International Love | Fred Weasley

Chapter 78

A few days later, a letter arrives at the Burrow, addressed to me. Fred, Fleur, Tonks, and I are seated at the kitchen table. Tonks arrived at the Burrow to have breakfast. It's Fleur's day off from her job at Gringotts and Tonks wrote to ask if she could come over. Fred and Fleur are playing a game of Wizarding Chess – Fleur is ordering the pieces in French which throws Fred off according to the frown on his face – while Tonks and I talk about her jobs for the Order.

The brown owl knocks on the window and after being handed a treat, it lets me untie the letter. Once it has made sure I have gotten the letter, the animal flies off again.

I take my seat again and open the letter. The Ministry of Magic emblem gives away what the letter might be about.

Dear Ms Dubos,

Due to the charge you have filed against Mrs Priscilla Warrington née Carrow, we invited you to make an official statement and to testify against the accused on Friday the 20th of June, at 10 a.m. in the Auror Department at the Department of Magical Law Enforcement.

Your appointment is with Felipe Proudfoot.

You are allowed to bring two people to support you.

Kind regards,

Gawain Robards

Head of Office, Auror Department

After finishing reading the letter, I hand it over to Fred who has stopped paying attention to the chess game. Tonks pours me another cup of tea and I watch as Fred's shoulders slump as he finishes reading the letter. He looks up to me and mutters: "George and I have a meeting with some Muggles in Manchester that day."

Fred has returned back to work a few days ago after my uncle visited. I told him I would be fine at the Burrow and the man had made me promise I would alert him if something would happen. I have been helping Molly around the house and finishing the books I saved from Ollivander's. Besides, I have been brewing potions – not for my uncle's customers, but for the Weasley's potion supply and in case one of the Order members needs it.

Tonks snatches the letter from Fred and places it between her and Fleur. As the women read the letter, Fred takes my hand and squeezes it lightly. He looks a little thorn as he says: "I might be able to convince George to go to the meeting alone."

"I can go with you," Tonks offers, "It's my department and I'm sure Mad-Eye understands if I disappear for an hour or so."

Fleur looks between the letter and me and says: "I'll go with you as well. I shall ask the goblins for a day off and we can all go togezer."

I turn to Fred and squeeze his hand back, "Tonks and Fleur will go with me. That way, you won't have to miss the meeting. I don't want George to do everything on his own."

Fred seems a little unsure but after Tonks promises she and Fleur will take good care of me and after I have assured him that I'll be fine, he reluctantly agrees. Fleur and I take Tonks to one of the small tea shops in the village near the Burrow as Fred heads to London to help George at the shop.

The appointment at the Ministry is the following Friday. I wake up early in an empty bed. Fred has slept in London last night since he and George have to be in Manchester quite early and they have to prepare a few things before the meeting. After a shower and dressed in comfortable clothes, I check up on the cauldrons I have set up in Percy's old bedroom. When everything seems alright, I head downstairs for breakfast.

Fleur is already seated at the kitchen table and she is speaking with Molly who is standing near the stove. Arthur is reading the Daily Prophet and seems deep in thought with what he is reading. Molly smiles at me and I accept the cup of coffee she holds out.