House: Gryffindor
Position: Year 5
Category: Drabble
Prompt: Siblings
Word Count: 252
To be a Weasley
The throngs of people, the overall racket, and the busy feeling in the air had Fred excited. He always loved coming to Diagon Alley. He loved people; Hogwarts had been great but it was the same faces every year. Except for the first years, but they stayed away from upperclassmen.
Now he and George were living on their own. In their own joke shop. They were going to do it; they were living their shared dream. They hadn't started to import goods into their store because it was still in shambles.
The last owner had no regards for other human beings and left it an utter mess. Fred and George, with the occasional help from Lee, were still cleaning it up. Which meant no customers, and no income.
The money Harry had given them was sure to last a while, but Fred felt bad using it all themselves. He wanted to get the store running so he could pass some money to his siblings. He knew his mother would never take anything from them, but Ginny and Ron would.
They were the only ones still at home. Fred knew what it was like being a "Weasley"—it meant getting hand-me downs. It meant people like Draco Malfoy would bully them. He wanted to help them stray from that. It was the least he could do. After all, he and George had spent years pranking their siblings.
This store was going to be the best thing that ever happened to the Weasley family.