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xi. how to be noticed
Forgettable Fred is how he liked to put it. 'It' being well, everybody's forgetfulness.
At first, he thought it might be him being ignored, not that that was much comfort because he still wouldn't have been able to figure out why. He didn't think he was absurd or anything.
But for some reason or another, he was the forgotten Weasley. The 'Vic, Louis, Dom, Roxy, James, Molly, Lucy, Al, Rose, Lily, Hugo... and wait, aren't we forgetting someone?'. Or the 'other Hufflepuff' because really, Louis couldn't ever be forgotten.
Or perhaps it was the way he never was on a team because they counted an even number and well Fred, Fred made it odd. Or the way darling, older, Gryffindor Roxanne outshone him with her ever bubbly personality and Merlin, she was friends with Dom and Ly for crying aloud!
Or perhaps he really was just entirely forgettable. Not unique. Another face in the crowd. It doesn't really matter how it's put- it all means the same thing.
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Breakout Fred is what he'd like to call himself now, in his New York flat (apartment, he reminds himself, apartment). And perhaps the apartment is fitting because he's flown around the world to get here, to set himself apart from everyone. From Roxanne, the rest of his cousins. Everyone.
But now all he feels is apart (and lonely. Mainly that). That's not to say New York isn't wonderful of course. He does enjoy it, and he's made friends and to be honest, it's lovely when the name "Weasley" doesn't make every single head turn (only about 75% of them). And yeah, he's hardly forgettable here, slowly rising his way through the American Ministry of Magic.
But sometimes he would love to just go back home, even if it meant blending back in.
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