So Much for No Strings Attached

Chapter 47 Sitting on the Fence

 

Fred could concede his point that if Harry started spouting things like his was for the Greater Good then Fred would feel just as angry as he was at Dumbledore. Instead Harry had accepted that neither Fred nor George would agree so wasn’t wasting time trying to convince them he was in the right. It made Fred even more conflicted as despite what Harry had done he was more inclined to agree with Harry than Dumbledore.

 

‘But you still killed her,’ George said. ‘She was your friend-‘

 

‘She was never my friend¬!’ Harry said anger appearing on every line of his face.

 

‘I know,’ George said quietly, ‘but she was only fifteen. She could have changed.’

 

‘Maybe,’ Harry said noncommittally, ‘but it had to be her.’

 

‘Why?’ asked George.

 

‘She was a virgin,’ admitted Harry. ‘It was either her or your brother.’

 

Neither twin could hide the flinch as Harry said the statement that did not come out as a threat even though it could have been interpreted as one. Fred detested what had been done but he would rather it Hermione than Ron. Fred may dislike what his younger brother had done but he did not hate him enough to wand him dead. It made him wonder if that had been why Harry had done what he had done. Harry must have known either Granger must die or his father would continue the painful half-life that Dumbledore had manipulated him into sentencing himself to all those years ago.

 

‘What are you going to do now?’ asked George seriously.

 

Harry and the man he had arrived with shared a look that spoke volumes even if not a word was spoken. It was only then that Fred realised how alike Harry the older man looked and exactly what that meant. There was only one man alive who had any reason for looking like the so called Boy Who Lived and didn't that just terrify Fred and his twin at who exactly they were meeting.

 

Lord Voldemort

 

Both twins gulped at exactly the same time as they came to the same realisation. Fred could feel the fear his twin was feeling when he realised that it was not just a random Death Eater sent to protect the Dark Lord’s heir but the Dark Lord himself. Fred didn’t think that Harry would kill them no matter the outcome but could not say the same for the Dark Lord.

 

Voldemort nodded at Harry saying without words that it was up to Harry to take the lead. Apparently the Dark Lord trusted his son enough to allow him to decide how much he was allowed to tell Fred and George about their future plans. Once again Fred was forced to compare the Dark Lord to Dumbledore and not like what he was seeing. No Fred did not like his realisations at all.