Dear Fred, From Percy

Dear Fred,

I am so, so sorry. For everything. And I know nothing can fix what I did to you and the rest of the family. Especially you. And knowing I can't ever make it up to you is the worst thing. Even though you forgave me I don't feel like it's fixed. You forgave me, but then you… you…

I can't even write it. Bloody hell. Every single day I have to live with the sound of your last words echoing around my head, the look on your face as it happened, and the knowledge that things could've been different. I can't even look at George anymore. I know if I do I'll just see this flaming accusation burning from his eyes. And it'll have every right to be there. 

I'm not staying at the burrow. I can't. But I guess I'm writing to you because I don't know what else to do.

I found my old Head Boy's badge in a drawer the other day. I sat for an hour trying to change it so it said "Pinhead", but I couldn't do it. I don't know how you two were so good at that kind of thing. "Big Head Boy". That was a good one, too. To be honest, considering the size my head was, I'm surprised it fit up Fudge's arse. There, I told another joke! And you're not here to celebrate with me. I also insulted the Minister! Ex-Minister, I suppose, but the point still stands; a lot has changed. Not all for the better. Voldemort is gone, and I am happy for that, but so are you. I just have to pray that is worth it. Though I do not see how it ever could be. We have all lost a brother, or son, or a friend, a brilliant young inventor. George has lost half of who he is.

Are you happy up there, Freddy? That's all I need to know. You need to be happy, otherwise I don't know if I can ever work through this… this pain in my chest every time I hear a joke, or pass your shop, or Mum cooks your favourite meal without realising. Although she probably does realise. Too late, maybe.

I miss you, little brother. More than my past actions could ever have suggested I would.

Your ever-loving brother,

Percy

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Hey Fred, It's George Again

Hey again, Fred,


Things have been pretty crazy around here lately. Everyone's going back to work and stuff. Well, apart from Hermione and Ginny. They're heading back to Hogwarts. I don't know how they can do it, after everything that happened there. I know I couldn't.


So, I'm supposed to be reopening the shop. But I don't know if I can. Because... I know if I go in there, I'll see something you thought up, or an item that brings back memories of conversations with you, and it doesn't matter whether the conversation was one that made us laugh 'til we cried, or one about stock and margins, because it'll feel like my heart is being pulled through my stomach either way.


Dad says I have to go back though. He said by running the store I can keep you alive through your work there. Like a legacy. Pretty crappy way of keeping you alive, eh, Freddo? So I guess I'll have to go back. But I'm doing this for you, yeah? Anything I do now I'm doing for you, like forcing a smile at Mum when I come down to breakfast each morning, to let her know I'm okay. Even if I'm the furthest from okay.


I asked Ron to help me with the store. I am not replacing you. I can't replace you. But neither can I run that place by myself. So I asked him. It's not full time, it's just in-between his auror training. Ickle Ronnikins is becoming an auror. It's pretty cool.


He should be able to come up with some good products for the shop. Nothing as good as you could, though. I've still got that list of potential products we wrote out before the war started. Maybe I'll get Ron to help make them. He'd make a good test dummy for them. I've always wanted to see what he looks like without eyebrows.


I miss you. You know I do. Those three words really don't cover it, do they? "I miss you". What a load of bollocks. I'm not me anymore. You're gone and now I'm half of a whole, but it feels like less than that. I'll be sitting at dinner and someone will make a remark we would make a joke out of, and I glance across the table to where you'd be sat, almost smirking at the quip forming in my head, only to be smacked in the face by the reminder that you're not there. I'll have an idea in the middle of the night, so I'll voice it to you, but I'm only answered by silence, instead of a quiet chuckle or a reassuring word.


There, that's closer to the truth. Words will never be able to say how it really feels though.


Also, by taking you, I think Death's bitten off a bit more than he can chew. Show him what you got, Forge. For me?


George


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Dear Fred, From Ron

Heya, Fred.
Gosh, this is hard. I don't know where to begin. This was Hermione's idea, see. She suggested I write to you, say what I'm feeling. That's so her, isn't it? So, err, speaking of, we're sort of kind of together now. Finally, right? You've been nagging me for years. I say sort of because it's kind of not the right time now, you know? Everyone's struggling to mend. It wouldn't be right. And I don't think I could cope. It's just too much.


No one really does anything anymore at home. So many times over the past months I've found us all just sitting in silence in the kitchen, making endless mugs of tea that we don't even drink. I'm fairly sure Dad's shedload of muggle crap is just gathering dust. Don't even get me started on George. He hasn't been in your room since the battle. If he needs something from in there he gets Mum to fetch it for him. He's moved into Percy's old room. Seems reasonable. It's the barest in the house. It's like one of those crazy muggle monk cell things. Means there's nothing to remind him of the fact you're not there.


