Harry - Harry is speaking to someone mentally or the heading of a newspaper, depending on context.

Harry - Depending on context, this is either a text message or snarkiness.

Harry - Thoughts that someone are having, that pertain to the story.

Harry - Harry is speaking in parsletounge.

Harry- Thoughts that Edward is able to pick up on.

Harry - Flashbacks.

Harry set the newspaper down, unable to believe that they were really that dense and believed him capable of that. What had hurt him the most was the fact that Ron and Hermione Weasley (nee Granger) had been his best friends during the whole thing with Riddle (aka Voldemort) and then gone and sold him out to Rita Skeeter of all people. The Wizarding community of England now knew of his nightmares, his self blame for both Sirius and Cedric's deaths, and his being gay. In fact if he was honest with himself, they had started to distance themselves from him after finding out that he had been in a relationship with Fred, Ron's older brother, shortly after the war had ended. Only two people had known besides Fred and himself before: George, Fred's twin, and Luna Lovegood. After it came out, the Weasley family kicked him to the curb. Well most of the Weasley family. Bill Weasley and his wife Fleur still kept in touch with him but they were raising a daughter and expecting a second child soon. Charlie Weasley was bisexual, and though it was accepted within the Wizarding community many people did not like it, which was why he had went to Romania to work with dragons. He had figured that it would be more likely for him to get a position easier and not worry about what his coworkers thought. In fact many of them were gay as well. George still talked to him and even came to visit once a week. The two mainly shared stories about the times they had had with Fred.

Harry was levitating the last of his belongings into the boxes in front of him when George walked in. George took in the emptied room with a guarded expression on his face before saying, "Why are you leaving?"

"I can't take the things that they're saying to me anymore George. I'm headed to America for a while. Somewhere small so I can get away from it all."

"What will I do on my day off from now? Who will I talk to?"

Harry took in the frantic look on his best friend's face and said, "I want you to come with me. Charlie will be posing as my guardian so that I can attend muggle school. You could join. Learn new ways to prank people. If you like, you could even think about opening a third location there. Neville and Luna will be there as well so you'll have more than just me to turn to. Besides I'll need my best friend there when I think it may be time to move on. I don't really want to, but I know Freddie would want me happy rather than upset that we couldn't continue planning."

George looked at Harry curiously and asked, "Planning what?"

"We were going to get married after the war had ended. You were supposed to stand up next to Freddie and Luna would have stood next to me. The first two people who knew about our relationship as the witnesses to our wedding. We had hoped that after the war we would be able to save up and possibly start a family in a few years with the potion*. We wanted Professor Snape to brew the potion for us if we all lived through the battle. If he wasn't able to, we had a list of possible brewers made up."

Harry watched as George processed the information he had just been given. He desperately wished that Fred was there with him and that this announcement was a happy one rather than one that would now never happen.

George's mind was swarming with the information he had just heard. His brother had been planning to marry his boyfriend since the fifth year and start a life with him. If there was ever a moment that he wished that Fred was still alive, this was it. He deserved to be sitting side by side Harry sharing this news together as a happy occasion. He deserved to planning pranks and bouncing with joy at the mere thought of marrying the one he loved. And the one who loved him. Harry was the only one who truly deserved all the love that Fred could offer someone. He had been the only one who supported the twins' dreams of a joke shop besides Lee Jordan and had even helped start the company up. Not because he was dating Fred at the time, but because he truly thought that people deserved happiness in what would soon be a war.

Looking at Harry, George said, "I don think he could have chosen someone better for him if he had tried. When did he propose?"

"The night before I left to hunt Horcruxes with them," Harry told him as he pulled out a simple ring on a chain from under his shirt collar. The gold band had a single emerald stone set in it and an engraving on the inside read the only promise the two ever made to each other: I WILL ALWAYS BE THERE WITH YOU. "The day after the war, I woke up and I reread the inscription Fred put on the ring and I just bawled. I kept screaming at the top of my lungs, screaming at Fred and asking why he had to leave me when he had promised not to. It wasn't until I decided to take the ring off and put it around my neck that I realized that he meant that he would always be in my heart. I just wish that I could be planning my wedding with him at my side right now, rather than moving away from all of the memories that this place gives me. The torture and the pain and the scars that it left on me. I wish I didn't have to leave the place where all of my memories with him are and know that there is a possibility that may never come back."

Harry was sitting, tears streaming down his face as he cried. George pulled him up and hugged him tight. "Harry. I need you to remember that Charlie will be with you as well as me. I'm sure that between the two of us we can make sure that you, our little brother in more way than one now, end up with someone who will love you just as much as Freddie did. And that you will love just as much as you did Freddie. Now come help me pack my things. I need to make sure that Lee can handle things on this end when I leave."

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*Potion which is mentioned is one of my own creation that allows same sex magical couples to have a child. Only a Potions Master or Mistress is able to attempt to brew it for it can cause birth defects to the child if brewed in correctly. Takes around 8 months to brew and an additional month to sit. Genders are completely random like with a normal pregnancy and twins from the potion are one in ten.