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our dancing days
mirror image
xi. georgeangelina
When Angelina first sees George on the 2nd July 1999, standing outside of a mirror shop - all shapes, all sizes, all spells - in Diagon Alley, she has to blink twice. Because suddenly there is Fred&George, and the last fourteen months have not happened.
But then George looks at her, and though it is less noticeable now than it once was and his hair is longer to hide it, she still sees his missing ear as clearly as he sees Fred is just his reflection in the mirrors.
They get talking, and maybe their conversation is less joking than it was before, and maybe it holds a semblance of remembrance, but it is natural; usual.
Then George invites her round for a coffee, and she can't say no even if she wants to. Even if he is an almost-mirror image of Fred, his eyes are an almost-mirror image of hers; they are hopeful, and melancholic and, "Please?" She laughs and follows him like it is natural too.
Soon, his mirror image becomes simply his own.
Later, when they're actually getting somewhere, he asks the question. "Do you love me?" There's no emphasis on the you, or the love, but on the me, as though she still loves Fred, and therefore, his mirror image.
Apart from that fact that George isn't Fred. George has dulled a bit over the years, perhaps, but he still has a great sense of humour compared to Fred's great sense of utter nonsense. George is bright where Fred was blinding, and he is sweet when Fred was so sweet, he was bitter. People are always under the impression that Fred and George were one being, one entity, a mirror image of each other, but Angelina has always known better.
"I love George Weasley," Angelina replies.
They get married in the Burrow's back garden, where Molly is banned from preparations and everybody can wear whatever the hell they want.
There aren't any mirrors on the walls of their flat for a long time (eventually, though, there are), and maybe it's a long time before George accepts his reflection as his own (he does though, in the end), and maybe Angelina sometimes has her doubts (not so much anymore). But they're happy.
Merlin, are they happy.