.
Fred gave the man two tickets and took the football. 'This shouldn't be too hard.' He thought and threw the ball, hitting the hanging tire, and missing the hole. He took the ball and threw it through the hole as he did on the last ball as well.
"Chose your prize on the five or ten point rack." said the man.
Fred looked at the shelf. He chose the boom-a-rang. They went to a different stand. He threw the toy and he watched it fly back. He caught it with ease.
"That's neat." said Fred.
Hermione took the toy and stuck it in small bag that was on her hip. It was small on the outside but large enough to hold up to a huge teddy bear. Fred nodded and took her hand. They walked to the next stand.
Fred laid down the tickets. Hermione took the ball from the ticket taker. She threw it, hitting the pins down. She took the next three balls, hitting the pins down all in one throw. Fred whistled at Hermione. She picked out a necklace that remaindered her of the timer-turner she had used in her third year and had returned it to McGonagall. Fred took it from her and clasped it around her neck.
"Let me see if I can do this." said Fred as he laid down the tickets. He threw the ball, knocking the all the balls down. "All right 100 points!" Hermione beamed at her date. "What should I get?"
"The football." Hermione suggested. "I can teach you all to play." she whispered in his ear.
"The football." he told the man.
He gave Fred the ball. Fred smiled and spun the ball on his finger. Hermione caught it when he threw it to her, as they walked away from the stand. She stuck it into her bag.
"That thing comes in handy." said Fred.
Hermione laughed and told him that she got it from his store. Fred gave her a shy smile. He forgot he suggested that she get it for her last year at Hogwarts to hold extra books.
Fred smiled and saw a man selling cameras. He quickly paid ten dollars for it. He told her to smile. He took her picture with a nearby clown. The clown put bunny ears on quickly before Fred could snap the picture. He laughed and thanked the man. The couple left the clown.
Fred and Hermione stood in line for the balloon darts. She whispered how to play. They walked to the booth. Fred gave the man the tickets exchanged for the darts. He threw the dart but hit a stuffed whale.
"Sorry." he told the man and threw the next one. The ticket taker quickly ducked before it hit him. "Oops, sorry." Fred threw the blue feather dart and hit a hot dog a man was eating a few steps away. "Sorry."
Hermione dragged him away from the balloon darts before he hurt someone or himself. She couldn't help but laugh about the dart that hit the hot dog. Fred gave a shy smile. They walked over and got large candy cotton to share. They walked around the grounds eating the sweet.
"The Fortune Teller." Fred suggested, since no one was waiting in line.
"You know I don't believe in that stuff." said Hermione licking the sugar from her fingers.
"Please?" Fred said, sticking out his bottom lip.
Hermione couldn't help but give in to the puppy eyes of Fred Weasely. They always worked. She sighed and nodded her head. He took her hand and ran over the woman with long gray hair, wrinkled paled skin that was dressed in purple robes and a blue scarf.
"Hello, do you want your fortune told?" she asked the couple. They nodded. "Do have a seat." Fred and Hermione sat down across from the woman. "Ah, I have a fellow witch and wizard. This is a first for me to have one of my kind in 136 years. Please hold out your wand hands." They did as they were told. She ran her fingers over their palms. "You're star crossed. You've known each other before." the woman looked up at Hermione. "The children of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry will take her back," she looked at Fred. "With you at her side to protect her. You will finally find love in this life. The Red Phoenix and the Sliver Phoenix will be joined as it should have been at the beginning of magic."
Fred and Hermione looked at each other in total shock. They didn't know if it was fake or in fact truth. She remembered that the red phoenix chose her when she had gotten her tattoo.
"You carry the Red Phoenix on your left ankle." she told Hermione. "You carry the Sliver Phoenix on your left shoulder." she told Fred. They only nodded their heads. "I have something for you." she waved her hand over their hands. A sliver phoenix appeared in Hermione's hand as a red phoenix appeared in Fred's hand. "It will be your connection as a portkey to each other. It has Fred's name on yours, Hermione. It has Hermione's name on yours, Fred. Place them on each other."
Fred looked down at the necklace and turned it over and saw Hermione's name on the back. He looked at the woman in front of him. He knew that she was indeed real. She was in fact a rare seer. Fred took the sliver chain from Hermione and clasped it around her neck. She did the same to Fred and sliver and red waved between each other in center of them. It formed a red and sliver phoenix and vanished. The woman smiled at the couple.
"I haven't seen such magic in 110 years. Protect each other. The dangers are far from over. A man is after the heirs of Hogwarts. I wish you every happiness Fred Weasely and Hermione Potter." She leaned over her table and kissed each of them on the cheek.
The couple left the woman in shock. They couldn't believe what had happened. Fred lifted up the charm that was on the sliver chain. He rubbed it with his thumb.
"She was the real deal, Mione. She was a real seer. She knew too much about us." he told her. "The magic was strong."
She looked at the redhead and gave him a shy smile. Fred slowly leaned forward and claimed her lips with his own. They felt a spark hit them and quickly pulled back. Fred took Hermione's hand.
"Let's go on some of the rides." said Fred. Hermione smiled and they walked over to the rides.
The couple rode on the rollercoaster, fairiswheel and the many other rides until late into the night. Fred finally won Hermione a large teddy bear. They left after nearly seven hours and the tickets that were gone.
Fred and Hermione ran across the road and vanished in a faint pop. They appeared across from the hidden of Number 12 Grimmauld Place. The house appeared and Fred walked her inside the house. He kissed her soundly and flooed home.
Hermione sent her things up stairs to her room and walked into the dinning room to find her mother waiting on her. The men had gone to bed several hours ago. Lily smiled at her only daughter.
"All right you spill it." Lilly told her daughter as Hermione sat down at the table.
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Note: The football that Hermione told Fred to get is actually a soccer ball.