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Disclaimer: If i owned Harry Potter, Fred would be my legal husband.
Fred's POV (Kind of?):
"Is that a bird?" Fred heard his twin brother bellow over the sounds of the war. Following his pointed finger, Fred saw a limping, grey bird, helpless under the weight of a broken piece of glass from a classroom window. Sprinting over to it, Fred picked it up carefully, brushing off the glass. "It's a pigeon." He murmured to himself. The bird immediately squeaked and wiggled free from Fred's grip, flying out into the night. Watching the bird fly away, the ginger man remembered one of the best nights of his life: the night he met Miss Katie Bell.
It was a cold, bright day on October 31st. Since it was Halloween, the students of Hogwarts were dressed in costumes instead of uniform as a treat from Dumbledore. The school was alive with excited faces and brilliant colors, but three first year boys looked strangely more excited than the other students. Fred and George Weasley, at their not-so-delicate age of 11, crouched in a corner of the clock tower with their best friend and co-mastermind Lee Jordan who was dressed in normal clothes. They were planning the best prank in history.
'Guys, this is going to be the best prank in history' George informed his friends.
'We're going to be legends' Fred quipped, grinning at George.
'Kings!' George chirped back, a mischievous glint in his eyes.
'WORSHIPPED!' Both boys screamed at eachother, before bursting into laughter. Lee just shook his head.
'You know, mates. I've only known you for a month, and I already think you're both nutters. Geniuses, but nutters.' He finished, looking at both boys with a small smile.
'Lee. Mate. You'll have to get used to it-' Fred got up and dashed away, towards the entrance hall on the other side of the castle.
'-if you want to hang out with us!' George finished, standing up and sprinting to his station, near Hagrid's hut, outside.
Lee sighed, and stood up, bending over the railing to look at the crowd below him. He slowly counted to two hundred. All at once, at different sides of the castle, the 3 boys said a quick charm and all the people in Hogwarts started to transform. Some were turning into ghosts, some were turning into bats, and even one person turned into a house elf. Fred and George had switched their clothes previously, turning into eachother, purely for their amusement due to the fact that no one would notice. Giggling to themselves, the three boys met in the great hall, to head back to the Gryffindor Common Room together after a job well done.
'Brilliant!' Fred praised them, giving them both high fives. Around them was total chaos, students ran around, masked as fairies and goblins and owls, mixed in with various other panicking animals and people. Teachers were screaming at students to 'Calm down and stay quiet!' 'The charm has to wear off eventually!'
Finally making it back to the common room, the boys whispered 'Whipping Humdingers!' and stepped through the portrait hole into a strange scene.
'ALICIA. CALM THE BLOODY HECK DOWN.'
'STAY AWAY FROM ME. STAY AWAY!'
'NO. KAT! LOOK OUT!'
George, Fred and Lee had found themselves staring at two first year girls running frantically around the room, both screaming at eachother. One girl, with short, light brown hair was trying to get away from the other girl, who had dark hair and skin to match. The dark haired girl kept trying to restrain the other girl, to no avail. The boys didn't know their names, but they knew that they both were excellent in flying classes and came from wizarding families.
'OI. YOU THREE! HELP ME, WILL YA?' The dark skinned girl hollered, finally noticing the boys. Immediately, George raced forwards and picked up the small, pale, flailing girl, restraining her from hurting the other girl. Fred and Lee exchanged a look and walked forwards, to see what had happened.
'Thanks. I'm Angelina, by the way. And that's Alicia.' She gestured to the girl that George was still holding. Awkwardly, George put the girl down and gave her a small smile. Alicia just grimaced up at the boy.
'I'm Fred, this is Lee and this bimbo is George.' Fred told Angelina. Lee, seeming to stare a little bit too long at Angelina, decided to speak.
'Were you just yelling at a cat?' Lee asked, dumbly.
'Oh no. We were yelling at Katie.' Angelina shook her head, turning to look wearily at Alicia. Alicia seemed to jump a little bit, as if remembering something and she looked up and started staring at the ceiling of the common room.
'Who's Katie?' Fred asked, curious.
'Katie Bell. Our friend' Alicia spoke up for the first time to the boys. Her voice was delicate and high pitched, like a fairy. Shaking his head to get that thought out of his head, Fred realized that there was no one in the room other than the group of 5.
'Oh. She's a pigeon right now.' Angelina noticed the boys' blank stares.
'A … pigeon...' George slowly said, confused.
'Ohhh. Because of our prank, numpty.' Fred turned and grinned at the two boys, finally understanding.
'You did this?' Alicia asked in a small voice, regarding the boys with wide-eyes and then turning her attention back to the ceiling again.
'Yup! Isn't it brilliant?' Lee quipped
'Sure, but Alicia has a strange fear of pigeons.' Angelina supplied, still staring at Alicia, who was staring at the ceiling. 'It's quite ridiculous, actually.'
'Well, we can change her back, if you want. We know the counter curse.' George offered with hopeful eyes, gazing at Alicia.
'Oh, would you? That would be lovely.' Alicia turned to look at George, with a faint smile.
'No problem, fair lady. Now where is this terrible beast?' George put on a posh accent and grinned at Alicia, sending her a wink.
'She's in the corner, over there.' Angelina pointed to above the fireplace, where sure enough, there was a small grey bird, quivering with fear. George flicked his wand at the bird and with a chirp, it poofed into a tall, shocked, blonde girl.
'And you must be Miss Bell! Pleasure, it really is.' Fred raced forward to grab her hand and kiss it, only to be pushed out of the way by George.
'I must say, m'dear. You looked ravishing as a pigeon!' George kissed her other hand. Both boys looked for a reaction from the pigeon-girl. The girl's face turned from shocked, to confused, to rage as she stared up at the twin boys. SMACK, hands connected with twin cheeks as the tall girl turned red from being so mad.
'She… she smacked us!' Both boys bellowed, clutching their cheeks, turning away from their attacker to look at the rest of the group. Angelina just shook her head slightly as if to say 'don't make her mad' and Alicia looked even more scared. Lee was gazing dreamily at Angelina, obviously not going to be any help.
'SHE HAS A BLOODY NAME!' The girl screeched, making the boys whip around to face her.
'Kat, don't be too hard on them.' Alicia squeaked from behind Lee. 'It was just a prank…' She trailed off after seeing her friend's intense glare.
'It wasn't a prank; it was a death wish.' Katie said dangerously, turning her glare to the twins, trying to decide who to attack first.
'It was just a joke!' Fred choked out. 'We didn't mean any harm!'
'ANY HARM? Do you know how many times I got hit by Alicia BEFORE Ange managed to stop her? My head is pounding and I think my foot might be broken! And on top of that, I didn't even want to dress up as a bloody bird. I was just doing it as a joke! So don't try to tell me about jokes.' Katie finished, stomping her foot and wincing at the pain.
'Alright. I'll take you to the hospital wing. Get you fixed up, yeah?' Fred answered calmly, looking into her stormy grey eyes.
'..Yeah. Okay.' Katie stared back, hypnotized. She knew that she should be mad, furious even! But for some reason, those eyes and freckles just made her want to throw herself into his arms. The pair said goodbye to the group and walked out of the portrait hole, Katie limping and Fred with a protective arm wrapped around her.
'By the way, I'm Fred. Fred Weasley.'
Despite all of the fighting going on, Fred stopped and wished to whoever is out there, that his pigeon-girl would be okay.
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xoxo- katie!