I feel like I've lost an arm, Fred. I can't even begin to imagine how George feels. He just looks so broken. Harry described him as seeming like Barty Crouch Jr. did after that dementor got him. It's a scary thought. I'm beginning to think he's going to end up doing something really reckless just to feel something again.


He splinched himself when we came home from Hogwarts in May, you know. Managed to leave behind a massive chunk of his thigh. It wasn't pretty. You two were always brilliant at apparating, though.


But yeah, enough about George. I'm sure you know how much he needs you back. But I need you, too. Who's going to turn my teddies into spiders now, and who's going to tease me about Hermione?


I have something to ask you. George wants me to help him with the joke shop. I haven't said yes yet, though. I wanted to check with you, first. I mean, I'm not you, Fred. I'm no prankster. I can't think of the kinds of ideas you and George did. I can help with the spellwork and till, I guess. But it won't be the same. It's your business. I never had anything to do with it. So can you help me decide what to do? Just no spiders, please.


Missing you,
Ronniekins
P.S I was joking when I asked who's going to turn my teddies into spiders. I don't need anyone to turn anything into spiders. I don't have teddies either. Promise.


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Dear Fred, From Ginny

Freddy,


I'm still in denial. I still think you're going to leap out at me from behind the sofa to scare me, like you did when we were little, or come hurtling out of your room with George, thick, rotten-egg smelling smoke pouring from the door in your wake, you two cackling away as mum berated you and prayed for the day the school term started again.


But George doesn't laugh any more. The corners of his mouth twitch when Mum scolds Ron, but there's no light in his eyes.


He doesn't sleep in your room anymore. He's supposed to sleep in Percy's old room, but whenever I come downstairs in the middle of the night he's there, on the couch, staring at the wall, shadows bruising his eyes, and his cheeks glistening.


I'd never seen him cry before the day you... You died. He's not my Georgy anymore.


The house is a mess. The garden gnomes seem to be setting up a gnome city in the garden. Mum keeps on burning the food. We played quidditch the day before your funeral to distract ourselves. I cut myself on the horrible nail in the broom shed again. Remember when I tried to use your broom when I was ten, and I caught myself on that? It hurt so much and I was convinced I was going to die, there was so much blood, but I couldn't tell Mum because I wasn't supposed to go in the broom shed. You and George found me and you tore off the edge of your robes, even though they were your best pair, and you wrapped it around the cut and told your best jokes to make me laugh. And then you let me wipe my nose on your sleeve and you took my back to the house.


See, this is why I need you! To let my wipe my snotty nose on your robes and make me laugh. I need you two to shut Ron up about Harry and I, to stop Mum's sobs leaking through the wall every night, and to get Dad talking about all that crazy muggle stuff again. I need you to get Percy to stop tearing all his hair out in anguish, to get Charlie to stop pacing the yard looking distant, and to get Fleur back to her normal infuriating self, instead of the mopey shade of her former self she's become. Congratulations, big brother, you made the lustrous veela flower wilt.


But most of all I just want you to tell me you're okay, somehow. Send me a flaming toilet seat or something, I don't care. Or just come back, Freddy. Make us all whole again. I need my big brother.


More love than you could ever imagine,
Ginny


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Dear Fred, From George

Dear Fred,


Today has been the hardest day since you passed away. It was your funeral. And I know you've been sat up there for the past few days yelling at me for being such an idiot, to man up and be braver. During all the planning sessions mum had for the service, I couldn't stay in the room, the table littered with fliers for flowers, headstones and coffins. I didn't have the strength to stay there and tell everyone that you didn't want rows of mourners, the overwhelming death-scent of lilies filling some stifling marquee or some stuffy old man talking about you as if he knew you. How dare some guy ever pretend that. I knew you. And through you I understood myself. But I couldn't speak up and say this. The only thing I was able to do was punch Harry for blaming himself for your death. Specky git. I told him you wouldn't want him stealing your thunder.


But the service went ahead, with lilies, and rows of mourners. Ron was able to say no to the guy who spoke at Bill and Fleur's wedding doing the funeral, though. Why couldn't I do that? Kingsley spoke instead. And bloody Ron stopped Kingsley in the service and he and Lee brought out loads of fireworks, and did the service how you would've wanted. He even inscribed "Mischief managed" on your headstone. I couldn't do this. I couldn't do anything. I just stood there and watched him take charge, like I should've done.


See? I need you here. I need you with me, Freddy. It's like you've died and taken every drop of Gryffindor bravery from me. I might as well be a Hufflepuff now. No, even that's too good. If I were a Hufflepuff at least my bloody loyalty would make me say something.


I don't know what I am, or who I am without you. And I know you're yelling at me to stop moping and start living both our lives in your place. But I can't, Fred! How am I supposed to function when there's only half of me left?


Help me,
George


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